The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-08-15

lily may have the use of an abundance of
pure hot water and every necessary form
of rubbing wringing, drying ana ireuing
apparatus that ingenuity can suggest.
These laundries are placed in the tene-
ment house districts, where the people, Iv-
ing in small apartments. have no oppor-
tunity TO dry their clothes. aud no running
water to wash with. Most of the tenement
houses, like the private residences of the
rich, are without the conN euiences which
in our country afford so much employment
to the plumber. one can thus appreciate
what blessing it is for the mother of a
family of children to be able to take their
soiled clothing to a place where il can he
boiled and scrubbed and dried and ironed
and starched as neatly as at the laundry
of the queen. They furnish their own soap
and starch and by limiting the time OF
each washer the mothers of families are
protected in the use of the tubs and
wringers against those who wash. for a
living.
In some of the public lauudries the num-
Der of patrons reaches a thousand Il day.
In the Seven Dials parish laundry the daily
average attendance was about 100 in the
winter and $50 in the summer.
In Glasgow municipal paternalism has
been carried so far that the city govern
ment undertakes to do a genera laundry
business for bachelors and families who
have no one to do their washing. These
Establishments, however, Will not do IRON
ing. They send the clothes home trough
dried" and charge accordingly. This,
however is all that a worliusman re-
qultrs for he does not we1r ''bCited" shirts
and starched collars and cuffs If he can
get his underclothes and socks and flannel
shirts thoroughly washed and dried he is
well taken care of, and the price he pays Is
just sufficient to cover the expense. The
public laundries serve another good pur-
pose in furnishing employment for a large
number of women who need food and shell
ter until they can find permanent positions.
Therefore nearly all the Washerwomen are
refugees who are sent to the laundry by
the police. the inspectors of the poor,or the
sanitary inspectors, who have found them
i'm a destitute condition.
Only few days ago the Prince of Wales
opened a new public bath and lauOdrey in
the parish Of Lambeth, London, which is
the largest of it's kind in England, and
probably in the world, and cost $4,000
The first-class swimming pool is l42 by 90
fete in size and from To feet deep; the
second-c.ass pool is 90 by 30 feet; the swim
ming pool for women is 81 by 40 feet, there
are ninety-fve private bathrooms and
public laundry for 100 women. The en-
tire establishment can take care of 1.50J
people comfortably at the same time.
In Glasgow, where the municipal reforms
have been carried to the furthest degree of
lodging houses for the floating population
that is Away found in large manufacture
ing and commercial communities There,
under what is known as the 'pure-air
law" which prohibits the overcrowding of
Sleeping apartment houses and requires
so many cubic feet of space for each per-
son, ,the city officials undertake to care
for those who have no means to serue bet
ter accommodations. Similar provision is
made for the destilu ard homeless in CHI
cage and other cities of the United states,
but ii is not carried to such an extent nor
planned on so compete scale. In Glas-
gov any wretched tramp may find free
lodgings on the soft side of a board in the
third-class lodging dormitory. Before he
goes to bed he is required to take bath,
have his hair cut short, if necessary, and
be vaccinated, but he is not furnished with
a pillow or bedding. If he produces a
penny he can have much better accommo-
dttions in the second-elass dormitories If
he has threepence he can get better still.
If he Unwilling to pay sixpence-and hun
dreds of such men in Glasgow patronize
the pubic lodging houses at that rate-he
may have a comfortable bunk in room
by himself with sheets, Blankets and
woven-wire mattress.
Persons who visit Glasgow in search of
employment not only find these public
lodging houses comfortable and respecta-
BILE. but the superintendents often assist
them i'm securing positions 1t has become
the habit of bosses in the shipyards and
in the mills and factories to telephone TO
the lodging houses when they need men.
At Glasgow they go still further, and
furnish suites of rooms for families under
the care and at the expense of the city
as a temporary refuge for those who hap
pen to be homeless for one reason or am
other. workingman who comes to
that city in search OF employment can
take his family there and remain at a
nominal price-a few pcnce"a day-until
he finds a permanent home for them
Families who are cvicted from tenement
houses may seek shelter for the night or
for a few days until they are otherwise
provided for. laborer who is suddenly
made q widower with a family OF children,
or a wife who is left without a husband.
either by death or abandonment, may
there find asylum until friends furnish re
iet or other accO nmodatiOns can be
found. The Family home" at Glasgow. /
has l76 suites Of apartments, with com
mon sitting rooms, payrooms and nur-
series and a spacious playground for chill !
dren. / believe Il Is the only institution 4
OF the kind in the world.
The public lodging houses OF Glasgow |
shelter more than 100000 people every year
and those in other cities, although not so
complete and extensive, do "A correspond |
ing amount Of good.
All of these Institutions have grown I
from Lord Shaftsbury's Association for
the Promotion Of Ceainess Among the /
People" and they have reduced the death I
rate ia the manufacturing cities Of Great |
Britain 70 at least one-half what fl was /
when the society was organized fifty years
ago. The death rate for the second week /
In July-one OF the most unhealthy Of the /
year-in thiriy-two of the largest towns I
OF England, representing a population OF /
II 10000, was only ~ "A thousand In /
London IL was as low as " for the thou |
sand In Portsmouth, II. IN London last
week l52i deaths ana 1888 births were
reported.