The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1893-09-08
THE TEMPERANCE TEMPLE.

\ paper read by Mrs +. W. GrOesbeck before
the Allen county w. e. 7 U. conventiOn.l
1t is nothing strange or uncommon
for men, individually, or formed into
a syndicate, to erect large and costly
buildings, but for women and children
to do so is new departure. But
limitedly speaking, such is the Tenn
perance Temple in Chicago. 1t is To-
Gated at the corner of Munroe and La
Sale streets. 1t is thirteen stories
high and cost 81, 100000. 1t is built
entirely of marble, glass and iron,
and is considered wholly fire-proof
The receipts for rent are larger than
those of any other building in the city
excepting one. The architect, not ex-
actly of the building, but rather of
the plan tor the building fund, is Mrs.
Matilda b. Carse, wealthy widow
of Chicago. In speaking of the way
in which she first became inter-
ested i'm the temperance work, she
says: "At the time of the Women's
Crusade in 1874 L was spending the
winter at a fashionable boarding
house in New York City. The news
papers teemed with accounts of the
strange and unheardof proceedings of
the women of Ohio. L can well re-
member the sneers and derision heap
ed upon them by my fashionable as
sociates. 1t was borne i'm upon me-
however, that strange and insane as
the actions of those women appeared
from a worldly standpoint, the work
was of God, and my impression was
that if / were near them would join
their ranks. 1 saw plainly that strong
drink was the curse of the world, but |
supposed that it was an evil that had |
to be endured. This strange uprising
of Cody women seemed to me the
way out. l read eagerly every work
of their proceedings. The last of
March saw me in ChicagO-the work
had just begun there. 1 attended the
and was made vice-president
of Union which was started in nv
own church. Three months later,
the life was crushed out of my young
est darling, boy almost eight years
old, by a beer wagon with a drunken
driver. From that hour my life was
dedicated anew to the overthrow of
the liquor traffic. No other call has
been able to win me from my allie
glance. The motive power within
has been, This one thing 1 do.'n
Mrs. Carse is president of the Wo-
mans Temperance Publishing Asso- ,
citation, which moved its offices into
Jhe Temple last March. She is also p.
president of the Temple Stock COM ,
pany. Her ability as a. financier is ,
we'll recognized by the leading men ,
N the financial world. Mr.. Marshall ,
Field, one of the Chicago capitalists ]
,ives her his hearty endorsement. !
md invested largely in shares. The :
ents from the business rooms in the \
O"Cl ctOiiVo VI VIC Z
thousands of dollars monthly. Will :
ard Hall which is near the principal
and the hall leading to it.
re lined with marble tablets on
which will be engraved the names of
he persons or Unions contributing t
100 to the building fund. One of the e
rays of swelling the fund is, the mite C
OK plan. These are sent out all over S
he country with request that [
emmy be dropped in for every day in p
ne year. AT first glance, such /
lethOd seems small and rather WIS., q
'nary-to the skeptical-but can do !,
o better to show how the plan is A
iewed by the public at large than W
} quote from the Central City (Neb.) "
'enaOcrdt. "Some foolish people a,
ask the simple question. "a