The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1911-10-10
Governor West And
The COnVicfS
BY Jennings Sutor

in a house or barn. To one has been
found who has complained of the quail.
ity OF their work. For 1t seems that
the energy il takes to make a truly
other channels, is pretty apt to make
most excellent workman
You can take an automobile and go
out into the foothills of the Cascades.
east of Salem. and climb to hill from
which the State Tuberculosis Sanitar.
ium looks out over Willamette Valley.
The road winds through grounds that
are praked and as carefully kept as
those of private estate. The sleeping
pavilion, long, low attractive look
ing building, is reached by stone
embarked walk. The shrubs and trees
that make the place beauty-spot
have been so placed as to furnish the
best possible landscape effect The
result is an out-of-doors sanitarium
that for cheerful and attractive sur
roundngs is probably uneXcelled in
the country. The cause.-the convicts.
In the crew of men that we're as
signed to place the sanitarium
grounds in order upon completion OF
the pavilion was a landscape architect
"a man who had studied his art un.
der circumstances that were unusual
ly favorable. How he got into the peni-
Tertiary isn't so interesting as how
he got out, and what use he made of
his talent when given the opportunity
The santiarium was on rocky, I'M
lovely hillside. He went over the
grounds, studied them, drew plans for
their development with as much care
as any civic improvement specialist
could have devoted to plan that was
to insure him fame, and then, the
plans drawn, went to work with the
rest of the crew to convert the view
and reform the grounds.
Many have seen the samples OF pri-
son work that used to be exhibited to
tempt the purses Of penitentiary cal
lers-weird, mis.shapen articles, given
to accommodation and ginger.
bread effect, works of imaginations
perverted by close confinement and
much brooding. From viewing them
ha
done at the Tuberculosis Sanitarium
is a far step.
The man who designed it has been
pardoned-and now draws a salary
as foreman of the gang that is com
grounds in house they have fitted
up as quarters. You couldn't drive
one of those men away from his
work with a pardon.
There isn't straight line on the
place." laghed the foreman, in show
ing the Governor and party OF
guests about one day ITS the work
VI Nloohtu lhch ohu VIC 'ouuh pSoi
the thought of having anything
straight about it.
There's little, II any, inclination on
the part of the people living in and
about Salem to resent the liberty Civ
en- the convicts. One man complained
to the governor that he thought a
road gang at work near his home
formed an unwarranted menace to his
| property and safety. The gang was
withdrawn, but all of that man 8
lneighbors and their wives gor TO
gether and gave the convicts din
ner.
Ii was held in grove near Sublim
lty, where the men had been work
ing. The governor and other state OF
fcials we're invited and Governor
West sat at the head of the boarC
The farmers sat at the big table un
der the trees with the convicts. The
women of the neighborhood club
waited on the table and saw that ev
erybody had enough to eat. And wheI
the tables had been cleared ava.
there were speeches in which the hos
thanked their guests for the worl
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