The Holbrook news., 1912-08-30

l method of treating and caring for the prisoners within it's confines has done more to demonstrate that the Ameri' can people are a humane race than all other means.
 Bilibid has daily routine much like other prisons. The prisoners are reused in the morning by the call of the bugle at 5:45. Breakfast follows a certain amount of exercise, and after that the prisoners go to the workshops until the noon hour. Then comes a light lunch, siesta for an hour, more work until 6:30 p. m., then dinner and they are locked up for the night
 Twice week the inmates are com pelled to bathe, and twice a week they are given clean clothes, not al ways secured by many of them while on the outside.
 There are four classes of rations issued to the prisoners, depending on their nationality. The. Americans re ceive the ration of the regular army which costs about 25 cents; the Euro peans receive food at the rate of about IA cents, and the Filipino eats to the amount of cents.
 Death Rate Low
 The employment of the prisoner consists of laundering, manufacturing bamboo furniture, weaving baskets, curtains, screens and hammocks, ma king rope, engraving, on wood, horn, shell and silver, making fancy and use ful articles from horn and shell, and wrapping coach whips, and there are also carpenters, wood turner's, black smiths, stone masons, bricklayers and tailors, and occasionally an artist or two is found among the number and given canvas.
 The articles thus manufactured are placed on sale, and from the revenue thus derived the prison often accumu lates surplus for the year. The av craze amount of receipts from this means is about s12,000 a year.
 One of the greatest testimonials to the conduct of Bilibid Is the low death rate since the beginning of the Amer ican administration. Under the Span ish rule it sometimes reached as high as one in five, while under the Amert can direction 1t has never gone above one in sixty.
 Bilibid has seen many exciting days and, under the Spanish rule, has had its walls so crammed at times that il seemed as if no more could be forced in Yet they were. It's capacity was originally designed to accommodate 2,O00, but the records of its days when revolutions existed against the Span. ish government show that as many as 2,6O0 prisoners were confined there at one time.
 The prison was, in fact, designed for this purpose more than a hundred years ago, and political prisoners have outnumbered the criminals each year since, according to the captured rec ords of the prison. When Gen. F. A Hughes took charge of the prison foI the United States government in Go tober. 1S98 he found over 2,000 prfs oners confined there against whom no formal charges had been recorded
 "A great many of them," he said, were heavily ironed-most cruelty ironed. For instance, there would be a man chained to the wall of a stone cell in which there was no light except through two loop holes high up and about two inches wide and a foot long We also found some with bars of iron about three feet long to which were attached two iron hoops that were fastened around their ankles. and they had to carry these bars every ster they made. The flesh around theiI ankles was worn altogether to the bone in many cases"
 In his report of that inspection Gen eral Hughes also said that two hourI after the prison had been turned oveI to the American authorities the ironl which had been knocked of the pris oners were piled up. and the resulting accumulation measured more than cord and half in size.