The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1903-01-17

| spiritual help, that he may take his
| place with other strong men in life and
| cease to be the recipient of help and be-
| come its distributor.
The souls of men must be touched,
| their spiritual lives must be strength
ened they must learn the principles of
| all true life if our help is to be benefi
| cial and lasting. Therefore we say that
| the Soul of all Improvement is the
| Improvement of the Soul" While we
require hard work and faithful service
| from men, We strive to impress this
truth on every man who remains within
| our doors.
| Our work during the past year has
| been very encouraging from every
standpoint We have had a better class
of men than ever to deal with. OF the
! men helped seventeen per cent. came
! to US because of drink, sixty-one per
| cent. because they were out of work, t.
e. the work was finished, there was a
shut down or hands laid off, etc, eight
| per cent. came from Jail, seven per
| per cent because Of accidents, two per
| NClil VII cICCpUIll VI ST. INES anu AONI
| per cent. came on account of sickness,
one per cent. because Of rowing dispo-
| sition.
| Our last report showed that thirty
| eight per cent. came because of drink,
thirty per cent. because they We're out
of work and six. per cent. because of
| rowing disposition. A comparison of
these figures will readily show that we
| have made a gain in the right direc
ton Between the great army of
tramps in our country and the en-
ployed there is a middle class called the
out of work, from which are constantly
| being recruited thettramp and vagrant.
"Vagrancy is the spawning ground Of
crime" Therefore any work that saves
men from becoming tramps or Migrants
tends to decrease crime. Our home
stands in the gap between the two
classes mentioned. We are working for
the unemployed who have not gotten
down to the tramp class,
Our men produced by their labor nine
thousand dollars during the past year,
work as this, neither do they work ten
| uUuIS d udy at HdFu tdDOT.
We aim to place men back in the
ranks Of the employed and succeed i'll
doing SO at the rate of one man every
day in the year. The principles and
methods that apply to the tramp pro-
blem do not apply to the out of work.
We use many different methods to
reach all sides Of the man. Our first
scSo ic oil af nd
clothing, then we provide work that a
man NAV earn what he eats, then we
have a real home life with home sur
| roundings, papers, periodicals, a library
and games, with an occasional enter
| tainment mark some of the provision
| for home life. Then there is love for
our brother, without which there can be
no true home life. Lastly, we present
the Gospel Of Jesus Christ. feeling and
knowing from experience that it is the
one great power in lifting men from sin
to a righteous, honest and clean life.
We have five gospel services a week,
with such private and personal help as
| can be given. l believe our work for
discharged prisoners to be the most
practical and helpful work of it's kind
in the city. Through cooperation with
the Young Mems Christian association
every man discharged from the county
jail receives an invitation to come to
us. All desiring to come are met by
men appointed from the Divinity school
and brought directly here. Only sixty
have awaited themselves of the oppOr-
tunity during the year, but large per
cent. Of these have proven their pur-
pose to do better for themselves and So
ciety in the future. Of thirteen such
men helped during given period, ten
were sent out to permanent positions,
one was employed as cook here, one
was sent home and one still worked
in the yard.
We do not believe in coddling criminal:
but it does seem wise from our expert
ence to extend helping hand to such
men as / have mentioned. When the
home was established we worked on the
stint system, man received three
meals and a bed for so much work, then
had the remainder of the day to look
for work, but it was inevitably the
poorest part of the day, always in the
afternoon. A little over year ago we
adopted a new method; men are now
required to work ten hours a day for
! three days and then have full day tc
look for work, many Of them going out
as early as a. m. on such all errand
The experience of the past year has
proven this to be a wise plan. First il
gives the man a better chance to look
for work, the early morning hours be-
ing especially desirable for the seeker