THE OHIO PENITENTIARY.

HE Ohio Penitentiary covers 26 acres within the walls. About two acres outside the prison proper are occupied by offices, the Deputy Warden's residence, store rooms, barn and stables. The prison itself is walled on three sides, the fourth being wholly absorbed by cell houses, offices and the Warden's home. This side presents an imposing front, about 800 feet in length, on Spring street, facing the Scioto river, with the street and outer buildings between it and that stream, with a wide fringe of green lawn before it that in summer is beautified by parterres of flowers and shaded by fine trees. The cell houses and offices form a continuous building from the southeast to the southwest gate, in which are more than 1600 cells, about 600 of these being provided with beds for two inmates, the remainder being too small to receive more than one each. The Female Department, which abuts on the southeast gate, is somewhat advanced toward the street beyond the frontal line of the main prison, and reaches to the public sidewalk. It contains 46 cells.

The walls are dominated by towers at short distances apart and there are 11 of them. Within the enclosure is a small manufacturing city, comprising the shops of The Columbus Bolt Works, The George B. Sprague Cigar Co., C. S. Reynolds & Co., The E. B. Lanman Co., The P. Hayden Saddlery Hardware Co., The Ohio Glove Co., The Columbus Chair Co., The National Broom Co., The Brown-Hinman & Huntington Co., and The Columbus Hollow Ware Co., all private corporations that contract with the state, through the Board of Managers, for the labor of prisoners, at specified prices for able-bodied and infirm men, respectively, and in many instances paying to the prisoners certain agreed amounts for all work produced beyond an appointed task. The total amount earned by such overwork and paid in to the account of the men who have earned it averages about $2500 per year. These contracts employ about 1100 prisoners. In addition to the labor utilized by these enterprises, the state employs about 800 men in the manufacture of the prisoners' clothing, the care of their sleeping quarters, . repairs to buildings, the preparation of food, the management of the gas works-which supply gas to the State Blind Asylum and the State Deaf and Dumb Asylum, as well as to the Penitentiary-the care of the inside park and other grounds, and in the general administration of the mural city with its two thousand population. A tour of inspection more than repays the visitors, who come in great numbers that are increasing yearly, as the people realize more and more that an interesting development of modern ideas relative to the protection of society