The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-01-23

Church Tells of ths Splendid Work Accomplished by the Home.
 I The first thing one wants to know about such an institution as that whose tenth anniversary we are celebrating to- day is, exactly what is it? What does it aim to do How far is it accomplish 1 ing that at which it aims, Is there any need of such an institution? How does it stand related to the other be- nevolent institutions of our city? Is it mere duplication of others or does it occupy unique and important posi- tion of it's own? I shall endeayor to answer some of these questions in a positive Way-in what l shall have to say tonight about Calvary Industrial Home. The three words which form it's essential characteristics. It is home. 1t is an Industrial Home. It is a Chris tian Industrial Home. We will think of these in turn and in treating of them I shall quote freely from the different re- ports and statistics of the institution. First, this institution is home It aims to save homeless men, men who for one reason or another, through some change in circumstances, or through some fault of their own, are without a home I, can hardly stop here to dwell as l should like to do, upon the power of the home in the civilized life of to- day. I will simply ask you to consider for a moment how much of what you are you owe to your home. How many | for spect comes with the home. One of the wholesome and fundamental things in connection with the home is that there are those in it who expect a man to do certain good things which tend to make him feel his responsibility and cultivate iself-respect. Imagine yourself as poor man and as homeless man, and you can readily realize what it would be for you to be without home.
 | Of the men who come to Calvary In dustrial Home sixteen per cent. are homeless on account of drink; fifty nine per cent. come because they are temporarily out of work. They have finished the job they had, or there has been a shutdown where they were working, or their summers work on the farm has naturally gone with the change of seasons.
 Eight per cent of the men who come to the home have lost their positions through sickness, five per cent. come from the jail; two per cent. come be- cause they are of a rowing disposition and do not keep any place long; two per cent. come because some accident has | hoy fO out of work by it, and eight per cent. come because of strikes.
 l Some come because their homes have been broken by death. Some few of them are married men, who, unable to find work to support their families where their home is located, are tempo- rarily separated from their families un- til they can secure proper position. 1 About thtree-fourths of the men who come to the home are American born and about one-fourth foreign born, and about ninety per cent. have 8 legal res lidenee in either New England or New York. They are not tramps, but work lingmen. Most of them have been un- fortunate, few only never having known anything better. Even the men who come from jail to the home are far from hopeless. Nay, because they come, being, only about one-twentieth of the number discharged from the jail, is a sign that they really want to do bet ter, and are glad of the help the home affords
 As well stated in one of the leaflets, There are sixty thousand professional Itramps in the United States The home does not exist to saw anrd sell wood or to harbor these tramps, but be- cause there is a large army of self-re- lspecting men, who through wrong hab- it's of living, or through the changing fortunes of trade, are out of employ lment. Unless such a home is provided they will finally fall into that larger army of tramps.
 But this institution is in the second Iplace an industrial home. Merely housing a man or giving him shelter or flood without any return on his part, unless he is sick, is bad and robs him of This self-respect. Every man in Calva- Try Home must be doing something, eith- Ter working in the time required or look ling for work in the time allowed.
 Here any man willing to work can Temporarily find home, whatever his creed or color. Friends, food, shelter Iclothing, employment he may have here
 esides other things even more valuable There is enough work carried on at the home to give employment to about for tty men.
 One peculiarity about Calvary Home is this. A man cannot possibly get 8
 lodging there for the mere payment o1
 cash He can get bed for from ten tt
 twenty-five cents at cheap lodging
 house, although he cannot at the home
 The reason is that in nine cases out o1 ten he got the ten cents by begging or
 the streets, and to give him a bed fol lthat would be simply to help him be, come tramp.
 If man has earned a dollar he car go to Calvary Home, work for what ht
 receives and keep his dollar and with i
 his self-respect. This often results 1T jmen coming to the home who have lit
 tie money which they are thus enabled
 to keep, and not spend it for bee might after night in some cheap ant
 dirty lodging house where they mee
 only a low class of men. Many of these lcheap lodging houses for men in Bostof
 are visited every week by the police ant
 the men arrested on suspicion, on the