Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 119, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 May 1911 — W. H. Whittaker Making Good As District Workhouse Head. [ARTICLE]

W. H. Whittaker Making Good As District Workhouse Head.

W. H. Whittaker, former superintendent of the Indiana Reformatory, and now superintendent of the District of Columbia workhouse, is being heralded by the people and press of the national capital as the champion boarding-house keeper of the world. He has made a report to the District of Columbia commissioners, in Which he says that the per capita cost of feeding the inmates is $3.77 a month, 12 cents a day, or 4 cents a meal. It is agreed that Whittaker has solved the cost of living tfhen he can board husky, able bodied men on 4 cent.) worth of food at each meal. “It now costs us about 12 cents a day to feed each prisoner,” bf said. “But when we get to raising our own products, as we are planning to do, the cost of feeding the prisoners will be reduced to 7 or 8 cents a day for each man.” He gives them threequarters of a pound of meat a day, all the potatoes and bread they can eat, coffee twice a day and butter once.