The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-05-02

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Recreation and idlencss arc not
akin, as the Y. NJ. g. \. understands
recreation aud teaches il, In fact, tho
two arc not even cousins. The strlh-
ing feature Of visit TO the Salt Lake
association rooms by ono not familiar
with its work is tho fact that every"
body is doing something, reading, writ
ing, exercising, or something else, Ev-
crybody is engaged in some sort of
work or recreation. The association
tries 10 provide some occupation for
cVcrv boy or young man that comes TO
the building, and there Is no tempta-
tion TO loaf and seldom any disposi-
tion TO loaf. In this the association
differs from the ordinary club, where
folks go 10 be idle. The association s
theory, which works out successfully, IL
thai d man or boy rests better when
he is doing something different from
what he is accustomed 10 at home or
ut his Job. and the association en-.
dcavors to provide the something.
All the days are busy there. for Of
ficers and members alike. The week
DAYS work begins with conference
OF officers at o clock in the morning,
when all the many details of the as
sociation work are presented aud dis
cussed
The days mail is opened after the
conference AS might he expected it
is an interesting budget. Few days
pass without letter from some parent
asking the association TO help in the
search for lost or wandering son. or
To lonk out for some sick son far from
his home. Seeking the lost sons and
earring for the sick sons is a regular
part of tho work of the local officers.
The requests como IN many cases
through associations in other parts OF
:hc country.
Another Busy Period,
The period between o O'Clock and
1880 O'Clock usually sees many ap-
plicants for work coming TO the \. NJ,
&. A. employment bureau. All young
men that come 10 tho city receive guest
cards on application. emitting them to
the privileges of tho building until
they get fixed so that they may take
out membership, if they arc not al
ploymeDt for Us many as 1t can. En-
ployers seeking young men for respon-
siblc or confidential positions call on
the association bureau regularly, real
ling that the bureau examines care
fully all credentials and that it recon-
mends only men that Ut believes will
be satisfactory The work Of the en-
ployment bureau has been suspendei
temporarily, as the director of the bu
reau has been giving his time to the
work Of securing the Sl50,000 needed
TO free the association from debt, but
the employment feature will be re-
sumed as soon as the canvass has been
completed. as it is regarded rs one of
the most important functions OF the
work of the association.
The ''noon crowd" begins to arrive
about 1880 o CLOCK. 1t is made UP OF
many that take their daily lunch at
come not to cat. but to play hapdball;
business men, that belong to regular
gymnasium classes; members of noon
penmanship classes, noou Bible classes,
mud othc- About the same time that
the others begin to arrive, party of
three, consisting of n well-known bust
ness man OF the city q cOrnetist and
an instructor of the association staff,
leave the building TO visit some shop
in the city, where noon meetings are
held as tho employees cat their lunches
The subjects covered at these meetings
take wide range, including talks Oh
tine preservation of health, on home
life, on educational development, on
temperance, OF religion, and many 9th.
er lines.
Quiet Part Of Day.
Usually the quietest part of the day
is the time between o clock and the
arrival Of the youngsters from the high
school and the other schools. Gym.
nasium classes for boys come at 4
o clock and , clock. Gymnasium
classes for men and BOYS that work in
the daytime are held at 6 clock and
7:30 O'Clock.
The night school classes begin at
6:30 and 1880 o'clock, and each class
meets from one to four times a week,
depending on the branch taught. These
classes are supposed to end ut 10
o clock, but often the students, who
arc there because they really want TO
learn something, persuade an instruc
tor TO remain with them until IL
or even later. The night school was
originally intended 70 run from, Sep
tember until tho middle of April, but
H. was extended to the 6rst Of june
swo years ago, and now some of the
classes run until the end Of August.
The night classes arc interesting.
The students in various classes range
In age from 30 years to little chaps
that would he somewhere about the
fifth grade in the public schools. If
they did not have to work in the day.
time The adult students generally
arc men that desire more knowledge
about work in which they are already
engaged and end that they cannot get
it anywhere except at night school.
Sometimes the little fellows, after
hard days work, fall asleep over their
books about the time the moro fortu-
nato Youngsters that do not have TO
work for q living are getting into bed
Mt home. And sometimes tho teachers
do not have the heart to wake them
up but allow them to get IN hour s
nap once in while in the belief that