The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1888-11-22
A Temperance Temple Projected BY
the W. q II. II.


zntion are not one wit moro ideal in their
character than they arc practical, and
though they have been a thousand times over
accused of trying to force AN ideal life upon
mankind, IL must I've admitted that they are
practical in their means and methods
IL is so in the matter OF this temple. Soma
Of the women have for many years longed
that there might be some material monument
TO commemorate the societys work But
they did not see the way clear to pay for a
dream. Then some Of the practical women
took up the dream and began TO make 1t n
reality. They have not got the temple built
yet, but they have the ground, and they are
getting the money to pay for the stone and
mortar. Tho structure will stand on Dear
born street, Chicago, fronting the Post Office
and the Custom House, and it's going to be
handsome even among Chicago's handsome
buildings
The scheme:was first thought Of in n prac.
tical way by Matilda b. Carse, one OF the
foremost W. G. I. U. 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 Ten.
peranco Temple is under their direction. and
the national body will he the owner There
was difficulty about getting sight which
would be central and yet within the society's
But the only way by which the society could
get control of the land was on n perpetual
lease without revaluation. This was forum
ate, for it was much better for their purpose
than 10 own IL in fee simple. The rental is
S;}5, 900 n year. The plot is considered one Of
the most valuable in Chicago. Its nearness
to the Post Office and Custom House assures
IL the advantage of being in central locG-
ton for many years Besides, the lot fronts
vi three streets.
related at one OF the business sessions OF the
Metropolitan Opera House. Tho telling of
them awoke tremendous interest, and little
whils 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 a picture aud IA model Of the new tenn
pie These were mite boxes and in the top
Of each was slit TIN ough which coin could
be dropped. Twenty five thousand OF these
little mite boxes have been made, and they
are to be sent to the 10 600 local unions of
the w. C. T. l.. all over the land, 80 that
stray pennies may lie gathered for the temple
funu.
some of the boxes were filed during tho
| Convention. One came from one OF the
tables where some of the newspaper people
were sitting An impulsivo newspaper
woman with laughing facc and hig
| heart, made her comrades-l 9th men and
| wonen-chip ill., She had been enting candy
| during the session. aud sire got up this con-
trbution for the temple as peuance tor her
sweet tooth frivolity. The box had SllN2
| in IL IN iiiry from the newspaper group,
and was the first one sent to the platform.
! President Willard put 1t 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 como from
| these boxes. il il estimated that each union
| in the various towns and villages will con
| tribute MS II body. Then gifts from indl
viduals are being made, anu there are more
TO come.
The temple will cost $50, 600 to build. The
| style of architecture chosen is the late gothic
| of France, at n point just before IL began 10
take on the modern features of the renals
| sance. The architect who designed the build
| ing thinks that the style OF the temple is pc
culiarly adapted TO the purpose for which II
| is intended. This style eliminated in history
at point when feudnl Europe was taking on
forms more essentially modern; when the
long and turbulent medieval period wns
crystallizing into wei. understood and stabl,
forms. ANY one, he says, who is fami
liar with the style in France will recall many
charming examples as in the Palace OF Jus
tce mt Rouen: the house Mt Jacques Cuur
| ut Bourges, and many other examples vii
mt once occur to the art student. The pecu
| liar charm of this style, in ITS lest examples
is that IL IL typical of the life which first bo
gan to manifest itself in the exterior OF thu
houses and in decorative charms which indi
| Gated that its occupant was not afraid to lei
his nelghbors know that he was man o
wealth and condition. The house, in othel
words, which previously confined its decora
tion mainly to the inside, now lcgnn 4
bloom outward like n flower
As designed. the building is intended to III
two stories of dark stone, probably OF rec
granite. The other ten stories are tn be con
structed of dark gray brick und terra Gotta
OF such color as will carry ont in tone tn,
dignity which so large IA building should
possess The cnr r,chmcnt of the front IL very
| largely concentrated about the main en-
trance, where IL is intended To carve ih
coats of-armS of all the various state or
carnations belonging to the National | mon
and the heraldic devices relating thereto. II
the large tymrunn above the outer nnd lnnc
entrance through the main doorway th
general coats. of arms of the National Union
and tho tnamo of the building, are TO b
wrought in glass mOsuicS, which will b
equally brilliant by night or day.
Passing through this general hallway thcr
is n large Iotunda at the end, which opens in
10 the Memorial Hall proper, 10 be known n
Willard Hall. This rotunda Is to be decor
nted by large fountain in the middle. II
the design of which the guSh of water is Z
be the chief element. rs in tho caSo Of IN
fountains Mt Versailles This centra
feature is intended to be- typical of the puG
pose of the entire building.
Willard Hall, which is entered from thi
central room, is intended to lie so arrange
that memorial tablets and scrptural nscrlu
tions, bronzes. and glass can be freely used
also statuary, so that in time tho hall ma
become in every sense significant of the pun
poses of the Woman's Christian Temperance
Union, of the triumphs of its heroes aud tn
death of its martyrs. Outside of the buildin
two large fountains adorn the two corners %
the main front. Whatever enrichment ther
is upon the front is intended TO be wrough
by hand, and various kinds of flowers ar
employed. which are to be emblematic of tn
flowers adopted by the different State organ
| izntions.
The tower itself is so large AMI importan
as To dominate the entire building, and ais
the entire city, and tho temperance womc
hope that the Madonna and Child, whic
forms the final, will Indicate to all observer
/, that the temple is not merely commerciH
, structure, but has for its object somethin
higher: the protection OF tho home.
In this unique decoration of the finish {
the top of the buildng, across the iron
there are inches for eight colossal busts
stone. These need not necessarily |
chiselled out at present, for the women sa
they can wait for while in the temperate
reform 10 decide who are the eight creates
celebrities worthy TO stand guardian owe