The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-10-08
OLD PEOPLES HOME
WILL SOON Be BUILT
Sarah Daft Association Is
Ready to Proceed With
Great Project.
HAVE 100 ROOMS
Aged and lnfirn to Be
Cared for in the New
Institution.

announced yesterday that IT ls ready
f! to proceed with the erection and estab-
| lishment of the Daft home, an institu-
tion for the blind, aged and infirm OF
both sexes, for which partial funds were
provided in the will of the late Mrs.
Sarah Ann Daft. The institution will
| be launched, it is said, with an orig
| innl investment of about $4,000, al
though subsequent amounts may be
raised to carry on the work of the as
! sociation in maintaining the establish
ment and making betterments from
time to time. 1t is planned to have Il
| building of about 100 rooms. Two
acres of land probably will be purchased
either on the northeast or east bench,
parked with lawns, trees and flowers
When Mrs. Daft died in 1905 she left
her large estate in the hands of four
trustees, Mrs. e. f. Marks. her niece;
Elmer B, Jones, her attorney; j. d.
Lyons and Charles II. jenkins. After
the execution of certain bequests the
residue was 10 be used for the estab-
lishment of q home for the blind aged
and infirm The bequestS were made,
but the residue was held pending fu-
ture deliberations among the executors
and the e2ecutriX.
Club Women Take Action.
Coincident with the motive which in
spired Mrs. Daft IS bequea thment, Mrs.
B. \. NJ. Froisetb suggested to an
other club woman after visiting The
year ago the urgent necessity for an
old foIl,s banp in Salt Iul.n Th,
suit was that a number of prominent
club women met soon thereafter to dis
cuss the matter. At this meeting the
provision made In the Daft will was
set forth. Those present were Mrs.
Froiseth. Mrs. M. b. Whitney, Mrs. g.
IT, Mcmahon. Mrs. A. v Taylor Mrs,
Louise Smith, Mrs. r. G. McNiecc, Mrs.
p o, Perkins and Mrs. Sarah Powers.
Subsequent meetings were held and
the membership of the future associa-
tion grew. A committee was then ap-
pointed TO coufer with Mrs, Marks, eX-
ecutrix of the Daft will, to see if the
two moves could not be combined into
| one, with the residue of the Daft estate
as a nucleus fund. Mrs. Marks heart
| lily favored the idea, but the exec,r
tors. Mcssrs. Jones, Lyons and jenkins,
| opposed it.
Mrs. Marks, at the head of the club
women, then began legal battle for
the Daft fund for use ip connection
with the scheme launched by the club
women. Last June Mr.. Jones left the
| city, signing over a complete relin-
Quishment of his rights in the trustee
ship TO the other three trustees,
Win Legal Battle,
On September the club women IN
creased their number behind the prof.
ect TO seventyfive, and at a meeting
| held at the Commercial club signed as
! charter members of the Sarah Daft
| Home association. An Incorporation OF
| ficers and trustees were elected, To-
cation committee was appointed and
| also committee on constitution and by
| laws
The legal cntanglement was uurav-
eled on September 26, when Judge +.
| C. Loofbourow Of the probate court
issued au order turning over the Daft
! funds as provided by will to the as
socistion for the establishment and
maintenance Of the home for aged, in
| firm and blind. The association is now
in possession of this fund, which is be-
tween $4,000 aud $4,000 Plans are
now being perfected and building is cx,
pected to begin in the early spring.
1t is planned to erect a thoroughly
modern home for "old folks. - pat
1
| Francisco. and similar institutions The
| home is TO be in no sense a pdorhouse.
but a place where a home will be as
sured for life for nominal sum
Officers and Trustees Selected.
wives IN most instances of tho leading
men of tho city and are said TO repro
sent backing in round figures of
| $50 900 900.
The officers and trustees of the home
are rs follows;
Mrs Hal W. Brown, president: Mrs.
Mary F.. Gilmer, vice president; Mrs. c.
II. Mcmahon, second vice president:
Mrs. r. G. McNiece, third vice pres
ident; Mrg; Charles \, Pcet- secretary;
Mrs. NJ. = Whitney. treasurer; Mrs.
T.. o. Lee. Mrs. John Greene, Mrs 4.
V. Taylor, Mrs. j. II. Powers, Mrs.
Louisa Smith, Mrs A. Fred Wey. Mrs.
r. q. Perkins. Mrs. W. IT, Mcintvrc.
Mrs. b A. NJ. Froiscth. Mrs. w. ). Me
Cornick, Mrs. Elizabeth Bouuemort,
Mrs. f. s Richards, Mrs. c. $. Kin
nev, Mrs. Louis Cohn. Mrs G. r.. Pear
sail. Mrs. ]. NJ. Dart. Mrs. William
Spry, Mrs. Lafayette Hanchett, Mrs
Other Association Members.
These with the following compose
the association:
Mrs W. v Rice. AIRS. Duncan Mae
Vichic, Mrs. d. G. lacking. Mrs. Mary
=. Hewlett, Mrs. George Y Wallace. Mrs
John Dern, Mrs. Adolph Baer. Mrs. W
Mont Ferry, Mrs. W. ". Armstrong
Mrs. y. T. Carlson Mrs. W W. Reese
Mrs frank T.. Johnson. Mrs. F. +. Me
Gurrip. Mrs. l.. Maver Mrs. j. 5. Rrans
ford, Mrs. Ellen Blood. Mrs Richard
Allen keves. Mrs. SOL Seieel. Mrs 81
mon Bariberger. Mrs. e. H. Marks, Mrs
4. j. Gorham. Mrs. James T. Marshall
Mrs. James Dick, Mrs. l.. l.. Terry. Mrs
Edwin J.. Holmes, Mrs. Sam 5. Porter
Mrs. +. g. Dern. Mrs r. &. Gemmell
Mrs Guy Anderson. Mrs. r. j. Mar
name. Mrs. Mary Bero, Mrs. sam Paul
Mrs. c. NJ. Bell, Mrs n. T. Sanping
ton, Mrs. +. q. Howard. Mrs. Bennel
y. Smith, Mrs. Rachel X Miller, Mrs
Sarah A. MeChrystal. Mrs. T.. &. Par
sons. Mrs. w X. Wallace. Mrs 4. T
) Moon. Mrs. Il. q. Mecklenburc. Mrs
. Aaron keyser. Mrs. T.. u. Hammond
Mrs. q. j. McNitt. Mrs \ McCanne
c Mrs. George T. Brice Mrs. :. a Whit
r. new Mrs Byron W Cummings Mrs +