Norwich bulletin., 1920-02-26
DANIELSON AND PUTNAM NEWS

ditions just now, and occa sionallys a passenger with a weak stomach suc-. cunbs 10 the rolling of the sturdy ve hicles that regularly negotiate the Brooklyn -DanielSon route and lose a meal that figured more or less promi- nently in the problem of the hign cost of living.
 This may seem like a joke to those who are never troubled much by the rolling of a craft or vehicle, but it isn't anything of the kind to those who are susceptible to Seasickness, whether on land or water. of course, only a small percentage of the pes sengerS succunlb to the dry land sail ing, if snow bound pads may be de- scribed as dry land, but some do and they succun1b plentifully if not copiously.
 But after all, they take their hat off to the jitneys that keep a rolling no matter how many stunts the weather man pulls off to send them into se- clusion. The sea going cab is the thing these days!
 Mary Pickford in Captain Kidd. IT,, and a special vaudeville act-seven posing Venuses, make up the big mat inee and evening bill for the Orpheum theatre for Friday matinee and even ing.-adv.
 There is local interest in the an. nouncement from Hartford that the famous Putnam Phalanx must vacate quarters it has occupied for 30 years i, -because the structure is to be re- !! modeied for use as an office buildIhg. : The Putnam Phalanx named in honor of General Israel Putnam, was or ganized in 1858. Its first meetings l were held in the police court room m Hartford. Always It has been semi military organization of note in Con necticut. It appeared here asid at Brooklyn for the dedication exercises of the General Putnam Inanunent at Brooklyn in the sos and las taken a l, prominent part in many events that ! are now of hgistoricaI importance in Connecticut.
 i Papers of recent date in Hartford have been devoting some big headlines and considerable space to the subject, evidently getting serious attention in political circles in the capital city. of closing some of the county jail in Connecticut, and among those regular ty mentioned as likely to be shuttered IF and left to mould and decay is
 WindhaEn county institution at Brook iyn.
 i i deserted these days" says one story | published in Hartford. This is true. as compared to the lists of prisoners that one formerly could find regis tered at the institution. There were i 13 held there on Wednesday of this week. h the old wet days there were normally from go to 100 at this i time of year-chiefly rounders who would get drunk or create some other [ f~tr, {, arrested and make sure of a warm place to sleep and eat for the winter. The point being made in Hartford is that the state annually pays many thousands Of dollars for maintenance ! of the county jails and that the Aos- ing of some of them would mean 8 , very considerable reduction in eX- i penditures on the part of the common wealth.
 So far so good. The people od ] Windham county will agree that Con necticut should no: spend a dime more i. than is necessity for the mainten- ance Of jails within its borders. l Where they may differ with the pow i CTS that be as Hartford is as to which of the states jails shoud be closed ! It seems never to have occurred to l Hartford people that 1t might be a | fine idea, from a Windham county
 standpoint, to close the Hartford county jail, and send the prisoners i that nay be collected in that terri- tory from time to time to the jail at Brooklyn. The. transportation cost of : getting a prisoner from Hartford to ! Brooklyn is exactly the same as get ! ting a prisoner from Brooklyn to Hartford.
 On record of efficieneey of man r1f c rom the earnings Of prisoners or from any other economic standpoint, al- most, the Windham county jail at I Brooklyn has for years made. better J showing than any other iail in the
 tate of Connecticut. Annual re-
 !, >rts of the commissioners of Wind
 nm county have for years shown
 hat the WindhaTn county jail not
 >uly paid it's way, but also showed a
 splendid surplus from earnings of
 prisoners. Even deducting the al- townace from the state, the Windham county jail stands first among like in-
 stitutions in Connecticut for net up- keep costs.
 Now. if such splendid record
 'ounts for anything, Windham county
 7eople want to know, conceding that
 is wise policy 10 close some of the
 ails. why it wouldn't be first class bus
 mess to close up the jails of the state
 that have always proved to be the big
 gest burden of expense. Hartford
 county's showing. as to jail manage
 nent. certainly doesn't qualify it tc
 tell Windham county that the jail al
 Brooklyn should be closed while Hart
 ford's remains open to receive pris-
 nners firm this end of the state. And the same reasoning applies to other o1