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Show cinii mm 10 help m m & . 1 " ' Salvation Army Finds Good Use for Furniture Obtained in Raids by the Police. Denver, May 17, 1920. A new method of disposing of gambling apparatus ap-paratus siczed by police in raids on gambling houses throughout the city was put into effect Monday by Chief of Police Armstrong when he turned over to Captain Thomas Wesley Pipes, commandant of the Salvation Army's Industrial Home at 1122 Larimer Lar-imer street, a number of chairs nnd tables. These chairs and tables would othcrwiso havo been destroyed. Some of them will bo used in the reading room at thu Salvation Army Home Service building on Curtis street and others, after being repaired at tho Industrial Homo will be given to poor people who continually throng tho store room of the Industrial Homo looking for articles of clothing and '' furniture that are sold at nominal prices. ' Chief of police Armstrong cstim-' ated that many thousands of dollars ' had changed hands over the games! which are played on the tables. Now I instead of frenzied gamblers beseech-' ing "little dick" to show up on the face of the "bones" or of calling anxiously on the ivory cubes to "bring baby a pair of shoes," careworn mothers and hard working fathers will gather round the tables or soldiers sol-diers on leave and farm laborers in the city for a spell will read or write their letters spread out on the polished oak tops. Tho furniture was seized in a series of raids last week when 125 men were arrested charged with gambling. i Lieutenant Colonel John YV. Cousins local officer of the Salvation Army, i immediately on learning of the raids and seizure of the furniture asked Chief Armstrong to let him have the chairs and tables instead of destroying destroy-ing them, as has been thu custom following previous raids. ' Somo of the tables had been smah- etl when the police had to batter down ! the doors guarding the gambling I houses. These, however will be put ' up in scrviccablo condition by tho carpenters nnd joiners who live at the Industrial Home. Supplying furniture to poor fam-1 fam-1 ilies free of charge or at a prico which just covers the cost of repairs ; is only one of tho many methods the i , Salvation Army uses in following up its 1920 slogan of "To the Rescue; Now Let Us Help Our Own." Ex- -tension of this service is one of the i main features of the home service 1 v . program of the Salvation Army. |