The ilInnicipal Prison at Cologne (pi. 17, figs. is a good exam ple of a penal institution. Preliminary provision is here made for arrested persons and those serving out the penalties for minor offences; also medical supervision of prostitution and temporary lodging for prisoners in transit. The accommodation is for about fifty men and twenty women. The base ment is in two sections. The first is reached by the main staircase from the women's prison and yard attached to the housekeeping-rooms; it con tains tea-kitchen, bath-room, laundry, scullery, and cellars for food and fuel. The service in the kitchen is chiefly supplied by the female prison ers. The other section of the basement is reached from the men's court yard, and contains a large workroom, bath, and cellar for fuel. Store rooms—reached only from the front court—are also in the basement, under charge of the supervisors. The main entrance to the ground floor (plan, fig. 12) is in the front court. The receiving-room (a) communicates with a fireproof room, and the rooms (b, b) for the male and female supervisors are so arranged that the yards and windows of the institution can be over looked. The ground floor, at the back, contains two rooms (c, c) for four persons subject to protracted confinement, one apartment (g) for five in valids of a certain class, an apartment (a') for five arrested persons, one solitary cell, one sick-room (c) for cutaneous diseases, and one (i) for treat ment of internal troubles.
On the second floor (fig. 13, plan of the front part) is the room (h) for prayers, divided by a board partition into two parts—one for the men, and one for the women—physicians' consultation- and examining-rooms (i, i), which form an ante-chamber to the chapel; also a part of the men's prison. The third story contains three spare-rooms and the remainder of the men's prison. The latter, on the second and third stories, contains eight rooms for four persons who may be subjected to a protracted period of detention, two rooms for five persons arrested who are to remain a short time, four solitary cells, and two sick-rooms. Four courts, or yards, are attached to the building—one iu front, one each for male and female departments, and one for domestic use. The exterior (pl. 17,fig. 14) has a forbidding appear ance, being built in the inedireval style of architecture.
American Reformatory a penal institution requirino peculiar provisions may be cited the State Industrial Reformatory at Hunt ingdon, Pa. The main wall encloses a space 68o feet square, containing 1.0.6 acres. At the centre of the front, but outside the wall, is the admin istration building, which includes the entrance-gate. Upon entering through this building; into the enclosure, the visitor passes directly into the centre building of the institution, which contains, on the ground floor, a large open apartment with a bathing-pool. Above this, upon the second floor, is a guard-room commanding a view of all the wards, and above this, upon the third floor, is the chapel, or assembly-room. Four wards radiate from this central building, two of them parallel with the enclosing wall, the other two striking off at an obtuse angle. These wards contain three tiers of cells, each 8 by 9 feet, with a height of 8X feet. The cells are 744 in number. In the open space between the ends of the wards are three storied school-buildings, one for each ward. Behind the central building,
and connected with it by a two-story corridor, is a building whose ground floor contains eating-rooms, and whose second story sleeping-rooms for employes. In the rear are buildings for kitchen, laundry, etc., and farther in the extreme rear workshops for the employment and instruction of the inmates. The foundations of all the structures are stone surmounted by brick walls. The floors are artificial stone resting upon brick arches. The cells—used only as sleeping-rooms—are brick with cement flooring and iron-grating doors. The stainvays and galleries are iron. The edifice is strictly fireproof. Steam generated in a boiler-liouse behind the kitchen warms the institution, and an engine furnishes power for the workshops. The institute being intended as a reformatory for youthful offenders, grad uation through the schools is provided for merit, and industry, progress, and good behavior in the workshops are rewarded by privileges.
ancl Hotels are fitted up in a great variety of sty-les, to suit the diversified requirements of their customers and guests. Those of the most expensive kind resemble in so many respects the handsomest private residences that no special description is necessary.
The Bremerhaz,en (figs. is a of a peculiar style, as it is fitted for the temporary needs of persons await ing the departure of emigrant-vessels. This useful public institution, erected (1849-185o) by the members of the Bremen Exchange, is intended to shelter and board two thousand persons. The main building, whose lowest floor is shown in the ground-plan in Figure 17, contains rooms arranged as follows: In the middle of the front are the entrance (a); por ter's rooms (h, b); corridors (c, c); landings with stairs (d, d) to basement and upper stories. In left wing are the dining--room (e), with a room (f) attached; landing and passage to chief steward's room (g), with door open ing to yard; sailors' eating-rooms (h, h); small rooms (I, i) for storage; en trances (k, le) to church; room (nz) for altar-vessels; sacristy (/); and church (n). the right wing are the offices (o, o, o); corridor (p); inspector's dwell ing (q, q); dwellings (r, r) for pastor and manager; nurses' room (s); landing with water reservoir and door to yard (t); female nurses' room (zt); corridor (z); privies (a) ; sick-rooms (x,x,x); and landing and stairs (y,y) to cellar. On one side of the basement is the large kitchen, with adjoining rooms and steam-cooking apparatus; on the other side are large rooms where the bag gage of the emig-rants is deposited. The lodging-rooms proper are on the tipper floors, as follows: nine dormitories, with a wash-room attached to each. The interior arrangement of one of these dormitories is seen in Fig ure 19. Besides a large open space and portions provided with large tables and benches, there are special compartments separated from one another by vertical partitions and provided with berths, in order to serve as sleep ing-apartments for families or for companies travelling together. An attendant is stationed in each lodging-room. The exterior of the building, seen in perspective in Figure 18 (1./. 17) is quite effective, and the style is very suitable to the purpose. Behind the main building-, and parallel with it, is another building- for store-rooms.