The Washington times., 1917-07-18

the District Jail. In the FIRST place,
six colored women and one other
white woman were in the penal farm
party that left Union station yester-
day afternoon.
Leading the on-to-OccoQuan brigade
was one Jane Cannon, a woman pris-
oner OF some renown, who IL alleged
to have an extensive acquaintance
with the R., F. & P. r. R. trainmen
between Washington and OccoQuan
by reason of some fifteen committing
trips to the penal farm.
At Lotion, Va, the farm stop. she
greeted Warden Whitaker. who had
come to meet the train. as one greets
an old companion.
Feared Discrimination.
Warden" she announced. we're
bringing along sixteen sufrer-gettes,
and I want to know whether they're
to be treated any better than am"
''Of course not, Jane" said the
warden. Amiably.
WELL" said Jane, with relief,
that's why like you, warden. That's
why I'm coming back to see you
again. But ! won't stand for being
treated any worse than these folks
are" with a wave at the militants.
Along with Jane and the six ne
groes the militan.s clambered into a
farm BLACK Maria" and were trans
ported up to the farm colony, where
the shower bath and prison suit ritual
was celebrated.
Then they lined up in. front OF the
warden's desk to receive their de
grees' and give up their valuables.
Jane Cannon. by right of seniority,
got the first number. but Mrs. Louise
P. Mayo was the first SUR honored.
Wanted Her LOrEnette.
Mrs. Mayo-one OF the Mayos Of
birmingham, Mass.-was formally en-
tered as Prisoner No. 1912, who en-
tered the prison farm on July II, 1917,
with q sentence OF sixty days against
her, which might be decreased by
good conduct, but who was under the
obligation of earning a $50 fine at en-
forced labor at the rate OF 30 cents a
day, Bundays and legal holidays ex-
cluded.
1t was q golden horde that the sixteen
women offered up on the altar OF tho
warden's desk. No less than $500 in
big, cracking bills were garnered
| from the sixteen, and a Jewel expert
would have been necessary TO appraise
| the rings and valuables that were
ticketed and locked in the prison safe.
Mrs. Brannan apparently was the
most adorned. In addition to a neat
roll" she surrendered a pearl neck
lace that was on-handedly appraised
at $1,000. but she put up an awful
protest for the possession Of her lorg-
nette, which was gold and worth 500
at least
The warden issued an informal COM
munique in which he said that the
use OF the lorgnette was deemed a
necessity" but It is understood Mrs.
Prannan was tipped OF that using II
TO up and down" the other prisoners
while eXclaimlng How eKtraordin-
Rry!" would be strictly banned.
No Hunger Strike.
The very first meal served in the
prison showed that hunger strikes
are far from the minds of the sixteen.
OF yesterdays evening meal, they left
not a crumb OF the portion served to
them and all toddIed to bed like good
little "suffs" to face a sound nights
! sleep.
Here's where the sufrragettes went
up against the first horrors of their
sentence. They were absolutely in
communicate, except to. an attorney
or their relatives. Late yesterday
evening miss Lucy Burns, pro TEN.
field marshal OF the suffrage organiza-
ton, called Warden Whitaker by
telephone and said she was their at,
torney. The warden directed her TO
come, but she didn't appear last night.
A few minutes later, ellison Gard
ner. q Washington Newspaper man
whose wife is one of the prisoners
called on the telephone to ask II he
] could see his wife
'If you get here before $3.50
o'clock" said the warden. But Mr.
Gardner didn't appear.
During the morning today, the
women were all carefully cata.
logued by the prison clerks. They
had TO NIL out a long blank, which
asked. among other things, whether
the prisoners had ever been delIn
quent before and whether their
parents had ever occupied Q cell In
a penal Institution.