Show 3 fth y thai thal first state ft S i f BY liy GRANT THORDUR THOR dinin BiniN af I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 landed in new york june 1784 by trade a in the year of my age sie in 0 october tober fol foi following loing at that time lime the he park was out of town and only inhabitants with 10 fools some bigger and some smaller than myself we stood batchin watching Z the vibrations of the rope and iron hook during two long houts tilen then tile the sheriff stood oil on tap scaffold and reada reprieve I 1 confess I 1 was much d disappointed i sapo I 1 expected to see a hanging but no h hanging gi ng was there the man was noah gardner lie lle kept a large shoe store ii new now york he be committed forgery which at that time was wits death by the laws of these united states the state prison of new york was in the course of erection at the time this tilis wits was the first prison erected il in the world for reform instead or of hanging banging the society of or friends were the chief promoters of this humane system one room i i the prison was wasi nearly ready to receive criminals criminal the friends had llad procured from the governor a commutation from death to the state stale prison for life being a shoemaker by trade they gave him film a stool wax lasts and awls and here commenced the stae prison shoe manufactory next court six var val vagabonds abolds were sent to keep him company hom whom v lie learned to make shoes I 1 visited the prison three years after this in one large room sat three hundred shoemakers noih noth was provost marhal marshal walking through the ranks with cane in hand punishing puni hing evil doers and praising them that did well seven years having passed over him the friends waited on the governor Frie friend ltd ild sam sah ther they seven years igo i go you woud have hung this man now here is a reformed member saved to society ile he received an unconditional pardon perdon and came caroe out the friends found him a store oil on pearl street found him money endorsed his notes ind and gave him their custom immediately he was in a thriving way Ile he joined the society of friends and said thee ard arid thou with the best of them ile he bad a wife and children arrived at maturity ilis his journeymen were chi fay aay fly men of family and wrought at their own houses one day lie he faveto a man a pair of boots sow now friend said aid lie thee must bring home these boots on the evening of the fourth day says le you shall have them the boos did not come home until the evening of the fifth day noah was wroth wrath he gave the man a ion lon long iong becu lecture re on the evils of disappointment and want of punctuality when lie he drew up to breathe the man replied sir I 1 am a poor man have three children the youngest forty eight hours old I 1 had 0 a o tend lend to my wife and cook for my children it was not in in my po power to finish finia the boots sooner 1 noah still continued conti aued to magnify maz 1 the honors ho bors of disappointment ointment tile the man grew angry tile the scotch alood blood boiled in his veins lie struck the counter with his fist like a sledge a answered 1 I know said he lie its a terrible thin thing to fole tole e disappointed I 1 remember going gain up to the tark park to see you huog hung and I 1 never wa was s so disappointed in my life lire as when I 1 faw paw the reprieve I 1 now this was a knock down argument areu arati ment as an irishman boull sy sty it was a case in point as they would say i i court and a fact beyond all controversy as they fay ay in cor gess noah was dumb lie he opened not 19 his hig is mou b ile he gave the man another pair to mak maka kept him in in hia hii employment treated him film kindly but the man sli sij s ij he lie never heard the word disappointment drop from bir hir hi lips thereafter noah went on prospering and to prosper oie olie day lip borrowed various sums of money and obtained a number of endorsements the bills lie he changed charged for gold the endorsements lie got shaved in a wall st that night he was wag off for parts pacts unknown taking with him a dear sister the wife wire of a boing friend to cheer him on the way the soy so boy y Is true to the letter and being the cirit subject of or state prison reform the day dreamers of the present time may settle the question quest lol iol whether ilana lidna hanging ing or state prison reform is fhe the surest wa way of curing a consummate villian vil vii lian liau hi 1114 liis family az and fil rids lids never nevet heard from him |