The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-02-01

weekly, and each siugle man or woman 81. 81
for expenses. Once war Mr.. salt and hts
wife used to take tea With the inmates, which
was socrce of great z1.light.
Believing that "iSdoor washing Is most
pernicious and rs1itful source o. disease,
especially to t'Ae young" he built twenty
four baths ut . cost Of S35. 900 and public.
wssh-houses. They are supplied with three
steam engines and six washing machines.
Each person bringing clothes rs provided
with a rubbing and boiling tab into which
steam and scs and cold water ere conveyed
BY pipes. The clothes are dried by hot air
and can be washed, dried, manrled aud
folded IN an hour. In Sweden Hound the
sane die ike to having the washing done in
the homes and clothes are usually carried to
the public wash houses.
Perhaps the most interesting OF all Mr.
Saltc gifts to his workmen is the Saltaire
Club and Institute. costing ST.. 900; hand.
so ne auilding. with large rea ling room..s sup
pied with daily papers and current litera-
fure- library, lecture hall fsr 800 pere ms &
'.scA ool OF Art" with models, drawings aud
good teachers, billisfd room with fozz
tables, Q room Tor sc: entifc study, each stu
doDt having proper appliances Tor Iaecra-
tory work. o gymnasium and drill roem
nearly sixty feet 81 nare, an armory for rife
practice, ard smoking room, though Mr..
Salt did net smoke. The membership fee
Tor all THIS study and recreation is only
Opposite the great mill is dining hall, where
plate CT inert can &c purchased FOR four
cents, bowl of soup for two cents, 9 cup of
tea or coffee for one cent. If the men pre-.
fer TO bring their own food,i is cooke free
OF charge. The manager has fixed salary,
80 that there is no temptation to scrimp the
buy ers.
Still another gift was made 10 the work
people q park of fourteen acres, with cro-
quet and archery grounds, music pavilion,
places ion boating and swimming and walks
with beautiful lowers. No saloon has ever
been allowed in Saltaire. Without the temp
tatsons Of beer shops the boys have grown to
Gus woman hood. Sir Titus Salts last gift to
his workmen was Sunday School building
costing 500 600. where are held the "medel
Sunday schools of the country" say those
who have attende the meetings. No won.
der at the death of this man forty thousand
| people came to his burial, members of Par
lament, clergvmen, w0rkingmen's unions
have been erected TO his memory, and that
thousands 90 every year to saltaire to see
what one capitalist has done for his labor
ers- No fear OF strikes in his workshops; no
| socialism talked in the clean and spretty
homes OF the men; no squalid poverty, no
depraving ignorance.
If, az Spurseon has we'll said, "home is the
grandest Of ali institutions capital can do
no better work than look to the homes OF the
leborer. II is not the mansion which the
employer builds for himself. but the home
which he builds for his employee. which wilt
insure safe country for bis children to
dwell in. Ii difconient ard poverty sur.
round his place. its foundations are weak; if
intelligence has been disseminated and CON.
fort promoted by his unselfsh thought for
Others. then he leaves good heritage for hiP
children.