The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1909-02-18
Kenosha Eagles May Furnish City
With Auditorium for Public
Gatherings This Year
BUILDING COMMITTEE BUSY
Hope to Have Definite Plans for Either
Auditorium or Club House
Ready Before Building
Season Opens

The Kenosha Aerie of Eagles may
provide one Of the long felt wants of
the city as the building committee Of
the Aerie, consisting of A. E. Kuolt,
cashier Of the merchants Bank, J ohn
Bruins, John E. Heating, Alderman
Peter Pirsch and Frank Bode, are con-
sidering a plan for the erection of
great auditorium near the lake shore
which will serve the double purpose Of
La great gathering place for the peo-
pie Of Kenosha and as a home for the
Kenosha Aerie of Eagles This is one
Of the plans suggested and the only
drawback to the plan is that some Of
the members of the Aerie fear that
such an auditorium would not prove
self supporting. The other plan being
considered is the erection of an Eagles
Home.
The committee was named at the last
meeting of the Aerie and it is planning
to have something definite to report to-
the members of the order at the next
meeting held on Wednesday evening.
The plan for the erection of an audi
forum is the one that is being most
seriously considered by the committee
and one of the members in speaking
of it this morning declared that if the
plan was carried out the Eagles would
give to Kenosha an auditorium second
to none in the state.
Tt is planned to build the auditorium
so that the main gathering room would
be larger than Germania Hall and have
a seating capacity Of more than a
thousand people. At the present time
there is but one place in the city where
big gatherings can be held and that is
Germanias Hall. Many Of the south
side organizations have objected to CO.
ing to the north side for parties and
this has resulted in these organizations
being left without any place to give
large party. The lake front would be
a splendid place for such an auditorium
and it is certain that site could be
secured in that part of the city at a
decidedly reasonable cost q The plans
for the auditorium would make it not
only a great meeting place open to all
the people of the city on public occa-
sions, bit it would also be made an
ideal home for the Eagles. The mem
bershipe of the Eagles is SO large that
any ordinary sized building would be
too small for their own entertainments,
The plan for the auditorium includes
a plan for building an Eagles home on
the ground floor Of the great building,
This would furnish an abundance, of
room for bowling alleys, card and re-.
ception rooms, dining rooms and par
lors and even for. a small lodge room
in which the regular meetings Of the
order could be held. Other cities in
the state have found auditoriums a
paying investment and this is the one
problem that is now confronting the
Eagles. In Racine the Lakeside audi
forum some Of the most popular insti-
forum is one Of the most popular insti-
tutions of that city and is kept open
most Of the year with various sorts of
entertainment. This auditorium has no
other features in connection withsilt
and it is thought that a combination of
la club house for an organization with
five hundred members and an auditori-
UNI for great gatherings would prove
a paying proposition in Kenosha. The
Eagles have gone into. the proposition
With a. determination to build some sort
of building during the present year
and there is little doubt but that the
plans will be carried out.