The San Francisco call., 1895-11-18
Salvationists Supply Respectable
Lodgings for the DeS-
titute.
BED AND FOOD FOR A NICKEL
The Army's New Enterprise Approved
by the Philanthropists and
HumanitarianS.

beds and breakfaSt-all for a nickel.
Thus are epitomized The objects of a
new shelter and receiving home which is
being started by the local Salvation Army
for the benefit Of the destitute among the
women of this City. Negotiations are
now pending looking toward the leasing
of a suitable building in the vicinity of
Broadway and Montgomery avenue, and
if satisfactory terms can be secured the
institution will open at once.
The shelter home for destitute women is
the result of a suggestion which originated
with Mrs. Maud Ballington Booth, and
which she advanced during her recent
visit to this City. The suggestion was
made at her farewell meeting, and so
favorably was the idea received by her
hearers that the unsolicited subscriptions
to the home fund since received at army
headquarters aggregate $135. The plan is
a new one in the armY's experience IN this
country though such shelters have been
successfully carried on in England, Can
ada and Australia for years. In New York
CITY the SalvationiStS are even now fitting
up building as a home, but the local Of
fCerS are eager to forestall Their Eastern
comrades and to secure for San Francisco
the honors of q pioneer in the work.
I'VE propose to provide place to which
women in need may be sent or brought at
any hour OF the day or night" said Ensign
Mrs. McFee. who will probably have
charge OF the new institution, yesterday :;
"a place where they can be fed, cared for
and watched over as they can nowhere
else. All classes Will be welcomed, and no
nvidious distinctions viii be made. The
only conditions to our hospitality Will be
that its object shall be woman and in
need. And it will make no difference in
our treatment OF her whether that need is
the result merely of her misfortune or of
her vice or sin.
The CRYING need Of aniinstitution of this
kind has long been apparent 10 US. We
have several corps working in the lower
part OF the City, and 1t happens every day
that we meet women who are alone, friend
less and destitute-women who need lust
such care as the shelter viii give, but for
whom We have not heretofore been able to
do much. They are not what are COM
monty termed fallen women either
Many have come from the country seeking
work and have merely been unfortunate
Others have worked hard for years to keep
the family together but have been tenn
porarilv beaten in the struggle for exist
ence. To these temptations come, and
some fall but how many may be saved if
we but lend them helping hand till they
are enabled TO get upon their feet again.
But, OF course, We meet with the out
cast, toe. | have III mind q woman who
was formerly much addicted to liquor.
The army became interested in her, and
a. different times I have known her TO go
for months without touching a drop.
Then she gets off on a spree ana we must
take her in and straighten her up and
start her on the right way again, and tor
this the Shelter Home Will be most useful.
Yet for such, separate quarters will be
provided, in order that the merely unfor-
tunate NAV not be ANNOYED by them.
The work among the fallen is not, how
ever, to be neglected in the least. Under
the same roof and for the sake of economy
under the same management as the shell
ter but distinct from it, will be the Re-
ceiving Home for fallen women, from
which those who desire to leave their old
life will be drafted to the Rescue Home in
Beulah. When a woman comes to the
shelter she will be asked if it is temporary
lodging only that she wishes or whether
o. not she desires to enter the home. The
sets of apartments will be kept absolutely
distinct, so that no contingencies may
arise disagreeable to those of either class
whom we wish to aid.
The cost of the undertaking?. Briga-
dier J. j. keppel has figured that about
$1,000 will be required to fit up the shelter
comfortably and to keep it running for a
year. We propose to raise this money by
sending circular letters TO those known to
be interested in this work and by securing
individual subscri ptiOns payable at any
time named by the subscriber. But by
far the greater part of the money needed
we expect to secure through the assistance
of the press. The people of San Francisco
have always assisted generously in any
good work of which they recognized the
necessity. That this is necessary will be
recognized at once from the mere state
ment OF the case, and as THE CALL is kind
enough TO inform the public of our work
and its needs l doubt not that we shall Sc
cure enough financial support to ensure
its success"
That the Salvation Armvs new enter
prise meets with universal approval is evil
dent from the results OF inquiries made
yesterday afternoon among the known
philanthropists and humanitarians of this
City
Nothing is more needed" said Mrs. NJ.
X. Harnlsh, business manager of the Pa
cifc EnsirE and leader in the Women s
Christian Temperance Union, ethan safe
and respectable home of some Sort to
which honest and respectable women may
go in time of need. | have been coming
in contact with working women for three
years, and / know whereof [ speak. We
have numbers of rescue homes and institu-
tlons OF that kind, and while they are well
enough in their way and doubtless do a
world OF good the trouble with them is
that woman to be eligible to them must
have been to prison or become utterly de-
graded: 1t is high time that something
was being done to help honest women to
remain honest and respectable ones re-
spectacle"
~ am in favor of anything which tends
to elevate the lower classes or to relieve
distress" said d. Gilbert Dexter. The
Salvation Army has done a noble work
here IN California in both these lines and
this new enterprise is no departure from
Its custom. 1t deserves all success and en-
couragement and should have the heartiest
support 1t shall have all that can in
any way afford it."
81 do not see why women should not be
cared for as we'll as men" was the charac-
teristic remark of Mrs. Sturtevant- Peet Of
San Jose, State president of the Women's
Christian Temperance Union, who chanced
to.be in town yesterday. 1.-The good the
army has done has been surprising. both
in its amount and its lasting results
It's work is of a kind which none others
seem able to do, and it should be encour-
aged and supported in every way
Chief of Police Crowley is firm believer
in the great good accomplished bv the
army, and its members are countenanced
and aided in every possible way by the
officers of his department. The Chief was
not at his cffice late yesterday afternoon.