Indianapolis Journal, Volume 53, Number 275, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 October 1903 — Page 4

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Ol -I.outhain & Jackson. Fifteenth - aad Lawrence streets, and A. Smith. 1667 Champa street. Dayton, o.-j. street. V. YVilkie. 39 South Jefferson COLUMBUS. O.-Vladuct News Stand. 380 High street. The Journal believes that every Republican who votes any other than the Republican ticket in the coming city election will live to regret it and to admit that he made a mistake. Mr. Balfour ha n't yet patched up his Cabinet, but the British empire seems to be getting along fairly well without one (or awhile. The King is daily doing buslat the old stand. The News has not yet seen fit to declare that either lioltzman or Hitz would make a satisfactory mayor. All that it is sure about is that Bookwalter is not at all satisfactory to the News. What's this? The mayor of Springfield Indicted for failure to suppress various forms of gambling? If an indictment of that kind can be made to .tick, there may be avenues open to compel the enforcement of law by all public officers. The case will he watched with interest throughout the country. It seems that th.tt tyrannical corporation, the Pennsylvania Railroad, has just won a long and expensive legal fight against certain collection agencies that had gai lisheed tome 930.000 in wages belonging to about 1.500 employes of the comp;i ny. We should have the opinions of Bryan and Debs and Tom Johnson on this action. The esteemed News is greatly exercised over the fact that some Republican State officers, temporarily residing here, are taking part in the city campaign, but it quite approves of Mr. Stewart, of Chlcsgo, chairman of the Prohibition national committ coming here to boom Hitz for mayor. "Alcthlng to beat Bookwalter " The .'rar and Franz Josef are in conference over the Balkan situation, and it would not be a bit surprising to lind that, In the long run, the outcome will be a quiet extension of Austrian authority eastward and of Russian authority southward. While this might uot be the best solution of the difficulty, almost anything would be better than th carnival of assassination and massacre which seems to be the m t reeult of rulo by the Porte and a job lot of balf-civilixed. quasi-independent monarchies. The burning of mail tars is becoming an occurrence of considerable frequency, and auch an accident is always the cause of much confusion and loss, as well as of much lying by delinquent debtors that declare their checks were among the mail destroyed. For this reason, as well as for the safety of the railway mail clerks, the government should, in all new mail contracts, speruy the carrying of the mails in steel cars. The steel construction has been applied very successfully to freight and sleeping cars, and there is no reason why mall cars cannot be built in the same way. Former Criminal Judge Cox comes to the defense of former Prosecutor lioltzman by assuming the responsibility for the dismissal of s large number of suits for violation of the liquor and gambling laws. Judge Cox overdoes the busi n-s. uv h- us-times not merely hi3 share but all of the responsibility. The law says: "No indictment shall be non-prossed except by oni r of the court aiotion of ihe prosecuting attorney; and such motion must be in writiQK and the reaeons therefor must be stated in such ni kn sad read in open court before such orI lee Is made." Unr this provision the moi ion for dismissal of a suit or non-prossing in indictment mu?t come from the prosecutor be. ore the court can act on IL Judge Cox's anxiety to serve Mr. Holtxman led him to assume all the responsibility, whereas the big end of u belongs to the former prosecutor. The Judwe was in the same boaL but he did not pull the working oar - t Tbe committee on boundaries of presbysrtss of the Presbyterian Church, which In St. Louis, has settled the negro stion on broad aud liberal grounds. committee was appointed by the last Assembly to consider and report church should proceed with regard Aside from its moral aspect stlon was one of considerable ImIn some Southern presbyteries. membership of the church is aldly divided between whites and H question waa wnether the latrtave separate organizations and a, or whether they should be th the white che., che. In !vort of recoguixiiig the color menu The committee 4iurcü lt'fiala-

tion and government are concerned there shall be no distinction between white and colored congregations, and that In the formation of presbyteries they shall stand on an equal footing. It is difficult to see how a Christian church could reach any other conclusion. THE LABOR LEADERS' ADDRESS. The address of the labor leaders to organized labor is a fairly good piece of special pleading, but it is disingenuous in some points and conspicuously weak in others. To say that "any attempt to cripple the right of labor to strike in defense of our rights simply means labor's enslavement" Is disingenuous because no person denies the right of workmen to strike if they wish to, or la trying to cripple that right. The main points dealt with are the eight-hour day, government by injunction and the open shop. As to the first, thlr contention is not unreasonable, and, judging from the present drift of public sentiment and legislation, they will probably carry their point before long. Several of the States have made advances towards an eight-hour working day, and employers seem to be preparing for it. Whether the United States can holU its own in the race with other countries for commercial supremacy under an eight-hour-day system is somewhat doubtful, but it looks as if the experiment would have to be tried. On the question of Injunctions the address admits that "the writ, in its proper sphere, is a right and protection," but it insists that the courts have carried it out of its proper sphere. "It is not the use," says the address, "but the abuse, of the writ of injunction against which we protest, which is in direct conflict with the rights guaranteed to our people by the Constitution of our country." Aain, the address says the men in the organized labor movement "have no desire for immunity from the laws govern-

Ebbitt ing other citizens, but they most emphat- , lcaily resent and protest against the actions

of courts convicting men for acts which they have the legal right to perform." All of this and more on the same line is simply an attack on the courts for their alleged misconstruction of the law. In effect it claims that the labor leaders Know the law of injunction better than the judges of our courts do. It says to the judees. the writ of injunction is all right in its proper sphere, but you have misconstrued the law and misapplied the writ. It implies, further, that not the courts, but organized labor, is the proper judge of how far it may go in interfering with the rights of others. We are told that "the American principle of equal justice before the law is being violated day after day," and that "the relics of antiquated judicial tyranny are being revived" to oppress organized labor. This is simply a form of asserting that learned judges do not know the law as well as the leaders of organized labor do. Such a contention is ridiculous. The address opposes "the open shop" qn the ground that "it makes agreement with employers impracticable, if not impossible, for the union cannot be responsible for the nonunionists. whose conduct often renders the torms of the agreement ineffective and nugatory." The complaint of employers has been that union men themselves often violate their agreements, though the tendency In recent years is to much better observance of them. This argument against the open shop is a weak one compared with the contention of employers for the right of hiring whom they please, and that of nonunion men for the right to work. The open shop r cognizes the individual and equal rights of men. It is essentially an American idea in that it accepts and asserts the freedom of labor and the rights of workingmen, as well as of those of employers. It has behind it all the forces of democratic Institutions and government, and it is bound to win. To say that the open shop is incompatible with organized labor is equivalent to saying that organized labor is incompatible with individual rights. In taking ground against the open shop the leaders have committed themSjgttaj tu a losing cause ajsd ag.iin-t a priuclple that is sure to prevail in the long run. CHICAGO'S CIVIL SERVICE. Information more or less interesting concerning municipal government in Chicago flows in simultaneously from two widely different sources Just now. Lincoln Stef fens, who has acquired not a little reputation as a man able to get at the bottom of things in the various municipal governments he has studied, tells us that Chicago is on the way to reform, though there are still many very absurd incongruities. Howewr, he points out that the Chicago civilservice law Is the best in the country, and brings proof positive of reform in the fact that a committee of the board of alderm n and one of the big street car corporations are negotiating in an open and businesslike way on the subject of a franchise, without a whisper of graft or bribery. He might also point to the fact that the city Is compelling the railroads to elevate their tracks without hint of anything but straight busi-Ufj-'S. At the same time comes Mayor Carter Harrison with the declaration that the City Hall is full of grafters; that he knows it but cannot prove it. and that he is prevented from turning them out. bag and baggage, by the limitations of the civil-service law. Mr. Harrison is personally an honest man. at least, nobody has ever charged that he took advantage of his position to make money for himself or his friends, but he has ambitions that may possibly twist his views about the limitations put upon him by the civil-service law. He might be wrong about some of the men he suspects, and certainly a dishonest mayor, with no limitations on his power to employ and discharge city officials and employes, could play havoc with the civil-service of any large city. With his opportunities for observation It should not be so very difficult to produce presumptive evidence of dishonesty in administration, where such dishonesty really exists. It Is possible that Harrison Is entirely honest in his view, but at best It is a very narrow and short-sighted one, and neither Chicago nor any other city that has an effective civil-service law is likely to let go of it and trust entirely to the judgment and honest purpose of the mayor in selecting men. A BOOMERANG STORY. A story published by the News yesterday. Intended by its headlines to injure Mayor Book waiter, really reflects credit on him and his administration. The story is that during the city campaign two years ago Mr. George W. Seibert, a contractor, went to Mr. Charles E. Haugh. a Democrat, and told him that he, Seibert, had contributed fUNO to the Republican campaign fund id hat if Haugh would "go halves" with him tüd put in fSOO he should be anointed

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the Democratic member on the Board of Public Works. Haugh was foolish enough to buy this alleged gold brtck from a man who had no authority to speak for Mr. Bookwalter, and who by his own confession was engineering a corrupt deal. Haugh put up IG00. but after the election he found that Seiberfs promise was worthless and that Mr. Bookwalter had never heard o the transaction and had no idea of appointing him and that no person authorised to speak for Mr. Bookwalter had ever heard of it. Then, when he complained that he had lost caste with his party by working for the Republican ticket and had lost his money too, the whole amount of his contribution waa returned to him. The transaction reflects very discreditably on Seibert and Haugh. but does not touch Mr. Bookwalter nor affect him in the slightest degree. On the contrary, the plain inference is that as soon as he heard of the transaction he repudiated it, together with Seiberfs promise to Haugh, and directed that the latter s contribution to the camj'.iign fund, which had been made ostensibly in good faith, should be returned to him, as was done. During Mr. Taggart's three administrations it was notorious that every so-called Republican appointed on his boards was a Taggart man, and It was common talk that most of them paid for their appointments by contributions to the Taggart campaign fund and by political serv ices, but no person ever heard or such a transaction being repudiated by Mayor Taggart or of any contribution to his campaign fund being returned. By bringing out this story two years after the transaction occurred Mr. Haugh has exposed himself as a man who was willing to betray his party and obtain an office by illegitimate means and has placed Mr. Bookwalter in the light of one who repudiated the crooked transaction as soon as it was brought to his knowledge. Assuming the story to be true, it is damaging to the principal actors in the transaction, but verycreditable to Mr. Bookwalter. Of all the trumped-up charges brought against him none has had a more distinctly boomerang effect on its authors than this one. The Journal approves the idea of having a special exhibit of the city in a separate building at the St. Louis World's Fair, but it does not approve of the proposition that the council appropriate money to carry out the idea. The idea Itself is corimendable, and. if Intelligently carried out, might result In a creditable display and good advertisement for the city, but its execution is entirely outside of the held of city government. The council has no more right to appropriate public money for that purpose than it would have for any other purpose disconnected with the city government. If the suggestion Is to be carried out at all, and it is worth carrying out, the expense should be defrayed by private subscription or the money raised in some other way than voting it out of the public treasury. That there is considerable disaffection In the Republican party at present, regarding the city election, and that, too, among a very intelligent class, Is not to be denied. Its existence is creditable to the party which always encourages independence of thought and action. The Journal is of opinion that the causes for the disaffection have been greatly exaggerated and that not sufficient weight is given to the arguments that make for a Republican victory. If the administration of Mayor Bookwalter has not been all that could be desired in every respect few city administrations are, and dissatisfied Republicans would do well to consider if it is not better to bear the ills they have than fly to others that they know not of. No reform was ever advanced nor anything gained in city, county. State or Nation by electing a Democratic executive. The Indiana Yearly Meeting of Friends, now in session at Marion, is said to be one of the largest ever held, and that means much, for they have always been well attended. The denomination is quite strong in this State and each of the three divisions, the Orthodox Friends, the "Hicksites" and the "Wilburites" have Yearly Meetings in Indiana. Not many persons are aware that th Friends are an active missionary body, supporting missions in many foreign countries and among the Indians of the United States and Alaska. They are also liberal supporters of higher education and have nearly a dozen boarding schools and colleges in the United States, including Earlham College, at Richmond, all of which are well supported. "I nm honest In my belief," says W. N. Harding, "that no man could have done more to please the people of this city than Mayor Bookwalter has done." Curious what powers of belief some people have! News. Sure, and didn't reformer Keach wrrite to Mayor Bookwalter that he was tired of the "constant harping by self-appointed city sav-T?" and believed "you are doing your best to fill your trying as well as thankless position?" There are few, if any, more sensible charities than the Day Nursery, established to take care of children whose mothers must toil away from home during the day. The fair for its benefit should be liberally attended. The "piece de resistance" of Chicago's eutertaiument of her centennial visitors was a visk to the stockyards and slaughter houses. That is' where they got a taste of the real Chicago. JOURNAL ENTRIES. The Observations of Omar No. 3. And that disgruntled Crowd that prates Reform, Whereat the rafters shake with feigned alarmTurn not your back to It, nor fear Its wrath. For it is harmless as a teapot Storm. 'I'll rue fr Ye! Pat Did Fogarty tell ye fwat he said whin tfiey tould him th' baby wor thrlplets? Mike He did not Fwat did he say? Pat Thray of a koind bates two pair. Esaenre of Reform. Caaaldy Wud ye be afther tellin' me. Hogan. Is th' mayor th' whole thing In Indianapolis? Hogan He is not. Caasidy Thin fwy th' diwle is Misther Holtiman's ps-a-per dommin' him f'r taxes bein' higher an i rythlng Use ye can think of? Hogan Cassldy, ye" re no rayfor-r-mer. Use ye'd know that 'tis th' rale lssence of ray-for-r-m f try t' put a man In a hole an' thin dom him rr not goln' there. War w from Marrdonla. "I hear," remarked the Sultan, "that the American war ships are to escort ..n Ohio man to Abyssinia. That, happily, will remove them from Beirut." "Tea. yous Majesty." responded the grand tiller, "but not for a. month." "TbtM Americans," aoUloqulaed the Sultan,

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"are becoming almost Ottoman In putting off till to-morrow what otto be done to-day." Whereat the grand vizier laughed so loudly that the Sultan gave him another decoration and tbe correspondents cabled news of rejoiclnx In the palace over another massacre in Macedonia. A Football Psalm of Life. Life is real! Life Is earnest! And to slave Is not its goal; But to kick the festive pigskin 'Twixt the poets, above the pole. On the gridiron's line of battle Make the struggle of your life. Lest tbe padded foes, like rattle, Drive you down the field of strife. Lives of football men remind us We oan show what we are worth. And. departing, leave behind us Cripples scattered o'er the earth. Let us, then, be up and doing, Kick tbe pigskin all the day. Ne'er retreating, e'er pursuing, Maiming comrades while we may. DRISC0LL AND HIS MILLIONS. Arisona Mine Owner Who Spends Only $80 a Month. San Francisco Examiner. Patrick Driscoll owns four of the bestpaying silver and gold mines in the Chloride valley of Mojave county, Arizona, and has an income of over $10,000 a year, yet he spends no more than $30 a month for his personal comfort. Many generous gifts however, have come from the Driscoll bank account to poor miners and their suffering families. Driscoll is supposed to be worth between $1,200,000 and $1,600,000. His income from his mines is $6,000 a month and he draws about $15,000 a year dividends on railroad stock in which he invested In the early days. He has no relatives as far as he knows. The old miner had experienced all the prospector's poverty and hardships until he was past middle age, when he drifted down to the Calico mines, in San Bernardino county, California, in 1681. There he found a mine which he sold for $15,000. This gave him his first capital to deal with in mining on his own account. From Calico he went to Arizona, and in two years located a base ore mine of sliver, gold and lead in combinations. The Diana and Antrim mines became his. He invested his profits In the Harqua Hala mines and doubled his wealth in a few years. From that time he has been prospering to a degree undreamed of by him. He has never changed his manner of living. He is over sixty and in fine health. Every day he may be seen walking about the little town of Kingman or over to Williams, where he has lumber interests. No one would believe from his appearance that he had property. He lives alone in a cabin, cooks his own meals of flapjacks, pork, bacon and oatmeal and sleeps in a bunk of redwood filled with straw and covered with blankets. Once a year he goes to Phoenix or Los Angeles for a few days, but he always returns to his cabin, saying that he will never take so long a Journey again. His sole amusement Is playing pedro for five-cent cigars, and If he can win a pocketful In the course of an afternoon he is happy. He has never been known to stand the loss of -nore than a hulf-dozen cigars in the course of his pedro gambling in one day, for he will quit when the tide of luck is running so hard against him. Among the many stories told of Driscoll in the northern part of the Territory is one of the time he bet "a half on an election and lost. When he was told that he must pay up he got a penny somewhere in that region, where coins less than a nickel are never used, and, splitting it in half with an ax. presented it to the winner of the wager In full payment of his bet of "a half." The old man loves to have people marvel at his cheap, primitive way of living while he is so wealthy, and he always relates in the Kingman and Ash Fork saloons what he hears strangers say to him about the "rich old Irishman who lives in a cabin." He has a grain of generosity and is not a miser, even if he does call himself one. A year ago. when a miner's eyes were blown out in blasting operations at Clifton, Driscoll made quiet inquiries concerning the man. When he learned that a wife and six children were dependent upon the

blinded man's wages the old fellow sent a a Reformatory. Every word of my forbunk check for 96,000 to the famdy, and the ! mer report to you is correct, and it does not gift was kept so secret that It did not be- do Justice to the loose business managecome known until several months later, ment that has been inaugurated in this Several times the bodies of Driscoll's poor institution in the past six years, and has friends in the mines have been sent to rela- ! been carried on through to the time you

tives in the Eastern States and even to Ireland at his expense. When the world's fair was opened in Chicago Driscoll made up his mind to go and see it. His friends urged him to enjoy a part of his money in seeing something of the world. Before he was to start on the long-discussed Journey to Chicago, President Cleveland made his public declaration against the free coinage of silver. Driscoll's Income was cut down several thousand dollars a month by an anti-silver coinage law. So he abandoned his journey, feeling that he could not afford so expensive a tour at such a time. 'SILLY ZIONISTS. Laboaehere'a Opinion of the Movement la Not Complimentary. London Truth. I have no prejudice against the Jews; rather the reverse. They are well gifted intellectually, very sharp men of business, broad and cosmopolitan in their views on most things, and, far from being stingy, they are generally more charitable than most Christians. My only complaint against them would be that they are too exclusive, and decline to blend with the races among whom their lot is cast. I no more blame them for being traders and middle men than any other race for taking up the business for which they happen to have a racial gift. But the "Zionists," as a little clique of Jews term themselves, are very silly people, and seem to consist mainly of Hebrews who like to air their eloquence and to have a "cause." Their first idea was to establish a sort of autonomous Jewish state In Palestine. Fortunately for them, the Sultan did not see his way to assent to this. This most unpractical suggestion having failed, they now would have the British government provide them with an area for their state in Uganda. The establishment of that protectorate has commercially proved a dismal failure. No one wants to go there, although we have built a railroad to it at the cost of many millions to the British taxpayer. I was not aware that the land of Uganda belonged to us. and I fall to see how we can grant an enormoua area of it to either Jews or gentiles. But assuming that we do possess this right in our protectorates, there can be no reason why we should not encourage a Jewish colony, on the distinct understanding that the entire cost of administration and defense is guaranteed to us by a few Hebrew millionaires. But what. In the name of common sense, do the Zionists suppose thut the Jews would do when they got this African Zion? They are not agriculturists. In no country do they take to agriculture, They are as I have said middlemen and traders. Between whom would they act as middlemen? With whom would they trade? The late Baron Hirsch provided ample funds to establish a Jewish agricultural colony in the Argentine. The experiment proved a failure. One of the chief pleas of this Zionist movement was that the Jews are so persecuted in Russia that it would be humanity to sesure them some sort of colony of refuge. As a matter of fact. It seems that, bad as the condition of the Jews is in Russia, they prefer it to being dumped down in Uganda. Steffen' View of Carter Harrison. Lincoln Steffens, in October McClures. The city of Chicago Is ruled by the citizens of Chicago. Then why are the citizens of Chicago satisfied with half-reform? Why have they reformed the Council and left the administrative side of the government far behind? "One thing at a time." they win tea you out there. Hut that is not the rea! MB. The administration has been imnrnved Tt is nhsnrHK- hnoUw o.i uneven; tne nre department Is excellent, the police is a disgrace, the law department is expert, the health bureau Is corrupt, and the street cleaning is hardly worth mention. All this Is Carter H. Harrison. He is an honest man personalis-, but indolent; a shrewd politician, and a character with reserve power, but he has no initial energy. Without ideals he does only what Is demanded of him. He does jsot seem to know wrong is wrong, till he is taught; nor to care, till criticism arouses hi political sense of popular requirement. That sense is keen, but think of it: Every time Chicago wants to go ahead a foot, it has first to p:ih its mayor up Inch by inch. In brief. Chicago Is a city that wants to be led, and Carter Harrison, with all his political ambition, honest willingness, and obstinate independence, simply follows it.

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ADDITIONAL REPORT ON THE INDIANA REFORMATORY. Superintendent Will H. Whittaker Submits Lengthy Document to the Board of Managers. PUNISHMENT OF PRISONERS THE REPORT GOES INTO THIS MATTER IN DETAIL. Sanitary Condition of the Institution, the Mechanical Equipment, Etc., Is Discussed. COST OF THE "SHOE BUILDING" MR. WHITTAKER POINTS OUT THAT IT COST TOO MICH. Cash Rook Not Kept Under the Past Administration-Workings of the Reformatory Described by Him. Superintendent Will H. Whittaker, of the Indiana Reformatory, has submitted an additional report as to his past management of the institution to the board of managers, now in session at Jeffersouville. The report was read to the members of the board Wednesday night, but it was not made public until last night. The report, which is supplemental to the report made by Mr. Whittaker at the time he assumed the duties of superintendent, goes in to the question of the punishment of prisoners, the sanitary condition of the institution, the condition of the machinery and mechanical equipment, the amounts due the State from the companies holding the labor contracts and the cost of the building known as the "shoe building." As to this last point Mr. W'hittaker shows that ihe building cost the State in excess of $36,000, when the estimates of architects and contractors show that it should not have cost to exceed one-half that sum. Mr. Whittaker cites as another proof of the loose business methods in the institution within the past seven j-ears the fact that there has not been kept a cash book showing the daily cash transactions of the institution, nor has there been kept a bank book showing the amount of money in bank belonging to the State. The Report. The report in full Is as follows: "Gentlemen Before assuming charge of this Reformatory, Aug. 3, 1903, I submitted to you a report of the condition of this institution as it was found at that time, after a month's inspection. It has now been two months since this report was made to you, and in that time I have given very careful consideration to the institution in all of its departments, and beg to make to you an official report as to the management of this institution before and since it has been gentlemen took charge as its managers "The loose methods in business management, In discipline and In the unsanitary condition of the Institution speak for themselves from the records left and the condition of the cells as found when you assumed charge, July 1. As to the discipline. I quote from the report of the assistant superintendent, Mr. M. M. Barnard, which is as follows: " W. H. Whittaker, Superintendent: " 'Dear Sir As requested, I herewith submit a comparative statement of reports and punishments, together with the amount of fines assessed, for the months of August and September. 1902. and the months of August and September, 1903: Total reports. August and September, 1902 407 Total reports, August and September. 1903 204 Number punishments, August and September, 1902 79 Number punishments, August and September, 1903 68 Total time in punishmeuts, August and September. 1902 437 days Total time in puutshments, August and September, 19U3 380 days Average time in punishment, August and September, 1902.4 days 6 hours Average time in punishment, August an! September, 190.1.4 days 22 hours Total amount fines, August and September, 1902 $786.00 Total amount fines, August and September, 1903 C77.75 Average population, August and September. 1902 921 Average population, August and September, 1903 920 " 'The methods of reports and punishment I found on taking charge of the office of assistant superintendent, Aug. 3, were not in accord with the methods that are found in well regulated institutions of this character. As example, there were sixtythree inmates marching In lock-step, with heads shaved and dressed in stripes, all of which appeals to the rough side of their nature, and tends to make worse rather than better boys of those who are compelled to submit to such forms of punishment. In addition to this, two beys were compelled to wear a ball and chain. Those methods are forms of punishment that are no longer used as a means of discipline in reformatories or well-regulated institutions. " The solitary cells in the hospital, where It is neceseary to place unruly boys, are not at all fit for punishment, and I will be unable to haive the best discipline until these colls are remodeled. As they stsud now. there Is no ventilation and practically no light. It Is Impossible to place men in these cil6 for the time it takes to bring about proper punishment without injuring their health: and I ask that these cells be repaired at once, if it Is possible to do so. " 'In these unsanitary cells I find that inmates in many cases have been handcuffed to the door with their hands above their heads, so that the weight of the body, to a certain extent, rested upon tne wrists of the inmates, which is Inhuman in the extreme. I also found that prisoners in the third grade were not permitted to receive letters from their mothers, and that boys sixteen years old had been in this grade from eight to twelve months at a time without hearing or knowing anything of their people at home. Such antiquated methods are wholly unnecessary in the handling of boys or men in institutions of this character. " 'The foremen on the various contracts have in the past had too much to say with reference to the reporting and punishment of inmates. This is a duty that belongs entirely to the officer in charge of the shop, and the discipline of the institution will be much improved Just as soon as foremen and officers fully understand their duties along these lines. There has been much improvement in the last two months. The officers are working hard to improve their respective i departments; the sanitary condition of the institution IS impro eu. me separating- oi the urisoners and having a cell for each inmate will do much to aid discipline and give tone to the moral condition of the Institution. Respectfully suburrfTed, " M. M. BARNARD. Asst. Supt' A PLAQUE OF BEDBUG8. "As to the sanitary condition of the cells, every cell in the institution was infested with bedbugs, and in some cases with bodylice. The bedticks and clothing had not been taken from the cells and given a sun-bath since the new cellhouse had been thrown open, more than a year ago, and the bedclothing' not aired for months at a time. We found in 120 cells two prisoners In each cell, which is one of the worst conditions that can ba found in Institutions,

There Is no excuse for this when there Is a cell for every Inmate in the institution. The cursing of prisoners by the officers

was not au uncommou occurrence, in trade schools, that the people of the State were led to believe were being carried on here, did not exist except in name, and there has not been a boy who has gone from the Institution in six years who has found a Job on the outside because of a trade he learned in the inatlfntiou. unless it was a trade he learned on one of the contracts. . . . "The statement in the former report that supplies were wrongful iy taken from the storeroom to the amount of hundreds oi dollars each year, has been fully established and has not been contradicted "We rtud, after a careful inspection of tne machinery by an expert, that same is in had condition, and 1 quote from the repon of Mr. Akers, the expert who is now placing said machinery in order: (Here follows a detailed statement by Mr. Akers. snowing the machinery to be in a very bad condition.) CLAIMS STILL UNSETTLED. "In the former report your attention was called to certain unsettled claims, as follows: Southern Cooperage Company J-5 Tavlor Manufacturing Company 5M.su Indiana Manufacturing Company ... .1.19S.8s "These claims still remain unsettled, aud there should be some action taken to collect them. "The contracts now In force In this institution provided as follows: " 'If at any time during the existence of this agreement any sum of money due from the party of the second part (the contractor) to the party of the first part Uhe Sfate; shall be overdue and unpaid, interest thereon sha'.l be paid at the rate of S per cent, per annum intil paid.' "From examination f the books under this contract there has been due large amounts from the Indiana Manufacturing Company at times as much as $12.000. On these amounts no interest has ever Dfx I paid, and there is now due the State of Indiana from said contract in interest the sum of $3,498.60, as follows: (Detailed statement covering period from July. 1SK6, to February, 15103, showing items of interest due from the Indiana Manufacturing Company.) "Th. has in the nast been a syytt-m lnaugurated in this institution that would inure to the benefit or tne contractor. iowit: The contract provides that all Inmates shall labor thirty days without the State receiving pay for their labor, in order that thev may be instructed in their duties. After these thirty days the State then receives 40 cents per day for thier labor. Many of these prisoners, after they have learned their trade are paroled by the Board of Managers, aud after being on parole for one or two months or long r, some of them have violated their paroles and have been returned to the institution. They would be Immediately placed upon the same contract work at wThieh they had learned their trade before they were paroled, and would have to continue to work another thirty days to learn the same trade before they would be again pin red upon the time-books so that the State would receive payment for their services. A few of such cases I quote, giving you the name of the inmate, when he was received, when he was paroled and when returned for violation of parok. Each of these inmates has been worked by the respective contracts not only thirty days without pay to the State but sixty days. The names are as follows: "No. 1W7; Cooksey. Arenzo. Received Nov. 18, 1897, Owen county, grand larceny, two to fourteeu years. Paroled Dec. 13, L89&, Returned lor violation of parole Sept. 1C, 1902. Out two years nine months. No. 2687; Musselmau, Clyde. Received Sept. 14. 1890, Cass count?-, petit larceny, one to three years. Discharged Sept. 12, 1902. Returned on new charge May 30. 1903, Miami county, grand larceny, one to fourteen years. New No. :;iu. uut live moutns. "No. 2iGs: QUI. Johu. Received April 19, 189S, Vanderburg county, burglary, two to fourteen vears. Paroled April 26, 1901. Returned for violation of parole April 1, 1902. Out eleven months eleven days. "No. 3152; Copley. William. Received Nov. 2, 1900, Vermillion county, petit larceny, one to three years. Paroled Dec. 12, 1901 Returned for violation of parole A"ug. 12, 1902. Out eight months. "No. 3114; 1'hliips. wiuiam. rteceivea Oct. 9. 1900, Hendricks county, grand lar ceny, one to fourteen years. Paroled Jan. 21 1!K)2. Returned for violation of parole Sept. 17. 1902. "No 2473; Tuekenbrook, Henry. Received Jan. 21, 1699. Allen county, grand larceny, one to fourteen years. Paroled March 15, 1LW0. Returned for violation of parol July 3. 1900. Out three months eighteen days. Paroled July 22. MM. Returned for violation of parole Feb. 14. 1902. Out six months twenty-three days. "No. 3593; Harris, Isaac. Received Nov. 23. 1H01, Daviess county, petit larceny, one to three years. Paroled Feb. 7, 1903. Returned for violation of parole April 12. 1903. Out two months five days. Transferred from tiushop trade school to foundry machine, July 2, 1903. "No. 2044; Stanley, Edward. Received March 14, 1898, Delaware county, petit larceny, one to three years. Transferred to Indiana State Prison Jan 11. 190Ö. Returned on new charge May 23, 1903, Delaware county, grand larceny, one to fourteen years. New No. 4161. Out three years three months twvntv-threc days. "No. 2474; Barber. Jack. Received Jan. 23, 18i9. Marion county, petit larceny, one to three years. Discharged Jan. 16, 1902. Received' on new charge April 22, 1902, Marion county, KCetvins stolen goods, one to three years. New No. 3747. Out three months six days. COST OF SHOE BUILDING. "For futher proof of the loose business management that has characterized this Institution in the past, I wish to show you the manner lr which the building known as the 'shoe building' was constructed and the amount it cost the State of Indiana, which amount was never authorized nor appropriated by the Legislature. ,rOn the 24th day of February, 1896, the warden of the Prison South, by and with the consent of the bonrd of directors, entered into a certain contract with J. B. Tarbox, of St. Paul, Minn., a part of which reads as follows: " 'The party of the second part (Mr. J. B. Tarbox) shall proceed with all convenient speed to erect at his own expense and chargs, within the walls of said prison, at such point as may be directed by the party of the second part (the board of directors!, a brick building 350 feot long, sixty-five feet wide, with three floors, with slate, tin or gravel roof. The plans for said building and all contracts with reference thereto, to first be submitted to and approved by the party of the first part and said board of directors. An accurate account of the expense thereof shall be kept by the party f the second part (Mr. J. B. Tarbox) and' all such accounts and matters in relation to the erection of said building shall at all times be subject to the Inspection and supervision of said party of the first part and of the said board of directors. m . said second party (Mr. J. B. Tarbox) is not bound hereby, unless he elects so to do, to furnish or expend a sum exceeding $15,000 in the erection of the said new shop or building. " After the completion of said building, said second party (Mr. J. B. Tarbox) shall begin his manufacturing business therein, and until the money due from the labor of said convicts, at the rate of 30 cents per day. shall have equaled the amount Invested by said Tarbox in the erection of said building, said party of the second part shall only be required to pay said party of the first part ithe State of Indiana) in cash the sum of 10 cents pr day for the labor of each of said convicts.' "A careful study of this contract will show that the board of directors authorized Mr. J. B. Tarbox to construct a building within the walls of the prison for the purpose of manufacturing shoes. Mr. J. B. Tarbox was to keep an accurate account of all material that went into the construction of this building, and was to retain from the labor of the prisoners that he worked en this contract the sum of 30 cents per day until such time as he was reimbursed for the material purchased for said building; the State at that time not having money, or the Legislature not having appropriated money for the purpose of constructing this building. The State was to furnish all labor therefor. Therefore, Mr. Tarbox would have been at uo expense except the money paid for material. "I find that there is not the scratch of a pen nor a paper of any kind in the fllog of the institution showing what this building or the material that went into it was to cost the State. There has never been a record made with reference to this bulldiug by the board of directors of the Prison South or the board of managers of the Indiana Reformatory, "except the record, part of which is quoted above. Neither did the board of directors of the Prison South or the board of managers of the Indiana Reformatory ever audit or pass upon any bill of material that was purchased for the construction of said building. Neither did Mr. Tarbox keep an accurate account of purchases of material that went into the building, as directed by the above order of the board. Th entire transaction was conducted by the superintendent of the Indiana Reformatory. All bills were approved and paid by him with

out the sanction or written consent of the board of managers, other than the record above quoted. An architect has made a careful estimate of Jjc mÄterUÜ tUat is iD building, and

tn mm that the msterial. the heat

ing apparatus, and tbe talldin could I not have cost over 118.000, and thlJ Ss7 not take into account the material thai was used from the old buildings that werj urn down much of which material wenl mt Jthnsfruction of this bulldta In adl dition to this. I have absolute prr-,f that tj lVi tratnr nrreed to furnish the material and construct this building, the BUq furnishing the laoor, tor me u VALUABLE PAPER8 DISAPPEARED. "All that is found on the Alee with refer-; ence to the construction of this building Is av report showing the amount of money withheld from the contracts to construct tale, building, with a statement of expenditure, for mat-rial that was used in the construction of the building. Valuable papers pertaining to the construction of this building, such as estimates of its cost, the proposals submitted by responsible parties, are uot now in the files of the Reformatory omoa, the same having been taken from the file without the knowledge or consent of the clerical force of the institution. Th. iiuiumont tht is n file with refer ence to this building showing the amount of money retained by the superintendent of the D.,iArmah.rV .Tlt of the COIltTaCt Of J IS. Tarbox and others, shows that there was S3v 40! 40 retained for the construction of this building, when tne wiinai w t Vk . and bids of reiKmslble parties show- that the building could be built for 2 Jj the above amount retained the ststom. nt ' , .i,,, ,h..r was material purchased and put into the construction of this . shoe building to tne amount rT'I-JT i ami -mainder of the amount retained. M being the balance transferred to , t. i .,r,t Mf nnp of th' bills tnai fli.d was ever passed upon by the board of managers of this institution, or ever approved by them, and a statement of this transaction is not inentioneo up.u iu social records. Neither did they maae to the Governor or to the Legislature in thv lr reports any showing as to how this building was constructed; and in the settlement and pavmmt of the bills for the construct k n of said building large amounts wen paid I for interest on bills that were overdue. W e ha e absolute proof that this building should In. - t h ive cast to exceed $17.600. and the htate- j ment on Vie .hows that $M..&3 was remined from the contract of J. B- iaroox Jn" ? others for the purpose of constructing For furtnar proof of loose business methods in this institution within tke last aresj years will say that there has not been k I ckbook showing the daily -h transactions of the institution, nor has there been kept a bank book showing the amount Si money in bank belonging to tbe täte ..witu Mfur, n. t. extra labor tnat nas been furnished the Indiana Manufacturing Company, mentioned in my former n . you. will say that I expect to have same adjusted and ready to r. .pert to yot . the m.mnt due within the next miny uaj s. Respectfully submitted. W. II. Wl'lTTAKKll, Superintendent. LIBRARIES IN INDIANA CONVENTION OF THE STATE ASSO- ' CIATION IN SESSION. Report of Mini Hoasjlond, Secretary of the State Commission, Rend John Cotton Davna's Talk. The annual convention of the State Library Association is holding a two days' session at the Statehouse. For the first time in the history of the association the library trustees of the State are taking an active interest in the work of the association and a number of them are meeting with the librarians. Miss Eva Fltxgerald. a bright young woman who has charge of the Kokomo library, is presiding over the sessions as president of the organisation. The report of the public library commlssion, prepared by Miss Mercia Hoagland, I secretary of the State Library Commission, was one of the Interesting Items of busi-l ness yesterday morning. Miss Hoagland IS ill and was not able to be present. Accord-j ing to the report new libraries have been organized in Sullivan, Monticello, Posey-: vllle, Salem, Mount Vernon and Union City. 1 Kirklin has a new subscription library. Gifts have been received from Andrew Car- 1 negie as follows during the last year: I Anderson. S50.000; Attics, $10.000; Bluffton, S14.000; Evans vllle, $13.500; Lebanon, j $10,000; Mount Vernon. $12,500; Princeton, $le.000; Rensselaer, $10.u00; Sullivan. $10.000; Vlncennes, $20.000, making a total for the State of $165,000. In addition to these gifts; Attica received a $1,000 building and $3,0091 for books; Bluff ton received $4,000; Car4 thage received $3.000; Hanover received $25.000; Mount Vernon received $7,500; Orland, $4.000, and Terre Haute $50,000. makiuf 1 a total of iiOo.oOO. IN THE AFTERNOON. The afternoon session was chiefly devote to the topic, "Personnel of the LibranH Board," the discussion being led by J. HB Tomlin, of Shelbyville. The vital questtoifl seemed to be whether or not the school boards of three members in the averaged Indiana towns should control the librarv ori Vw.tVi..- t K osvi uV rvii1 ! Ka a ff . s-awv K. . etil r im Lin a tin i xr oituuiu nrx- cx unit m in uuai vis appointed. There was a great diversity ofj opinion along this line. Another important! feature of this discussion was whether or! not there should be a book committee SSM lected to assist the librarian in purhasing books. The trustees who were present seemed to favor the idea of a book cummittee but most of the librarians expreesedi themselves as being against this sort of an arrangement. There seemed to be a prM . . . . . . . . M 1 , i hnnrd riintrnllinir lihrnrU Thu hnarHa 1 usually constitute three members, and asa some remarked yesterday: 'The libra ria nj can manage a board of three much hot tori than she can jret on with a larger board." At this convention new officers will bsi elected and the librarian appointed a nominating committee composed of Mn.'! Gruwell, of Marion, Mrs. Bwitt, of the! State nnrary. and Miss Lewis, of ShelbyvOle. Last night the librarians listened to an Interesting talk by John .tt.i! bana. of Newark, N. J., who is known as- one of thai foremost librarians of the countrv. His topic was "A Certain Library Ho paid he did not select Newark because It Is thsj best library, but because he knew it best. He told of the general arrangement of ths Newark library, which he considers ideal. It if the aim to keep the teachers of the Newark schools closely in touch with the library. Newark, he says, is a musical city, and the librarian assists in making SJ collection of music for general use. Many of the musical and literary clubs of Newark are encouraged to bold meetings in the library building. "And so." said he, "to the extent of our resources and abilities and to the limit of our building we oan help to increase the interest in fine and industrial art.'' FICTION DISCUSSED. The question of "fiction" was discussed j during the informal talk that followed Mr. Dana's paper. In the course of his remarks he stated that as far as he was personally concerned he believed that novels werij good for th- people. He believes In novel' reading. He said it was a question, how-j ever, whether the 25 per cent, of the $: uQ.-j 000 or S3.000.000 that Is spent in this rountSfl ry year for new books for libraries it well spent for Action. This is a onj he asserted, that the librarians of the coum try will have to decide. W. L. Taylor, former attorney generau was at the meeting last night and took 2 modest part In the discussion. He severelvJ criticised the glazed paper that is used Inj book printing these days. He asserted that! nair tne crosf-eyed children In th conn-i try were made so by reading from glase paper, rie suggested that as the htrheej courts have declared against this sty:- of paper oeing used in printing law docu-1 menis. ne noped the public librarians ofl Indiana would take the same action. The work of the convention will eins tnJ day with the election of officers, which will tase place this afternoon. The mornlrtaTl aww wui open at iu a. m. with a dis-J cuesion of the topic. "Library Adminlstra-a tion. unaer tms neaa the rollowlng sua leets are announced: "From the Lbrarlnn'i Point of View." Mrs. Ida Oruwell. Marionll "From the Public s Point of View. ' the Rev. Worth M. Tippy. Indianapolis; "Fronal uie Douivevuer 8 ruini 01 V iew F RJ Kautz. Indianapolis; "From the Assistant's Point of View.'1 Virginia Tutt. South Bend:! "From the Club s Point of View," AnnaJ McEwen. Columbus, If the weather im tmjSä this afternoon it la the plan of the Robbs-1 mr i . ii i ixi v in l m m h it u nnra 1 Ana

ths Country Club.