Adelaide - Bushmen's Home
The need for such an establishment is mooted in the Express,
28 July 1868, page 2a,
Register,
26 December 1868, page 2d.
On 4 January 1869, page 3d the Register reports that "An Old Bushman writes against its establishment":
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He warns his mates against suffering themselves to become objects of charity
and urges them to help themselves by always having "a friend", and let that
friend be a good horse and a pound or two to carry you in search of the highest
wages and the best station. Support none but the best inns and respectable
landlords, and then you require no "home" save what your own good, honest
character will provide you with...
(Also see Register,
5 and 16 January 1869, pages 2c-3e (supp.) and 2h,
11 March 1869, page 2h,
7 May 1869, page 3e,
Express,
3 April 1869, page 2f.)
A meeting to consider founding a "Home for Bushmen" is reported in the Register,
20 and 22 December 1869, pages 3d and 3b; also see
11 January 1870, page 5d,
18 March 1870, page 4e,
4 and 17 May 1870, pages 5a and 4f.
Its opening is reported in the Register,
23 May 1870, page 3b; also see
27 May 1870, page 5f;
5 July 1870, page 5c;
13 December 1870, page 5d;
17 December 1870, page 4e;
1, 2, 18 and 22 February 1871, pages 6a, 5c, 6e and 5f;
4, and 31 March 1871, pages 6f and 6d;
28 April 1871, page 5b;
4 May 1871, page 6c;
24 May 1871, page 5f;
5, 13, 15 July 1871, pages 5d, 4f, 5d,
Express,
26 April 1871, page 3a.
Also see Register,
7, 22, 25 September 1871, pages 5b, 5c, 4f;
23 November 1871, page 4d;
23 December 1871, page 6a;
18 May 1872, page 4e;
2 August 1872, page 5b,
30 August 1872, page 4e,
10 September 1872, page 5c,
6, 21 and 25 December 1872, pages 5a, 6b and 5a,
5 June 1873, page 5c,
20 and 31 December 1873, pages 6g and 5b.
Comment on a book containing a history of the home is in the Observer,
29 March 1873, page 7d.
Also see Register,
19 December 1874, page 6e,
6 August 1875 (supp.), page 3d,
9 November 1875, page 4e,
Chronicle,
13 November 1875, page 15f,
Register,
24 December 1875, page 6b,
21 July 1876, page 5f,
23 December 1876, pages 4d and 5f,
24 December 1877, page 6e,
30 April 1878, page 6d,
27 July 1878 (supp.), page 2g.
A sketch is in Frearson's Weekly,
11 January 1879, page 361,
Pictorial Australian in
March 1879.
A club picnic is reported in the Farmers Weekly Messenger,
25 December 1874, page 6d.
Comprehensive articles on the home are in the Observer,
12 and 26 June 1880, pages 978a and 1066b.
A letter of complaint about the home is in the Advertiser,
20 November 1879, page 5c; also see
21 and 25 November 1879, pages 5g and 7d,
10 December 1879, page 5b:
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In my opinion the Bushmen's Club is only fit for old men that come to Adelaide
and have no friends, and want a quiet spell and are not particular.
Also see Register,
20 December 1879, page 5g,
16 April 1880, page 5c,
23 December 1880, page 6b,
21 December 1881 (supp.), page 1c,
22 December 1882, pages 4g-6c,
21 December 1883 (supp.), page 1a,
20 December 1884, pages 5b-6f,
23 December 1886, pages 4h-7g,
26 September 1887, page 5b,
23 December 1887, page 7a,
19 December 1888, page 6d,
5 January 1899, page 6f (history of),
18 February 1899, page 5b.
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The clubhouse stands on the property of Sir Charles Cooper in Whitmore Square
and contains in all 15 rooms. It is commodious, situate in a very healthy
part of the city... There is an air of home refinement about the place...
[and is] conducted on temperance principles.
10 August 1901, page 4f; also see
Advertiser,
30 April 1910, page 15i (history of) and
19 April 1930, page 18e,
The News,
25 June 1932, page 4e.
Biographical details of William M. Hugo, a former manager of the club, are
in the Register,
8 February 1904, page 4h (obit.),
Observer,
15 July 1922, page 45d.
