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Show pTI0NAL HOME OF" THE ELKS IS DEDICATED &0RK IS DONE BY SALT LAKE CITY CONTRACTOR : 7 ADMINISTRATION BUILDING OF ELKS' NATIONAL HOME. j t ' -1 . , ': - y ' - ' - S 1',: J . W k $r ?s ms ' . V : f. M i''r.r'A - ' f lit! ypj J i-J1 .tn .ff ii m $. w vai ris"ur" -sir xsrxgm ,!" A.i V ft 1 w8 w '""C JM! mng "?? V?3 gg! rafli rCSTS - 'II W 8 sE34 ,4kt r,l rif f4 Li f?ss Sls4 I? A- i. J. Moran, the Builder, Is j Given High Praise by j Members of Order. X INTERESTING and import-A import-A ant incident of the meeting of A the grand lodge of the Benevo- - lent nud Protective Order of :. Elks in Baltimore this month took place 'ot in Haltimore at all, but in the lit-je lit-je town of Bedford, Va. And to at east one Utah man at the grand lodge reunion the affair at Bedford over-" over-" (fallowed the festivities in Baltimore. The incident at Bedford was the ' 'ormiil acceptance and dedication of the L-.udrmil! ion -dollar national home f or t-'l wild indigent Klks. The Utah Elk flto took hi it'll a special and keen in-: in-: re?t in this ceremonial was P. J. Mo- ' an, the well-known Salt Lake con- 1 irautor, for he built the new institu- Jon from the stately and porticoed ad-y- pin istrnt ion to the last pergola. 11 "Horan Given Contract. When the Klks decided that a new lational homo was needed to replace the )hl chic, a converted hotel structure, the soinmittce in eluirgo .began casting T.ihuitt for a contractor to put up such !- l strnctiiro as they had planned. 'It is m lout; way from Bedford and count-"T.s3 count-"T.s3 other points thereabouts north and -- outh to Wait Lake City, but the com-nittee com-nittee of prominent Elks who had the natter in charge knew Mr. Moran, per- - loniiHy and by professional reputation, i 'iml they did not hesitate fo come skcl-! tiering across the veldt and divides of thn west, seek out the aforesaid Moran M watch him affix his signature to a contract to put up the new home. Thus -it was that U rot her Elk Moran of bait T'take lofipe, No. 85, built the big institution insti-tution wnich officials of the grand " bilge accepted and dedicated with im-prsivo im-prsivo exercises at Bedford July 8. i Thn whole institutinn was completed Burl in readiness for the dedication. In .fart, Mr. Moran's engineers and arti-'' arti-'' inns had cninpleted their tasks in such ;1"fifioil season that the contractors for the !'. furnishings had installed tho equip-jnent equip-jnent and tho homo was "completely t-" furnished ' ' when the grand lodge men 'am! tho attendant Elks took it over. V Appreciation Expressed. : ' Garry Herrmann of Cincinnati was .; wairman of the national home com-1 com-1 Htce and of the executive committee ; Jjbirh had charge of the building of (he new plant. James Nicholson of ; Blon, under whoso administration as frand cxnltod ruler the enterprise was ; Starter!, was another member of the - executive commit too. Another was rc,l Harper of Lynchburg Va. An-.; An-.; other was Carcv L." Applegate, formcr- b' of Salt Lake, now ot Owensboro, 'tW-i one of the grand trustees of the i- fchis' lodge. They followed Mr. Moran through the .prorrss of put tin w un the new home, and - f'hon it was finished they told him that :- had certainly dooe a first-class, tip- j'MMoh; that tho new national home was !i' finest over. Mr. toran was at ; tho drdioaiory evereises. He heard nil tho officers of the grand lodge exclaim , in appreciative comment over the new !""c Hml it not boon that Mr. Moran niinselt held the conviction that the JjmiplHtcd home was pretty nifty and all .that, doubtless his head" would have :'t'cn turned by what he heard. I o mem oers of tho executive com mittee for the national home are deserving de-serving of a lot of credit' said Mr. Moran, commenting upn e completion comple-tion of the home. "They are all fine gentlemen, and they knew what they wanted. They "didn't delay or hamper me in any way. If a change in the plans was suggested here or there they acted on it right , away. They decided and the work went on' Mr. Moran took the contract to put up tho new home for $360,000.- The plant represented an administration or main building, a hospital and six cottage cot-tage dormitories linked together by covered cov-ered pergolas. "While the buildings cost $300,000, the entire institution completely com-pletely furnished represents a total outlay out-lay 0i more than $400,000. Salt Laker in Charge. The plans were made by Ottenheimer, Stern & Richcrt of Chicago. -Mr. Moran started the construction work a year : ago last October. It has proceeded ever since, although during winter months there were periods when it was impossible impos-sible to do much work. In direct charge of t ho construction work Mr. Moran placed one of his owp engineers from Salt Lake, Frank Householder, who had. been associated with him for ten years. Mr. Householder was on the job from start to finish. "I had good subcontractors, sub-contractors, too," said Mr. Moran, ' ' and altogether the work progressed nicely." 1 Tho new home provided by the Elks 1 order for their aged and forlorn .members .mem-bers occupies a plot of ninety-five acres i in the beautiful little Virginia town of Bedford. It is built of concrete and is fireproof throughout. On the eve of the dedicatory exercises, which brought 4000 prominent Elks of the country to Bedford, tho weekly Democrat -.tf that place printed the following detailed description de-scription of the new home: It Is built on the rottage group plan, a Inrse administration building in the center and three cottages on each side, the cottages being connected wiLb the main, or administration, building by a covered porch or walk way, and nil the buildings arranged in a semi-eirele, fronting toward the south. The cottages are about thirty feet apart. The whole structure throughout is built of reinforced concrete and is absolutely fireproof. All the buildings build-ings are of the same color, the outside out-side walls being plasterer! with rough white .stucco. The rnof of each building build-ing is of reinforced concrete overlaid over-laid with red Spanish tile. Administration Building. The administration building is the main one in the group. It has a frontage of l"i0 feet. Near the center cen-ter of this building six large columns support the extension of the roof and form a portico. ; From this portico tlu-re are five entrance doors. The first room we enter is the lobby, which is a hirge room, some 6-1x30 feet. Turning to the right, in the east wing of tho building, we enter the dining room. This is a large room, handsomely hand-somely finished, with maple floors, the walls of tapestry brick veneering, arched ceiling, and lighted by six chandeliers and numerous electric lights on the sides and ends of the room. A covered and Inclosed walk way, some twelve feet wide, extends on three sides of this room. A gallery, gal-lery, entered from the upper floor, is at one end of the dining room and is to be used by musicians or by speakers at gatherings of the Klks. To tho left of the dining room is the kitchen, commodious and furnished I with every appliance and convenience for the preparation and serving of meals ranges, steam tables, cold storage, etc. I Rooms Are Large. In the west wing of the administration administra-tion building are two very large rooms opening into each other. These rooms will be used ea a library, a sun parlor, par-lor, a billiard room and a general lounging or sitting room for the Elks, who will gather here to read books, . magazines or papers, write letters to their relatives and friends, or, when the notion takes them, play billiards to amuse themselves while old Father Time slips by. The rooms are large and airy, with an abundance of windows opening to the south. When furnished they will be the most attractive rooms about the building. A wide corridor leads from the lobby to these rooms. On the right of the corridor are several smaller rooms, one of which will be used by the superintenednt as his private office, the general or, public office being in an alcove of the Jpbby.'- On the second floor of the admins-tration admins-tration building, directly over the lobby, is the lodge hall, with several anterooms. The hall is commodious and will be the place where the brother broth-er Elks wdll hold their conclaves. In the center will be an altar and around the room there will be four officers' stations, representing the four cardinal principles of their noble order charity, justice, brotherly love 1 and fidelity. Quarters for Officers. In the west wing on the second floor are the quarters of the superintendent' super-intendent' and the grand lodge officers, offi-cers, who may from time to time visit the home. They consist of a living room and eight chambers, with several sev-eral bath and toilet rooms. The rooms are all private and several of them have separate bathrooms attached; the windows are largo and there are two porches. The front porch opens out from - the living room and com- , mands a beautiful view of Bedford and the surrounding country. The back porch can be reached from several sev-eral chambers and in summer can be used as a sleeping porch. These rooms occupy the entire west wing of the upper floor. On the first floor of the administration administra-tion building we have the lobby, the main dining room and a private dining din-ing room, the kitchen, library, lounging loung-ing or sitting room, and several other smaller rooms. On the upper floor lodge hall and the superintendent's suite of rooms, but in the basement s. of the building, hidden away out of sight, we have some of the most important im-portant adjuncts of the new home, without which the home would be by no means complete or a very comfortable com-fortable place to live in either winter or summer. Big Boilers Used. In the first place, there are two 100-horsepower boilers. In winter they will be used to send steam heat into every room, corridor and hall of the great structure, and to keep warm and comfortable the brother Elks while they swap yarns with one another, an-other, read, or just sit and meditate upon the past, letting the mind go back to the time when they were little bare-foot boys, or grown - men with homes and families of their own. Then in the basement Is the ice plant, which wdll make all of the ice for the institution and cool the drink-, drink-, ing water used by the residents of the home. Again, in the basement is another important and necessary adjunct ad-junct to the borne, namely, the laundry. laun-dry. It is well equipped with all kinds of machinery for washing, ironing and caring for the clothing of the residents resi-dents of the institution. There is a sewing room attached to the laundry, where the clothes are mended and buttons sowed on, and also a sterilizer through which the clothes pass before coming into the laundry, an germs being kilted In the process. To keep warm, to keep cool and to keep cjean are three things necessary to the health and happiness of men. The new' home, in its heating plant, its ice plant and fts laundry, is prepared to furnish these three things to its residents. In the basement, too. are numerous rooms which will be used as sleeping chambers for the help employed em-ployed about the building. These rooms aro nicely finished, with plenty of light and vent Hat ion. Wide corridors cor-ridors extend throughout the basement, base-ment, connecting all the different departments. de-partments. Hospital Included. The hospital is in the rear of the Administration building and joined to it. The hospital, like the other buildings, Is two stories and a basement. base-ment. On the first floor is the general gen-eral ward. The room is large and lias thirteen windows. Upstairs over the general ward is a sun parlor, and It has windows all around It. Besides these two rooms, t here are in t he building on the two floors twelve private pri-vate rooms, a doctor's office, a diet kitchen, linen closet and several bath and toilet rooms. The basement is the same size as the two upper floors and is divided up Into several, rooms to be used for different purposes in connection with the hospital. In this department of the home, and a very important department It is. every provision pro-vision will be made to take care of -the brother Klks who may become sick but let us hope that good health, ns well as good cheer, will predominate predomi-nate at this new home of F.lkdom, and that not manv of the brothers will ned. often, the kind adminis-t adminis-t rat ions of the hospital corps. ' One of the unique things about the hospital Is the silent electrical signal system, by moans of which a patient lying in a bed can by the mere touch of a wire which bancs at the head of every bed communicate to the nurse or orderly on duty Die fact thn t his assistance is desired. This information is conveyed direct to the nurse and does not disturb the other patients who may bo in the room. The pulling of the wire makes a light in the room occupied by the nurse and also a light over the patient's bed. so that the nurse, when he comes Into the room where the sick people are, knows exactly which patient to attend. Cottage Group Plan. As we stated above, the new Elks home is built on the cottage group plan. There are six cottages, three on each side of the administration building. The cottages are all alike in construction, size and finish, inside in-side and out, painting, etc., have the same number of rooms, baths and toilets. They are built in the form of a rectangle, with rooms on each side and a hall between, all the rooms being private. The cottages, of course, will be used as dormitories by the residents. In eacli cottage there are twenty-two rooms, eleven ,on each floor, or l'.)2 in the six cottages. cot-tages. In each room there is a closet for clothes, a stationary wash stand, where both hot and cold water can be obtained, a radiator to heat the room in winter. Inserted in the wall of each room is a call bell, which communicates with the office in the administration building, build-ing, registering there the cottage and room wdiere help is desired. On each floor there are two toilet and two bathrooms. In the ball on each floor is a fire hose to be used in case of fire; also a telephone giving cora-' cora-' mnnication with the office, hospital, kitchen, or anywhere in the building build-ing wdiere there is a phone, and there are some twenty odd or more in. different dif-ferent parts of the home. The walls of the rooms, like the walls over the building, are made of hollow tile, plastered, and with an oil finish. The cottages, as we have said, are. built in a semi-circle and are connected with each other and with the main building by a covered walk way. The Elks, In going from one building to another, are not exposed to the weather. Mr. Moran is going to have some photographs pho-tographs of the new home enlarged and framed. He is going to present a copy to the Salt Lake lodge and to leading Elks' lodges throughout the country. Possibly he will send with the pictures a suggestion that Salt Lake City ought to have the Elks' grand lodge reunion again, say year after next, maybe. |