Evening journal., 1911-08-03

utie ID dDhOluNtly NO Neutlidlloh
In the cells and the water closet in
our cell was foul" said Sinclair. "for
which we were blamed in the morn
ing. The air was awful"
The most outrageous thing" he
said, "is the workroom where cloth !
ing is made This is a regular sweat I
shop where the prisoners are em-
ployed from to 9 hours a day never
getting out for a bit of fresh air or
to see the sun. The faces of many
of them are covered with boils and
evidence of disease. / was informed
that when a prisoner becomes so i'll
with tuberculosis that he can no
longer work in this place he is put
to work in the stone quarry, so that
he may breathe the fresh air. The
idea of man dying with consump-
ton and being put TO work in a stone
quarryl Can you grasp that? My
experience certainly made me realize
what the realities of life are"
''I want to be understood that / am
not criticising the management of the
prison, who were very kind to me
personally, and / have no doubt do
their best with an evil system, but
what / am criucising is the system
of shutting up men like brute beasts
because of crime to which they have
been driven by social conditions.
Saw Whipping Post.
But that pillory is ghastly," said
Sinclair in speaking about walking
through the stockade where II is To-
Gated.
First we saw the lash and then the
walls with the steel clamps riveted to
the sides TO hold the arms Of the men
while they had their bare backs cut
and bruised by the cruel lash. Every
Delawarean who reads about such a
thing should feel ashamed.
Il would like to make my eighteen
hour experience a required course of
every college student in America, so
that they might know something
about the true causes of human
degradation. / had heard vaguely that
Delaware maintained a whipping post,
but it was quite a different matter
to see the object with my own eyes
and also to see the whip.
Some Of the lawyers who belong
to the Wilmington Country Club" said
Sinclair, "who play golf on Sunday
should be imprisoned there. They
might profit by the experience"
Sinclair said his prison number was
16,317, and he recalled that when he
was placed in his cell the warren
alphabetically remarked that the
prison was overcrowded that night,
but added that this sometimes applied
to the best Of hotels. Il felt like
telling him." said Sinclair. that one
could go to another hotel"
Speaking of the food served to the
prisoners, Sinclair said: 81 have made
q study of diet and say here that the
kinds Of food served to those men
spells death. For dinner today
was served with two potatoes, two
small pieces of meat and bread. OF
the latter you can have all you want.
The meat was nine-tenths fat and
looked like the meat ordinarily sold In
stores for dogs to eat. In addition
to this there was served a great mass
of brown grease, which passed for
gravy.
For breakfast we were served with
oatmeal, bread and molasses and cof-
fee. / ate nothing at either meal
and passed the food over to a prisoner
who asked me for It.
THE humiliation and the idea of be.
ing dragged into a thing like this FOL
playing a game Of tennis on Sunday
makes the law ridiculous. Every
voter I'm the state should blush when
he reads this"
To Get After offers.
When asked If he proposed to &c
ahead with the crusade he contem-
plated against the so-called "blue
laws" which resulted in the arrest
of himself and companions, Sinclair
said he proposed to take up the mat
ter at once. I'VE should not be in
terfered with in our innocent pas
times at Arden" he said. When asked
liz he would play tennis next Sunday
the artist replied that he did no'
know. zone thing is certain, he
said, Somebody else will 60 to 1ai
before / do"
Sinclair said at the meeting o.
Ardenites tonight the subject Will ot
brought up and some definite plan o.
action decided upon.
When asked whether his term o.
Imprisonment had changed his ideas
on the social question, he replied tha
it had not. He ridiculed Georg'
Browns statement that he "had
change Of heart, and thought SUNDAY
should be a day of rest" 1T seems,
smilinglv added Sinclair, "tha
Browns experience has turned hin
into a devout Christian. Mine ha
almost turned me into rabi'
anarchist"
GarrOd Gets Message.
Professor J. II. Garrod left the
prison displaying a small piece o
tobacco which was served to him dur
ing his Imprisonment. Il didn't chew
it," he said, laughingly, "and expec
to have it framed" He had little t
say about the prison OF the fare ant
! smiled when asked if the work in th'
quarry had hurt his hands any. mo
I am used to work." he said, and h
: displayed a pair of hard, but elegantl.
kept white hands.
3 'The treatment was better than
. expected," he said. "The Workhous
r was crowded and two Of us had e
r sleep in one bed. Everything wa
5 clean and the only living insect
! saw was a roach"
1 He worked at loading stone upon
Q wheelbarrow.
3 He received a telegram from New
Q York friends as follows:
r Mr.. Joseph Garrod, come bac
a home. All will be forgiven. Slide
1 dub, slide. Ro. and Pat
He declined to say who or wha
? 'Ro. and Pat" are.