The Washington times., 1923-03-11

q ~ 81 Ac@UMA MSApAmB6y - We - hungry
NAV, no second helpings amt allowed
IN this Jail Or in any other jail that / vas
in. Was you ever in one where You got
second helpin's?"
And then the prisoners slow mind re-
called one pleasant fact which he had
overlooked and which might Be worth
while for the Bootleg Brothers to know
and added:
q forgot 70 ten Yer that Mrs Wagner
sells pies in the jail Mrs. Wagner has !
pie factory somewhere around nearby.
She sends her man TO the Jail every day
and the warden lets yer buy pie il yer
want It. II costs six cents slice The
minee pie Is the best; It's quite hearty.
But that's the only stuff they lei anybody
bring int the jail 70 eat. "
And before very long the La Montague
brothers were treated to their first prison
meal.
The outer door Of the north wing cell
room opened and snapped shut again with
click of steel. A shutting Of feet was
heard and drawing voice shouted up
the corridor:
Upper One, hey, here's your dinner!
upper Two, dinner"
The boys went to their cell doors,
looked over the side Of the railing and be-
held:
One tin plate full Of lamb stew, one
tin plate with thick slices Of bread and
piece of butter, one tin mug with inky
coffee with sugar and milk already mixed
in It, and kitchen fork and kitchen
knife about such as the sailors use in the
forecastle Of a ship.
As the four Bootleg Brothers sat on
their wooden chairs in solitary silenc and
ate from the little collapsible shelf in their
by cells over those tin plates and with,
those kitchen knives and forks, their
thoughts, perhaps, travelled back to their
well-groomed, well-served friends sitting
down for luncheon at that moment in the
club dining rooms of the various clubs
those dining tables white with fresh linen,
sparkling with cut glass with floral center
pieces and the walters perhaps opening
here and there a bottle of the Bootleg
Brothers own champagne to add sparkle
to the scene.
AS the writer Of this article left the
Jail the amiable warden said
Weli, as told the boys, things might
be worse. A whole lot worse. Of
course, a Jail is jail-it isn't exactly
like club. But this is about as good
as any OF the iails, as far as know.
The food is good and plenty of it.
The Federal Government pays US Is
cents day for boarding prisoner. We
ngure that the cost Of heat, the keepers,
ped linen and general overhead comes to
ABOUT % cents a day. So that leaves us
anout 2! cents day for the average days
cost of food for the three meals"
only II cents allowed to buy the food
Tor an three meals of the dayw
Oh, that's enough-it's plenty. The
1ood,s very good here, and lots of it.
We keep a careful account of just
what we pay for the food, and it varies
between 70 cents and % cents day. Fish
day is our cheapest day, and roast beef
day-that's Sundays our most expen-
sive day. This is due to the difference in
price between haddock and beef to roast.
= So the average is Fl cents for the
days food, and we find that we have to
spend 10 cents of this for dinner, the
noon meal
"Of course, when we have laid out Is
cents on the noon meal, it only leaves us
8 cents for the other two meals of the
day. cents for breakfast and cents for
supper. 1t amt so much, but it's enough,
and the boys get frst-rate breakfast and
first-rate supper, as you would see if you
were stopping here.
Sometimes we can put up a good
breakfast or a good supper as loW as 8
cents, and that leaves us cents for the
other meal and allows us to slip in cocoa
for supper as a sort of extra treat-this
often happens on Monday night and is
tCl 1928, by American Weekly