Tobacco Stand Planned for Woman's Temple
By Editor
The following dispatch from Chicago to the New York Tribune tells a sad tale:— CHICAGO, JANUARY 15 (Special).—Within a few days cigars and tobacco will be on sale in the rotunda of the Woman’s Temple, at La Salle and Monroe streets. A tobacco stand is now under process of construction, and on its completion all the hopes of the founders of the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union to keep the building free from the taint of tobacco will have vanished in thin air. This is one of the first changes that denote the passing of the building from the control of the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union. It is not improbable that later on a buffet will invade the sacred precincts of the building. Within another year a still greater change is contemplated, by which Willard Hall will pass out of existence, and the rostrum, which was consecrated by Miss Willard to the cause of temperance, will make room for the counters of a bank. We hope it is not true; but if it must be so, we can all rejoice that the third angel’s message was preached in Willard Hall before it ceased to exist. And those friends of the message who last year contributed their money and prayers to that enterprise can rejoice that they had a part in that best of all uses of that hall.