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14. distance including several buildings through which the message must pass. Tn other words, a grapevine message originating in the forward depths o. the 5. 5. Tevinthan - euppoesing it were @ prison - would reach the party intended for on the after-deck, after it hed passed through the depths eft, midshipe, then to the bow, and back to the stern — using neither pencil, peper bor telephone. a better ideo of the effectiveness and reliacility of the grapevine can be obtained by observing the left wing of the Administration Building (in the left background of the aerial photograph) and the baseball diamend in the right foreground. Such a distance would require three to five minutes. With this in mind one oan better sonmprehend the situations that develop with the progress of the varrative. “come on, buddy,” someone calle to Capone as he locks gut at the passing convicts. "Chow!" He realizes, with a stabbing pain in the stomach, that he ds fmangry! Strange, he reflects, that he hadn't given food a thought! Be steps out into the passing line, his broad smile exhibiting two rowe of perfectiy white teeth, hig thick lower lip thinned by the radiance of his senile. Enowing not which way to turn, except to follow the others, he finds himseif, in wingle file, entering the Dining Hall. It ie an immense room, broad and high. Tall columns, painted tattleship gray, teach up to the ceiling above. There are rows after rows of what seem amall white enamel courters, & line of men, eutering on hia right, have peen seated in rows of eight; then, in the next section, rows of six. They asem to file in endlessly. Four hundred . . Five hundred - + Six jundred, » Twelve hundred. + Thirteen hundred. « On and on! The place 4s not large enough to hold all. It is noces~ sary to have three breakfasts, three dinners, three suppers each day in order to feed all the inmates. The Dining Hell seatgapproxinately gixteen hundred. There are more than twenty-five bundred jnmates in the institution. Capone, sandwiched between & "hill-billy” and a car thief, though practically starved barely tastes the idney beang and slaw for which he had pasged his plate. One elbow rests op the counter-like table; his chin is cupped in his hand. His stomach cries for food, but his “aelicate syster will not stand this!"