The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1912-06-21
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Letter from the Woman's Club to the
City Council

City Council
Editor Star: There was considerable
mix-up in the council minutes of the
letters from the club and the Junior
Civic League. Following is an exact
copy of the letter sent by the club:
Honorable City Council, Ocala, Fla:
conference.-the understand that our
application for the lease of a lot on
which to erect woman's club build
ing and comfort lodge has caused con-
siderable contention in your council.
and tho we are assured a large ma
jority of your members are in favor of
granting the lease. we are not willing
to accept it If it will subject your hon
orable body TO criticism in any way,
from within or without.
AS our principal reason for asking
for this location was to establish a
permanent rest room or comfort lodge,
We hereby withdraw the request of the
Woman's Club for the lot on which to
build club building and ask that the
city erect on said lot a building suita-
BILE for a rest room and lease same to
the Junior Civic League of the Wom-
ans Club for such period as seems
practical at a nominal rent, the J. c. l.
to maintain same as heretofore. provide
furnishings, maid, etc. At present this
comfort lodge is being supported by
monthly voluntary contributions from
the merchants, board of trade and
Woman's Club, collected by the direc-
tor of the j. c. l. The rent is SIS a
month, maid from SIS to $40, besides
water rent. laundry and other Incl
dentals. You can understand the work
of uncertainty involved in depending
on voluntary contributions from month
to month Some of your members will
tell you that this work was undertaken
with the assurance that the council
would make a regular appropriation
for the rent of the rooms. Afterward
the city attorney decided the council
could not appropriate funds for this
purpose. cit certainly seems something
| is wrong with a charter that allows
the upkeep of a herd of deer but can
not help provide for the comfort of
| tired country shoppers and their child
rem in a place with as large a country
patronage as Ocala). We understand,
however, there is nothing to prevent
| the city improving its own property
| and that the council may say what ii
shall rent for.
We wish to thank your members
pioned our cause. We believe they did
| so, looking we were toward the
towns best interests, for of course we
realize the extra cost of including COM
| fort lodge in our building would more
| than pay for lot better suited in
other respects to our requirements and
the property would be our own. So we
ask you TO believe our request was not
SO selfish after all, but with a view of
cooperation and our city's upbuilding.
We hope you will unite unanimously in
giving the city the building requested
and ask that you take into considera-
ton the fact that the Woman's Club
represents over an hundred of our
towns most substantial families and
though not voters, a majority of us are
property owners and taxpayers and we
| cannot but feel we have a perfes,
right 20 come before you with rea-
sonable request for civic betterment.
| Respectfully,
| The Woman's Club.
Adopted in special meeting Saturday
June Is, 1912.