The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1885-02-04

for expenses. Once year Ne SAT- and his
vile used to take tea with the inmates. ghica
wss a source Of great de- igat.
Believing that "iacO1r washing IS ms.
pernicious and a tfuiaul source OF disease.
especially to the yong" he built twenty
four baths at cost OF go O0o and public
wash-houses. They are supplied with three
steam engines and SIX washing machines.
Each person bringing clothes is provided
with u rubbing ana boiling tub into which
steam and hot and Geld water are conveyed
by pipes. The clothes are dried by hot air
and can De washed. dried. maugled and
folded in an hour. 10 Sweden | found the
same dislike 10 having the wishing done Ia
tire homes and clothes are usually carried 10
the public Nssh houses.
PeYhsps the most interesting Of a. Nc
Salts gifts 70 bis wOrkmeu u tbs SAltat-e
Club and Institute costing S125 coo; q bar J.
sore bailGing, with large req ling REQ u .su D
piled with IA ~ papers and curreas iitera'
lure liorarg, lecture hall FOR 500 pers ms. a
"rcboo Of Art" with modes, drawings aGd
good teachers a billiard room with four
tables, a room for Sc entlne study, each SUI
dent having proper appliances for lah0-.-
tory work. q gymnasium and drlu roo'u
early sixty feet square, an armory for Tids
practice, anG a smoking room, though Mr..
Salt did not smoke. The membership fee
for all this study and recreation is only
thirty-seYen cents for each three months.
Opposite the great mill is dining hall, y here
o plate OF meat can he purchased for four
cent?, bowl of SOUP for two cents. cup OF
ties or coffee for one csnt. If the men pre-
fer TO bring their own fOod,it is cooked free
of charge The manager has fixed salary,
81 Ii at there is no temptation to scrimp the
boy rs.
Still another gift was made 70 tue work
people 8 park OF fourteen acres, with cro-
lUet ard archery grounds, music pavilion,
places for boating and swimming, and walks
with beautiful flowers. No saloon has ever
been allowed in Saltaire. Without the temp
tatious OF beer shops the boys have grown TO
INTEL gent manhood and the girls 10 virsu-
Gus womsnhood. Sir Titus Salts last gift to
his woIkmeD was q Sundsv school building
costing $50 0OO, where are held the model
Sunday schools of the country" say those
who have attended the meetings. No wou'
der at the death of this man forty thousand
people cane 10 his burial, members OF Par
liamsnt, clergYmen, WOrkIngmen's unions
and ragged scholars No wonder that statnes
have been erected 10 his memory, aad tnat
thousands 20 every year 10 caltalTe 10 see
what one capitalist has done for bis labor
eIs. No lear Of strikes III his workshops; 20
socialism talked in the clean and pretty
homes of the men no sgualid poverty no
depIaving ignorance.
IL, as Spureeou has we'll said, "home IS the
sTsndest OF all institutions" capital can ID
no better work than look TO the homes OF the
isbGrer. 1t is not the mansion which the
employer builds Tor himself, but the home
which be builds Tor his employee, which "
insure a safe country fOT bis children 10
dwell in. ii ditCoDient al poverty sur
round ME place. its foundations are weak; If
intelligence has been disseminated and CON-
forC prom DIED OF his unseish thought Tor
othsrs then ne leaves good heritage f0e h!s
children