The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-08-03

boy has picked options for d Mr..
Rogers out near Tecumseh.
With 35 cents in his pocket he pro-
poses to shake the dust of America
off his feet. 4 am going to be great
man some day" boosted the boy, land
want to do it in a new country" And
he seems to know how to go about it.
Asked how he expected to manage it
he gave his plans i'll detail:
why, I'm going to ride the bump
ers and the blinds either to New York
or san Francisco. 1 can get things to
eat by asking for them. of course 1
Sometimes l get turned down but we
have to put up with those things.
When 1 get to the sea coast and
port I'm going to ask a ship captain
to let me work my way across. If he
objects that m too young and minor,
then I'm going to slip aboard, and
after sailing d couple of days report to
him that m on and then he Will put
me to work as a regular convict and
release me when we get across. That
IS all l want If 1 can't get on the
first boat then I'll try until I can
sneak on
The lad carries no baggage whatever
and years only pair of oVeraIls and a
blue shirt and stout shoes. Il gave a
pair of pants away yesterday" said
the boy. Il told boy to give them to
the the. first needy boy who came along.
low has to watch out"
But the big chief dissuaded him
from his trip at least for time and
secured him job at the home of
Oscar Darlow at 1925 Clay street and
the lad went whistling on the way.
Working under the personal super
vision of the chief of police, Workmen
lave been busy at the city prison until
the old bull pen today presents an
appearance OF cleanliness which several
days ago would have been deemed inn
possible to achieve.
WhiteWash is responsible for the ma
Jor part of the appearance but the real
cleanliness has been due greatly to
POW erful germic:des. dIsirfectants and
acid. The entire wall space and cell
ing have been Whitewashed and the
hoIes in the walls filed up with NOR
tar.
Very handiIy a first-class mason. G.
Z. Carter was arrested and imprisoned
Tor selling liquor a few days ago. And
II was the same Carter who made
such a howl about the unsanitary con-
cition of the room. Now he has been
made trusty and set to work lettering
that same Jail. And he has done
sood job. There are Tow no cracks in
the wall nor holes kicked therein to
harbOr dirt.
The old table carved with the names
OF the prisoners of centuries-it would
seem-has been given bath of formal
dehyde The chief could not we'll make
d requisitiOn for d new table so this
one was preserved. 1t was not exact
~ the intention to dope it with for
maldehyde but Patrol Driver Leach
broush- the wrong bottle when sent
for Hnsee1 oil.
Plumbers are busy today on their job
which : the worst of the lot. The
cleanest and most sanitary closets are
OF adaptable for the Jail, for the drunk
en- men break them up. The present
one, OF iron. sunk into cement Will be
allowed 20 remain.
4 hal prepared q recommendation to
the council for last night, asking for
new equipment, but I decided if would
be no better" said the chief
Looking around the room with pride
this morning the chief remarked: Il
co not know what more could be done.
t-iate by cutting windows through into
the hallway on the south but that is
rot quite practicable. This is only
q hoIdONer anyway and not intended
Tor lOnS term IMPROVEMENTS. I can see
why man should not be confined in
here for a year, but as simply hold
over 1t is as good as I have found in
larger cities where I have inspected -
But more than cleaning up the Jail
room, the office is supplied with new
curtains. How they were procured is a
mystery to those who have watched the
acquisitions. for such things repeated
~ turned down by the city powers.
The old curtains We're frayed at the
ends and the long rags had been torn
off and cut off until the curtains were
only half long enough. Even now the
curtains are not new ones and no one
VIII tell where they came from. 1t
IS still d mystery but Il very good one
to let alone.
Fred Graves, the colored fellow who
with large knife slashed the vanish
of ENl-1V Z n H.
colored fellow, so the latter had to have