Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-02-07
ARE FED IN RELAYS TODAY.
Foreigners Absent from Thronus
Which Represent Almost Ev-
cry Walk in Life.
Merchants and Physicians Fall in Line
With Volunteered Assistance to
Help Out Those in Need.

""N9 OF JS' SAT- Lake working man
lined mp this morning before FREQ
soup counter and received bread or
which the sweat of their brows did
not pay, ana hot coffee which was
provided by the generosity of local
merchants
The soup line was long one, too.
Fully an hour before the advertised
time for serYlnG the first breakfast
800 men crowded into the main watt
ing room of the Volunteers of Aneri-
ca. and in relays Of 30 men each, ihoy
lined up at the counter, each To re-
ceive portion of loaf of bread and
a bowl filled With hot coffee, to which
milk and sugar had been added.
This afternoon the luncheon hour
found the diet changed from coffee
to vegetable soup. made thick, and
nourishing so that a large bowl # Il
would at least keep man from tho
worst pangs of hunger Fully as
many applied for the second meal as
for the first
And they We're not foreigners, neith-
or were they "hoboes" in appearances
They We're husky. square shouldered
Americans, i'm overalls. jumpers ana
the brogans of the day laborer.
The soup room is the south half of
a large bedroom in which cots sleep
mt dime each, the weary and out Of
work. A counter runs along the east
wall, behind which the walters this
morning served coffee from large tin
boiler, which was kept hot on am
ordinary cook stove put up for the
emergency. Capt, Mccoy was in
charge of the proceedings and he
tested the coffee before it was served,
personally seeing that plenty of milk
and sugar was put in.
Then he announced 10 an assist
ant, lie, in 30" 4 sliding door vas
opened little, and 80 of the 500
| hungry men We're admitted. ThcS
rushed rapidly 10 the bowls of hot coz
| fee lined up on the counter, fell To- de-
vouring. each his bowl. with the piece
Of bread beside it, and then silently
left to make room for others, aot
more than three minutes being con-
sumed by any one man at the eoun-
ter.
1--WE expect this condition" said
cant Mccoy at noon. to remain or
at least two weeks, This morning
merchants We're very generous to US
in their donations of vegetables. COL
fee, and milk, but we are SUI snort
for sugar a sack of this commodity
would help us very much.
The Royal Bakery's wagon orousht
the bread for the meal this morning,
while a large can Of milk was Donated
Inv the Elgin creamery. The COOK
coffee company provided TINS neces-
sity. while various grocery stores con-
tributcd vegetables
MEDICAL AID FOR POOR.
Certain Salt Lake physicians woHt
have listened with pleasure TO con-
versation that went on ms NOR mus
i'm a group of hungry men, waiting M
the soup line. or ,.,,
clsar done up and burning with leVer'
,rhcv took me IN at the salvation Army
,,iace and then In the middle OF tht
nigbt a swell guy drove up VITA y
horse and buggy and took me over 20
the hospital" He named a prominent
salt Lake physician
Al the Volunteers headquarters they
have ouened a medical disie saty IL
,,rornIsee to rank with the soup Kitchen
a, 80 inheritance during present cond'-
tions Hair a dozen salt Lake physi-
cious hive telephoned Capt. McCoy CIV
Ing him their promise to treat iree an
cases of diseases reported ny nm as
worthy. ,,.,..,...,.,
IN have in addition to the dispensAry, a
consultation office, at which hours VIII
he arranged so that physicians wlo
have offered their services can come Tor
an hour each day and prescribe for
people in need of assistance.
SALVATION ARMY's PLAN.
Dr. Calderwood is mentioned among
tho men at the salvation Army bar
racks and also at the Volunteers head
ouurtcrg ms a good friend, and man
who has RESPONDED 10 many sick calls
from the INDECENT, Stan capt, Sodel-
holm states that the county has worked
hard this winter TO give medical as
slstance wherever needed, ana 10 sup
ply medicine as we'll.
The Salvation Army has devised n
method OF raising funds 10 feed the
needy applicants, by ofering for sale
TO business men books of coupons, each
one good for meal, bed. bath ana
II needed. coupon handed
TO any applicant for iood VIII insure
him the proper attention unless no Is
taking" ana wants cash with WIN d
TO buy strong drink.
The Volunteers have adopted SINH
lar device using metal chips instead OF
and selling them 10 whoever
viii buy in the hope OF raising funds
TO carry on their work
DIXON NOT READY.
Besides the free soup kitchen of tho
Volunteers at rs East First South
street. another is being planned ON
second South street by NJ ], Dixon, an
Employment agent who was formerly
"a working man, and who says that ula
motives ara In carry the mon over this
hard period VINO have made him COM
portable IN times when II was easy o.
transmit 20 them news about various
demands Tor labor
The place he has rented for this pur-
pose M iust cast OF the Grand theater.
and there he VIII provide lodgings and
A small fec VIII prYb bly,
be charged ron credit" 10 be returned
when the lahorlng men again q ure
employment and pay day comes "l'he
.rouble" said MI Dixon this morning
us that people do not know how COCO
he credit nf q working man out nf
lob H. NIl trust an of them
apply. and l,c care Of them til n
lay WHOM .s a safe risk that am i.v.
gree 10 do win be carried out. 1 have