Show VAGRANTS DECREASE NINETY PER CENT WORKING PRISONERS PROVES BIG BG SUCCESS City Prisoners in Canyon Upper Picture Shows Men Ready to Begin Work With Chief Grant in the Center Lower Picture Shows Men Rushing the Cook Tent After a Healthy and Profitable Days Day's Labor v Vt f J 4 A i- i a e Ie I- I 0 r 4 2 1 7 x s I k S s- s 44 l v 5 J T r v k A 1 f 4 l 1 44 x k M Taxpayers T Profit by System System tem tern and Prisoners Become Become Become Be Be- come Better Men i 1 By FRANK Docs Does pr prison on labor Pay lay Is It profitable to the cI city ty to the state and to the tho prisoners pris prIs- themselves es Is it practicable and efficient Or is la it a mere folly And does It take mone money from the pockets of other good laborers The answer judgIng Judg- Judg in Ing ng from Crom the tho pictures above aboc which were taken akon In City Creek canyon canon one mile mUe above Pleasant Pleasont a valley 11 0 and Judging from the he report of or Chief of Police B. B F. F Grant who Is one of oC the states state's most ardent apostles of work would be bo yes It dOMpa does dOM pa pay And moreover the work vork do does not take money from ot othor h or good gooi citizen la- la borers but benefits them directly In that It t cuts cut their taxes greatly A criterion by which to Judge e of ot the efficiency of such labor is afforded In City Creek canyon the c. c experiment of or tho the city government Chief Grant has been sending ending prisoners there thero dati dally daily for work for Cor or over a n year anti and as a result one of I Ithe the finest automobile roadways in tho I states has s been laid and Is 18 kept In perfect per per- out Winter Win Win- cf condition d day y In and day 11 tor ter and summer tho the men work ork enow snow or sun The Tho chief puts them to labor If it at nothing more moro practical than that of shoveling ahoy ahoy- eling ehing snow of off the street and then back bock backon on again The Id Idea Is he lie maintains to get them Into leto action It If once you ou do will be bo and contented contented- that they thoy happy hupp and less likely to return to the city Jail jaila a again gal ln n. n I Few Vagrants Here Hero As Asan an an example of tho the success of the city's prison on labor campaign Is the fact that last lost winter when the entire Northwest Northwest Northwest North North- west and intermountain We West It were swamped with the army of the unemployed Salt Lake Lako City was freer than ever before H Hardly a handful of ofa va vagrants ye- ye grants infested this town and thC they made haste hasto to got out when they thoy learned of ot the road roRd up City Creek canyon canOn and for what purpose It served Moreover there Is the fact that in one years ears experiment the army orm of vagrants here has hoa beon been decreased 90 per ver cent Think of oC It iti Ninety 1 per cent And whore where formerly from ISO to persons wore were askIng asking asking ask ask- ing for lodgings 8 nightly In the city Jail jotI now nosy only an average ar varying from ten to fifteen have nerve enough to brave the work of winter Inter for lodging and three square meals a day In commenting on this thi ph phase e of or the tho ex eX- eX Chief Grant sold said today The reason for Cor this decrease Is plainly seen een As h you voU you know the vagrant class Is mobile an and shifts from place to place They Thoy ore are re the birds and seem to have the bird Instincts In winter r they stroll troll to the south in the summer to the north In winter the they are ore looking for or shelter and they used to strike this city eager to commit a a. petty offense ortense and be he jailed where they could get meals a plenty and warm lodging Now however thc they think work with Ith their of oC the tho connected lodging and are mighty careful to avoid It if It pos pos- sl sible ble Put in Condition I believe In working the prisoners every O day da They rhey must be worked If It they are areto areto areto to be kept In trim When they are put to labor the they become healthy health husky and eat three Immense meals per da day and when they ore are dismissed from Jail the they feel In line fine trim to get more work work for themselves Before DeCore however the they would woul be bo dismissed ed and would be pl pleased sed only with the opportunity of oC returning again If Ie there were era no other work in insight sight Ight I should advise that the prisoners be employed In moving mo stones atones from one ono spot to another and then back D again The fhe They must work and their work worl might just as well welt bo profitable In charge of our gang this year we year wo have havo from ten or twelve to twenty or twenty five men each day Is day Is Patrolman D D. II n. Crowthers Ho is a marvel at nt that kind of work and anil is 18 the most moat efficient man 1 have known In working with prIsoners pris prIs- He asserts his authority and ond when hen A crow crowd goes oos out wan wita him they ther go JOo to work Crowthers Is assisted by Of- Of fleer C C. C. C P P. Nielson Thus far they have laid four miles mUes of at roat road up City Creek canyon anI and have kept It repaired and in perfect condition Tho The II prisoners go early in tho the morning and return equally earl early at nJ night ht Their hours I Iare are eight each day Just the same sam as other laborers Their equipment consists of ot tools and Implements two teams and a largo large wagon gradert and a big tent a picture of or which Is shown above and which houses them for tor their noon meal Their meal In the morning and the evenIng evening even oven ing Is at home homo and let the cook testify as to their voracity of appetite Indorses County Plan The dirt which is graded from the roads is used In leveling le and tIlling filling up holes and whatever is left over makes fine toll soil for the city parks The curves curvos In the road rond are arc graceful and the roads arc are wide Ide enough that two teams or two automobiles automobiles au au- can pass one another with ease ens and the tho grading is exceedingly gentle There Is 18 no doubt In m my mind but that prison and convict labor pays pas and pays wonderful dividends dl and I wish Ish esp especially to take this opportunity in Indorsing TIlE THE TELEGRAMS TELEGRAM'S vigorous effort to induce tho count county officials official to put their prisoners to work There Is no r reason that the they should hould lie round around Idle and ami THE TELEGRAM TELE TELE- GRAM Is Correct In Its view It Is my mv opinion that employment of ot tho the Inmates of or various city elt and county count jails is going to solves os the present unemployed labor problem lem lern |