The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1912-08-01
Building Committee of the
Moose Plan to Purchase
Big Main St. Building.
START CAMPAIGN FOR FUNDS
Members Of Order Expected to Raise
Funds Necessary for Big Deal by the
First of September-To Make Model
Home for Big Fraternal Order.

Members of the Loyal Order of
Moose in Kenosha started whirlwind
campaign this morning, which is eX-
pected to result in that order having
the most complete home ever opened
by fraternal organization in Ke-
nosha. The club house committee of
the lodge has been busy in the past
few days and at meeting held on
Wednesday evening it was decided to
purchase the builing owned by the
Young Men s Christian association at
the corner of South and Main street.
The building has been offered to the
Moose at very favorable figure and
the committee has accepted the offer
and the effort to raise the big fund to
complete the deal is now on.
The price agreed on has not been
made public by the members of the
committee, but it is said to be in the
neighborhood of $4,000. The commit
tee has planned for the organization
of an association and it is expected
that the money necessary to close the
deal will be raised by the sale of stock
among the members. $4,000 worth of
the stock of the association has al
ready been taken by the lodge and
with a membership Of more than 800
the members of the committee expect
to be able to raise all the money neces-
sary to take over the building before
the 1st of September.
The building is ideally situated for
club house purposes and the price at
which it has been offered has made it
a very attractive proposition 1t has
been an open secret that the Kenosha
Commercial club had laid plans for the
purchase of the building but this or
ganlzatlon has not been able to secure
the funds necessary to close the deal.
The directors of the Y. M. G. A. are
anxious to get purchaser for the
building in order that the work on the
new building at the corner of South
and Chicago street may be started be-
fore the end of the present year and
it is pretty certain that as soon as the
deal now pending is closed up that the
plans for the erection of the new Y.
M. G. A. building will be announced.
The committee of the Moose have al
ready had palms made for the remodel
ing Of the building. These plans pro-
vide for the installation of three or
possibly four stores on the ground
floor, the use of the second floor of the
building as lodge room and club
rooms and the use of the third floor for
dormitories, the same as it is used at
the present time. In time it is ex-
pected that the entire third and second
floors would be used for the club rooms
and lodge halls of the Moose. It is
said that the committee has even Sc
cured tenants for the stores proposed
to be built and that the financial
proposition is very attractive one to
the members in that the committee
can show that the building will be en-
tirely self sustaining.
Tt is estimated that the cost of re-
modelling the building will be in the
neighborhood of $4,000 and this will
be provided for in the financial plan of
the committee. Some of the best
known men of the city are interested
in the movement and it is said that the
plans will succeed.
The plan will not only give to the
Moose a perfectly modern and eonven-
lent club house, but it will insure the
erection in the city of the new Y. NJ,
G. A. Building.