EPARTMENT.

Originally the work now known as the Industrial Work was handled with
and under the same management as the Social Work, but as the movement
grew, the Industrial Work branched out and finally became separate in
operation and management, the name "Social Department" being retained
for the hotel work only.

The Industrial Department itself may be divided into three sections, all
under the same management. These are The Industrial Home, The Industrial
Store and The Industrial Colony. The object of the work embraced in
these three divisions as stated in the prospectus sent out by the Army
two years ago is:

"One of the most difficult problems that has confronted the
Salvation Army has been the finding of employment for out-of-works
and human derelicts in our cities. A system has been gradually
organized by which this human waste is employed in collecting the
material waste of the city. This latter has been sorted, sifted and
sold, and temporary employment thus afforded to thousands of
stranded persons, who have thus been tided over periods of distress,
relieved of immediate suffering, saved from the stigma of paupers,
assured of human sympathy, and given a new start in life."[14]

After a careful review of the various divisions of this work, above
mentioned, we shall consider whether the object is being attained, and
of what value the work done is to society.

In the formation of the Industrial Home the ideal building and situation
cannot always be secured; hence there are differences in the planning
and disposition of the different homes. The general plan, however, is to
have a three or four-story building fitted up as follows: On the ground
floor is a space where the wagons filled with waste materials can
unload, a large room where furniture can be repaired and stored (unless
this is done in the basement below), an office, and another large room
to be used for a retail store. On the second floor is the sorting room,
and adjoining or connected with it is the baling room, where such stuff
as paper, rags and excelsior is pressed, ready to be taken away. On this
floor, too, is to be found the kitchen, the dining room and the reading
room. On the third floor are situated the dormitories and sleeping
rooms. This plan is often varied. Sometimes there is a basement and only
one or two stories above. Sometimes, as in the Forty-eighth Street home
in New York, there are six or seve