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Show CHILDREN SEND REQUESTS AND GOOD FELLOW IS BUSY Bringer of Christmas Cheer Wants Specific Information; Infor-mation; Old Guard of Philanthropy Is Eagerly at Work. TO JOIN THE ORDER OF GOOD FELLOWS. j Order of Good Fellows, Salt Lake City: j I live at No street. j I wish to take care of children. I prefer them ? in the t part of the city. Please send me J a list of names. I enclose stamped and addressed envelope. (Signed) ; ' ttT T ELL0!" oal,cti Goocl Fellow 8 yesterday as a reporter hur- J J ried past his door. "Stop a minute and give me a lift. 1 haven't time to write a letter to other members of the order today to-day and I want you to tell them how I'm getting along with our work. "You see, the time in which we have to work is so short that every moment will be needed to look after the children. chil-dren. The mail bag is rapidly filling up, but the most of the letters are from the youngsters. Good Fellows are just now beginning to get busy. "Here's a fair sample of what's coming com-ing in, M he exclaimed as he scanned a crumpled scrap of paper just removed from a more crumpled envelope. "This little chap didn 't have any choice of stationery and he 's awfully anxious to get in touch with Good Fellows. Fel-lows. ' ' And this is what it said in a scrawling scrawl-ing boyish hand: : "My papa died last winter and mamma mam-ma is 'awful sick. She says Santa Claus won't come to poor folks like us. He ! almost didn 't get here last year. If ; you can have him bring little sister , something she would be awful pleased. He is in town. I saw him the other day. Tell him about sister. Don't mind me." i "Now there's a Good Fellow in the making," smiled the chief of the order, j "He doesn't ask for anything for himself, him-self, but wants us to use our influence with good old Saint Nick for his sister. sis-ter. "That's only-a sample. There's a lot of grief unfolded in these crumpled scraps of paper that are pouring in here every day and we have just got to take care of them. This cold weather is going go-ing to make it mighty tough on the needy. Old Guard Responding. "Some of the old guard have responded re-sponded to my call, but there are a lot yet to be heard from and the time is getting short. I'd like to find my desk piled high with letters from Good Fellows Fel-lows when I come to work Monday. It won't be any trouble to find 'kiddies' 'kid-dies' who need help. "And just make a note of this. It won't take a fortune from any one Good Fellow. We can fix them up anywhere from one child to two dozen, not two dozen all in one family of course. Toll them if they can't spare $5 that 25 or 50 cents will help that much. "But here's the idea. We don't want to handle money if we can help it, but will gladly take the money if necessary. What we want is Good' Fellows who will furnish the toys or clothing, or whatever it may be, themselves and we will tell them where to take them. Just have them send us their names and addresses, ad-dresses, saying how many children they will talte care of and the ages and sex, if they have a preference. We will send them the addresses of the children and they can do tho rest. "That kind of an arrangement, you know, will save all of us a lot of trouble. trou-ble. But the money will not be refused. re-fused. If the Good Fellows can't find time to take care of the Muddies' themselves them-selves we'll take the money and .buy the presents and see that they are delivered. de-livered. Must Be Specific. "And whatever you do, call attention to the fact that we must have full information. in-formation. We want to know how many children in the family, whether boys or girls and how many of each and the age of each. Also we want to know the name of the family, and be sure to tell them to give us 'the correct address. ad-dress. That's very important. "See, here's a letter now that puts us up in the air. About five orphans cared for by a widowed aunt. It gives a street address, but no name. Supposing Sup-posing that address should be wrong. We wouldn 't have tho slightest idea who we were looking for. Or if the family should move away within the next ten days, we couldn ft trace them. "Here's another sample of the kind we don't like. From the names I should say there are two boys and a girl, but I don't know whether they are mere babies or half grown, and we can't buy presents for them unless we know their ages. If Helen is a baby a rattle and some little shoes and stockings might be acceptable. The shoes and stockings might be all right if she were several years beyond the baby stage, but the chances are they wouldn't fit. "And be sure and emphasize the fact that my office is at The Tribune. They can reach me there any time up to 6 o'clock at night by telephone and day or night by letter. We've just got to get busy, as Christmas is ,iust fifteen days away and but twelve of them are shopping days. ' ' |