The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-10-02
AMONG "pAUPER ORDERS"
The Rest Of Everything is Given to
the Cry For Charity.

the CTy FOR CnuEAlEs
A manner nav live like q prince I'M
der the Geddes regime.
Many of the INDECENT in Salt Lake
do live on the Fat of the land as
secured by Selectman Geddes' "pauper
orders" No family of the middle
class can well afford the ported meats
end the many condiments and delica-
cies that Mr.. Geddes supplies to a
whole army Of males and females each
month, week and day. The old trite
1rueism that Its no crime to be poor"
was all very wen in its day, but up to
date So Salt Lake its not only 7
crime, but an honest and lazy luxury.
That one nEy be respectable and
Door' is also true. The prostitute, it
teems. shares with the virgin. and the
chiefs family gets just as much as
the honest n-an's-au share alike In the
"puu" from the pauper fund with Mr.
GedLe IS at the spigot Just why there
is no distinction made, or differences
shown between the worthy and I'M
worthy. is why, perhaps, it costs an
unreasonable amount TO care for and
answer the sharp, shrill cry Of Char
ity, charity"
For years il has been a written and
vel acted law that only The worthy
needy were given Of the public aims Of
SALT Lake county. Of course, there
have been and always win be impos-
tiers. but by careful watching it has
been. and would he. easy OF detec-
ton. were the least attention paid 20
the matter. In giving orders 10 pau
pers for supplies FOR a livelihood at
the various dealers patronized by Mr..
Ged6es 3n his diversion Of the pauper
trade. the recipient understands that
he or she is to select nothing but what
will supply the actual necessities of
life The pauper is not to buy ice
cream with an order, if its bread that
IS wanted most, and asked for, for If
once found getting Iuxuries instead Of
necessities IL would mean, in all hon
or that no further appeals would be
hearKened TO ~ the dispenser of pau
per orders. In other words. If Lazarus
smokes he must beg his tobacco. not
buy il with q pauper warrant. As all
uauper orders. lad very plainly in
clear type. that every article purchas-
ed at a store must be noted on the
b&ak Of the order by the merchant
supplying the same, Mr.. Geddes thus
keeps a check on what each indi-
gent unde~ his liberal charge con
eumes each month. The following are
only 4 few of the hundreds OF like
examples that have occurred and are
occurring daily:
Mrs. c. c. is a regular recipient
for weekly pauper orders on stores.
On January and % on two orders for
$3.50 each she got coffee. butter, lemon
peel cuwants, raisins and jelly at the
,salt Lake Equitable Coop store.
z Mrs NJ " Cno address,. on
January % was given a pauper. order
on the same store, but she kept what
she got of the back Of the order, as
do also scores Of others. This order
Cor Sc was very liberal in Mr.. Geddes,
who at the same time gave J. S. A.
an order on the same store for SIS
TO pay for Mrs. M Ms rent. Z nus
Mrs. n got 50 for her call on Mr.,
Eeddes that week, and she is reg
t-lar caller ever since.
Mrs. M c. is a regular" In some
Of her orders on D. i. Davis she buys
fish, starch and condensed milk, but
her faa-orite article is candy.
r b a Brighton pauper. also
buys canog,.
Mrs F. r. - East Third South
street, stands well with MI. Geddes,
rs he paid her rent and always gave
her IS orders on the Levy Grocery
company. which never wrote on the
back of her orders what she bought
Mrs. R. F. lives pretty well with
the assistance of pauper orders as she
buys bananas. prunes. toilet soap and
tobacco"
P NJ contents himself with ''tea,
holsters and eggs"
Mrs. Mary J. Grant, the notorious
prostitute, who has daughters also
prostitutes. tastes of Mr.. Geddes' hos
p1table board for shoes, currants, SUI
gar and raisins." Yet these are the
kind OF cases that Mr.. Geddes charges
mileage for Inspecting"
Mrs. Mary Grice, wife of the motor