The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-11-22
HOME FOR TOILERS.
MISS WILLARD PLANS A FINE PALACE
FOR WoRklNGMeN.

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II have dedicated this fifty ninth
year of my life to the raising of the in
debtedness of the Woman's temple.
mean as we'll, ON my return TO Evan
ston, my old home, to have built there &
palace home for workingmen. think
shall be kept busy with those two prof
ects" said Frances Willard recently
in Buffalo. Once the temple is safe,
Miss Willard wishes to establish in
Evanston a workingman S home-a pal.
ace home. as she calls it. She added:
I'VE have in Evanston-it ought tc
be called Heavenston-clubs and social
organizations for everything under the
sun but the social needs of the working
men. The workingman. free from his
toll, has nowhere to go outside of his
own home TO meet his fellow man in
pleasant conversation. l want a club
building to be erected for him, not as
pretentious as the Woman temple, but
fine, a permanent place. l want it to
be fitted up nicely and to be given TO
him to care for, TO enjoy. TO be a refuge
from the saloons of the city and other
places of evil resort. | believe / can
bring this about. shall try it, "
Her plan for the Palace home, as
Miss Willard fondly terms it, is that it
shall be an open clubhouse, social re-
sort for the mechanics and artisans of
Chicago whose homes are in Evanston,
Rogers park and the immediate vicin-
lty Of the university town. Such place
does not exist in Evanston at the pres
ent time, nor in Chicago for that mat
ter Miss Willard would have the work
ingmen possess this place after the
wealthy and philanthropic had built for
them the structure a possibility exists
that In building the home the most af-
fluent Of the workingmen to share in
the benefits of the place will be asked
TO cooperate, so that interviewer with
its stone and brick and mortar will be
the good fellowship and kindliness of
the woman Frances Willard, the well TO
do and the men to be directly benefited
The plan for the home. for that in
every sense of the word Miss Willard
wishes 1t to be, contemplates no extrav-
agant outlay of money, no heavy issue
of bonds nor large capitalization She
desires that IL should be a simple but
beautiful resort, whose greatest show
should not be In its walls, but in the hap
pineSs of the hearts that dwell within.
You know what a social place
Evanston is, - said Miss Willard
oil he in, ha Co. 81,
everything except workingmen. We
have clubs there for the fishermen, for
the golf plavers for the hunters for
those who have great pleasure, for wo-
men who study and women who debate |
Most of these clubs are in lovely homes |
Some have built exquisite structures for
themselves. Others have rented quar- |
tiers The evidence of wealth and refine |
ment is at hand in all of them.
Now, what l want, what am going |
TO work for as soon as | return to Evan
ston, Is to start vigorous plans for the |
building of workingmen S clubhouse |
right III my home town. There is mon
ey enough there TO erect it, and l think |
the people have only TO be asked, TO |
have the thing brought before them in
the proper light, to see that it would be |
a great thing for Evanston as well as
giving much JOY TO the intelligent men
who will make up its membership
Il have not in mind the erection of
any building as expensive as the temple
was. No extraordinary amount of money
will be required, but the real philan
thropy of the age Is to be found in the
deeds of men while they live toward
their fellow men lt is caring for the
good of each other that constitutes gen
uine philanthropy today
1--WE have in Evanston ample proper.
ty locations on which the kind of "a
clubhouse | want can be erected The
city has been beautifully improved and
furnishes the finest kind of surround
Ings for such clubhouse. The ground
once acquired, we have then TO secure
the funds for building Just what the
plans for the building will be cannot be
said now The project is only in its in
fancy at present and details must be sup
piled by each and all
But the idea has been nurtured and
developed, and l am deeply in earnest
III udNluS III DeCOIne II IdCb nowhere III i
he vicinity of Chicago is there so beau
,iful situation on which to erect
clubhouse of this kind as in Evanston
Where such clubhouses have been erect.
I'd they have proved great moral forces
n the community.
THE workingman as much as any
,ther human being likes his social pleas
Tres. Too often the saloon is the only ]
place where attractions are held forth
or him to stay. A clubhouse will coun.
eract the influence of the saloon to a
wonderful degree The place should
rave books, music, pictures, flowers, a
,lace to lounge in and place to be So
liable in. The workingman should feel
hat it is his home and that it has come
o him through the generosity of those
veil able to give. You will see what
uch a place will be for the men who
,ecome habitues of it. They will be
levated, made stronger, better fathers,
,urer husbands, cleaner men.
- have thought of this for ever so
lt 20 nOf draarY, with mo L