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PENNSYLVANIA

Thirty-Seventh Annual REPORT

ALLEGHENY COUNTY WORKHOUSE

PENNSYLVANIA

Thirty-Seventh Annual Report

OF THE

MANAGERS

OF THE

ALLEGHENY CODNTY WORKHOUSE

AND

INEBRIATE ASYLUM

FOR THE YEAR

1906

AMERICAN PUB. CO. Inc. Pittsburg, Pa.

Compliments of

A. H. LESLIE

Superintendent

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TABLE OF CONTENTS.

Board of Managers and Officers 5

Managers of Allegheny County Workhouse from the beginning 6

Manager's Report 7

Superintendent's Report 11-12

Comparative Statistics for the past nineteen years 13-14

Statement of Cash Receipts and Expenditures 17-18

Statement of Operations of the several Business Departments 19-24

General Statement 25-27

Farm Product 28

Statistics for 1906 31-50

Chaplain's Report 53-59

Physician's Report 63-64

General Statistical Report 67-80

ILLUSTRATIONS.

Frontispiece — View of Workhouse and Lawn Workhouse Farm Buildings

. .opposite title page opposite frontispiece

ALLEGHENY COUNTY WORKHOUSE.

Railroad and Express Office CLAREMONT, WEST PENN'A R. R.

Eight Miles North of Allegheny City.

Post Office

HOBOKEN, ALLEGHENY COUNTY, PENN'A.

Long Distance Telephone 28 Sharpsburg.

OFFICERS,

BOARD OF MANAGERS.

JOHN A. BELL, Carnegie President

JOHN W. CRAWFORD, Duquesne Secretary

JOHN F. STEEL, Pittsburg.

THOMAS B. RITER, Pittsburg.

CHARLES DONNELLY, Pittsburg.

A. H. LESLIE Superintendent

REV. DAVID R. IMBRIE Chaplain

G. M. KELLY, M. D Physician

EDWARD KRIEG Clerk

COLONIAL TRUST CO., Pittsburg Treasurer

MANAGERS OF ALLEGHENY COUNTY WORKHOUSE.

FROM THE BEGINNING.

George R. White

1866 to 1874

George Albree

1866 to 1873

Robert H. Davis

1866 to 1867

Hugh S. Fleming

1866 to 1870

Felix R. Brunot

1866 to *

Wm. S. Bissell

1866 to 1871

James Kelly

1867 to 1879

J. P. Fleming

1870 to 1878

W. J. Anderson

1872 to 1873

Richard Hays

1874 to 1875

Hugh McNeill

.1874 to 1886

C. J. Schultz

1875 to 1879

G. W. Hailman

1875 to 1878

J. W. Shaw '

1878 to 1881

D. C. White

1879 to 1880

Hugh S. Fleming

1879 to 1887

John Moorhead '

1880 to *

John Birmingham

1881 to 1885

August Ammon

1881 to 1888

Addison Lysle

1881 to 1894

W. A. Magee

; . . 1886 to 1899

C. G. Donnell

1887 to 1895

C. C. HaxT

1888 to 1894

William Hill

1888 to 1891

John A. Bell ,

1891

Hugh Kennedy

1895 to 1902

John Way, Jr

1895 to 1902

W. E. Harrison

1896 to 1903

W. H. Seif

1900 to 1903

George A. Chalfant '

1902 to 1904

Charles Donnelly

1903 to 1903

John W. Crowford

1903

John F. Steel

1903

Thos. B. Riter

1903

Charles Donnelly

1904

*These dates are not on record.

LIST OF SUPERINTENDENTS.

John McDonald 1867 to 1875

Henry Cordier 1870 to 1877

John L. Kennedy 1877 to 1881

Henry Warner 1882 to 1891

William Hill 1891 to 1896

Thos. P. Fleeson 1896 to 1897

William Hill 1897 to 1904

A. H. Leslie 1904

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MANAGER'S REPORT.

Claremont, Pa., December 31, 1906.

To the Honorable, the Inspectors of the Allegheny County Prisons, Pittsburgh, Pa.

Gentlemen :

We herewith respectfully submit the Thirty-seventh Annual Report of the Allegheny County Workhouse, together with special reports of the Superintendent, Chaplain and Physician, for the year ending December 31st, 1906.

Respectfully,

John A. Bell,

President.

John W. Crawford,

Secretary. Claremont, Pa., February 7th, 1907.

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SUPERINTENDENT'S REPORT 1 906

SUPERINTENDENT'S REPORT.

ClarkmonT, Pa., December 31 , 19(H).

To the Honorable Board of the Allegheny County Workhouse and Inebriate Asylum.

( Gentlemen :

1 herewith present the Thirty-seventh Annual Report of the Allegheny County Workhouse and Inebriate Asylum for the year ending December 31, 1906.

Attached hereto and making a part of this report, are the statistical tables, financial statement, and operation of the industrial departments as prepared by the Chief Clerk ; also the reports of the Physician and Chaplain, and you are respectfully

referred thereto for full detailed information.

Number of prisoners in confinement Decem- ber 31, 1905, was 804

Number of prisoners received from January

1, 1906, to December 31, 1906, was .... 4,743

Total 5,547

Discharged by expiration of sentence .... 4,114

Discharged by reduction of time 183

Discharged by order of Court . . . / 350

Discharged by death 13

Discharged by Governor's pardon 3

Transferred to insane asylums 7

Escaped and not recaptured 4

Total in confinement December 31, 1906 . 873

The financial report shows the total receipts, including balance carried over from last year, were $195,837.89. Total expenditures were $168,536.85. Balance on hand December 31, 1906, was $27,301.04. Earnings from all sources amounted to $55,502.94. The daily average of inmates was 829 145-365.

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The daily average cost of each inmate was 37 64-100 cents.

The daily average cost of each inmate, after deducting earn- ings, was 19 31-100 cents.

The farm products used in the institution amounted to $11,260.00, in addition to the cash received from horses, cows, pigs, calves, and other farm products sold.

The physical condition of the property has been main- tained and improved, as evidenced by expenditure of almost $10,000.00, and we have strong hope, if no unforeseen demands develop, to reduce this item the present year.

The plans and specifications for the sewage disposal plant required under the state laws, have been completed by Messrs. Chapin and Knowles, and as soon as weather will permit we will start the work and expect to complete the plant in the early summer. The work involves not only the sewage disposal plant, but the re-arranging of and introduction of considerable new sewerage.

In conclusion, I thank the Board of Managers for their sympathy and support.

Yours respectfully,

A. H, LESLIE,

Superintendent.

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Brushes

Brooms

Cooperage

Boarding Prisoners.

Gasand Water Rents

Blacksmith Shop . .

Shoe & Tailor Shops

Laundry

Carpets

FINANCIAL REPORT 1906

STATEMENT

. OF THE

CASH RECEIPTS AND EXPENDITURES

OF THE

ALLEGHENY COUNTY WORKHOUSE

From January 1 to December 31, 1906, both dates inclusive.

RECEIPTS.

Cash on hand January 1, 1906 $ 17,437 35

Cash received from Treasurer of Allegheny County 75,000 00

Cash received from interest on daily balances 585 20

From other counties for maintenace of prisoners 18,537 34

From hired labor of prisoners and employees 9, 198 76

From blacksmithing, horseshoeing, gasfitting, etc 498 46

From bookbinding 19 40

From laundry work 1,106 04

From officers and notary fees 132 00

From railroad tickets, telephoning and expressage refunded 16 05

From house rent 6 00

From contents of contribution box 9 49

From unclaimed money of prisoners 1 1 45

From purchase of library books refunded 38 36

From sale of natural gas 457 40

From sale of lumber, lime, cement, etc 559 51

From sale of scrap metals, rags, and old barrels 318 79

From sale of pipe, glass, paint, and from painting 169 95

From sale of coal and coke 19 88

From sale of tar 95 70

From sale of live stock (horses, cows, pigs and calves) 1,155 80

From sale of provisions and kraut 342 61

From sale of machinery (locomotive) 750 00

From sale of wagon 60 00

From sale of pit posts 710 64

From sale of flour sacks 30 00

From sale of cow hide 3 45

From sale of farm products and flowers 3,497 53

From sale of screens, furniture, etc., and repairing done by car- penter 875 93

From sale of shoes and repairing of shoes and clothing 1,525 00

From sale of ice (natural) 151 13

From sale of rag carpets 11,420 34

From sale of shoes and scrub brushes 9,686 80

From sale of brooms 41,411 53

$195,837 89

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EXPENDITURES.

For broom corn and other material, and expenses $ 30,692 44

For freight paid on material and manufactured brooms 2,498 36

For wages of employee in broom factory 1,200 00

For overwork paid prisoners for making brooms 1,047 77

For bristles, rice root, blocks, tampico, etc 7,997 65

For freight paid on same 272 48

For cotton and woolen warp, new carpet rags, etc t 8,550 73

For freight paid on material and manufactured carpet 408 68

For wages of employee in carpet factory 1,040 00

For miscellaneous machinery 862 60

For general freight, expressage and railroad tickets 1,548 88

For gratuities given prisoners 423 65

For salaries and wages 60,510 60

For traveling expenses 92 25

For boiler inspection 27 00

For rent of telephones : . 213 59

For rent of Delafield farm for year 1906 400 00

For road tolls and expenses 29 85

For library, stationery, and postage 838 92

For expenses conveying and recapturing escaped prisoners 322 74

For fire and boiler insurance 453 08

For general repairs of machinery, buildings, etc 9,824 76

For brushes, spectacles, combs, etc 200 94

For lime for whitewashing 90 00

For building material 1,487 17

For furniture and carpets 881 68

For farm tools, seeds, and manure 1,975 34

For live stock 615 00

For hardware and tools 1,583 72

For coal and gas 5,860 40

For drugs and medicines 1,064 44

For clothing and bedding 1,868 88

For material used in power-loom department for the manufacture

of cloth, shirting, toweling, etc., used in prison 1,437 21

For shoes, leather, and findings 3,721 23

For flour 7,412 42

For beef 5,314 72

For pork 71 37

For groceries and provisions 3,639 52

For feed for horses and cows 2,056 78

8168,536 85

$195,837 89

$ 27,810 88 509 84

27,301 04

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STATEMENT

OF THE

Operations of the Several Business Departments.

BROOM FACTORY. Dr.

To stock on hand January 1, 1906 '% 16,074 46

To cash paid on account of stock during the year and

other expenses $33,190 80

Less accounts due on same for 1905 2,701 90

30,488 90

Towages paid employee 1,200 00

To earnings of prisoners for overwork 1,047 77

To amount yet due on purchase of material, etc 3,632 65

% 52,443 78

Cr.

By cash received for brooms sold % 41,411 53

Less accounts for 1905 1,918 30

$ 39,493 23

By stock on hand January 1, 1907 23,417 51

To accounts of 1906 uncollected 2,331 31

To brooms used at Workhouse during 1906 257 64

65,499 69

Amount to credit of broom factory $ 13,055 91

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BRUSH FACTORY.

Dr.

To stock on hand January 1, 1906 $ 4,145 87

To cash paid on account of stock during the year $ 8,270 13

Less amount due on same for 1905 803 21

7,466 92

To amount yet due. on material purchased 91710

$ 12,529 89

Cr.

By cash received for brushes $ 9,686 80

Less amount for 1905 911 45

$ 8,775 35

By stock on hand January 1, 1907 4,395 21

By accounts of 1906 uncollected 1,413 76

14,584 32

Balance to credit of brush factory % 2,054 43

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CARPET FACTORY.

Dr.

To stock on hand January 1, 1906 $ 4,115 68

To cash paid on account of stock during the year and

expenses $ 8,959 41

Less amount due on same for 1905 107 46

8,851 95

To wages paid employee. 1,040 00

To amount yet due on material purchased 593 94

% 14,601 57

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By cash received for carpets $ 11,420 34

Less accounts for 1905 1,683 02

% 9,737 32

By stock on hand January 1, 1907 4,959 49

By accounts of 1906 uncollected 1,415 66

3y carpets used at Workhouse 10 26

16,122 73

Balance to credit of carpet factory $ 1,521 16

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OTHER COUNTIES FOR BOARDING PRISONERS.

Cash received from other counties having agree- ments with the Allegheny County Workhouse

for boarding prisoners $ 18,537 34

Less accounts for 1905 4,064 55

$ 14,472 79

Accounts of 1906 uncollected 2,804 12

Revenue from this source for 1906 $ 17,276 91

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MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS OF REVENUE.

Received for hired labor of prisoners % 9,198 76

Received for blacksmithing, horse shoeing, gas fitting, etc 498 46

Received for binding books 19 40

Received for laundry work . . . 1 , 106 04

v Received for officers and notary fees 132 00

Received for railroad tickets, telephoning and expressage re- funded 16 05

Received for house rent 6 00

Received for interest on daily balances 585 20

Received for contents of contribution box 9 49

Received for unclaimed money of prisoners 11 45

Received from sale of farm products and flowers 3,497 53

Received from sale of lumber 559 51

Received from sale of live stock 1,155 80

Received from sale of tar 95 70

Received from sale of natural ice 151 13

Received from sale of shoes and repairing 1,525 00

Received from sale of calf hide 3 45

Received from sale of provisions and kraut 342 61

Received from sale of pit posts . 710 64

Received from sale of screens, sleds and other articles, and for

repairs made by carpenter 875 93

Received from sale of sundry articles, consisting mainly of such

as are charged to general expense account 1,094 38

$21,594 53

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RECAPITULATION OF BUSINESS REVENUE.

From broom factory $ 13,055 91

From brush factory 2,054 43

From carpet factory 1,521 16

From other counties for boarding prisoners 17,276 91

From miscellaneous items 21,594 53

$ 55,502 94

SUMMARY.

The expenses for this institution for the year ending December 31st, 1906, were:

For food consumed $ 16,438 03

For clothing in use and consumed 7,027 32

For salaries ' 60,510 60

For repairs and insurance 10,277 84

For other expenses 19,712 35

$113,966 14

The number of days board furnished prisoners during 1906 was 302,730

The daily average of inmates was 829 145-365.

The daily average cost of each inmate was 37 64-100 cents.

The earnings from labor or business of the institution conducted with outside parties were $55,502.94.

The daily average cost of each inmate after deducting earnings was 19 31-100 cents.

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GENERAL STATEMENT

REAL ESTATE.

Consisting of farm, buildings, and gen- eral improvements as per last re- port $1,135,186 23

No additions during 1906.

MACHINERY AND BOILERS.

As per last report $ 22,536 32

Additions during the year 1906 :

1 binder for farm $130 96

10 brush machines 470 50

1 fan mill 25 00

1 laundry tub 225 00

1 tinners bending machine ... 42 50 Freight paid on machinery. . . 11 14

905 10 $ 23,441 42

Less 1 locomotive sold 750 00

$ 22,691 42

Less 10 per cent for wear and tear .... 2,269 14

$ 20,422 28

Decrease in valuation

LIVE STOCK.

Last valuation $ 4,535 50

Present valuation 4,618 00

Increase in valuation

VEHICLES, TWO AND FOUR WHEELED.

Last valuation $ 1,240 00

Present valuation 1,160 00

Decrease in valuation

BUILDING MATERIAL

Last valuation $ 3,510 98

Present valuation 5,516 06

Increase in valuation

25

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$2,114

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2,005 08

GENERAL STATEMENT— Continued.

Amount brought forward

MISCELLANEOUS STOCK.

Of goods in store for the general use of the prison which have not been in use:

Last valuation $

Lime, cement, coal, etc .... $ 2,438 37

24,440 34

Paint stuffs, glass, etc

Material for use of black-

432 45

smith and plumber . . .

1,555

9]

Dry goods, clothing, etc . . .

7,306

57

Brushes, Combs, station-

ery, etc

289

04

Hardware

,682

08

Oats, hay and straw

3,932

75

Flour, groceries and pro-

visions

5,877

77

Drugs and medicines

500

00

Power-loom department . .

414

57

23,429 51

Decrease in valuation

GENERAL STOCK FOR USE IN BROOM FACTORY.

Last valuation $ 16,074 46

Present valuation « 23,417 51

Increase in valuation

GENERAL STOCK FOR USE IN BRUSH FACTORY.

Last valuation $ 4 ,145 87

Present valuation 4,395 21

Increase in valuation

GENERAL STOCK FOR USE IN CARPET FACTORY.

Last valuation $ 4,115 68

Present valuation 4,959 49

Increase in valuation

Dr.

$2,194

1.010

04

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$2,087

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GENERAL STATEMENT— Continued.

Amount brought forward

BOOK ACCOUNTS DUE THE WORKHOUSE.

Last report $ 12,105 66

For brooms $2,331 31

For brushes 1,413 76

For carpets 1,415 66

For maintenance 2,804 12

For miscellaneous items,

viz: Labor, shoes, tar,

etc 3,329 12

11,293 97

Decrease

BOOK ACCOUNTS . DUE BY THE WORKHOUSE.

Last report $ 6,017 66

On account of broom fac- tory $3,632 65

On account of brush fac- tory 917 10

On account of carpet fac- tory 593 94

On account of miscellan- eous stock 2,128 49

7,272 18

Increase

Received from treasurer of Allegheny

County 75,000 00

Received from interest on daily bal- ances 585 20

CASH ON HAND.

Last report $ 17,437 35

On hand at date 27,301 04

Increase

BALANCE. Deficiency which represents the amount over and above all earnings which was needed for the maintenance of the Work- house for the year 1906

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FARM.

The Workhouse farm and the farm leased from the Delafield Estate during the season of 1906, produced:

130 tons hay

1,061 bushel cow beets

40 tons straw

50 bushel table beets

20 tons fodder

63 bushel pickles

527 bushel wheat

9 bushel peppers

245 bushel rye

18 bushel parsley

400 bushel oats

76 bushel spinach

785 bushel sweet corn

5 bushel cherries

415 bushel yellow corn

49,723 heads cabbage

3,976 bushel potatoes

9,000 heads celery

300 bushel navy beans

10,000 heads lettuce

1,634 bushel green beans

285 boxes raspberries

140 bushel parsnips

1,267 pounds butter

148 bushel carrots

1,063 pounds pork

743 bushel turnips

2,146 gallons milk

1,459 bushel onions

725 gallons buttermilk

18 bushel onion sets

842 dozen eggs

117 bushel peas

210 chickens

745 bushel tomatoes

Rhubarb to the value of

Plants and cut flowers to the value of

$ 6 00 528 40

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STATISTICS 1906

I.

STATISTICS FOR 1906.

Number in confinement December 31, 1905 804

Number received during 1906 4,743

5,547

OF THE ABOVE THERE WERE

Discharged by expiration of sentence 4,114

Discharged by order of Court 350

Discharged by commutation of. time 183

Discharged by governor's pardon 3

Escaped without recapture 4

Died 13

Removed to the hospital for the insane 7

4,674

LEAVING IN CONFINEMENT DECEMBER 31, 1906.

Males, white . 629

Females, white 53

682

Males, colored 169

Females, colored 22

191

873

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II.

THE NUMBER RECEIVED EACH MONTH WAS

Males. Females. Total.

January 313 53 366

February 330 36 366

March 318 43 361

April 326 88 414

May 328 50 378

June 329 m 59 388

July 356 * 56 412

August 358 74 432

September 355 67 422

October 319 40 359

November 443 52 495

December ' 305 45 350

Total 4,080 663 4,743

III.

THE NUMBER IN CONFINEMENT AT END OF EACH MONTH WAS

Males. Females. Total.

January 682 86 768

February 742 67 809

March 748 69 817

April 783 112 895

May. 769 93 862

June 722 94 816

July 713 91 804

August 744 105 849

September 751 112 863

October 718 70 788

November 826 80 906

December .:. 798 75 873

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IV.

OF THE 4,743 PRISONERS RECEIVED DURING THE YEAR THERE WERE COMMITTED

By Court of Oyer and Terminer, Allegheny County 45

By Court of Oyer and Terminer, Fayette County 5

By Court of Oyer and Terminer, Mercer County 1

By Court of Oyer and Terminer, Beaver County 1

By Court of Quarter Sessions, Allegheny County 618

By Court of Quarter Sessions, Washington County 39

By Court of Quarter Sessions, Jefferson County 18

By Court of Quarter Sessions, Fayette County 17

By Court of Quarter Sessions, Lawrence County 16

By Court of Quarter Sessions, Erie County 15

By Court of Quarter Sessions, Beaver County 13

By Court of Quarter Sessions, Westmoreland County 13

By Court of Quarter Sessions, Mercer County 8

By Court of Quarter Sessions, Armstrong County 8

By Court of Quarter Sessions, Clarion County 3

By Court of Quarter Sessions, Butler County 2

By Court of Quarter Sessions, Warren County 2

By Court of Quarter Sessions, Greene County 1

By Court of Common Pleas No. 2, Allegheny County 1

By J. H. Vitchestain, Police Magistrate of Pittsburgh, Pa 129

By E. C. Negley, Police Magistrate of Pittsburgh, Pa 1UU

By Geo. A. Moke, Police Magistrate of Pittsburgh, Pa 93

By J. J. Kirby, Police Magistrate of Pittsburgh, Pa 892

By F. J. Brady, Police Magistrate of Pittsburgh, Pa 728

By Louis Kimmel, Police Magistrate of Pittsburgh, Pa 369

By J. D. Walker, Police Magistrate of Pittsburgh, Pa 341

By James F. Kane, Police Magistrate of Pittsburgh, Pa 203

By Saml. Abernathey, Police Magistrate of Allegheny, Pa 53

By F. B. Harkins, Police Magistrate of Allegheny, Pa 13

By Wm. A. Hadfield, Police Magistrate of Allegheny, Pa 378

By Geo. H. England, Police Magistrate of Allegheny, Pa 95

By G. J. F. Falkenstein, Mayor of McKeesport, Pa 25

By W. H. Coleman, Mayor of McKeesport, Pa 71

By Justices of the Peace of Allegheny County 393

By Justices of the Peace of Mercer County 26

By Justices of the Peace of Armstrong County 4

By Justices of the Peace of Lawrence County 4

Total 4,743

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V.

CRIME OR OFFENSE.

Adultry 10

Arson 2

Assault 9

Assault, indecent 5

Assault, felonious 5

Assault, felonious and point- ing firearms 5

Assault and battery 62

Assault and battery, aggra- vated 47

Assault and battery, felonious 33 Assault and battery, intent

to rape 8

Assault and battery, intent

to rob 1

Assault and battery, intent

to kill 2

Assault and battery, ob- structing an officer 1

Assault and battery, carry- ing concealed weapons .... 3

Attempt to rape 1

Bigamy 3

Burglary 12

Being a professional thief ... 1

Being a tramp 2

Being a common prostitute. 112

Being a nuisance 1

Breaking and entering a

building 7

Carrying concealed weapons. 19

Conspiracy 6

Cruelty to wife 1

Cruelty to children 4

Cruelty to animals 1

Cruelty and neglect 3

Disorderly conduct 1,401

Disorderly conduct and sus- picious person 2

Disorderly conduct and re- sisting officer 1

Disorderly conduct and vag- rancy 3

Drunkenness 390

Drunkenness and disorderly

\ conduct 70

Drunkenness and suspicious

person 1

Drunkenness and vagrancy . 11

Desertion 1

Embezzlement 13

Extortion 2

Enticing female child 1

Entering building and lar- ceny 21

Entering building to commit

felony 18

Entering railroad car to com- mit felony 11

False pretense 15

Forgery 1

Fornication 1

Fraudulently making written

instrument 8

Furnishing liquor unlawfully 1

Gambling 3

Interfering with officer 1

Indecent exposure 8

Incorrigibility 1

Illegal voting 1

Keeping bawdy house 8

Keeping disorderly house ... 32

Keeping gambling house .... 15

Larceny 42

Larceny from person 12

Larceny by bailee 10

Larceny and receiving stolen

goods 193

Larceny and burglary 1

Libel . 1

Lewdness 1

Malicious mischief 5

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Mayhem . . 1

Manslaughter 2

Misdemeanor 13

Misdemeanor and adultery . . 1

Neglecting family 2

Perjury 2

Pointing firearms 9

Personating an officer 1

Rape 2

Rape, felonious 8

Robbery 2

Robbery and receiving stolen

goods 22

Receiving stolen goods 42

Riot 7

Resisting an officer 1

Suspicious characters 1,041

Selling liquor unlawfully .... 43

Sodomy 1

Sodomy and buggery 3

Sending threating letters . ... 1

Street walking 41

Trespass 20

Unlawful wounding 56

Vagrancy 641

Vagrancy and suspicious

characters 3

Violation of city or borough

ordinance 62

Visiting disorderly house ... . 44

Total 4,743

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VI.

OCCUPATION OF THOSE

Agent 19

Actor 3

Asbestos worker 3

Awning maker 1

Auctioneer 1

Artist 1

Brakeman 64

Blacksmith 57

Barber 55

Boilermaker 46

Baker 28

Bricklayer 28

Bartender 15

Butcher 14

Bookkeeper 9

Butler 7

Bellboy 5

Broommaker 4

Bootblack 2

Brassworker 2

Billposter 2

Boltmaker 2

Bottler 1

Brushmaker 1

Cook 118

Carpenter 83

Clerk 61

Coachman 27

Cigarmaker 13

Craneman 10

Chain maker 7

Cooper 6

Core maker 5

Cement worker 5

Clothes presser 4

Collector 4

Coke maker 3

Conductor 2

Car builder 2

Cork maker 2

Coppersmith 1

COMMITTED DURING 1906.

Chemist 1

Chaffeur 1

Comb maker 1

Civil engineer 1

Confectioner .1

Dairyman 4

Drover 3

Dog catcher 2

Driller 1

Detective 1

. Draughtsman 1

Engineer 49

Electrician 25

Elevator boy 2

Engraver 2

Enameler 1

Fireman 84

Farmer 28

Florist 2

Glass worker 44

Glass blower 30

Gardener 6

Gas maker 4

Galvanizer » . 1

House work 639

Hostler 48

Horseshoer 11

Huckster 10

Hotelkeeper 2

Harnessmaker . .* 1

Horseshoe maker 1

Ironworker 311

Interpreter 3

Janitor 22

Junk dealer 1

Laborer 1,181

Laundry 16

Lineman 5

Leather worker 2

Lather : 1

Miner 103

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Machinist 93

Molder 48

Mason 27

Marble worker 6

Musician 5

Motorman 3

Millwright 2

Musician 2

Milliner 1

Messenger 1

None 47

Newsboy 9

Nurse 3

Nailmaker 1

Operator 1

Organ maker 1

Puddler 65

Painter 91

Porter 58

Plumber 27

Pipefitter 22

Peddler 21

Paperhanger 21

Printer 16

Plasterer 15

Policeman 5

Polisher 5

Paver 3

Patternmaker 3

Papermaker 3

Potter 2

Preacher 1

Riverman 30

Roller 9

Rigger 7

Riveter 6

Roofer 3

Restaurant keeper 2

Reporter . 1

Structural ironworker 58

Salesman 29

Shoemaker 20

Steamfitter ",. . 19

Storekeepers 12

Sailor 7

Sewing 4

Switchman 4

Stonecutter 4

Slater 4

Shirtmaker 1

Sawyer 1

Spiledriver 1

Saddler 1

Teamster 350

Tinner 19

Tin worker 17

Tailor 16

Tilesetter 3

Tanner 3

Tooldresser 3

Toolmaker 2

Tank builder 1

Tinker 1

Teacher 1

Upholsterer 3

Undertaker 1

Waiter 98

Watchman 10

Wiredrawer 3

Weaver 2

Watchmaker 2

Wagonmaker 2

Total 4,743

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VII.

SENTENCES FOR WHICH COMMITTED.

10 days 8

15 days 2

20 days 4

30 days 2,889

40 days 3

43 days 1

60 days 678

70 days 1

90 days 447

120 days 2

180 days 8

240 days 1

2 months 7

3 months 98

3 months and 30 days . . 5

4 months 73

5 months 27

6 months 173

7 months 4

8 months 21

8 months and 60 days 1

9 months 28

10 months 15

1 year 108

14 months 3

15 months 10

16 months 2

18 months 36

20 months 1

2 years 51

2 years and 3 months. ... 3

2 years and 6 months. ... 2

3 years 12

3 years and 6 months. ... 3

4 years 8

5 years . 6

6 years 1

8 years 1

Total 4,743

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VIII.

OF THE 4,743 RECEIVED, THERE WERE COMMITTED.

For the first

time

2,387'

For the twenty-fifth time

9

" second

809

" twenty-sixth

5

" third

408

" twenty-seventh

7

" fourth

243

" twenty-eighth

4

" fifth

156

" twenty-ninth

3

" sixth

122

" thirtieth "

4

" seventh

89

" thirty-first

4

" eighth

77

" thirty-second

2

" ninth

44

" thirty-third

4

" tenth

a

55

" thirty-fourth

2

" eleventh

42

" thirty-fifth

2

1 twelfth

29

" thirty-sixth

1

" thirteenth

20

" thirty-seventh

2

" fourteenth

a

21

" thirty-eighth

1

" fifteenth

a

31

" thirty-ninth

2

" sixteentli

24

" fortieth

1

" seventeenth

12

" forty-second

1

" eighteenth

18

" forty-sixth

2

" nineteenth

a

18

" forty-seventh

4

" twentieth

a

18

" forty-eighth

3

" twenty-first

11

" forty-ninth

4

" twenty-second

6

" fiftieth time and over

18

" twenty-third

9

" twenty-fourth

9

Total

4,743

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IX.

NATIVITY.

United States 3,285 Australia . . .

Ireland 340 West Indies

Austria 290 Turkey ....

England 165 Denmark . .

Italy 159 Norway . . .

Germany 133 Central America

Poland 93 Greece ....

Scotland 63 Roumania .

Russia 62 East Indies

Hungary 39 Spain

Canada 32 Mexico . . .

Wales 25 Portugal . .

Sweden 16 Unknown .

China 8

France 6 Total

Switzerland 3

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AGE WHEN COMMITTED.

Under 20 years of age 284

From 20 to 30 years 1,725

From 30 to 40 years 1,334

From 40 to 50 years 892

From 50 to 60 years 406

60 years and over 102

Total 4,743

XI.

PARENTAL RELATIONS.

Parents living at 16 years 3,305

Father died before 16 years , 568

Mother died before 16 years 334

Both parents died before 16 years 536

Total 4,743

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XII.

EDUCATION.

Could read and write 4,015

Could read but not write 86

Could neither read nor write 642

Total 4,743

XIII.

OF THE 642 WHO COULD NOT READ OR WRITE, WERE NATIVE OF

United States , 252

Austria 131"

Italy 80

' Ireland 54

Poland •. 49

Russia 27

England 13

Germany 11

Hungary 7

Wales 5

Canada 4

Scotland 2

, Greece 2

Turkey 2

France 1

Roumania . . , . 1

West Indies 1

Total 642

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XIV.

HABITS OF LIFE.

Abstinents 337

Moderate drinkers 1,640

Occasionally intemperate 1,976

Intemperate 790

Total 4,743

XV. COLOR.

White males 3,370

Black males 710

White females 488

Black females 175

Total 4,743

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XVI.

RELIGIOUS INSTRUCTION.

Roman Catholics 2,361

Methodists 744

Baptists 595

Presbyterians 400

Lutherans 226

Episcopalians . 97

Jews 23

Other Denominations 211

No religious instruction 86

Total 4,743

XVII.

INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS.

Unapprenticed 3,730

Apprenticed and absconded 95

Apprenticed ' 918

Total 4,743

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XVIII.

ARMY AND NAVY PRISONERS.

Served in army or navy 13

In neither 4,730

Total 4,743

XIX.

INMATES OF THE WORKHOUSE DECEMBER 31, 1906.

Native born males 565

Foreign born males 233

798

Native born females 54

Foreign born females 21

75

Total 873

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XX.

THE 254 FOREIGN BORN INMATES WERE RESIDENTS OF PENNSYLVANIA.

For 1 year and under 31

For 2 years and under 24

For 3 years and under 25

For 4 years and under 15

For 5 years and under 17

For 6 years and under 10

For 7 years and under 6

For 8 years and under 7

For 9 years and under 5

For 10 years and under 4

For 11 years and under 2

For 12 years and under 4

For 13 years and under 3

, For 14 years and under 3

For 15 years and under 6

For 16 years and under 5

For 17 years and under 3

For 18 years and under 7

For 19 years and under 5

For 20 years and under 10

For 21 years and under 6

For 22 years and under 9

For 23 years and under 6

For 24 years and under 4

For 25 years and under 6

For 26 years and under 4

For 27 years and under 1

For 28 years and under ....... 3

For 29 years and under 2

For 30 years and over 21

Total 254

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XXI.

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For

1 year and

under

9

For 14 years and

under

For

2 years and

under

10

For 15 years and

under

For

3 years and

under

3

For 16 years and

under

For

4 years and

under

6

For 17 years and

under

For

5 years and

under

3

For 18 years and

under

For

6 years and

under

2

For 19 years and

under

For

7 years and

under

2

For 20 years and

under

For

8 years and

under

1

For 21 years and

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For

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under

2

For 28 years and

under

For

10 years and

under

1

For 30 years and

over

For 11 years and

under

1

For 12 years and

under

1

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CHAPLAIN'S REPORT 1906

CHAPLAIN'S REPORT.

To the Honorable, the Board of Managers of the Allegheny County Workhouse.

Gentlemen :

In this, my Tenth Annual Report as Chaplain of this in- stitution, I take pleasure in presenting the facts and figures representing the work done in my department during the year 1906.

In comparison with former years you will notice that the figures in most instances show a gradual increase, which proves that the population of this institution is increasing with the growth of the population of our city and county, and, that con- sequently, the work of this department, as well as that of all the other departments of the institution, is increasing, for each individual adds to opportunity, responsibility and possibility.

This year as so many, more than five thousand five hundred souls, have come and gone, staying in the institution for varying lengths of time, from one month to the entire twelve months, and representing almost every state in the union and country on the globe, I have been more firmly convinced than ever before that education is the only hope of holding in check the appalling increase of the criminal classes in America. Our country is a free country. The spirit of liberty pervades all strata of our population, and arbitrary restriction and suppression is so entirely foreign to all our teaching and custom that it alone cannot be successfully employed even as penalty for crime under the Stars and Stripes. As a nation we are facing a problem of anarchy which can no longer be ignored. How shall we meet it? Russia has already demonstrated that pun- ishment, torture, even death cannot eradicate it. It rises with renewed vigor above each onslaught of army and police. Our country offers many inducements to the oppressed and ignorant

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foreigner and he comes to us burning with anarchistic zeal only to find that he has misinterpreted our code of freedom and that here, also, is a land of law. The result presents a grave national problem, and nowhere is it so repeatedly met and so undisguised as in a prison population, especially one constituted as is this institution. During this year, after a careful study of the moral and mental condition of the average prisoner and his personal need, it has seemed most advisable, both for immediate results to the individual and for the elevation of the mass as a whole in its relation to outside social conditions, to base all my work upon the theory of education. With this underlying idea as the motive^ I will present my report.

EDUCATION FROM A MENTAL STANDPOINT.

The mental culture of a prison population can be met in three ways: by Library privileges, School room opportunities, and platform work in the form of lecture and entertainment.

The During 'the year, because of the rapid growth of

Library, the library and the increase in the number of requests for books and other literature, it was found necessary to re-arrange and classify the books and prepare a new catalogue. This required the closing of the library from circulation for a short time, and the fact that it was sorely missed showed the silent work that it was daily doing. The catalogue was com- pleted at a cost of $165.00, which amount supplies the institu- tion with 1500 copies, enough to last with care for a number of years. As now arranged the library contains about 6,000 volumes, representing fourteen languages, including, beside English and the modern tongues of Europe, Chinese and Jewish books, making in many ways a unique collection.

During the last year the library has been improved by the addition of over three hundred new volumes by purchase, among which was the Universal Encyclopedia, complete in thirteen volumes, the whole cost of the addition being about two hundred dollars.

In connection with the library the book-bindery is an important factor. It gives employment to two prisoners, and, at a cost of about $35.00 for material, kept the books of the

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library in good condition besides putting five hundred and thirty complete volumes of magazines in a form for permanent circu- lation. From outside work done in the bindery $19.40 was received, which reduced the amount expended to $16.50, which is a trifling cost compared with the advantage it has been to the library.

In addition to the books of the library, reading matter in the form of daily and religious papers and current magazines have been in constant circulation. During the past year the institution has been favored with many valuable gifts of litera- ture. All these have been greatly appreciated and used to good advantage. Through the kindness of Mr. R..S. Robb of the Hostetter Co., each cell has been provided with an almanac, which, although not literature, comes under the work of the library and perhaps as much as any other gift has been used with appreciation by the prison population. The Bible Insti- tute Colportage Association of Chicago sent a donation of two hundred and sixty-two books of their paper bound issue for general circulation. As in former years, we have received regularly from the publishers of the Presbyterian Banner, The United Presbyterian, The Christian Advocate, The Pittsburgh Catholic, The Christian Union Herald and The Educator large packages of their current issues. Also, many other friends have been more or less regular in their contributions of reading matter.

The The object of a prison school is not to place

Prison higher education as a premium for crime, but to put School. within the reach of those whom circumstances and environment have denied an elementary education an opportunity to acquire the rudiments of a common school course of study. To read and write the English language and to understand the first steps in arithmetic are acquirements so universal in the average American population that it seems scarcely possible that any one could reach the age of manhood without them. Yet a vast number who ciaim the rights of citizenship are ignorant of these simple essentials of daily life. But when we consider the great army of immigrants who come yearly to our land we cease to wonder. This, then, in a great measure explains the existence of the prison school. Out of an enrollment of two hundred and thirteen there is an average

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of one-third foreign born. These men are in the prison in most instances because of ignorance of American customs and our spoken and written language. Many of them are quite intelli- gent, often educated in their native tongue and eager to learn the language of their adopted country, and it would seem an injustice to them and to the free country to which they have come to deny them any educational privilege it is possible to give them. Our school sessions, being held in the evening, are not an interference with the regular employment of the men. The length of term was nine months with sessions of one hour and a half on three nights of each week. The entire enrollment for the term has been two hundred and thirteen, with an average attendance of 97% of the enrollment. The deportment and interest in the work have been a special gratification and we feel that the results have fully compensated for the time and expense.

Entertainments. It has been a custom for some years in this institution to give the inmates the advantage of a series of evening entertainments in the chapel during the winter months. The series this year has consisted of two lectures and six concerts, all of which were gratuitously given by the performers as a contribution to the mental and moral uplift of the prisoners. In point of excellence they equalled any series of the kind offered by any entertainment course, and in point of appreciation were received by the audience with the greatest gratitude. The thanks of the institution are extended to Rev. E. R. Davidson of Ingram, and Rev. Henry Chalfant of Emsworth, for lectures, also to The Davis Family, The South- ern Quartette, Pittsburgh Entertainment Agency, Pittsburgh Colonial Club, The Nuttal Quartette, and to the Choir of the Sixth U. P. Church, Allegheny, for concerts, and to all these for the very enjoyable and profitable evenings which through their kindness were brought to brighten the necessarily mo- notonous routine of prison life.

EDUCATION FROM A MORAL STANDPOINT.

Special In addition to the evening entertainments, the

Holidays, moral welfare of the institution has been further ministered to by fitting and appropriate observance of the four chief national holidays. Through the courtesy of

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friends interested in the moral and religious work among all classes, each holiday brought to the usual chapel service an address commemorating the occasion. The institution expresses its gratitude for these kindnesses to Rev. T. M. Thompson, D. D. , of Sharpsburg, Pa., who delivered the address on Memorial Day; to Rev. T. N. Boyle, D. D., of Crafton, Pa., who delivered the address on the Fourth of July; to Rev. W. W. Hall, D. D., of Pittsburgh, Pa., who preached the sermon on Thanksgiving Day; and to Rev. Guy W. McCracken, of Youngstown, Ohio, and Secretary R. N. Radford, of Sharpsburg, Pa., who made appropriate addresses on Christmas, also to the Sharpsburg Y. M. C. A. quartette who assisted in the Christmas song service.

The line of demarcation between the truly moral and the truly spiritual training is at all times a harmonious blending rather than a distinction. While the moral is being built up the spiritual is being strengthened. So in this, while mind and moral nature are being educated to an appreciation and under- standing of better things than have formerly been the round of daily life the spiritual life has developed,' so that it cannot be said here or there begins education from a spiritual standpoint, but the work of the Sabbath must always be the most important of spiritual education.

Sabbath The usual order of services has been observed during Work. the past year in conducting the religious work of the Sabbath. At 10.00 A. M. a congregation of from six to seven hundred gathered each Sabbath in the chapel for the preaching service where the plain, simple truths of the Gospel were presented, which with song and devotion occupied a period of an hour and a quarter. In the afternoon two Bible classes of one hour each were held, one at 2.30 in the women's depart- ment, and one at 3.30 in the chapel for the men. The average attendance in the women's class has been 90% and that of the men 75% of the whole number. The attendance upon all these services has been entirely voluntary and the deportment and attention has at all times been of the highest order. Following the Bible classes it has been my custom, if there are any patients in the hospital too ill to attend the chapel service, to conduct with them a short devotional service. Thus the day was fully occupied with the four services.

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I 'wish also in this connection to make special mention of the good work done by Father Rosensteel, of Sharpsburg, whose earnestness and faithfulness in his ministry in behalf of the Catholic element has been greatly appreciated. He has been regular in his visits, caring for their spiritual interests, not only by public worship and the dispensation of the divine ordinances of the Church, but in private he has been ever ready to minister to their wants and lead them to the higher life. Also I would mention the good work done by Rev. John Launitz and others of the German Ministerial Association of Pittsburgh and Alle- gheny, who have arranged for a service in the German language on the first Sabbath of every month during the year. The kind expressions regarding these services by those who attend show how heartily they are appreciated.

As to results, these cannot be known. This is the time of seed sowing, but the harvest is hereafter. However, the year has not been void of good returns. Many encouraging features have given inspiration in the work. Many kind words of appre- ciation have come back from those who have gone out into the world again, and many warm greetings, sometimes in distant and unexpected places, have shown that the work here has not been forgotten or without its good results.

Temperance As intemperance is in many cases the real

Work. cause of imprisonment, a special effort is made to

present the cause of temperance in the chapel services when it can be done judiciously, and also by kind exhor- tation in private interview. Pledges are always ready for those who are willing to make an effort to overcome the drink habit and will conscientiously sign and try to keep the promise they contain. During the year many have consented to try, and although some have failed a goodly number have been faithful and now acknowledge the time of their imprisonment as a time of blessing, in that it enabled them to overcome the besetting sin of intemperance. This work among the women prisoners has been earnestly conducted by Mrs. E. W. Gormly, state representative of the W. C. T. U., who, assisted by other members of the Union, regularly conducted afternoon gospel temperance meetings twice each month in the women's depart- ment.

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Secular To this department belongs a line of secular

Work. duties that largely occupies the time of the week-days.

Chief among these is the censorship of the prisoners' mail. The reading and distribution of the letters ordinarily consumes the forenoon of each day. During the year 13,134 letters were received and 4,927 were sent out, a total of 18,061 letters handled, or an average of over 1,500 a month. The out- going mail being limited to one letter a month accounts for the smallness of the number in comparison, as the in-coming mail is unlimited except in regard to its character. Cash to to the amount of $1,552.69 was received in letters to prisoners and was placed to their credit. In addition to the examination of the prisoners' mail there are a great many letters to be written on my own part in connection with the work and in behalf of the prisoners, which, though an arduous part of the work, is a duty most willingly performed and often a source of great gratification and pleasure when I see the look of appreciation and hear the expressions of gratitude that the favor shown has brought from the prisoner.

Conclusion. In conclusion I wish to express my apprecia-

tion of the courtesy and kind co-operation ex- tended to this department during the year by the management and all the official force. It has been most helpful. On the whole the year has been one of encouragement, and at its close we feel at least the consciousness of faithful endeavor. What the results will be, we know not now, but we have confidence in the promise of Him in whose service we labor. He has said "My word shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and prosper the thing whereto I sent it."

Respectfully submitted,

D. R. IMBRIE,

Chaplain.

Claremont, Pa., December 31, 1906.

59

PHYSICIAN'S REPORT

PHYSICIAN'S REPORT.

ClarEmont, Pa., December 31, 1906.

To the Honorable, the Board of Managers of the Allegheny

County Workhouse. Gentlemen :

It is my duty as well as pleasure to present the report of work done in the physical care of the inmates of this institution during the year ending December 31st, 1906.

It differs but little from that of previous years, as our con- ditions have varied but slightly.

We have been fortunate in having no epidemics of disease, as in our crowded condition it might prove very disastrous.

The following is a summary of the work done in this de- partment :

Number of cases answering sick call, males 5,502

Number of cases answering sick call, female .... 905

Total

6,407

Prescriptions refilled . Surgical cases treated Surgical redressings . Vaccinated

2,695 102 1,703 4,820

HOSPITAL.

Number of patients January 1, 1906

Number of patients December 31, 1906

Number of patients admitted during the year

Total number of days residence

Average number of days residence

Average daily population

Largest number of patients at one time

923 18%

6

0 2 49

63

INSANE.

Removed by order of Court 7

DEATHS.

Thirteen deaths occurred during the year from the following causes, as rendered by the Coroner at inquests:

Tuberculosis 5

Alcoholism, acute 2

Alcoholism, chronic 2

Paralysis of the heart 1

Peritonitis, traumatic. ? 1

Asthma and general debility 1

Pneumonia 1

Total 13

Very respectfully submitted,

G. M. KELLEY, M. D

t

GENERAL STATISTICAL

«

TABLES

5

GENERAL STATISTICAL TABLES,

i.

The number of prisoners received since the organization of the

Workhouse, August 6th, 1869, is 124,861

Of the above there were discharged by expiration of sen- tence ." 113,971

Discharged by order of Court 5,249

Discharged by commutation of time 3,938

Discharged by governor's pardon 156

Escaped without recapture 238

Died 299

Removed to hospital for the insane 130

Removed to smallpox hospital 7

123,988

Leaving in confinement December 31, 1906, males 798

Leaving in confinement December 31, 1906, females 75

Total 873

67

II.

CRIME

Abandoning an infant 3

Abducting a child 3

Abortion 8

Abusing family 60

Accessory to burglary after

the fact 4

Accessory to felony 3

Accessory to murder after

the fact * 1

Adultery 308

Aiding prisoners to escape 7

Appeal cases 15

Arson 19

Assault 144

Assault, indecent 24

Assault, felonious 132

Assault, felonious and enter- ing building 1

Assault, felonious and point- ing fire arms 24

Assault and battery 1,720

Assault and battery, aggra- vated 816

Assault and battery, felon- ious 833

Assault and battery, intent

to rape 132

Assault and battery, intent

to rob 44

Assault and battery, intent

to kill 22 •

Assault and battery, and lar- ceny '. 7

Assault and battery, ob- structing an officer 13

Assault and battery, carrying

concealed weapons 9

Attempt to commit felony . . 21

Attempt to commit larceny 23

Attempt to commit robbery 15

Attempt to rape 43

OFFENSE.

Attempt to procure abortion 5

Attempt to rescue 8

Attempt to poison 4

Attempt to enter building . . 5

Attempt to break jail 4

Attempt false pretense .... 3 Attempt sodomy and bug- gery 2

Barratry . 11

Bigamy , 66

Blasphemy 1

Buggery 2

Burglary 272

Being a professional thief. . . 257

Being a burglar 5

Being a tramp 68

Being a common prostitute . 724

Being a common nuisance . . 27

Being a common gambler . . 2

Being a common scold 1

Breaking and entering a

building . 201

Breaking and entering a rail- road car 11

Breaking prison 14

Carrying concealed weapons . 324

Compounding crimes 2

Conspiracy 103

Concealing death of child ... 5

Corrupting a record 2

Counterfeiting 1

Cruelty to wife 24

Cruelty to children 178

Cruelty to animals 35

Cruelty and neglect 79

Cutting timber trees 1

Disorderly conduct 44,045

Disorderly conduct and sus- picious person 42

Disorderly conduct and re- sisting officer 13

68

Disorderly conduct and be- ing escaped prisoner 1

Disorderly conduct and car- rying concealed weapons . . 3 Disorderly conduct and vag- rancy 92

Drunkenness 8,178

Drunkenness and. disorderly

conduct 2,804

Drunkenness and suspicious

person 32

Drunkenness and vagrancy . 252

Drunkenness and lewdness . 6

Desertion 11

Disturbing meeting 26

Defrauding boarding house

keeper 16

Embezzlement 258

Escape 114

Extortion 5

Enticing female child 10

Employing lady waiter 1

Entering building and lar- ceny 321

Entering building to commit

felony 249

Entering railroad car to com- mit felony 71

False pretense 305

False pretense and larceny. . 10

Forgery 132

Forgery and larceny 1

Forgery and embezzlement . 3

Fornication 18

Fornication and adultery. . . 6

Fast driving 10

Fortune telling 5

Felonious shooting and cut- ting 15

Fraudulently secreting prop- erty 3

Fraudulently destroying a

will 1

Fraudulently voting 2

Fraudulently making written

instrument 41

Furnishing liquor unlawfully 12

Gambling 259

Horsestealing 60

Interfering with officer 212

Indecent exposure 278

Incorrigibility 5

Keeping a bawdy house .... 276 Keeping disorderly house . . . 1,337 Keeping gambling house .... 166 Keeping gambling and dis- orderly house 1

Keeping opium joint 2

Larceny 3,552

Larceny from person 346

Larceny by bailee 226

Larceny and receiving stolen

goods 1,942

Larceny and felony 6

Larceny and embezzlement . 10

Larceny and burglary 19

Larceny and adultery 1

Larceny and being escaped

prisoner 2

Larceny and suspicious per- son 1

Larceny, escape and felon- ious assault 1

Larceny, breaking prison and

malicious mischief 1

Libel 12

Lewdness . 37

Maintaining common nuis- ance 2

Malicious mischief 233

Malicious casting stones .... 18

Mayhem 21

Manslaughter 53

Murder 13

Misdemeanor 204

Misdemeanor and bribery . . 2

Misdemeanor and perjury . . 1

Misdemeanor and adultery . 1

Neglecting family 28

Negligence 1

Non-support ! 2

Obscenity 6

Perjury 40

Pointing firearms 127

Personating an officer 34

Prize fighting 4 ...... . 2

Purchasing scrap from minors 1

Rape 57

69

Rape, felonious 45

Robbery 110

Robbery and receiving stolen

goods 127

Receiving stolen goods 320

Riot 171

Riot and malicious mischief. 20

Riot and assault and battery 35

Resisting an officer 13

Refusing to aid officer 6

Rescuing prisoners 8

Suspicious characters 16,902

Selling liquor unlawfully. . . . 1,743

Selling lottery tickets 37

Selling diseased meat 2

Seduction 33

Sodomy 18

Sodomy and bastardy 7

Sodomy and buggery 9

Sending threatening letters . . 5

Surety of the peace 2

Street walking 266

Shooting to kill 3

Soliciting persons to commit

felony 1

Trespass 109

Train jumping 18

Threatening to kill 1

Unlawful wounding 225

Unlawful assembly 5

Vagrancy 27,922

Vagrancy and suspicious

characters 113

Vagrancy and being profes- sional thief 16

Vagrancy and malicious tres- pass 4

Vagrancy and assault and

battery 2

Vagrancy and larceny 1

Violation of city or borough

ordinance 554

Violation of public peace ... 15

Violation of health act 5

Violation of sepulchre 1

Visiting disorderly house . . . 2,274

Visiting gambling house ... 83

Visiting bawdy house 16

Watch stuffing 1

Total 124,861

70

III.

SENTENCES FOR WHICH COMMITTED.

12 hours 2 2 months and 30 days .... 1

1 day 25 3 months 2,659

3 days 5 3 months and 5 days .... 1

5 days 39 3 months and 10 days .... 4

6 days 1 3 months and 20 days .... 81

10 days 277 3 months and 30 days .... 36

14 days 1 3 months and 40 days .... 27

15 days 41 3 months and 60 days .... 14

17 days 1 3 months and 90 days .... 1

18 days 2 3 months and 100 days .... 1

20 days 1,136 3 months and 120 days ... 2

22 days 1 4 months 2,280

25 days 6 4 months and 10 days ... 2

30 days 75,332 4 months and 15 days ... 2

31 days 1 4 months and 20 days ... ^4

35 days 1 4 months and 30 days ... 9

40 days 182 4 months and 60 days ... 7

43 days 1 4 months and 120 days ... 1

44 days 1 5 months 499

45 days 17 5 months and 1 day .... 1

50 days 7 5 months and 5 days ... 2

60 days 15,014 5 months and 16 days ... 1

63 days 3 5 months and 20 days ... 1

65 days 12 5 months and 30 days ... 1

68 days 2 5 months and 60 days ... 1

70 days 8 5 months and 135 days ... 1

75 days 2 6 months 5,411

80 days 4 6 months and 15 days ... 3

84 days 1 6 months and 20 days ... 6

86 days 1 6 months and 30 days ... 2

90 days . . 14,533 6 months and 40 days ... 4

100 days 1 6 months and 60 days ... 1

110 days 1 6 months and 84 days ... 1

116 days 2 6 months and 90 days ... 2

120 days 49 7 months 169

150 days 10 7 months and 20 days ... 3

180 days 71 8 months 571

209 days 2 8 months and 5 days ... 2

240 days x 3 8 months and 60 days ... 1

1 month 99 8 months and 180 days ... 1

2 months 353 9 months 751

71

9 months and 10 days ... 4

9 months and 20 days ... 1

9 months and 50 days ... 1

9 months and 90 days . . 1

10 months 334

10 months and 10 days ... 1

10 months and 15 days ... 2

10 months and 19 days ... 1

10 months and 20 days ... 1 ll' months 66

11 months and 15 days ... 7 11 months and 20 days ... 7 1 1 months and 25 days ... 1 11 months and 27 days ... 1 1 1 months and 30 days ... 1

1 year. 2,408

1 year and 5 days 2

1 year and 20 days 1

1 year and 30 days 9

1 year and 40 days 1

1 year and 60 days 2

1 year and 90 days 1

1 year and 150 days 2

13 months '. . . 22

14 months 53

15 months 279

15 months and 30 days .... 1

16 months 53

17 months 8

18 months 610

18 months and 10 days .... 3

19 months 10

20 months 35

21 months .29

21 months and 20 days .... 1

22 months 11

23 months and 24 days .... 1

2 years 773

2 years and 1 month 1

2 years and 2 months .... 7

2 years and 3 months .... 17

2 years and 4 months .... 3

2 years, 4 months, 10 days 1

2 years and 5 months .... 3

2 years and 6 months .... 70

2 years and 8 months .... 2

2 years and 9 months 3

3 years 128

3 years and 60 days 1

3 years and 1 month 1

3 years and 2 months .... 1

3 years and 3 months .... 2

3 years and 6 months .... 5

3 years and 9 months .... 1

4 years. 34

5 years 13

6 years 5

7 years 1

8 years 1

Total 124,861

72

IV.

OF THE 124,861 RECEIVED, THERE WERE COMMITTED

For the first time

oo,oyo

For the twenty-sixth time

Loo

For second

For twenty-seventh u

no

For third

1 A A 1 O

For twenty-eighth

For fourth

A A/I A

For twenty-ninth

Q1

-TOT 111LI1

A. A9C

JTOI LIlllLlcLIl

Q1

rur bixLii

^ 99J.

For thirty-first

87

For seventh

oqno Z,ooo

For thirty-second

71

For eighth

1,000

For thirty-third

OO

For ninth "

1,278

For thirty-fourth

58

For tenth "

1,202

For thirty-fifth " .

55

JTUI ClCVcIlLll

7^3

For thirty-sixth

Oo

For twelfth "

716

For thirty-seventh "

48

For thirteenth "

585

For thirty-eighth "

46

For fourteenth "

534

For thirty-ninth "

43

For fifteenth "

527

For fortieth

39

For sixteenth "

373

For forty-first "

34

For seventeenth "

315

For forty-second

30

For eighteenth "

314

For forty-third

29

For ninteenth "

302

For forty-fourth

28

For twentieth

299

For forty-fifth "

25

For twenty-first

213

For forty-sixth " ■

24

For twenty-second "

186

For forty-seventh

23

For twenty-third

171

For forty-eighth

22

For twenty-fourth

170

For forty-ninth

18

For twenty-fifth "

168

For fiftieth time and over

281

Total

124,861

73

NATIVITY.

United States 79,885

Ireland 18,950

Germany 7,499

England 6,048

Austria 2,458

Scotland 1,840

Wales 1,471

Italy 1,323

Russia 1,008

Canada 964

Poland 763

Hungary 757

France 478

Switzerland 422

Sweden 343

Holland 77

Denmark 65

Ocean 60

Belgium .' 49

Australia 48

Norway 38

Central America 33

West Indies 33

East Indies

Spain

Greece

Africa

Arabia

China

Mexico

Roumania

Brazil .

Isle of Man

Isle of Malta

Portugal

Turkey

India

Chili

Armenia

Japan

Argentine

United States Columbia

Egypt

Unknown

27 27 23 20 18 18 17 15 8 8 6 5 5 3

43

Total 124,861

74

VI.

AGE WHEN COMMITTED.

Under 20 years of age 10,710

From 20 to 30 years 47,642

From 30 to 40 years 34,157

From 40 to 50 years 20,263

From 50 to 60 years 9,071

60 years and over 3,018

Total 124,861

VII.

SOCIAL RELATIONS.

Single 75,013

Married 40,182

Widowers 5,948

Widows 3,718

Total 124,861

75

VIII.

EDUCATION.

Read and write 91,930

Read but not write 15,025

Neither read nor write , 17,906

Total 124 861

IX.

OF THE 17,906 WHO COULD NOT READ NOR WRITE WERE NATIVE OF

United States 8,504

Ireland 4,090

Austria 1,161

England 811

Italy 712

Russia 542

Germany 444

Wales 425

Poland 394

Hungary 386

Scotland 147

France 77

Canada 75

Holland 23

Switzerland 22

Arabia 18

Greece 17

Belgium 15

Sweden 7

Roumania 5

East Indies 4

West Indies 3

Turkey 3

China 2

Australia 2

Ocean 2

Central America 1

Spain 1

United States Columbia ... 1

Unknown 12

Total 17,906

X.

HABITS OF LIFE.

Abstinents 10,716

Moderate drinkers 33,988

Occasionally intemperate 54,431

Intemperate , 25,726

Total 124,861

XI. COLOR.

White males 92,601

Colored males 15,194

White females 14,564

Colored females 2,502

Total 124,861

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XII.

TOTAL NUMBER OF PRISONERS RECEIVED SINCE THE ORGANIZATION OF THE WORKHOUSE AND FROM WHAT LOCALITIES.

Year.

Total

From

From

From in

From Other Counties.

Number.

Pittsburgh.

Allegheny.

Allegheny Co.

*1870

1,182

853

254

75

0

1871

936

598

222

116

0

1872

1,853

1,274

428

149

2

1873

2,061

1,575

410

53

23

1874

2,385

1,945

326

67

47

1875

1,760

1,394

225

46

95

1876

1,610

886

361

229

134

1877

1,627

868

410

205

144

1878

2,154

1,507

392

57

198

1879

2,012

1,374

459

47

132

1880

1,762

1,151

437

38

136

1881

1,989

1,534

310

40

105

1882

2,613

2,096

317

91

109

1883

2,790

2,317

277

100

96

1884

3,887

2,862

804

113

108

1885

4,573

3,401

929

153

90

1886

3,862

2,878

646

209

129

1887

3,448

2,766

439

100

143

1888

3,135

2,508

368

139

120

1889

3,264

2,529

478

76

181

1890

3,880

3,090

510

110

170

1891

4,503

3,550

447

306

200

. 1892

4,227

3,173

447

373

234

J 0£70

4 9^1

O / O

491

979

1894

4,419

3,028

573

495

323

1895

4,212

2,746

490

710

266

1896

4,492

2,747

530

885

330

1897

4,450

2,983

353

697

417

1898

3,974

2,844

402

477

251

1899

3,601

2,828

260

418

95

1900

4,356

3,395

346

513

102

1901

4,368

3,236

367

607

158

1902

5,508

4,422

379

482

225

1903

5,802

4,554

380

665

203

1904

4,789

3,633

331

619

206

1905

4,403

3,414

224

564

201

1906

4,743

3,519

539

489

196

Total

124,861

92,341

15,745

10,934

5,841

^Including prisoners since the organization of the Workhouse, August 6th, 1869.

78

XIII.

NUMBER OF DEATHS SINCE THE ORGANIZATION OF

THE WORKHOUSE.

Consumption 61 Cholera morbus 2

Pneumonia 47 Opium eating 1

Debility 28 Scarlet fever 1

Delirium tremens 22 Cerebro-spinal-meningitis 1

Heart disease 20 Tetanus 1

Typhoid fever 19 Emphysena 1

Suicide 12 Ovarian tumor 1

Epilepsy 9 Chronic diarrhoea and ulceration 1

Chronic alcoholism 9 Homoptysis 1

Dropsy 8 Gastritis . .' 1

Phthisis 7 Meningitis 1

Smallpox 6 Diabetes 1

Apoplexy 5 Nephritis 1

Hemorrhage 5 Inflammation of bowels 1

Asthma 5 Vegetable poisoning 1

Accident 4 Operation on neck 1

Peritonitis 3 Intussusception of bowels 1

Congestion of brain 2 Endocarditis 1

Fracture of the skull 2 Brights disease . . . : 1

Convulsions 2 Chronic bronchitis 1

Syphilis 2

Total 299

79

0

PENNSYLVANIA

Thirty-Eighth Annual REPORT

1907

ALLEGHENY COUNTY WORKHOUSE

PENNSYLVANIA I _

Thirty-Eighth Annual Report

OF THE

MANAGERS

OF THE

ALLEGHENY COUNTY WORKHOUSE

AND

INEBRIATE ASYLUM

FOR THE YEAR

1907

UIEKICAN PU H. CO., Inc.

Pi I TSBDHO, P/. .

Compliments of

A. H. LESLIE,

Superintendent

TABLE OF CONTENTS.

Board of Managers and Officers 5

Managers of Allegheny County Workhouse from the beginning 6

Manager's Report 7

Superintendent's Report. 11-14

Comparative Statistics for the past twenty years 15-16

Statement of Cash Receipts and Expenditures 19-20

Statement of Operations of the several Business Departments 21-26

General Statement 27-30

Farm Product 31

Statistics for 1907. 35-54

Chaplain's Report 57-63

Physician's Report '. 67-68

General Statistical Report 71-83

ILLUSTRATIONS.

Frontispiece — View of Workhouse and Lawn. opposite title page

Workhouse Farm Buildings opposite frontispiece

ALLEGHENY COUNTY WORKHOUSE.

Railroad and Express Office WARNER, WEST PENN'A R. R.

Eight Miles North of Allegheny Station.

Post Office

HOBOKEN, ALLEGHENY COUNTY, PENN'A.

Long Distance Telephone, 28 Sharpsburg.

OFFICERS.

BOARD OF MANAGERS.

JOHN A. BELL, Carnegie President

JOHN W. CRAWFORD, Duquesne Secretary

JOHN F. STEEL, Pittsburg.

WM. H. SEIF, Pittsburg.

W. C. TIBBY, Sharpsburg.

A. H. LESLIE Superintendent

REV. DAVID R. IMBRIE Chaplain

G. M. KELLY, M. D Physician

EDWARD KRIEG Clerk

COLONIAL TRUST CO., Pittsburg Treasurer

MANAGERS OF ALLEGHENY COUNTY WORKHOUSE

FROM THE BEGINNING.

George R. White 1866 to 1874

George Albree 1866 to 1873

Robert H. Davis 1866 to 1867

Hugh S. Fleming 1866 to 1870

Felix R. Brunot 1866 to *

Wm. S. Bissell 1866 to 1871

James Kelly 1867 to 1879

J. P. Fleming 1870 to 1878

W. J. Anderson 1872 to 1873

Richard Hays 1874 to 1875

Hugh McNeill , 1874 to 1886

C. J. Schultz 1875 to 1879

G. W. Hailman 1875 to 1878

J. W. Shaw 1878 to 1881

D. C. White ' 1879 to 1880

Hugh S. Fleming 1879 to 1887

John Moorhead 1880 to *

John Birmingham 1881 to 1885

August Ammon 1881 to 1888

Addison Lysle 1881 to 1894

WT. A. Magee V 1886 to 1899

C. G. Donnell , 1887 to 1895

C. C. Hax 1888 to 1894

William Hill 1888 to 1891

John A. Bell 1891

Hugh Kennedy 1895 to 1902

John Way, Jr 1895 to 1902

W. E. Harrison 1896 to 1903

W. H. Seif 1900 to 1903

George A. Chalfant . 1902 to 1904

Charles Donnelly 1903 to 1903

John W. Crawford : . 1903

John F. Steel 1903

Thos. B. Riter 1903 to 1907

Charles Donnelly 1904 to 1906

W. H. Seif 1907

W. C. Tibby 1907

*These dates are not .on record.

LIST OF SUPERINTENDENTS.

John McDonald 1867 to 1875

Henry Cordier 1870 to 1877

John L- Kennedy 1877 to 1881

Henry Warner 1882 to 1891

William Hill 1891 to 1896

Thos. P. Fleeson 1896 to 1897

William Hill 1897 to 1904

A. H. Leslie 1904

6

MANAGER'S REPORT.

Warner, Pa., December 31, 1907.

To the Honorable, the Inspectors of the Allegheny County Prisons, Pittsburg, Pa.

Gentlemen :

We herewith respectfully submit the Thirty-eighth Annual Report of the Allegheny County Workhouse, together with the special reports of the Superintendent, Chaplain and Physician, for the year ending December 31st, 1907.

Respectfully,

John A. Bell,

President.

John W. Crawford,

Secretary. Warner, Pa., February 6, 190S.

7

SUPERINTENDENT'S REPORT 1907

SUPERINTENDENT'S REPORT.

Warner, Pa., December 31, 1907.

To the Honorable Board of Managers of the Allegheny County Workhouse and Inebriate Asylum.

Gentlemen :

I herewith submit the Thirty-eighth Annual Report of the Allegheny County Workhouse and Inebriate Asylum for the year ending December 31, 1907.

Attached hereto are the statistical tables, financial exhibit, and operations of the industrial departments as prepared and arranged by the efficient chief clerk, Mr. Edward Krieg, as well as the reports of the Physician and Chaplain, and you are re- spectfully referred thereto for full detailed information.

Number of prisoners in confinement Decem- ber 31, 1906, was 873

Number of prisoners received from January

1, 1907, to December 31, 1907, was 5,249

Discharged by expiration of sentence 4,541

Discharged by commutation of time 193

Discharged by order of Court 331

Discharged by death 10

Discharged by Governor's pardon 6

Transferred to insane asylums 3

Escaped and not recaptured 2

Total in confinement December 31, 1907 . . 1,036

The financial report shows the total receipts, including balance carried over from last year, to be $224,492.00. Total expenditures were $186,661.67. Balance on hand December 31, 1907, was $37,830.33. Earnings from all sources amounted to $62,482.41. The daily average of inmates was 897.

1 1

The daily average cost of each inmate was 37 57-100 cents.

The daily average cost of each inmate after deducting earnings was 18 49-100 cents.

The population the past year was the third largest in the history of the institution.

The daily average population for the past three months was 960, but notwithstanding the overcrowded condition of the institution, the discipline has been excellent; due largely to the zeal and energy of the employees.

The increased cost of fuel, flour, groceries, etc., amounting to from twenty-five to thirty-five per cent., $3,000.00 premium for three years insurance, and the erection of a sewage disposal plant, added very materially to the cost of maintenance for the year. You are to be congratulated that with the above men- tioned increase, the average daily cost per inmate is prac- tically the same as the year 1906.

The earnings from labor and the business revenues exceed 1906 by $6,979.47, thus reducing the deficiency or actual ex- pense to the County to $63,878.76.

Bv request of your Honorable Board the majority of the members of the Allegheny County Prison Board visited the in- stitution for the purpose of considering the necessity of build- ing an additional wing and modernizing the present prison. It was unanimously agreed that the improvements were necessary and should be pushed to a speedy conclusion. In conformance with "their conclusions your Honorable Board selected and em- ployed Mr. F. C. Sauer, architect, to draft plans and specifica- tions for the proposed improvements, and he expects he will have his work advanced sufficiently to commence work in the early spring. It is to be hoped that the work of erection and completion will be prosecuted with such vigor and energy as to complete and permit its occupancy at an early day and thus give much needed relief to the overcrowded condition of the prison.

During the year the entire sewerage system has been re- built so as to separate the sewage from the roof and storm water, using the old sewers to carry away all roof and storm water, and the new separate system for the removal of the sewage

12

proper, at a cash outlay of $9,816.48, and the employment of 5,176 days of labor of the inmates and 127 days hauling by prison teams.

The sewage will be discharged through a ten-inch sewer into a screen chamber where the heavier suspended matters are removed and the screened sewage continued into a covered septic tank of two compartments and built of reinforced con- crete in which preliminary purification of the sewage will be. effected.

From this septic tank, through a trapped opening, the sep- tic tank effluent is again discharged through a pipe line laid under the railroad tracks to a sprinkling filter of concrete side walls and bottom, and located below the gas house and the sewage distributed by means of wrought-iron main and branch pipes through special brass sprinkling nozzles so that the sewage is sprayed over the surface of the filter material, thereby aerating the sewage in its downward passage through and about the filter material of broken limestone in sizes varying from three- fourths of an inch at the top to four inches at the bottom.

The aeration of the sewage and its contact with the filter material and the action of bacteria within this filter further continues and completes the- process of purification. The puri- fied sewage being continuously drawn off from the bottom of the filter by means of drainage channels into an outlet sewer which for the present will discharge into the Allegheny river.

The purifying action in the septic tank and in the sprink- ling filter will remove ninety per cent, of the impurities con- tained in the raw sewage, and gives an effluent sufficiently puri- fied to meet the requirements of the State Health Department.

At 11:50 a. m. Sunday, December 29, 1907, fire was dis- covered in that portion of the north wing occupied as chapel. Fortunately the congregation had been dismissed and cared for and the officers dismissed to go to their homes for their noon-day meal. The alarm was given by the blowing of the steam whis- tle, thus notifying all the employees within sound of the whistle that their presence was required immediately. The response was prompt and the service rendered excellent.

L3

I took occasion to say in my report to your Honorable Board for the year 1905, in speaking of the new fire equipment then about completed, "It will give us a fire protection that will make us independent of outside help," and it demonstrated the truth of the statement in the results secured at this fire.

I cannot refrain from at this time complimenting and thanking the employees for their promptness in responding to the alarm, for their energy, intelligence and efficiency in hand- ling the lire.

The total adjusted loss amounted to $3,222.56; fully cov- ered by insurance.

The fire also developed the fact that our present fire equip- ment is not properly arranged to care for the Female wing, the Assistant Superintendent's residence, or the Administration build- ing. It will be necessary to extend the present eight-inch fire line along the east and south sides of the building, with four double fire hydrants attached, and also to run a standpipe up to the roof of the Administration building, with hose attach- ment on each floor. The contract has been let for the material and if the weather conditions are favorable I hope to have the additional equipment in operation shortly.

In conclusion, I thank your Honorable Board for your sympathy and valuable assistance and advice. It shall be my aim to merit your continued good will and confidence.

Respectfully submitted,

A. H. LESLIE,

Superintendent.

14

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1898-1907

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$5130 02

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1088.33

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E-

FINANCIAL REPORT 1907

STATEMENT

OF THE

CASH RECEIPTS AND EXPENDITURES

OF THE

ALLEGHENY COUNTY WORKHOUSE

From January 1 to December 31, 1907, both dates inclusive.

RECEIPTS.

Cash on hand January 1, 1907 $ 27,301 04

Cash received from County Treasurer, special appropriation for

the erection of a sewerage disposal plant 10,000 00

Cash received from Treasurer of Allegheny County 75,000 00

Cash received from interest on daily balances 547 74

From other counties for maintenance of prisoners 18,964 67

From hired labor of prisoners and employees 10,776 00

From blacksmithing, horse shoeing, gas fitting, etc 672 33

From bookbinding 24 00

From laundry work 854 34

From officers and notary fees 136 95

From railroad tickets, telephoning and expressage refunded .... 342 67

From contents of contribution box 12 62

From sale of natural gas 503 66

From sale of lumber, lime, cement, etc 262 76

From sale of scrap metal, rags, old barrels and flour sacks 508 09

From sale of pipe, glass, paint and from painting 769 58

From sale of coal and coke 37 22

From sale of tar 226 40

From sale of live stock (cows, pigs and calves) 573 36

From sale of provisions, kraut, etc 709 49

From sale of pit posts 365 34

From sale of harness 75 79

From sale of farm products and flowers 2,152 03

From sale of screens, sleds, etc., and repairing done by carpenter. . 850 36

From sale of shoes and repairing shoes and clothing 2,001 25

From sale of ice (natural) 92 33

From sale of rag carpets 13,586 78

From sale of shoe and scrub brushes 11,322 87

From sale of brooms . 45,822 33

$224,492 00

19

EXPENDITURES.

EXTRAORDINARY.

Construction of Sewerage Disposal Plant: —

For material $8,671 01

For hired expert labor . . 1,145 47

$9,816 48

Traveling expenses on account of enlargement of

prison 200 97

$10,017 45

CURRENT EXPENSES.

For broom corn and other material and expenses $22,611 89

For freight paid on material and manufactured brooms 3,761 22

For wages of employee in broom factory 1,156 39

For overwork paid prisoners for making brooms 1,088 33

For bristles, tampico, rice root, blocks, etc 9,339 77

For freight paid on same 529 41

For cotton and woolen warp, new carpet rags, etc 13,344 48

For freight paid on material and manufactured carpet 458 46

For wages of employee in carpet factory 1,128 35

For miscellaneous machinery 156 30

For general freight, expressage and railroad tickets 1,649 63

For gratuities given prisoners 362 65

For salaries and wages 60,820 14

For traveling expenses 144 05

For boiler inspection 27 00

For rent of telephone 213 49

For rent of Delafield farm for year 1907 400 00

For road tolls and expenses 12 31

For library, stationery and postage 1,108 60

For expenses conveying and recapturing escaped prisoners 21 26

For fire insurance for three years 2,871 50

For general repairs of building, machinery, etc 7/656 42

For brushes, spectacles, combs, etc. 250 75

For lime for whitewashing 115 00

For building material 2,430 72

For farm tools, seeds, etc 1,201 95

For live stock t, 550 00

For hardware and tools 1,451 17

For coal and gas : 11,345 78

For drugs and medicine 905 04

For clothing and bedding 2,210 05

For material used in power-loom department in the manufacture

of cloth, shirting, toweling, etc., used in prison 1,245 32

For shoes, leather and findings 5,317 05

For flour 9,244 31

For beef 5,242 14

For pork 319 65

For groceries and provisions 4,229 95

For feed for horses and cows 1,723 69

$186,661 67

Cash in hands of Treasurer $ 36,618 45

Cash and checks in office 1,394 49

$ 38,012 94

Less warrants outstanding at date 182 61

37,8,30 33 $224,492 00

20

STATEMENT

OF THE

Operations of the Several Business Departments.

BROOM FACTORY. Dr.

To stock on hand January 1, 1907 $ 23,417 51

To cash paid on account of stock during the year and

other expenses ". $ 26,373 11

Less amount due on same for 1906 3,632 65

22,740 46 1,156 39 1,088 33 2,903 66

$ 51,306 35 Cr.

By cash received for brooms sold $ 45,822 33

Less accounts for 1906 2,331 31

8 43,491 02

By stock on hand January 1, 1908 18,817 55

By accounts of 1907 uncollected 2,783 23

By brooms used at Workhouse during 1907 244 04

65,335 84

To wages paid employee

To earnings of prisoners for overwork

To amount yet due on purchase of material, etc

Amount to credit of broom factory.

$ 14,029 49

BRUSH FACTORY.

I)

To stock on hand January 1, 1907 $ 4,395 21

To cash paid on account of stock during the year. . . $ 9,869 18 Less amount due on same for 1906 917 10

8,952 08

To amount yet due on material purchased 67 41

$ 13,414 70

Cr.

By cash received for brushes $ 11,322 87

Less accounts for 1907 1,413 76

$ 9,909 11

By stock on hand January 1, 1908 6,548 97

By accounts of 1907 uncollected 731 80

17.189 88

Balance to credit of brush factory S 3,77.5 IS

22

CARPET FACTORY.

Dr.

To stock on hand January 1 , 1907 $ 4,959 49

To cash paid on account of stock during the year an'd

expenses $ 13,802 94

Less amount due on same for 1906 593 94

To wages of employee

To amount yet due on material purchased

S 19,348 51

13,209 00 1,128 35 51 67

Cr.

By cash received for carpets $ 13,586 78

Less accounts for 1906 1,415 66

$ 12,171 12

By stock on hand January 1, 1908 8,690 66

By accounts of 1907 uncollected 1,620 13

By carpets used at Workhouse 26 34

22,508 25

Balance to credit of carpet factory

$ 3,159 74

OTHER COUNTIES FOR BOARDING PRISONERS.

Cash received from other counties having agreements with the Allegheny County Workhouse for

boarding prisoners $ 18,964 67

Less accounts of 1906 " 2,804 12

$ 16,160 55

Accounts of 1907 uncollected 2,863 14

Revenue from this source for 1907

$19,023

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS OF REVENUE.

Received from hired labor of prisoners $ 10,776 00

Received from blacksmithing, gas fitting, etc 672 33

Received from binding books 24 00

Received from laundry work 854 34

Received from officers and notary fees 136 95

Received from railroad tickets, telephoning, etc., refunded 342 67

Received from contents of contribution box 12 62

Received from interest on daily balances 547 74

Received from sale of farm products and flowers 2,152 03

Received from sale of tar 226 40

Received from sale of live stock 573 36

Received from sale of provisions, kraut, etc 709 49

Received from sale of pitposts 365 34

Received from sale of harness 75 79

Received from sale of shoes and repairing 2,001 25

Received from sale of screens, sleds and other articles, and for

repairs made by carpenter 850 36

Received from sale of ice 92 33

Received from sale of sundry articles, consisting mainly of such as

are charged to general expense account 2,081 31

$ 22,494 31

25

RECAPITULATION OF BUSINESS REVENUE.

From broom factory $ 14,029 49

From brush factory 3,775 18

From carpet factory 3,159 74

From other counties for boarding prisoners 19,023 69

From miscellaneous items '. . . 22,494 31

$ 62,482 41

SUMMARY.

The expenses of the institution for the year ending December 31,

1907, were:

For food consumed % 19,036 05

For clothing and bedding in use and consumed 8,772 42

For salaries 60,820 14

For repairs and insurance 10,527 92

For other expenses 23,913 09

$123,069 62

The number of days board furnished prisoners during 1907 was 327,534.

The daily average of inmates was 897 129-365.

The daily average cost of each inmate was 37 57-100 cents.

The earnings from labor or business of the institution conducted with outside parties were $62,482.41.

The daily average cost of each inmate after deducting earnings was 18 49-100 cents.

26

GENERAL STATEMENT.

REAL ESTATE.

Consisting of farm, buildings, and gen- eral improvements as per last re- port $1,135,186 23

Additions during 1907:

New sewerage disposal plant in accord- ance with plans of the State Board of Health, consisting of basins, sewers and connections:

For material used $8,67101

For hire'd expert labor 1,145 47

9,816 48

In addition there were employed

on this improvement, viz: Prison labor — 5,176 days

at $1.00. $5,176 00

Prison teams — 127 days

at $4.00 508 00

$ 5,684 00

Unfinished : —

$1,145,002 71

Increase in valuation

MACHINERY AND BOILERS.

As per last report $ 20,422 28

Additions during the year 1907: —

1 cream separator $ 37 80

1 broom trimmer. . 8 00

3 harrows 42 00

1 pipe cutter 26 00

113 SO

$ 20,536 08

Less 10 per cent, for wear and tear. 2,053 60

$ 18,482 48

Decrease in valuation

LIVE STOCK.

Last valuation $ 4,618 00

Present valuation 4,632 00

Increase in valuation

VEHICLES, TWO AND FOUR-WHEELED.

Last valuation $ 1,160 00

Present valuation 1,010 00

Decrease in valuation

27

Dr.

Cr.

S 1,939

1 50

80

00

$ 9,816

48

14 00

GENERAL STATEMENT— Continued.

Amount brought forward

BUILDING MATERIAL.

Last valuation $

Present valuation

Decrease in valuation

MISCELLANEOUS STOCK. Of goods in store for the general use of the prison which have not been in use: —

5,516 06 3,886 87

Last valuation 5

Lime, cement, coal, etc . . .

$ 5,079

47

Paint stuffs, glass, etc. . . .

380

84

Material for use of black

smith and plumber. . . .

1,363

61

Dry goods, clothing, etc. .

7,269

81

Brushes, combs and station

ery .

' 333

03

Hardware

727

05

Oats, hay and straw

3,657

50

Flour, groceries and provi

sions

6,859

12

Drugs and medicines

500

00

Power-loom department.. .

178

06

23 ,429 51

$ 26,348 49

Increase in valuation

GENERAL STOCK FOR USE IN BROOM FACTORY.

Last valuation $ 23,417 51

Present valuation 18,817 55

Decrease in valuation

GENERAL STOCK FOR USE IN BRUSH FACTORY.

Last valuation $ 4,395 21

Present valuation 6,548 97

Increase in valuation

GENERAL STOCK FOR USE IN CARPET FACTORY.

Last valuation $ 4,959 49

Present valuation 8,690 66

Increase in valuation

Dr.

$ 2,089

1,629

4,599

80

19

96

Cr

$ 9,830

2,918

2,153

3,731

48

98

28

GENERAL STATEMENT- Continued.

Amount brought forward.

BOOK ACCOUNTS DUE THE WORKHOUSE.

Last report $ 11,293 97

For brooms $ 2,783 23

For brushes 731 80

For carpets 1,620 13

For maintenance . 2,863 14

For miscellaneous items,

viz: Labor, shoes, tar,

etc 1,760 20

$ 8,318

9,758 50

Decrease.

BOOK ACCOUNTS DUE BY THE WORKHOUSE.

Last report $ 7,272 18

On account of broom fac- tory $2,903 66

On account of brush fac- tory. . 67 41

On account of carpet fac- tory 51 67

On account of miscellaneous

stock 1,889 72

Decrease. Decrease.

4,912 46

Received from treasurer of Allegheny County:

For general maintenance per 1907 $ 75,000 00

Special Appropriation No. 1 for construction of sewerage disposal

plant 10,000 00

Received from interest on daily bal- ances 547 74

Cr.

95 $ 18,634

1 ,535

85,547

2,359

29

GENERAL STATEMENT— Continued.

Dr.

Cr.

Amount brought forward

$95,402

.16

$ 20,994

11

CASH ON HAND.

Last report $ 27,301 04

On hand at date :

, On account of General

Maintenance $37,646 81

On account of Special

Appropriation No. 1 183 52

37,830 33

Increase

10,529

29

BALANCE.

Deficiency which represents the amount over and above all earnings which was needed for the maintenance of the Work- house for the year 1907

63,878

76

$95,402

16

$95,402

16

30

FARM.

The Workhouse farm and the farm leased from the Delafield estate during the season of 1907, produced:

150 tons hay

10 bushel pickles

40 tons straw

11 bushel peppers

12 tons fodder

18 bushel parsley

560 bushel wheat

92 bushel spinach

240 bushel rye '

90 bushel rutabaga

650 bushel oats

253 bushel carrots

330 bushel sweet corn

43 bushel leek

125 bushel yellow corn

15 bushel lima beans

2,860 bushel potatoes

214 bushel kohl rabi

298 bushel navy beans

134 bushel parsnips

300 bushel parsnips

8,000 heads celery

100 bushel buckwheat

10,000 heads -lettuce

1,600 bushel onions

55,373 heads cabbage

19 bushel onion sets

14 boxes raspberries

215 bushel green onions

923 pounds pork

913 bushel green beans

1,344 pounds butter

120 bushel peas

2,099 gallons milk

339 bushel tomatoes

690 gallons buttermilk

734 bushel cow beets

175 chickens

82 bushel table beets

879 dozen eggs

Rhubarb to the value of $ 5 00

Asparagus to the value of 5 00

Plants and cut flowers to the value of 474 15

31

STATISTICS 1907

I.

STATISTICS FOR 1907.

Number in confinement December 31, 1906 873

Number received during 1907 5,249

6,122

OF THE ABOVE THERE WERE:

Discharged by expiration of sentence 4,541

Discharged by order of Court 331

Discharged by commutation of time 193

Discharged by Governor's pardon 6

Escaped without recapture 2

Died L0

Removed to hospital for the insane 3

5,086

LEAVING IN CONFINEMENT DECEMBER 31, 1907:

Males, white .- 801

Females, white 55

856

Males, colored . . 161

Females, colored 19

180 1,036

35

II.

THE NUMBER RECEIVED EACH MONTH WAS:

Males. Females. Total.

January 262 53 315

February 298 47 345

March 383 49 432

April. 355 45 400

May . 353 42 395

June 372 38 410

July : 353 45 398

August 400 56 456

September 498 63 561

October 396 52 448

November 461 53 514

December 540 35 575

Total 4,671 578 5,249

%

30

III.

THE NUMBER IN CONFINEMENT AT END OF EACH MONTH WAS:

Males. Females. Total.

January 742 78 820

February 762 82 844

March 833 90 923

April 802 89 891

May 789 82 871

June 782 77 859

July 784 78 862

August 845 89 934

September.!. 918 92 1010

October 817 83 900.

November 869 84 953

December \ 962 74 1036

37

IV

OF THE 5,247 PRISONERS RECEIVED DURING THE YEAR THERE WERE COMMITTED:

By Court of Oyer and Terminer, Allegheny County 26

By Court of Oyer and Terminer, Fayette County 12

By Court of Oyer and Terminer, Mercer County 1

By Court of Oyer and Terminer, Armstrong County 1

By Court of Quarter Sessions, Allegheny County 510

By Court of Quarter Sessions, Washington County 45

By Court of Quarter Sessions, Westmoreland County 32

By Court of Quarter Sessions, Fayette County 31

By Court of Quarter Sessions, Jefferson County 20

By Court of Quarter Sessions, Lawrence County 18

By Court of Quarter Sessions, Erie County 11

By Court of Quarter Sessions, Beaver County 10

By Court of Quarter Sessions, Mercer County : 10

By Court of Quarter Sessions, Butler County 10

By Court of Quarter Sessions, Armstrong County 7

By Court of Quarter Sessions, Greene County 2

By Court of Quarter Sessions, Clarion County 1

By District Court of the United States 1

By F. J. Brady, Police Magistrate of Pittsburg 1,322

By Louis Kimmel, Police Magistrate of Pittsburg 687

By J. D. Walker, Police Magistrate of Pittsburg 517

By J. J. Kirby, Police Magistrate of Pittsburg 503

By Jas. F. Kane, Police Magistrate of Pittsburg 301

By Win. A. Hadfield, Police Magistrate of Allegheny 468

By Geo. H. England, Police Magistrate of Allegheny 117

By W. H. Coleman, Mayor of McKeesport 114

By Justices of the Peace of Allegheny County 443

By Justices of the Peace of Mercer County 20

By Justices of the Peace of Armstrong County 5

By Justices of the Peace of Lawrence County 2

By Justices of the Peace of Washington County 2

Total. . 5,249

38

V.

CRIME OR OFFENSE.

Adultery 10

Abusing family 1

Arson 2

Assault 1

Assault, indecent 1

Assault, felonious 2

Assault, felonious and point- ing firearms 8

Assault and battery 69

Assault and battery, aggra- vated 30

Assault and battery, feloni- ous 36

Assault and battery, intent

to rape 9

Assault and battery, intent

to rob 2

Assault and battery, intent

to kill 2

Assault and battery and lar- ceny 1

Assault and battery, ob- structing an officer 1

Attempt to commit robbery 2

Attempt to rape 1

Bigamy 5

Burglary 9

Being a common prostitute. . 43

Being a tramp 4

Breaking and entering a

building 7

Breaking and entering rail- road-car 1

Carrying concealed weapons 20

Conspiracy 7

Corrupting a record 1

Cruelty to children 2

Cruelty to animals 1

Cruelty and neglect 1

Disorderly conduct 1,642

Disorderly conduct and sus- picious person 4

Disorderly conduct and re- sisting officer 1

Disorderly conduct and va- grancy 3

Drunkenness . 353

Drunkenness and disorderly

conduct 74

Drunkenness and suspicious

person 8

Drunkenness and vagrancy . 3

Desertion 2

Embezzlement 14

Escape 1

Extortion : 2

Entering building and lar- ceny 18

Entering building to commit

felony 18

Entering la'lroad car to

commit felony 4

False pretense 18

Forgery 1

Fraudulently voting 1

Fraudulently making and uttering written instru- ment 10

Forgery and extortion 2

Gambling 3

Horse stealing 1

Interfering with officer 2

Indecent exposure 9

Keeping bawdy house 7

Keeping disorderly house . . . 33

Keeping gambling house .... 3

Keeping opium joint 1

Larceny 76

Larceny from person 1

Larceny by bailee 6

39

Larceny and receiving stolen

goods. 179

Lewdness 3

Malicious mischief 5

Manslaughter • 4

Misdemeanor 19

Obscenity 1

Perjury 2

Pointing fire-arms 5

Personating an officer 1

Rape, felonious 4

Robbery 6

Receiving stolen goods 22

Robbery and receiving stolen

goods 11

Riot and assault and battery 1

Resisting an officer - 1

Suspicious persons 1,239

Selling liquor unlawfully ... 36

Seduction 1

Sodomy ^ . . . 1

Street walking 54

Shooting to kill 1

Trespass 17

Unlawful wounding 31

Vagrancy 925

Vagrancy and suspicious per- sons 3

Violation of city or borough

ordinance 56

Visiting disorderly house. ... 21

Total 5,249

40

VI

OCCUPATION OF THOSE COMMITTED DURING 1907.

Agent 21

Actor. 1

Axmaker 2

Awning maker 1

Brakeman 87

Barber 57

Boilermaker 53

Blacksmith 49

Baker 34

Butcher 34

Bricklayer 31'

Bartender IG

Book-keeper 7

Bellboy 7

Brassworker 5

Bill poster 4

Brewer 3

Bottler 3

Boxmaker 3

Broommaker 2

Brush maker 2

Basket maker 2

Butler 1

Boot -black 1

Boltmaker ' 1

Cook 94

Carpenter 88

Clerk 59

Coachman 20

Craneman 19

Cigarmaker 13

Car builder 9

Core maker 8

Conductor 7

Chaffeur 7

Cooper 6

Clothes presser 5

Cement worker . 4

Cork maker 4

Chain maker 3

Confectioner 2

Coke maker 2

Constable 1

Carriage maker 1

Combmaker 1

Coppersmith 1

Chemist 1

Drover 3

Druggist 3

Dairyman 2

Driller 1

Dentist 1

Draftsman 1

Detective 1

Electrician 33

Engineer 32

Elevator boy 2

Engraver 2

Electro plater 1

Fireman . ; 85

Farmer 25

Flagman 2

Florist 1

Glass work 40

Glassblower '23

Gardener 8

Gas maker 6

Housework 565

Hostler 42

Huckster 12

Horseshoer 7

Harness maker 3

Hotel keeper 2

Hatter 1

Iron worker 427

Janitor 22

Jeweler . . . 2

Junk dealer 1

Laborer 1,362

Lineman 16

Laundry 4

Locksmith 2

Lather . . 1

Miner 122

Machinist 106

Molder 52

Mason 20

Musician 13

Marble worker 4

Millwright 3

Messenger 2

Milliner 2

Motorman 1

Manicure 1

Manager 1

None 33

Nurse 9

Newsboy 2

Nail maker 1

Operator 3

Office boy , 1

Painter 115

Puddler 86

Porter 80

Plumber 32

Printer 30

Peddler 20

Plasterer 20

Pipefitter 18

Paper hanger 16

Paver 4

Polisher 4

Patternmaker 3

Photographer 3

Policeman 2

Pool-room proprietor 2

Paper maker 2

Phrenologist 1

Physician 1

Potter 1

Riverman 47

Rigger 9

Roller . 5

Riveter . 5

Roofer >> . . 5

Restaurant keeper 4

Reporter 1

Structural ironworker 72

vSalesman 31

Steamfitter 27

Shoemaker 16

Switchman 15

Sailor 7

Stonecutter. 6

Storekeeper 4

Slater 3

Spiledriver 3

Sewing 3

Stenographer 2

Sawmaker 1

Soapmaker 1

Soldier 1

Teamster 434

Tin worker 23

Tailor : ... 29

Tinner 18

Tilesetter 7

Toolmaker 1

Tilemaker 1

School teacher 1

LTpholsterer 2

Umbrella mender 1

Varnish maker 1

Waiter 105

Weaver. 6

Watchman 5

Watchmaker 3

Wood turner 2

Wagon maker 1

Wire drawer 1

Total 5,249

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VII.

SENTENCES FOR

10 days 11

15 days 1

20 days. 9

21 days 1

30 days 3,383

31 days 1

34 days 1

41 days 1

45 days 2

46 days 1

60 days 716

70 days 2

90 days 444

1 month 2

2 months 20

3 months 99

3 months and 20 days '. . . 3

3 months and 30 days ... 1

WHICH COMMITTED.

4 months . .• 88

4 months and 60 days .... 1

5 months 12

6 months 194

7 months 2

8 months 10

9 months 38

10 months 14

1 year , 107

15 months 7

16 months 2

18 months 30

20 months 2

2 years 27

2 years and 6 months .... 6

3 years 6

3 years and 3 months 1

4 years 3

Total 5,249

VIII.

OF THE 5,249 RECEIVED, THERE WERE COMMITTED:

For the first time

2,676

For the twenty-third time

8

" second "

876

" twenty-fourth "

8

" third

428

" twenty-fifth "

6

" fourth "

283

" twenty-sixth "

8

" fifth

197

" twenty-seventh "

6

" sixth "

150

" twenty-eighth "

7

" seventh

103

" twenty-ninth "

9

" eighth

82

" thirtieth "

7

" ninth

55

" thirty-first "

6

" tenth "

62

" thirty-second "

5

" eleven tli "

42

" thirty-third

3

" twelfth "

46

" thirty-fourth

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" thirteenth

26

" thirty-fifth

3

" fourteenth "

23

" thirty-sixth "

3

" fifteenth "

24

" thirty-seventh

" sixteenth "

15

" thirty-eighth "

" seventeenth "

14

" thirty-ninth "

" eighteenth "

12

" fortieth "

" nineteenth

16

" forty-first u

" twentieth "

15

" forty-second "

" twenty-first

10

" forty-ninth "

2

u t wen ty- second

9

" fiftieth time and over

25

Total 5,249

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IX.

NATIVITY.

United States 3,587

Ireland 369

Austria 320

England 168

Italy 157

Germany . . . : 155

Poland 117

Russia 92

Scotland 78

Hungary 71

Canada 34

Wales 33

Sweden 18

Switzerland 11

France 9

Roumania 6

Greece 5

China 5

Denmark 3

West Indies 3

Turkey • 2

Holland 1

Australia 1

Norway • 1

Spain.... 1

Arabia 1

Japan 1

Total 5,249

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X.

AGE WHEN COMMITTED.

Under 20 years of age 344

From 20 to 30 years 1,957

From 30 to 40 years 1,446

From 40 to 50 years 924

From 50 to 60 years 463

60 years and over 115

Total 5,249

XI.

PARENTAL RELATIONS.

Parents living at 16 years 3,727

Father died before 16 years 607

Mother died before 16 years 406

Both parents died before 16 years 509

Total 5,249

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XII.

EDUCATION.

Could read and write 4,458

Could read but not write 87

Could neither read nor write 704

Total 5,249

XIII.

OF THE 704 WHO COULD NOT READ OR WRITE WERE NATIVE OF.

United States 253

Austria 138

Italy 83

Ireland • 65

Poland 49

Russia 48

Hungary 16

England 14

Germany . 11

Wales 7

Scotland 4

Roumania 4

F ranee 3

Canada .' 3

Sweden 2

Arabia 1

Greece 1

West Indies 1

Turkey 1

Total 704

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XIV.

HABITS OF LIFE.

Abstinents 376

Moderate drinkers 1,715

Occasionally intemperate 2,310

Intemperate 848

Total 5,249

XV. COLOR.

White males 3,838

Black males .... 833

White females 445

Black females 133

Total 5,249

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XVI.

RELIGIOUS INSTRUCTION.

Roman Catholic 2,620

Methodists ... 770

Baptists 637

Presbyterians 429

Lutherans : . . . . 253

Episcopalians . 145

Jews 36

Other denominations 250

No religious instruction 109

Total 5,249

XVII.

INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS.

Unapprenticed 4,066

Apprenticed and absconded mw:-.'. . 116

Apprenticed 1,067

Total 5,249

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XVIII.

ARMY AND NAVY PRISONERS.

Served in army or navy . 13

In neither 5,236

Total ' 5,249

XIX.

INMATES OF THE WORKHOUSE DECEMBER 31, 1907.

Native born males 624

Foreign born males 338

962

Native born females 52

Foreign born females 22

74

Total , 1,036

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XX.

THE 360 FOREIGN BORN OF PEN

For 1 year and under 59

For 2 years and under 45

For 3 years and under 28

For 4 years and under 19

For 5 years and under 20

For 6 years and under 21

For 7 years and under 10

For 8 years and under 12

For 9 years and under 6

For 10 years and under 8

For 11 years and under 3

For 12 years and under 3

For 13 years and under 2

For 14 years and under 4

For 15 years and under 4

For 16 years and under 7

NMATES WERE RESIDENTS SYLVAXIA.

For 17 years and under 8

For 18 years and under 10

For 19 years and under 8

For 20 years and under 8

For 21 years and under 4

For 22 years and under 5

For 23 years and under 5

For 24 years and under 8

For 25 years and under 10

For 26 years and under 5

For 27 years and under. ...... 4

For 28 years and under 5

For 29 years and under 3

For 30 years and over 26

Total 360

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OF THE 360 FOREIGN BORN INMATES THERE WERE 77 RESIDENTS OF OTHER STATES BEFORE COMING TO PENNSYLVANIA.

For 1 year and under 14

For 2 years and under 14

For 3 years and under 6

For 4 years and under ....... 8

For 5 years and under 6

For 6 years and under 4

For 7 years and under 5

For 8 years and under 2

For 9 years and under 2

For 10 years and under 2

For 11 years and under. 1

For 12 years and under 1

For 13 years and under 1

For 14 years and under 1

For 15 years and under 2

For 16 years and under 2

For 17 years and under ....... 1

For 19 years and under 1

For 20 years and under 1

For 25 years and under 1

For 28 years and under 2

Total

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CHAPLAIN'S REPORT 1907

CHAPLAIN'S REPORT.

To the Honorable, the Board of Managers of the Allegheny County Workhouse.

Gentlemen :

In presenting to you this ray Eleventh Annual Report, it affords me great pleasure to express my thanks for your co- operation in the work of this department during the past year, and also my appreciation of the interest manifested hy our Superintendent who was ever ready to acquiesce in all the plans pertaining to the successful accomplishment of this work.

In many respects it might be said that this has been an uneventful year, and yet when we contrast the work of this year with that of ten years ago, the change in one decade is so marked that it would seem this year had been radical in its spe- cial features. There has been much change in the character of the population as well as in the number. Then the year closed with a population of 783, this year closed with 1,0.36 inmates. At that time- the population was largely American, this year at the close more than one-third of the prisoners were of foreign birth. Ten years ago the number of letters received and sent out during the year was 15,899, while this year the number reached 20,030. Then the library numbered 1,600 volumes, to-day it contains more than 6,000 volumes, while the number of books read that year was 18,332 as compared with 24,950 during the year just closed. The school room then contained forty-two desks, which was the number of pupils in attendance at one time, while our present room is fitted up with eighty desks, and these are all occupied at every session.

These figures show the growth of the institution, not an increase in criminality, as the population of our county has in- creased in a greater proportion during the last decade than has the prison population, indicating that the actual proportion of

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criminality has not been on the increase in this district but rather the opposite.

The influx of foreigners into the Pittsburg district has been especially felt in the prison as it has made a decided change in the character of the prison element. In fact the increase in the prison population is almost wholly due to this class. Owing to this there has gradually been brought about a reconstruction of many details of the work in this department which we hope has been productive of good results.

These changes have been more particularly noted in the workings of the school and library which we will consider first in this report.

The School. The prison school, as originally established,

accommodated but very few pupils, and the ses- sions were held two evenings in the week in the prison library. To-day a well equipped school room facilitates the work and eighty pupils are in constant attendance. The course of study extends to the ordinary fifth grade of public school work, and is made as practical for every day needs as possible. However, the preference is given to those who have not had the advant- age of any English education, and as a result the school is largely composed of those who are just beginning, the foreign element predominating. During the year 206 individuals have profited by the facilities of education thus afforded, the two-thirds of whom were foreigners. Following our established custom ses- sions of one hour and a half in length have been held on three nights of each week from October to June inclusive. Officer Samuel J. McRoberts has been my constant helper in . this wrork and in addition we have availed ourselves of the assist- ance of some of the better educated of the prisoners as instruct- ors. As to results, I would say, that though the work accom- plished has not been up to the full measure of what we would wish, it has been very satisfactory, and we believe has amply repaid the time and expense devoted to it.

The Library. Very little change has been made in the

library during the past year. The books have been kept in good repair at a small expense by the wrork done in the bindery connected with the library. Constant employ-

ment has been given here to two prisoners, while the work of the library itself has taken the full time of one. During the year 24,950 books were given out, and the fact that only one book was lost shows the care with which the books are handled and the correctness of the system by which the distribution is made. The choice has seemed to tend largely toward fiction, though history has been as usual much in. demand. The suc- cessful effort made last year to secure for the library a good sup- ply of books in foreign languages has added greatly to its ef- ficiency, as the large increase in the foreign element among our inmates has made a demand for these volumes. We have now books printed in almost every language represented among those placed in our charge, and which are eagerly sought for and read. And as great care has been exercised in the selection of these works as to their elevating character, we feel that much will be accomplished by this means in a helpful way in behalf of these foreign people.

A large supply of magazines, donated by friends of the * institution and those interested in the work of education among the prisoners, has greatly augmented the efficiency of the library privileges: Over two hundred daily papers and many weeklies have been subscribed for by the prisoners and distributed reg- ularly among them, and also large donations of religious papers have been received every week from the various publications of Pittsburg which have met with a fair degree of welcome among the inmates. It has been my observation that men who care but little, if at all, for a religious paper on the outside will wel- come it here. Possibly only to while away the time, but it is an opportunity to exert a helpful influence and we avail our- selves of it in the hope that some good may be accomplished.

The Mail. Perhaps in no department has the growth of the in- stitution been so distinctly marked as in the increase of correspondence during the decade that has past. The number of letters this year sent out was 5,088, while 14,942 were re- ceived, making a total of 20,030 letters handled, or an increase of 4,131 over that of ten years ago. Many of these letters were received from and sent to foreign countries, almost all written languages being represented. Money, amounting to $1,502.82, was received through the mail for prisoners and deposited in the office safe subject to their order.

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The Sabbath. The work of the Sabbath remains practi-

cally unchanged in its routine from year to year. The usual services have been held in the chapel regularlv throughout the year. These consist of a preaching service at 10:00 A. M. for both men and women and an afternoon men's Bible class in the chapel and a women's Bible class in the sew- ing room of the female department. The attendance at all the chapel services is measured by the seating capacity of the room which is only about 75% of our present population, and since the attendance is entirely voluntary on the part of the prisoners we think a very satisfactory appreciation of the ser- vices is thus indicated. A choir of twenty young men selected from among the prisoners and in charge of a competent direc- tor leads the praise service. In the Bible classes the Inter- national Lesson course has formed the basis for a lecture each Sabbath, the lecture method having been found to be the most satisfactory way of conducting these afternoon services. The Sabbath services have been varied occasionally during the year by special programs in which visiting ministers and choirs have • participated. These have been greatly enjoyed and we extend our most hearty thanks to those visitors who have added to the pleasure and profit of the occasions.

Other Religious During the year members of the German

Services. Ministerial Association have continued their

interest in the German element of our prison, and by one of their number have held a service in the German language on the afternoon of the first Sabbath of each month. In this connection I would make special mention of the debt of gratitude we owe to the Rev. John Launitz, who, as secretary of the association, has, for more than twenty years arranged for these meetings, but who has now on account of the infirmity of years retired from the secretaryship. Rev. R. Fassinger has been elected to that office and will hereafter arrange for the monthly German services.

Rev. Father Rosensteel has continued his faithful minis- trations during the year in behalf of the Catholic element of our number. In these services he has been assisted by Rev. Father Hackett, and at times by other priests for the special benefit of those unfamiliar with the English language.

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The work of temperance, as in former years, has been well eared for among the women by Mrs. Gormly, State representa- tive of the Women's Christian Temperance Union. She has been most faithful, having conducted regularly bi-monthly meetings in the women's department. This work among the men has been conducted by the Chaplain with the occasional assistance of men ably qualified to speak on this important sub- ject.

Entertainments. During the winter months it has long been

the custom of the institution to provide a series of entertainments for the instruction and diversion of the prisoners. As the performances have all been given gratui- tously and oftentimes with much inconvenience to the parties because of the location of the institution being out of the city, we are especially grateful to those who so kindly have given their talent to this work, and we wish to express our highest appreciation of the evenings of enjoyment they have afforded. For these evenings we are indebted to the Davis family, The Pittsburg Entertainment Bureau and The Melrose Quartette, for musicals, and to Rev. William I. Wishart, D. D., and Rev. T. L. Jamieson, for lectures.

In this connection I would also mention the observance of the four principal national holidays. The address on Memorial day was given by Rev. E. A. Ranson, of Parnassus; on the Fourth of July by Atty. Edward W. Arthur, of Pittsburg; on Christmas by Rev. H. N. Cameron, of Vandergrift. The ser- mon on Thanksgiving day was preached by Rev. T. W. Rosen- steel, of Sharpsburg. All these exercises were of a high order and were received with most hearty expressions of appreciation by the large audiences gathered in our chapel, and to each and all who have so kindly added to the enjoyment and profit of these occasions we extend our most sincere thanks.

Acknowledgments. Our thanks are due and most heartily

given to the many friends who have sent us occasional boxes and packages of magazines and other peri- odicals as reading matter for the prisoners. These have all been used to good advantage and have been a helpful influence in our work among the inmates. The Presbyterian Banner, The

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United Presbyterian, The Pittsburg Catholic, The Christian Advocate and The Christian Union Herald, have continued their weekly contributions of packages of their regular issues, also we have received occasional packages of The Educator. These donations have enabled us to continue our custom of fur- nishing each prisoner a good substantial paper every Saturday evening for Sabbath reading. The Hostettor Co. continued this year also their donation of a sufficient number of almanacs to supply the whole prison, each cell being furnished with one. The same company has sent us every week two large packages of secular papers.

The year, while without any special features to set it apart as one of particular note, has been one of progress. The work has moved along smoothly, order and system have been main- tained, and we feel that, though quiet, it has been successful.

A most unfortunate accident occurred on the last Sabbath of the year which resulted in the destruction by fire of the in- terior of our handsome chapel. It had been beautifully and elaborately decorated for the Christmas observance, and in some mysterious way the decorations became ignited and when dis- covered the room was a furnace of flame. However, much as we regret the loss, it is a matter of gratification and thanksgiv- ing that the accident took place after the large audience had retired and before the official force had left the building, as by their prompt and energetic efforts under the personal direction of our Superintendent in using the splendid fire equipment of the institution, the fire was soon brought under control, and what might have resulted in a terrible loss of property and possibly of life was averted. As it was the financial loss was estimated at $3,222.00, and the incident was entirely without personal harm. Though the temporary loss of the chapel will interfere to some extent with the work as planned for the winter, we will not dispense with the religious services of the Sabbath, but will con- duct them, though at much inconvenience, in the corridors of one of the cell wings until the repairs upon the chapel are com- pleted.

In conclusion, I would say that the year has been one of constant and increasing interest in the work, and I have en-

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deavored to use the knowledge gained from the experience of the ten preceding years to make the efforts of this year more effective. Many things connected with the work may be re- garded as arduous, but it has been a real pleasure to me to labor in a field so fruitful of opportunity and so abundant in divine promises as to results. And though the full extent of the harvest cannot now be calculated, yet precious seed has been sown and the sheaves shall be gathered.

Respectfully submitted,

David R. Imbrie,

Chaplain.

PHYSICIAN'S REPORT 1907

PHYSICIAN'S REPORT.

Warner, Pa., December 31, 1907.

To the Honorable, the Board of Managers of the Allegheny County Workhouse.

Gentlemen :

I have the honor to present the report of work done in the department under my care during the year ending December 31st, 1907.

In preparing this report I find but little variation from that of previous years, except in the general increase in patients treated both at sick call and in the hospital, due principally to the increased number of commitments.

Following you will find a summary of the work done during the year:

Number answering sick call, males 6,783

Number answering sick call, females 698

Total

7,481

Prescriptions refilled . Surgical cases treated Surgical redressings . . Vaccinated.

2,833 135 2,197 4,733

HOSPITAL-

Number of patients January 1, 1907

Number of patients December 31, 1907

Number of patients admitted during the year

Total number of days residence

Average number of days residence

Average daily population

Largest number of patients at one time

2 28 748 25 2 5

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TUBERCULAR AXD CONTAGION WARD

Number of patients January 1, 1907 0

Number of patients admitted during the year 16

Number discharged during the year 9

Number died during the year 5

Number of patients December 31, 1907 2

Total number of days residence 924

Average number of days residence 58

Average daily population 2\

Largest number of patients at one time 4

INSANE.

Removed by order of Court 4

BIRTHS.

Number of births during the year. . . 1

DEATHS.

Ten deaths occurred during the year from the following causes, as ren- dered by the Coroner at inquests:

Tuberculosis ' = 5

Alcoholism 2

Asthma 1

Catarrhal enteritis 1

Suicide by hanging 1

Total 10

Of the two deaths from alcoholism, one was in prison but three days, the other four days, and that from suicide but two days.

Very respectfully submitted,

G. M. KELLY, M. D.

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GENERAL STATISTICAL TABLES

GENERAL STATISTICAL TABLES.

i.

The number of prisoners received since the organization of

the Workhouse, August 6, 1869, is 130,110

Of the above there were discharged by expiration of sen- tence 118,512

Discharged by order of Court 5,580

Discharged by commutation of time 4,131

Discharged by Governor's pardon 162

Escaped without recapture. . , 240

Died 309

Removed to hospital for the insane 133

Removed to smallpox hospital.. . . : 7

129,074

Leaving in confinement December 31, 1907, males 962

Leaving in confinement December 31, 1907, females 74

1,036

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II.

CRIME OR OFFENSE.

Abandoning an infant 3

Abducting a child 3

Abortion 8

Abusing family 61

Accessory to burglary after

the fact 4

Accessory to murder after

the fact 1

Accessory to felony 3

Adultery 318

Aiding prisoners to escape . . 7

Appeal cases 15

Arson 21

Assault 145

Assault, indecent 25

Assault, felonious 134

Assault, felonious and enter- ing building 1

Assault, felonious and point- ing fire-arms 32

Assault and battery 1,789

Assault and battery, aggra- vated 846

Assault and battery, feloni- ous .869

Assault and battery, intent

to rape 141

Assault and battery, intent

to rob 46

Assault and battery, intent

to kill 24

Assault and battery and lar- ceny. . 8

Assault and battery, ob- structing an officer 14

Assault and battery, carry- ing concealed weapons 9

Attempt to commit felony... 21

Attempt to commit larceny. 23

Attempt to commit robbery 17

Attempt to rape 44

Attempt to procure abortion 5

Attempt to rescue 8

Attempt to poison 4

Attempt to enter building . . 5

Attempt to break jail 4

Attempt false pretense 3

Attempt sodomy and bug- gery 2

Barratry 11

Bigamy 71

Blasphemy 1

Buggery 2

Burglary 281

Being a professional thief . . . 257

Being a burglar 5

Being a tramp 72

Being a common prostitute . 767

Being a nuisance 27

Being a gambler 2

Being a scold 1

Breaking and entering a

building 208

Breaking and entering a rail- road car 12

Breaking prison 14

Carrying concealed weapons 344

Compounding crimes 2

Conspiracy 110

Concealing death of child ... 5

Corrupting a record 3

Counterfeiting 1

Cruelty to wife 24

Cruelty to children 180

Cruelty to animals 36

Cruelty and neglect 80

Cutting timber trees 1

Disorderly conduct 45,687

Disorderly conduct and sus- picious person 46

72

Disorderly conduct and re- sisting officer 14

Disorderly conduct and be- ing escaped prisoner 1

Disorderly conduct and car- rying concealed weapons . . 3 Disorderly conduct and va- grancy 95

Drunkenness 8,531

Drunkenness and disorderly

conduct. 2,878

Drunkenness and suspicious

person . 40

Drunkenness and vagrancy. 255

Drunkenness and lewdness . . 6

Desertion 13

Disturbing meeting 26

Defrauding boarding-house

keeper 16

Embezzlement 272

Escape 115

Extortion 7

Enticing female child 10

Employing lady waiter 1

Entering building and lar- ceny 339

Entering building to commit

felony 2(57

Entering railroad car to

commit felony 75

False pretense 323

False pretense and larceny. . 10

Forgery 133

Forgery and larceny 1

Forgery and embezzlement . . 3

Fornication 18

Fornication and adultery. . . 6

Fast driving 10

Fortune telling 5

Felonious shooting and cut- ting 15

Fraudulently secreting prop- erty 3

Fraudulently destroying a

will 1

Fraudulently voting 3

Fraudulently making and uttering written instru- ment 51

Furnishing liquor unlawfully 12

Forgery and extortion 2

Gambling 262

Horse stealing 61

Interfering with officer 214

Indecent exposure 287

Incorrigibility 5

Keeping bawdy house 283

Keeping disorderly house. . . 1,370 Keeping gambling house ... 169 Keeping gambling and dis- orderly house . . . \ 1

Keeping opium joint 3

Larceny 3,628

Larceny from person 347

Larceny by bailee 232

Larceny and receiving stolen

goods 2,121

Larceny and felony 6

Larceny and embezzlement. 10

Larceny and burglary 19

Larceny and adultery 1

Larceny and being escaped

prisoner 2

Larceny, and suspicious per- son 1

Larceny, escape and feloni- ous assault 1

Larceny, breaking prison and

malicious mischief 1

Libel : 12

Lewdness 40'

Maintaining common nui- sance 2

Malicious mischief 238

Malicious casting stones. ... 18

Mayhem 21

Manslaughter 57

Murder 13

Misdemeanor 223

Misdemeanor and bribery ... 2

Misdemeanor and perjury. . . 1

Misdemeanor and adultery . . 1

Neglecting family 28

Negligence 1

Non-support 2

Obscenity 7

Perjury 42

Pointing fire-arms 132

73

Personating an officer 35

Prize fighting 2

Purchasing scrap from mi- nors 1

Rape 57

Rape, felonious 49

Robbery 116

Robbery and receiving stolen

goods 138

Receiving stolen goods 342

Riot 171

Riot and malicious mischief. 20

Riot and assault and battery 36

Resisting an officer 14

Refusing to aid officer 6

Rescueing prisoners 8

Suspicious persons 18,141

Selling liquor unlawfully. . . . 1,779

Selling lottery tickets 37

Selling diseased meats 2

Seduction 34

Sodomy 19

Sodomy and bastardy 7

Sodomy and buggery 9

Sending threatening letters . . 5

Surety of the peace 2

Street walking 320

Shooting to kill 4

vSoliciting persons to commit

felony 1

Trespass 126

Train jumping 18

Threatening to kill 1

Unlawful wounding 256

Unlawful assembly 5

Vagrancy 28,847

Vagrancy and suspicious per- son • 116

Vagrancy and being profes- sional thief 16

\ragrancy and malicious tres- pass 4

Vagrancy and assault and

battery 2

Vagrancy and larceny 1

Violation of city or borough

ordinance 610

Violation of public peace .... 15

Violation of health act 5

Violation of sepulchre 1

Visiting disorderly house .... 2,295

Visiting gambling house. ... 83

Visiting bawdy house 16

Watch stuffing 1

Total 130,110

74

III.

9

9

SENTENCES FOR WHICH COMMITTED.

12 hours 2 150 days 10

1 day 25 180 days. . . 71

3 days 5 , 209 days 2

5 days 39 240 days. . 3

6 days 1 1 month 101

10 days 288 2 months 373

14 days 1 2 months and 30 days . . 1

15 days 42 3 months 2,758

17 days 1 3 months and 5 days . . 1

18 days 2 3 months and 10 days . . 4

20 days 1,145 3 months and 20 days .. 84

21 days 1 3 months and 30 days. . . 37

22 days 1 3 months and 40 days. . . 27

25 days 6 3. months and 60 days. . . 14

30 days. 78,715 3 months and 90 days. . . 1

31 days. . / 2 3 months and 100 days. . . 1

34 days 1 3 months and 120 days. . . 2

35 days 1 4 months 2,368

40 days 182 4 months and 10 days. . .

41 days 1 4 months and 15 days. . .

42 days 1 4 months and 20 days. . . 4

43 days 1 4 months and 30 days. . . 9

44 days 1 4 months and 60 days. . . 8

45 days 19 4 months and 120 days. . .

46 days 1 5 months 51

50 days 7 5 months and 1 day . . .

60 days 15,730 5 months and 5 days. . .

63 days 3 5 months and 16 days. . .

65 days 12 5 months and 20 days. . .

68 days 2 5 months and 30 days. . .

70 days 10 5 months and 60 days. . .

75 days 2 5 months and 135 days. . .

80 days 4 6 months 5,605

84 days 1 6 months and 15 days... 3

86 days 1 6 months and 20 days. . . 6

90 days 14,977 6 months and 30 days. . . 2

100 days 1 6 months and 40 days. . . 4

110 days 1 6 months and 60 days... 1

116 days 2 6 months and 84 days. . . 1

120 days .. 49 6 months and 90 days... 2

75

7 months 171

7 months and 20 days. . . 3

8 months 581

8 months and 5 days . . 2

8 months and 60 days. . . 1

8 months and 180 days. . . 1

9 months 789

9 months and 10 days. . . 4

9 months and 20 days. . . 1

9 months and 50 days. . . 1

9 months and 90 days. . . 1

10 months 348

10 months and 10 days... 1

10 months and 15 days. . . 2

10 months and 19 days. . . 1

10 months and 20 days. . . 1

11 months 66

11 months and 15- days. . . 7

11 months and 20 days. . . 7

11 months and 25 days. . . 1

1 1 months and 27 days. . . 1

1 1 months and 30 days. . . 1

1 year 2,515

1 year and 5 days 2

1 year and 20 days 1

1 year and 30 days 9

1 year and 40 days 1

1 year and 60 days 2

1 year and 90 days 1

1 year and 150 days 2

13 months 22

14 months 53

15 months 286

15 months and 30 days ... 1

16 months 55

17 months 8

18 months 640

18 months and 10 days ... 3

19 months 10

20 months 37

21 months 29

21 months and 20 days ... 1

22 months 11

23 months and 24 days ... 1

2 years 800

2 years and 1 month 1

2 years and 2 months. ... 7

2 years and 3 months. ... 17

2 years and 4 months. ... 3

2 years, 4 months, 10 days 1

2 years and 5 months. ... 3

2 years and 6 months. ... 76

2 years and 8 months. ... 2

2 years and 9 months. ... 3

3 years 134

3 years and 60 days 1

3 years and 1 month 1

3 years and 2 months. ... 1

3 years and 3 months. ... 3

3 years and 6 months. ... 5

3 years and 9 months. ... 1

4 years 37

5 years 13

6 years 5

7 years 1

8 years 1

Total 130,110

76

IV.

OF THE 130,110 RECEIVED, THERE WERE COMMITTED:

For the first time

69,042

For the twenty-sixth time

143

" second "

21,918

" twenty-seventh "

119

" third

10,838

" twenty-eighth

116

" fourth "

6,327

" twenty-ninth "

100

" fifth

4,225

" thirtieth

98

" sixth "

3,374

" thirty-firs't

93

" seventh "

2,461

" thirty-second "

76

" eighth "

1,717

" thirty-third "

68

" ninth "

1,333

" thirty-fourth

61

" tentli

1,264

" thirty-fifth

58

" eleventh

795

" thirty-sixth "

56

" twelfth

762

" thirty-seventh "

49

" thirteenth

611

" thirty-eighth

47

" fourteenth

557

" thirty-ninth "

44

" fifteenth "

551

" fortieth

40

u sixteenth

388

" forty-first "

35

" seventeenth

329

" forty-second

31

" eighteenth

326

" forty-third "

29

" nineteenth

318

" forty-fourth "

28

" twentieth

314

" forty-fifth

25

" twenty-first

223

" forty-sixth "

24

" twenty-second "

195

" forty-seventh.

23

" twenty-third "

179

" forty-eighth

22

" twenty-fourth

178

" forty-ninth

20

" twentv-fifth . "

174

" fiftieth time and over

306

Total

130,110

V.

NATIVITY.

United States 83,472

Ireland 19,319

Germany 7,654

England 6,216

Austria 2,778

Scotland 1,918

Wales.. 1,504

Italy 1,480

Russia 1,100

Canada 998

Poland 880

Hungary 828

France 487

Switzerland 433

Sweden 361

Holland 78

Denmark 68

Ocean 60

Belgium 49

Australia 49

Norway 39

West Indies 36

Central America 33

Spain 28

Greece 28

East Indies 27

China 23

Roumania 21

Africa 20

Arabia 19

Mexico 17

Brazil 8

Isle of Man 8

Turkey 7

Isle of Malta 6

Portugal 5

India 3

Japan 2

Chili 1

Armenia 1

Argentine 1

United States of Columbia . . 1

Egypt 1

Unknown 43

Total 130,110

78

VI.

AGE WHEN COMMITTED.

Under 20 years of age 11,054

From- 20 to 30 years 49,599

From 30 to 40 years 35,603

From 40 to 50 years 21,187

From 50 to 60 years 9,534

60 years and over 3,133

Total 130,110

VII.

SOCIAL RELATIONS.

Single 78,174

Married 41,945

Widowers 6,144

Widows 3,847

Total 130,110

VIII.

EDUCATION.

Read and write 96,388

Read but not write 15,112

Neither read nor write 18,610

Total 130.110

IX.

OF THE 18,610 WHO COULD NOT READ NOR WRITE WERE NATIVE OF:

United States 8,757

Ireland. 4,155

Austria 1 ,299

England 825

Italy 795

Russia 590

Germany 455

Poland 443

Wales 432

Hungary 402

Scotland 151

France 80

Canada 78

Holland 23

Switzerland 22

Arabia 19

Greece 18

Belgium 15

Sweden 9

Roumania 9

East Indies 4

West Indies 4

Turkey 4

China 2

Australia 2

Ocean . . . . . 2

Central America 1

Spain 1

United States Columbia 1

Unknown 12

Total 18,610

so

X.

HABITvS OF LIFE.

Abstinents 11,092

Moderate drinkers 35,703

Occasionally intemperate 56,741

Intemperate 26,574

Total .130,110

XI. COLOR.

White males 96,439

Colored males 16,027

White females 15,009

Colored females 2,635

Total 130,110

81

XII

TOTAL NUMBER OF PRISONERS RECEIVED SINCE THE ORGANIZATION OF THE WORKHOUSE AND FROM WHAT LOCALITIES.

Year.

1 otal.

*

From

r rom

From in

From Other Counties.

Number.

Pittsburg.

Allegheny.

Allegheny Co.

*1870

1,182

853

254

75

q

1871

936

598

222

116

1872

1,853

1,274

428

149

2

1873

2)061

1 5/5

410

53

1874

2*385

L945

326

67

47

1875

U760

1,394

225

46

Q5

1876

U610

886

361

229

134

1877

U627

868

410

205

144

1878

2,154

1 507

392

57

J. C/O

1879

2*012

1 '374

459

47

132

1880

1,762

l)l51

437

38

136

1881

1,989

L534

310

40

1 0^

1882

2,613

2)096

317

91

1 OQ

1883

2,790

2^317

277

100

Qfi

1884

3)887

2)862

804

113

108

1885

4)573

3)401

929

153

QO

1886

3)862

2)878

646

209

1 2Q

1887

3)448

2)766 2)508

439

100

143

1888

3) 135

368

139

120

1889

3)264

2)529

478

76

181

1890

3! 880

3,090

510

110

170

1891

4^503

3)550

447

306

200

1892

4/227

3)l73

447

373

234

1893

4/231

2,863

675

421

272

1894

4)419

3)028

573

495

323

1895

4,212

2,746

490

710

266

1896

4,492

2,747

530

885

330

1897

4,450

2,983

353

697

417

i on o

O C A A

4UZ

ATI ■±i 1

OKI

251

1899

3,601

2,828

260

418

95

1900

4,356

3,395

346

513

102

1901

4,368

3,236

367

607

158

1902

5,508 •

4,422

379

482

225

1903

5,802

4,554

380

665

203

1904

4,789

3,633

331

619

206

1905

4,403

3,414

224

564

201

1906

4,743

3,519

539

489

196

1907

5,249

3,867

585

557

240

Total

130,110

96,208

16,330

11,491

6,081

*Ineluding prisoners since the organization of the Workhouse, August 6th, 1869.

82

XIII.

NUMBER OF DEATHS SINCE THE ORGANIZATION OF THE WORKHOUSE.

Tuberculosis 66 Cholera morbus 2

Pneumonia 47 Opium eating 1

Debility 28 Scarlet fever 1

Delirium tremens 22 Cerebro-spinal-meningitis 1

Heart disease 20 Tetanus 1

Typhoid fever 19 Emphysena 1

Suicide 13 Ovarian tumor 1

Chronic alcoholism 11 Chronic diarrhoea and ulcera-

Epilepsy 9 tion of bowels 1

Dropsy 8 Hemoptysis 1

Phthisis 7 Gastritis 1

Smallpox 6 Meningitis 1

Asthma 6 Diabetes 1

Apoplexy 5 Nephritis 1

Hemorrhage 5 Inflammation of bowels 1

Accident 4 Vegetable poisoning 1

Peritonitis 3 Operation on neck 1

Congestion of brain 2 Intussusception of bowels 1

Fracture of skull 2 Endocarditis 1

Convulsions 2 Brights disease 1

Syphilis 2 Chronic bronchitis 1

Catarrhal enteritis 1

83

PENNSYLVANIA

Thirty- Ninth Annual REPORT

1908

ALLEGHENY COUNTY WORKHOUSE

Compliments of

A. H. LESLIE,

Superintendent

PENNSYLVANIA

Thirty-Ninth Annual Report

OF THE

MANAGERS

OF THE

ALLEGHENY COUNTY WORKHOUSE

AND

INEBRIATE ASYLUM

FOR THE YEAR

J 908

AMERICAN PUB. CO., Inc. Pittsburg, Pa.

TABLE OF CONTENTS.

Board of Managers and Officers 5

Managers of Allegheny County Workhouse from the beginning 6

Manager's Report 7

Superintendent's Report 11-14

Comparative Statistics for the past twenty years 15-16

Statement of Cash Receipts and Expenditures 19-21

Statement of Operations of the several Business Departments 23-28

General Statement 29-33

Farm Product 34

Statistics for 1908 37-56

Chaplain's Report 59-66

Physician's Report 69-70

General Statistical Report 73-85

ILLUSTRATIONS.

Frontispiece — View of Workhouse and Lawn

Workhouse Farm Buildings

Basement new Cell House

New Cell House in course of construction . . .

. opposite title page opposite frontispiece

I following page 34

ALLEGHENY COUNTY WORKHOUSE.

Railroad and Express Office WARNER, WEST PENN'A R. R. [_J Eight Miles North of Allegheny Station.

Post Office

HOBOKEN, ALLEGHENY COUNTY, PENN'A.

Long Distance Telephone, 28 Sharpsburg.

OFFICERS.

BOARD OF MANAGERS.

JOHN A. BELL, Carnegie President

JOHN W. CRAWFORD, Duquesne Secretary

JOHN F. STEEL, Pittsburg.

WM. H. SEIF, Pittsburg.

W. C. TIBBY, Sharpsburg.

A. H. LESLIE Superintendent

REV. DAVID R. IMBRIE Chaplain

G. M. KELLY, M. D Physician

EDWARD KRIEG Clerk COLONIAL TRUST CO., Pittsburg Treasurer

MANAGERS OF ALLEGHENY COUNTY WORKHOUSE

FROM THE BEGINNING.

C>eorge K. White

1 QQCi 4- ~ 1 07i

1866 to 18/4

1 0£id 4- ~ 1 0*7'^

Robert H. Davis

1866 to 1867

Hugh S. Fleming

i or* o *. 1 own

1866 to 18/0

Felix R. Brunot

1866 to *

Wm. S. Bissell

1866 to 1871

James Kelly

1867 to 18/9

J. P. Fleming

18/0 to 1878

W. J. Anderson

1872 to 1873

Richard Hays

18/4 to lo/O

TT 1 TV T XT "11

Hugh McNeill

1874 to 1886

L.J. bcnultz

1 OT C 4-„ 1 070

z~\ itt u _ : i „„ „ „

1 C7 K 4.„ 1 Q70

J. W. Shaw

1070 4. n lOOl

1878 to 1881

JJ. L. VVnite

1 07fl 4^ 1 OOrt

1879 to 1880

Hugh S. Fleming

1 o*7n 1 „ 1 007

1879 to 1887

John Moorhead

1880 to *

John Birmingham

lOOl -i- IOOC

1881 to 1885

August Amnion

1881 to 1888

1 QQ 1 1 QQ/L

W. A. Magee

1 CQC 4.,-. 1 QQQ

1880 to loyy

C. G. Donnell

100*7 4- _ lorkcr

1887 to 1890

C. C. Hax

IOOO i. „ t OCi 4

1888 to 1894

\\ llham Hill

1888 to 1891

1 Cft 1

Hugh Kennedy

1895 to 1902

John Way, Jr

1895 to 1902

W. E. Harrison

1896 to 1903

W. H. Seif

1900 to 1903

George A. Chalfant

1902 to 1904

Charles Donnelly

1903 to 1903

John W. Crawford

1903

John F. Steel. . . . ?

1903

Thos. B. Riter

1903 to 1907

Charles Donnelly

1904 to 1906

W. H. Seif

1907

W. C. Tibby

1907

*These dates are not on record.

LIST OF SUPERINTENDENTS.

John McDonald

1867 to 1875

Henry Cordier

1870 to 1877

John Iy. Kennedy

1877 to 1881

Henry Warner

1882 to 1891

William Hill

1891 to 1896

Thos. P. Fleeson

1896 to 1897

William Hill

1897 to 1904

A. H. Leslie

1904

6

MANAGER'S REPORT.

Warner, Pa., December 31, 1908.

To the Honorable, the Inspectors of the Allegheny County Prisons, Pittsburg, Pa.

Gentlemen :

We herewith respectfully submit the Thirty-ninth Annual Report of the Allegheny County Workhouse, together with the special reports of the Superintendent, Chaplain and Physician, for the year ending December 31st, 1908.

Respectfully,

John A. Bell,

President,

John W. Crawford,

Secretary, Warner, Pa., February 4, 1909.

SUPERINTENDENT'S REPORT 1908

SUPERINTENDENT'S REPORT.

Warner, Pa., December 31, 1908.

To the Honorable Board of Managers of the Allegheny County Workhouse and Inebriate Asylum.

Gentlemen : —

I herewith submit the Thirty-ninth Annual Report of the Allegheny County Workhouse and Inebriate Asylum for the year ending December 31, 1908.

Attached hereto and made a part of this report are the statistical tables, financial exhibit and operations of the indus- trial departments, as prepared and arranged by the efficient chief clerk, Mr. Edward Krieg, also the reports of the Physician and Chaplain, and you are respectfully referred thereto for full

detailed information.

Number of prisoners in confinement Decem- ber 31, 1907, was 1,036

Number of prisoners received from January

1, 1908, to December 31, 1908, was 5,601

Discharged by expiration of sentence 5,226

Discharged by order of Court 294

Discharged by commutation of time 211

Discharged by death 11

Discharged by Governor's pardon 5

Transferred to insane asylums 3

Total in confinement December 31, 1908 . . 887

The financial report shows the total receipts, including bal- ance carried over from last year, to be $291,949.25.

Total expenditures were $231,866.61.

Balance on hand December 31, 1908, was $60,082.64.

1 1

Earnings from all sources amounted to $62,456.80. The daily average of inmates was 944.

The daily average cost of each inmate was 34 56-100 cents.

The daily average cost of each inmate to the county, after deducting earnings, was 16 K cents.

The population the last year was the largest in the history of the institution.

The earnings from hired prison labor, the broom, brush and rag carpet industries, suffered from the prevailing hard times, a portion of which, however, was supplied from other sources of revenue, so that the net deficiency to the county per capita of the prison population is less than in past years.

The following permanent improvements were made during the year at an expenditure of several thousand dollars, to-wit : An eight-inch fire line extending from the eastern wagon gate entrance to the western side of the Administration building; a stand pipe from the basement to the roof of the Administration building, with a supply of fire hose on each floor, all connected with large pump in power plant; there was also laid 890 feet of fifteen-inch sewer, and 34,900 feet of four and six-inch tile drain- age pipe in three fields of the farm ; the lawn was renewed and improved by a new concrete walk, plants, shrubbery and orna- mental trees; concrete walks were laid around the dwellings fronting on the Freeport road; replacing the furniture and re- pairing the losses sustained by the fire in the Chapel; and license fee of $750.00 for sewage disposal plant.

The County Commissioners appropriated $75,000.00 for the new North Wing work for the year 1908. Horses, dump wagons, picks, shovels, wheelbarrows, and other necessary tools were purchased, and the work of excavating was started April 20, 1908. In the meantime contracts were made for lumber, cement, sand, gravel, veneer, reinforcement, windows and cell work, so that when the excavating was finished, materials of all kind were on the ground to proceed with the work of erec- tion of the building proper.

We were fortunate in securing a first-class foreman in charge of the work. The men under him in charge of the car-

12

penters, cement workers and laborers, vied one with another in energetic work, to the end that the building — 54 feet wide by 365 feet long — was up to the square and a temporary roof placed in position by November 21, 1908, at which time we had all the necessary sand, gravel, cement, reinforcement, and other material on hand or contracted for so that we were ready to begin the work of casting the concrete cells on Monday, Novem- ber Twenty-third, but, unfortunately, the contract for the cell fronts, doors, locking device, and corridor gratings, was let to the Van Dorn Iron Works Co., of Cleveland, Ohio; bonded to begin the delivery of their work in the month of October, but for some reason unknown to us at this writing, December 31, 1908, they have failed to perform their part of the contract, thereby making uncertain the completion of the work, to our great damage and inconvenience. I feel certain if the Van Dorn Iron Works Co. had supplied the material as agreed, the new wing would have been finished and occupied on or about November 1, 1909.

It will be necessary to secure from the County Commis- sioners an appropriation of $125,000.00 for the furtherance of the work on the North Wing for the year 1909, making a total appropriation of $200,000.00 for the wing consisting of 478 cells. This includes the cost of construction of building, cell work, locks, plumbing, and ventilating — a modern, up-to-date prison of concrete construction. It may be necessary to make a small additional appropriation to complete the work.

All the labor except the cell fronts, locks, grating, corri- dors, windows and doors, will be done by the inmates.

The number of days employed on the new wing from April 20, 1908, to December 31, 1908, was as follows:—

Employees 912 days

Common prison labor — on building proper, loading and unloading sand, gravel, cement, and other material . . 14,536 days

Skilled prison labor 888 days

Teams — excavating and hauling ma- terial above mentioned 1,028 days

By reference to a consolidated report of the employed for

13

the past six months, you will be reminded that this is a fairly busy place.

For the purpose of keeping account of the number of days labor employed in the construction of the North Wing, there was inaugurated a daily report of the employed. The report was extended so as to include all employment in and about the prison, the industries, farm, garden and lawn, and the hired prison labor, from July 1, 1908. This will show a total daily employ- ment of 93,457 days or an average of 508 inmates employed per day, leaving unemployed a total of 70,268 days or an average cf 381 per day.

The discipline has been all that could be desired., The officers have been active, energetic, and given intelligent and willing service, each striving to do his best for the interest of the institution. The spirit of "All for one and one for all" pre- vails. With that spirit only good results can follow.

Permit me to thank each member of the Board for his kindly interest, and advice, given during the year. I assure you that words but illy express my appreciation of the service rendered. The unfortunate feature of work of this character is that the natural tendency of the public is to "Knock rather than boost." There is not a proper appreciation and knowledge by the public of the difficulties, worries, frets and responsibilities, in caring for the unfortunates committed to prisons.

In conclusion, permit me to again thank you for your past kindness and assure you that it shall be my highest ambition to so discharge the duties of the position as to merit your con- tinued confidence.

Respectfully submitted,

A. H: LESLIE,

Superintendent.

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Averages for Ten \>ars.

1898-1907

294,809

_

806

^£

CO p

$44,754

2r a

CO <u

CM o

$499.11

$5,576.89 $810.96

8031

345,848

OS

CO

62,456

go CO"

482 . 20

4,857.36

CD

I-

CM

OC1

1907

327,534

r-

OS

oo

to

1-

CO

62,482

it .

00 i— i

362 . 65

10,776.00

1,088.33

1906

302,730

OS

oo

"*to CO

55,502

Oi

423.65

9,198.76

1,047.77

1905

300,054

CM

00

lo pip

00* CO

50,475

™|o OI

o

LO LO LO

6,474.29

729 . 69

O

o>

CO

o

OS tH

i -

Ol

OS

o~

CO CO

of

CM CO

CO Oi

to

t

CO

44,523

«H i—i CI

LO

Ol

CO

LO

4,705.40

858 . 24

o

OS

CO

OJ CM

"*io ' cm

698 . 00

2,493.00

769.82

1902

294,905

I-

00

to

CO" CO

42,742

°S

Ol Ol

577 . 90

9,807.30

416.01

1901

248,736

r-i

00 CD

Jo

36,241

si

CD Ol

536.50

6,275.97

00

»o

CD CO Oi

1900

229,599

Oi CM CO

22,043

f:|o S£ 00 OI

404.10

663 . 79

701.66

1899

228,618

CO OI CO

rV°

CD CO

o

CD I-

00~ OI

&?

to

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STATEMENT

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CASH RECEIPTS AND EXPENDITURES

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ALLEGHENY COUNTY WORKHOUSE

From January 1 to December 31, 1908, both dates inclusive.

RECEIPTS.

Cash on hand January 1, 1908 $ 37,830 33

Cash received from County Treasurer. Special appropriation

for the erection of an additional cell room 75,000 00

Cash received from Treasurer of Allegheny County 75,000 00

Cash received from interest on daily balances 983 91

Cash received from insurance companies for fire loss 3,222 56

From other counties for maintenance of prisoners 21,377 55

From hired labor of prisoners and employees 4,857 36

From blacksmithing, horseshoeing, gasfitting, etc 336 88

From harness making 12 00

From book binding 39 50

From laundry work 689 75

From officers and notary fees 122 80

From railroad tickets, telephone charges and express refunded . . 131 06

From contents of contribution box 1 51

From unclaimed money of prisoners 32 90

From house rent 45 00

From sale of natural gas 517 16

From sale of lumber, lime, cement, etc 158 02

From sale of scrap metal, rags, old barrels and flour sacks 423 41

From sale of pipe, glass, paint, and from painting 803 80

From sale of coke 9 51

From sale of tar 139 77

From sale of live stock (bull, cows, pigs, and calves) 691 75

From sale of provisions and kraut .- 780 67

From sale of pit posts 790 40

From sale of farm products and flowers 3,274 34

From sale of screens, sleds, and repairing by carpenter 625 74

From sale of shoes and repairing of shoes and clothing 2,056 20

From sale of ice (natural) 115 56

From sale of rag carpet 11,255 70

From sale of shoe and scrub brushes «■ 9,366 30

From sale of brooms 41.257 81

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EXTRAORDINARY.

Construction of Sewage Disposal Plant: additional:—

For material $ 376 35

For hired expert labor .... 424 64

For royalty 750 00

$ 1,550 99

Construction of additional Cell Room: — ■

For material $ 52,507 05

For hired labor ..... 6,816 62

$ 59,323 67

CURRENT EXPENSES.

For broom corn and other material and expenses $ 26,885 46

For freight paid on material and manufactured brooms 3,756 55

For wages of employee in broom factory 1,181 05

For overwork paid prisoners for making brooms 827 61

For bristles, tampico, rice root, blocks, etc 8,147 79

For freight paid on same 432 23

For cotton and woolen warp, new carpet rags, etc 6,650 39

For freight paid on material and manufactured carpet 326 78

For wages of employee in carpet factory 1,146 30

For miscellaneous machinery 380 54

For general freight, expressage and railroad tickets 1,545 08

For boating pit posts 50 45

For gratuities given prisoners 482 20

For salaries and wages 59,101 81

For traveling expenses 170 69

For boiler inspection 27 00

For rent of telephone 216 19

For rent of Delafield farm for year 1908 400 00

For road tolls and expenses „ 36 74

For library, stationery and postage 1,016 05

For expenses conveying and recapturing escaped prisoners .... 11 10

For expenses in litigation and fire loss proof 285 50

For fire insurance 29 00

For general repair of buildings, machinery, etc 6,884 39

For harness 89 18

For brushes, spectacles, combs, etc 116 09

For benzine, gasoline, lamp oil, etc 241 17

For lime for whitewashing 29 00

For building material 174 05

For farm tools, seeds, manure, etc 5,005 47

For live stock 170 00

For hardware and tools 1,628 60

For coal and