Show THE POOR OF SALT LAKE WHAT SHALL HE DOXE WITH OUR XEEDY OXES The County Court Forced to Withhold With-hold Further Assistance Some Pitiable Cases Looked Up By a Herald Reporter Dying gentlemen and dying all around you every day What shall we do the poor of Salt I Lake are saying They have found that the county court Issues no more I orders for coal and provisions The charitable organizations have expended most of their funds in relieving distress the past winter Days and weeks of weary search for work are fruitless On the books of the county selectmen I are recorded some cases of abject want Yesterday a Herald reporter looked through those books and afterwards after-wards visited some of the homes described de-scribed Every one visited was the scene of squalor and wretchedness Yet in all but the case of the astroioger help was deserved In a wretched room at the rear of a thirdstory building 264 South Main street can be found oneof the most needy as well as most deserving cases of poverty In the city There are a mother and two children a girl of 11 years and a boy of 7 The woman shows traces of refinement notwithstanding notwith-standing years of toil and hardship and mother love has been in no wise diminished di-minished by the sorrows she has borne for and with them Prior to her marriage mar-riage she had taught school and given music lessons Love for an unworthy object proved the cause of her unhappiness unhap-piness as it often does She was deserted de-serted by her husband when her i younger child was but two weeks old For a few months she ate the bitter bread of dependence grudgingly bestowed i be-stowed by relatives She resolved to make her own way as best she could I In an honest way This she has done by charring She cleans a few offices of-fices up in town and washes barber towels yet for this work does not receive enough to shelter clothe and I feed herself and children even in the poor way in which they live In return re-turn for her work In an occulists office of-fice he treats her eye in which an abscess has formed The daughter is I confined to her bed by the measles The family has received aid from the I county and will be put to worse straits now that source of supply is removed There was a pathetic patience in the I womans face as she said I have had a hard time but I through it all I have kept my honor for my childrens sake If I can only give them an education I will be content con-tent The little girl is a charity student at St Marys academy Another deserving case is that of a German woman living In the rear of 255 West First South street She has five children the youngest eighteen months old She too was Qeserted by her husband when the babe was but I two weeks old She showed a half1 dollar which she had earned by washIng wash-Ing yesterday and said it was all she I had to live on until sne securea luriner aid from the county which she implicitly im-plicitly believes is forthcoming At No S Mortinsens alley there is dire want The mother is delicate being be-ing able to do only the lighest labor There are three children the oldest a pretty girl of sixteen who has been maidofallwork In several families but who has no work at present The wages she received would at any rate serve only to clothe her There are many pitfalls in the path of those as poor and as fair as she and it is to be hoped that poverty will be the only grief the mother will be called upon to bear A Jewish family of father mother and four children the oldest child a boy of 15 occupy one small room at 243 East Third South street The father is afflicted with rheumatism and a lung affection either of which would totally unfit him for labor The mother too Is crippled with rheumatism rheuma-tism Their onlj means of support is the scanty earnings of the eldest son who is employed in a second hand clothing store The county selectmen have rendered aid to the family on two or three occasions and small contributions j con-tributions have been made by the Hebrew Ladies society but the need j is great The pittance of rent is in arrears and the miserable head of the unfortunate family wonders where the i 250 is to come from that will keep a roof over their heads for another r month i A thin wan woman with a puny waxen faced infant in her arms told a pitiful story of lack of work and of attendant misery For a year and a half my husband has had only two months work she said and yesterday yester-day he did the first bit of work he has done for six months He made and put up a shelf and received 50 cents for ir He is steady and willing to work at anything but he cant find work Every day he looks for work but nev r finds it Meanwhile the battle with poverty against such odds Is being fought at 21S East Fifth South street Again at 337 East Fifth South street is a pitiful case that of a father hopelessly hope-lessly afflicted with spinal disease unable un-able to leave his bed a mother weak and worn with anxiety and six children I child-ren And this family is entirely dependent i de-pendent upon charity The father was i a prospector but like many another I he never struck paying dirt A widow with a family of small children is destitute at 437 West Fifth North street that would be laughable were A case a i suggestive of tragedy is that it not so I who trtreet of a woman on South State I was a kind of protege of a prominent family having been their servant for soldier who deserted years She married a i serted her after less than a year of married life But the affairs of the I prominent family are at a low ebb now 1 n h I i and the woman ien LV = uu u self Is studying astrology and cards If unmolested in those occult sciences she will probably soon hang out a sign I of Madam Mystic the wonderful fortune I for-tune teller and will make a living for herself and child out of the credulity I of a gullible public Perhaps the saddest case Is that of a I respectable but unfortunate family living liv-ing at 721 East Second South street The head of the family Is a stone mason ma-son but has had no employment for many months The mother is a sickly looking woman and there are seven children For a week there has been no fuel in the house and yet six of the children have been ill during that time with the prevalent epidemic It has been such a hard winter the woman sighed I have never known such a hard one before My oldest daughter has not a change of clothing Many Is the day we have had nothing but dry bread to eat I try to earn a little by washing but I cant find much to do The county helped us three or four times but we can get no more What shall we do |