lo PRISON DE LUXE
Internment Camp at Islington
Like Exclusive Club.
No Prisoner Would Leave the Camp
Under Any Inducement Less Than
Declaration of Peace—Have
All the Luxuries.
By HAYDEN TALBOT.
London.—If any belligerent country
ever conducted an enemy internment
camp as this country is running the
make-shift prison into which the old
Islington workhouse has been trans-
formed, the world’s historians have
deprived their readers of a tale at the
same time amazing and amusing.
Surely that greatest of all “British hu-
morists, W. S. Gilbert, would be able
to write a classic satire around Is-
lington workhouse, were he only alive
to do it. Except his, no pen can do
justice to the facts.
To begin, there are upwards of 700
Germans and Austrians interned at Is-
lington. The guard—altogether un-
needed—is comprised of one police
sergeant and four P. C.’s, who are in
America plain policemen. Not one of
the _ seven hui dred-odd prisoners
would leave Islington for any consid-
eration less than a declaration of
peace. The waiting list of alien ene-
mies now interned in less-favored
camps exceeds five hundred.
Islington workhouse resembles in
cvery material way an exclusive club,
rather than an internment camp. To
become a “prisoner” in the institution
is the dearest wish uf every German
and Austrian now in Great Britain—
excepting, perhaps, only those who
are still enjoying their full liberty,
The attention of Britishers was di
rected to Islington by the announce:
ment that a brother of Von Bissing,
who was governor general of Belgium
when Miss Edith Cavell was executed,
is among the more recently “elected”
members of the internment club.
That certain privileges were per-
mitted such wealthy, highly placed
» figures as Von Bissing has been an
open secret since the outbreak of the
war, but the real conditions existing
at Islington are still undreamed of by
the British public.
To begin with, you can escape doing
any work—if you are among those
fortunate 700 prisoners—by the pay-
ment of 75 cents a week. You can
have a private room, furnished just as
you wish (providing you can pay for
the furnishings), for $2.60 to $56 per
week, depending on the room. -
But the British government doesn’t
stop with taking: this money. It
spends it on the dependents of those
interned. As all the inmates of the
Islington camp are married men, many
of them with English wives and al
most all of them with wives resident
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ment as crowds of young people in
fantastic costumes wended their way
to the Hendryx home, a large colonial
structure crowning a wooded slope. °
The guests were masked.
Dorry Hendryx, garbed as a Puritan
maiden, was without a mask, and she
gave gay greeting to her unknown
guests-as they filed before her. Some
she recognized by voice or gesture.
Henry Tuttle she knew by a familiar
ring on his little finger; otherwise she
would never have distinguished him
from Ned Allen, for they were both
of the same height and general appear-
ance, and by a singular coincidence
both had chosen to assume the dress
of a century ago.
There was another stranger pres:
ent, a mender, whose identity no one
could guess.
Then came Ned Allen, holding his
head with the same confident air that
marked his bearing before papers had
been missed from the bank and Ned
Allen, the cashier, had been accused
of making way with them. The Tut
tles—Mr. Tuttle was president of the
bank and Henry, was vice-president—
had exonerated Ned, but he had not
been reinstated, and the finger of sus-
picion still pointed at him and the
tongue of gossip still babbled about
Masquerade parties are much alike,
and Dorry's was no exception to the
general rule. They played the same
old games and danced the old-fash-
foned dances to the playing of the
Hecker family.
The ald umbrella mender created a
diversion by stepping into the middle
of the fioor and lifting his hand.
“F am a fortune teller, friends,”
cackled shrilly. “Who consults x
may receive a charm against good or
evil fortune, and I will read the past
and the future for him.”
At once he was surrounded by the
gay crowd, and his fortune telling was
so wittily enlivened that the room
rang with laughter. Once he came
close te Henry Tuttle and whispered:
“Please point out to me a young
man named Tuttle,”
And Henry ocoelly nodded toward
Ned Allen, who stood near by.
minutes afterward Henry Tuttle had
disappeared from the rooms,
Dorry Hendryx had heard question
and answer, and Henry's duplicity had
startled her. Who was the umbrella
mender and what did he want of
Henry and why had Henry lied ?
The umbrella mender was gradually
making his way toward the spot where
Ned Allen, brave in knee-breeches and
coat of blue satin, was waiting his
turn to have his palm read by the
£ in England, this fund may be said to
E r serve a not-altogether inconsistent
purpose. In any event, the govern:
ment applies it all to the assistance
of the enemy prisoners’ dependents.
But that is only part of what the
government does for these enemy
allens. There is a lawyer appointed
by the government and paid by the
taxpayers, whose sole business is to
take care of the prisoners’ legal trou-
bles. He has been busy ever since
the camp was started.
One German had been in partner-
ship with an Englishman. Could that
partnership be legally dissolved? The
English solicitor prcmised to do
best to prevent the dissolution.
An Austrian butcher with a shop in
Southend—his premises having been
wrecked in the riots following the
sinking of the Lusitania—wondered if
he might collect damages from some-
body. The English solicitor promptly
instituted a suit for damages against
the municipality of Southend.
Hvery day this barrister transacts
business in the financial district for
those of his clients who were engaged
in the stock market before they were
interned. In one instance it was nec-
essary for a German prisoner to at-
tend to a certain very important finan-
cial transaction in person. The solic-
itor obtained for him permission to be
absent from the internment camp 12
hours, from 9 a. m. to 9 p. m.
There are classes studying Spanish
at Islington; there are other classes
in which electrical engineering is be-
ing studied. One of the highest-sal-
arfed tailor’s cutters in London is
teaching a score of his fellow prison-
ers how to cut men’s clothing. An-
other skilled cutter has a class learn-
ing how to cut women's garments,
‘These two cutters furnish about. the
only instances of really tough luck.
Said one of them to me:
r “And before the war each one of
those pupils would be paying me 15
shillings ($3.75) a week. Now I get
nothing.”
The cuisine at Islington may not be
quite up to the standard of the Ritz,
but if it isn't there is small excuse
for the failure. In charge of the cul:
inary department is the erstwhile
nranager of one of the largest hotels
in the West end.
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2 Shelbyville, Ind.—Mrs. Osa Brown
has brought suit for a divorce against
her husband, Reuben Brown. Mrs.
Brown, among other things, charges
that her husband shot at her feet and
made her dance for his amusement.
They were married four years and in
that time separated ten times, she
says. Mrs. Brown also alleges Brown
is one of the laziest men in Shelby-
ville, and that in the winter she was
forced to work to procure money to
him.
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quasi-fortune teller, who was giving
tiny metal trinkets right and left.
A little silence fell upon the room
as the fortune teller bent low over
Ned Allen’s hand. Perhaps curiosity
prompted some to wonder if the for-
tune teller might not reveal the guilt
or innocence of Ned Allen.
“Young man,” said the fortune tel-
ler briskly, “I can see that you are
going to propose to some charming
girl before the clock strikes mid-
night—you will live long and happily
—and—just favor me with your thumb
print, sir, you know I am making a
collection of them—a hobby of mine—
even an umbrella mender may ride a
hobby. Thank you, sir—ah!”
Amid subdued laughter the um-
brella mender held a strip of glass to
the light, and turned and stared at
Ned Allen through the eyehole of his
mask, then hastily tore off his own
mask and revealed a nut-cracker face
convulsed with anger and surprise.
“Henry Tuttle,” he commanded
sternly, “remove your mask!”
Ned tore off the mask and faced the
room.
“Ned Allen!” A score of voices
breathed his name convincingly.
“Where is Henry Tuttle?” demand-
ed the umbrella mender.
“He is not here,” said Mrs. Hendryx
with much displeasure. “May I in-
quire who you are, sir.”
The little man whipped out a card
and gave it to her.
Mrs. Hendryx gasped.
tective ?”
“Yes,” he said brusquely. “I want
Henry Tuttle—for the theft of the
Wayhrook securities.”
Somewhere outside was the throb-
bing of a motor engine.
“Then you better beat it!” laughed
a masculine voice. “That’s Hen Tut-
tle’s automobile and it’s a racer, too!”
The detective disappeared and after
a while excitement was subdued and
the dancing went on. Sudden!v Dorry
found. hexrself standing ir a curtained
bow window, with Ned: Allen.
“Look, Dorry,” said Ned quietly.
Dorry looked at the tiny object in
his extended palm.
“That is my charm, Dorry,” said
Ned. “The fortune teller predicted
that I would ask someone to marry me
tonight—and that we would live long
and happily. Oh, Dorry, as if I needed
his advice! Ycu know I have loved
you always—are you afraid to trust
yourself to a man who bears the
stigma of—”
“Ot innocence?” interrupted Dorry
with spirit. “No, Ned, I am not
afraid. And although the fortune tel-
ler did not give me a charm—I bear
She blushed and
hid her. face against his arm,
“Tell me about your charm, sweet-
he whispered.
“It's my love for you, Ned.”
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The village streets rang with merri-
Five |
OBSTRUCTION OF FIRE ESCAPES
Inspectors of the State Department
| of Labor and Industry have been or-
| dered to take drastic measures to pre-
vent blocking and obstructing of fire
escapes on factories, tenement houses
and public halls.
Labor Commissioner
John Price
er, Chief factory inspector, to issue
further instructions to inspectors
throughout the state to arrest
prosecute, without delay persons re-
escapes
and the laws requiring fire drills in
factories will be rigidly enforced: In-
stallation of automatic sprinklers
and automatic fire alarm systems are
urged by the Commissioner for facto-
ries, hotels and other public buildings.
An appeal is made to every factory
employe, occupant of a tenement
house, patron of public hall or private
citizen to notify the Department of
Labor and Industry by letter or in
ed or similar . laws are violated.
The necessity of protecting with
fire proof material exterior . fire es-
capes where they pass doors or win.
dows is pointed out by the commiss-
ioner. He explains that a fire escape
even though properly constructed,
may be useless as a means of escape
in time of fire if tongues of flames
can shoot from open doors and unpro-
tected windows to prevent safe pas-
sage of persons from upper floors’
The recent fire in a Pittsburg fac-
tory where twelve girls and one man
were killed and the fire in Brooklyn
where thirteen girls lost their lives
are cited as reasons for the adoption
oof every precaution to protect hu-
man lives and especially the lives of
women workers in our factories
While it is true that the automatic
sprinklers are manufactured by pri-
, vate concerns for profit, their instal-
lation in factories and public build-
[nes is more than a commercial prop-
osition. It is a matter of saving lives
{2d property,
A comparatively small blaze in a
factory is sufficient to melt the fuse
attachment of an automatic sprink
| ling system and the subsequent action
of the sprinkler will in most cases
prevent conflagrations, keep down the
smoke and will prevent the clothing
of women workers in factories from
getting on fire Similarly the heat
from a small fire in a factory will
start in operation the automatic fire
alarm signal and will
men and the fighting apparatus to the
burning building with out delay.
The expense of installing sprink-
ler systems is offset by the reductions
‘which follow in fire insurance cost.
The owner of a structure, with auto-
matei sprinklers, saves ultimately by
the reduction of the insurance premi-
um. I even understand that some
sprinkling concerns will install sys
tems in factories and will take in pay
ment the savings effected in fire in-
surance cost over a term of years.
There is however no excuse for the
the blockade of fire escapes. If a
fire escape is to be blocked it might
better never been built for all of the
good it may do in time of fire. The in-
spctors of this department are in-
structed to make every effort to e-
liminate such unnecessary hazard.
NEW B. & 0. BOND ISSUE,
In order to provide for its present
and future requirements and for re-
funding of its funded indebtedness in-
cluding its $40,000,000 notes mz tur-
in 1917 and 1918, the Baltimore and
Ohio Railroad Company is about to
execute a mortgage to secure an issue
of bonds to be known as its refunding
and general mortgage bonds.
These bonds will be issued in se-
ries. The first known as Series “AP,
will mature December 1, 1995 and
bear 5 per cent interest and are re-
deemable in whole on and after June
1, 1925. Kuhn, Loeb & Companyand
Speyer & Company of New York,
have purchased the first series aggre-
gating $60,000,000.
Use Trailers as Hospital Care.
Instead of continuing to convert pas.
senger automobiles into ambulances,
as in the beginning of the war, the
British military authorities now use
almost exclusively trailers, which are
attached to the touring cars by means
of ordinary drawbars. An anchorage
for such trailers is attached to every
touring car in military service, at very
small expense, so that any one of the
cars can instantly pick up an ambu-
lance and convey it to the hospital at
the rear. The trailer has been of
great service to the hospital corps,
and is now manufactured in quantity
by the inventor. The first car of this
type was made in Nevember last, and
thoroughly tested before being sub-
mitted to the war office.
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