The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-01-22
TENTH ANNUAL REPORT
Of Calvary Industrial Home by the su-
 Derintendent, P. c. Butterfield.

Derintendent, P. c. Butterfield.
 An Alpine climber. after attaining the crest of peak. looks back over his journey and is able to realize the dan gers and struggles through which he has passed with keener sense than while having the actual experience.
 To-day we look back, not from the peak. but from the eminence to which We have travelled during the past ten years.
 As We thus retrospect we observe many struggles experienced. We be- lieve. however, that we have gained something of victory and made some thing os progress in solving the great problem Of how best to help and save the unfortunate and homeless men who constantly apply to our home for work and help
 We stand as ever for the uplifting of the man, not for his reformation alone, but for his salvation. We work that men may be regenerated and go out into life, to regain the place and posi- tion from which they may have fallen. As g means to this end we provide work for men that they may retain their self-respect. We provide a home for men that they may be saved from becoming wanderers on the face of the earth.
 | We provide papers. periodicals and books that mems minds may be im- proved and kept busy with useful thoughts. We preach the gospel of Je. sus Christ. Who is able to save to tho uttermost all who come to Him for help. We provide a Christian atmosphere and home life, that the men thus reached may be nurtured and developed, and may attain that strength of character and forcefulness of righteousness that shall enable them to overcome the temptations os the world. which they
 must meet as they go out to take up the burdens of life again.
 At the beginning of our work we fol- lowed the strict system. Men did a prescribed allotment of work for a bed breakfast, and then went their way to other cities or spent the remainder of the day in looking for work. This arrange ment was a drawback so far as our pur- pose was concerned. for it gave small opportunity for helping men to be bet ter. It was bad for the men for the same reason, besides giving them the poorest part of the day to look for po- sitions.
 Now men work three days, ten hours a day, and then have the full fourth day to look for a position. If they do not obtain position they have the privi- ledge of returning and remaining until we are able to place them This system keeps away a multitude of undesirable men, gives the desired opportunity of lhelping them and works to the advan- tage of the men in every way. Under the old system men stayed in the home lon an average two and one-half days; under the present system they remain for a period of twenty days. Two much stress cannot be laid on the importance lof this departure. It means that men are brought directly under Christian in huences for a period 800 per cent. longer lthan under the old system.
 During the past year we have helped a smaller number of men than usual on account of the great demand for men lall over the land, until the late fall, when there was a larger number of men looking for work. The standard of manhood in the men helped has steadily lrisen from year to year, and has reached its highest mark in our experience dur ling the year just ended. The past year has been our most useful one. We have passed smaller number of men through our home but have actually Ihelped larger number, than during lany year of our work. This result has come about not because we have been less faithful or earnest in other years, but because of the better material we have had to work with. The men helped have been more of that class who desire the moral and spiritual help which we have to offer, and for which our home exists.
 We are not only able to do positive twork of which we have so fully spoken, tbut our provision of work and home tides large number of men over every year. It saves the self-respect of men and keeps them from going down, as
 thousands out -of- works have gone, into that great army of tramps, which is constantly being relruited from honest,
 though workless, men.
 We must reiterate at this time that
 this is not Baptist Home, but an ir-
 terdenominational work. Calvary Bap- tist church is not responsible in any Iway for the work; but every man and
 woman in the city who desires to save men saved from going down, or to have them lifted up, should feel a responsi-
 bility for and an interest In this work Our work is becoming more widely known from year to year. During the
 past year the calls for help have been , far in excess of the men available. WI have had calls from Bridgeport an6
 surrounding towns, and even from New 7 York city. As soon as men come to g condition of life, and have been here
 long enough to make record for them. selves, and can be recommended, they can be placed in good positions. It should be distinctly understood thaj
 I've are not duplicating any work done in the city. We are not a substitute fol
 any church work that might be done but are tributary to all the churches We have a number of men who regular
 ly attend churches, Catholic Methodist Eyoicooy,ol Con tinnaI Eoy,fic+ aYf