The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-03-16
SALVATION ARMY DISCIPLINE.

rrba present trouble in the SdlNdeiot'
hoe recalled some incidents snow
in, The inhexible, not to say cruel, us
o;nlina in the rank and file of the Army
and the extreme hardships undergone,
esnecially by the newer mehpels' 80
MANY of these stories get INTO prLit'
for the new converts arc Silent. -
bright woman who has llVeo seESiai
years in New York, but is OIL Ehsiish
birth and training, told the other uay
of an incident of twelve or tiilIlseh
wears. ago which occurred Whlle she
was a resident of Guys hospital OIL
London. She was there as an moor
medical students attending clinics, ana
also for treatment for spinal trouple,
her brother being one of the resident
doctors of the hospital.
During a severe spell pI eolo
weather" she said, three of the pa
tents brought to the hospltal VIZ
members Of the Salvation Army in uni
forn-two women and man. All
three had collapsed from weakness ana
exposure while out in the bitter cold
performing the work imposed by their
superiors. | believe they were begging,
or at least one was. That is, as | I'M
derstood it, each was furnished with
list of names and addresses OF people
from whom subscriptions were to be
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work of the very hardest sort. 1t was
said that if they did not do satisfac-
tory days work they got only bread
and water for supper.
1.-THE man was found to be danger
ously i'll of pneumonia The house doc
tor said that one of the chief causes
of his Illness was insufficient clothing
The man had on only thin cotton
shirt of the 1imsiest material under
A no
doctor said that to go out with such
clothing in such weather was simply
suicidal, and that the people who inn
pose such tasks ought to be in Jail. In
fact, all the attendants of the ward
were indignant, and it was almost the
sole subject of our converse ton at
meals The man said that these were
all the clothes he had, and he had no
means of getting more. They had a
trifiing allowance, L believe he said, of
three or four shillings week and they
had to account literally for every half
penny of it. If they spent what was
considered an unnecessary half-penny,
it was deducted from the next weeks
ALLEGIANCE
Il don't know so much about the
women patients, but we understood
they were also very low. They. too,
had the scantiest clothing. 1t is rule
in Guys, as in other hospitals, that pa
tients who can afford to pay for treat
ment ought to. do so. After while in
this case the hospital authorities sent
a bill to General Booth for the treat
ment Of these three patients. The gen
eral answered, declining to pay; he
said neither he nor the army could be
held responsible for the medical bills
of it's members. He also said, and this
was the outrageous part of it, that
when a soldier ceased to work he ceased
to belong to the army. The hospital
people wrote again and insisted that as
these three people became i'll while per-
forming unreasonable duties imposed
by the army, the army ought to pay
the bills
81 don't remember how that contro-
versy ended-probably I never heard
but [ know the hospital officials were
angry enough to make trouble for the
general if he did mot pay. Some part
OF the story eventually got into the
papers, and a radical weekly think
it was Reynolds Sunday News-took it
up. This paper hunted up the people
that General Booth dealt with for his
supplies, and published long articles
showing that he reveled in the choicest
luxurieS in the market and lived like q
regular nabob. They said he bought
straw berries in winter, the best in Co
NtHI NIdlu6H- DIT Hall guinea a box
and that he bought the most EXPENSIVE
wines, and had a cook at f45 a year.
which is a very big salary over there
for cook. Several of the papers crit
lclsed the general, and called fer some
accounting of the thousands and tens
Of thousands of pounds that had been
raised for the army. and which the
general had put in his own private
pocket, for all the public knew to the
contrary. But the general never no
ticed these attacks
1t has already been noted that the
general has always kept the control of
ling of the funds. among the members
Of his own family.-New York Sun.
Much business this morning. said
the druggist to his new assistant, as he
entered the shop, which was also a
postoffice.
Eyes, SIR replied the youth, ST have
had busy morning of it. There have
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