n stories, and sometimes, as in one
home in Chicago, the sleeping and living quarters of the men are
entirely separate from the warehouse where they work, possibly some
blocks away. The kitchen is nearly always found to be large and
furnished with a good range and other facilities. The dining room
contains long, plain tables, set so that the men can sit on both sides.
The dishes are of thick, strong ware. The food is plain but good.
Everything from the floor to the dishes is usually clean.

The sleeping rooms are of two kinds, individual rooms and dormitories.
Those men who are of a better rank, that is, those who have been working
long, or who are doing a higher grade of work, and those who have "boss"
positions, occupy the separate rooms; while the general class of workers
sleep in the dormitories. When it comes to the question of pure air,
considerable difficulty arises. Some of the separate rooms have no
outside window, though the partitions between the rooms rise only to a
certain height, thus giving common air to the whole floor. Even where
good ventilation facilities exist, it seems difficult to make the men
keep the windows open. As regards ventilation, however, the industrial
homes are, as a rule, better than the lower class workingman's hotels,
and are improving in this respect. The beds are iron, single beds. The
bed clothing and the rooms themselves are clean and fumigated regularly.

A reading room is also provided where daily papers and popular magazines
are kept, and where the men may write. In some cases, a smoking room
adjoins. Meetings of a devotional character, to which the men may come
or not as they see fit, are often held in the reading room.

The support that renders the industrial home possible is the waste
product of the city. This material is rubbish of all kinds imaginable.
In connection with each industrial plant are kept a number of horses and
wagons, mostly one-horse wagons. Each driver of a wagon has a definite
route to cover regularly. Passing over his route, he collects everything
of which people are glad to be rid. Waste paper, old clothes, old
furniture, and the like, are the principal articles he collects. Many
good people, persuaded of the good work the Army is doing, save up their
store of odds and ends until the Army wagon shall call, often giving
things away which they would not have thrown away or given any one else,
unless it would be to sell them to an old-clothes man. The dri