Proceedings of the Grand Lodge of Illinois - University Library

14° JOURNAL OF PROCEEDINGS L, Tuesday
. /Nov. 18. 1013.
INTRODUCTION
To Hon. John E. Jennings, Grand Master of I. O. O. F. of Illinois:
Dear Sir and Brother: We take pleasure in submitting to you
herewith, and through you to the Grand Lodge, the twenty-first annual
report of the Board of Directors of the I. O. O. F. Orphans' Home, at
Lincoln, Illinois, for the year ending September 30, 1913.
A careful expenditure of the liberal appropriation made by the
Grand Lodge at the 1911 session to increase the capacity of the Home
has been exercised by the Board of Directors.
Careful and thorough investigations of other similar Homes by
the Board as to the kind of a dormitory building to construct caused
us to determine upon a fire-proof building, 64x97 feet, three stories
high, with a large porch acrss the front of the entire width of the
building, a basement under the entire building with concrete floors for
use as a play room, the first and second floors to be used for living
rooms, each having four sleeping rooms (corner) with nine single
beds in each room, or seventy-two beds in all, besides a room on
each floor for use of the governess, the adjoining rooms containing
individual lockers for each resident, two linen rooms for the bedding,
two toilet rooms with ample bath and toilet conveniences, and a day
or reading room with a fire place and book case, a wide corridor the
full length of the building, and a front -and side entrance. The third
floor has one large room for hospital use, a much needed room for
the proper care of the sick and where isolation can be had, if need be,
a wide corridor, a room for the use of a nurse, linen room for bedding
and a toilet room with all of the modern conveniences, electric light
wires in steel conduits, piped for gas. We are gratified to report,
although delayed in completing more than we had anticipated, this
building is now complete and ready for dedication, and we hope you
will ask the Grand Lodge in a body to take part in the dedicatory
services during the session of 1913, thereby enabling the Representa-
tives to personally see and examine and to be able to report to their
several Lodges what we sincerely believe to be another splendid monu
ment to the protection and education of our orphans.
FURNISHING THE NEW DORMITORY.
Owing to the heavy demands made upon the funds of the Grand
Lodge during the past few years, we refrained from asking for an
appropriation to furnish the new building last year, believing that the