Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-07-23
PRISONERS WILL BE SECURE
BUT NOT DEPRIVED OF SUN
New State Buildings to be Of Vitrified
Brick and Lacking in characterization
DIR. crofford Will Como Out of
Prison a Poor Man With Practice
Gone-case Once in Politics.

cell houses there is in the United States
and one that is the direct opposite of
the prisons that We're built in the dark
ages OF the race when a prison meant
a dungeon and the darker and more
damp the better.
The walls of the new cell house at
Fort Madison are UP twelve or fifteen
feet. Tho building is s341s feet long
by 5171a feet wide. The long way stands
north and south so that the sun gets
a good chance at the building both
! forenoon and afternoon. The cells are
four tiers high and are in the middle Of
the building extending down the entire
length Of the building The windows
are very long and there are an album
dance of them and the ventilation is
perfect
The only time that the sun is not
shining into the building is at noon
when it is directly overhead. This
abundance of sunlight is one of the
greatest assurances of sanitation, keep
ing the interior dry and free from many
forms of bacteria. The entire $50 cells
will get sunshine both morning and
afternoon.
The security of the building is such
| that it will be impossible for a criminal
to escape. The cells are built of lamt-
mated steel and the windows are grated
| with the same. Laminated steel for
the benefit OF uninitiated is composed
of alternate layers of soft and case
hardened steel. But it will quickly
! s1o
steel can be sawed but will not break.
So the greetings are made of rolls
made of alternate layers of case hard
ened and soft steel which resists both
! the saw and the sledga hammer making
it impossible 10 escape.
State Architect I4iebbe has lust re-
turned from trip to Fort Madison
and other institutions. AT Mt Pleasant
the new womans infirn.ary is COM
pleted and the work Of installing the
furniture and furnishings is under
way and the building will be occupied
as soon as these are in. 1t is the most
modern building OF its kind in the state
The nav state board of education will
build with less decorations than the
s
board of regents. At the same time
/ the board is fearful lest the state at
large get the idea that it is taking a
position as crit5cising the old boards
for useless expenditure of money in
ornaments. The new board does not de-
i sire to be placed in that attitude. ii
considers that the old boards did their
work we'll ard at Iowa City the new
old board in the STYLES of architecture
in the buildings in The quadrangle The
new board has ordered the finance
committee to advertise for bids for the
new physics hall which will cost s215.-
600 and will be of Bedford stone and OF
the same elaborate style as those al
Il ready erected There will be vet an
other building after that to be erected
Of that style.
But all future buildings With those
2 exceptions at Iowa City, Ames an.
. CEDAR Falls will be of vitrifed brick
They Will not be barn affairs with ~
\ ornaments whatever but will be beauti
/ full structures. The board in decidin.
on vitrifed brick and a palmer styl
of architecture took that course be
cause it was more or less necessary t
follow out some general plan in ney
buildings. 1t believed the simple
style little better and vitrified brio
was decided upon rather than ston
! because it has been the experience O
the members of the board from thei
personal observations and also fror
an inspection of the buildings of tn
| state educational Institutions that tn
1 vftrified brick is the more substantial
The stone buildings over the state al
1 most universally color and begin t
ii disintegrate inside life time while tn
i vitrifed brick is said to be almost in
! destructible
So much interest has been shown a
the state fair by the youth Of the stat
in the scholarship contests that thi
| year there will be $1,000 distributed
4 ! scholarships instead of $500 as hereto
| fore. The bright boys of Iowa wi
| stand much better show this yea
than ever before and the boys VIII
know the most about corn and hog
| and cattle and horses will be educate
at Ames. There will be four scholar
ships at Ames, one for 5000. one fc
| s15e, one for 1925 and one for 500 an
a fifth prize of s25 which is expecte
! to pay the expenses of some boy {
the short course in the winter tim
! This makes a total of $500 for th
boys.
The girls of Iowa Will gets $3.50 j
I scholarships for their knowledge {
/ cooking and domestic science. TIL
" brightest girl in Iowa will get $3.50, tn
next brightest 500, and the ne,
brightest SIS and a fourth will get 81
which is counted sufficient for the win
ter short course at the college.
After winning the prizes in order I
obtain them the boys and girls mu.
attend the state college at Ames whe
the prizes will be paid in monthly ir
stallments turnout the year.
The case Of j. w Crofford for who1
the state board of parole has recon
mended a pardon is one that has al
tracted as much attention as any Il
% state of Iowa has ever known. TT
>, case even got into politics in southe1
" Iowa. A special bill was slipped th,
10 the legislature to give Crofford
chance to get out on bail.
vi Crofford was once a rich man az
u owned private sanatorium at Lamor
He had previously been convicted al
Fl served a sentence for counterfeitir
down in Missouri. It Is claimed TIL
his sanatorium at Lamont made a, sp
J cialty of abortion cases. However, tn
may be, he was convicted of perform