The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-05-13
PRINTERS PARADISE
The Childs-DreXel Home for
Union Printers Dedicated.
MILITARY AND CIVIC PARADE
bon. George W. Childs. One of the Donators
Was Present and Spoke-Details
Of the Dedication.


COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo, May 12.-The
Childs-Drexel home for printers was dedi-
Gated here to-day with appropriate cere-
monies.
The building is located mile from the
city on an elevation which overlooks the
Garden of Gods, Pixies Peak, Maniton and
Cheyenne canon. 1t is built of white lava
stone with red stone trimming. 1t is four
stories high, IA by 20 feet, with all
MODERN CoNvENIENcEs,
and cost $50, GOO. 1t is the gift of George
W. Childs and a. J. Drexel of Philadel-
phia, to the International Typographical
Union. The rooms in the building are
furnished by the unions in ST. Louis,
Chicago, San Francisco and New York, and
by the Chicago Inter Ocean. The gather
ing of a fine library has already begun.
At the dedication today Hon. Ira E.
Sprague, mayor of Colorado Springs, de-
iyered
THE ADDRESS OF WELCOME
on behalf of the city. He spoke in eulogy
OF the printers and the printing trade. in
stancing many illustrious men, beginning
with Horace Greeley, who had been
printers.
Governor John L. Routt delivered an
address of welcome in behalf of the state,
congratulating Colorado on being chosen
by the donors as the site for the building
andAthe donors for having selected The
most
SUITABLE SPOT IN THE COUNTRY.
Hon. George w. Childs, one of the donors
OF the institution, spoke briefly, saying
that forty-one years ago the Internationa
Typographical union was established. The
printers unions not only spread the light
of education and reason over this vast
continent, but gave to labor a higher dig
nifty ana broader independence 10 all those
qualities which render it of the greatest
worth. The speaker continued, saying be
had been more or less
INTIMATELY ASSOCIATED WITH THE PRINTERS
from boyhood and naturally sympathized
with them, and what little he had beer
able TO do TO express the respect and ad
miration for it, had honored him more in
| the giving than tae craft in receiving The
printers were not indebted TO him, but he
10 them.
As Childs concluded he was roundly ap-
plauded.
August Donath of Washington followed
Childs With brief history Of the home
Senator GalliEger of New Hampshire then
delivered the Grafton of the day He said
in substance:
SENATOR GALLINGER's GRAFTON.
Gutteuberg's invention was not in a cen
fury of application. The clouds of the
Darke Ages still enveloped the earth, and
superstition was potent force in the world
America had not been discovered. The
spinning wheel, the telescope and the know
ledge of the circulation of the blood were OF
later date. Tue reformation OF Luther
was nearly a century after Gutten bere
prin ted his fest Bible. Printed books
were luxuries only less expensive than the
ponderous written volumes that preceded
them, aud where dense ignorance prevailed
there was little demand for the costly pro-
! auctions Of the Lest printing presses. Ir
such times lived the first printer aud it i.
not strange that amid such surrounding.
he should have found little commercial
value tor his art and less appreciation fol-
| his genius.
But, more than four hundred years afte,
Guttenbergs death, there is erected here
home for the superannuated disciples o.
the first printer. In a sense it is monu-
ment to his memory and tribute paid by
| benevolence to his genius. in the care o.
| his aged followers the Nineteenth Centur,
honors him who, in the beulghted age
lifted the veil which shut out the light O.
intelligence, and laid the foundation foI
the marvellous enlightenment of the pres
emf.
There must be in printers ink an inspi
ration to generosity and even prodigality
so few of the craft ever become rich. Tha
! fellowfeeling that makes ali the worlc
! akin CLOVIS ever in the heart of the printer
| opening his purse 10 the needy and hi.
soul to tue suffering. His couch is freel,
shared with the homeless craftsman hi,
case is at the service of the wauderer. an(
his last ration is fairly divided with til,
one who knows not where to get his dali,
bread. Nor is his bounty or his CHART,
circumscribed by guild lines. Who so hos
pltable everywhere as printer? Who 81
quickly touched by the appeal of the af
ficted! Thrift may not be one of his vir
tues, but niggardllness is not one of hi
failings. His it is TO share generousl,
with others. He has no isolated pleasures
His present is never burdened with III
gloom of tomorrow. Sufficient unto tn,
day is the evil thereof is the creed tina
too often scantily clothes and feeds hin
and his family. Yet the world is the bette
for his coming. He has scattered smiles o
gladness along its pathway. He has illu
minated it's night He has brushed ava,
the tears from some faces even if the
have stolen silently down his own. He ha
lifted here and there cloud, that sunshin
might penetrate saddened heart. An,
when at eventide we measure his life
work, and set off against his failings hi
many kindly hacts, we find that he ha
earned home'eve if he has not made one
The printers case is the training schoo
of some of the best thinkers of the age
The range of inquiry melted by it is bound
less. 1t embraces all subjects. 1t is fet
tered by no restriction. The contest i
still going on between the advocates of
prescribed course of study in our college
and those who favor elective studies. bu
there is NO controversy over the curriculum
of the printing Office. Its English is tn
best. 1t must be correct; it is often class
ical. 1t may be poetical; it is always in
structive. There is no flight of fancy. n,
discovery of science no speculation O
philosophy, no plea for liberty. no praye
for light, but finds in the printing Office III
goal. The student at the case feeds hi
Imagination, disciplines his mind broaden
his thought and strengthens his intellect.
1t used to be said of the legal profession
that its disciples must know everything
SO as to be thoroughly equipped to try tn