New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1909-12-15
SCHEME TO MAKE
INvALIDS HAPPY
Good Cheer Club Plans a TWEEN
ty-eight Story Home.
TO Be ERECTED N new YORK.

When She Lay Friendless In Chi
cago HospitaI-Society Organized by
Twelve Girls Has Grown to Great
Proportions.
A dozen young girls on the upper
west side of New York city banded
themselves together last September.
and incorporated tiny club. which
they called the Society Of Good
Cheer" Their avowed object was sim
ply the cheering up''-nondnancially
of the convalescent sick. Today,
only three months after incorporation,
they have branches in almost every
prominent city in America. They have
entered the tuberculosis campaign and
the field of children's charities. and
they have already ordered plans for a
twenty-eight story skyscraper, to be
erected in the very near future on the
island Of Manhattan and to be called
the blouse of Good Cheer
What have they done, and how did
they do it? Their president, Miss The
ora Carter, who has headquarters at
131 West Seventy-fourth street, New
York, explained the matter.
st all started simply" she began.
Last year | was ill in Chicago. My
home is in Seattle. Wash, and was
all alone when l was taken sick. For
weeks and weeks l lay in the hos
pital utterly uncheered in any way by
| any one. 1t was the most horrible ex-
perience of my life. And l realized
that hosts of other girls and men and
children, even, are suffering that way
all the time. And thought it was
| time something was done.
Primarily Time Charity.
81 wished from the start to make
my movement truly national. so
knew l must begin it in New York.
My people were glad to have me do it,
though it meant going so far away
from them. So just came on here to
New York and got in touch with a few
old friends and made few new ones
and we began.
''F'rom the first made it clear that
we were primarily time charity, not
a money one. We planned at first sim
| ply to give so much Of our time each
week to visiting the convalescent and
| friendless sick. We had no treasury at
all to begin with. 1t was just under
stood that if you individually wanted
to buy bunch of violets for the per-
son you were cheering up you had a
right to do So But as club we didn't
commit ourselves financially at all.
''We were only young girls, you see
not millionaires. But then-people be-
gan to be so generous.
Use of Clubhouse Offered.
1.-Two automobile firms contributed a
machine apiece to take our sick friends
riding. A gentleman on Long Island
gave us the use Of a beautiful club
house and estate of eighty acres. with
stables and all buildings entirely at
our disposal. Another man offered us
$1,000 to buy some very desirable land
in Texas for consumptives' home.
We are negotiating for the purchase
of that now. and next spring we intend
to erect a tent city there for recover
able tuberculosis patients. Those who
can will pay us what they can, but we
intend to help those who are deserving
| without money and without price.
1T was in talking to Mr.. Wheeler,
the chaplain at st. Luke's chapel. New
York. where we've done a great deal
of our visiting, that l first voiced my
idea for our most wonderful plan Of
al-the Good Cheer building for con-
valescents. The architects of the
building have already nearly completed
the plans. The building will be TWEEN
ty-eight stories in height, and the lot
of ground on which it will stand must
be at least IS by 100 feet. The cost
will probably go into the millions, for
we have determined to build some
where in the borough Of Manhattan.
Will House 5000.
"We should be able to house at least
$500 or 5000 people at once. We are
want a hospital. Each guest must
have his own separate room. Then we
shall have a general assembly room.
where famous doctors may come and
lecture to us and our patients on by
giene. We shall have an entertain
ment room with tiny stage. We
s',a'' have Offices and rooms for some
of our members. We shall have a
perfectly appointed kitchen, Of course.
and doctors and nurses in attendance
day and night.
.I admit that we haven't as yet col
lected all our funds for the erection of
our home, but know of several worth
while people in New York who are
getting very much interested And |
q have an uncle, Henry Calhoun, who is
a millionaire. and I'm going to make
special trip to st. John, N. B.. where
he lives. and do my very best to rouse
his enthusiasm. Oh. we'll get what we
want finally, and I don't believe it
will take SO very long,
Tailored Saddles For Steeds.
4 General Crozier chief of ordnance.
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