The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1909-03-19

depicting a pair of Elk and their young
in a wild mountain fastness.
Over the stations Of the loyal and
lecturing knights there are oil paint
ed panels showing an elks head, with
the spreading antlers about a clock
dial showing the hands on the dial
pointing to the hour of eleven.
in the organ loft is the handsome
pipe organ given to the lodge by W. E.
Burnham. 1t is finished in mahogany
to match the remainder of the room
Surrounding the delicately shaded
blue dentals in the sidewalks are bor-
ders of pale sea green leaves WITHIN
a line border of the same color.
On the ground DOR in the grill room
the color effects are in salmon color,
an abestolethe flooring being lald IN
two shades, the frieze over the green
Flemish oak. wainscoting matching one
of them. Breaking up the room and
giving it a cosy aspect are massive
Flemish oak to match the rest of the
room. On one side of the room is
massive Harvard brick fireplace On
the west side of the room, separating
electric window of Moorish effect. The
electric lights are set in heavy Verdi
copper finished electroliers and have
cowbeI globes of cut glass.
The horseshoe bar is matched by
chairs and tables in Green Flemish
oak of mission design. The grill room
like all other parts of the house is
equipped with a club telephone ser
vice. On the night of the dedicat on
the telephone company will furnish
double wire service and "a instruments
for use about the building. The grill
room and the club hall are connected
by speaking tubes and a dumb waiter
service. Between the boiler room there
is a serving room connected with the
stock room.
On the west side of the building is
a side entrance opening upon a, tile
landing. The side vestibule is finished
in English quartered oak. A few steps
down takes one into the grill room.
The door of the building on the State
street side and the grills are of solid
bronze. In1aid in the mosaic tile floor
of the reception hall are the letters
'-B. p. o. E. No. &c. The walls of this
hall are Riplan tinted in buff. In the
mosaic floor of the club hall is inlaid
a large Elk's head.
hogany furniture is of Colonial design
and upholstered in green plush At
the rear is a committee room with
mahogany desk of colonial design and
chairs to match. The walls are in
robins egg blue. The floors of these
rooms are in quartered oak. There are
Philadelphia pressed brick fireplaces in
each of the rooms and Persian rugs
cover the floors. At the rear of the
committee room is a toilet furnished in
white tile with a heavy white porce-
lain lavatory and toilet. On the left
of the club hall the reception room and
library is foored in quartered oak.
Heavy administer rugs cover the floors.
The book cases and furniture are a
heavy green Mission design. The up
holsteries are old English dealties.
In the club hall, which one reaches
by passing beneath a handsome mould
ed and Daneled arch one finds two
mammoth leather SetteeS on either
side of the, hall. At the end of the
club hall, is an alcove, lounging room
containing a. massive oil painting of an
Elk in a shadow box and lighted with
electric lights. The picture was given
to the lodge several years ago by the
late Alderman John Kearns-
The floor of the secretary's office, the
billiard room and the card room is
laid in lockwood maple with quartered
oak panels and wainScoating in the Of
flee. The walls of the office are of
Stippled buff with a dark maroon hand
tuffer rug. At the rear of the Office
there are lockers of oak for the hats
and coats of members The walls of
the. billiard room have stippled alabas-
Collender tables are in weathered oak
to match the woodwork,
The art glass partition separating
the card and billiard rooms shows the
symbols of the cards in the Ieade1
panels which are beautifully colored.
The tables and chairs are in heavy
weathered oak mission style
At the dedication on Monday night
the bowling alleys in the basement will
ever prepared in this part of the coun-
try. The alleys have. been covered
over and a temporary row of counters
erected.