The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-03-15

for it, and go away. A dozen men seen
there at work saving and spntung
wood and earning the money called
for by these tickets We're evidently re-
spectacle and self-resnecting men.
THE FIRST STEP.
The homeless man who brings tick
ct calling for food and lodging in re-
turn FOR work is registered at the Of
flee of the lodge and there is handed to
him a ticket which he leaves at the Of
flee when he goes away. If he arrives
in the afternoon it may he that he does
the work he is called upon to do before
supper; if he arrives late, he does the
work in the morning If he is not able
to saw wood, or prefers not to saw, ne
is set to splitting wood. If that work
is too hard for him, he is set at work
cleaning w about the yard, or some
work is given to him to do in the house
| if he is able to work he is required to
do something, as the circular issued by
the lodge nut it, he is entitled to the
accommodation called for in the ticket
"if, in return, he is willing to do the
work required as a test of his indus
! try"
Say, for Illustration, man has come
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that he gets in the office upon being
registered and goes on out into the
woodward to work When he has done
| the work that he may have been called
upon to do his ticket is punched by
| the official in charge of the woodward,
the punch mark showing how much and
! what kind of work he has done. Then
he goes into the house and gets his
| supper. His ticket is punched for
| that. There is a reading room in the
building. with newspapers, books, and
| magazines. He takes his bath before
he goes to bed The baths provided are
| showers. The bather can regulate the
flow and the temperature of the water
to suit himself, but he is required to
| take thorough bath. He is supplied
with clean towel, a clean night shirt,
and pair of slippers, so that he may
get to bed comfortably, the baths be-
ing in the basement of the building
and the beds in the dormitories. OF
which there are three, having alto
gether capacity for about a hundred
lodgers. The lodge is always full The
beds are single iron bedsteads, some
! with spring bottoms and some with
canvas bottoms laced to the frame oi
the bed AS far as it is possible the
lodger has his choice of these two kinds
| of beds. The bed clothing is always
clean; it is never used twice without
washing The dormtories are steam
heated. on the top floor of the build
ing there is an isolation room, where
a lodger taken sick could be kept unit
the arrival of an ambulance. There
has. however, thus far been but on,
occasion for its use.
KILLING THE MICROBES.
When the lodger disrobes for his batl
he puts his clothes into a netting bag
for which he gets check which h,
retains. His clothing in the nettins
f bag goes into one of the ovens designed
for the purpose for disnfection. 1t il
subjected there to a heat that de
stroys all life. In the morning tn
s lodger surrenders his check and re
. CeiveS his disinfected clothing.
I The lodge is not intended as a plac
for idle and shftless men, but. o
course, more or less such men get int
| it: and then there may be found her
men who are wholly worthy. OF tn
l. men who lodge here probably about 9
" per cent. actually do the work that ar
- expected to do Some, while not siCl
: may not be We'll able to do it. som
u escape, climb over the fence. or ge
II out of a window. Occasionally Il ma
- says he'll De dashed if he'll saw WooC
Z If the man is able to work and won
u work he can be arrested and taken be
t fore a city magistrate and commtte
as a Vagrant.
: All the tickets sold are numbered
II and record is kept of the purchasers
- some of the tickets given away by tn
= purchaser are never presented at III
4" lodge for redemption; some are pre-
sented by persons other than those
1t whom they We're first given, those pen
e sons having themselves given thel
- away or traded them off in some wa.
Unless the original giVer of the tick,
/ has written his name upon it con
munication with him may not be pO!
J. Sihle but in every instance in WhiC
y. it is puSsible the giVer of a ticket
u notified Of its presentation at the iodg
Sc by whom presented, and of the Wor
'e done in fuHlment of its conditions.
~ The product of the work in the Wo0C
yard is kindling wood, which Is sold
the public The lodge sells good woo
and gives fun measure, and finds Il sa
for all it produces.