The Maryland Prisoners’ Aid Association have established a
woodyard and novelty manufacturing shop at No. 311 North Street,
Baltimore, where steady employment is furnished those desiring
to start anew after liberation from penal institutions. Like all
work of this kind, the new plant is conducted with the idea of
defraying its own expense, and not to realize profits.
All the machinery in the woodyard, which, in full operation,
employs twenty men, is driven by electricity. The principal
product is kindling, manufactured from cordwood shipped from
Anne Arundel County. The wood is unloaded from cars alongside
the sawmill, where it is cut, split and loaded on wagons ready
for delivery.
An important feature of the plant is the shop on the second
floor, where light cabinet articles of all descriptions are
manufactured. Many of the men going to the Aid Society for
help in obtaining employment are of a mechanical turn, and
these are given positions in the shop. In charge of a skilled
cabinet-maker and woodworker, John McVauley, tables, chairs,
magazine racks, umbrella-stands, settees, stools, upholstered
furniture and miscellaneous household articles are turned out
for which the men are paid wages about equal to the rates paid
by manufacturing plants.--Baltimore _Sun_.
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