St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1896-02-08
WORK IN THE SLUMS.
Herbert Root Reports to the Ham
line w. C.. Il. U.

An exceedingly interesting and sue
cessful experience meeting Of the HAM
line w. G. T. u. was held last night at
the residence of Mrs. G. l.. Weber, the
object of which was to raise money for
the Chicago Temple.
Each member was expected to con-
tribute dollar, earned by herself, and
to narrate her experience, and among
those attending and contributing in
this manner the following experiences
were related: Mrs. Crawford Numbered
some new shirts for her husband and so
earned her dollar. Miss Martin earned
her dollar by making butter. Mrs.
Cannon wrote a pOet;cal description
Of the typical Minnesota winter accord
ing to Inc usual Eastern conception 81
our climate. Mrs. Wells stayed ous CT
her kitchen at 25 cents per day. ard
let things run according to thu sweet
will of the kitchen goddess GEsC the
money was earned Mrs. Foltz tried
dressmaking and saved a dollar by re-
modelling last winters cape Mrs
Dorr earned her dollar doiag house
work. Mrs. Weber earned ners by go
ing without a set of quilting frames
and lacking her comfortables on the
kitchen table. Mrs. Root earned her
dollar While doing rescue work by ask
Ing the inmates of one of the houses to
abstain from the flowing bowl to that
extent in order to help along so good
cause. she reported the contribution
to have been most cheerfuIly and will
ingly made, with the hope that it would
do more good than the $50 that some
house had recently contributed to the
carnival. Mrs. Hazard earned her dol
lar by making a toboggan suit The
ladies Of the union who have recently
visited some of the downtown wine
rooms were then called upon for their
experience One Of them stated that
Herbert Root, of Valley City, N. D.,
who had gone with the committee, was
present, and asked that he relate the
experience. Mr.. Root said that two of
the members Of the union and himself
had gone down on last Wednesday and
Sunday evenings and had visited four
wine room, and remained until after
midnight. On both occasions they had
seen large numbers OF girls drinking
and carousing with drunken and OBJ
scenely behaved men. many OF both
sexes being realty under the influence
Of intoxica nts,
With reference to the comparative
thcroughness Of the enforcement Of the
liquor avs in North Dakota and Min
nesota, Mr.. Ros,t said that, however
poorly the prohibition law might be en-
forced in North Dakota, yet, from
careful observation and inquiry. he
" cN<' SoiAs iuNSN tia ~ OGlCSE ell
forced than the license law In Mime
sofa: that for every violation Of the
pr ohib itfon law in the worst communi-
sly IL North Dakota, he was satisfied
that. in proportion to the population.
there were ten violations Of the IL
cense law in st. Paul. I'VE are urged"
he said, ito repeal our prohibition law
because 1t is failure, because it is
not enforced, because prohibition does
not prohibit; but we shall not AXE the
advice Of the whisky men OF Mime
sofa, SO long as your own license laws
are not enforced one tenth as WELL
Mr.. Root requested that, IL any one
knew of a single saloon In the state Of
Minnesota. in which the license law
was not openly Violated 9s5 days every
year, Il might forthwith be informed