A concrete and brick corridor, 10 feet wide, connects the detention
cell house with the kitchen and mess hall in the rear. Space is
provided between these two buildings for the future construction of
another cell house which will double the cell facilities.
The mess hall and kitchen consists of an open brick and steel building,
with brick walls, steel trusses, cement tile roof, no ceiling, and with
concrete floor. The building is approximately 65 feet wide and 225 feet
long. Forty-eight-inch ventilators are mounted between each pair of
trusses. Steel factory sash with large ventilators are used throughout.
All windows are barred and screened. The mess hall will also be used
temporarily as an auditorium for speakers and picture shows. On the
opposite wing from the mess hall is the kitchen, which will be equipped
with steam cooking equipment. In the rear of the kitchen is the cold
storage plant, consisting of vegetable, meat and ice storage rooms,
and a complete refrigerating plant. In the rear of the mess hall is a
covered concrete walk connecting same with the power plant. This walk
is of permanent construction, with cement tile roof. The essential
purpose of the shed covering the walk is to protect prisoners from the
rain in going to and from the factories in the rear of the prison yard.
The power plant is located at the end of the covered walk. It consists
of a brick and steel building with cement tile roof and concrete
floors. The boiler plant consists of three 200 H.P. boilers connected
to a radial brick stack 6 feet 6 inches in diameter by 150 feet high.
In front of the boilers is a concrete bin underneath the railroad
tracks, which are on the yard grade. The power plant contains a 100
K.W. emergency lighting generator, switchboard, vacuum pumps, feed
water pumps, heater, and piping. All buildings are supplied from the
power plant with vacuum steam heat, hot water, and electricity through
a system of tunnels which connect the power plant with all buildings.
Hot water is also supplied to the several buildings from a large heater
located in the laundry room.