The gazette-times. [volume] (Heppner, Or.) 1912-1925, 1917-03-29
the voters of the state.

the voters of the state.
The roof on the main ward is about
II feet from the floor and is cover
ed with tin. In the summer time it
is so hot that the sick men can hard
ly breathe. Men that are tubercular,
those having asthma, catarrh, rheu-
matism, diseases of the stomach, ETC.,
were confined in the same ward.
Last winter when smallpox broke
out in this institution, there were
two or three cases of measles, and
they were only separated from the
smallpox cases by sheet stretched
around the bed.
The tubercular ward is too small to
properly care for the cases there are.
1t is not the fault of the officials
in charge. They cannot make room
where there is no room.
The building was erected in 1871
and was plenty big enough for the
12O prisoners at that time, but it is
a far cry from the 1871 to 1917.
Shoe Shop
The men working in the shoe shop
make all the shoes worn by the pri-
soners as we'll as doing all the re-
pairing. No modern machinery, no
ventilation, except two small win
dows side by side, crowded into a
small room, not conductive to goor
work or health.
Auditorium.
When the present auditorium was
erected the builder was evidently in
a hurry. Today the entire south
wall is ready to fall down. The
wood around the windows has rotted
away, the plaster has fallen off in
huge chuncks and you can look over
the country through cracks between
castings and brick wall. The entire
south wall is entirely saturated with
water and the inside wall is green
with mold and decay. Slowly but
surely it Is crumbling away.
Kitchen.
The kitchen is located in the base
ment along with the bake shop. ve-
getable room, butcher shop and COM
missariat's office and store room.
Half of the kitchen space is taken up
with guards range. The balance by
the steamers used in cooking the
food for the prisoners. The ceiling
is so low that when the steamers are
turned on you cannot see a man four
feet away from you. There is no out
let for it. Nice healthy place to
work.
Bake Shop.
The bake shop is half the size OF
the kitchen. 1t is equipped with an
old-fashioned brick oven that was in.
stalled in 1871. There is no ventila-
tion whatever. Good pickings fol
cockroaches and mice. After the
bakers build a fire under the ovens
they are compelled to pull the fire
out to determine the temperature Of
the oven and let it cool down to
baking heat. Some bake shop
What!
Vegetable Room.
Three feet below the level of the
kitchen is the vegetable or peelins
room. A damp room that must bt
continually lighted by electricity, tt
enable one to see. Men sitting Oh
upturned boxes peeling vegetables
feet encased in rubber boots tt
protect them from water. Shut of
from fresh air, they develop rheuma
tism. Some of the men are unable
to stand it longer than three months
Again I say that it is no fault o
the officials in charge. There is NJ
other place available for this work.
Butcher Shop.
Located just little way from tn
peeling room on the same Level
About the same size as the insid
of a SO foot box car and it looks lik
one, containing two cutting block
and when few quarters of beef ar
hung up there is little space left. |
1t is artificially lighted and is s.
cold that when the butcher steps in
| to it at 5 a. m. to commence his day
work, he may we'll imagine himsel
in Alaska.
Laundry.
The laundry is located in the var,
above the bath house in building b,
itself. In 1913 the laundry caugh
| fire from the drier which burned th
rafters and inside ceiling supporter
as we'll as part of the tin roof. Th
roof was repaired but the charre'
rafters are still in the same condi
ton as after the fire. Crowded TO
room it takes mathematician t
figure out how the men handle tn
clothes of the institution, but the,
do somehow. The mangle in us
must have come over in the Mayflow
er. Laundrymen have no recollec
ton of ever seeing one Of its kind be
fore. The drier is so small that full
ly one-half of the men in the winte
time have been compelled to put o.
their clothes still wet.
! Bath House.
The bath house is located beneat
the laundry in a space IL IL con