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Father Mathew Centenary Memorial Hall,
CHURCH STREET, DUBLIN.
THEOBALD MATHEW, BORN 1790. CENTENARY CELEBRATION, 1890.
THIS Total Abstinence Hall, for one of the poorest and most crowded districts of Dublin, will cost £3000. It will seat 1,200 people, and the building will also contain a Gymnasium, Reading Rooms, Room for Bagatelle and other games, Library, Coffee Bar, and Caretaker's apartments.
The Subscription List is headed by the following donations :—
John M. Cook, Esq., Ludgate Circus,........£5000His Grace the Most Rev. Dr. Walsh,........£2000Sir Richard Martin, Bart.........£1500His Excellency the Lord Lieutenant,........£1000George Cadbury, Esq., Birmingham,........£550
Committee :
V. Rev. Fr. Columbus Maher : P. Cummins, T.C. : M. J. Dunn, B.L. ; William Field ; John M'Quaid, J.P. ;
Joseph Mooney, P.L.G. ; Count Plunkett ; and others.
The sum of £800 is urgently needed for the completion of the work. Cheques may be made payable to any of the Committee named above, or to any of the Hon. Secretaries—A. L. Altman ; Joseph Hutchinson ; A. J. Nicolis, LL.B.
FATHER MATHEW'S CENTENARY.
To the Editor of the Temperance Record.
DEAR SIR,—The article in your issue of the 11th inst., taken from the Dublin Coffee Palace Journal, appears at a most opportune moment. I have before me an appeal from the Committee in Dublin for monetary assistance to enable them to complete the statue of Father Mathew and to open the Father Mathew Centenary Memorial Hall, Dublin, free of debt.
A perusal of the list of subscribers to the Centenary Memorial Hall shows that only three or four English names are to be found there. It seems to me incredible that the teetotallers of England, a considerable number of whom have derived such great benefits from the temperance movement, should require any special appeal to induce them to subscribe to such an object ; but so it is.
The amount required at the present date to ensure the Memorial Hall being opened free of debt is about £800, and an appeal through your columns ought in itself to produce that amount. I am willing to admit that there are not many living who remember personally either the great work of Father Mathew, or remember coming in contact with him ; but I am sure there must be a number who, like myself, had the pleasure of both, and the statistics given in the article which appeared in your last week's issue should be arguments strong enough to produce all the money required, and I cannot help thinking that a number of well-known wealthy English teetotallers simply require to have the matter placed clearly before them to ensure the amount being subscribed at once.
Hoping this notice in the Record will have the desired effect,
I am,
Yours sincerely,
JOHN M. COOK,
Ludgate Circus, London, 15th September.
P.S.—In case any wish to communicate, or forward their cheques direct, they should address—A. J. NICOLIS, Esq., LL.B., Honorary Secretary, Father Mathew Centenary Memorial Hall, Church Street, Dublin.
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