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Show SALT LAKE FAMILY IS IK PI DISTRESS Opportunity for Charity of Right Sort Herewith Presents Pre-sents Itself. j Tho people of Salt L,akc nro called upon to extend the hand of succor and help tn a. family whose numbers have been decimated by death, and who arc living In dire circumstances. With relentless and remorseless persistency luis ill luck pursued the family of Douglas C. Wilson, 712 U'est Second North. The husband and father Is ill of typhoid fever In St. Mark's hospital, ,-nid his wife Is III of the same disease at Ihc home of her mother, Mrs, Klotcher, on SInMIi West, street near Second North. She lia3 boon 111 for thirteen weeks. A nur."-o provided by tbo county is carina for three children jit the family home. These children are also ill, or typhoid. Their ages are I. It and 13 years. Yet throo other children there are, whose ages, are, respectively, 17, 1" and IJ years. The eldcnt. u girl, is employed at the Salt Luke Knitting works. The lirtceii-ycur-old girl Is caving for the bnby. Not eight monthi; ago the family was under iitinrantlne on account of smallpox. When the emburgo was lifted, tho father procured employment at a meager salary at the Salt Luke OH work. But even this chance of keeping a morsel of food !n Hie house v.as denied the ill-starred man, for the oil works burned. Am long us slift was able to do so. Mrs. Wilson worked with hsr needle. But she can work no longer. The home which the uirf. happy Wilson family planned, and upon which they have made numerous numer-ous payments, is threatened. There Is no means with whb-h tu continue th- Installments, In-stallments, a tho time for payment comes with Immutable regularity. - ISvil linn been on the track of this family fam-ily for many yc'ars. Scarcely a single day has panned ylnce tin; Wilsons moved into thrlr new home that some member of the fiimily has not been II!: not a, year has passed but. tlmt typhoid fever has appeared. ap-peared. Two children have died from that disease. Therefore, in the light of these pitiable inets, the opp'irt unity for charity of the right sort picscnt.M Itself with force. |