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Show JACOB Rl is; TO LECTURE JNJDGDEN . . . "THE BATTLE OF TKZ SLUMS" WILL. BE THE THZ'.M. Noted Lecturer Vill Illustrate Lecture With Wealth of Stereoptlcon Views at Weber Academy. The third lecture of the course that Is being Riven lv the Weber stake academy will be given on the evening L of the 7th of thte month at the audUjif rlum of the Inetltutlon by T A. Rils. the noted lecturer, on jtie Battle Bat-tle With the Slum' which 7s t-be 8ub. ject ho wlIL.trcyt ,TbKe'cttire will be Illustrated v,Yth a weallh of stere-tfUfgn stere-tfUfgn vlews WvffLinK as j-Hco reporter for the NcT York Sun, it Is said that Jlr. Rlls carried; with him a camera and. havlnc occaiinn to visit the tenements tene-ments of tho b! city, many Interesting Interest-ing views of tht conditions that prevailed pre-vailed there who pictured by him. After gathering (together this valuable dnta with his little camera, he concluded con-cluded that 11 Was a matter of duty which he owed to the wmM to make i known the misery. an.d vilencss of the ' slums he had visited, hence he to .k to the lecture course and for a number of years has done wrnders In bringing about better living conditions in the rcr.1. metropolis through his story told of the awful" distress and crime that , -prevails. In this series nf lectures Mr. jRlla Is known throughout the world as one of the greatest benefactors to the i poor of New York that our country yet i knows. 1 .President Roosevelt has much appre-1 dated the work of Mr. Rlls and has given him his best attention and help 'in Mr. Rlis' demonstrations from the 1 Tostrnm In the upbuilding and purlQca-; purlQca-; tlon of what are commonly known as the "Slums of New York." While act-! act-! lug as police president of New York, Mr. Roosevelt designated Mr. Riis as 1 the "most useful citizen in New York " - The things that Jacob A. RUs started Lin to do twenty-five years ago were to ' tear down the crowded tenement houses of New York and put In their place email parks and flower gardens; to see that sensible tenement house lawg were passed and enforced to do awav with police station lodging ihous'es; to see that there were enough 'public schools for all the children of New York; to establish bojs' clubs and tii.ic' cnokirur and sewing schools. . from a spring which Is situated at ''point of diversion" No. 1, which bears north C2 degroes 48 mlDutcs wost 2U.3 feet distant from the east quarter quar-ter comer ot Section 35, Township C north. Rrango 1 west. Salt Lake base and meridian. Part of said water will bo diverted from a spring which Is situated at "point of diversion" No. 2, wheh bears north 71 degrees 3 minutes min-utes cast 1540 feet distant from the land corner above described. Part of said water will be diverted from a spring which Is situated at "point of diversion" No. 3, which is 3.49C.C feet' south CI degrees 51 minutes east frfu i the above described corner. Par 0f said water will be collected fSt0m a ' spring which is situated ay pont bearing north 43 degree-l m-nutes cact 2S20.6 feet disutrom the point first above desc0(J. also rrom nu. merous small s-;rlrjgg aiijacent thereto and conyevy to ..pojnt of diversion" No. 4. njach Dears north 44 degrees 44 inn.ufes cast 2.5S3.2 feet distant ilic quarter corner above descrlb-, descrlb-, (1, where it will be diverted. At "point of diversion" No. 5, which bears north 51 degrees 33 minutes cast 2,427.7 feet distant from the land corner cor-ner above described, a part of sa.ld water will be collected from small springs situated in a side canyon which enters the main canyon at a point northeast of the ''point of diversion" last abovo described. At "point of diversion" di-version" No. 6, which bears south S3 degrees 53 minutes east 5233.8 feet distant dis-tant from the land corner above described, de-scribed, the water which flows from a sprlns situated about 100 feet east of said "point of diversion" will be diverted. divert-ed. The remainder of the water applied I for will be diverted at "point of dl-1 l version" No. 7, which dears south CO : degrees 7 minutes east 3.4C4.2 feet j distant from the land corner above J described, at which point the water I from numerous small springs situated ; 1u two canjons which form the main I I canyon is to be collected and diverted. The water from the various sources abovo described will be collected and convoyed to a point near the west line t of Section 3C. township u north. Range 1 west, Salt Lake base and meridian, where it will be conveyed for about 20,000 feet by means of a pipe line to tho reservoir of the applicant ap-plicant situated east of Ogden C!tv between be-tween 22nd and 23rd streets and from there it will be distributed during tho period from January 1 to December 31, Inclusive, of each year, by mean3 of the present system of water work3 operated by the applicant and to bo hereafter constructed and there used for municipal purposes. This application appli-cation is designated In tho State Engineer's En-gineer's office as No. 1703. All protests against the granting of said application, etating tho reasons therefor must be made by affidavit in duplicate and filed In this offlce within with-in ttlrlt." (30) days after the completion comple-tion of the publication of this notice CALEB TANNER, SUte Engineer. Date of first publication, Dec. 25, 1908, date of completion of publication Jan. 26, 1909. When, he began on that work there I was scarcely a small park in all the ' great citv of New York; there were not Schools "for half the children; there f?re tenement houses In which 4,000 founts were crowded in one block, sany of them living in rooms in which toe 'sunlight never shone, and thous-4Tdfs thous-4Tdfs of tramps and criminals slept to- IJlbrr nightly In the free police station ' TMging houses. To reform and change sir th"- would lool like a herculean lark, .nt Rlls did It. Ills only lever Vnen he began was. the pencil ho pushed push-ed as police reporter on the New York Sun. But Into every story that he Totc of murder, 4f poverty, of starva-' starva-' ttpn, of awful misery, of abuee. neglect n4 Buffering, he iiut his appeal for the jjeturment of 0ie condition of tho enenient housa? poor, for tho parks, ; -a'flre schools jlnd the rest For twenty-1 ;;1ve yeai-Rae kept persistently, dog-,, dog-,, tfedly, at it, and at last, It came, tho i thing hcXnd been working for through I eO manyC long years. c |