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Show If llffi KITES 1 HAPPY II WH j Superintendent of Relief! Home in San Francisco Explains Its Operation. Charles W. WoUenber, superintendent superintend-ent of the Relief Home of Kan Francisco, Fran-cisco, an infirmary which is operated od the new plan of liavinp all inmates do some sort of work in return for their keep, arrived in Salt Lake yesterday on his way to Texas on a business trip. According to the New York bureau of municipal research, the Relief Ilmne in Sau Francisco is something different from anything of iis sort in the ooun--try. Ir is really the ' 'poorhouse ' ' of the city, but instead of the indigent inmates in-mates being- kept there in idleness as objects of charity, they are ail required to do Rome sort of work and thus are placed upon a basis en ti rely different from the average inmate of an infirmary. infirm-ary. As explained last night by Mr. Wol-lenberg. Wol-lenberg. there are 1400 inmates of the home, and every one of them is doing some sort of work. Those who were j shoemakers before they became unable to maintain themselves are at work making shoe? and repairing shoes for the other inmates of the place. Tailors do the tailoring work of the establish- ; ment, bricklayers and house builders I help in the work of building the insti- j tution buildings and their own homos on the 100-aere plat which is Occupied b' j the home. Four concrete buildings have been constructed on the ground? now at a cost of $-li)n,ii00, Mr. Wollenberg explained, ex-plained, and a large pa rt of the work has been done bv th inm:i 1 f,s. It i-expected i-expected that $1 j"inn.onu nmri will be spent on the build i n e- to be e rectnd, and it is expected titat the city of San, Franciscn will isue bonds in raist1 th'1 money for construction of th'-se build- j irjgs. I Mr. 'V.'oUr'nhf'rg declares that because! of the vork they are doinj, the in- i nmtcs ma lie the pbicc almost self -.-up- j porting. anl thev are happier than the j inmflt of any otln-r insiitutioji of the j sort that he hap S'.mti in the country. Mr. Wollenberg supe-ri nWmdpn t 1 of the relief t-u v. ;ps c-Tal il h e.) follow- j ing tho big tire in S.m rrnnrisen. nnd, cru.cnived the id fa th'Mi ot the Krlbd" 1 Home, Inch has m.'-e been built up : niuieT hi-; nmii.-'Lieinf lit. lie took nvr ; the old alnishnti,-.-- of the eTy, rjn. vvitii ; the refugees who were p'rniaiiftit J charges upon the citv, 1 1 !.r t n the uvoln-j lion of tho mo'lern Peiief Home. j about the home is being farmed, and almost enough supplies to maintain tho place are raised on the grounds. The other sections of the ground are being parked and tho place is becoming one of the attractive parks of the eily. Mr. Wollenberg was entertained while in the city by Edward P. Levy, manager man-ager of the Orpheum theater. Jle leaves today on his trip to Texas, and then will return to California and make a tour of that state, inspecting a number num-ber of infirmaries in the state with a view to having his sj'Ftem introduced iu them. |