Evening journal., 1915-07-09
JAM CELLS WITH
MEN WHO
FALL BY WAYSIDE
Sixty Workers of Carney'S
Point Get Too Happy
After Spending Pay
JUDGE Will HOLD NIGHT
session OF CITY court

So many powder mill workers from
the Carney's Point Plant of the du-
Pont Powder Company have fallen
by the waysde' in this city after
their payday iubilation. that the
county workhouse at Greenbank is
full.
Judge Churchman will hold an ex-
ira session of City Court TO consider
the rapidly increasing cases.
The clerk of City Court has 10
work overtime to get all the cases
docketed.
Day and night the police are kept
busy gathering in woaklkneod or un-
steady stepping or helpless powder
workers. who flock 10 Wilmington,
spend their pay I'm having a good
time, and, In many instances, have
no money left 20 pay their fines and
have to linger awhile in the work
house.
In the last tweIty-four hours sew
enty-six arrests have been made in
Wilmington. most of whom are err
rant powder-workers. Fourteen we're
arrested this morning, and forty-six
powder-workers were In CITY Court
this morning.
Break Arrests Record.
Local police records for the number
OF arrests made In one day we're
smashed yesterday and last night and
as result there were sixty cases
on the docket in City Court today.
Forty-fve of the prisoners were ar
rested on a charge OF drunkenness.
| Most Of them were employed as pow
der makers at Carney's Point. They
were paid on Wednesday and came Ia
Wilmington TO spend some of their
money Twenty of those charged
with drunkenness were arrested In
the vicinity of Fourth street wharf
by Officer Michael Maloney.
Since the closing of "speakeasies
I'm and about Pennsgrove the men VIII
work In the powder mills and VIII
seem TO have come from every cor
: ner of the United States. flock 10 thi
city to indulge I'm liquid refreshments
While the resorts were open ii
PennsgrOve those arrested here sci
dom had any money on them. Nov
that such places are closed. the pow
der makers have been found TO hav
ing sums ranging from IS TO $50 In
their pockets. They keep their none,
hidden in every conceivable place, SC
that il will not be lost If they are at
tackled by highwaymen The polio,
have to search diligentir TO max,
sure they get all the cash from tn,
arrested men, The capacity OF In,
workhouse has been taxed by the un.
usually large number Of men who ar,
being sent there. Some weeks tn,
number has reached sixty.
In the cells last night IL was i'm
possible for all the men 10 lie dowr
al once and they took turns at lay
ing down to sleep. Some of the mer
sang and shouted so loudly that thu
noise they made interfered with thi
City Court meeting and at times 1
was impossible at one end of the
room TO hear what the members a
the other end were saying.
In City Court today nearly all thos
charged with drunkenness were fined s
and costs. Joseph Smith. beside bein
fined 81 and costs for drunkenness, wa
fined s25 and costs or three months j
the workhouse on n charge of carryin
concealed a deadly weapon. A razor ha
hocn found on him.
After City Court had been adjourned
Judge Churchman ordered Court Crit
Heal 10 reopen the court He then SEN
for Captain Evans and asked how man
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