Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1910-08-23
|PRFSSMEN ARE
 READY TO BUILD Million Dollar Home Finish ed for the Next Con-
 vention. LARGEST IN WORLD Healthful, Beautiful, Historic Hale Springs Site Selected, Situated in
 Eastern Tennessee.
LARGEST IN WORLD

AAN ASNSAS uOSioiou Ol LuC IAlCl tional Printing Pressmen and Assist ants Union of North America to at a near date remove it's headquarters from Cincinnati to Rogersville, Tenn, and to begin work upon the million dollar home to be erected on the prop erty recently purchased, and also to hold the next annual convention in 1911 on the site of the proposed home has turned the eyes of every reader Of printed matter upon the properties that will be the Mecca of disabled and superannuated pressmen and assist ants of North America
 High up in the Cumberland moun- talns, amid the serried pine and red olent balsam, is this beautiful site for the proposed home. This property. which has for over fifty years been known as the Hale Springs Health Resort, was purchased by George l.. Berry, president of the International union, at receivers sale at Rogers vile.
 The founding of such a home was with the pressmen utopian dream. Just as it had been with the Interna- tlonal Typographical union until the Childs-Drexel home was located at Colorado Springs, Colo.
 A 22,OOO Membership.
 The union, which was organized in 1888, has membership of 22,O0O three-fourths of whom live east of the Mississippi river, so the question of transportation had something to do with the decision in favor of the Hale Springs property.
 The institution will be the largest of the kind in the world, and will mean no little not only to east Tenn essee, but to the middle south. It is stated that upward of $1,OO0,0O0 will be spent on the place, and this home Will truly be to Tennessee what the Childs-DreXel home, that of the h. ternational Typographical union, is to Colorado, which state, however, can- not boast of the fine health-giving water and the agricultural products that this place offers.
 Hale Springs is situated between Stone mountain on the south, and Fine mountain on the north, in oNe of the most picturesque valleys in the south. The Scotland of the south it has been called. By graded road the place is eleven miles from the historic old town of Rogersville, is only six miles from Rogersville by the bride path across the mountains and lies midway between Morristown and Bristol.
 Consists of 519 Acres.
 The property consists of 519 acres of land. three-fourths of which is we'll timbet ed in oak, pine, cedar, and poplar. The remainder of the land, which is in good state of cultivation, will be tiled in the most scientific manner, and the output would almost make the institution self sustainingg.
 The principal spring is red sulphur, acknowledged to be the finest in America, with temperature of 5S degrees, and no conditions affect it. There are also fine chalybeate, white sulphur and freestone springs.
 Located in historc section, it is not far from Jonesboro, where the state of Franklin was born and the first constitution was written. Nor is 1t far from the mountain branch of the National Soldiers home at John son City. Nestled in a valley of grandeur, it will be indeed the haven of the pressmen.
 John E. Cashion of Kansas City. one of the architects of the Printing Pressmen and Assistants union, is now at Hale Springs planning the buildings.