The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-02-19
TEMPLE SAVERS TASK
YOUNG PEOPLE AT CHICAGO HAVE
TAKEN UP THE WORK
VIGOROUSLY
TALES OF FRICTION DENIED

10 w nat might he Accom- d Iish ed
This Year-Facts of Interest
About the Chicago Temple
CHICAGO, Feb. 18.-CSpeciaI.)-
With the prayers of the people this
will carry them through" said the
architect who drew the great chart
illustrating the w. C. 7. U. Temple
shares, which was hung Friday in the
office Of the Y. P. c. T. u, on the
eleventh door of the Woman's Temple.
Inc chart Is an enormous thing, fully
covering one side Of the room and con-
tanning 5000 shares. and it does not
seem a wonder that the weakhearted
ones should have fled in dismay from
SC appalling a prospect. But if the
chart illustrates what an enormous
task the young people Of Chicago have
set themselves to do, it also demon
strates the fact that those same young
people and their young leaders are
amazingly full of pluck, enthusiasm
and Christian faith. They have said:
1t shall be done" and they intend
that it shall be done. and after all it
takes the young folks to carry through
great reform.
The chart was hung Friday morning
and very early the people began COM
ing, and with them the pledges, and
by noon that day almost LOO $40
pledges had been received ard checked
OFF on the great chart. Many larger
sums We're promised by mail or tele-
gram and read to the gathering by the
leader of the society, Miss Eva Shontz
one OF the first pledges came from NJ.
Engalls. of Jackson boulevard, whose
son and daughter-in-law have been the
np EA
scheme. Mrs. L. J. Raymond, his
daughter, also pledged So
Mrs. Fred Peters, the mother of
George Peters, whose work among the
young folks has been so wonderful
was in attendance all day. George
Peters himself did not come until about
o'clock, when he arrived on the train
from college, where he has been per-
suaded to return since his serious ill
ness from overwork. A local paper
said recently: His respect for women
is delightful" Perhaps with such a
mother and such a sister it is no Won
der that to him every woman's sorrows
are sacred, every woman's life beati-
fed. And Mrs. Peters is certainly a
very charming woman to meet and
very proud of her SON.
Miss Lucy Page CASTOR, who made
Prof. Jordan, of the Minneapolis
schools, so very indignant this winter,
when she dared to state that some of
the pupils in his schools smoked cigar
cites, checked off the shares as they
We're sold from the chart. When re-
minded of the receptions of her efforts
along reform lines in the Mill city, she
laughed and said: Yes, I did manage
to stir up the animals little
TEMPLE SAVERS ELATED.
Friday was the anniversary of Miss
Wizards death, and while the young
folks held an all day reception on the
eleventh floor, the W. c. T. U. women
held services at noon in Willard hall
This meeting was largely attended and
was rather a meeting of encouragement
to the workers in the temperance cause
than a memorial.
Hundreds of people attended the
meeting upstairs. Mothers carrying
nursing babies crowded close to school
girls in shirt waists and short gowns
There were ministers of the gospel, re-
formed drunkards. newspaper reporters
and business men and women, and
when Miss Shontz and her mother
went home tired and happy in the
evening. 500 shares had been sold and
the Temple folks sighed success
though not daring to be too eIated
The rally. which was to have been
held that evening, was postponed I'M
til last night, and was a huge success
Enthusiasm ran wild and the Temple
took several more long strides toward
emancipation.
The Temple people have been, sadden-
ed by the Illness of Mrs Carse, who, it
was feared for time, might not re-
cover. I'VE feared" said Miss Sara
Johnson, that We might have a double
reason for remembering the 18th Of
February"
But she is better now and was able
to attend the reception Friday via the
telephone, and many expressions of re-
gard and sympathy were returned to
her by those attending.
It may be Of interest to ST. Paul peo-
PIE to know something about the Tenn
pie which has caused so much strife
among the women of the w. c. T. U.
In the first place, it is one of the
most magnificent buildings in this part
of the country Material and style of
architecture are all on a substantial
and elegant scale. But right there the
splendor ends. Mrs. Carse's offices and
those of the trustees are plainly fur
nished and any attempt at beautify-
ing them has been done at the per-
sonal expense of the women themselves
or their friends. Miss Johnson has
tiny little Office, with desk and tables
and hung with four pictures of Miss
Willard.
BONE OF CONTENTION.
On the top of the building has been
built small private room for the use
of the trustees and Mrs. Carse. This
addition to the building was one of
the bones Of contention, but to an out
slider it seems anything but an extrav-
agance. 1t is very plainly furnished
with linen covered couch a large
center table and a few other bits of
plain furniture. In this room is a
gas stove and also a chafing dish and
enough dishes to lay for a modest lun-
cheon- These are all the property Of
the Temple people themselves and the
use Of the room has saved many dol
lars of expense. Perhaps the objections
raised to this room are in accordance
with those raised when Mrs Carse
wanted to have a small roof garden.
Willard hall is beautiful room seat
ing 600 people, and handsomely furnish
ed within. The decorations in this
hall have been another bone of con-
tention. They cost $4,000, which it Is
urged by the w. c. T. U. women was
a useless expense on Mrs. Carse's part.
But this argument does not hold to-
gether very well, on account of the
fact that the very women who are
bringing it forward now were the ones
who voted for it at first.
In the hall leading to this room.
which is on the ground floor, is a drink
ing fountain, which owing to the finan-
cial state Of the Temple is not kept
| flowing. It was nearly all paid for by
Chautauqua county, New York.
In front of the building Ia another
fountain for horses, dogs and birds.
which runs when the weather permits
The fountain within doors seems sadly