Show WOODMEN HALL FAMOUS MOAB LANDMARK DESTROYED BY EIRE sy jAa cious building erected in 1896 and the center of community life for thirty years corn A plemely demolished the most disastrous fire in the history of moab occurred day evening when the goodmen woodmen hall famous old building ach for thirty years has been the center of community life 5 completely demolished the blaze was not discovered until iad gamed such headway that efforts to save the structure e A crowd of about five hundred people who were to have been ertain cd at a free picture show in the hall that evening gatha in the street and matched the old building go up in smoke ay iy were given a free show but it was not the pleasant one they I 1 anticipated to nearly very person assembled he ning of the building was a personal loss moat of them had wn to manhood and womanhood in moab and to them clung of memories of happy hours spent within the four walls the old goodmen woodmen hall which was rapidly disappearing before ir eyes As they watched the hungry flames consume the inious old structure they became suddenly conscious of the t it had played in their lives and in the life of moab for thir years it had occupied a leading place in the activities odthe m community entertainments dances political meegan s botic meetings theatrical entertainments picture shows the old hall had housed them all for three decades it 3 therefore a sorrowful crowd that witnessed the mad fire ich in the space of a few minutes converted the building into heap of charred ruins tie blaze undoubtedly originated i a defective flue fires had 1 built in the two stoves about in the afternoon to make hall comfortable for the free ire show which the ides theater e loosed to give as a christmas t to its patrons no one was at hall when the flames started and i first noticed at about 6 30 p he entire roof of the rear part of building was ablaze A crowd dy gathered it was at once that all efforts to fight the fire d be uyeless the men present concentrated their efforts to ng as much equipment as possible TI the doomed building so intense 3 the heat in the rear of the build that it was impossible to extin se anything in that portion A re of volunteers however saved rythma that was movable in the int part of the hall this two picture projecting machines eral valuable films a piano monograph ono graph some forty benches and ler miscellaneous articles the fixtures lost in the fire a piano an expensive moving pic e screen some thirty benches ige equipment and paraphernalia d other less important articles e volunteers stayed at the of equipment until it wu red that some of them would los ir lives when they were finach alced to the building it wa a mass of flames and a few seconds after the bat man got outside tn roaf crashed tho loss of the building aid t contents cor tents is only partially covered b insurance the hall was covered b a police in the sum of 2000 anile the biccs theater equipment was LI aurea to the extent of 1000 it is estimated that the value of the build ing was approximately su that the loss to the goodmen woodmen lodge is around the ides theater equipment burned was valued at about 1600 new and better building planned A new and better goodmen woodmen hall will rise from the arums rums of the old according to officers of the local lodge plans are already being devised for a modern structure which will be erected either on the site of the old building or on a main street lot which may be acquired the new building will be 50 by feet in size as compared to 44 by 80 feet the dimensions of the old structure it will probably be built of stucco and will have a basement which will house a heating plant the auditorium will have a hardwood floor with a small stage in one end to accommodate road shows and other theatrical entertainments on the second floor a lodge and club room will be brov ded the building will ba erected to meet the need for a dancing pavilion and it will also bo used by the ides theater later the theater will probably erect building of its twin 1 plans for the building will be dradi up at once and the assembling of materials will then start so that construction can get under way as soon as weather permits it n hoped to have the building erected b summer had i career the sold goodmen woodmen hall which burned down monday night was one of the most famous community structures in the state it was built in by A M robertson and sam melni who saw the great need for one kird of an opera house and bance hall in the then sparsely pop continued on page eight the goodmen woodmen hall for thirty years the center of community life at moab which was completely demolished by fire monday E eang it was built in and several years later was acquired by la sal camp no goodmen woodmen of the world the goodmen woodmen owners and operated the hall for over twenty years r h m BURNS ym first pae th walls bhea first aed ona of largest is in the state mr mul interest in the guiding ar before it ass competed ednd the latter operated it for about and half lie sold the building to H G green icho op crated afi as a dance hall for anui riber of year with the organization la sal camp no of the world tt moab mr green sold the halh to the lodge tha transfer taking place about the kejr 1902 the goodmen woodmen immediately set about improving the property hard wood dance loor was laid yand for years iff was considered onea of the very beat in the intermountain coun try ohp hall was also ceilea and plastered a balcony was amit and a new front was provided which greatly improved jm proved the appearance the structure the ides theater has used the hll since th establishment of the show in the biear 1912 the lodge and theater ahad steadily improved the while antiquated ant equated in some respects was nevertheless very comfortable and satisfactory community amusement hall the were devising birns for further improving jm proving the buil ing this coming ear by the lot an extension with basement ur verneath ler neath to house a heating plant R clark consul comm ader 0 the local goodmen woodmen lodge and man ager of the ides theater has had charge af the hall for nearly years and to him the loss an es specially ally revere one for sentimental more than financial mr clark the initiative in the matter of erecting a new buildt buil dm which wll serve the tow another thirty years as the bid building did for the ast quarter of a century cea tury the bowl goodmen woodmen lodge j consist of members all ef whom are that a new budding be erected at once the lodge aboud it can diverty to the erection bof the structure and the ad ands can be raised without difficulty it is figured new building vill cost close to |