Putnam patriot., 1913-08-08
STATE PRISON
 INMATES REBEL
MethersfieId ConYicts Follow Example of Sing Sing Men
CHAFED 1T SPEEDING UP"
Increase in Amount Of Normal Days Work Causes Dissstisfaction-oua tity Of Food Complained of-5onus
 System Pleasing at First.

Special Hartford Gorrespondenee) Hartford Trouble that had been brewing among the eonyicts who are employed In the shoeshops of the State prison al Wethersheld for more than year eliminated in strike in shep No l. More than two years ago system of bonuses was adopted in the shoeshop. by which the conYicts who did more than the normal days work were 10 be paid for this work, the money to be credited to them. At hTst the men were pleased with the system and number of them earned from sl to S7 d month. This system was inaugurated because the output Of the shops had fallen off after Ward A Garner became warden. The e0nyieta complained that they had less food than had been customary under the administration of Mir. Gamers prede eessor. Albert Garvin. Warden Gar ner also refused them the privilege of buying food with their own money. to supplement the food furnished them by the State.
 After the bonus system had been 3n operation for some time, the amount of work that constituted normal days work vas raised. and general policy of speeding up" of fhe workers was adopted This led to much dissatisfaction on the part Of the inmates, which finally eul- minated in the strike.
 II Is believed that the immediate cause of the strike was the fact that the prisoners were encouraged and inspired by the action of the striking prisoners in Sing Sing. New York.
 Put One Over On City
 Using the same type that vas em- ploYed in printing the original copies of the report Of the Hartford vice com mission. the Connecticut Woman Suf- frage Association had 800 copies of the report reprinted and is selling them at 25 cents a copy at the headquarters No 55 and 57 Pratt street It was the small price charged for the report that gave the scheme away, for it was clear that 1t would be impossible to have the type for a report embrac- ing 90 pages set up and sold for any MilUE fiht ptbiiA hh @b NttiAH n 'Op9s or s125 for the entire issue.
 Those in charge Of the suffrage headquarters openly admitted that they had employed the type which fhe vice commission, had paid to have set by R S Peck and Company in re- printing the report and seemed pleas cd at the success of the venture.
 New Laws Tn Effect
 All public acts passed by the Legis- iature the day of effectiveness of which was not otherwise stated. have gone into force Among those is that prohibiting the giving of free lunch in the saloons of the State. II Is claimed in some quarters that this law is not constitutional, but so far as can be learned no attempt is to be made to contest it
 Among the other new laws to go into effect is that against riding on running boards of open trolley cars. Others are the laws restricting the issuance of marriage certificates to those from another town or State. that requiring lights on all rubber tire or spring vehicles visible 200 feet AWAY tue NBIf tHttl AAotA act the heroin and drug act, that re- quiring fire escapes on schools and that providing Tor State civil ser sice.
 Held for White Slavery.
 Through the efforts Of the State po- lice Joe Bruno is,in custody in White Plains. N Y. on the charge of white slavery, alleged to have been commit ted in Bridgeport and New York city. His victim is declared to be Jessie Boseo of New Britain and her hus- band is in that city,
 cartno Trees and All.
 The wharf at New Haven presented en interesting scene when the trunks of eight huge oak trees were hoisted and loaded onto barge moored along side the dock The trees. which were of immense girth and size, came from Woodbridge. and will be towed to Noank on the Mystic River where they will be used in the construction of a large vessel now being built at the shipvard there. A crowd watched the leading of the enormous logs swung through the air and landed on the deck of the barge.
 Dear Plentiful.
 Deer have been reported 10 be plentiful of late and considerable dam age has been reported at the select ments office at Terryville. Some of the serious ofrenses of the dear deer are the damage to Rural Carrier George k. Duff's cabbage plants at his farm on Town Hill, Here they de stroyed 1000 plants which had been set out At the farm of Walter Tolles in Allentown. the deer destroyed 100 hills of lima beans Several others have complained of damage 10 the gardens.
 Mrs. stephen Barnum. aged 70, was killed in a runaway accident near Blackman's Mills. Her horse became frightened and plunged into raeeway near the mills. Mrs, Barnum being rhrown under the wagon. She died half an hour after being extricated from the wreckage Of her wagon.
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