The age-herald., 1898-10-16
Woman's Building in Knoxville.

| The recent opening of tho woman build | ing in Knoxville has shown a courageous initiative on the part of it's women. Not l only does it mark an epoch in the history l of Knoxville, but as it is the first woman's | building in the south, it emphasizes the inn portant part that representative women are | taking in all matters of public work, and | the recent accomplishment by the Knox vile women demonstrates that there is no city in the south where the wealthy women of society enter more heartily into the spirit of progress The Knoxville building at the Nashville exposition had to be dis posed of and fifteen women in Knoxville who have worked for years In advancing the interests of Knoxville organized them selves into stock company, collected S5,00O and petitioned the county court for va cant lot opposite the court house on which they were allowed ten years time for pay ment. They borrowed 5000, and it is esu- mated by rentals that the building will bring in this amount this year. The lower floor is to be used for permanent exhibit of the resources of Knox county The
 upper floor will be used for club rooms, re-
 captions, dances. The stockholders are
 both men and women, but only women form
 the executive board. One of the exhibits
 on the lower floor will be marble pagoda composed of specimens of the various mar bles in Knox county. The pagoda was erected at cost of $3000, and was first sent to the Atlanta exposition, and then to the Centennial in Nashville. a Among the prominent Knoxville women who compose the board are Mrs Lawrence Tyson, the president of the stock company;
 Mrs Samuel Mckinney, Mrs. John Will
 Hams, Mrs. E. J. McClung, Mrs. c. J. Me
 Clung, Miss Mary Temple, Mrs. McCrary,
 Mrs. Matthew McClung, Miss Pattie Boyd,
 secretary.
 The women who have been connected
 with the movement are among the veal
 thiest and most fashionable won'en of
 Knoxville. Mrs. Tyson is the daughter of
 Colonel Charles McGhee, one ol 1.l1, 2, | c...-
 est railroad magnates in the country. She
 is one of the social leaders in Knoxville,
 frequently opening her beautiful home to the public.
 Mrs Samuel Mckinney is not only one of
 the leaders of Knoxville society, but ono of the handsomest women in the south. She was for several years director in the
 national federation, and has been president of the Ossoli Circle, that famous woman's organization in Knoxville She has also been president of the ladies' board of the Knoxville carnival.
 Miss Mary Temple is a woman of nation- al reputation. She is graduate of Vassar,
 and has always been leader in national organizations. Ever since the organization | of the federation she has been a member of | it's council. She is a woman of large
 
 | ressive work She has been for many years
 regent for the Daughters of the Ameri- can Revolution in Knoxville, and vice. president for Tennessee of the national D. A. R.'s At the Nashville Centennial she gave a reception to the D. A. R.s at the
 Maxwell that was one of the most notable affairs ever given in that city. Miss Pattie Boyd, the secretary, is the editor of the woman's department of the Knoxville Jour- nal and Tribune She is one of the admired beles in Knoxville society, and is a bril- | liant young writer.
 The Knoxville Journal thus commented on the opening of the woman's building. The beautiful club building erected on West Main street by the ladies of the Gen. tennial building committee speaks eloquent ly of the energy and progressiveness of the Knoxville ladies. Tuesday afternoon the ladies board entertained the members of the Knox county court at luncheon-a fit ting courtesy to the body to whom the la dies were indebted-for aid in securing the magnificent site upon which the handsome building is now placed. It was most ap- propriat te that the justices should be thus honored by the ladies' and the courtesy eX- | tended them was most graciously extended. Each member of the court expressed pleas | ure invewng tn beautiful structure and seemed enthusiastic over the possibilities | to the county in the permanent exhibit to | be displayed in the ample hall of the first floor of the building.
 This womans building will mark epoch in the history of the town. Opened to the public for the first time last Tuesday, in less than a week the city finds the building so absolutely necessary that the question arises, how was it possible to have ever gotten along without it. Knoxville ladies will find that the different societies and clubs will have more interests in common | as the outgrowth of every day association under the same roof This interchange of ideas will be broadening in it's influence and will prove fruitful of good to the en- tire city.