Show JAILS THAT ARE PORTABLE structures have something of a humorous side but are useful in the philippines portable jails such as are in use in the philippine islands are doubtless lacking in architectural beauty but they more than make up tor for the deficiency fici ency in usefulness these one room cuart els built more for coolness than tor for permanency are established at intervals along the government highways of 0 luzon and several ol of the other islands of 0 the archipelago for the late iafe keeping at night of the convicts who are employed by day on the roads these convicts are farmed out for or this purpose from the great prison at manila Man fla the construction 0 of these so called jails Is simple in the extreme a floor door of split bamboo walls of two or three inch poles bound with barbed wire and a root roof of grass thatch |