New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-01-21
~ IFNIS WOOD.

Bv LEWIS WOOD.
yverv day was N Sing Sing used
70 see Father Cashin, the Catholic
,s,plsir. Sometimes he was in the
-rd. talking 90 the men. Sometimes
- vas busy N his little ofice. And
o,hsr times. dare say. he was out IN
he Warden Office. helping 20 mix the
medicine that "a used now 70 cure the
mental slckresses OF the prison. The
chief Ingredients OF This medicine are
ccnnon sense and humanity. For
Father Csshin is mental specialist Of
org experience. He's a diagnostician
Who takes but g short time 70 find out
what's the matter with man.
write OF him here, because yester-
dsy started 20 tell something about
n, meeting % the assistant sergeants-
st-srms on that Friday night. was
on M way % make a call on the father
when the sergesnts-at-arms asked me
20 eore and see how they arranged
heir programme for the week. So I
never ssw the chaplain after that.
There were thirty az the meeting OF
the sergesnts-at-ar7ns. The boy who
gave me e book 20 read in my cell
the first night presided. The others
are snswerable 20 him.
Auignments and details for the
vssk were handed out to the prisoners,
os;i,s they must perform. Some were
70 AXE charge e the galleries in the
ollhouse Of times when guards we're
70: there. Some we're told off for the
Brooklyn City Club visit next day. But
iss little things which came up struck
one most forcibly. For instance. there
vas wall by one man that he did not
gsi as much hash az dinner as the man
nsXi 10 him.
\ Hash" Reform.
This sounds ike silly. seihsn
thing bu' isn't the basic principle
correct, Suppose it went along that
way al the time, Suppose the man at
Jour elbow got a larger piece Of hsn'
four DAYS IN succession, and you we're
s'ill hungry when you got up from the
'.ste-,opped table and marched ou'
with your company? You'd feel nasty
over IL. biz disgruntled. And II the
oisertpancy n food kept up you would
grow 20 think or 10 more. Fancy TINS
happening 20 ten men in 1900. Each
hss fifteen. more or less. close friends
vs vill say. They talk It over, this
snail thing. Soon the SNOWFALL Of Cos
SIP grows into a great. rolling bulk OF
sit,sr feeling and erudge.
Well, they corrected just this little
hing the sergeants-at-arms did. None
o. them thought for moment that the
slichenmen. who pass about with the
hash, were favoring any one. Il was
purely mechanical with them. But
a'chsnmen from now on. instead OF
doling out hash with a great spoon
ma; may be heaping, will use sort OF
mould, something like the top OF paS-
Nc powder box Southern negro cooks
use 10 cut bisctIts with.
Men Tell Their Grievances.
All minor differences, the rough
EDGES, are smoothed out in these meet
'hgs Of sergesnts-st-srms. The head
" the Golden Rule Brotherhood stood
ngh, beside the boy who had given me
ihe book. Now and then they con
ierred; sometimes they disputed. They
passed the buck" 20 and fro, and
hnslly the head Of the Brotherhood
soied down what he must do for hl'
fellows. lie carried IL out sfter~aIu
1 was told. | did not understand tht
system thoroughly, but ] got suihcie.ni'
iats Of IL 20 see that II works ess''y
snd smoothly.
Every one who had grievance go
Up and told IL. Al first these grleV'
saees we're surface ones. Tne men
Showed disinclinstion TO mention them
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