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Show THE PRINTERS' HOME. Dedicated at Colorado Springs this Morning Morn-ing With Appropriate Ceremonies. Colorado Spring.?, May 13. The Childs-Drexel Childs-Drexel home for printers was dedicated here today with appropriate ceremonies. The building is located one mile from the city on an elevation which overlooks the Garden of the Gods, Pike's peak, Manitou and Cheyenne canyon. It is built of white lava stone with red sandstone trimmings, is four stories high, 144 by 40 feet, with all modern conveniences. It cost $80,000. It is the gift of George W. Childs and A. J. Drexel of Philadelphia, to the international interna-tional Typographical Union. The rooms in the building were furnished by the unions in St. Louis, Chicago, San Francisco, New York and one by the Chicago Inter-Ocean. The gathering of a line library is already begun. At the dedication today the Hon. Ira E. Sprague, mayor of Colorado Springs, delivered deliv-ered the address of welcome on behalf of the city. In which he spoke in eulogy of printers and the printing trade, instancing many illustrious men, beginning with Horace Greeley who had been a printer. Governor John L. Routt delivered an address ad-dress of welcome on behalf of the state, congratulating con-gratulating Colorado on being chosen by the donors as the site for the building and the donors for having selected the most suitable suit-able slto in the country. Hon. George W. Childs, one of the co-donors co-donors of ' the institution, spoke briefly, saying that forty-one years ago the International Typographical union was established. The printers' print-ers' union not only spread tte light of education and reason over this vast continent, conti-nent, they had given to labor a higher dignity, dig-nity, broader independence, and all those qualities which render it of the greatest worth. The speaker said he had been more or less intimately associated with printers from boyhood, and naturally sympathized with them, and what little he had been able to do to express respect and admiration for it had honored him more in the giving than the craft in receiving. The printers were not indebted to him, but he to them. The dedicatory exercises were preceded by a parade of military and civic societies and the printers' union. |