The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1913-11-03

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seventeen years. federal -pffsoner.
came to the warden's support. brand
ing the charges as false.
To outward appearances the prison
is remarkable. Every prisoner has
work to do, and most of the work is
some form Of manual labor. There
is the stone cutters shop. the taiior's
shop. the laundry, the storeroom, the
5arm. the carpenters shop. the
ers at work. Behind the group Of
buildings. bordering on the recrea-
ton grounds, is a model camp for
tuberculosis patients. Nearby is a
plant in which soap is manufactured
from the waste products of the shops
and kitchen. Everything is operated
on a basis of strict economy. A line
of railroad racks runs into the
grounds, and a string Of freight car
electricity is generated for light and
power is always running. The en-
tire plant appears to visitors to be a
well ordered enterprise.
Say Prisoners Arc Starved.
They are starving men in the
name Of economy" said Hawthorne.
and DR.. Morton nodded his head in
corroboration.
Prisoners are subjected to treat
ment that. ds nothing less than slow
MURDER said Dr., Morton: who is :
Y enough TO eat. The warden
attempts to feed strong men on niue
cents a day. and when he succeeds
he brags about it,. There has never
been a man gone into that prison but
who undergoes a steady deteriora-
tion-maybe slow, but always sure
You hear of the clean cells in
Mhich the prisoners sleep" said
the hole, do you? For the slightest
fault. sometimes for breaking a
plate, sometimes for q little more or
less. a prisoner is sent to the hole
a place under the main building for
solitary. confinement. There the heat
is terrific at times. and the stencil is
bad: There some prisoners are
chained by their wrists. and held
thus with arms .outstretched for
hours. And" sometimes confinement
in the hole is for days. -
And the most miserable part of
It. all Is that to outward appearances
the prison Is. q model. There is al
ways the cleah grounds to exhibit
and the baseball games to talk of,
the music at meals and the outward
semblanee Of good care and consid-
Grafton. There is always - smooth
ing Warden Meyer. You are q
told OF tho hole Nobody.sayer sees
that Probably.nobody knows Of the
solttary epnfinementS cells and TN
uses to which they are.s.put NJ
/ ~. Prison o4dalsaDt1turbed ~
Mp a2id ; xsg as.. o,er tn sbs riot The 4esd Pri,:
Tie public heard that it was over. in
4 few minuteG 1t wasn't. It had
been brewing for months. The men
starved, and they were in a mood for
anything for some time"
Omcials: Of the prison have been
disturbed by menacing spirit Of
discomfort among the twelve hun
dred, prisoners. following the open
outburst of defiance when the name
workers who had upheld Warden
Meyer were Missed. The dissatisfac-
stion. amounted to q virtual mutiny.
sit shfst manifested itself during. chapel
service when much to th%c-surprise
Of the church workers. not a single
convict attended. 1t evidently had
been arranged that q boycott was to
esa! pps Of oe taell s 4ss5ist,;o ,ses ssSoia \.
Warden Meyer and denouncing az
AZ tiisE prisoner fssd ~ he .nS5ns;
church workers there were shouts of
"Hprrah. for Hawthorne" and "Hur-
frahs fDa $a6itbt!'s The outbreak was
SO alarming that at mess the guard
!s was u 0yhM' a,o, 4 nnr %s FL the wom-
msseF|a aour Of tnspsStiGa "" % e shs
prison since Hawthorne preferred his
charges. refuses to make a state
w.