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Show tT ? LBi '- I COMPLETES MODEL " 1 STATEPRISON HI Minnesota's'new prison, which coat $2,000,000, t was constructed bn lines which jnake it one of the best and most modern, architecturally, archi-tecturally, in the.United Stated, if not in the whole world. Its buildings, which are strictly fire I proof, are plain, but substantial I '",.: and comfortable, following in I I ,-"-' -construction all the laws and If. rules for obtaining the best I ' 'hygienic andsanitary conditions. I I l Pictures of the new prison are I I ;., published in the May Popular I I 'Mechanics Magazine. It is locat- M I , '' K jd two or threo miles from the I ' eld, at Stillwater. The site was I I selected with -particular care as I I . . to location and source of pure I 1 spring water, the prison farm If ' Covering 160 acres, and the I I prison inclosure proper, 22 acres. I 1 Prom the front is a broad view of I fthe St. Croix Valley, and in the B IS ' ''''' pretjty cbuntry at the rear is a I J I BP"Rg capable of furnishing B j "-.', ;i,60d;000 gal. of pure, cold. water $ - dailvThe buildings are of I '4 " . T n 'brick, surrounded by "a concrete jt ';$ !tociaa 26 ft. in Jieikhth. I WH "v A$ fhere are two cowhouses, '"' each I k Containing 512 cells. Practical-H Practical-H J jy one-third of the outside walls H jp; jof thaie houses is, -gluts', " and I 8 j ;ihert';irt. Sky lights over the H W ' jjtiallstita -result being a vast ll changefom .; the .dark, dismal Mftfj cells of the'past. A hospital, f'fb'l "J thoroughly equipped, adjoins if f $he rninistration building. Tho Hf " ! &ct6ry buildings and ware-HiV ware-HiV hous'oe forthc manufacture of Hf. ' farm machinery and binder Ry twine whicfyara this prison's f " big indqstrie, art J thoroughly f ,J" modern manufacturingbuildin?3 f 'V' fn eyery resect. |
