Greenbrier independent. [volume] (Lewisburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1980, 1895-09-19
West Virginia Confederate Home.


JACKSON CAMP, &. V.
CHARLESTON, Aug. &c, 1895. J
To the Confederate Camps, Daughters
of the 0nfederdcy, En- COJyed-
crates and Their Friends n West
Virginia:
COMRADES AND FRIENDS: Again
we address you on a subject dear to
us all, and for the accomplishment
of which we should not tire in well
doing. 1t is yell known that during
the present year the object of secur.
ing a HOME for the helpless and
needy Confederate Soldiers Of this
State assumed definite shape at the
meeting held in this city; and since
then its friends here and elsewhere
in the State have been busily engaged
in raising money for ii and other
wise considering its good and adj
vancement.
We now present for your considera.
ton a most suitable location and a
HOME ready for occupation, and,
with some finishing TO it n most com
plete, Convenient and healthy build
ing for the purpose.
1t is the new hotel lately built by
the Kanawha City Company, large,
commOdious, well ventilated and
well built, with all the modern i'm
provements and arrangements for
convenience and health, water pipes
through, and good sewerage from the
building. 1t has some forty bed
rooms, besides offices, parlors, din
ing-room, kitchen, etc; with some
sixteen lots of ground, more than an
acre, attached. All making it in
every way suitable, and fully up to
the requirements of our HOME "a we
would desire it.
This building was erected just at
the time when what is known as the
land booms collapsed and the ne
Cessity for it ceased ere il had begun.
Its actual cost of construction was
over ST, 200. 1t has been offered to
us for our HOME by its present own
ers for the SUN Of $4,000, hut in
view of the charitable and henPVO-
lent purposes for which it is to be
used, and desiring to help said pur.
poses, the owners will make us the
handsome and liberal donation of
$4,000 out of the purchase money;
thus we get this magnificent building
for 1000 in cash and can make lib
eral arrangements with the company
for suitable and sufficient lands for
garden and pasturage.
This building is on the line of the
G.. & o. II. W., three miles above the
city of Charleston, with station and
postoffice at which local trains stop.
1t is also accessible by the K. & NJ.
Ry., and by steamboat on the Ka-
nawha, being about ten minutes ride
from this place.
Comrades, we ask your earnest con-
sideration of and action and prompt
assistance in this matter.
The location of the HOME was left
open at the meeting last winter, and
we do not wish ii to be thought that
we Are trying to force it in our midst
but this opportunity appears to us so
manifestly for the highest good of
the enterprise that we think we would
be derelict in our duty did we fail
not only to lay it before you, but also
urge you to its acceptance.
Some little finishing is required on
the building and surroundings, and a
supply of water will have to be pro-
vided, all of which can he done at a
small cost, good water being easily
obtained from the Kanawha river by
force pumps or Windmill.
1t is feasible and practicable to
make this purchase at once. The
property can be purchased for cash.
The chapter of The Dauphters If
the Contederacy" of this city now
have nearly Il thousand dollars. This
camp will supplement this with a
subscription at once of from 81 900
to 81 800, and with your united help
and individual subscriptions, we can
as we'll at this time aS in the future,
raise the amount necessary to pay for
the property, make necessary imme-
date improvements and OPEN OUR
HOME. If we are going to establish
the HOME no time should be lost, for
those who will occupy it are fast pass
ing away.
Will you not give us your hearty
concurrence and support? And be-
fore the chilly blasts of the approach.
ing season reach us, we will have
our needy comrades in comfortable
Winter Quarters" Fraternally,
'SonetcdU Jackson Camp, G.. y.
By j. +. WILCOX,
$. S. GREEN,
j. w. NICKERs,
w. l.. PETERS,
Executive Committee.
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