Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1914-11-12
SANITATION PLAN
FOR MORRIS JAIL
Stonaker's Idea includes Work
by Prisoners on County
Roads This Winter.
sDec,al to the Evening star.

MORRISTOWN, Nov. 12.-Sugges-
tions for lettering the insanitary
conditions at the county jail were re-
ceived from e. l.. Stonaker Secre-
tary of the State Charities Aid ana
Prison Reform Association, at the
November meeting of the Board OF
Freeholders yesterday. A communl-
cation was also received from the
local board of health and from Dr.
James 3. Griswold. the Jail physician.
Mr.. Stonaker said he had made
study of the conditions here ana sus-
eested the use of the basement OF the
iail for the feeding of the prisoners,
for giving them bath and for fitting
them out with suit of cotton under
wear and overalls and jumper. He
said also there were two rooms in the
basement that could be fitted up with
cots as a cell for drunk and disorderly
cases, to keep these cases apart from
the other prisoners. He also recon-
mended putting prisoners to work at
the county farm or on the roads and
said it would be found that the num-
Der of prisoners would be diminished.
He suggested an experiment of the
latter on a small scale this winter.
The local Board of Health offered
its assistance to the Board Of Free
tions. DR.. Griswold called the boards
attention to the shortage of bedding,
and In defense of the Jail said the
windows could not be cleaned on ac-
count of the small wire screens and
until the prisoners are given brushes
that they might keep their cells clean
He suggested requiring each prisoner
to keep his own cell clean. All the
communications We're referred to the
Jail committee.
Another communication from Jo-
seph p. Byers. commissioner of the
department of Charities and Correc-
tions. suggested the erection of a
laundry building in connection with
the tuberculosis hospital. His in
vestigation of the hospital, he said,
had disclosed that no proper provi-
sions had been made for laundry
and that the number of inmates could
not be increased above eight until
such had been made.
A communication was read from
William l.. Walters, of the State COM
mission of weights and measures,
which stated that the records showed
that Charles w. Bowlby, whose bill
for services as county sealer of
weights and measures under the small
board has been held UP by the board,
had served as sealer. The letter was
ordered filed.
That Sheriff Thompson might oc-
cupy the sheriff's house, the board OF
ordered the room in the |
northeast corner of the Court House |
to be used by the Board of Taxation, |
which has been meeting in a room in |
the sheriff's house. A bill from the |
Bonnie Burn Sanatorium, in Union |
for $641.l4, for the care of an !
INDECENT Morris county patient, was |
ordered paid, when approved by the |
superintendent Hulmes, of |
the sanatorium, said the patient, who
had recently FED, was q resident of
Madison, and was committed previous
to the erection of the Morris county
institution. Election bills for $20,503
were ordered paid.
Chairman Anderson NJ. Guerin, of
the road committee, asked the board
as q whole to meet with the road
on December to talk over
road matters. The Dover Boiler
Works were given the contract to re-
pair fallen bridge at Ironia, on a
Kinney, of Randolph, it
was ordered that the Central railroad
be asked again concerning the WIDEN
ing of the Dickerson bridge.
On the motion of Freeholder Guerin
4 s35 balance from the freeholders'
was donated to the chill
dren's home for the Christmas fund.
Freebooter Abel asked that a check
be kept on long distance telephone
calls, on account of the large bills
that the county has had to pay.
Two hundred and twelve inmates
were reported in the almshouse, of
which 209 were in at last report, with
seven committed and four dismissed.
In the children's home eighty-flve
were reported. eighty-two being in
mates at last report and three having
been committed since. Bills of $917.56
for the almshouse and s673.64 for chill
dren's home were reported. The
finance committee reported $233.53 for
stationery, $14440 for coroners and
post-mortems, Court House expenses
81, ,252.4S, and the transfer of $500 from
the surrogate to the interest and dis
count account. The Jail committee
reported bills of 1852. 46. Thirty eight
prisoners were reported, with thirty
four at last report, flfty-flve commit
ted and fifty-one discharged during
the month. Bills of S224.24 for the
hospital, $505 for widows
pensions, 81, 1906 for insurance and
miscellaneous, $3.50 for printing,
50, 1866 for roads were approved. The
telephone of County Detective Ed
ward l.. Bremen was ordered re-
moved from the rear of his lot on
Glenbrook place to his residence on
that street. The Morris County Auto
mobile Club asked for information on
the county appropriations for roads
and how 1t was disbursed.