[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] dred and seventy-one cubic feet of space for each con-vict. In several hundred of these little cells two convicts are made to share this restricted space. I have known about sixteen hundred convicts to oc-cupy twelve hundred cells. At the time the prison was built there were but two State Prisons, one at Auburn and one in New York City, the latter being known as the " Newgate." In 1828 all the convicts who were in the " Newgate Prison " were removed to the " Mount Pleasant State Prison." which was the official name of what is even now improperly styled the Sing Sing Prison. " The Newgate" was from this date abandoned, and, though still standing, has been turned to a variety of uses. The usual number of convicts in the prison at this place is fifteen hundred. The much-boasted reform in the financial management of the State Prison at this place, by which it is claimed that from the in-stitution having been conducted ata very considerable loss to the State under former management, it has been made a source of revenue to the State, though the present policy, is, to a great degree, a matter of mere plausibility.