The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-02-06
4 HOME FOR NEWsBOYs
The Lads Are Proud of Their
Possession.
1T IS RUNNING SMOOTHLY
The Boys Are Enjoying Comforts Q
Which They Never Knew Before.
Still Greater Things Are
!. Being Planned.

The newshoys and the bootblacks are
going to have a home just the same
as the other great organizations for
which the United States is famous
They have: home and the lads are
proud of it: they are glad to know that
when night comes they can go to.
clean, comfortable bed. The home is
now established and running smoothly
at No. $40 South Idaho street, two
story frame six-room house. There are
In the home u boys, all out of employ
ment, but willing to earn a dollar at
any time Of the day or night; but ift
their services be required at night the
person requiring them must call at the
home. for the boys retire at reason
| able hour.
A few days ago j. N. Simpson, the
head hustler of the band, started out to
| ma more comfortable quarters The
boys used to live in West Quartz. Simp-
son found very desirable quarters at
No. $40 South Idaho street, the building
owned by the Thompson Investment
company, for which they pay $3.50 a
| month.
a Standard reporter visited the home
/ yesterday and found six tidy, well kent
rooms. The front room is used as a
sitting room--a parlor, If you please.
with it's center table, well filed
| book shelves, writing desk, stove and
ingram carpet, all the contributions Of
charltably disposed Christians The
next room contains long, hardWoo
dining table, chairs, two cupboards. one
OF which is full of dishes. the other be-
ing a repository for bric-a- brac of diff
ferent kinds. To the right of the kitch-
en- and pantry a No. 8 coal stove blazed
away, while the potatoes boiled, In the
pantry sat two full sacks of flour; but
the larder Is not well stocked This will
be attended to at once. The boys will
start out this morning and visit the
merchants and impress upon them the
Importance of their mission. Up stairs
are three rooms and two wood stoves.
There are seven beds and a large roll OF
extra blankets. All of the beds were
tldiiy dressed and clean, and the bare
noors We're carefully swept. There is
one months rent paid in advance and
nearly ton of coal is on hand. Young
simpson, who was for a long time at
the head of a similar institution in Salt
| AXE, said yesterday:
We are only started, as you see. but
1t looks as if we We're going to make a
solld thing of it. We just received two
lrunks 1liied with clothing. These We're
the very liberal donations of Mrs. Dodge
of the Bennett block. This good-heart-
ed woman gave us more clothes than
any of us ever had in our lives, suits of
clothes, white shirts, which we will
gladly exchange for cheviots or fiannels.
underwear. etc. The trunks we use for
our laundry. Besides these she gave us
a lot Of dishes and ID scrap book and
papers, magazines, etc. We bought,
some things of the Butte Exchange
furniture house, and the proprietor
gave US time to pay for them, too
"Of course, some Of the merchants
think it strange that young boys should
SO out soliciting groceries, etc. But
after awhile you will see that the whole
city is with us in this proposition am
going to make it success No boy will
be allowed to impose upon us, because
he will be required to furnish substan-
tial credentials, that is. he must show
that ne is destitute and has no parents
IN Montana. We will keep register of
all our inmates, the place and date of
birth, their former homes and ALL AS
soon as boy finds steady employment
he must go elsewhere to live. and he
will be expected to turn some money
into the treasury. If he doesn't he will
not be taken back again when out of
work, unless his is very extreme case.
There is 10 cents in our treasury to-
day. But we have the sympathy of the
unions, and before long we will be or
ganized on strictly business basis.
Inc Plasterers union and the laundry
union each sent boy here recently.
Il have in mind a summer excursion
and picnic scheme by which l hope to
create a good-sized fund for future use
in the home. 1t will be similar to those
the boys have given in Salt Lake. OF
course. in the summer, we will only
nave to keep our furniture intact and
our eyes open for winter emergencies.
We will then easily make our living
shining shoes. AS it is now shoe shin
ing is below par. The barber shops do
all the business now, but in the sum
mer the boys can get out and do some
thing
a5 The boys extend generous invitation
to the public to call upon them and see
the home. They will be pleased to tall,
business with business men and women.
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