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THE PERQUIMANS WEEKLY, HERTFORD, N.' C, FRIDAY, APRIL 10, 1C36. Lights of NcwYorlc by LL STEVENSON Unsavory was the old 'city penitenti ary now "being; demolished by WPA workers on Welfare Island. Built al most a century ago, with cells only I three feet wide and the only light" that from a small hole In the door of each, through the years It gathered grime and germs.- It held only petty often "Nteis but -the-, walls are of limestone four and Are feet -thick and the stone partitions between cells -re two feet thick while the bars and grill works are set firmly. So . the workmen are i having a tough time in demolishing jit They are razing the south wing :now. That south wing figured large ly in the news several years ago. j Prisoners with political connections ; ruled the penitentiary. Austin H. Mc .Cormack, appointed commissioner of corrections under the Fusion admini stration, staged a "raid" and the city I thus "recaptured" Its own prison.' The south wing was the dwelling place of ;the prison aristocracy. The cells had silk curtains. There were pieces of fine furniture and curtained wardrobes contained outfits of evening clothes. . Black as Is the old prison, its hls tory Is still blacker. Within its walls I have been unspeakable cruelties and many crimes of violence. There have CV-j been rebellions in which blood was :shed. How many lives were wrecked completely because of it Is beyond com j putation. Hardened, professional criminals, caught in some minor of fense, were sent there. So were des iperate men to whom law or human J life meant nothing. Drug addicts and degenerates formed part of the motley, I ugly company of felons. With them jwere young boys convicted of their (first offenses and ripe for further in ( fitructlon In crime. The prison be v rcame obsolete as a penal institution I BO years ago. Engineers condemned jthe interior as unlit for human beings ;15 years ago. t The island on which the prison 'stands is In East river. The Indians called it Mlnnahonock, or Long Island. I Mpt John Manning acquired It in 11664 and the name became Manning's (island. His stepdaughter married Wil lllam Blackwell and lived on the 1s jland and in time, it became Black swell's island. The Blackwell mansion f still stands, being used as quarters for (doctors connected with the hospital on the Island. When the city bought the i Island for $25,000 In 1828, one of the j provisions was that the Blackwell manslon, built in 1709 or 1798 there is conflict as to the date be allowed j to stand. To take away some of the ; blackness of the prison on the Island, the name was changed to Welfare in 11921. j Prisoners formerly confined in the I Welfare Island prison have been sent to the new penitentiary on Rlkers is land. Rlkers Island for years was a iclty dump. In fact, the island was j practically built from city refuse. Oc casionally, it catches fire and the smoke is no perfume. Also Rlkers (island Is the home of the biggest rats known to mankind rats that chase bull dogs into East river. But the flnew penitentiary is far superior to the old. That recent survey which shows that jthe well-known "Boston accent" seems to be on the road to extinction brings j to mind the fact that "Brooklynese" as heard less frequently in New York than It was when I first arrived. In j those days it seemed as if most of (New York believed that "world" was spelled "wolld," and that "oil" was ."erl." One night at graduation exer cises of one of; the uptown public jschools, I heard a Supreme court Jus Itlce say "foist" and a little later, he (used the word "moider." That one jof the members of that graduating class should remark to another, "Don't jdo that, Holby, you make me nolvus," seemed perfectly proper after such an 'example. "Avenue" also bad a pe culiar pronunciation, which I can't re produce and in many Instances, "voice" was "verse." Christopher Morley's rhyme about "Anne stirred an erster Vstew" was an excellent example. With the passing of the years, I 'thought my ear bad become dolled to i the idiom. But after consulting va rious sources, I bars reached the con delusion that then Is less "Brooklynest" than there was In those year past It crops oat occasionally even In the 'utterances of Alfred Bv 8mlth, how ever. Then, at Christmas time, a young , woman In a Forty-second street drag 'istore, directed me to the "terlet goods counter." With many, "Pennsylvania" is still "Penniylvanler"' and "idea". Is 'ctvea a flnal Oh, res, the man tZtln a change booth of the municipal . V.a .AMi Ml ii i I . . night turnea dbck a quarter on the ground that It was a "mutilated" he made the first syllable rhyme with "but" "kern." Brooklynese ; hasn't m really massed bat Is passing. s... eBU8roaict. WNUSrvlo. 'Canada Boils ' Currency, i I Then Sells Pulp Paper f i Ottawa, Ont The Canadian govern,' v'ment now "boils"; Its t)ld bank notes instead of burning them. Last year '' $50,000,0(90 In common bank notes were 'dumped into a huge vat and, boiled to a pulp, which was sold to papermak, ; ers. Burning of old ItUls was aban t :doned as wasteful" and because of ;tltr possibility of scraps of notes, par tlally burned, being carried through L' chimneys to the outdoors. 't ; PAGE THREE INSPECTS OLD LIVING t ROOM , j i v t: aw-lllff"in f a mi " Timely Questions On Farm Answered Question: How long after males have been removed from the poultry ilock will fertile eggs be produced? Answer In exceptional cases, fer tility has been known to persist for a period of four weeks. In general, however, the bulk ox eggs are infer tile in from two to three weeks af ter tlie males have been removed. Question: What are the soil-depleting crops which can be replaced with soil-conserving or soil-building crops to qualify for grants under the new farm program? Answer: The soil-depleting crops are as follows: corn cotton, to bacco, Irish potatoes, sweet potatoes, rice sugarcane, sugar beets, cultivat ed sun flowers, commercial truck and canning crops including melons and strawberries, peanuts when harvest ed as nuts, prain sorghums and sweet sorghums, pniall grains when hai vested for grain or when seeded alone and harvcested for hay. grow any .vould I re my cotton Alfred P. Sloan, Jr., president of General Motors Corporation, as he Inspected the living room of yesterday, which together with the living room fit today, It a part of the General Motori Parade of Progress, now showing In the South. -m--- - Winning Jersey Bull Is Nature's Favorite The last National Dairy Show in St. Louis, Mo., brought out an amaz ing Jersey bull. He swept through the field of contestants and emerged the 1935 grand champion. This bull, which the judges agreed, "had every thing," is featured in the current na tural Chilean nitrate of soda adver tisement. This series of announcements ap pears regularly in this newspaper as part of the all-South program of educational publicity which the na tural nitrate people are conducting. The featured bull is Foremost High Flyer, owned by A. H. Goss, the Oaklands, Ann Arbor, Mich. Throughout the entire series of announcements, the natural nitrate people use special photographs of outstanding animals as illustrations. The point is made that these blue ribbon creatures outstrip others of this kind because of a special gift of nature a natural balance of the vital elements the same natural gift that made Jack Dempsey the greatest fighter of his day. And, they point out, Chilean nitrate is likewise fav ored by mother nature. Centuries ago, when this nitrogen fertilizer was created, nature endow ed it not only with a high percent age of quick-acting nitrogen, but also a long list of other elements such elements as magnesium, manga nese, boron, iodine, calcium, potas sium and many others. In natural nitrate, these are called the vita) impurities and it is the natural bal ance and blend of these vital im- Taylor Theatre EDENTON, N. C. PROGRAM COMING WEEK Today (Thursday) and Friday REGULAR ADMISSION Shows 3:30, 7 and 9 P. M. Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy in "ROSE MARIE" Romance 'that will haunt you music that will thrill you a story you will never forget. Don't miss it! Saturday REGULAR ADMISSION Theatre Opena 2 P. M. Bob Steele in "KID BANGER" ALSO Miracle Rider No. 10 Cartoea and Comedy Monday! and Taesday '.y. '.. REGULAR .' ADMISSION JacWeCoopei Joseph Calleia Rin-Tin-ThvJr. In 1 " ' "TOUGH GUY" ALSO Audioscoptiks Yon will marvel7 at the novelty of this picture. Wednesday v.. " 10c and 15c Francis Lederer in "THE GAY DECEPTION" ? ALSO i . MAJOR BOWES AMATEUR THEATRE OF THE AIR ' ' Cartoon and Comedy j;'. J purities in this fertilizer, coupled with its nitrogen, that make it so im portant to the healthy growth and development of crops. Question: If 1 do no; cotton at all this year, paid for replacing ail oi" with soil improving crops ? Answer: You tan reduce up to 35 er cent of your base cotton acreage and be paid at the rate of 5 cents a pound on the average yield. This is the soil conserving payment. How ever, you would qualify for the soil building payment if you planted soil improving crops in place of cotton on all your cotton land. This would be at a lesser rate, however, and not to exceed $1 an acre for the acreage so planted. Say New Farm Program Is Best Ever Devised Agricultural authorities say the new soil-improvement program is tne best plan ever undertaken for the all-around development of North Carolina farming. If farmers cooperate whole-heari- edly with the program said Dean I. claiming worn-out land, he contin ued, the program will reverse the soil-ravaging processes that have been goinp on for years. This will help safeguard the future of agricul ture and the nation. 'llie program will encourage balan e ! farming so as to avoid the over production of certain crops to the jiej'lect of others. It will also encour- ige the farmers to produce at home O. Schaub, of State college, it will las much as possible, the things need- elevate agriculture in this state to ed on the farm. a higher plane than ever before. The new program embodies many of the fundamental principles advo cated by the extension service for years, he said, but it is much more comprehensive and far-reaching than anything that has gone before. The nature of the new program makes it applicable to every farm in the state, said the dean in urging all farmers to take part in it so they can share in its benefits. The program will give the fanners direct financial aid in the foirn of payments lor limiting thtir pioduc tx.i of soil-deph lin;f trup.; ami for .aiTyii..-" oat vaiious ;u l-aihiiiu and conservinir practices. i''roi,i I!) to 'Jf iiii'lion ('.oilai's wdl be av;.i!".';Ie (Vr di.-li'il;i:i)i! ihirf year in soil-con.-ervalion grants to North Carolina farmers. indirectly, it will id them finan cially by preventing the production of price-ruining surpluses, by in :reasiii!' the efficiency of farmine, By stimulating the production of forage and feed crops, the program will give an impetus to dairying and the production of beef cattle, the dean pointed out. The state needs more dairy and beef cattle, he emphasized. An increase in timber production and land reclamation through refor estation will also follow. This year forestation of fields which have been in cultivation will probably count as a soil-building practice for which payments will be made. The dean also announced that sec retary of agriculture, Henry A. Wal lace has appointed a state commit tee of representative farmers to hefp determine certain policies of the new program. Among the matters to come before (lie committee are: the rate of pay ment for various soil-building prac tices, which practices will be consid ered soil-building, and the rate of payment lor reducing the acreage and by stimulating the live-at-home ! of soil-building crops other than cot- moveiiient The soil-building practices, if fol lowed generally, will greatly increase the fertility of the soil within the next few years, the dean pointed out, and this will make possible a more economic and efficient production of crops. Dy checking erosion in the moun tain and Piedmont areas and by re- ton, tobacco, and peanuts. He said too, that work sheets which farmers will need in connec tion with the program will soon be in the hands of every county agent for general distribution. 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