New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-07-14
MISS DAVIS THINKS
ISLAND RIOT ENDED
Commissioner Back at Her
Desk, but Will Keep
Tab on Prisoners.
ALL BUT 200 MEN
ARE NOW AT WORK
Warden Hayes. Oldtime Officlal'
Said to Oppose Moral Sua'
sion in Discipline.

With almost all the 1905 prisoners
hack al work m the workshops, ana
Quiet reigning. with promise to con
tinue. Commiss Toner Katharine Is
Davis Of the Department Of Correc-
ton spent only part OF yesterday AZ
tho periteutiarv on BlackwelIs Island,
where the recent strike had assumed
a serious aspect until she took personal
command Of the situation.
Miss Davis returned TO her ONCE nm
the Municipal Building early IN me
afternoon and began 10 PICK up tne
work on the budget for her department.
She said she believed that she ana
Warden Hayes now had the SITUATION
well IN hand, and expected no lurIheI
trouble. She said she would not return
"a the island to-day. unless a riot
o.U should come from Warden Hayes
and .he didn't expect any such ms
fortune she will keep closely IN touch
with him. however.
4 GOOD deal OF comment was heaIu
Yesterday regarding possible changes
IN the administrative force o. the penn
,o,.iary rs a result Of the recent uprls-
ING Miss Davis said she did no nave
any change i'm mind now, ana mat She
Vas working in harmony with WARDEN
Ill., and the other officials IN
Strengthening out the present am
Cultics. ,,.-r .La.
Uowever. m view Of the belief mat
.ha e,~;Le anneared to start because oil
,.row,nc preiudice among the prisoners
- Warden Haves's disciplinary tactics'
,oore was some speculation as 10
whether he would remain permanently
in his present position. T.,
II is understood that the WARDEN -
rot entirely n sympathy with thr ne"
commissioners constructive poIC'cS ~
The department.. particularly win nel
,Ios,rc 10 deal with the prisoners
through human appeal ra'he' '"""
Tho older and stcrner mcthodS.
'' y..s nointcd out that Warden
Waves was dIScIplinarlan OF tne ora
school and that he prooaolE Mou,"
beve dealt with the recent uPrlS'nt
summary and with nara manu-
left 10 do Il alone Ill.,, or
Ten years ago warden naI' oId
other prision OfhclalS OF VI. 80
school would not nave hes''aeeu W
- e+ronV-arm methods. II was a,
80 srd /, was because they sun
Ching 20 those ideas OF convict
80 that they did not M mo 'ht
80, constructive scheme o. cor
Ie.;nr In other words, pracNcaliE
dT The scverer methods Of discipline
~bicb these men knew and were &c.
customed to use had been taken .o- ava" nr
from them. and they were mo-
o., q loss TO cope with trouo'e
under the new methods. <, "+bo
Two OF the prisoners. IRON Gorr' 5ne
cooler" tried to intim9ida'e Oo" !aid,
IN IN .be, we're taken TO the prison
T Eospi,a ,'' to have dressed the scalp
Wounds Wounds which they received 3D. in N the the
..r;ke riots. They stopped het III ,"i
bgu as they came out Of the h9spl ia.
,bcv we're gong TO be confined III
",he cooler" on short rat.op 1'.., N men
,oiJ hat it might he some little 'lnc
tbcy swore and said they would not
co hack to their cells. -.
Yes. you wiz You march =, S'r "a 81.
down those stairs to -{ yo9r cells 'o'
R,J tbev did. though there was no
card With them at the time