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Show GENIUS IN CONVICT GARB. Many Uaeful Inventions Ar Due to tha Inventlvenete of Criminals. It not Inlre iiiently happen i,ai men Immured behind Iron bars In our prison give to the world Invention whose vuliio It would be dlflltult to estimate. onn of the most Imixir-taut Imixir-taut of recent minor Invention is credited to the Ingenuity of a convict In the New Jen.ey suite prison Charloa Flier. It I a blind lockstitch aewlng machine which will enablo one operator lo do the work of many. The device wa Invented by Hier while he waa at work In tho clothing ahop of tho prison. Outside capital wa Interested In-terested In the machine and Filer received re-ceived as hi reward a ensh payment of $."..t0i, a block of stock, hla parolo and tho promise of a position with tho company ut a good nalary. Other convict !mv flKure,l In pnt-cnt pnt-cnt olll.e n-i-iil as Inventora. Ono whoi. i nine is recalled wn Melchlor Karkar, who. while conllned in a Hun-gurlon Hun-gurlon penitentiary In IS'.il", devised a nieclinnlsin lor giving a man a clem shun. In I wenly tlvo aeconds. The ca-hlo ca-hlo repoit assured li Mint tho governor gov-ernor of Ihe penltenllnry had tested tho machine and declared It a sue-fen, sue-fen, but what camo of It I unknown. A convict of a niei liunli nl turn of mind Is apt to find hi confinement and his Isolation from deterring Inllu-enrm Inllu-enrm most helpful In enabling him to acquire greater facility. Tba exhibition exhi-bition by the prlsoo association of ar-tlrlea ar-tlrlea made liy convltta contained speclmene of high-cms work done lie-hind lie-hind tbe prison liars. Among them were an elalnralo Iron door grill, a richly curved oak staircase, chaira, desks, banjoes, cabinets, Iron bedstead, bed-stead, plaster cast, etc. A piece of cloth woven at Auburn came In for the highest pralso. Hlrbard Darker, a life convict at Auburn, made a Ikix out of I1.7H6 aeparatn piece of wood which waa a murvct of aklllu) cabinet work. It required a glass to see where the difTerent fragments of wood wore Joined together. In the year 1S85 the good manufactured by the convicts of the state of Now York were valued at u,23C.3L0. |
