The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-09-07
Neighbors of the Institution Up In
Arms.
DECLARE IT "A. NUISANCE
THE MANAGEMENT WILLING TO
CHANGE THE LOCATION.
Are Now Looking For Another House
-Ccmplainants Declare the In
mates Are Disorderly and Con-
taninate the Neighborhood-Mat-
ron Denies the Charges.

The neighborhood about c street, be-
| tween Fifth and Sixth streets. is still
worked up over the Woman's Rescue
home, which is located at 225'C street.
Seventeen of them, including families
! Immediately adjoining the home, insist
upon it's removal
| This feeling has existed for some
time, but it has never before found
more than the individual expression OF
persons of the neighborhood. Now they
have united. Seventeen of them pre-
scented a petition to the city council at
it's meeting on Tuesday evening, ask
ing that some action be taken to nave
the home removed. The petition was
referred to the fire and police commit
| tee.
Neither Mrs Plummer, president of
the board which controls the home, nor
Mrs. McIlhenney, the matron, had
heard of the petition. They were
greatly surprised when the matter was
explained to them yesterday. Mrs.
Plummer was concerned about the ap-
preparation of s75 per month which the
city council makes for the home.
DO you think they will stop the APP
propriation?" she asked
The petition is signed by Ha5ert w.
| Sloan, Attorney Stewart, Thomas A.
Horne Mrs. Horne and others. Mrs.
Horne, whose residence is just beside
! the home, is the promoter of the petit
ton, though it was drafted by Mr..
Sloan, who lives Immediately across the
| street.
Home Is a Nuisance.
1.-THE home has become such nuts
ance that it must be removed" said
Mrs. Horne These women are bols-
ferrous, they make noise a. great deal
of the time and they sing Indecent
songs. They contaminate the children.
] We have had it stuck under our noses
long enough and have tolerated it as
long as we are going to. The women sit
ont on the porch or in the back yard and
| sing songs that are shameful. They
make remarks to people passing by and
to those in yards adjoining. that are
disgraceful The matron has very little
! control over them. go
How would Mrs Plummer, the
president of the board, like such things
! next door to her home? She should
! try it, and she will learn that such an
! esta blishment is very annoying. There
| are boys and girls of all ages about
! here. When they see these women,
| thew very naturally learn the reason
of their being in the home, and 1T thus
makes evident to- them a condition
which they are altogether too young to
have knowledge Of. "a
The home was very quiet yesterday
| afternoon. There was no evidence,
neither inside nor outside the house, OF
| the boisterous conduct of which there
is complaint. Mrs. McIlhenney, the
matron, who is a very calm, religious
woman. denied that there was any
such condition of affairs. -
81 have never but two or three times
heard the girls say anything indecent,
said the matron, land they have never
used such language in my presence.
Mrs. McIlhenney has been the fnatron
three weeks. Mrs. Cassidy, who had
charge before her, resigned. She had
so much difficulty with the women that
she could not stand the work.
willing to Move.
81 hadn't heard of the petition said
Mrs Plummer last evening, but DON
think the condition is half as bad as
the neighbors declare.
However, we have been hunting an
other location for the home for weeks
and have applied at the renting
agencies. Up to the present time we
have not been able to find a house. We
can afford but $40 per month rent, and
it seems impossible to find house at
that price. But today we have con-
cluded to pay S25 for place. If any
one knows of suitable house in a Sc
Guided neighborhood for that rental I
wish he would let me hear of it.
L don't know what I shall do about
this petition, for / hadn't heard of it
before. However, we will appear be-
fore the fire and police committee to ex-
plain our position when meeting shall
be held
Chairman Howe of the committee
said thSt he thought meeting to hear
the case could be had during next week.
IT don't know whether Or not the
council has power to declare the place
a nuisance and order it's removal"
said he. but l am inclined to think it
has such power. 1 don't believe we
shall consider the question of the APP
preparation"