The sun., 1919-06-18
SAYS MTNEOLA JAIL
GIVES CLUB SERVICE
Deputy Marshal Tells of Card
Parties and Automobile
Rides by Inmates.
MOSTLY U. S. PRISONERS
Courts Now Stop Sending
Crooks There-No Chance
for Meditation.

Nassau county Long Island. Is always
insisting upot lots OF attention-either
because OF Il shipxreck, a harmless muir
der that everybody overlooks. or a rift
In the paradise of bliss that Is techn!-
cally entered on the books as the Nassau
county Jail at Mlneola. This time 1t Is
the Jail that is divertlng notice from the
ODDS and ends OF the war and the stand
ing OF the Giants.
For a month past the Federal district
courts IN Brooklyn. 1t developed yester-
day, have been refraining from sending
crooks to the Mineola prison because OF
reports that II was bad place for them
This action, be 1t noted. was not
prompted by any conviction that the
county was a dangerous region for a
criminal to spend a summer vacation SO
long as any woman was loose with
trigger finger that a turyman would APP
provo Of No-give Nassau county its
due.
The restriction of immigration TO one
of the best jsils on Long Island was
caused. 1t was asserted on reliable infor-
nation, by the p-eferment OF charges
that what with automobile rides. poker
parties and other advertisements the So
ciel round at the Mineola jail was not
only likely to wear "a prisoner out with
late hours. but also was bound to DIS
tract his mind from the serious business
o. teinz In prison.
Jail Idyll shown I'm Movies.
Some authorities on tho subject trace
the rise Of the attractive home life al
the Nassau county asylum for delin'
quents to the time when Douglas Fair
hanks stasva a delightful jail idyll there
Douglas, It will be remembered by al
members of his fraternity, insisted or
breaking into the barred zone-ht
seemed to know in advance that II wa'
one OF the best criminal obstetrics withir
easy distance OF Krugs place at krug
Cornsrs Once inside-there are few
places he can't break into or out Of
young Mr.. Fairbanks established himself
In q cell along the most luxurious pena
nneG with dainty curtains on the win
dows. fancy cushions on the cot and 9
ukulele in the hand.
Testimony is lacking In the present
case concerning the prevalence of cur
tains, cushions and ukuleles. But evil
dence has been furnished to Government
authorities leading to the belief that thi.
institution lately has become all thai
loving hands could mako 1t. But amid
fits social life an inevitable caste system
has developed there has arisen The
cleavage between the ms and the outs
those who are in the criminal swim ant
those who are rank outsiders.
One of the latter, one Of the grea'
Mineola appropriated class. recently
wrote TO Federal Judge Thomas Chat
neld that the place was all wrong-that
II was much worse than he had supposed
Il would be when Judge Chatf1eld sem
him there. He complained of the ser
vice, protested against a system Of IA
voritism which allowed some OF th'
guests more liberty and leisure thar
others, and took exception to the enter
tanning of women visitors at the institu
ton. which he felt should be devoted tc
= quiet meditation. Altogether. to judg,
from his letter. 1t was much worse thar
being in prison.