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MOOSEHEART MAGAZINE
Toledo’s Proud, Glad Welcome to
the Moose
Lakes; there will be scores of these river-floats representing the purpose and the power of the Moose.
It is gratifying to report that all the yacht, river and canoe clubs along the immediate Great Lakes region are co-operating with splendid enthusiasm to make the Venetian Night the most spectacular and memorable night’s celebration of any Moose convention.
Gorgeous, Unforgetable Sight
As a further incentive the Toledo Moose convention committee has offered $3,000 in special prizes for the best appearing boats and illuminations. Venetian celebrations have always been popular on the Great Lakes; but none has been planned more elaborately than this Toledo event.
Percy Jones, son of Golden Rule Jones, the great mayor of Toledo, has been made chairman of this event. On his committee serve the commodores of the Toledo, Detroit, Cleveland, Buffalo, Sandusky and Vermillion yachting and boat clubs. The motor boating and other like sports papers are all boosting this spectacular event and it is predicted that the crowd on Wednesday evening will be duplicated only by the thousands who will rush to Toledo to see the great Moose parade and pageant of Moose-dom on Thursday night.
Bands Throb; Men March
What a gorgeous spectacle that should be! Down through streets ablaze with the red and white of the Moose and the Stars and Stripes of America, thousands of Moose will march that evening, showing the stalwart strength and the vigorous purpose of the Moose organization.
Marching clubs are being organized in lodges as far distant from Toledo as Jacksonville, Fla., and on the Pacific Coast. Toledo hears glowing reports of the enthusiasm of their drill preparations.
Some dozen lodges are planning to use novel and thrilling advertising ideas for their Moose trip to Toledo. Among these is the invasion of the North by a Southern lodge dressed like the Simon LeGrees of Uncle Tom’s Cabin; Ku Klux Klan squads and colonial homestead colonels.
The Toledo convention committee has several surprises to spring in the decorations on the streets for the welcome to the Moose. All the street intersections in the business section will be flashing tents and domes of flags and banners, rising four stories high. The street blocks between will form a roof of brilliant color over the asphalt and creosote pavements of the business section.
Pageant of Moosedom
It is hoped that the lodges within each state or supervisor’s district will be represented as group sections by some twenty or thirty floats, elaborately decorated and emblazoned with the colors of their states.
If all the plans develop, there will be a series of beautiful floats in this pageant representing MOOSEHEART —the industry, the home-life, the educational activities and the heart of our Shrine of Childhood.
The motion picture companies have already made inquiry at Toledo headquarters to find vantage spots along the line of march so that this impressive pageant may be enjoyed after the convention by other thousands of people in their own communities.
Tuesday night of the convention will be a big drawing card from the entertainment standpoint. There will be special programme during the day at Baseball Park and in the evening a ring will be set up.
It is planned to have a card of championship boxing bouts, big and (Continued on page 20)
Accommodations for at least 5,000 men are possible in the tented city. The City of Toledo has given official recognition to the convention by voting the use of this delightful park and by appropriating more than $10,000 to install the sanitary conveniences required. Men only will be permitted at the tented city.
Venetian Night—a River Pageant
The spectacular feature of the convention week will be the Venetian Night celebration on Wednesday, June 29th. Along the banks of Maumee Bay and the Maumee river for seven miles thousands of men, women and children will find vantage spots from which to view the beautiful and gorgeous night pageant on the river.
Across the night sky, bursting rockets and star-shells will spell out the welcome to the Moose and the message of MOOSEHEART. On the river there will move in brilliant procession hundreds of river craft—sailboats, cruisers, launches, motorboats and canoes. The lights from their illuminated decorations will dance m colorful fire upon the dark waters of river and bay. The illuminated displays will represent the various yacht and rivercraft clubs along the Great
twenty miles of waterfront to cool the summer breezes and make the city a pleasure spot during the June and July days.
From the city radiate more than 33 railroads and interurban lines, affording quick and easy access to dozens of resorts, beaches, wooded dells and parklands. Steamers ply between Toledo and Detroit, Put-in-Bay (the Venice of America), Cleveland, Buffalo, with connections there to Niagara Falls. Within a day and a night’s ride from Toledo there live more than 50,000,000 of the people of the United States.
In this cool, green city a dozen special events are on the programme, any one of which, as the press agent for the big show would say, is worth the time and the cost of that night’s ride.
Drills to Stir Pulse
On the 200 table-smooth acres of meadow at Bay View Park on the shores of Maumee Bay, the drill teams will have a perfect lawn on which to go through their maneuvers for thousands of dollars in prizes. Here, too, away from the clatter and noise of merry-making, a tented city will raise its brown roofs over night.

Programme
GARLAND DAY—ALUMNI NIGHT Sunday, June 26th
Services in city churches with addresses by men of national reputation in public and business life.
Auto rides around Toledo for the Officers and Delegates.
Concerts by Mooseheart Band.
At 8 p. m. the great Alumni Banquet and Entertainment.
DAVIS DAY—MOOSE NIGHT Monday, June 27th
Convention Sessions open at 10 a. m. and close at 3 p. m., continuing through week.
Special Moose Programme in afternoon at Toledo Art Museum.
Enjoyable sight-seeing auto rides for men and women over City Boulevards and Parkways and along Lake Erie and Maumee Bay.
At Moose Temple, Toledo Lodge No. 713, at 8 p. m., a monster class initiation.
RAFTER DAY—WOMEN’S NIGHT Tuesday, June 28th
Degree Teams of Women’s Legion hold greatest prize contests in history of their Legion.
Baseball Day. At night in Baseball Park, a great card of championship boxing bouts of national importance.
Moonlight excursions on Lake Erie.
ROOSEVELT DAY—VENETIAN NIGHT Wednesday, June 29th
At night for seven miles on river and bay, a gorgeous water pageant with hundreds of yachts, launches, sailboats, brilliantly illuminated and decorated, competing for grand cash prizes.
Morning and Afternoon, Shopping Day. Special features and attractions offered by local merchants.
Moose Carnival in full swing and merry-making.
HARDING DAY—LEGION NIGHT Thursday, June 30th
Drill Contests all day on meadows of Bay View Park, cooled by breezes from Lake Erie.
At 7 p. m. Gigantic Parade of Moose Lodges and Marching Clubs— a colorful and wonderful spectacle.
Followed at the Coliseum by most spectacular and resplendent Frolic ever staged by the Legion.
Moonlight Excursions on Lake Erie. Special afternoon programme at Toledo Beach.
ON TO MOOSEHEART Friday, July 1st
Convention to adjourn about noon for the journey to Mooseheart for the Graduation Exercises.
Toledo will continue the carnival and other entertainment features for those who remain Friday and Saturday.
Toledo is being made into a garden of flowers to welcome the Loyal Order of Moose within its parks and streets and homes on June 27th to July 2nd.
Toledo business men, social and civic and industrial organizations are all co-operating to make this convention a success, with the same spirit they’d show to make a convention of their own a memorable occasion for their city.
Not in crowds alone, nor in the gay-ety of the flag-flying streets, nor again in the ceaseless merry round of entertainment that has been planned will the Toledo convention of the Moose be memorable.
A new standard and a new plan for international conventions is being established by the Toledo Moose convention committee. And its success will be a definite contribution to American municipal enterprise.
But that, as Kipling says, is another story.
There are, as facts stand, a half dozen of those very different stories to tell about the plans for this Toledo convention.
Welcome Moose with Flowers
But probably the spirit of the city can best be told in a simple phrase that has become a slogan in the homes and the schools. The idea is the contribution of Brother Negley Cochran, the powerful editor and manager of the Toledo News-Bee.
Across the top of a News-Bee edition only a few weeks ago, there ran the legend “Welcome the Moose to Toledo with Flowers.”
The story beneath the seven column headlines was an appeal to all the home-owners of the city to plant and grow flowers—flowers in the garden, flowers on the grass plots before their front doors, flowers m boxes along the windows—flowers at the city’s grassy breathing _ spots— flowers anywhere a flower will grow.
And all the flowers will breathe a colorful, fragrant welcome to the Moose and tell the story of the fragrance of spirit that animates the Loyal Order of Moose and establishes it alone among fraternal organizations as the one whose concern is with the little children of the nation. As a tribute to MOOSEHEART, all Toledo will blossom and bloom with flowers.
Its homes, everywhere, will be thrown open to the Moose. You find on all sides enthusiastic, eager plans to make the hospitality of the city so generous and so warm-hearted that every visitor will return to his home, happy and contented and convinced that the city’s motto is a true and a good one; “You Will Do Better m Toledo.”
Beautiful Convention City
Moose conventions have always been occasions of happiness and merriment for the brothers and their wives and families. No more ideal spot for a week’s vacation could be selected than Toledo in the central section of the United States.
Thriving and prosperous, in the northwestern corner of Ohio, Toledo is a city of busy industries and mercantile establishments; of thousands of homes nestled under the green shade of a forest of trees. Everywhere you look from the top floors of the skyscrapers in the downtown section, you have a panorama of tree-arched streets, red-tile and slate and shingle roofs cut between. Against the skyline rise the smoke-flags of the industries established along the railroads that skirt the city—its belt of progress.
On Lake Erie’s Shores
Through the city runs the Maumee river, opening into Maumee Bay and Lake Erie. There are more than