The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-11-19

dress, religion trade, and marital con- dition are registered. He is asked the name of his last employer. what ne has been sent up for, how long he served. and what his prospects are. Ills immediate wants are met first. He Is given meals and lodging and clothing. Sometimes he needs only money to get to his people, or clothes to present good appearance in looking for work, or bit of advice as to how to pro- ceed.
 The Salvation Army in New York has on its list of patrons the names of some of the biggest and most in- fIuential manufacturers and business men who are willing to give the exv convict a chance. Always though, thta fact remains. He must take menial work. According to an Old World be- lief, when a man has~sinned he must serve in some humble shape, so tne men who have sinned against society here Tn our land must be willing after their release to follow humber call- ings. Positions of trust are not theifs again for the asking. They may have factory work in open shops, go as gen- eral laborers, or take positions in places where there Is. not too much tenlptas tion. The. man or woman who has served time must build again from the bottom.
 The Salvation Army never allows 2 woman to take employment in home on their recommendation, for she may spread her bad influence there She Is usually given laundry work. But suiploymeut of some kind is invariably found for those who wish it. if no- where else. in the ArTny's Industrial Home. where there is old furniture to be mended and old papers to be sorted and tied in bundles. Last year the
 fV Ma rifX hQinad A0R ex-prisoners in some way.
 Sometimes, through the Salvation Army's Prison Gate Mission, ex-pris- oners have gone to places of honor and trust. A successful business man on Wall Street arrived there by that route having served time in some prison af- ter a pyrotechnical career as a Wes- tern desperado. An ex-convict protege of the Army Is running a monthly magazine. assisted by a corps of work CTS who. too, came by way of the Pris- on Door Mission and are on probation under it's vigilant eye. A one-tinne fa- nous burglar Is now--thanks to the Mission--an equally famous evangelist, One ex-convict has progressed so hon. 6rably and so well that he now owns two lots and has money in the bank. Every week or 50 he calls at the de- partment headquarters and deposits a 2 to reach the same plane of independ- ence and right living that he has reached.
 Not long since an ex-convict. only recently released, with friends gone and nothing to do, was passing down West Fourteenth Street. New York, on his way to set his light fingers to
 work once more at burglapizing a house. On the bulletin board In front ~k Safx Arr yy hal 7esao ho saw a name and stopped with idle in- terest. It was the name of his former prison chaplain announced to speak al an open meeting. He went in to kill time, but the talk converted him and he went out to honest work. He only told the experience a short time ago when asking to be fitted for Army | work.
 A glance at the daily register is in teresting. Here Is the record of one man sent home. for one of the Army's greatest works is to reconcile families l to the erring members and win their influence in helping the released pris- oners keep straight. Another is given l some clothes and several good meals. Ehd another. tools to start out for him :
 self. This one is sent out to a good
 place as handy man." and that one is
 dressed from top to toe in good clothes so that he can get the work
 already promised. There are several sent temporarily. to the Industrial 1 Home where l50 men are kept con- stantly at work. This woman was given a bed for one night. and 25 cents next day to start her on her way to | Brooklyn. At the foot of this record the ever optimistic cadet in charge has
 written "A good woman whom I trust"
 Another record shows that an Italian just from Sing Sing was given two dollars and passed on to the Italian Society where he had further help. This one shows that fellow after seven weeks unjust sentence in the Tombs had just been released. the guilty par-