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Title: Popular electricity magazine in plain English
Year: 1912 (1910s)
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Subjects: Electricity
Publisher: Chicago, Ill. : Popular Electricity Pub. Co.
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men who viewed her from the Battery pronounced her a frigate but discreetly held their tongue when asked about her unusual appearance and the strange markings on her sails. Each of the broad stretches of canvas were disfigured with short stemmed arrows, the prison mark branded on English convicts. After the vessel had moored and Captain D. H. Smith had been interviewed it developed that the strange craft was none other than the Success, the old British Convict Ship which years ago carried prisoners from England t o Australia when the island continent was used as a convict colony. The vessel was purchased some time ago by Captain Smith and converted into a floating museum. It was in [1806] that the Success made her last voyage from Portsmouth to Australia with several hundred men and women crowded aboard her. Some of the poor prisoners were in chains or ships irons, some in stocks or bilboes and others in iron barred cages like animals in the modern zoological parks. They had been sentenced to a life of
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THE PRISON SHIP ELECTRICALLY ILLUMINATED
exile in the convict colony by English jurists for such petty offences as sheep stealing, apple stealing and fishing in the squires private trout stream. POPULAR ELECTRICITY MAGAZINE 371 As a museum the Success is really a success. Besides the gruesome exhibition of irons, chains, cages, bars and locks there is a collection of old warrants and legal papers, instruments which conveyed men and women into that floating hell more than a century ago. There, too, are the confessions of murderers and notorious thugs and criminals of the slums of London of Dickens time, along with cudgels, blackjacks, brass knuckles, knives and old blunderbuss like pistols, used by the bad men of Revolutionary times. And with this unique collection and looking strangely out of place is bolted to the walls of the cabin an electric service board which controls the five hundred odd lamps and arcs that light the prison ship at night when curiosity seekers swarm through the old vessel

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