Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 January 1902 — M’CALLA TO BUILD CLUBHOUSE [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

M’CALLA TO BUILD CLUBHOUSE

Prize Money Won in the Bpaniah War to Be Put to Novel Use. Captain B. 11. McCalla, now in command of the Kenrsarge, the flagship of the North Atlantic squadron, lias in view

the erection of a tine club house at Vallejo, CaL. for the enlisted men of the navy. He hns already secured a site for the proposed building. paying for it with prize money awarded to him for hi* service* In the Spanish war. Additional fund* nre to be secured

by popular subscription. .Mrs. McCalla is now in San Francisco making the preliminary arrangement* for the erection of the structure, which will probably be modeled after the Bluejackets’ Club House in Brooklyn, which was erected through the munificence of Mis* Helen Gould. It will be a home for the men at Mare Island when off duty.

CAPT. M CALLA.