Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1865-08-18
THE ORPHAys' HOME.
Report OF the Examining Committee.
Ehe Resolutions Locating the Home
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/ AT the meeting Of the Board of Truss
tees OF the Iowa Soldiers Orphans vs.
ISOLATION, held at Marshalltown ON the
10th instant, the Committee appointed
at the Des Moines meeting to select To-
cation for Home in Northern Iowa,
made the following report:
g To the President and Boars, Of Trustees of the
Soldiers Orphans Home 1ssociation:.
The undersigned committee, ap-
pointed at the meeting in June last of
your Association, to select one or more
localities in the central or northern part
of the State at which to establish addit-
ional Home or Homes, beg leave to re-
port that they entered upon the duties
assigned them on the 10Th ult.. COM.
mencing their examinations mt Cedar
Falls, Black Hawk county.
| "This place is really beautiful town
of some 5000 inhabitants, generous, ell
| terprising and patriotic. situated upon
the borders of the Cedar river, and ON
the line of the Dubuque d Sioux City
Railway, which is constructed and be-
ing run west of the Falls. The town
derives its name from fall in the river
at that point, creating an important and
valuable water power, already develop
cd and understandable in part in operat-
ing three large merchant mills for the
manufacture of flour and meal, several
saw mills and other factories. The town
Is well supplied with substantial church
buildings of the leading religious de-
nominations, and a large graded school
building, which for architectural finish
and elegance is not perhaps surpassed
IN the state. There are no perceptible
causes ofinsalubrity in its surroundings.
The place wears the appearance of great
thrift and enterprise, and Of good moral
influences, and is one of Uncommon
growth and prosperity for its age. 81 Vi
"a 1--WE found here building that had
been used for hotel, situated i'm the
outer lines of the town, sufficiently Gu,
pacious to accommodate the officers of
the Home and some eiglty-fve orphans,
besides the kitchen and dining-room,
and one other room sufficiently large,
perhaps, to afford instruction to fifty
pupils. In addition to this there are, on
an adjoining lot, a frame building which
would answer for wash-house, and a
brick tenement of twelve rooms which
would accommodate comfortably forty
orphans, both of which it is understood
could be made available for the use of
the Home. To obtain immediate pos
session and use of the hotel building
specified, some four or five hundred
dollars would have to be advanced to q
party or parties in possession who
claims some interest in the same. The
amount the citizens of the town propose
to pay. Before it could be occupied as
a Home considerable repair would have
to be made, and some changes in the
removal and enlargement of the stable,
and some other improvements, amount
ing to, say, 5000, more, or less. This
amount the leaser, who is a non-resi-I
dent, would allow to be deducted from
the first rents, which would be $500 the
first year, and S4a0 per annum there
after. This expenditure for repairs the
citizens Of the place will advance i'm the
first instance, until they can be reim-
bursed out of the rents paid ..na /
In connection with this Home forty
or eighty acres of cultivatable land may
be had from half to one mile distant at
the customary rent for the use thereof I!
Should more school room Ee required
than can be furnished by the building
in question:, it is understood that the
basement Of the Presbyterian Church,
which is close by, can be had for that
purpose. Conmissary supplies, and
pfOyinder for stock, may be had in
abundance, and as cheaply perhaps as
in any other portion of the State. Il
"ln other respects the location is am
eligible one, accessible, perhaps, as anyI
other one point can be for the orphans
in the northern portion of the State, sit
uated in the midst OF a kind people, and
ed by good moral and religions
and advantages. 1t is
proper to state that the rent of the brick
and frame buildings spoken Of on the
lot, will be from 1925 to $3.50,
and that it was supposed that the rent
of the land would be about $500 per
acre, making the rent Of 40 acres and all |
the building spoken Of, about 1915 to
700 per annum.