Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-10-15

along the walls. Each place is laid with
a tin plate, a cup and a spoon; no
knives or forks are allowed. Prisoners
are given as much food as they want
is the bill of fare 1t is the same, week
after weelz:
Breakfast-Bcef. brown gravy. potatoes. bread
coffee Dinner.Pork and beans, stewed prunes
MONDAY
Breakfast - Hominy. stewed peaches. white
bread, coffee Dinner and supper-Beef stew,
mashed potatoes bread.
TUESDAY.
Breakfast-COdfsh, potatoes. molasses. bread.
coffee. Dinner and supper-Pork and beans, corn
bread, coffee.
WEDNESDAY,
Breakfast-Beef, brown gravy, potatoes, bread.
coffee. Dinner and supper-Pork, cabbage, stewed
prunes, bread.
THURSDAY.
Breakfast-Rice. moasses, bread, coffee Din
and supper-Beef stew mashed potatoes.
bread.
Breakfast Goldfish. potatoes white bread, cof-
fee. Dinner and supper-Bean soup. corn pone'
stewed peaches, bread
SATURDAY
Breakfast-Rice. bread. coffee, molasses Din
ner and supper-Cabbage. mashed potatoes, bread.
Each cell in the District jail consists of
two small connecting rooms. each with
a window looking out into the corridors
mentioned before. In one of the rooms
is the bed. in the other toilet facilities.
The kind of bed used in the District
Jail is especially interesting, as it was in
vented by Washington man, Mr. George
Quinn, who for the past fifteen years
has been superintendent of the jail build
ing Each bed is oblong frame of
..,l.x &c rft-pff RI 1n
The whole is suspended from the wall
by two hooks and when not in use can
be folded up against the wall. thus occu-
pving practically no space in the cell
during the daytime. The canvas can De
readily removed and cleaned or deStfoyeu'
Another special feature claimed Tor TINS
bed is that the frame is all In one piece
and there are no tittings for a prisoner to
use as weapons or tools. MI. Gumm
bed has been adopted by all the ONO
state penitentiaries and is Being con-
sidered by the United states government
for use on transports
The census OF the Jail at this time OF
the year is about 22J, of Whlch nuhoer
about 49,, are males and about 10 feinaies.
The proportion of negro males to whlte
males is about = to ;. aud of negro fe-
males to white females about > to L.
These two hundred-odd cases are I'M
der the medical care OF Or. -: fercy
HickIing. who also attends the Washing
Dr. F. S Madigan makes rounds through
out the Jail. DR.. Madigan stated that
he made rounds at the Jail once every
day his daily average OF patients being
about eleven or twelve. the number vary
ing greatly.
A fully equipped drugroom is situated
in the west wing and is in charge of
one of the prisoners who is graduate
pharmacist and former medical stu
dent Very serious cases of illness are
transferred to the Washington Asylum
Hospital, where they are kept in spe-
cially guarded rooms.
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Certain of the cells in the Jail are or
special interest to the visitor. In cell
No. in the south wing Guiteau, the
assassinator of Garfield. was confined,
and visitors are shown the window
through which soldier fired at him. The
witnesses held by the District are kept
in rooms in the west wing, which are
made to look as much unlike a Jail as
possible. In this sames section are the
two Red Cross rooms, where medical
and surgical work of an emergency ma
ture is done.
The condemned cell attracts the visi-
tor; it is the last one on the right hand
side in the first tier in the north wing.