Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1937-11-18

tClIlt onop anu Ntit mopt\itu- Al
inquiry as othe music that blared
from a small building brought a Wis
il to the music room where Sam H.
Treloar of Butte. veteran bandmast-
er of the famous Butte Miners band.
conducts daily practice for 90 in
mate students. Mr.. Treloar is paid
by the state and drives down from
Butte daily. "They do a credible
piece of work" Mr.. Treloar said. 81
believe they are next to the Miners
Band, the best and most versatile az
g%regation in Montana. 1--we hours
daily they practice"
Adjoining the music room is the
license plate room where a crew of
some twenty men turn out the auto
mobile license plates used on Mon
tana automobiles. The newly de-
signed plate. with Charles NJ. Rus
sells famous trademark-the buff
falo skull-was exhibited. Records
of the registrar of vehicles are kept
in the outside office" said the war
den. Then to a handsome brick build
ing at the other end of the "prison
campus. This theater is equipped
with sound talking projectors. which
were purchased by receipts of box
ing bouts held here between the
prisoners, the warden explained.
The tour led to the new and old
then to the prison sewing room
where all overalls and shirts are
made by inmates. Then to the pris-
on library, where ceiling high rows
of books. neatly c%atalogued, are
stored and repaired. Then to the
prison laundry (inside) and to the
guards tailor shop, the print shop,
the clothes where the inmates
go to and from the laundry in in
dividual containers, the school room.
the carpenter shop. the plumbing
shop, the tin shop, and the prison
hospital.
Next Mr.. Taxpayer saw the big
prison dining hall, with its rows OF
tables and folding benches to feed
500 at a sitting. The prison kitchen
with huge ~steamboilers for cooking
great patches of stews and veget-
ables, the ranges for frying, the
~dishwashing equipment and finally
the inside cold storage room. Adjoin-
ing the kitchen is the prison bakery
where 1900 loaves of bread are bak-
ed each week in loaves weighing two
pounding and three and one half
pounds. Row after row of the newly
baked bread. well Drowned, appel
izing and tasty, tempted the ~salivary
juices of Mr.. Taxpayer.
THAT barber should open a shop
in our town. said Mr.. Taxpayer, aft
er getting his shave and haircut
without the customary quota of bar
Der conversation. Sleek and smiling,
Mr.. Taxpayer then went to the pris-
OF commissary outside the walls.
Here a huge refrigeration plant con
tains row on row of dressed beef,
fowl, eggs, butter and many perish
ables. The commissary is equipped
with every article a good country
store carries, shoes, clothes, candies,
canned goods, heavy coats-every-
thing needed in the prison. Next he
visited the prison pasteurizing plant,
the outside laundry, the guards din
ing room and kitchen, the big bunk
house where the 1913 prisoners VINO
work outside the walls as TRUSTEES.
sleep and spend their leisure time.
Greatly impressed, Mr.. Taxpayer
thanked Warden Bergstrom for his
fine courtesy, and walked down the
street to meet his wife and family.
They say Ted Bergstrom isn't a
prison man." he unused. well may
be he isn't. But then, put an honest
man in charge of an institution like
this and you've got about all you
need, if he is intelligent and quick
like the warden. If all of the tax
payers money Is spent as carefully
and to such good purpose as is dis
played in this institution, then | for
one, am completely satisfied" Mr..
Taxpayer bought a 10 cent cigar and
turned and cast a proud proprietary
eye over the heavy walls and struc-
lures of the Montana State prison.
Maybe they'd better pour some of
thn oil for tha La ~ Gill;