The Washington times., 1917-07-18
PIcKETS, IN GRAY GARB,
BEGIN 0CcoQUAN TERM
TURNING OUT 0VERALLS

OcCOQUAN, Va, July 1s.-Pris-
oner No. 1914, District penal farm,
held on to her 800 gold lorgnette to-
day, Notwithstanding the prison farm
rules against Jewelry. She said she
needed 1t to read the prison menu.
In private life, Prisoner No. 5974 Is
Mrs Eunice Dana Brannan, OF New
York city, woman OF wealth and posi-
ton, daughter of q well-known editor,
militant member Of the National Wom-
ans Party. and at present indebted to
the District of Columbia in the sum
of hfty-nine days imprisonment for
blocking the White House sidewalk IN
q suffrage demonstration" last Sat
UrdAy.
In Gray Prison GRrb.
At $50 o'clock this morning, Pris-
oners Nos. 5972-59s7 Qnclusive) arose
and dressed for breakfast. All sixteen
were suffragettes, and they dressed
not In their own soft fabrics, but in
the gray prison garb that the Dis
trict furnishes, and in the reinforced
heel and toe cotton hose of the pris-
on farm rather than in their own
luxurious silken stockings.
The footwear of fashion was re-
placed by a shoe that is strictly util-
itNrian in its lines, and the sixteen
suffragettes, who refused to pay S25
fines in Police Court yesterday, be-
gan their first full day of the sixty
day sentence imposed by Judge Null
lowry yesterday.
Breakfast was served at o'clock
IN the main dining hall OF the farm
with negro prisoners on one side
and whites on the other. The suf.
fragettes, who spent the night in
cots arranged in q long row in the
woman's dormitory, were minus the
,more-or-less en- suite facilities Of the
District jail Warden Whitaker had
placed one white prisoner between
. each OF the sunrGsettes. so that they
were more or less incommunIcado
for the night.
HOmIny Day at wOrkhouse.
Dawn broke early over Occoquan,
and the prisoners rose early. for #
was hominy day. The days OF the
OccoQuan, so 1t was hominy day, rath.
er than wednesday. For breakfast,
this was the menu:
Fried hominy. with gravy.
Wheat bread.
Blackberry jam
Coffee.
Sugar and cream
Immediately after breakfast, Il waI
announced to the sixteen sufHragettes
that the morning downpour would
prevent work IN the FARMS black
berry patch. where the berries are
, ripe and luscious, but that instead
the suffragettes were to be pla gu IN
the sewing room.
Teaching En- To Sew.
"But suppose" protested Miss Anne
Martin, supersunragette and leader OF
the night in Police Court yesterday,
that we don't know how to sew"
That" said Warden Whitaker, "iI
something we will soon teach you"
So the prisoners, Nos. 59T2-59s7, in
slusive. were all marched on to the
sewing rooms. where four OF the more
expert picked out the sewing ma
chimes. and the other twelve went tc
work with needles and thread on the
great pile OF material that was to
become overalls. trousers, shirts, un.
derwear, and bed clothes for the pris-
oners.
There was a prospect OF lunch a
noon, but by 1890 o'clock this morn
ing the sixteen militants began Il
appreciate what IT means to hunger
strike. The hard work of the morn
ing was bringing appetltes to a higi
tension, and the nearer noon ap
preached the farther away It seemed
The menu scheduled by the wardeT
for the days noon meal runs lIk,
this:
Here's the Luncheon Menu.
Beef and cabbage.
Buttered beets.
String beans
Corn bread.
H-two-O.
Twas q great procession, that trII
20 oecoQUan yestsrdEy evening from