The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1913-09-12

When announced to Of Everett friends that should
visit WaIa "aa while on my tour OF Eastern WasnnSon' the
from the casually stroled in Very possibly ought
to be in for of my past think that if all
of outside that ought be inside caught the prison popula
country would be materially increased Be that
degaed the warnings OF my friends and went out to the pen
Tertiary company with Secretary Taylor and several OF the local
boys aw-abdng be gansaid that
mordy curious about CRIME ana CRIMINALS Not one OF us but what
is fascinated by the stories of sensational crime Our newspapers
mint them Stoy-wtes about crime Mem
bers of the legal profession and attaches familiar with the
o and rid nrs, mon onr nnreht lives vet devonr every
the msdeeds of unfortunate ele
society with ferocous its intensity We
strange mixtures of good century
The peniteniary stands amid spacious slightly emnence
just outside the city limits AS you ascend the hill leading the
gates get magnificent view of the valley one OF the most fertile
in all the West Entirely surrounding IS chain OF mountains
blue IN outline maese ana stern looking Nature mas provided
wonderful stage setting TOR tins place OF correction stream rppes
through the valley the fields lie broad and fertile while the
over the landscape you cannot realize ta put stone throW away
live thousand human beings to whom liberty but remembrance
You turn and glance at the fobddng walls and you are brought
jerk guards patrol the walls you
pass up the rGddTay you meet TRUSTEES at work on the Lawns and
you urve suspcousy you pass. nsnctve you feel that
passng their and have business there
They feel that there out OF curiosity perhaps to goa
their DOWNFALL and they make you feel with that fuve glance
You pass on into the main corridor Of the building and it visitors
day will form part Of crowd waiting chance to be shown
through the institution Some of them will be mildly curious
and visitors of nareraed men You are assigned guard and YOU
your of Inspection You will first last and all the
ly clean Nor things brshed up for visitors dayt the
everyday appearance of the prison You the dark holes where
stubborn and mruy prisoners pacedcs without
light single piece of furniture Then into where kept
articles made by the prisoners This vrabe
exposition there displayed finer specimens
handaft than there. They made by the their cells after
working hours and before nine o'clock night brings dark
the cells These articles sold to visitors and the proceeds
the prisoners upon the expiration Of their
You by the of cells built tier tier and in
by The longing for little brightness in the lives of the
reflected the walls of those cells did
single cell in which there pictures upon the
walls the walls completely covered with them Here
magazine there book in another unfinished souvenir In
cell well worn Bible greeted my eye
You pass into the great kitchen and baeshop where $40 oave
The prison plain well cooked by men who
could tell OF chefs something about cooking The
prison has its cold storage plant its ice plant its fruit
table canning department. with the modern and up-odate
cner installed You into the jue mill the industry of the
institution There building, amid deafening
chimes the main body Of the con work guard
PAGES endsy and down long corridor running
center OF the building It about three o'clock the
when there and of the loang
sleeping We wondered and told that they expert
tat they dd their days aLoment-700 yardn little
than half day time.
The tailoring where the mems
pared the laundry and the shoe repairing department.
large hight and well ventilated In fact they sanitary
ana comfortable to work in than many of the large factories
free labor is employed.
Herds Of Ioen cattle butter Every
pound of feed and every bit weighed and tested ''Wappv'
has charge OF the poultry farm having thousand chickens under
MS care Inc guard told us that Wappy the best known