Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-05-10
STRIPED SUITS YIELD
TO KHAKI IN CALDWELL
Uniform of Disgrace Be Worn Only by Prisoners as Pun
shment for attractions of Rules of the Pentenay-Many
Other Reforms Have Been introduced

ground ready to be quarried and
crushed.
But the crusher alone could not
furnish work for all the prisoners, so
| the plan of having them work on
| the county roads was evolved. For
this work the prisoners will receive
compensation at the rate of $1.50 a
day, the time of the men to be kept
! by the warden. OF this amount,
which will be paid by the freeholder
committee on roads and assessments,
81 win go to the credit of the prison
appropriation and 80 cents to the
credit of the prisoner If he be a wife
deserter or have a destitute family
dependent upon him, this amount to
be administered according TO a law
presented to the Legislature last win
ter at the suggestion of Mr.. Evans.
May Include Other Workers.
This law has not as yet assumed
definite shape, but soon will. 1t is
also planned to obtain legislation
that will enable the same sort of a
payment to be made for the benefit
of the men working in the quarry
and at the stone crusher
1t is also planned to make some
arrangement with the Civil Service
Commission so that discharged
prisoners can be hired to work
in the road gangs and thus give
them chance to sustain themselves
after leaving the prison at the end
Of their term of Imprisonment. These
men would receive the same pay as
free laborers on the county roads,
namely. 50 per day.
On the other hand, the crushed
stone is also made to produce rev.
enue for the prison. 1t is sold to the
road committee at a price of IS cents
ton, the road committee hauling
the stone from the penitentiary to
where 1t is to be used on the road.
Stone bought under contract has cost
the road committee on an average of
81 a ton. The revenue so far earned
by the stone crusher has amounted
to about $4,000, and it is planned to
devote this money to the purchase of
another crusher double the capacity
of the one now in use.
prisoners at the county penitentiary
is one that has long bothered all that
has had anything to do with the in
stitution, but the present plans seem
to have solved all the difficulties and
provided way to not only employ
the prisoners in healthy outdoor
work, but also to give the county a
source of income from the labor of
prisoners, who would otherwise sit
idle in their cells.
Owns Highest Spot in County.
Getting away from the labor prop
osition at the prison, there are prob
ably few people in the county who
know that the highest spot in the
county Is located on the prison prop
erty. The hill running directly up
from the rear of the prison proper,
and which is visible capped by a
Flagstaff floating an American flag, is
county.
The flag and the huge whitewashed
rock at the foot of the staff are WIS.,
ible for miles as one goes west on
Bloomfield avenue, while the view
from the top of the hill is a piano.
rama that is probably not surpassed
in any place in New Jersey. Looking
eastward on clear days. the towns of
Verona and Caldwell lie almost at
ones feet. Farther east is the Noun
tain House and the handsome resi-
dences along Upper Mountain ave-
nue. in Montclair, while in the dis
lance can be seen the skyscrapers in
New York city and the Greenville
residential section of Jersey City.
Looking through the gap in the
Montclair Ridge through which
Bloomfield avenue runs can be seen
distinctively with the naked eye the
Woolworth, Singer new municipal
and other towering buildings that
make down town New York the won
der of the world.
To the westward the view is one
| of g succession of mountain ranges
one after the other, the farthest one
being probably forty miles away
Morristown and surrounding towns
can be seen, as can hundreds of miles
of county roads weaving in and out
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