New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-10-09

Of the prices may be gained from a record OF
sales made the other morning. pair OF trou-
sers brought - cents. a derby hat five cents,
shirt five cents. a shawl 10 cents, a wOman's
cape 20 cents, pair of shoes % cents, a set OF
underclothes 10 cents and several yards OF rib
bon 10 cents. There are number OF the stores
in the various tenement districts. and others viii
be started in Harlem when the new establish
ment in One-hundred- and -twentieth-st is
opened The profit from the sale OF material
reclaimed in the Industrial homes last year was
more than 100000 Nine-tenths OF the material
saved would have been destroyed and utterly
wasted had it not been for the army.
The method followed in establishing these in
dustral homes is interesting. An officer goes
into a town and talks up the idea OF starting
plant He tells the business men that il viii
cost 5000 or $4,000 10 fl out a building and
supply horses and wagons for collecting pur-
poses supply US with this sum and we will
give you in return stock for the full amount"
is the army's offer ION that stock we guar
antee an annual dividend Of 6 per cent. and no
further assistance VIII be asked" Several
small cities have asked the army to do all their
garbage collecting.
The work for women in this country is not
as extensive as the work done for men. The
army has two Industrial homes for women in
greater New-York-at No 31G East Fifteenth
st. Manhattan, and at No. 1909 Hancock-st..
Brooklyn. Probationary officers are at the po-
lice courts and take charge of hayward girls
and women rapidly there is room for
them in the homes The homes are not nearly
large enough. and funds have recently been set
aside for the erection OF third home probably
somewhere in Harlem
The girls and women are usually kept for five
or six months They put to work in the
and cooking They kept under close supervis-
ion for five or six months. II by that time they
have shown sincere desire to reform, places
are secured for them in families The army still
keeps In touch with them by letters and per-
sOnal visits. and they assured that they can
ind shelter and many comforts il for any rea-
son they are again thrown on the world.
'~The success of this work has been phenome-
nal" declared Colonel Higgins, when discussing
General Booths plan OF social salvage. For
several years more than 80 per cent Of the girls
and women taken into the homes have really
reformed, and are leading honest lives so
far as we ascertain Last year we broke
the record with 80 per cent Of satisfactory cases
II seems too good to be true but it may give
the public an idea why we would be willing to
work among the petty criminals paupers and
Migrants on basis Of pay for results
Work among children on the lines followed in
Australia has never been undertaken by the
army in this country. Several large homes for
orphan and i'll used children are maintained,
however, but entirely independent of State or
municipal authorities A home has lust
been opened at Lytoon Springs, Cal. a summer
resort sixty miles northwest Of San Francisco.
It consists of a fine home with room for three
hundred children. surrounded by six hundred
acres