Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-02-27
Eight Thousand Meals Were Re-
quired to Feed the Home
less Hungry.
JOBS ON LAWNS AND TREES.
They Relieve Organizations from
Necessity of Continuing Char
tiles on Large Scale.
Merchants in General Feel Returning
Activity and Have Unloaded Sur
plus and Reserve Stock.

With skies that almost yield sum
mer's warmth, the idle men OF Salt
Lake today were told today to go to
work, and hereafter II is a case Of
cash pay or no meals at the various
charities where free meals have been
dispensed.
The free soup pot has boiled dry and
TO tide Salt Lake through the flag ends
OF hard winter II took just 81 days
and S.5SS meals. Anyone who is able
Dodleu and wants work today will get
II rakins the hopeful emblems of a
coming lawn, or trimming trees for the
spring ioliage or raking up the win
ters collection of rubbish 1t is spring
mouse cleaning time, and with 1t is the
end both of the free soup problem and
the idleness of the masses.
The hard times did not come sud.
denly to all classes of society, and
the stress of their going is not sud
den either. At the volunteers head
quarters an intermediary stage has
been started to operating today. and
capt Mccoy figures that It viii be
necessary to keep this plan in opera
tion Tor three months or more. IL 10
10 sell with each Is cent bed to an UNI
ss.f'f'N| ~ mail IL also To eat
dinner at night consisting of a bowl
of soup and a piece of bread, and
breakfast next morning of coffee and
bread.
The material of this kind, how
ever, VIII be dispensed over the regn-
lar restaurant counter, and no one
VIII be forced into a free soup line
from now on. The is cent bed with
It's two meals. includes also n bath,
the use OF a reading room. the priv
ilege of having ones clothes fumigat-
ed, and of participating in the adj
Fantages OF q free employment bur-
eau.
In every part of the business sec.
tion today the hope of a bno, ant
epring time was found TO be replacing
the November and December gloom.
We have nothing to complain OF. :.
said 3 large drug store man today.
Our business WAS a little slack In
December, but even at that It was
more than in the year previous, and
pected TO do in laying in our fall
stores. We think decidedly the worst
of the hard times is over"
GROCERIES MARKET OFF.
It's not that way with u.s. said
n grocery store man, who threw the
only discordant note into the general
symposium of opinions. II am Of
fering canned goods at less than
wholesale prices, and the people
simply haven't the money to buy"
JEWELRY MEN HOPEFUL.
There's an idea said a jewelry
dealer, that we were the worst hit by
the panic May be so, but | think the
furniture stores got 1t even harder.
have tried to cut expenses, but l
haven't yet found the man | could lay
off. and we have 10 in our repair depart
ment alone. ! tell you where the trou-
BILE was. We found with the sudden
slump in November trade that we We're
overstocked We passed on buying per-
Tod, and we are safe again, with re-
duced stock, and shelves down to a
comfortable working business | expect
to do my usual spring and summer buy
ing"
CLOTHING SALES.
Il think we're out of the woods"
was the way a clothing dealer of lower
Main summed up the situation We
didn't buy in the fall as heavily as
we should have for the spring trade,
but we're making up for that with late
orders now. We had dull season, but
as compared to a month ago conditions
are distinctly improving"
FOOD PRODUCTS.
This certainly was queer panic"
on the buying end of provision trans
actions. 1--WE got ready to lay on hands
and reduce forces but the trade kept
coming, and we Just couldn't The furry
was nothing to compare to '93. And the
provisions aren't hardly any cheaper in
spite of all the pressure brought TO bear
to force them down. An overpack OF
tomatoes has reduced the price on that
product. but you won't find many 9TH
ers whore the price is OFF. The result
is that we haven't been forced to cut,
nor have we been able to. The furry
was what l would call a mighty light
attack"
Six weeks ago merchants were wor-
rled because OF an overstocked condi-
ton OF the shops. and the dull winter
trade. The result was q refusal to buy,
and now they are happy In the thought
that business is again In anormal con-
dition. A general expectation is pres
ent that the railroads viii soon feel the
impetus OF spring buying. and win be
through with the characteristic light