The record-union., 1895-01-09
BY THE UPPER SACRAMENTO RIVER.
The New Home for Aged and lnhrm
Odd Fellows.
President Charles n. Fox Describes
the Beautiful Site Selected for
the Institution.

Past Grand Master Charles Y, Fox,
President of the Board of Trustees of the
Odd Fellows Home, who visited Ell Do
RADIO Lodge, No. s. on Monday evening,
delivered an address at the banquet which
followed. He congratulated that lodge
upon the fact that it stood at the head of
the roll Of honor of the lodges which had
so far contributed toward the founding Of
the odd Fellows Home, and gave an in
teresting statement Of the character of the
institution and of the progress of the
work
lie explained that the order Of the
Grand Lodge was to establish "a home
for aged and INDECENT Odd Fellows, their
wives, widows and orphans" This, he
said, docs not mean hospital for the care Of
those who are temporarily disabled by rea-
sOn of sickness or accident from earning a
livelihood. Those so disabled are, by the
elementary laws OF the order, to remain,
as they always and everywhere have
under the immediate care of their re-
spective lodges, and were entitled to sick
benefits.
Nor does it mean a pOorhouse, for Odd
Fellows never build pOorhouses. Their
business is 10 keep men out of such
places, not to put men into them. But it
meant WDaG IL SalQ-a nOl1e''-a place
Tor refreshment and repose; place where
men who had devoted their lives to the
work Of odd Fellowship. and who at the
sunset OF life, when broken and helpless
from the intirmities OF age, and bereit of
other means OF support, could lind
nourlshment, repOse and brothers.
care In home which their own hands
had builded; a place where they might
eat the bread which their own hands
had earned' in the days Of their prosper
ity and strength, by the storing up Of
means in the treasury Of the order they
had loved.
He then gave a detailed statement of
the proceedings of the Board of Trustees
in the establishment of the home, and
showed that after a full consideration OF
ali the plans offered or suggested they
had accepted the offer Of ex-senator Jones
OF Butte and his associates, Mclaughlin
and Eogg, OF a free gift of eight acres OF
lana and the building of siXty-two rooms,
erected for a hotel, standing on the bluff
west bank of the Feather River, opposite
the city of OroVilIe.
The site is protected from the cold blasts
of winter, surrounded by two thousand
acres OF the orange groves OF IhernlaIItO,
IN a climate never warmer than it tre-
quenuy becomes in many of the places
which had been offered elsewhere, and
never SO cold as it is at times in each and
every one of the others. The atmosphere
ILi6t6 carries less luOlSlurG Inau any Oller
place in the State, outside Of the region Of
the SierraS. The site has drainage abso-
luteiy perfect, and the best water supply
OF any place III California.
There is money enough already sub
SCrlbed to complete the building and buy
an additional fifty acres OF land. The
trustees also have an option on fifty acres
more, and are confident that hen all the
lodges are heard from they will have
funds TO pay tor this additional fifty acres,
furnish the building, and have every
thing ready for use.
About so, 900 had already been expend-
ed on the property prior to its gift TO the
order. Eifty-siX persons are reported as
being in u CONDITION emitting them to ad-
mission in the Home.