, 1875-04-11

reforming better their condition IN He, they cam.
forward, took the pledye aud joined tbs Club, 2nc
have, With but ono a1ngef 80 faz as youl
Committee has been able to ascertain, 1nce that time
be- y sober and industrious men md women and gooa
the method adopted by your Committee In the orxan
zadon Of the Collier, and that method has been fol
lowed a nearly circumstances would permit, In ths
organization Of tbs Other Clubs.
ihoee Sln5s ase the Varney. the Bsanch The Wins,
low; and tho Typographical The varney Club has not
not oesa Tor the sickness aud death Of its lae Pre
dent " Z Varnoy, Esq Recently, however, new
President hss been chosen and the Club in now On it,
l13 Of which one-half are activs and effective. It
holds meetings at tho @. L. B. Hail. No. oG4 West Mad
ison street every Wednesday night At which enter-
t2tnment8 similar to those already mentioned afp fur
ni8hel.
The stauch Reform Club No. 5 meeta On a1tern.to
enue and Wright street. This Club has menbershIp
Of ninetyone which il rapidly increasing The inter-
est taken In It is great and II gives PROMISE Of auch
success aa Will be crcditabla to 1t.
Tho Winslow has not been fully organized, for tho
not proved successful
TIE TYPOGRAPHICAL TEMPERANCE REroHM
Club No. Is compoead mainly Of printers and holds
meetings at o'clock P. m, alternate Sundays, At
the hall Of the Typographical Union Nos. II and 70
South Dearborn street. It has already had 4 ye17
considerable degree Of success, and its future pros
poets are highly hattering. Its membership numbers
LAG persons, Of whom the iargess number ass re-
increasing aud it has the capacity to, and doubtless
viii, accomplish large amount Of good among q
class Of men whose abilities everywhere conceded,
and whose material progress has been very much i'm
pcded by tho use Of Intoxicating drinks That tho
Typographical will succeed In rescuing . very con-
siderable number q men hoped for 6y good
In addition to the Clubs already mentioned, pro
csedings foS the organization Of one at the Bethel
Division streets md third near Twentyfith gtrest
and Wentworth avenue, have been taken, and your
Committee expects, 1t early day, to complete the
4 Club which has been in operation for some time
past at NckessonVfls desires, your Committee IS
informed to unite with this Club, and have
in order to bring aboot consolidation with 1t. Tha
value Of the contemplated union to both Cuhs be
The principles adopted by this Club s.em to have
met with much favor outside Of the City Of Chicago
and have been adopted BY society In Aurora in this
stste sns me11n ana intelligence a. whose members M
wsukee, Detroit, and elsewhere Clubs arc being form
ed and your COMMITTEES has ASSURANCES that they will
I'll be able to accomplish great good.
Your Committee is satisfied. from itz observation Of
the work already done, that tho plan adopted sha
be vigorously prosecuted tho City OF Chicago will BE-
fore the close Of the present year. contai At the ovea
calculation,
TWENTY AUXILIARY CLUES.
To mantatn In these tha interest already feltw IT,
in the mode Of carving the work on. rhs labor is
performed by this Committee and while nons Of
ia members are disposed to shirk the duties dsyolv-
ba done will be greater thsn they can PERFORM This
is Of the which induces your Committee tc
recommend the organization Of society, to be
posed Of delegates from this and from the auxiliary
Clubs, to adopt plan for the organization OF dele
gated body TO take general charge and supervision Of
eaed for Vii
that possessed by this organization. It viii contain
members whose expertence and capacity cannot now
be made ayailahla It will give greater dignity to the
hirh1Y
satisfactory 70 ali Of the auxiary Clubs. Your Com
mtttee therefore recommend that 1t be authorized to
for the purpose mentioned At ~ early day a. praet-
CABLE and that as soon Is that Convention Rhal
plee the organization Of delegated society this CLUB
1hall tske its place auxiliary organization.
Your Committee has considered tho qusstion Of
organizing
ABurIH ING SOCIETY
whose business 1t shall b. to provide safe and profit
abs mode for the tnres uaent Of tia small weekly
monthly savings Of the inambers Of this aud OF the
auxiliary Clubs Tbs success Of such societies in Phil
and tho results accomplished by them 80 beneficial
to leave doubt whatever Of like in Chi
cago. Small suuns, such as would be considered too
insignificant to deposit in RAyinGa bank, invested
In such society," at short Intervals would, IN few
years be equal in amount to tho cost OF email dwell
tunity to obtain homo would, in tho opinion Of your
Committee be work closely allied to that undertaken
by the Club The reasons which lad to this opinion
Men who work for salaries seldom hayc, at any
tme. considerable sums Of money The greater por-
ton Of Whit they receive Is necessarily expended In
Whatever remains Is usually regarded bang too
teuap1ble to lay up. Those who have any surplus
dinary consider it - galushls only so far as it will
minister their appetes and pleasures and believing
the company found in tho saloons to he pleasant and
agreeable, they that surplus in treating their
and thus acquire habits Of intemperanee
become possessed Of sufficient sum to purchase,
to make payment upon, real estats. the deaira to
proportion it would b. the formation OF drinking
habits would be decreased Whenever start towards
the accumulation Of sum sufficient to make such
pressing and making that accumulation lsrge
possible. When, thererore, an Investment Il once
made, hs who makes !. desirea to hsys
gies to accomplish that end. a who has $50 in
vested in building society would be anxious to in
to sloo and = The sum increases, % would
ciety among men WHO aro in the habit Of frequentng
saIoons would cut of very hrge share Of the rev
enues Of the saloon-keeper, and tend much any
would in addition, add another interesting feature to
the Club, and hare the affect to increase 1ts numbers
end efficiency. Your Committee would not advise that
the benefits Of such society con fined to the Club
members. but think that, by extending them to all
many indisidusls can Be reached and Induced to Join
the Club.
Your Committee desires before closing this report
10 acknowledge tho many couresies extended to 1t BY
The press and the public and to think all persons wAo
by throwing open balls and churchca and otherwise,
for their kndneases. To name all the individuals to
whom the Club and the Committee arc under ohli5a-
dos would take very considerable amount Of space,
md yonr Committee therefore confines itself to gen.
arnl acknowledgment.
The members Of this Committee feel that the Club
undertaken great work, and th:t its future will
glorious and all Of them pledge themselves to
form their share Of the duties allotted TO the- All Of
which Is respectfully submitted
F. B. KETs, Secretary Il. TMDEs, Chaizman-
Mr. Howard Tilden WAS elected delegate to
he Temperance Alliance, vice L. n. Vaznay. de-
;easad-
CONVENTION 10 BE CALLED.
The following resolution was offered and car
:1ed:
Resofped That the Executive Conmittee be and thu
ane Is hereby authorized to call Convention, to be
OF three delegates from this Club and hres
delegates from each auxiliary club now hereafter to
oe organized, for tho purpose Of forming central
ociation to hare genez supervision and control Of