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MOOSEHEART MAGAZINE
Sidewalk	Jcbs	(4 inches thick).	
		Area	Cubic Yds.
Place.		Sq. Ft.	Concrete
Progress Hall			 291	4.00
Canning Plant			1085	13.00
Lake Cottages			 2267	28.00
Industry Hall			 2558	32.00
Wisdom Hall		_ __ 1496	18.00
Alaska Hall		__ 1067	13.00
Davis Hall		- 1147	14.00
South Loyalty	Hall״		 324	4.00
Purity Hall				 _ 651	8.00
White Cottage				 _ 1750	22.00
Total		. ... _ 12636	156.00
the Assembly Hall, 3,900 square feet of tarrazzo floors in West Legion Lodge, the foundation piers and cellar for West Legion Lodge, three-fourths of the new laundry building, a new slab of concrete pavement at the entrance to Mooseheart, 80 lineal feet of concrete steam tunnel and most of the concrete sills and blocks required ־־ for the laundry building and a considerable quantity of drain tile. West Legion Lodge
Laundry—Built Entirely by Soldiers
The War Department sent three Commissioned Officers to Mooseheart to train these soldiers along military lines and accustom them to military discipline. Mooseheart was very fortunate in the character of the officers sent here.
The Commanding Officer was Captain Harold C. Collister, who was assisted by Medical' Officer Lieutenant E. G. Husted and Second Lieutenant Jesse Grisham.
In addition to furnishing the soldiers practical instruction in concrete work, Mooseheart was required to give them lectures on the war aims of the United States. These lectures were given under the direction of Dean J. A. Rondthaler, who was ably assisted by various Mooseheart officers.
In general the Order may well feel gratified at a valuable service, efficiently performed. It is one more proof of the value to the Nation of the fraternal system.
has n 70 concrete piers and a 24 ft. x 24 ft. cellar made of plain concrete. The quantity of concrete placed by soldiers is listed below. The soldiers not only placed this concrete, but. built their own forms, placed reinforcing and did all the work required to make each job complete in itself.
LIST OF CONCRETE JOBS COMPLETED BY SOLDIERS.
Miscellaneous Jobs.
Place and Nature of Work Sq.«Ft! Cubic Yd¿*
Laundry-----—--------I------ 211
Blacksmith Foundation ---------------- 14
Mess Hall Slabs------------------------ 4
West Legion Lodge, Piers and
Foundation ------------------------- 53
Assembly Hall Reinforced Concrete Floors _______________41093	160
Assembly Hall Beams------------------- 25
Car Mover _____________________________ 4
Machinery Hall Floor------------------ 20
Pavement at Entrance_________ 2052	57
Pigeon House Floor------------ 424	4
Topping on Reinforced Concrete Floors.
Place.	Sq. Ft. Cubic Yds.
Assembly Hall -------------- 5091	27
West Legion Lodge Floors---- 3990	18
Grand total, all jobs (cu. yds)	753.00
Soldiers Building Concrete Walk at Industry Hall
practical work consisted of form building, floating, troweling, surface finishing and manufacturing precast units, such as building !flocks, trim stone, sewer pipe and drain tile.
The first detachment completed their training early in September. The second detachment reported on September 19<־h arid completed their training about the middle of November. The progress made in this course by the soldiers was very satisfactory as is attested to by the practical work thy produced, some of which is shown in the accompanying illustrations. Some of the men of the first detachment developed such extraordinary ability in the eight weeks course given them, that they were retained as assistant instructors for the succeeding detachments.
Educational Director. C. E. Dooley and District Director Woodworth kept in close touch with the work here and were so well pleased with the results obtained that they recommended a continuation of the work through the winter and requested us to double our facilities so as to train two hundred men per detachment, commencing December 1st. Mooseheart was the only school in the entire country that was selected to do this work through the winter and was rated amongst the best schools in the country, by these gentlemen.
Of course members of our Order should understand that the United States Government pays its way and did not expect a charitable institution, such as ours, to do this work
which was held early in May at Pittsburgh. Director General Davis had just returned from the western front and after hearing his report of conditions in the war zone, the Governors unanimously agreed to undertake the work at the earliest possible moment, and telegraphed Engineer Havlik to notify District Director Woodworth to that effect.
The War Department entrusted the details of the entire course to Engineer Havlik, informing the Governors that he was thoroughly qualified to outline the' course and prepare the texts and supervise the training.
It was found necessary to build a mess-hall for feeding the soldiers, otherwise our existing facilities were sufficient for this special soldier work. The soldieis were quartered on the third floor of Industry Hall. Two class rooms were furnished on the ground floor of this building and a second one in the Assembly Hall building. One of these was used as a cement laboratory, another as a class room for a plan-reading class and a third as a class room for the estimating classes.
Mr. Havlik was very fortunate in having two first class practical concrete men on his staff, namely Mr. Frank Deni, instructor in ai־t concrete work and sculpture, and Mr. Thomas Holland, Superintendent of our concrete construction work. Both these men were immediately assigned to classes in. practical concrete work. Mr. A. A. Neff, instructor in mechanical drawing and machine shop prac-
Soldiers Building Forms for Laundry Building
free of any expense to the Government. Our contract with the War Department fully protected Mooseheart as to the cost of the work. We of course, furnished the material used in the work done by the soldiers, but all the work was of a kind required immediately or in the immediate future by Mooseheart.
One of the greatest values to Mooseheart in rendering this service to the Government lies in the practical construction work resulting therefrom. The War Department insisted that the soldiers be taught how to do practical work by actually working on buildings and not on a small scale in a labaratory. The soldiers built concrete sidewalks, concrete pavements, footings, foundations for new buildings, reinforced concrete floors, roofs and columns.
The soldiers of the two detachments built 13,000 square feet of side walk distributed over ten different jobs, 41,000 square feet of reinforced concrete floors in the Assembly Hall, 5,091 square feet of terrazzo floors in
tice, was assigned to teach the soldiers plan reading. Mr. Havlik still needed other men for instructing the soldiers in cement laboratory practice and estimating and was very fortunate in securing the services of Professor A. E. Phillips, Dean of Civil Engineering, Armour Institute, Chicago; Professor Frank Theroux, Dean of Civil Engineering, Valparaiso University, Valparaiso, Indiana, and Mr. R. E. Watkins, Chief of the Educational Bureau of the Portland Cement Association of Chicago. These three men worked untiringly in preparing the text matter and instructing the soldiers, upuer the direction of Bro. Havlik.
The soldiers were required to spend thirty-three hours per week in the concrete school, divided into six hours daily for five days and three, hours per day on Saturday 1They also received three hours military training daily. Their school time was so di /Med that tiny put in 60 per cent of their time in practical concrete work and 40 per cert of the time in laboratory work, estimating arid plan reading. The