Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-07-03
WORLD FAMOUS STORIES
A GUEST ATT THE LUDLOW
BY BILL NYE.

humorist his real name was Edgar Wilson
Nye. One OF his books OF humor was cnar-
acteristically entitled "Baled Hay.")
We are stopping quietly here, TAX
ing our meals in our rooms mostly, ana
going out very little indeed. When /
say we, I use the term editorially
We notice first of air the great con-
trast between this and other hotels, ana
in several instances this one Is superior:
In the first place, there Is q sense OF
absolute security when one goes to sleep
here that cannot be felt at popular
hotel where burglars secrete themselves
in the wardrobe during the day and
steal ones pantaloons and contents at
night This is one Of the compensa-
tions of life in prison.
Here the burglars go to bed at the
hour that the rest OF us do. We all
retire at the same time, and murderer
cannot sit up any later at night than
the smaller or unknown criminal can.
You can get to Ludlow Street Jail
by taking the Second avenue elevated
to Grand street and then going east two
blocks, or you can fire shotgun into
q Sabbath school.
You can pay cents to the elevated
railroad and get here, or you can put
SOME QUIET LIldIl AllIhCl ia yOuA O"AA
slot and come here with an attendant.
From the exterior Ludlow Street jail
looks somewhat like a conservatory OF
music, but as soon as one enters ne
readily discovers his mistake. The
structure has 100 feet of frontage and
a court which is sometimes called the
court of last resort. The guest can
climb out of this court by ascending a
polished brick wall about 100 feet high
and then letting himself down in a
similar way on the Ludlow street side.
That one thing is doing great deal
toward keeping quiet number OF peo-
pie here who would otherwise, think
go away.
James D. Fish and Ferdinand Ward
both remained here prior to their es-
cape to Sing Sing. Red Leary also
made his escape from this point but
did not succeed in reaching the peni-
tertiary. Forty thousand prisoners
have been confined in Ludlow Street
Jail mostly for civil offenses. man
in New York runs very short career
If he tries to be Extensively civil.
AS you enter Ludlow Street Jail the
door is carefully closed after you ana
locked by means of an iron lock about
the size of pictorial family Bible. You
then remain on the inside for quite
SPELL You do not hear the prattie OF
Soiled children any more. All the GLAD
sunlight, and stencil condenslng pave.
ments, and dark-haired inhabitants OF
Rivington street are seen no longer,
and the heavy iron storm door shuts
out the wall of the combat from the
alley nearby. Ludlow Street Jail may
be surrounded by very miserable ana
dirty quarter of the city. but when you
get inside all is changed.
You register first. There Is good
pen there that you can write with, and
the clerk does not chew tolu and read
a sporting paper while you wait Tor
room. He is there to attend to business
and he attends to 1t. He does not seem
to care whether you have any baggage
or not, and you can stay there Tor
days If you don't have any baggage.
One enters his Sanitarium either as
a boarder or felon. II you decide to
come In as q boarder. you pay the
warden SIS a week for the privilege OF
sitting at his table and eating the lux
urieS OF the market. You also get O
better room than at many hotels, and
you have a good, strong door, with q
paddock on it. which enables you to
prevent the sudden and unlooked-fo
entrance of the chambermaid. 1t Is a
eood-sized room, with a wonderful
amount of seclusion, a plain bed, table,
chairs, carpet and so forth. After a
few weeks at the seaside, at $l9 per
day, / think the room in which / am
writing is not unreasonable at 50.
Still, of course, we miss the breeze.
Heavy iron bars keep the mosquitoes
out. and at night the house is lighted
by incandescent lights OF one candle
power each Neat shutters. consisting
of the thumb and forefinger polished on
the hair, are to be found In each oc-
cupied room.
Bread is served to the freshmen and
juniors In rectangular wads. 1t Is such
bread as convicts' tears have moist
ened many thousand years. In that
way 1t gets quite moist.
We retire at 7:30 o'clock at night
and rise at $50 in the morning. so
as to get an early start. A man who
has five or ten years to stay in place
like this naturally likes to get at 1t
as soon as possible each day, and so
he gets up at $50.
We dress by the gaudy light Of the