The Ogden standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1902-1910, 1910-01-22
BY WILLIAM ALLEN JOHNSTON.

BY WILLIAM ALLEN JOHNSTON.
NEW YORK. Saturday
cop7Hsht 1900 BY Rights Reservcdl
T the urchIn who yclls 'Papc! Papci Here yare,
\ mlster!" and swiftly pockets your penny should
fash in your face savings bank book with bal
oncc of several hundred dollars. you need not be
greatly surprised. If some time you hard up
and need quick loan tide the business day
why just consult your Office boyt
Over at the West Side Boys Lodging House. at No
225 West Thirty-Gfth street they teaching home
less Youngsters how TO 1t is interesting
pertinent interesting subjects, and tho results
quite remarkable, not alone in the accumulation of
lat bank accounts, but, what Is more to the point,
In the development of character and ambition among
boys who have no homes to help them parents to
guide them, and who, backed only by their sharp
wits and sturdy muscles holding their own In
the battle of life in n big city
They arc waits of the Streets these boys About
fifty per cent arc orphans and about half as many
half orphans: others homeless for one reason
Or another in most instances because of stepmother
who can't md place in her heart for another
woman's offspring.
Some city boys considerable number come
rom the country, "freigbting it, In from the mill
owns of New England. from the coal towns of Penn
ylvana. from as far away Texas. The irresistible
magnet of New York city draws them, Just as It at
racts men, There's chance" here
How do they find the Boys Lodging House? WHY
policemen bring them n, the Chldrcns AID Society
tends them but principally, they are introduced by
,ther boys already inmates of the home Every other
,ight walf is led to the desk and stands there
hungry and hopeful
Say" says his sponsor. Here's kid wot v can
ook over. He's been vIn' in n cellar on Grand street
ltink he's all right"
In all likelihood the new applicant is admitted md
hen the probcm-qultc problem-of his upllft IS
worked out.
In the first place, the home in itself Is admirable
n every way. 1t Is modern in appontments-buIlt in
1903 by John Jacob Astor-and looks more like club
than lodging house IN front there's a sDacous
reading and lounging room, with books, magazines
games and piano and pool table To the roar ie tbe
dining room. which certain nights Is turned into
gymnasium. Below the first floor arc wash rooms
winning pool and complete steam laundry. nm
Ears the dormtores
For board, lodging and laundry the older bovs
ixtecn TO eighteen years-pay S15O week Ror.
lnder sixteen pay $1o5 Transient rates are.-1odo.
ng, five cents n bed; meals, five cents each 81
AT these 10" rates-together with the free fare an
clothing that must be furnished-thc homo
curse. cannot pay expenses. Last wear the tota,
expenses were S92172s and the income vos or,r
2I1fo5 Seven thousand and ninety-hve lodgings
md 12,131 meals were furnished free
To Support Itself.
But the home aims to the highest possible extent
be sef-suPporting-not for its own interests 60
much as for the sake OF the boys They must ha
aught to be self-supportng: and the way-the main
Nay-to bring this about is to teach them 10 save
That indeed, Is the central problem tho one tbot
the superintendent. Mr. Hcnnefrund and the hook
keeper. Mr. Patterson face continually and srueIo
hardest with.
First of all. employment must be found for ,be
newcomer. Advertising in the daily papers has been
tried this year with splendid success. Through tbIs
means 532 boys were placed during the eight months
ended October /
Then the wage earncrs must be clio he'd properly at
the start Feet that trudge for work. run orroDd,
help sell newspapers, must be well shod New shoes
are first consideration.
I 1t is rather clever scheme they have Of making
lihe pool table pay for these shoes 4 cent . c,o Is