The Sentinel=record., 1911-08-09
IMPROVEMENTS TO AMOUNT or
 $25.0oo HAVE JUST BEEN ]. COMPLETED.
President Lynch Advises Further Bet- terments to Make it Still
 More Attractive.

from the press. President Lynch has this to say as to the Union Printers Home-that magnificent institution at Colorado Springs erected and main sained by the international Typo
 graphical Union:
 Reference to the report of the board of trustees of the Union Print CTS Home will make clear the na- ture of the Improvements that have been made to the institution during the fiscal year. The partial comple- tion of the library addition by the erection of the two additional stories not including the interior finish. runs over the fiscal year and well into July. The boiler house was consid- erably enlarged, two new boiler Tn. stalled, and commodious, sanitary and pleasant quarters provided for the male employees in the second story of the heating plant and laundry builGing, and other and necessary improvements made in this connec- ton. The library annex has been competed, with the exception of fln- ish!ng the interior of the upper stor- ies The total amount expended Tor the improvements mentioned has been S25.000. A beautiful and adequate institution has been further improv- ed. and in every way an 'efcrFt has been made to comply wrh the inten tion of the membership in establish. ing the Union Printers Home so that it shall be a haven of rest and cure tor our aged members and those ar. flicted with disease. A barren nlii- side has been converted into a gar den spot, than which there is none more beautiful in this country.
 The time has arrived, however. when the future of the Juion Print CTS Home must be taSe1 into mope careful consideration. The old age pension policy adopted by the In ternational Typographical Union, and successful beyond our fondest hopes, has within the past year affected the union Printers Home in That our ag- ed members are not seeking the Homes bounty in the same degree that was true prior to tho establish ment of the old age pension. Our old members prefer to draw the pension and remain at home, with their friends and relatives. Taey ace not now burden on their kin. and in many instances, securing and accept ing light employment, they are selt supporting. Eventually, Ill my Judg- ment, the old age pension will de- populate the main building of the Home, which heretofore has oeen Gs- ed for the housing of the older resi- dents. | believe that the Tome mas a new and greater career before II, and that it should and will be con verted into printers sanitorium NhSie dll iht HehlpSiS VI tuS iAiSi national Typographical Union aiInot- ed with disease of whatever nature may find a home and possible cure. Indeed, I would go further than 'nls and establish an institution wnsre our members who are exhausted and run down by the strenuous requirements of the composing room of today may resort for 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 society and supporters of families. Those
 who are blessed with sufficient or this worlds goods yearly seek water | ing places and summer resorts in or der that there may be recuperation of energy and ambition to meet the
 coming ordeals of the social season
 or business world. Why not. then,
 the Union Printers Home. converted
 into great sanitorfum and rest-cure,
 where our enervated meybers may
 lind that surcease from toil-dnd wor-
 riment that will instlll into their systems usefulness. If this project
 is ever made effective, then there
 will of necessity have to be an in
 crease in the per capita for the sup port Of the Home. for it is a well es-
 tablished fact that the patients at
 the Home cost much more to main.
 tain than the aged and indigent res
 idents Under the plan as outlined
 the Home, is l believe, amply dem cling expenses of the patient to and from the institution. But, whatever the cost, the venture will be we'll worth undertaking, and will fuHher redound to the glory and public lau- dat'on of the International Typo- graphical Union That We will be com pelled to face a new problem as to the Home. is I believe. ample aem- onstrated by the facts that have set