The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1888-12-05

/ and the Custom House, and its going to be
| handsome even among Chicago's handsome
| buildings
The scheme.was first thought of i'm prac.
tical way by Matilda b. Carse, one OF the
foremost w. c. T. L. workers in Illinois.
She has been busy for five years thinking
over the problem of getting the money. The
Central Union Of Chicago took hold of the
plan, and was Incorporated, so that it might
| hold property. Then the National Union
took il up, and now the building of the Tenn
peranCe Temple is under their direction, and
Che national body will be the owner There
was difficulty about getting sight which
would be central and yet within the societys
means. Finally the right spot was found.
But the only way by which the society could
get control Of the land was on a perpetual
lease without revaluatiou. This was forum
ate, for il was much better for their purpose
than TO own it in fee simple The rental is
SIS, 900 year. The plot is considered one Of
the most valuable in Chicago. Its neaTness
to the Post Office and Custom House assures
It the advantage of being in a central loca-
tion for many years. Besides, the lot fronts
on three streets.
All these facts and great many more we're
related at one of the business sessions of the
METROPOLITAN Opera House. The telling of
them awoke tremendous interest, and little
while after Sister Carse had told how the
dream was now evolving into real thing
there were seen in different parts of the big
opera house audience small boxes, so covered
with paper and so shaped that they presented
both picture and model Of the new tenn
pie. These were mite boxes, and in the top
of each was n slit through which coin could
be dropped. Twenty-Five thousand of these
little mite boxes have been made, and they
are to be sent to the 10 900 local unions of
the w. c. T. L. all over the land, so that
stray pennies may be gathered for the temple
fund.
Some of the boxes were filed during the
Convention. One came from one of the
tables where some OF the newspaper people
were sitting. An impulsve newspaper
woman with a laughing face and big
heart, made her comrades-both men and
women-chip in. She had been eating candy
during the session, and she got up this con-
tribution for the temple as penance for her
sweet tooth frivolity. The Gox had $ll.s2
in it in a iiffy from the newspaper group,
and was the first one sent to the PLATFORM
President Willard put it ON the Crusade
Bible on her desk in full view of the Con
vention, and then smiled down ON the news
paper people with wish that they would be
as well blessed with quiet as they were with
good intentions
Besides the money that will come from
these boxes, it is estimated that each union
in the various towns and villages will con-
tribute as a body. Then gifts from indi.
viduals are being made, and there are more
to come.
The temple will cost $500, 900 to build. The
style of architecture chosen is the late gothic
OF France, at point just before it began to
take on the modern features of the renais-
sance. The architect who designed the build
ing thinks that the style of the temple is pc
culiarly adapted to the purpose for which it
is intended. This style eliminated in history
at point when feudal Europe was taking on
forms more essentially modern; when the
long and turbulent medieval period was
crystallizing into well-understood and stable
forms. Amy one, he says "who is fami-
liar with the style in France will recall many
charming examples, as in the Palace of JUS
tice at Rouen; the house at jacques COeur,
at Bourges, and many other examples will
at once occur to the art student. The pecu-
liar charm of this STYLE in its best examples,
is that it is typical of the life which first be-
gan to manifest itself in the exterior of the
houses and in decorative charms which indi-
Gated that its occupant was not afraid to Jet
his neighbors know that he was a man of
wealth and condition. The house, in other
words, which previously confined its decora-
ton mainly to the inside, now began to
bloom outward like a flower"
As designed, the building is intended to be
two stories of dark stone, probably of red
granite. The other ten stories are TO be con-
structed of dark gray brick and terra Gotta,
OF such color as will carry out in tone the
dignity which so large a building should
possess. The enrichment of the front is very
largely concentrated about tine main en-
trance, where it is intended 10 carve the
coats of-arms of all the various State or
ganlzations belonging to the National Union,
and the heraldic devices relating thereto In
the large tympana above the outer and inner
entrance through the main doorway the
general coats-of-arms of the National Union,
and the iname Of the building, are TO be
wrought in glass mosaics, which will be
equally brilliant by night or day.
Passing through this general hallway there
is large rotunda at the end, which opens in
TO the Memorial Hall proper, to be known as
Willard Hall. This rotunda is 20 be decor
ated by large fountain in the middle. in
the design OF which the gush of water is 10
be the chief element. as in the case of the
fountains at Versailles. This central
feature is intended to be typical of the pur-
pose of the entire building
willard Hall, which is entered from this
central room, is intended to be so arranged
that memorial tablets and scriptural inscTip-
tions, bronzes, and glass can be freely used /;
also statuary, so that in time the hall may
become in every sense significant of the pur
poses OF the Woman's Christian Temperance
Union, of the triumphs of its heroes and the
death Of its martyrs. Outside of the building
two large fountains adorn the two corners on
the main front Whatever enrichment there
Is upon the front is intended TO be wrought
by hand, and various kinds of flowers are
employed, which are 20 be emblematic of the
flowers adopted by the different State organ
izations.
The tower itself is so large and important
as 10 dominate the entire building, and also
the entire city, and the temperance women
hope that the Madonna and Child which
forms the final, will indicate to all observers
that the temple is not merely a commercial
! structure, but has for its object something
higher; the protection of the home.
In this unique decoration of the finish of
the top Of the building, across the front,
/ there are inches for eight colossal busts in
/ stone. These need not necessarily be
| chiselled out at present, for the women say
| they can wait for a while in the temperance
| reform 70 decide who are the eight greatest
/ celebrities worthy to stand guardian over
| their cause.
The building is TO be entirely fire proof
/ Its halls, stalrcases and wainscOting are TO be
OF white marble. 1t will, when entirely
| occupied, counting the rental at a very low
| figure, bring in revenue Of Sl9l 500 a year,
and in ten years, il is anticipated, it will
bring in a rental of $3.50 900 at least A
strong effort is being made TO have the
corner stone laid on May ] next. Frances
Elizabeth Willard, Matilda b. Carse, Helen
l.. Hood and Esther Pugh are the principal
| women directing the scheme Among the trus-
tees are Senator Colquitt, Senator Blair,
/ Melville G. stone, editor Of the Chicago
Ne,0s, Frederick Schumacher, Of Akron.
Ohio, and Norman Is, Ream, Of Chicago -
Nel0 York Sun.