The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-03-04
Feeding the Hungry.

Plain homespun philanthropy seeks
some queer abodes, and had not a Her.
aid reporter dovetailed himself at IL
O'Clock yesterday morning to a climb
ling column that made its way step by
step to an upper room in the Wasatch
Club, the gifts that are being each day
extended the hungry and unemployed
! of Salt Lake might have gone on with
out a niche in the legend of hard
times
Everybody knows where the free soup
inn is located, but there are few who
have discovered its rival or who are
aware, that in an upper story on Sec
ond South street, Miss Charity is ac-
comprising, unnoticed, a measure of
relief of which any city might be proud.
| Nor is it likely that she would have
lever revealed her doings-had not the
reporter followed up her benefciaries.
There, leading from rooms where dame
chance holds disputed sway, is a dinner
that is almost as capaci0us as is found
| in any Of the hotels of the city. Be-
| tween walls there is stretched a table,
covered with white linoleum that re-
ceives a bath and a laundrying with
each sweep of the caterers cloth and
at which there are forty chairs. Separ-
ating it from the haunts of the tickle
dame, who numbers among her escorts
George Silks. Cal Woods and Brick
| Ceafy, is a heavy damaSk curtain and
this having descended forty of Miss
lCharity's guests are as free from the
temptations of chance as is the
monk who, in ecclesiastical vestments,
distributes mis- charity to the timid
waif. 1t was in the chamber yester-
day that a Herald reporter unexpected
ly found himself. Every chair at the
table was occupied. From its center
rose the Appealing incense from a
roast of beef that appeared large
enough to founder the famished of all
nations. Over it, in ravencus glee,
stood George Silks, a ray of sunshine
upon a carving knife, the blade of
which would have made the Mikado
igreen with envy.
Upon its shining surface was fixed
the rapacious eyes of forty guests, an
| invoice of whose pockets would not
have yielded any more than forty post
age stampS-canceled postage stamps.
At the menu they went and when forty
men grabbed their toothpicks, it was
with a dish of pork and beans, a cut
of roast beef, and quantity of bread,
served in free and unlimited cranti-
ties, under their belt. Scarce had this
forty taken its departure than forty
more trooped into the diner and
when the larder was finally emptied
over 100 of Salt Lakes unemployed
had been saved from the keen fanged
jaws of want.
Don't mention this" pleaded Geo.
Silks. who had cast aside the carving
knife. I'VE are trying to do the best
we can TO keep off hunger, and then
those good people who are dispensing
their charities from the soup house
might think we were undertaking to
rival them
The retired table makes no distinc-
ton between those who gather round
lit. The life long plebe enjoys the same
attention as does the Impoverished
land alms-hunting prince. As long as
lshe larder lasts may the hungry find
food and when the guest has finally
cleared his plate the body has enough
upon which to feed for at least twenty
four house.
Too much cannot be said in common
dation of those modest samaritans WHO
are extending their charities from a
back room and when the distribution
of rewards comes no man will envy
that which falls at their shrine.