The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1911-08-15
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Home at Colorado Springs is
Extensively Improved
and Extended.


fiscal year ending May, Of 1871, ts
just from the press. president
Lynch has this to say as to the
Union Printers Home-the magnifl-ll
cent institution at Colorado Springs
erected and maintained by the In
ternationaI typographical Union:
Reference to the report Of the
board Of trustees OF the Union
Printers Home viii make clear theI
nature of the improvements that
have been made to the institution
during the fiscal year. The partial
completion of the library addition
by the erection of two additional
stories, not including the interior
finish, runs over the fiscal year and
well into July. The boiler house
was considerably enlarged, two new
boilers Installed. and commodiousS
sanitary and pleasant quarters pro-
vided for the male employees in the
second story of the heating plant
and laundry building, and other
and necessary improvements made IN
this oconection. The library anneNi
has been completed, with the ex-
ception Of finishing the interior OF
the upper stories. The total amount
expended for the improvements
mentioned has been about $25,OOo-
"A beautiful and adequate institution
has been further improved, and in
every way an effort has been made
to comply with the intention Of the
membership in establishing the
Union Printers Home SO that it
shall be a haven of rest and cure
for our aged members and those at
nfcted with disease. 4 barren htll~
side has been converted into gar
den spot than which there is none
more beautiful in this country.
The time has arrived, however,
when the future Of the Union.
Printers Home must be taken into
more careful consideration. The. old
age pension policy adopted by the
international typographical Union
and successful beyond our fondest
hopes, has within the last year at
fected the Union Printers Home in
that our aged members are not
seeking the Homes bounty in the
same degree that was true prior to
the establishment of the old age
pension. Our older members pre-
fer to draw the pension and remain
at home, with their friends and rel
atfves. They are not now bur
den on their kin, and in many in
stances, securing and accepting light
employment, they are self-support-
ing. Eventually, in my judgment,
the old age pension will depopulatc
the main building Of the Home
which has heretofore been used for
the housing of the older residents
believe that the home has a new
and greater career before it, and
that it should and will be converted
into a printers sanatorium where
all the members of the international
Typographical Union afflicted with
disease of whatever nature may find
a home and a possible cure. would
go farther than this, and establish
an institution where our members
who are exhausted and run down by
the strenuous requirements of the
composing room of today may re-
sort for a month or two months or
six months In order to build up a
shattered nervous and physical sys-
tenn so that they may continue at
their trade, useful members of so
ciety and supporters of families.
Those who are blessed with suftic-
tent of the worlds goods yearly /
seek watering places and summer
resorts in order that there may be
recuperation of energy and . ambt-
ton to meet the coming ordeals Of
the social season or business world.
(Why not, then, the Union Printers
Home, converted into a great sana-
forum and rest-cure, where our en-
ervated members may find that sur
cease from toll and worriment that
win instill into their systems energy
land ambition, and add to their years
of usefulness. If this project is eyer
mad effective, then there will OF.
necessity have to be an increase In
the per capita for the support OF
1.-The Home, for it is we'll establish
ed fact that the patients at the
home cost, cost much more to main
tain than the aged and INDECENT
residents. Under the plan as OUT.
lined, the Home fund should bear.
the travelling expenses of the pa
ltient to and from the institution.
|IBut. whatever the cost. the venture
Twin be we'll worth Undertaking, and
OH further rebound to the glory and