The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-12-30

STRONG in the faith that it is coming.
Some of the Utah-made miilionaires
will provide it, he says. When they do
the home will be opened and run on a
non-sectarian basis. All miners OF
whatever creed. nation. color or poll
tics will be admitted. And when? The
precise time is the only uncertain thing
about the whole proposition.
Salt Lake Charity Association.
For the aged, the halt. the blind of
Salt Lake City, the Salt Lake Charity
association has been formed by bust
ness men of the city. It's avowed OBJ
! ject is to help without pauperizing and
/ 10 this erd its income is spent indirect
/ ~ in providing work for the people ii
/ helps. That it helps the three classes
/ of people just mentioned is literally
/ true, for the last winter It had two
/ blind men saving wood in its wood
yard and the logs they sawed were
handled by men otherwise incapacitatcd
but who could see where they were
that prosaic necessity. work. the asso-
citation lends money without interest.
/ distributes coal and. when no one else
wants to, provides Christmas trees for
/ the children.
| The most important work of a phil
anthropic character done i'm Salt Lake
| is undoubtedly the juvenile court work
and its attendant activities.
/ Since it's inception about two years
ago the juvenile court commission and
its works have como in for The highest
praise and the strongest criticism. 1t is
likely that in the next session OF the
legislature further criticism will be oo-
Waited by the reconstruction of the ju-
Eei1ile court law, but that TIE recon-
struction will make any radical differ
] eHce in its working is not likely
Judge Willis Brown.
! The judge of the court is Willis
! Brown. who came here from Chicago
where he had been engaged i'm The work
of boy and girl salvation. His methods
arc along the same lines as those of
Judge Lindsay of Denver, though
strongly individualistic and character
i5tic of the man. and his reuu-atIon Is
just as national as that of the Colorado
judge. His sentences are for the most
part to the state industrial school at
Ogden. which he has succeeded in pref
t. well filing up. That does not mean
Though, that he sends all who come be-
fore him to the state Industrial. There
go the minority. To the Dig majority he
gives something analogous to sus-
pended sentence. Ii he thinks rney are
IL need of protection from wrong home
influences he sends them to u home for
boys known as the Morris school, II
is peculiar institution in that il has
no bolts or locks. but the boys never
take advantage of the fact. II this
treatment is thought to be not quite the
right thing. the boy is sent TO Canyon
Crest ranch. a few miles outside the
city. where the open air and work treat
ment for the cure of moral imperfec-
lions is tried. The ranch is a selfgov-
erning community. a thing which ma
terially helps the work side Of il in
STRENGTHENING warped characters.
Y. M. c. AS Part in City's Life.
Although neither charitable or philan-
thrOpic in the hand-out sense of the
words. the y. n. G. A. is an important
factor in the betterment Of humanity
in Salt Lake. The total membership OF
the association is f,50O divided into bus
mess mems. ordinary and senior, inter-
mediate and junior boys memberships
The activities of the association are
physical, social and religious.
The association is at present housed
IL q 800 900 three-stOry building, II
which are bachelors quarters, one OF
tie" finest gymnasiums in the west. 4
regulation size swimming poor. Gaze
billiard ROOM educational rooms, where
/, | between 200 and 800 boys arc taught
twenty different subjects, from English
tG salesmanshiD. and well fitted clut
. rooms. THE religious work Of the y. NJ
G. A. is rot at present very much II
evidence. although it is going on active
~. According 10 National Secretary
Goodman. who recently paid the asse,-
| citation q visit, religious work ~
NJ. G. A. of the institutional charactei
of the Salt Lake association always
, takes three years to be put OH a really
! broad basis, and at the same time giver
. a big volume He thinks tnaS the wort
in that direction is. therefore, I'm bet.
. ter state than would be expected H. tbs
: Salt Lake association.
Caring fer the Children.
The most necessary philanthropy il
: that which deals with orphans. While
: tatI other dependeff classes can he'll
themselves to some extent. these. wne
cannot. are we'll looked after in Sail
Lake The largest orphanage in the
: lcity is the Kearns st. AIMS. the hnar-
( | eiai burden of which was borne by for.
: ner United States Senator Thomas
Eeafns. and the management Of which
/ | Is in the hands OF the Sisters of tho
Holy Cross. The institution shelters
! nearly 200 children. and feature o.
. their life is the Industrial training thet
r receive. The city has two other sin
{ | liar institutions. which by this tinls
!. Twin have just been consolidated. The,
: ere tie state street ofpfanage and thu
E Infants Protective association. TIT
! former in the past has taken III parent
r less and homeless infants ana found
. homes for them That there have al
: --ax~- I,eer, more offers of homes thai