The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1916-12-21
GET BIDS NEXT JANUARY
All Features OF Original Plan Have Been
Retained in New Plan and Tt Is Ger
tain That the Building Can Be
Built Within the Appropriation.

Revised plans for the clubhouse to
be erected by the Kenosha lodge of
Elks were presented to the building
committee at three hour session held
at the Wisconsin street clubrooms on
Friday afternoon and the new plans
received the sanction of the committee
and Architect Robert Messmer of Mil
waukee was instructed to get busy and
prepare the working drawings at once
SO that they will be ready for the con-
tractors by the middle of January.
1t is expected that the bids will be
received not later than the first day
of February and this will make posi-
BILE starting the work later in that
month. The committee plans to have
the Elks clubhouse the first big build
ing project started in Kenosha with
the opening of the new building sea-
son,
The new plans are considered by the
committee great Improvement on the
former plan. The building has been
made more compact and while it is not
so large building as had been provid-
ed in the original plan, not a single
one of the features has been sacrificed.
There has been a complete re-arrange-
ment of the basement and a special
room is provided for the big swimming
tank. The new plan gives a chance
to have more space in the tank room
and this will make possible wide gal
leries about it. The plan is to locate
the tank in an excavation extended at
the west side of the building.
The basement has all the other fea-
lures provided for the committee in
the original plans and room has been
gained by the elimination of some of
the wider corridors and in the reduc-
ton Of the size of some of the rooms.
The ground floor of the building still
contains the cafe. the lounge, the pool
and billiard rooms, he buffet and ac-
commodations for the ladies of the
city. The main change has been made
on the second floor The two large
halls provided for have been arranged
in new way. The lodge room is made
considerably larger than in the original
plan and the plans also provide for a
coy little club and dance hall at the
south end of the building. This NAV
be added to the lodge hall by raising
a sliding partition SO that the big dance
hall when in use will offer a floor space
of more than ninety feet long by forty
eight feet wide.
The third floor is given over entirely
to the dormitories and it will contain
some twenty-four sleeping rooms.
1t is estimated that the cost of the
proposed building will be between
ninety and a hundred thousand dollars.
There is cozy appearance to the
new plans which was entirely lacking
in the former plan and the members of
the committee were unanimous in the
belief that the present plan would bet
ter meet the demands of the Kenosha
Elks and that it could be built within
the appropriation made.
When the call is made for bids the
tlrst OF next month, the demand will
be made that the building be com
pleted by the first of September of
1917. All of the big contractors who
bid for the contract at the former
opening of bids have given assurance
that they will seek the contract again
and it is certain that a number of other
big contractors who have been doing
factory worksin Kenosha will seek the
contract.