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THE SUNDAY ORECOXIAS, rOKTLASD, FEBRUARY 13, 1916. 3 MILLIONAIRES ARE NOW GETTING MO R Birsly Tells Zapp Reform Vill Result in Endowment to Prisons for Tiled Bathrooms INTERESTED IN JAILS BT MONTAGUE OLASH. ILLUSTRATIONS BT BRIGGS. Zapp Explains Idea Js to Send Convicts Out to Look for Work Not for Revenge he o.frr. .1- . i i i i .... -r t: . j -jf-.t.i . .1 Li. J.... l : - ;uj .: n!L ai , ;i-J in Lm a Aawa in a dace like thev keep Probably people figure that lt jLrtAoL Tom Are rraauif n prroer a no mrnonnoie maker nr urgm. ug lur uie m 01 m ncic ujwim nauu i fui m-- , n - i o 1 1 l I the paper from this here Mr. exclaimed. "I am .piling from coo- He'. convict. Then the idee is to bathroom with each cell and give a the Office of the Register of the Coun- convicts, and the neighbor, complained they ve been paying insurance premiums aJrnV Barnett Zapp M which you couldn't expect they nuke the patient a. comfortable a, pe. grand opera .how every night. Zapp. ty of Westchester. January 2d, 1916. about you. y understand, they would for years on Wa hc V f y cut, of cof- would behave no better if you treat soup and moving pic- he . got my permission; the only thing by the number 2649. understand, one arrest you and .end you to a jail which and never had so much as a collar but- M he U second cup of cof- would behave no better ,f you treat from wouM make the placc where you kept ton stolen on 'em to show for ,t. so why fee m l.erbauer. restaurant thernLke .n.maU. . typewriting and bookkeeping. so a. cause a, it i now. understand. Os- any part of the property you could see the dawg look like the waiting-room should Mr. Osburn reform these bur . The way the paper. so full of Or buttonhole maker,. Birsky in- whe he recover, or CKape. he weuldn-t burn and hi. friend, goes round and the new buildings of the Judson K. of the new Pennsylvania station, the glars just to make it easy for the bur pews nowadays." Louis Birsky repld. lemipted. got lo go fc , housebreaking or safe give, lecture, to churche. lodge, and Rayvoch Memorial Jail, and the old prison idee being that the next lime glary insurance companies? Also. Bir--I am lucky if I ft through every day "Nine time, out of ten a convict blowing, but could go In Tor something ladies' dub, and he teli, 'em how grou, j, all fixed up elegant with Y felt like treatinS a dawg like a sky. while we are talking about it. peo- couple of Mexican murder, and the didn't got a show in the world." Zapp more peovef. like raising check, or when he first come to Sing Sing the flower$ anJ tree, like a high-class cem- dawg. Birsky. that you will remember pie ain't nearly so sore that Morse real eifate note. Uat did he ever said, forgery." place wa, so dead. ymder.tand. it etery development, and there is lady what happened to you the last time. As didn't get-punished enough for what he do that he .hould run for President?" "Neither da buttonhole maker." "You are the ,ame a, a whole lot of wa, just like being in jail, whereas now- ined nurses in white caps leading matter of fact. Birsky. the !dee don't done, as they re d,saPPointed that he adays they give parties up there and round the patient,. The biggest cripple have elegant meal, and everybody i, among them is an old feller which' is happy and contented, y'understand, suffering from a chain of busted banks, and the consequence is c lot of feller. an(j when after a couple of weeks the which formerly worked themselves lo president discharges him as incurable, death for ten or twelve dollars a week he's going to live in a little cottage with gets an idee from hearing this feller his wife and take no more interest fa Osbum talk that if they want to im- nothing except tcfcollect ocean steam- prove themselves all they got to do is ers, and when he comes in the house to go out and knock somebody on the and gayS to his wife: 'Look. Mommer, head, which Cott toll huelen it should here's a new one forty thousand tons,' me, Zapp, it would be just my luck ine smiles and pats him on the shoulder that the feller overdoes the thing and and says: 'My I Ain't that nice!" and gets electrocuted." then she turns her head so he can't see "Osburn ain't getting off lecture, she's crying to think that her husband about Sing Sing to exercise hi, voice, who only a few months ago was a big, Birsky." Zapp said. "People invite, strong man, running two trust compa hirn to these affairs. They want to nies. three National banks, and a life hear what the feller is doing, because insurance company into the ground, they take an interest in such things, and should now be happy like a little child they ain't tchnorrers like us. Birsky. over getting another forty-thousand-ton They're rich people millionaires." ocean steamer for his collection. "Sure. I know," Birsky continued. "Sure, I know," Zapp said, "but . "They want to find out just what they the idee of prison reform is that if the are up against in case they didn't got jail where Morse was would have been the right dope from their lawyers be- the way Mr. Osburn wants to mane fore they went into the last big mer- Sing Sing. Birsky. and Morse', friends ger and floated that $100,000,000 would come to Mr. Taft and say the bond issue. What them fellers would feller was dying, y'understand, Mr. like to see U that every cell should be iaft would sty: 'Well, he's got a de- r "I le ain't running for President, but Birsky retorted, "and he worked hi. other people. Birsky,' Zapp .aid. "Just big enough to take a"n armory size Ori- cent place to die in. anyhow.' A. it he', rot a lot of people sore at him." way up to be anyhow a buttonhole because Mr. Osburn wants to have a ental rug. with a stock ticker on top of stands today, Birsky. if you would Zapp .aid. "A!o there is also a lot maker, wherea. the convict become a prison a place for human beings and Duao' " -- of people y, the feller a all right, and convict" not dawg,. y'understand. you claim he 8e"'"ff more a,ls .... .. . t it i u ,i .... ic e- . r every day, Z.app. and it the lovern- I think so. too. He believes that them I wouldn t argue with you. Zapp M trying to make Sing Sing a sort or ' V , , . ., . . ... . t ii i j i . i it' 1 1 c a m'nl 8 t0 work nd gets after all fellers should get more out of life than said. Tut a buttonhole maker don t combination between the V aldorf-A- millionaire wfich is allowing just working and sleeping and a little got to remain a buttonhole maker if he toria and Palm Beach: if somebody emse)VM ife cash discounts exercise acd meat only three time, a don't want to. whereas when you are ,ay that every room in a tenement- m mcome tax statements. Zapp, in- weel. I le believes they should go on a convict it', got to run it. course like house should ought to got anyhow one ,teac 0f leaving their money to hospi- moving picture once in a while and to stomach trouble. window, you say: What do you want tals because they got treated so good theayter also." "Sure. I know." Birsky agreed, for fourteen dollars a montri studio in Mount Sinai that time they had "I believe so. too," Birsky said. "In "and that's the way it is nowaday apartment,? If the Board of Educa- ,tomach trouble, them millionaires will . . i . t .l l P,t. ir.ai. a rnnviri Hie he would ilnn n.v. . nrnf,sir tm AnT in ive remember how kind Mr. Osburn was lie I. I was speaking 10 on oi incra vj " - - i ' - - the name Tzvee Margonin the other got up one morning perfectly strong a public lecture for a thousand people, day. and I says lo him the same like and healthy with a wife and six chil- you holler your head off that it's the you says about going once in a while dren. and he kisse, 'em all good-bye equivalence of hiring Caruso and Pav- X-i a moving pictures, and he wid what and goes downtown, y'understand. hap- lova. and you wouldn't put it beyond eeuld an operator do which get, only py and contented that he is a decent, the Board of Education that they split fen dollar s a week A presser and a mpectable citizen, understand me. eat, up with the professor on his fee. and tutforhofe maker is the same. Zapp. a hearty lunch, smokes a good cigar, their wives is shopping in twin sixes .... . . . t All them feller, is up against it for and in the drop of a bucket, y under- with the proceeds. IBB I 1 to them that time they had income tax trouble or railroad bond trouble or anti-trust trouble, and the first thing you know, Zapp, you will read it in the papers: "$2,000,000 TO SING SING "Prison Benefits by Will of J. Van Rensselaer Mezummen. xnoney something terrible. "VlTiat are you talking stand, he gets stricken down in the prime of life with grand larceny in the about X Sl'FFERI.G FROM A CHAIN OP Bl'STEP BASKS.' work out that way, because all the time didn't go to work and die as promised. you are in that black hole. Birsky. you Furthermore, it wouldn't been so bad ..... .1. r.n i l l i k..t , are saying to yourself: Wait till 1 get c au lu -r l .j I'll ,l. ,u,t Jawo more banks and trust cpmpanies but what cruelty to animals realiy ought to be.' And after you get out, every time you meet a dawg and nobody is look ing, you kick the dawg for the sake of his friend who got you into jail." "What are you talking nonsense, Zapp?" Birsky said. "I never look a a dawg from one year's end to the when he turns ripht around and makes a legitimate fortune in the ocean steam ship business, it breaks them all up." "Say, I ain't knocking Morse." Bir sky protested. "The way the real estate business is nowadays, I'd be willing to spend a couple years in Sing Sing un der Mr. Osbu.i.'s management, if I thought I could make a tenth the suc- ... , . . r cess that Morse did after he come out. I am only talking in a manner ot . i- ' n- i t i j ! 1 he chances is youd be sent right speaking, Birsky, Zapp explained. 1 . , ... . . r. i back again, Z.app concluded, be am trying to tell you that Mr. Osburn 6 ' . , , , ' , , . ii cause the police is very old-tashioned wants to make a prison a place where , , . , , ... . j i i that way, like the people that oppose thev learn a convict to go out and look f . for work, while the people which is op- "Or when real estaters is taking out r j i. 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