The daily silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1903-1907, 1904-04-29
General Booth Tucker

General Darlington Booth Tucker OF
the Volunteers of America arrived in
Reno yesterday morning from Sacra-
mento. General Booths headquarters,
that is, the national headquarters of
the Volunteers of America, is at New
York city. He is accompanied by
Colonel Walter Duncan, principal Of
ficer on the Pacific coast, with head
quarters at San Francisco.
General Booth left New York city
last Saturday. He has already visite"
Los Angeles, Pasadena, Oakland, San
Jose, San Quentin, San Francisco, c
ramento, and Reno is the last place
in which he speaks in the west. de
left last evening for San Francisco.
from which place he will go direct to
New York.
General Booth during his stay here
made his headquarters at the River
side. Seen yesterday regarding the
great body of religious workers of
Which he is the head, he said:
There are four subjects which al
the present time are occupying our at
tention.
1.-The first is respectable homes for
working young women. In our larger
cities there are man young women
who are respectable, well-intentioned
and DESTROYS of seeking an occupation.
They have no parents or friends in the
city and they know not where to go.
Their pocketbook is too slende to pay
the cost Of an aristocratic hotel, and
they would shrink from the shadow of
a low lodging house. We have opened
a number of homes in different sec
tions of the country at the door of
which any respectable young girl is
welcomed, irrespective of creed or ma
tionality.
The second subject occupying my
attention at present is homes for
~workingmen. l do not mean the street
waif, the professional tramp. nor the
parasite on society. Homes nave been
opened for them. / mean the respect
able w-age-earner who has no home in
the city (for his home may be in the
country. He does not desire TO min
gle with nor stoop to the level of the
low professional bum, the inebriate.
the thief or the parasite. We have
opened in a number of cities such in
stitutions n almost all of them are
full to the doors. For example, we
nave a large one In Pittsburg, accom-
modating $50 men or about. 4 learn
while 1t is comparatively new, yet 1t Is
so full that they are turning men from
the doors. 1t is more meritorious to
save a nan from falling into the gut
ter of society han to pick one up who
has already fallen into 1t.
Thirdly, the condition of the pris.
oneTs in our state prisons is also call
ing forth our serious attention, and
having nine thousand men in our Vol
unteer Prison league. l think we are
in a position to speak from the and
point of experience. For example. take
but n penal institution, that of the
state in which / reside, New Jersey.
We found two. three and even -four
men being placed in one cell, whilst the
chapel accommodation vas most mea-
ger and miserable. By chapel accom-
= ihCoiA tAt otANAA at
the prisoners meet for religious and
social exercises. We have, through
forty newspapers in New Jersey, agi'
tated the passing of a special measure
or bill ~appropriating three hundred
thousand dollars or about to build q
new wing with improved cells, a new
chapel and a separate hangman.
have just received news that through
the fundamentally of the Volunteers
OF America the bill. carrying with Il
an appropriation of three hundred
thousand dollars. has just been passed
II visited San Quentin. on the coast
addressed a crowded audience of tn,
striped inmates, and l am told tina
the state of things there is little bet
ter. One thing we shall see, and tina
is some clemency given to the boys il
San Quentin who are life termers
am now endeavoring to influence th'
governor and senators In favor Of THU
bill.
The fourth subject is regarding
little children in the slums Of Gus
great cities. We have succeeded In
securing a piece of land In Los Angeles
for a home and are ~endeavoring to
open a similar institution at San