The Hudson, from the wilderness to the sea . ence, no recognition by word,look, or gesture, being allowed among them. The adoption of thissystem, in 1823, rendered the prison accommodation insufticient, and anew establishment was authorised in 1824. Mount Pleasant, near SingSing, was purchased, and in May, 1826, Captain Lynds, a farm agent ofthe Auburn prison, proceeded with one hundred felons from that estab-lishment to erect the new penitentiary. They quarried and wroughtdiligently among the marble rocks at Mount Pleasant, and the prison for THE HUDSON. 299 men was completed in 1829, when th
The Hudson, from the wilderness to the sea . ence, no recognition by word,look, or gesture, being allowed among them. The adoption of thissystem, in 1823, rendered the prison accommodation insufticient, and anew establishment was authorised in 1824. Mount Pleasant, near SingSing, was purchased, and in May, 1826, Captain Lynds, a farm agent ofthe Auburn prison, proceeded with one hundred felons from that estab-lishment to erect the new penitentiary. They quarried and wroughtdiligently among the marble rocks at Mount Pleasant, and the prison for THE HUDSON. 299 men was completed in 1829, when the convicts in the old State prison inthe city of New York were removed to it. It had eight hundred cells,but these were found to be too few, and in 1831 another story was addedto the building, and with it two hundred more cells, making onethousand in all, the present number. More are needed, for the numberof convicts in the mens prison, at the beginning of 1861, was a littlemore than thirteen hundred. In the prison for women there were only. STATE IBISON AT SINtt SING. one hundred cells, while the number of convicts was one hundred andfifty at that time. The ground occupied by the prisons is about ton feet above high-watermark. The main building, in which are the cells, is four hundred andeighty feet in length, forty-four feet in width, and five stories in the outside walls and the cells there is a space of about twelvefeet, open from floor to roof. A part of it is occupied by a series of 300 THE HUDSON. galleries, there being a row of one hundred cells to each story on bothfronts, and backing each other. Between the prison and the river arethe several workshops, in which various trades are carried on. In frontof the prison for women is the guard-house, where arms and instructionsare given out to thirty-one guardsmen every morning. Between theguard-house and the prison the Hudson River Railway passes, partlytlirough two tunnels and a deep trench. Upon the highest
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