The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-11-25
SALVATION ARMY
GLADDENS MANY
Feeds 1900 Men, Women and
Children.
ALL CLASSES REPRESENTED
JAM OF HUMANITY AT DINING
ROOM DOORS.

We'll not turn anyone away as long
as our supplies last" said staff Cap
tain J. T. Dale Of the Salvation Army
at 4:SO O'Clock yesterday afternoon after
Thanksgiving dinners Lad been fur
nished to 1,45O men. women and chill
dren.
Inc above remark was the keynote OF
the whole day. At the time, many of
the army workers had been up nearly
until dawn making preparations for
salt Lakes needy, their guests. At
o'clock the line of men and women pro-
vided with bask cts had begun 10 stream
into the temporary headquarters, 221
South West Temple street, and from
then until late in the afternoon 247 bas-
kets. representing 1,235 meals were Civ
en- out.
At nOonsthose who haC neither din
ners nor homes 20 eat them in, stormed
the door o, the big dining room eager
TO take advantage of the army's hos
pitahty. Three tables were laid and
/ at these during the afternoon about 200
were seated. All enjoyed 3 menu that
was not eXcelled in half the homes of
/ Salt Lake
Crush Threatens Doors.
When the doors were finally opened
for those who wished to sit at the
tables, it required all the exertions of
the army officers in charge to prevent
a stampede. Men and boys whose APP
petites had been sharpered by antici-
patton and a long wait, struggled tor
admission. To get out was almost as
hard a task as getting in owing to the
jam, which threatened the doors them
selves.
To sit at these tables and 20 get these
baskets came men ana women from
every station in life. and often little
ones who could not nave been near the
teens. Not only were their immediate
needs, the inward craving. looked TO.
but III many Instances their names
were taken with a view of having
warm winter cloLhing supplied
At any dinner OF this nature. the
ones whom poverty has stricken hard
est, those whose better days must
have been many years ago. the un-
kempt. the ragged. Will predominant
There were many Of these.
But not all We're OF this class. There
/ were at least a dozen applicants for
baskets to whom the knowledge of
want must have recently come. Per-
haps TO these the strange condition
was the hardest. There were in the
amy's temporary headquarters men
and women whom one might have at
first taken for interested spectators,
those whose money had helped III this
mighty welcome to the poor.
Some Were Well Dressed.
Indeed, some who forced their way
through the barricade of humanity
and within the CHEEKY room, were
tainted by ragged little uTchins await
ing. their turn.
Wharye want in there mister, you've
not poor, are your" was the welcome
that greeted one of the better dressed
as he passed an eager 12-year-old-nIs
brother in poverty.
Within, all received the same vel
come. The gray-haired patriarch OF
former dinners was there and sat be-
side the little "newsie" who had al
ready satisfied the inner man, or boy,
at a previous spread provided by the
Salt Lake papers.
The well-dressed young woman who
brought d big telescope basket with
her and who at first was taken
for some one with extra donations, was
made as welcome as the poorl dressed.
middle-aged woman, upon whom the
marks Of drink were not hard to find.
Why, that fellow there's an old
soak. was often remarked Or some
one remarked that this one or that
had often been in Jail or didn't work.
or didn't do all the things necessary
to qualify for one of the citys be-
loved. There were lots of this char
acter, and the thoughtless exclamation
was often heard and hit home. But
they were there because they were
hungry. No man VIII stand on one
foot and then on the other for hours
unless he has some prospect of graft
flying a desire for comfort If they
were hungry, they must be fed.
This was the view taken by the Sal
vationists, and they put it into prac-
tice by letting, wherever possible, those
who had apparently been without the
est.
Fine Menu Served.
The menu served at the headquarters
and the meals given out I'm baskets in
cluded turkey, chicken, several kinds
of meat, vegetables, fruits and tea and
coffee. In dispensing good cheer to
Salt Lakes fifteen hundred poor, sew
eral thousand pounds of bread. like
quantity of fowl and meat and hun
dreds of pies were used. For a dozen
hours previous TO a. m. when the first
baskets were given out, a corps of
twenty members OF the Salvation Army
!
over two immense ranges in the rear
of the dining room. Had their efforts
| been lacking any reward. it would have
been sufficient to see the way those
for whom the good things had been
prepared make way with them.
That Young America is fond of pie
was proved conclUsivey yesterday to
those in charge Of the big dinner il
was noticed that several boys cared
for pie only SO a watch was kept
on the door with the result that sew
eral "repeaters" were denied entrance
One Of the younger guests of the
Salvation Army confided to another. as
they were exchanging views on the big
feed:
"Geei 1 didn't know 1 could eat that
much
Whole Family Sat Down.
In one corner of the room.s a man
his wife and six children gathered to
partake of this. their first charity
dinner. The man had held one of the
little ones in his arms for several
weary hours, but, with a ring of graft
tude i'm his voice he grasped one OF
the Army officers hands upon leav-
ing. thanked him and assured him that
il had been worth while"
So, all through the day, hundreds
had the whole place to themselves
They quietly seated themselves, -four
at table, and patiently waited to be
served Mrs. Bond. the proprietor OF
the eating house, went around and in
spected her guests. taking OF the hats
, Of those who had forgotten to do So
u have had them so many times thai
. 1 know just how to handle them" said
Mrs. Bond, and you notice how wei
behaved they are The boys know thai
/ will stand no fOOiiDV and So l<eer
good, for l put any who act up. II