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By this time, change orders aside, deleted work added up to $452 in credits, which
included the substitution of canvas for a tin ceiling in the auditorium, unspent hardware
allowance, four steel lintels and some use of second-hand lumber ($6.92!). Trustee G. A.
Bahn was reimbursed $75 for a billiard table which he had already installed. Your writer
remembers the billiard table from his DeMolay days in the '50's. Two or three of us
would quietly pass by the grumpy old Masons clustered in smelly lobby corners, slamming
down dominoes while practicing insults on each other. We would choose the proper que-
stick, chalk the tips, look to see if we had been spotted, then crack a few balls only to be
discovered and unceremoniously shooed away from the sport. It is a wonder that any of
us ever grew up to be Masons from these early encounters, but most of us did -- holding
very special and fond memories of the long ago "chase." Thank you Brother Bahn!
As a part of the renovation closeout, Greene also saw to it that five telephones
were installed by the electrical contractor, A. E. Hancock, for a cost of $61.83.12 The
final pay estimate for the renovation was $4,262.85, which was approved for payment to
Ledbetter, as was a payment of $347.45 to Dalich for the linoleum. In addition, over
$12,000 in invoices relating specifically to "theater" came due to M. C. Lilly and
Company, Columbus, Ohio, for costumes, props and scenery. Some of the painted
scenery drops -- about twenty -- were created in the early 1880's for the Guthrie,
Oklahoma Indian Territory Temple. When Guthrie built its new facility around the turn of
the century, the Lilly Company stored the art work and made it available to Austin where
it is used to this day."3 By July, 1915, the final contractor's claim was settled; a bill for
$156.25 for the canvas ceiling was reduced to $104.25 and paid to Walter Tips. The total