The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-09-29
IS ENTHUSIASTIC
| OVER M0Os |:
Ia. E. Moore Who Spent Week In Fa-
nous Place, Tells About Great
Work That Order is Do
Ing FOR Wards.
BEST TRAINING GIVEN
Orphans, Wards and Infirm Can be
Accommodated at This Home
Maintained by Moose Lodges
Of United States.

Mooseheart must be seen to be ap-
lpreciated. A. e. Moore who has return.
ed from week at that institution be-
llieves. Mr.. Moore went to Mooseheart
las the representative OF the Keokuk
lodge, and spent an entire week there.
lseeing all Of the work that Is being
done and learning first hand how the
order is taking care OF orphans, wards
and the infirm in this place. Mooseheart
lis situated four and half miles from
Aurora and two and half miles from
Batavia, ILL.,, and is on the Lincoln
highway. At the present time there
are 253 children in the homo. Their
ages range from 10 months to 18
years, and they come from all over
1.-THE United States and two are from
Nome, Alaska.
In planning Mooseheart for the
future. accommodating for 5000 peo-
pie are being arranged With little
change in plans something like 5000
to 10000 can be taken care Of. Sewer
systems have been installed in sum-
Gent length and capacity for tho
future. and other like details have
been looked to.
Best Of Training Given.
The boys and girls at Mooseheart
are given the best OF training along
all lines. There is farm where the
boys learn farming. pure bred animal
and poultry husbandry. gardening, the
care Of orchards and diaries. A nurs-
cry and green house provides q. Held
for other classes, and the boys are
taught manual training and building
trades, while the girls are taught do
nestle science and the art OF becom-
ing better housewives.
One Of the big features at Moose
heart Is the Mooseheart boys band.
Concerts are given at stated times by
this excellent organization. The boys
are also open for engagements in 9th
er cities. The theatres at Aurora ana
Batavia furnish one means Of recrea-
ton for the young men and women
the life at Mooseheart that is most
enjoyable.
Building 10 Being Done.
The Mooseheart farm and the work
done by the boys carpenter class are
pointed to with some pride. The boys
themselves take pride in the farm ana
stock and in the work which has been
done IN the DullulAS lAuc. "
Up to June list last. there had been
built at Mooseheart $1,000 square feet
iof sidewalk and $4,000 square yards
'of concrete for roads inside the
grounds. The buildings which are
completed are: Loyalty hall. Purity
hall, deans residence. power house,
poultry plant, farm office, implement
shed and cement plant. Loyalty hall
houses over hundred children. Pur-
ity hall about half the number and Aid
hall about 40. In the process Of con-
struction are the following buildings:
Dining hall, basement Of which is COM
pleted and ready for use: printing
plant and school house The base
ment Of this latter building is COM
pleted and will house 200 children at
a time II necessary, or 400 in day
as the children go to school half days
and work in vocational classes half
days.
500 In Dining Hall.
The basement OF the dining hall now
In use, permits the feeding OF 500 per-
sons at one time An industrial build
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