The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1895-12-21

WATSON K1LCCP.
services in connection with the unwilling
of the portrait of Mr.. Charles E. Moody
and Wednesday, January 1, the
| memorial building which has been built
and furnished at a cost of about $25, 900,
will be dedicated. The speakers will be
President Giddings of the Good Will
Home Association, President Chase OF
Bates College, and President Gallagher
| of Kent's Hill. Rev. Mr.. Folsom OF
Bath will offer the dedicatory prayer
The Moody memorial building is in
memory of Mr.. Charles e. Moody, who
was a successful wholesale merchant in
Boston. The building is about sixty by
eighty. On the first floor there are two
| large school rooms, a smaller schoolroom,
principals Office and coat rooms. On
| the second floor there are three recitation
rooms. art gallery. room for the museum
and a library room. The building is
heated by steam. 1t has been wired for
electricity, but for the present q will be
lighted by oil. 1t is finished in brown
ash. The ladies who.build it meet the
expense of all the furnishings The
window shades are of light buff. The
school desks are of cherry. The black.
boards which extend entirely around the
school rooms and the three recitation
rooms, are genuine slate. 1t is equipped
with the Fuller & Warren system of ven
tilation. 1t is furnished with an electric
clock and bells. A piano has
been furnished for use in the
school room. The first paintings in the
art gallery are excellent portraits} in oil
of Charles E. Moody and Wendell Phil
lips. In the basement there is ample
room for the boys to exercise in incle-
ment weather. The building itself is Of
brick with brown stone and terra Gotta
trimmings. The steps to the main en-
trance are of granite. The roof is of
Brownyille slate. The building is SIR
mounted with copper rooted beifry.
Charles Eckley Moody was born in
Bath, Me-, and came from the best and
sturdiesu stock. He was one of seven
children, of whom only two sisters now
remain, and both reside at the old home
stead in Bath. He began work when but
boy in the shipyards Of his native city.
When fifteen years of age he entered the
employ of Silas Pierce & Co., of Boston,
and was with that house twenty mine
Moody s. Co., in 1865. In trade no was
always one OF the most earnest advocates
of honest and square dealing, and was
tireless worker for the general good. He
was unselfish and gave his time literally
The earl lest advocate Of the law now
upon the statute books of Massachusetts
prohibiting the adulteration OF food and
medicine was Mr.. Cbas. e. Moody. Large
experience in the wholesale Grocery bus
mess had furnished daily evidence of the
growing danger from adulterated and
impure food, and he began single handed
the agitation which resulted in success.
Carving his ideas to Beacon Hill, he
urged them upon the law makers
framed bill Of his own, and finally Sc
cured the enactment of the law, both the
idea and the language of which are
practically his.
Rev. II. +. Wood write Of him:
No one could know him in life without
receiving an inspiration to do larger and
batter work for God and humanity. He
was one of earth's truest noblemen. typ
flying and illustrating in himself, and to
an eminent degree, the best and noblest
phases of human life. He was man Of
few words, but of many and noble deeds.
In the truest sense he was a elf-made
man He was indeed "The architect of
his own fortune" His wealth came to
him from no ancestral estates, but was
the fruit of his own untiring industry
and honest labor He had little faith in
what many are, pleased to call
"chapce' or "good luck" as helps in
achieving ssuocess in life, but he had
unbonndsd faith in industry. honest toll
and the nroper use of the powers which
our Heavenly Father has bestowed. In
the trnest sense of the word it may be
said that Mr.. Moody was a successful
man He recognized the fact that a
man might be what the world calls sue
oessful and still be most miserable fail
ire To him success meant much more
than the gathering of wealth or the gain
Inc of a high sounding name among men.
To him success meant the highest and
fultast development of ones self, and the
using of all his powers thus developed