The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1913-08-10

Sing Sing. Not very old either-just 20
lone night was drunk" he says in a
low voice, land a bunch Of fellows kept
jollying me because they said I didn't
have any money. I was pretty far gone
and says: I'll draw a check II you don't
believe me. They kidded me some more
and I wrote a check for Sl2. The bar
tender cashed it. 1t was no good.
THE judge let me go on a suspended
SENTENCED was only seventeen then. I
lost my job and couldn't get another.
SO went over to Pennsylvania. There
I hired a room and tried to get work.
I couldn't do it.
swell, didn't have q cent to pay my
board bill, and they locked me up. They
heard about 1t back here in New York
and came over for me-"
His face Is all drawn up.
''They sent me up for five years"
Not n Friend In the World.
you've been on good behavior and are
paroled to US now"
Yes; but haven't got a friend in the
world. My folks won't have anything to
do with me-" He covers his face with
his hands.
Were you working-before-"
Il was shipping clerk"
go around to Blank & Co. tomorrow
morning and tell them we sent You. Tell
them your name. They want a clerk.
Wen get in touch with them today, and
the chances are they'll put you to work.
II they don't come right back here.
Now, brace up-you're going to be all
right"
He hasn't anywhere to stay that night.
|, SO the association gives him some money
and tells him of a place to go. As he
leaves he looks about 100 per cent more
cheerful than when he rang the doorbell.
All sorts come to the old-fashioned
house in East Fifteenth Street. You
wouldn't think that that well-dressed
man smoking q cigar az he walks up the
street was just out Of State prison. He
was head OF q trust company until one
day in 1907, when a notice Of suspension
was posted On its doors. Then they
found out about the banks loans to him
on worthless collateral The association
doesn't need to give him any, money or
get him a job. He has family and
friends Sing Sing was 6 hard blow. but
he's far from being knocked out
Not .ssore On Society,""
Then there's the man who was at Sing
Sing the first part of his time and at
Great Meadows later-transferred as q
reward of good behavior. He can tell you
all about the miserable holes they. put
men in at the Ossining prison, and the
other side. too, the 1.000-acre farm sew
enty miles north Of Albany. where man
works in the open and gets to viewing
life normally again. -
How does the man Just out feelT you
ask him. Els he sore on society,""
NO." he answers, after a minutes re-
Election. Hes not down on society as q
rule. but he very soon gets SO II he can't
get job"
But he allows that q man who had
spent all his time at Sing Sing might very
well be sworn foe Of society when he
got out. Fact II, he felt pretty bitter
himself before his transfer to Great
Meadow. Up there he gradually came to
believe again that there's justice in the
world.
one Of the things that made him
most bitter at Sing Sing was being
put In q cell with another man. Three
feet and q half one way, seven feet
the other, and the ceiling fourteen
inches above your head. The other
man was consumptive. and had to be
moved out finally. Lots Of fellows got
consumptive in those cells. Almost
pitch dark, you know. and wet walls
and no AIR. The smell was sickening.
vermin bothered you TIL you thought
you would 20 eraxy.. One day the man
across from him carried on for . long
time, and then tried to hang himself
With his treSssrA The guard came