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The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-12-21
Good Night-Sleep WelI!"

Ned impaired his information by fits
and starts; ever and anon he would
break off abruptly and walk off down
the range, to give the guard the idea
that he was about his ordinary bust
ness. then he would return, squat down
on his hams beside the door, and muir
mur along in his rapid, distinct tones.
All that he said was abundantly con-
firmed later.
Fnally-"Good night-sleep we'll
they'll put you on some Job in a few
days. It's the first days that go hard
est with most men, but you II get used
to it; You might get out on parole, too
but don t count on it.; of all the
frauds In this prison parole is the
worsti''
He laughed in the prison way-si-
leptly, In his throat-and went away,
after warning us that it was near 8
O'Clock. Our watches had been taken
away from us; no doubt, prisoner
might. bribe guard with it to bring
him cigarette papers, or "dope.n Be,
SIDES what has man in Jail to do with
timer Our prison masters desire their
charges to exist SO far as practicable
In dead, unmeasured monotouy, where
a minute may seem to prolong itself to
the dimensions Of an hour; to feel
themselves utterly severed from the
world they have annoyed or injured.
That is the penitentiary IDEAL; but it
has OF late become impossible fully TO
realize 1T. A prison will always be
PRISON. but at any rate, light shall be
let In on it.
Meanwhile, our cell light went out;
and we waited for the dawn.
lay In the upper bunk. It was six
root drop to the cement floor below.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-12-21
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and spoke manfully and pungently,
with touches Of gay humor now and
then; advised US as to our conduct
what to Go and what to avoid; and
when he noticed the little gray pam
phlet, said scornfully:
that! There's hundred rules there,
ind every one Of 'em is broken every
day. Those rules are for show; what
happens to you depends on who the
guard is, and how he happens to be
feeling, You can 60 as far as you
like sometimes, and other times you II
get hauled up if you turn your head
Sideways.
"The screw (guard) son this range
is decent; he won't crowd you too
much. Keep quiet, and do what they
tell you, and the odds are you III get
by all right. OF course, If some Eel
low gets a grudge against you, he s
liable to hammer you like hell. There
are some prisoners here that get on
the wrong side of a screw, and-weu,
1T goes hard with 'eml But if you re
a little careful, I guess you'll get
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-12-21

bad dreams, and rise in the morning
with headache.
We mounted three or four flights Of
iron steps, and were introduced into a
cell near the corner. 1t. was, like all
the others, steol box about eight feet
long by Eve wide, and eight or nine
high. On one side two cots two feet
wide were hinged against the wall, one
above another; they reduced the living
space to breadth of three feet. The
wall opposite was made Of plain plates
of steel, and so was the inner end of
the cell, but in this, at man 8 height
from the floor, was round hole an
inch in diameter. That was part Of
the spy system; for between the two
rows of cells is q narraw passage, in
|, which the guard can walk, and, himself
unseen and unheard spy upon the pris-
oners and listen to their conversation.
All prisoners are at all times Of the
day and night under observation. This
seems slight thing, but the cumula-
tive effect OF it upon mems minds is
disintegrating. At no moment of their
lives can they command the slightest
privacy. And what right to privacy,
you ask, has a prisonerf Would he
not use it to cut his way through the
chilled steel walls with smuggled in
drill and saw, OF to plot revolt with his
cellmates Possibly; but even beast
seeks privacy at certain junctures; and
to deny all privacy tends to bestialiZe
human beings. 1t is a part of the
put-the-fear- of God-in his.h cart" priu-
ciple-which breaks, humiliates, de-
grades the man and renders him unfit
for human association,
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-12-21
An Unexpected Visitor.

In the midst Of our perusal we were
interrupted by the arrival of visitor
He was a slight-built, slope-shouldered
young fellow, in prison garb, with a
meager visage heavily furrowed with
sickness and ,sufferin g--he had tuber-
digestion with which all prisoners who
eat the regular prison fare are afflicted
Not that Ned Gas will call him, since
it was not his nancy mentioned his
condition; it was determined long after
ward by the diagnosis of my friend.
Ned IS object in visiting us was not
to air his own troubles, but to assuage,
so far as he might, the gloom and un-
easiness Of the new arrivals. In his
haggard face shone pair Of very in
telhgent and kindly gray eyes, and
above them rose compact, well-filled
forehead. / was fortunate enough to
keep in touch with this young man dur
ing my stay, and 1 found no more low
able nature in the penitentiary. He
made no secret Of the fact that he had
been guilty Of federal offense, and he
never expressed contrition for it; "I
made mistake in taking another man
in with me,o he remarked: 'tyou are
never safe unless you go 1T alone, -
Gated, but he had read wisely and ju-
diciously, talked correctly, though with
occasional colloquial idioms thrown in,
and he was a concentrated and original
thinker. His courage was undemon-
strative, but indomitable; he never
complained Of his own condition and
experiences, but was instant in his SYM
pathy with the misfortunes of others.
No more welcome and valuable coun-
selor than he could have come to us in
those first hours of our durance.
That he was able to visit US was due
to his being a "runner,' as those pris-
opers are termed who are assigned to
carry messages and doing odd jobs in
the ranges. He leaned against the bars
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-12-21
WITHIN THE GRIM GATES
The Interior Of the Structure Wherein Men Lose
Their Identity and Become Mere Numbers
in the Scheme Of Life.
WHAT THIS is

MI theme here description of prison. of the prisoners
I'VE life there and exposition of prison thoughts and
feelings from within by into whose SOUL the
phrase is the iron has entered.
For several this particular thing has not till
been successfully done in this country But it ought to be DONE
and the obligation do happens to fall Circumstances
have put forward spokesman and interpreter for this
subcrranean and silent brotherhood of which and
from which have forth.
Civilized society responsible for its PRISONS and for the
treatment of prisoners well for the conditions that
brought the latter under the punitive of the law But
society has vital knowledge of what penal i'm
prisonment s of its effect the subjected to it, and
upon those appointed administer it. Society has
portun to learn something of these matters and there
decide with intelligence what if anything it be-
hooves it to do in the premises.
have allowed thread Of personal narrative to
through the story which strung reflections and sugges
tons arising from the facts presented have done this with
wish exploit private affairs but in order to give the
composition natural human FORM and insti into it the
life which abstract propositions lack The reader is requested
to construe the personal not myself
particular, but the prisoner in his cell
Whatever further explanations necessary may he
found in the story itself.
JULIAN HAWTHORNE.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-12-21
A Book of Rules.

There had been issued to us sheets, a
pillow case and q gray blanket of the
army sort; our first duty was to make
our beds. Mattress and pillow were
stuffed with what felt like wood chips,
and was probably straw and corn
mattress was hillocked and followed by
the uneasy struggles with insomnia Of
countless former users. There was a
camp stool whose Injuries we might
share. We had, each, q prison tooth
brush and comb, In the ceiling Of
the cell was an electric bulb which
would be dnrkened at 8 o'clock. But
all this was welcome. 1 had often
roughed ii in conditions quite rs se-
we're; my spirits could not be dashed
by mere hardships or inconvenience.
We put our domestic menage in or
der cheer3ully. glad that wo had been
celled together, instead Of doubling up
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-12-21
Poignant First Moment.

We are now on the verge of having
the fear Of God - put in our hearts
Some twenty-six hours before, my friend
and |, just out of the Tombs, and IN
charge of two federal marshals, have
taken the road TO oblivion at the Penn
-ylvania station in New York City. A
few minutes since three miles or more
beyond tho city Of Atlanta, we had ad-
ranced to the entrance of an expause Of
ornamental grounds, with cement
pathway Leading up to an extensive for
titled structure-a wall thirty feet high
sweeping TO right and left from the tau
steel gateway, with the SUBMITS Of
stone towers emerging beyond.
L stepped out briskly, in advance Of
the others; noticed some bright-hued
flowers in bed on the right. In a few
moments ! was ascending a wide flight
Of steps; as ! did so the gateway OF the
United States penitentiary yawned, and
two men in uniform stepped out. There
was a transient halt, a few words were
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CONTINUED on Following PageS
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-12-21

~UT the fear of God in his
"D hearth This phrase, impious
and ironic, is used by officials
in prisons, and repeated by
prisoners. 1t has no religious import.
To 'fput the fear Of God in man s
heart means to break his spirit, to
cow him, make him, from man, a
servile sneak; and this is effected not
by encouraging him to remember his
creator, but by instilling into him
dread of the club. the dungeon and
the bullet. He must learn to fear not
God, but the warden, the captain and
the guard. He is to be hustled about,
punished Tor not comprehending surly
and half inarticulate orders, or for not
understanding gestures without words;
all OF which encouragements to obedi-
ence are, indeed, specifically forbidden
IN federal and state prisons by the
rolcs which were formulated IN Wash
ington and state capitals and dissent
D2ted for the information of the in.
Nestig2tion committees and OF the pub
lie, Dat whicn are GlSregardco neyerthe-
iess oy many Prlson authorities from
tnc highest TO the lowest. FOR they
llsE hotnlng by dlscegarding them !;
there Is no one except prisoners TO
pialn of !liegal treatment, and
there Is no one Tor them To complain
10 except the very persons who are
guilty cI the illegallties; and the war
ueD st Atlanta, at any rate. has repeat
ediy stated that ne would not accept
tile oaths OF any number Of prisoners
against the unsupported denial OF Il
single guard. To do otherwise would
be - ''destroy discipline
But may not the prisoners complain
10 the committees or inspectors, up
pointed precisely to inquire into and
relieve abuses of this sort.
] shall have a good deal TO say
about these agents Of humanity pres
ently, l will only say here that no pris-
oner who cares whether he lives or
dies; or who possesses common sense or
the smallest smattering OF experience
OF prison affairs, ever is so reckless as
To impart any fact to the persons in
question. II he accuses any guard or
other official of cruelty, the entire
force OF prison keepers can and has
been at need marshalled TO deny point
blank that any such thing occurred, or,
if any did, il was because the accused
official was at the time quelling dan
gerous revolt, and deemed his own life
in peril. If this evidence be insuffi-
clent, it is a pathetic truth that some
prisoners can always be found so de-
based By error and abject as to perjure
themselves against their comrades,
Accordingly, complaints of brutal
treatment at Atlanta and elsewhere
are not frequent. either to the officials
or to investigators; otherwise, I need
not tax your imagination to picture
what happens to the complainants aft
er the Investigators have departed. Or
der and discipline-as appertaining to
prisoners, not to officials-must be pre-
served, if We are to have any prisons
at all. And since there is no way for
the prisoners to compel guards to keep
within the license accorded to them,
we must compel the prisoners to ac.
eept whatever injustice or outrage I'M
restrained despots Of the ranges have
the wbinl 10 inflict upon them.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-12-21

The mattress, though irregularly dent
and bulged, was upon the whole ca
veX, and not over two feet wide. 6
vertical fence or bastion, six or eigl
inches high, along the outer brink
this precipice would have averted Il
danger OF rolling off in tho night; b
nothing OF the sort had been provide
One must remember not to roll, evf
in the nightmare. Convicts educa|
the subliminal self TO a surprising q
gree, and do not fall victims to th
trap as often as one would expect; bI
occasionally one of them forgets, ar
down he comes, sometimes gettin
bruised only, but generally with byI
ken bone or so. l do not have nlg4
mares, and 1 lay prone. gripping g
sides of the mattress with my kne9
as If it were a bucking broncho,. 50
journeyed, Mazeppa-like, through e
abysses Of that night, and was not q
horsed.
Light glimmered obscurely throu1
the bars of the cell from the nigU
burner below. Odd sounds broke out
intervals. HALF suppressed cougn
sudden, brief cries, irregular whee1n0
and gurglings, due to defective plum
ing, occasionally few muttered woro1
then n man in an upper tier began
moan and groan dismally-a negro g
collie, perhaps. Long, dead s!ieH{
would be interrupted by inexpnean
noises
In the dead vast and middle OF
night the prisoner In the cell over 1ai.
began TO pace up and down his Il9o
eighteen inches above my head te
PAGES one way, four back, over
over intolerably; that forging to
fro, like tormented pendulum watn
soul in it, gave a stifling inlpressio4t
Of one tortured for air and space. -
many years must he endure-how M
centuries2 Was his wife dying,
children abandoned7
Up and down he padded;. haa
committed some ugly crime, for va
he longed to atone-but prison is
atonement! Had his conviction p
unjust, and wns he raging impofe1s
against injustice7 Let him not
too loudly, for there was o guard y
der, indifferent to tortured Souls,
to stop noises. 4 prison y
prison, not a sanitarium for disee
crooks. But if the world could
those footballs, and interpret their
nificance, how long would prisons ~
A Jail at night is strange p.sss
500 men packed in together, eaoa
rifyingly alone!
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-12-21

~ UT the fear of God in his
heartl" This phrase, impious
and ironic, is used by officials
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-12-21
The Call to Another Day.

Some Of the earlier workers had r.!
reused at 6 or 5 clock or ear
but for the majority the. $3.50 oei y
the reveille. 1t screeched violent!y
the guardian angels of the night ~
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1913-03-13

ticle on the Hon. Jacob Estey, founder Of
the Estey Organ company of Brattleboro
industrial and commercial news from
Brattleboro and Bellows Falls, and an
account of the proposed railroad from
Bennington to Wiliamstown, Mass. At
tention Is called to the circular letter sent
to the secretaries of boards of trade I'm
western New England. in which the news
policy OF the magazine is described as
follows: 1.-THE purpose of this megazine
is to exploit the superiority of the towns
and territory of western New England
1t is issued in the spirit of progress,
prosperity and publicity for all the region
from Newport, VT, to New London.
Conn, and from Warren, Mass, west to
Pittsfield; all this great region known as
western New England. We want YOU or
somebody equally capable in each town.
10 send us each month all of the Industrial
and commercial news you have about
Your town and its environments. All We
ask of you is to send in the news, pic
lures, and anything you may feel will do
your town good to have others know
and appreciate, and we shall gladly &C
cept your contribution and give you all
possible printed space. The offer Is mad,
to you in the spirit OF friendly co-opcra-
ton. Surely you will appreciate the pos
siblity of this publicity for your town.
The significance Of this offer will b.
evident when secretaries consider thai
the Western New England Magazine 4
sent to all United States consulates, the
principal public libraries clubs and com
mercial organizations throughout the ma.
ton.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1913-03-13
GREATER VERMONT NOTES.
Five Counties Already In Line for Ag-
ricultural Experts.

The crop Improvement committee OF the
council Of grain exchanges writes that,
II other states would become as active as
Vermont In the movement to secure coun-
ty agricultural experts, this country
would again take its place rs a great ex-
porting nation"
On March 4 fourteen Of the seventeen
towns of Orange county voted to appro-
pirate their shares of fund to support
u county agricultural agent during the
next two years. Thus county agents are
insured for five Vermont counties, Ben
nington, Windsor, Windham, Caledonia
and Orange
The following organizations have be-
come members OF the Greater Vermont
association. Montpelier board of trade.
Springfield board of trade, Hartford
Forward" Newport board of trade and
the Business Mems association of Rut-
land.
Under the leadership Of the Fair Haven
chamber of commerce a crusade to secure
an agricultural agent Is being conducted
in Rutland county. Meetings are being
held throughout the county. and every
effort is being made to qualify for the aid
from the fund disbursed by the crop i'm
provement committee of the council of
grain exchanges.
Foreign credits is a monograph issued
by the bureau of foreign and domestic
commerce of the department OF commerce
and labor, which has been recently re-
ceived at the office of the Greater YER
mont association, No. II. The Strong
building. Burlington. The information
contained in the bulletin should be of
great value to manufacturers and others
Interested in the export trade. Copies of
Foreign Credits may be secured for 80
ments. government printing office, Wash
inGton. ID. G.
At the meeting of the New England
conference on rural progress held in Bos-
ton Friday, March 7, Vermont was repre-
scented by Commissioner Of Agriculture
e. 8. Brigham. Professor J. l. Hills of
the University OF Vermont, o. l.. Martin
of Plainfield, Secretary A. c, Hurd of
the Windsor County Y. NJ G. A. and Sec
rotary Taylor of the Greater Vermont as
sociauon, Professor Hills was elected
president of the conference for the COM
ing year to succeed President Butterfield
OF the Massa chusetts College of Agricul-
ture.
The last number of the Western New
England Magazine, published by the
Springfield boaSd OF trade. contains an ar
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1913-03-13
VERMONT NOTES.

Because she called her nelghbor Mira
Britty Godleski Improper Names" Mira
Stanislowtcb IaluslI OF West Rutland
was fined 81 and costs OF 1857 Saturday
President Wilson, through his score.
tary, has sent cordial acknowledgment
of the telegram Of Generalization rcceiv-
ed from Mayor II. G. Brislin Of Rut-
land.
John Austin, who persisted from ex-
posture to the cold near Dover, y. H..
on March G, was formerly resident of
Barre He came to Vermont from Scot
land in 1904
Peter A. Carroll, taken to Boston last
week from Barre, has been acquitted OF
charge of larceny. The transaction
that led to his arrest was proved to he
above board
y fire that caught from the chimney
awokc the family Of II. i. Hutchlns at
Brattlcboro Sunday morning at two
| O'Clock. Tho cracking was heard in time
| to save the house.
George Walsh of Rutland will leave to-
DAY to join the Boston Rod Sox at Hot
| springs for tho spring training Tho i'll
ness and death of his father prevented
his leaving sooner
| Austin W. Bocl manager Of tho Pratt
tleboro Retreat farm has lust complotod
~ years Of service Three years ago he
was pla 'od in charge Of tho farm. For
81 years he was In charge Of the garden.
| Freezing to death Michael Lynch WAS
| picked W. on Strong avenue IN Rutland
| Thursday night, where be had fallen.
overcome 10y liquor Friday night at ths
same spot Il stranger was picked up UNI
der the same conditions.
Patsev Russo Of Arontpclicr baq
brought suit for $1,000 damages from
Leslie w. jewell for the alleged alien.
alton of the affections OF Mrs Russo.
Tho case Is returnablc at the Scptcrn-
Der term Of Washington county court.
| George NJ Ostrandrr of Albany. y. Y.
has brought suit against y. y. Bondin
and the Deerlicld Lumber company for
tl5j coo, which he claims is due him for
| commissions on the sale Of stumrage u
Stratton, Winhall, Sunderland and Nam
| chester.
Albert g. Buffa. the young smueeler
who was arrested after getting two
| Cinnamon across the line, started Mon
| day in care Of Deputy United States
Marshal L. s. Whitaker for tho federal
prison at Atlanta Ga. where he will
spend two years.
! The automobile Of Dr.. f. f. Watson
of Wlllamstown skldded late Sundav
night and went over an embankmcnt and
on to the railroad tracks below The
physician and his chauffeur jumped in
time to escape injury. The machine was
but little DAMAGED
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