New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-04-27

Ann of Gloucester. Eagle Of Haverhill, Naumkeag Of
Salem, Merrirnack OF Newburyport, Bunker Hill OF
Charlestown, Massasot of Boston, Palestine OF Lynn,
and the Grand Encampment OF the State All the sub
ordinate Lodges of Boston and the neigboring towns
present, together with the Grand Encampment Of
Rhode Island, and tho subordinate Encampments and
Lodges In that State The route through the princ
pal streets usual and many thousands OF spectators
from all parts of Massachusetts, and New England were
present
The exercises at the Music Hall were opened with avo
untary on the organ, and Mr. f. L. Warren, NJ W. Grand
Master OF Massachusetts, delivered speech OF welcome
At the close Of the address, prayer was offered by A.
John ChambTe. the Rev. Grand Chaplan after which
address was delivered by Henry f. Carey of Baltimore
W. Grand Representative to the Grand Lodge OF the
United States, from which we extract the following:
on this day peculiar people organized in the interests
OF humanity holds jubilee; representing no party own
ing no Sect its existence has reached epoch its race
goal Three talismanic words girdle its territories
rleush Truth and Love- these, as links OF gold, bind
the Atlantic to the Pacific in fratornal unon The year
1879 was big with events OF the andest character the
was dying on the rock of his exile; the Holy Alliance
had crushed liberty into silence by the partition
Chapelle; our war with England had been con.
TS Teaf e@ as % % the G
Republic Of Colombia under Bolivar the Liberator who
swept the Spanish tyrant from the soil Aged tell
us how the world rang with the fame OF the first South
American Republic Our Congress and people were elO
quent with sympathy for those gallant populations. win
ming their way to liberty under the banner OF the second
following advertisement appeared in The Baltimore
American:
Fellows be glad their brethren upon
sR s Gff b ID M 1918 Inc meeting vi" Dc H' on '
This advertisement was continued month but failed
to attract sufficient number to form lodge and an
other insertion in the same paper of the h March pro
duced the desired effect On the 18TH OF April Messrs
John WEIGH, John Duncan John Cheatham and Richard
Rpshworth assembled at the house Of Thomas Wdey,
and arranged the prelimnsres which resulted in the in
April, 1919. The name Odd Fellow was brought by them
from England English sborers and mechanics meeting
then personal friendships and last by the payment OF
especially to defray funeral expenses aud provide for
their widows and orphans. The parish wOrkhouse and
tho paupers grave lay just at the door of these work
men, and by common union they fortified against the
nhumamty of the one and the disgrace of the other To
lab0rers and workmon, we owe our charter and our
founder But we have built such boundess extension
but stone Of the corner the tried cornerstone OF all
being American in Its form the building is universal
time with prophetic eye, began to foresee the dignity
power and greatness of its future aud 10 devise broad
plans for its development Soon aftcrward, In an annual
address, no abtlousy announces its model In the fol-
THE Consultation Of our Federal Government framed by
the the revouou-wheen wheels
ties 10 one Observation-Disclosures together IN one Harmonious concert by
the beauty o symmetry aud practical operation hss commanded ne
system has been reared e government Of Odd Fellowship and by tho
S S14 has been advanced " interests promoted aud " prosperity Sc
Thus, at that carly Gay and to this hour each Grand
Lodges when assembled by their representatives in the
Supreme Body. the Federal Government OF the United
States. table Of statistics lately prepared exhibits the
progress OF the order from 1880 TO 1863 both included
Prior to 1880 reliable record kept OF its proceed
ing but subsequently system adopted to preserve
its annals in official FORM II appears from that record
that in 80 ending with September 1863 62ol6 per-
intated-57503 widowed families sue.
cored aud 496,570 brothers in distress assisted.
The summary Of relief exhibits tho following e&pendi-
lures sl53158 % to educate orphans S6So952t Tor the
burial OF the dead and S970,g08 ~ as benefits 10
brothers in misfortune making tho total paid for relief
S $40 700 TO- Tie whole revenue IN that period being
S3l 2i3 $50 80 The last eminenty successful,
bringing in 4O,050 new members and s2,363296 20 IA
revenue. But must not forget the locality OF this
celebration; Massachusetts and Maryland began this
enterprise. You began by scfnstuOn on the 2Oth OF
March, 1920 but only in name, as you had neither the
lectures degrees. In June, 1928 Wildey came To
Boston, under the charge OF Washington Lodge OF
month lie instituted Massachusetts, Lodge No l. and
the 18th Of the MONTH the Grand Lodge OF the state
1929 I'm six subordinate lodges But confusion ensued and
after rapid decline, in 1884 Grand Lodge and It's
subOrdnates had become extinct Efforts were constantly
made reclaim them but without effect. The penal laws
was death blow 10 the order, and 10 seemed flted
never again Ia rise in New England. Yet TOW were
heroic band at Taunton, who, finding existence no
longer possible determined, their last sacrifice for Odd
Fellowship in funeral pile 20 destroy every yest2e
OF the order" Never indeed were secrets cOnnded 10
better kcepng Wildey again bears wtcss IN 1885 thdt
no state possessed better members more ample
field for cultivation" But there day of
tom and on the 23d OF December 1884, your Grand Lodge
was rechartercd with Daniel Hcrscy Grand MHstcra
name venerable and honorable III your anuas-and 10
tins day you have stood Is adamant
The reading OF poem by Brother T. i. Seillabcr FOL
lowed the Grafton. ard closed the exercises at Music
Hail. collation. ut Faueuil Hall aud other places was
the feature OF the programme. This evening the
local lodges entertaining many brethren and their
friends places, the center OF attraction being
we'll managed levee at Ansic Hall