| Show E I f7 Uow11t1JALs I rs Y v 1 t 1 t I I TATE I 1x t 0 BY BYft r t mi R fl r ft CM t 1C K I N BY MUBRAY SCIHCK N the bench southeast of the city ON IK I one of the most productive m manufacturing man-ufacturing establishments oC Utah It is a beautiful site To the cast is a lone stretch of farm and meadow land tiot ted with pleasant homes and walled by the green slopes of the Vasntih range To the west the workers might loolc on loiiffllnes of leafy trees laid out with mathematical precision and marking The streets of the city and ending ut the northwest In the graceful tracery of tall spires and towers against the blue of the MI miner sky And 1 still beyond be-yond the shimmering waters of the great lake turning to molten copper under the magic touch of the dying sun sunThe The Immediate foreground is hardly less attractive Smooth green well cept lawn neat graveled walks beds blooming lowers delight the eye and minister to the aslhotiu part of mans nature Prom the eastern hills cool brtCKtS fan the I mesa and venlllptc the roomy workshop where the skilled artl san ply their tasks It Is a well appointed I ap-pointed room 100 feet long by 10 feet wide The sanitary conditions arc as nearly perfect as possible Here cotton cot-ton socks hair cinches brushes cloth lug and shoes are manufactured r A1113 NO STRIKES Although the employees never work mdre than eight hours per day and arc given a halfholiday every Saturday the most avaricious Eastern manufac turer would envy the labor conditions that prevail here A strike was never heard of A workman who shirks his work or performs It poorly mny lose all the privileges oC his class and If he dqes not mend his ways be placed In solitary confinement For wages they get lhldr board and clothes their 111111 tliy medical attendance when ill and religious Instruction when well YORK ON THE SIDE Although the institution is a peni tentiary there are features of Its man Rgcment that might he copied to ad vantage by many employers Each manIas man-Ias a set task and when It Is performed properly no matter how early he may use the rest of his time in walking In the prison 1 yard reading or at tasks of his own Some utilize this spare time in making1 bridles hair chains and or Jiaments which arE sold to visitors for the benefit of the makers One coin let Franl Morgan who was sor Ing a sen tence for highway robbery made a ciazyquilL that vas the admiration and envy of every lady visitor who saw it The pieces were faatuncd together with feather herringbone and I all ho 1 other latest stitches Moran has finished his time but one ot he I present inmates is seeking to gain his laurels In tho crazypatchwork line and leas a handsome hand-some quilt almost completed SOCKMAKING I Manufacturing1 was introduced In the pen by Warden Dow Immediately af ter Utah became a State lie began with the making of socks followed wlih the cinch factory and added the I brush I cry In 1lOO Thise occupations were chosen because they do not Infringe on free labor Twentylive knitting r machInes ma-chInes are operated now some being rlbbera and I others finishers All but the rlbbcrs are run by hand The power used for the rlbbers is derived from an electric motor which Is attached at-tached first to one machine and then to another as needed Thirty men are employed In this department and SOOO tin en airs of pocks are turned out every year The task required of each man is I three dozen pairs per 1 I day Beginners Be-ginners cannot make that number and work HIP full eight hours but the ex crlenced craftbmen can do their stint In from six and onehalf to seven hours The output Is taken by local firmsthe Wyoming insane asylum the Idaho State prison the South Dakota prison and many other public Institutions The socks bring from 40 cents to H per dozen MANUFACTURE OF Cr CHI S The cinches are made almost entirely by hand and the workmen congratulate themselves that they have a cinch on their Jobs The hair Is obtained from the tails of cows and horses The raw material I comes In its natural form the tails arc washed and the hairs pulled out one by one Then they are spun into ropes on a twisting wheel and braldod by hand Into cinches from a few Inches to over a foot wide and worth from 50 cents to SI apiece When complete the product Is readily taken by large wholesale whole-sale houses In Salt Lake and elsewhere some going as far away as Portland Or A dozen men do the work of this department and they make about 5000 a year BRUSH FACTORY One of the most Interesting portion of the t work room Is I that devoted to the manufacture of brushes stove brushes shoe brushes hone brushes and scrub bins brushes Jlore ten men are at work There are three distinct operations opera-tions in malting a briujh The back Is cut by a machine In two pieces One piece is perforated and the tufts of hair l or fiber are drawn through tho hole m with bits of wire and wires run through tho loops that stick through the bidet rho final operation conslsus In fatstin Inj tin sections of the back toother with clno In machinemad brushes the tuft are fastened to Ihc back which Is all In one piece with ntaplus The material for till tnnnufactmc of brushes comes 1 from Chicago where It Is gathered from all purls o l the earth The fiber h gathered In Smith Am riea the cheaper hair from the bnoki ot the great American bog and the bust bristles bris-tles from Russia where tie > hogtf are as bristly w iho I whiskers Some of lime cheaper Crudes of brushes are made of liber with a double row of brhUlea around the outside The greater part of the penitentiary product are sciub binir brushes MAKE TJIISIR OWN CLOTHES All the clothing used In the penitentiary peniten-tiary and in tin Insane asylum at Provo that Is for the men Is made while you wail Underclothing coats pants vests shirts and shoes are all furnished by the prison tailor The shirts rare made of cheviot the suits for the second grade prisoners from a woolen material called stripe the suits of the first grade prisoners from gray denim a distinctive but not conspicuous mat ilal and the shoo from heavy cowhide 1 j RECOMMENDATION XKICDIOD J This concludes the list of manufac tures but there are a number of other occupations to choose from Ten men find places as wallers three I as bakers six as cooks and dishwashers Hcvejn as laundrymen eight as farmers one ia a blacksmith ten as trusties and several sev-eral as bricklayers masons and builders build-ers To get a job In this model industrial indus-trial 1 community It I Is necessary to have the recommendation of a Judge and Jury and even then the applicant may not set the job he Is after unless the warden considers him titled for It How do you assign the men j was a question propounded to Warden dow I HOW MEN ARE ASSIGNED Well it depends on the Impression T form of a man was the reply I would put you on a machine As a rule the younger men learn a complicated trade much quicker than the older < ones so most of the young men are In the Workshop We very seldom receive It skilled workman although this week a colored man came in from Ozden who proved to be a professional I brushma 1 kcr That Is the most dlllicult trade to learn requiring a year or t two to master all the branches Very few learn all the Uoeesse Only one of the present inmates In-mates can do the whole thing His name Is John Saunders and he was a newspaper man = On second thought Warden Dow came to the conclusion that he had made a mistake and confessed that Saunders was a printer He got four years for burglary His time would expire nest May but he has an application In for a pardon August Nelson the dean of the shoemaking shoe-making corps for many years was a professional shoemaker but ho killed a man and got life He has served ten years and was recently transferred to the kitchen where he Is now acting as cook The other shoemakers have learned their trades on the inside WHAT PATSY GOT One of the bakers Tom Williams owes his job to a murder committed In Men I county He and his partner Patsy Coughlin killed two ofllrers that were after them Tom root life and Patsy I did not even get that much They shot himThe The warden has no dlfllculty In getting get-ting men to work the prison farm anti care for the stock The Stale owns cons horse and pigs The first named furnish all the milk and butter used In the Inutiiution I The farm contain ISO acres and IK planted with potatoes cabbage cab-bage turnips corn and peas all the vegetables needed for the prisoners and mantels beets cum rots and lucerne fur the stock A dojien horses are used Tho trusties take canhot Line pigs i cultivate 1 cul-tivate the I garden and Irrigate the farm MOSSS VJDPSATUVITY The horses are shod in the prison blacksmith shop and the sturdy blacksmith black-smith who learned his trade in happier days devotes Mr lighter hours to the I making of Iron bars for the windows and artistic Iron signs for the office and yard lIe Is not the only talented individual who Is at variance with tho Slate One of the brightest men on the roll Is Fred Moss He is as bright as the dollars he used to tjnn out when he was In the counterfeiting business Since his Incarceration he has studied I electricity and made mieh progress that when a master electrician from town was hired to wire the ofllce and new administration ad-ministration building with Moss to help him he put III two days work and declared de-clared that Moss was competent to finish fin-ish It Moss also has a irenlus for invention in-vention and has applied for a patent un a ditch digger that has enlisted the interest in-terest of capitalists and may make the Inventor more legitimate money than ho ever manufactured of the queer MANY CRAFTSMEN The pen Is so well supplied with bricklayers stonecutters and carpenters I carpen-ters that the only outside help needed on the line new administration building for the warden was one man to looi after the liner brickwork on the exterior ex-terior An average of fifteen men have been employed besides this building they have put up a barn icehouse storeroom boilerroom blacksmith shop installed a new heating system built a reservoir and laid a pipeline Il was while engaged In the Latter work that Harry Tracy knocked down a guard and escaped with three companIons compan-ions RESULT OF IDLENESS Prison Industry Is not designed primarily pri-marily In Utah n least for profit Pro ductlon could he increased and lire jmilts raised accordingly by a more extensive use of powel but as WaiJcn Dow explains the main purpose Is to keep the Inmales busy nt some useful labor As has been observed most of the I men who go to the pen ore not skilled In any trade many have never worked In thclr lives others have worked at occupations that busied the brain but lid not educate the hands Warden Dow expresses an almost nxiomallc truth in these words Idleness would soon make an indus trlous man a tramp and habits of industry in-dustry will make a tramp an Industrious Industri-ous man or at least more Industrious than he was before MUST IDO GOOD WORK It Is a hard wrench for many of the prisoners lo break away from habits of Idleness ami It has not bison noticed that any I cf the prisoners become pas Hlonatcly 1 fond of the usual round of toll but even the work IH I more satis factory to I hem than would be habitual IdlfntHs When they enter the prison factory they I have no choice but to work aril work well L All their work passes first tbinugh the hands of convict I con-vict Inspectors who are required to < all the attention of the guards to any faulty piece Careless work or Idling may be punished by a roduVtlon from the first lo be l second grade or soli tary confinement It rarely happens that such punishment Is necessary however bo far as possible the prisoners prison-ers arc treated t as equals by the guards f It IB the aim of the warden to develop and preserve selfrespect and a feeling of itvlopelidence No useless and arbi trary rules are enforced such as the silent system The men are permitted to hold a reasonable amount of conversation conver-sation with prisoners of their own I grade while at work or exercise NIGHT SCHOOL The feeling of selfrespect la promoted pro-moted by a nlcrht school conducted In the winter time for the benefit of the untutored inmates The course Is op tional and many who need It the worst are so u erse to any kind of ex ertion that they refuse to attend but some twenty or thirty usually avail themselves of the opportunity Only the common branches such as reading writing arithmetic and spelling are taught Several prisoners who were unable lo write their own names when they enlcrfctt the inslltutloirliavc been fairly proficient when they got out The teacher last year was Jesse McMillan serving > a twentyyear sentence for murder In the second degree PLEASANT SURROUNDINGS Aside from the disgrace attached to a prison sentence I the knowledge of re Klraint anil the absence of family rind friends the lot of the average prisoner IB not much worse than it would be at hard labor on the outside The surroundings I sur-roundings arc clean ond pleasant the I food wholesome the clothing comfortable comfort-able and the service excellent The prisoners have access to a good l library and may follow almost any course of study outsiue of working hours On his first admission a prisoner Is placed In the second grade He has his face shaved his hair clipped and he I wears the stripes 1C he obeys the rules and is diligent at his 11 Itisks he Is promoted I pro-moted In three months to the first grade Then he can wear a moustache I if he desires and Is attired In the Inconspicuous In-conspicuous gray suit of the fIrst gratters I DAYS ROUTINE At S oclock in the morning a bell rings summoning the factory hands to their days labor They work ste ailily until noon when the bell calls them to the midday meal At 130 they resume their labor and work until Ii F or until their tasks are finished provided they gel through before i Until supper thnethe men usually walk in the yard the first graders on one side and the second graders on the other After Flipper they may rcad 1 or otherwise amuse themselves In their cells until 9 oclock when the lights are put out One of the latest prisoners received Is Vcdo Del ccchlo the Italian musIcIan mu-sician He has been given a knitting machine and a good position In the prison orchetra The warden IH19 no statistics shoving what percentage of the prlaanuis reform re-form lIe does know of a few Instancci where men have followed the trades learned l In prison but it is I unfortunately unfortunate-ly a fact that the trades taught there are riot common enough on the outside to make It cosy for n man to t fet employment em-ployment at them About 25 per cent of the prisoners have served one or two terms before One class of prlsofmry young men sentenced for violating the age of con cn L law who have been quite numerous In the Utah penitentiary I peniten-tiary rarely 1C ever come back |
