"assisra ,' , r . vrw, ft KwMrf.'. , . , . ).- .j Innltflill 111 rilinn THTCY tiAIJI. TUTS THE W0BST PRIanN iW AMElitf!iL'VT' ''' ,' MAN HELD AS DOPE a0WCT sfllaalssfatsjl fBHS ;'. Aft-fet" , ' ' SPROUL H FAVOR THEY CALL THIS THE "WORST PRISON IN AMBttj&$? r "'V (T j VaC ft&.'injirYfS 4, BBBBBBBBBVBBJI ' .nffft..Xi.l. .1 A Pflaener iaya He Hai Taken Cure , Five Tlmee Without tueeasa Herman Chun, who confessed being n dope addict, was held in $2000 ball for the Grand Jury by Magistrate Ren shew today after $1000 worth of ear cetlc drugs had been found in his home, Seventeenth street near Erie avenue, Chun told the magistrate he has been an addict for eleven years nnd has taken a cure Ave times. S' A, OF PRISON FARMS . J ADDING MnCMNI Ke7I ihT&mr,! WtUUTBUi ftt- ViM.:w -f s-lVeTm. .f V' KfiMI ivi..., VfcMce 'iiP wnaeivr IS.W Jrs: Governer Believes County Jail Inmate Should ' Given Wholeteme Werk fct? All KkkM Ml MtttU .?'l risK- wyv.-rs M I COLLINS, Ml Cka.htt St , ..., . ttn??w LV IJt 1 ' I'NMmi r " i ran $1 ;iS Vm .i'lijii : , 1 E Sit MP 1 U1W is im m iJ ffiS - : v VM.U : -imi ,.. WvJ The Allowing Pianos have been taken in ex change for our Matchless Cunningham Grands, Uprights, Players and Reproducing .Pianos, and are new en sale with many ethers. Payments Will Be Accepted te Suit the Purchaser UPRIGHTS $275 Herace Waters & Ce., $ee (Rosewood) JJ $300 Weaver Piane, $QC (Ebony) ' $350 Regent Piane, $1 QC (Mahogany) $350 Leenard Piane, me (Mahogany) H $400 Scho Sche macker Piane Ce., $1gfl CMaheganj $425 Hardman, Peck& Ce., $1 7C I.Ike w 11V (Mahogany) $450 Chick ering& Sens, $1 QA Like -NT X Uf (Mahogany) $460Mathu shek Piane Ce., SOAA iLlltn New saW (Mahogany) $500 Lester Piane, $00 C Like New tUmdV (Mahogany) $525 Kreeger Piane, $99 C Like r tdhtJ (Mahogany) $550 Blasius & Sens, $OOC Like New ""WV I (Mahogany) $575 Ivers & Pend, $Oyl A iLIke 'w V (Mahogany) fzssza MS $575 Baldwin Piane, $OCA Like New aww (Mahogany) $600 Sohmer & Ce., $97C Like New V (Mahogany) Used 88-Nete Player. Pianos $800 Emersen Angelus, $90C Like w MtJ (Mahogany) $800 Hazleton Piane, $9QC Like .New aWJ (Mahogany) mj wrM $800 Story & Clark, $OAA Like New WV 1 (Mahogany) $800 Lester Piane, $90C Like New 1 (Mahogany) $900 Hardman, Peck& Ce., $QA Like New MHt V (Mahogany) Miniature Parler Grands, Ranging in Price from $425.00 Upwards ALL MAKES OF TALKING MACHINES AT GREATLY IT PAYS TO THINK Kane oe. HTH AND CHISTNUT I OtKH XTBNIKM lAitHry. Mth AVarfeM.) r ii"it.ijr.-.T""eivv .fc.-1,. . -- - AUTHOR HITS FEE SYSTEM Legislation te abolish county jails In this State and te substitute prison farms is favored by Governer Rnreul. He said he hoped the State would seen be in n position te take ever the care of the inmates in county jails. "It is wrenn t k?p men penned up in cells without any work," wild the Governer. "I was greatly inter eted In the suwestlens for the estal lishment of prison farms si that the prisoners in county jails might be nble te earn the cost of their maintenance. "I believe the inmates of county prisons should hae wholesome sur roundings and be given useful work. I am in favor of the workhouse nnd for un thing that tends te the better ment of convicts' conditions." Governer Sproul has been following the Evening Public Lkimieh expose of conditions In the Philadelphia County Prison, at Ilnlmesburg. .eph F. FMirunn, an author, who tins mude nn exhaustive study of prison conditions in the United States, and whose urtkle, "The American .Tail," appears in the current issue of the Al iunde Monthly Magazine, sa8 relative te the Pcnns hunia jails: "A very bad feature in Pennsjlvanla is the fee a stem of compensating jailers which Htill exists in many counties in PeiiTibvlvnnln. Irstend of being paid a salary the jailer Is gheti a certain sum n d.i' te fend the prisoner in his charpi". retaining, as part of his com pensation, ouch portion of his allowance as is net paid out in feed for the pri. pri. eners. Ter instance, if n jailer recches tiftv cents per day per prisoner ami has n daily merugc of fifty prisoners in his jail he will get $2Ti te pay for feed. Kerv cent that he does net pay out for feed (fees Inte his ew n pockets. "A mere vicious sstem it would be impossible te conceive that of one man lining his e'n pockets in the same de gree in which he withholds feed from another." Inspection Farce At Helmeuburg Jail Continued from rwi One the btruggle, severely reprimanded the men ue muiseii neu seni i iiumsu iut cemict. "The isiter departed content, nnd the captain had the man beaten ucatn nnd strapped te the fleer without feed r... i..iiti.fniiF lintiru Ann thin hull- penml in 11C2. The dote of it all I dan't knew. Time came te mean uotb uetb Ing in Holmesburg. .... "Te be deprived of feed from twent-feur te fort -eight hours i one of the commonest punishments, V,.! n.l.Mlntuiore.1 fnF tllR sliehtCSt effenves. such as n whisier t,hreui:i a ventilator, n scrap n luimu-vu i .-. . slight humming, te while away dragging moments. 'The confinement for the majority was selltar eu-n the meals being M-ned in the cells. And kucIi n.cal- for breakfast burned rye with two !..... r tiMHj fiftAn en nnrnnl tl te I U uneatable. ' Fer dinner the same 1 1 ..J.I. . 4..... 1.. ........wl iDreaii wjiii u "" "" "The keepers at Helmesburs lead 'comfortable, even lazy lives. I have .seen, going about the houses in my 'capacity us barber, as muny as twenty ! shoulders of lamb being prepared for ithe dinner of the fift-six keepem. AH enpy me ier ujcui, t. hwj play eanU. Thy smoke. They joke .. ,i .lwitil.' Ann t ttvn. nnrl yt nhetit i and curse the n.n they watch. They iMKis iiieir ePiTjisu wuu m'- iienucig and man seem te need a let of exer cise. "The pribmiers are allowed twenty minutes a dav in the court if th we-ither is of the best. One time, the weather net being 'of the best,' we bad no exercise for two or three weeks. Ne exercise at nil is allowed en Satur- UU3 wr rtiiiiuujs. ru, uu s-v, ji,t- iise up there means little. Of course. the men could wulk about in their means a foodless twenty -four hours. Hate te Mope in Cells "Sen.e of thp 'favorites' are allowed te work in the shops or at tcrubbing floors. When I was at Holmesburg there were about eighteen men in the tailor shop and fourteen in the fthee shop. About tiftv worked four hours a duy ili'.-iniiig the corridors. Sera ethers worked it weaving and making stock ings. The rest, 000 odd, sit threugn the ia seing and hearing nothing, going te pieces mentally and phy.si"ill.. Yet the work of the prison efficial: has been praised by visiting committees, visiting committees who see only the few men at work in the neat-appearing shepH and are bubtled out. They de net s"e the hundreds of 'timers, the brutal punishments or the monger rn rn tlens nnd the fellows doing their soli tary bit. "During my five months nt Holmes burg I wuh 'strapped' (foodless) for twenty-four hours. This happened te me three times because I was the vic tim of the dislike of the guard who reported me. "As n harbor. I attended te between four and ten of the kteners n ilnv. sometimes doing what would be u .$li job outside shae, haircut, shampoo and Binges and would receive, at great risk te in? self of detection, a small hendful of tobacco, perhaps enough for three or four smokes. I hatl lest all tuste for toburce, but, fortunately for me, the com let cook had net. He would often trade me a better meal or u piece of geed meat for my meuger supply. Hew Meals Are Prepared "The prisoners' meals acre prepared in huge iron petb. And the pets were ery old and he rusted that if they had ever been cleaned there would have been no pets left, Teed left standing in these pets, for even a few hours, was contaminated. An inspector once urged a set of aluminum pets and almost get them. However, he died before the purrhase wns made. The order was countermanded and we never get them. "Holmesburg takes t man's life bit heart away, and leavea him, at the time when be is again turned free te make his way in an antagonized world, without the mind or the ability te suc ceed. "Such waste of human lives inch treatment of human boeies would net be permitted if all knew what I knew hud seen what I have seen. I tell my experiences in the County Prison with the hope that something will be done by these with the power, te im prove conditions at Holmesburg." One convict cached tobacco in the boiler room. It appears that some workmen from the outside bad listened te the pIcub of the convict te sneak in some tobacco, knewnlng, that while it was a violation of the rules, It would be an act of kindness te bring it in; the workmen did. Part of this contra, band made its way "lata tat "blocks" rAcraffI 'ttivesHOPX ANPT0AUm Km TOWK mm A birdseye view et the Holmesburg County Prison. The letters A te O indicate the prison blocks; H Is the open-air "hospital" for tubercular convicts a regular cellheuie with its sides knocked eut: R indicates the Rotunda. The Pennsylvania Railroad line te New Yerk is shown alenslde the prison wall by secret channels. The convict was finally cuught with the tobacco nnd made te go without feed for twent twent feur hours. Guards Get Petty Graft l'x-cenvicts say that tobacco wns passed out by the keepers, or "screws," te several convicts working in the tailor shop, who kept the uniforms of their keepers looking spick und span by cleaning and pressing them every week. This practice, it is understood, is still ill effect. Petty graft thnt the keepers received in the way of shaves, hair cuts und ether barber work, such as Cusano told about, has been cut out by order of Captalu Hesteu, who is the deputy In ilinrge. About tliree weeks age, Captain Hesten discovered that a num ber of keepers who were getting bar ber work done in prison were paying for it with n piece of chewing tobnece or enough cigarette tobacco te make three or four smokes. The first thing Hesten did was te order the barber chairs broken up, and then he read the riot act te the keepers who were instrumental in having the no-smoking and no -chewing rules violated. Last week a new convict, Wesley Walker, who was takeii te City Hall te appear as a witness against I. Austin Wolfe, convict' d esterday of being n receiver of stolen goods, ceinnhiincd about conditions as he found them in Heliuehurg. vvalkcr, when asked te tell what he knew about things In general, lit first did net want te tulk. "Yeu knew I've still get seventeen months te de up there," said Wnlker, "and if I tell just what I knew about that prison, after serving nluctcen months, ma he they will take away my working privilege. Still, if there Is anything that can be done te help us peer devils up there I am willing te take a chance. "I get three years in the County Prison, and when I wits sent up there they put me in a cell nil by myself, nnd there 'they kept me for three months. The feed was awful, but it wns a case of eat It or starve, se Wes ley ate it, nnd he's still eating it. There are lets of fellows up there that can't eat. They are alwa.vs complain ing about pains in the stomach, but keepers only laugh at them. "I have never been punished, because I never did take a chance and talk nor smoke, but I have seen lets of the boys punished for breaking the rules. Be cause I did net break tne rules they put me out scrubbing and whitewash ing. I won't get paid for it, but that doesn't matter. "I get out of my cell during the day and I can say n word te someone that was something I did net dare de while I was locked in 'doing solitary.' Kvery day I have been up there I have beard complaints from someone. It's always about the feed they give us, but maybe it will get better. 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