The Minneapolis journal., 1906-09-23
SAL VAT|ON ARMY TO
QUIT Old CITY HALL
VENERABLE PILE WILL LOSE IT'S
DECORATIONS.
Cost of Maintaining Bridge Square
Monument and Inadequate Room
Compels Organization to Secure 9th
or Quarters Departments to Be
Divided Between Boston Block and
Himmelsback Building:

Soon the old city hall will be striped
of the big blue and white signs which
have announced to the public for three
wears that under it's roof were located
the northwestern provincial headquar-
ters of the Salvation Army, the men s
free employment bureau, the women 5
free employment bureau, the industrial
home. the salvage store, free baths, a
reading room, a free medical dispen-
sary, a barber shop and cheap lodgings.
In ten days the Salvation Army VIII
give up this building and take to other
quarters the numerous agencies where
| by it strives to minister to the bodies
and the souls Of the poor and vicious.
The industrial home, the most eff
| cient sociological, enterprise OF the
/ Army, will be established in the Him.
1 N. There will be set up the compll-
Gated machinery which is designed to
! take the waste of the well-to- do and
convert it into money that may be usNl
! For the conversion Of waste men into
useful citizens.
Room to Spread Out.
Plumbers and carpenters are busy
pen haTe a Rbsisn Rehs turn ns and on oet
Staff Captain ". H. Gooding, the head
/; Of the industrial work in Minneapolis,
yin move in. Three stories and base
Snent, with barn and wagon shed in
the rear, make the new building ideal
2or the work. The store room on the
81 cast.of clothing and furniture which
s has not vet passed Its usefulness. In
the rear is the sorting and repairing
room. There paper, rags and scrap
Iron will be separated from salable ar
ticles and dumped into the basement,
where It will be prepared for sale as
paper stock and old iron.
The administrative office and en-
ploymInt bureau will be on the ground
aoor, The second story will contain g
kitchen. dining room, 81 smoking s3 ana ND
better class. The third floor will have
"a large dormitory and dozen or more
small bedrooms Ample bath and toilet
facilities are included in the plans fol
renodeling, and in the rear under the
sidewalk Will be a fumigating room for
the exercising of "haunted' gar
ments.
With this plant Captain Gooding is
: confident that he can care for from sc
to 40 men. The work of collecting an6
,ment sufficient to pay for their boarc
and lodging and the profits will permit
a. small money payment each week.
Sorry to leave.
"While we do not regret that w
began our work in the old city hall am
are deeply grateful to the city for let
ting it to us OH such liberal terms, W
feel the time has come for US to move,
said Captain Gooding. tEIn order t
make the old building tenantahle thr
the coming winter we would have t
put in new boilers, new elevator an
make many other repairs. We have n
lease and projected civic Improvement
threaten it's early destruction so tha
it would be poor investment for u
to remodel it. I calculate that the ru1
ming expenses, coal, So 800; rent, 50 SOC
light, 5000, and repairs enough to brin
the total up to $1,000 a year, will b
at least cut in half with no appreciabl
loss Of efficiency. -
my only fear is that in our LEI
conspicuous position we will receive LEI
notice from the public, but this dang
is lessened by the firm footing we hay
! already gained. Most Of our men a.
sent to us by churches, charity organ
cations, judges, and private citizen
80 there is no danger that we will
less useful in on new location.''
Department Headquarters.
On the vacation Of the old city ht
the territorial headquarters, und
Brigadier J: W. Cousins, and the reli
and medical department., under Ensi,
Miller, will be removed to suite
Ave rooms on the sixth floor Of t
Boston block. The lodging house a.
hall maintained at the army's proper
! at ZIG First avenue S will be unaffect
by the change. One, and perhaps tv
slum posts,'' the army's adaptati
Of the social settlement idea, may so
The army's activities in Minneapo] @
Mrs. Brigadier Stillwell Of Chica}
the head Of this work in the west,
now in the city looking over the fie