s, or he may be sent out as assistant to one of the stores, and, in
time, he may be given charge of a store. When the men first come to the
home, they receive board and clothing and some remuneration, although
very slight. If they continue to work at the home, they are paid wages
ranging from $1.00 per week up to $4.00 or $5.00 per week, besides
board and lodging in the United States, and from 1s. to 9s. in England.

When a man is able, but is lazy and not willing to work, he is turned
out. It is well known to those who have studied the question, that there
are a large number of such men, but this class does not apply for help
as often as it might to the Army, as it soon learns the uselessness of
so doing. The officers become quite adept in seeing these men in their
true colors. On the other hand, if a man drops into bad habits and goes
off on a spree after he has been helped, he will be taken in again
afterwards, and this is continued within reason. Much of the labor
employed is a surface and floating population, the result of season and
periodic work in connection with so many of our industries, and the men
are just tided over a hard time in their experiences. This class is
larger sometimes than at others, but is always in evidence. Another
class, however, consists of the men who have fallen through their own
recklessness and bad habits. Some of these men are sent out to positions
which they fill creditably, and finally rise as high or higher than they
were before. Naturally, the Army makes as much as possible out of these
cases for the purpose of advertisement. Owing to evident difficulties,
it is impossible to ascertain just what percentage there is of this
class among the total number helped, or what percentage of this class
itself is successfully aided. The industrial work itself, as a paying
business, is developing so fast that a constantly increasing number of
men are permanently retained and used as regular employees, being paid
regular wages.

When we come to the industrial colony, we find it entirely different
from the farm colony, where families are sent to settle upon the land in
tracts of say twenty acres per family. The industrial colony is managed
like a large farm with many laborers, all under one central head. The
original idea was to graduate men from the city plants to the industrial
colonies and thence to the farm colonies, but the Army has had
difficulty in maintaining its colonies at all, and, as