Show RELIEF COMES TO AID OF SUFFERING FAMILY L Charitable Salt Lakers Send Provisions and Clothing to Destitute Family Found by The Thc Telegram r 0 0 0 0 0 0 00 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 o A reporter of or The Telegram went to the cheerless tent of ot Carl Nelson o this morning loaded with huge packages of ot clothing contributed by readers readers read read- o ers of or this paper and presented them to the father of ot the little ti nock flock ck Mr Nelson Neson opened the packages with the little on ones s grouped around him and o with tears teals In his eyes and trembling voice olce said ald I can only thank these kind people through The Telegram for tor what nhat o 0 we have received I want to thank your paper for tor having ha relieved our dis- dis 0 tress I feel te that our temporary wants are now provided for tor and that o I shall shaH Boon soon be able to better provide for tor my children and will go to work as soon as I can walk I want to again thank The Telegram and say lay that 0 3 had it not been for that paper paper we would have been In a a. desperate plight 0 o by bi this time The children cried rIed with delight when the bulky packages were opened and well darned stockings and little dresses and jackets shoes hoes sunbonnets sun Bun bonnets nd l nd pinafores were disclosed Tho The fathers father's joy was unconcealed and ho he continued to express his gratitude in unmeasured terms Among o other things In tn the goods sent to the destitute tam family II number ot of books for lor tho the children It would be bc difficult to state which pleased them o 0 the most most or the books The members of oC the East Side Baptist 0 e church have taken Flops to secure a a. room for the family while others others others' will vill willo 0 o 0 aid the tile father tather to secure light employment until he rec recovers from the Ino injury in- in o 0 jury to hi his foot oot 0 C 0 i l 0 I IThe The story ory published In Saturdays Saturday's Telegram depleting depicting the destitution and poverty of at the Nelson family living In a tent on a vacant lot in North Temple street ha has had the effect of temporarily the wolf wol from the poor family's fam tam ily's ilys door This morning a box of provisions and clothes was vas sent to The Telegrams Telegram's office to be forwarded to to the little tent on North Tem Temple l street b by Mr and Mr Mrs R. R L. L Shannon The box contained two loaves of ot bread a jar of ot fruit a bushel of ot potatoes a hundred pounds of flour nour two little coats for tor boys two pairs of ot trousers one vest vest three dresses for girls t two o dozen stockings a pair pah of ot baby sho shoes s a number of ot under garments for tor children and two Christmas story books The articles were sent to the family this afternoon Mrs Nelson tells an entirely different story stone from that related b by her hus hug band hand Mrs hs Xe Nelson on says that she and her husband lived ll In Silver Sliver until last March There Fhe she says sayf she Ahe supported th the family faintly by sewing washing and doIng do do- Ing other kinds of work ork until she he grew tired of carrying the burden alone and told her husband he hc would have to come to Salt Lake and get work He came but she says that he sent no money home until June I a It was then that Mrs Nelson says fas she brought the children to the ctt city and turning them over t to N Nelson l on informed him that he would have hae to support them in fn the future At the E same ame time she left her husband and procured work ork In the dressmaking department nt of one of the big stores In fn the city at a salar salary of 56 6 per week With this money mone she she says she supported herself and contributed to the support of the c children About a a. week ago M Mrs Nelson Neilson left the store and Js is now no working at the home of ot William J. J Salisbury on Third East street She She declares res that her hus hus' husband husband band could make as much in a day as she does in a week eek if it he would work work and she insists that it ills is his duty to support her and the children too I Mrs says sas that her husband h mortgaged their little home at Silver Sliver for tor 70 and spent the money She says however hoever that she will not let the th place go 50 until she gets her share out of or it She considers the place orth worth about Nelson said toda today that he would move Into a hou house e of two rooms on Sixth South street in a a. aie Yew days dis The relief society has done much for the family re re- re here There will also o be an effort made to place the children all in fn school with the exception of ot those thoe who are too young oung |