The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-04-04
THE POOR OF SALT LAKE.
WHAT SHALL BE DONE WITH OUR
NEEDY ONES.
The County Court Forced to With
hold Further Assistance-Sone
Pitiable Cases Looked Up By Il
Herald Reporter.

Dying. gentlemen, and dying all
around you every day"
What shall we do?" the poor of Salt
Lake are saying. They have found
that the county court issues no more
orders for coal and provisions. The
charitable organizations have expended
most of their funds in relieving distress
the past winter. Days and weeks OF
weary search for work are fruitless
On the books of the county selectmen
are recorded some cases of abject
want. Yesterday a Herald reporter
looked through those books and after
wards visited some of the homes de-
scribed. Every one visited was the
scene of squalor and wretchedness. Yet
in all but the case of the "astrologer''
help was deserved.
In a wretched room at the rear Of
third-story building, 264 South Main
street, can be found one of the most
needy as well as most deserving cases
of poverty in the city. There are
mother and two children, a girl of II
years and a boy of Z. The woman
shows traces of refinement, notwith-
standing years of toll and hardship and
mother love has been in no wise di-
minished by the sorrows she has borne
for and with them. Prior to her mar
riage she had taught school and given
music lessons. Love for an unworthy
object proved the cause of her unhap-
piness, as it often does. She was &C.
serted by her husband when her
younger child was but two weeks old.
For a few months she ate the bitter
bread of dependence grudgingly be-
slowed by relatives. She resolved to
make her own way as best she could
in an honest way. This she has done
by "charring" She cleans few Of
fees up in town and washes barber
towels" yet for this work does not
receive enough to shelter, clothe and
feed herself and children, even in the
poor way in which they live. In re
turn for her work in an occulists Of
flee he treats her eye, in which an
abscess has formed. The daughter is
confined to her bed by the measles.
The family has received aid from the
county and will be put to worse straits
now that source of supply is removed.
There was a pathetic patience in the
woman's face as she said: Il
have had hard time, but
through it all 1 have kept my honor
for my childrens sake. If 1 can only
give them All euuCdllOl L VII NC VII
tent" The little girl is charity
student at st. Mary's academy.
Another deserving case is that of
German woman living in the rear. of
255 West First South street. She has
five children, the youngest eighteen
months old. She, too, was deserted by
her husband when the babe was but
two weeks old. She showed a half
dollar which she had earned by wash
ing yesterday and said it was all she
had to live on until she secured further
aid from the county, which she i'm
plicitly believes is forthcoming.
At No. Mortinsen's alley, there is
dire want. The mother is delicate, be
ing able to do only the highest labor
There are three children, the oldest, a
pretty girl of sixteen, who has been
in several families
but who has no work at present. The
wages she received would, at any rate, |
serve only to clothe her. There are