The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1896-01-21
WAYFARERS LODGE DONE
PRESIDENT FRANCIS WIYLAND'S
ADDRESS TO THE PUBLIC.

"te anu the most Wouerh Appliances Are
Used to Accomplish the End.
President Wayland of the Organized
Charities says;
1t has long been felt that to COM
plete the facilities of the Organ
lied Charities for dealing with the
transient poor, a Wayfarers' lodge was
necessary. BY this we mean build
ing where transients Including tramps)
could be temporarily lodged under the
Supervision of the agent of the society
and of the police.
Thanks to generous contributions of
more than fifty of our citizens build
ing has been erected and equipped on
the premises of the society, 200 Orange
street. 1t is now ready for use.
1t comprises ample accommodations
for bathing and fumigation of clothing,
(Which will be compulsory, reception
room, etc, etc.
On Wednesday afternoon, January p,
from to 6 O'Clock, the New Haven
Wayfarer's lodge will be open for pub
lio inspection as well as the wood yard,
laundry and other appliances of the
association, in the interest of labor.
Explanation will be made when de-
sired of the mode of conducting bust
ness in the office Of the agent.
The directors invite the most careful
examination of their methods of work.
The new building in question is 4Ox50
feet, we'll lighted and complete in every
particular, The lower part of the
structure is to be used for wood
a., fo,, s,tOr
ing wood, as well as for the men to work
under shelter.
The second story of the building is
reached by an easy stairway, which
opens into a passage way, which COM
municates with the central police sta
ton yard. This passage way has a
concrete floor and contains a Cottage
Heater" which furnishes warmth for
the building. There is little attention
required to keep the heater regulated,
as its workings are principally auto
matte.
The dormitory is on the second floor
and is reached by an easy stairway at
the head of which is a reception room.
This room contains the desk of the
superintendent and settee for the ac-
commodation of the applicant who will
be registered on the blotter with what
ever information he will give to the
superintendent. When the name is
properly chronicled the. wayfarer will
be ushered into the bath room, where
he will be stripped and given an appli-
cation of carbolic soap preparatory to
turning on the water and giving him
complete shower bath. There are FIVE
of these and Agent Preston thinks that
there is a capacity for twenty five baths
per hour.
While the lodger is reveling in the
delights of a shower, than which the
wealthiest man in the city has no bet
ter, his clothes are being bundled and
checked ready for the fumigating room.
His shoes will be checked with the
corresponding number and placed in a
rack. A check will be put around his
neck and enrobed in clean night shirt
he will be ushered into the dornlitory.
If he has not been thoroughly bathed
since his babyhood he has surely had a
good bath now and if his conscience
is clear he is ready for a sleep which
no man can surpass.
His clothes will be taken to the fumi-
eating room, which is a tin-lined box
AXIS on the roof of the building and
has four windows. Here the clothes
will be given a sulphur bath for six
hours.
The process is very simple, the oper-
ator using a large basin in which an
other small basin is put containing the
sulphur. The gas is then turned on
When the six hours have elapsed a solu-
ton Of ammonia is used to kill the
sulphurous odor, and to kill the com
bined odors of sulphur and ammonia
the four windows of the room will be
opened from the outside and the four
winds of heaven will come in as the
last and complete purifier.
The room is supplied with heat, so
that while the clothes are being fumi-
gated they may also be dried if wet
when the lodger comes in. All clothes,
both of the ledger and those used in the
dormitories, are dried on the roof of the
building and are kept entirely distinct
from any work done in the other part of
the department.
The dormitory contains now eighteen
tier beds, allowing accommodations for
three men each, and two single beds.
Fifty-six persorsSsan be accommodated
at the present time, but there is room
for ten more of the tier beds and four
single beds making a total of ninety.
These beds are of the best woven wire
and will each be furnished with fold
ed blanket, two sheets, a pillow and a
top blanket, all of which are washable
There is large tank in the bathroom
where all the bedding and night shirts
will be washed
George w. Banta will have charge OF
the department. The applicants will
be received through the main building
on Orange street until o'clock each
evening. after which time they will be
received through the central police sta
ton, which will be connected with the
department by an electrical bell.
There is a large inner room just off
the reception room.
The building completed will cost
about $1,000, and is one of the most
thoroughly equipped of it's kind in the
country.
The plumbing. which was done by the
New Haven Heating and Plumbing
company, is of the most modern meth
DDS. The managers of the department
of charities are well pleased with their
efforts in the direction of making the
wayfarer comfortable.
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