Show THE FEEDING OF PRISONERS The Chicago Tribune raises an objection ob-jection to the allowance for feeding the inmates of the insane asylum of Cook county Illinois the same being IS cents a day Including food clothing heat light and medicines claiming that it Is grinding parsimony It contrasts con-trasts that cost with the allowance to the Sheriff of 25 cents a day each for the prisoners in the county Jail merely for the feeding of the inmates The cost for the insane does in fact seem to altogether too meager as cents I a day for all the items namefl Is an Impossible economy If the Insane are to be decently treated On the other hand 25 cents a day for the mere coat of feeding alone of the prisoners In the county Jail Is excessive for Chicago where every sort of food Is at its minimum mini-mum cost compared with Salt Lakes allowance on this score Chicago is extravagant This city pays 76 cents a meal to feed Its prisoners > or 22 cents a day and the diet Is claimed to be sufllcient and wholesome But the county pays far more the Sheriff gets 12Ucents a meal or 7M cents a day for feeding his prisoners Compared with Chicago the rate Is too high by about 7f cents a day Compared with the city the cost is more than 50 percent per-cent too high We do not understand why this difference Is made between the cost of feeding the city prisoners and feeding the county prisoners both are or should be fed substantially alike the materials are bought In the same market of presumably the same general quality and at Identical cost while the expense of preparation cannot can-not materially differ The prison fare Is not expected to rival the bills of fare of firstclass or even secondclass hotels but it should be tasty whole some and abundant If the city prls oems are not fed I on a basis that sup plies these requirements they should be oven If it costs something more If they are so fed then there would ap I pear to be no reason for the great dif f rence between I the cost of the fare for each and the like cost for county prisoners We commend the matter to the authorities of the city and county reminding them Of the old axiom that I things which are equal to the same magnitudes are equal to each other i |