Running water from the city mains is in every cell but it is only used for domestic purposes. The drinking water is boiled and then passed through iced coils, so that we have unlimited quantities of iced water summer and winter. Every cell has a heavy white porcelain hopper, entirely free from sewer gas and odors. When they erect a monument to Warden McKenty, they will mention this hopper. The Catholic chaplain celebrates mass every Sunday morning at seven o’clock, and at nine o’clock nine Protestant services are held simultaneously on the different blocks, by upward of one hundred people. At three in the afternoon, visiting choirs from different denominations render a sacred concert on the Center. The men are allowed all kinds of tools and material necessary to any work they may care to undertake for pleasure or profit, and the management encourages such efforts by finding a ready sale for the product. One man made $700 last year another $400 and a dozen of them are earning more than $200 a year through work of this kind. Every man has the privilege of the yard daily for a time, during five days in the week. Sunday is the day when everything is closed down tight after church services. The baseball league is now in its fourth year and numbers nearly one hundred men. Games attended by the inmates, are played daily except Sunday during the season. Quoits and hand ball are in evidence at all hours. A semi-dark cell is the only form of punishment. The officer inflicting it usually apologizes for being forced to go to this extreme. We have 90 officers, and there is not a brute in the whole lot, and only three “cranks.” We are within ten minutes walk of the business center of one of the great cities of the world, and there are no roads upon which we may be employed in repairing. This is a matter for congratulation. Philadelphia had the road building system in force 125 years ago, and it was the sight of the humiliation and indignities suffered by the prisoners from malicious onlookers that inspired the thought resulting in the erection of this prison. Road building for prisoners in Philadelphia would mean a backward step of over 100 years, before the West and particularly Oregon was born. The United States Government, with a full appreciation of the humanitarian methods in force here, is sending its prisoners to this institution from points as far as the middle West. Much more could be said in favor of the Eastern Penitentiary, but let this suffice: We have every comfort, and benefit accorded to prisoners in any penal institute in the United States, --and then a whole lot more. At the same time THE UMPIRE does not recommend it as a place of residence. EVENTS IN BRIEF [Under this heading will appear each month numerous paragraphs of general interest, relating to the prison field and the treatment of the delinquent.] _Warden Bridges._--The Boston (Mass.) Record says: