Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1904-10-22
PAUPERS WHO
ARE MILLI0NAIRES,
LARAMIE Of More Than $1,000 200
t ,be Actual Property oil
The Citys Poor
MOST MONEY BY DONATIONS
fiji, III, lu,si,,s Paaper' 10 the
' r,55 u,o,,, Their Great Wealth
stogoD Queer Conditions

.a.r correspondence.
pew, ,ers o.t ls-R.ch indeed are the
r p,r.s poor They posses in their
+ .. grbt real estate bringing In
| .ton. 100000 and stocks ana
.s,g.rr m $4,000 per annum'
..., soioy from various sources Clear
'D' morc than SL0OO.OOo they
. '' ,ser disposal hospitals, s'na-
G ,.ypms schools. lecture rooms
..,rrIya,o physicians. pensions for OLD
illness o- disability Ana all
az. ,ot. Az in other cities to be So
r.,s5 as a favor but coming to 'hem
.. ,,., due after the simple formall'y
", moving themselves paupers
me- ruth is that no Partisan need be
.uper unless De wants to be- Ana
III. act that from the total population
of2,g0S inhabitants 100000 or nearly
.,. sob are largely dependent upon
me- general revenues and institutions OF
,h. administration for the poor would
seem sufficient evidence that whatever
,ss number Of beggors one may meet
,o NE streets. few really require help
while ha Paris poor came by their
vs,tb honestly through donations, le-
s.cls. and state ana city subyentlons,
Nh, care of the vast property thus rep
resented could naturally not be left to
bs poor collectively or to any mdlyid-
nails among them. $50 an organization
known as the Assistance PublIque, with
ofceu appointed by the government to
box after the paupers wealth and In
vest Il and distribute as revenues In
tt aIrest possible way, Was devised
Tpt vas nearly century and a quar-
tfago and through subsequent reyolu-
tons republics and monarchies, It has
continued 20 the present day with few
notifications In Its line Of conduct save
that the sums 90 be handled have quad
wpled On recent years
Under the revolution. in 1893, a law
made IL obligatory for the poor to re-
ceye each his share Of the general in
come Bu, The directorate decided that
forcing money upon people was a little
700 radical, and the rule was estab-
.'hsd stIl To- force. that the money and
PRIVILEGES belonged to the poor, but they
must apply for IL and prove their pow
gy.
VAST ESTATES OF THE POOR
The real estate owned by the Paris
lpI and controlled for them by the As
N'iance Pub.ilue represents an area Of
nearly 100000 square feet. Thirty
years ago the area was almost double
ihs figure but 0a view Of the increased
land values the administration judlci-
oi'.y sold here ana there and invested
NE proceeds otherwise.
The property includes seventy-seyen
''se houses DO Paris and numerous
''ns ln the suburbs. as well as $40
gardens and grounds I'm Paris. The
houses are rented for 100000 as schools.
factories or apartments whereas the
'olnls are leased at $4,000 for an pos
aoe purposes BY the ingenious Ieas.
OF prirIIegas-such as passage al.
owed through certain groundswlndows
e'0"ed in 'he wallis Of adjacent houses.
a,-an additional 5000 a year is net,
''s'o'ol'nas iu gathering money in
.'' 'aai more may be spent Is a not.
asIe uat OF Doe Assistan,. prn,,ano
administration TSo 'l Sog,i, Luollque
ln' home schools and n o,5o, W., , 9syl-
asals run t9r fhp Isrog I,'y, e ,Sa ,''
i'on their Own 6mis "ccas oi we poo poor
aoas Incidental ayrag oss s''''s sr.b mum,
stos, sewing Tine manufacture ol
..5s ana brushes market garGsn,, ~,
d produce The Agsis, ey, sf p.,ii1.,.s
.olai that 81 cost nrsciI"gny,g. ruollque
s.rIre ". increase the output and IA,
pow realized '1, 's'.gO9 per year Is
zones grease peeIIngs o ard SS aoln SO. o.
me various eaab.5bm'ol,t,. bread IRON
lived aud sold nattirg sio o @Ie pre-
''''s F'''OV anhu'
There d need Ion every ,orr, -, ,,.
money tho expenses 'o ,,top pJnny OF thl'
o@.ort Of the noor bsIog ss, nuo,. on t n
sn with ther. 'r s''s +, 'normous' T'
i,'Is ana 2S asyrms' ., % hospitals u
~, ana Others rest reso o,is 1t, IT, we ,, can
t On m the mountains ' , az She .. sea