The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1890-11-24
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soswoRTH POST MALI.
Dedication OF the New Quarters on
Free street..

Tonight BOsworth Post Hall will dedicate
US elegant new building, corner OF Free and
Cotton streets. Owing TO the lImited spaee
80 @ audience will be confined to the mem-
1,1 1,,, S VI Tue Post and the Relief Corps. This
VIII Dc the programme:
/ Reeollections OF the Wa c,...,,--,-
PRESENTATION o. Building .ComSasah "a nsieheT s,
Deuicatory Prayer. Compshss az ti " 3 Dunn
History q SwsiTs VIII ss Ia5,s,ss II sssss
Remarks ComriaasS n Band
Seeltation-"Night oa Shiloh" Miss Ansis HSss
Remarks o Dept Commanded sngTs j 2Ssrsss.s
Rectation-"The Soldier Tramp" .............
............ ...... ....... Robert q. Whlteomb
90 Hail, Is She Free?". .Shaw's Quartetts
hemar~ C0mrade T. h. Reed
America. .......b BY the Audience
The new building, or rather the remodel
I'd building. Is situated at the corner OF Cot
ton and Free streets. The addition TO the
building occupies 40 feet In depth on Cotton
street, thus leaving a front yard, between
the house and street, for a lawn, on which
Will eventually be placed a piece OF ord
nance and rustic vase for flowers, The
end OK the addition on Cotton street Is oeeu-
pied by tower. from whose summit a fine
view can be obtained Of the harbOr, On the
side Of the addition fronting Free street Il q
tablet let into the building bearing the
posts name and date OF organization.
Entering the front hall on Free street,
ON the lett VIII be found two large square
rooms, one forthe library and the other for
reception room. These apartments are 81
KIT feet, each with hard wood floors The
rooms are tinted straw color, with handsome
gilt paperingS, open tiled fire places, and
wood cornlces In eolors to correspond. The
gas fixtures are OF brass, In the lat st de-
signs. Portraits OF eminent commanders In
the war, corps flags In glass cases, and other
emblems adutn the walls, neat bookcases
are hlled with books. and the windows are
prettily curtained. The front hallway leads
into the main ball, which occupies the first
n 'or In the addition, and the main hall can
also be entered from the reception room by
a Dassageway at present draped with the ma
tiOnal colOrs. This hall Is 40x35 feet In Size.
ana 10 ieet Inches stud. Tne windows are
OF Milanese glass, with stained glass bor-
de-s. There are two memorial windows,
one Tor the tt+ Comrade o. X. Legro " and
the other for Comrade Winsor b. Smith.
Rows OF handsome chairs, something like
opera chairs, tO the number Of 125. enclfcle
the three side, Of the hall for the use Of the
comrades at meetings. 10 front OF he Post
Commanders seat, on q pedestal, Is an ele-
CANT block OF polished granite from Hawkes.
brothers, with the legend cut In It.. "Bos.
worth Post, No. 2" A fine picture OF Fred
Bosworth, for whom the post was named,
and the corps badge hang back OF the Ju-
ntOr Vice Commanders chair.
A front and rear stairway leads to the sec
ond story. sHere are located. in the main
building. the elegant rooms Of che BOswOrth
Relief Corps, the same size as the library
and reception room Of the post underneath
them. The apartments have been frescoed.
decorated, carpeted and furnished 10 the
richest style by the ladies at an expense Of
$1,000. The rooms are pro 1ably not surpass-
I'd for elegance and good taste by those OF
any organization In the country. on OF
them Is convenient toilet room, about ten
feet square. In the hall room, over the front
door, AdjntanL General Milliken, of the De-
partment Of Maine. has a very handsome Of
nee. lhe large rooms in the third story will
probably be finished anu fitted up for read
Ing room, smoking room, etc, at future
time. In the tower Is the observatory room.
octagon shaped.
The basement, under the main hall. has an
entrance on Cotton street. and Is the same
slZs as the hall 1t Is nine feet high and
Will be used as a banquettlng room, Com
nected with 10 Is an excellent kitchen and
pantry, with all modern cOnveniences, aud
also the boiler room In which the boiler
from Quinn q Co, Is used To heat the build
ing About $1,000 have been expended bv
the post In the improvements
Comrades Richard X Galley. T.. RI Han.
son, Il. Y. Mllliken, George II. Poor, and j.
M. Sanborn were the building Committee:
ira ). Ttbbetts did the maspn Work, j. M.
oanoorn the carpenter work, K Galley
the plasterlng, b. A. Norton the painting.
aud Smith u Abbott the heating apparatus.