Letter from George Gwillym Bywater, 28 July 1891
Sugar House Shops Station,
President. Woodruff
Dear Brother:
The bearer of this note is bro: Joseph
Whitely whome you have met before: I desire
to say some things of him, that he would be
very reluctant to say of himself. He has been
in Utah a little over one year, and has been
in the employ of bro J. W. Young during that time
doing clerical work. As you are doubtless aware
Bro Young has not been able to pay his men
as he expected to have done. Bro Whitely is one
among others who has drawn but little pay. He
has lived very economically, batching it the moste
of the time, and sleeping on a cot in the office
where he is doing his work. He was willing
to draw as little as possible, so that when Bro Young
would be able to pay his men in full he would
a little sum of money coming to him to help him
carry out he Educational Project. But circum-
stances have seemingly turned against him.
The Utah Central Raily Company have concluded
to reduce ^the^ number of employees in each department
in order to reduce expences and among others
bro Whitely has to go. He has no home and
no means to live upon. He is in a sore straight
