The Indianapolis Journal

The Home for Printers.

The matter now attracting more attention in the typographical unions than any other is the Printers' Home. At the headquarters of the International Union, 59 Vance Block, Edward T. Plank, president, and W.S. McClevey, secretary, receive much encouragement in the way of proffered contributions. The home will probably be established at Colorado Springs, where an eighty-acre tract of land has been tendered by the Board of Trade of that thriving city. This land is one mile east of Colorado Springs, and the gift is conditioned on the erection thereon of a building, to be worth at least $20,000, within two years from the date of the deed of gift. June 22, 1889. At the next session of the International Union a decision will be made upon the acceptance of the proposition, which has already virtually been accepted by a majority of the unions. The home is to be for the sick and indigent members of the craft, including compositors, pressmen and book-binders. It is claimed the land is now valued at $400 an acre, and that the time is not far distant when it will be worth fully $1,000 an acre. There is now ready to be devoted to the erection of this home a large fund, more than enough to erect a $20,000 building. George W. Childs and A. J. Drexel some time ago gave each $5,000 unconditionally to the union, and this money, together with other funds, can be applied to the project at any time.