The Sentinel=record., 1911-05-31
|ELKS ID BUILD
 4 SANITARIUM
ONE OF THE IMPORTANT MAT TIERS THAT WILL COME BE.
 FORE CONVENTION.
Hot Springs Will be Considered In Connection With the Other Cities
 Which Want the institution.


 Atlanta City, May S0.-That every member of the great American Order | of Elks shall be taxed the munificent | sum of fifty cents in two per capita | assessments of quarter. each for tho | purpose of erecting a new National Home that will be in keeping with the prestige of the fraternity, is but one of the big propositions to be sub mitted at the forty-seventi annual convention of the Grand Lodge in this city in July.
 With the unqualified endorsement of Grand Exalted Ruler August Herr mann, the Board of Grand Trustees, Of which Thomas F. McNulty, of Bal iimore, is chairman, has accepted and adoption, plans for magnificent new National Home for aged ana innrm members of the orler to cost, it is estimated. $250,000
 Adoption of the plans and the grand trustees recommendation to the Atlantic City meeting will be the outcome of action taken at De- troit a year ago when the trustees were authorized to expend $7,500 for repairs to make the present National Home at Bedford City, Va, serve the purpose for which it Is designed. The board found that it was impractical to effect the repairs and changes needed without much greater out lay and thereupon decided to recon mend instead a new institution fin keeping with the growth and present prestige of the order.
 The question of selecting another site than tlat at Bedford City for he new National Home will hinge upon the acceptance of the Grand Trustees recommendations in all probability. While many members of the order are opposed, for sentimen- tai reasons to leaving Bedford City, the proposition that a new location De selected more accessible and in close proximity to large center of population. is said to have many fol lowers. There is every probability that the latter question will be only secondary in interest to the matter of building new home.
 How the funds shall be provided, fl the Grand Trustees recommendation is accepted by the Grand Lodge, is another subject that may furnish ma terial for debate, if sticklers upon constitutional questions in the b'g convention rise to insist that the proviso that the Grand Lodge can levy but one per capita assessment of 25 cents in any grand lodge year shall be interpreted exactly as it ap- pears. Two per capita assessments of the amount statei will produce a total or $z66,66666 aiidi the balance may be taken from Grand Lodge funds now on hand which may be made available for the purpose.
 A more liberal construction of the assessment proviso is that the Grand Lodge may levy any number of as sessments of not to exceed 25 cents each, but the Grand Trustees report will recommend. 1t is sali, that the funds be raised by assessmens n two successive years.
 Advocates of a change of location maintain that if the Grand Lodge votes to abandon Bedford City no less than four centrally located cities will tender site free for the mag nificent building contemplated.
 It Is already evident that Atlantic City will offer a surprisingly beauti. ful background for the activities of Reunion Week. Always gay in mid summer the big seashore metropolis will be literally a mass of rippllng bunting by day and a glitter with incandescent brilliancy after night fall,
 Among the other prizes provided for by the Reunion Executive Com mittee of Atlantic City Lolge are cash awards for the best decorated and the best illuminated buildings, and it is expected that the rivalry ensuing will make the resort surpass the record established last Septem~ Der during the national encampment of the Grant, Army.
 Rolling chair parades On the Board walk and deep sea sailing trips are but two of the features upon an elab- crate program of entertainment