The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-11-09
WORKS FOR SAKE
OF SWEET CHARITY
Edwin A. Brown Arrives in Salt
Lake TO Advocate Munich
pal Lodging House.
SOME or HIS EXPERIENCES
IN CITIES OF THE EAST
PhiIanthropist Spent Saturday
Night on Straw Pallet in
Freight Car.

Edwin Il, Brown of Denver, Colo,
arrived III Salt Lake City Saturday and
has taken up here the work 10 which
he has devoted his lifc-lhc establish
ment Of free municipal lodging houses,
Mr.. Brown is wealthy. lie Is ho-
you'd the average in this world 5 goods.
bus ho slept in Il freight car III the
yards of the Denver u Rio Grandc sat
urday uight--not that he had to do IT,
but he met some unforLunatcs, OF
course, they could have got bed ut
the city Jail. but somehow they pre-
fcrrcd pallet of straw III Il freight
car aud if they did not sleep very
sound-wcll. they did not have the
stigma Of iail attached TO them whcn
they arose the following morning. Aud
in that statement lies the cruz nj tho
work to which Mr.. Brown has dedicated
his life. 1t is that men less fortu-
nate than many Of their brothers
and their misforiuucs may be only
temporary-may not be subjected %
The humiliation of spending nlght III
.iail. that Mr.. Brown has come to SAT-
Lake City 10 advocate the establish
mcnt OF a municipal lodging house
They have QUO I'm Denver, through
the efforts Of Mr.. Brown, 1t Is not
a permanent house, but it will serve
through this winter, tcntativel y, until
permanent quarters arc secured. Now
when deserving man or woman or
q bov, or Il girl, is out of work, ana
M agaiust it, to use the language OF
tho street. ne or she can 90 TO thls
lodging house in Denver and get Tree
bath and free accommodations Tor lne
night.
Dishonor and Disgrace.
Nh Brown has had experience IN
sleeping in municipal lodging houses
- m tho
Twenty third street, New York. lie
has been in the one in Buffalo. lie
has spent p night i'm tho National
Municipal lodging house il Washing
ton. D. c., and he says he never de
slrcs TO spend anotbor such night, as
he characterizes the Washington house
of refuge ''as d national dlshonor and
disgrace y
The night that Mr.. Brown spent in
and seven children came III 10 get
refuge from the elements, and tho wo-
mau walled -, rr
'sMy husband has killed himself. lie
was out of work y
II was IN Chicago that an old man
sought the protection and shelter ol
the lodging house, and after he had
been fed and had a bath and had lam
down on a clean, comfortable couch, he
eNclalmc1 -,
And that appeal got nearer TO the
throne of grace than do many OF the
PRAYERS of the pontifts and richly
rarbed ecclesiasts.
Interview With Mayor.
Mr., Brown says he has had an IN
tcryiew with Mayor Bransford and with
Chief of Police Barlow, Both approve
of The scheme for the upllft Of un-
fortunate humanity. MI. Brown IN
tends to address the council on the sub,
iect, 10 get the ear of the Commercial
clnh and tho Women S Federated clubs,
So as 10 enlist the sympathy of all
public spirited bodies in the cause OF
humanity.
Mr. Brown does not lay claim 70 any
speciaI philanthropy in the task he has
SET himself TO accomplish. But the
work has fascinated him. He has lived
and supped with the poor nnfortunates
whom The world has not always dealt
friendly with. Once he slept IN a
brick Kiln with sixty of them-and al,
though he did not sleep soundly. he got
close to that under side of humanity
that so many would rather disregard
or entirely forget.
Nh. Brown is a cousin of W. G,
Brown of the New York Central lines,
and a grand nephew of w. Moutgom-
cry Pike, discovercr of Pixies Peak. at
ter whom the famous mount is named