Daily Los Angeles herald., 1878-01-30

of the old hall in Downey Block
in the following order:
Guard OF Mounted Police.
Band.
Olive Lodge, Knights of Pythias. Guard
Los Angeles STAN, Red Men. Guard of
Honor.)
Marshal and Aides.
Guardian, with drawn sword,
Scene supporters, with wands. 80
Members Of the Initiatory Degree.
Members Of the White Degree.
Members Of the Pink Degree.
Members Of the Blue Degree.
Members Of the Green Degree.
Members OF the Scarlet Degree.
Band.
Guardian, with sword.
Officers of the several lodges.
Representatives Of the Grand Lodge.
Most Worthy Grand Master of the State,
District Deputy and Officers Of tho
Day, IN carriages.
The line of march was taken up
Main street to the Plaza where the
procession countermarched, and, on
the return, halted in front of the
Pico House. Here the Grand
Marshal and Aides escorted the
Grand Master and Grand Repre-.
to their carriage, while
the band played Hail to the
Chief.n The column then proceed
ed down Main street to Fourth, on
Fourth to Spring, up Spring to the
new hall. Here the line opened
ranks, the Knights saluting with
presented swords, while the Grand
Officers were escorted through and
up the stairway to the hall. The
members in column then filed into
the hall in inverse order to the line
of march.
THE OBLIGATORY EXERCISES
Then proceeded as follows: After
the members and spectators lad all
been seated, the Grand Officers
were announced in form and en-
tered the hall, the band playing
stirring march. Grand
Chaplain Hill then offered a brief
invocation, after which the MEM
bers were called up and sang the
opening ode beginning.
Brethren Of our friendly Order,
Honor here asserts her sway,
All within our sacred border
Must her high commands obey.
Grand Marshall, Horace Burdick
is it the will and the pleasure of
the Most Worthy Grand Master OF
the Grand Lodge of the Indepen-
dent Order of Odd Fellow of the
State of California, that lie cere-
mony of defeating this all to the
business and purposes o Odd Fell
lowship do now proceed?
Grand Master Dann-Such is my
will and pleasure.
Constant Meyer, President Odd
Fellows Hall Committee-Mos
Worthy Grand Master: We meet
you here to-day to announce that
the work in which we have been
engaged is finished, and our temple
Is at last ready to shelter us within
its walls. 1t is not the business OF
the Committee to allude to their
own labors, nor to the manner in
which those labors have been per-
formed; nor would good taste per-
NIT them to dsscant on the fitness
of our edifice for the sacred pur-
poses to which it is designed. 1t 10
capable of speaking for itself
through its proportions and its
style. If these fail to impress you,
any words of mine would prove
worse than useless. / have only to
repeat that our work is finished,
and in behalfof Los Angeles Lodge
No. So, and of the Order in this
place, l make request that this
hall shall be set apart and dedicat.
ed to the business and purposes of
Odd Fellowship.
Grand Master Dann-Mr. Presi-
dent of the Odd Fellows Hall Com
Ia the name and In behalf
of the Independent Order Of Odd
Fellows of the State of California,
/ accept, for dedication to the uses
of Odd Fellows, this hall which has
been constructed under your super
vision. To you and your associates
the present must be an occasion
gratifying. To-day you
witness the contamination of that
for which you have ardently toiled
and hoped; to-day you hail the
completion of that for which you
have zsalously and faithfully la
bored, and to-day you behold the
recognition by your brethren, from
the North, the South, the East, and
the West, of this, the result of your
efforts, as Temple devoted to the
of those whose vocation is
to visit tho sick, relieve the dis
tressed, bury the dead, educate the
which neither in
terfere with nor supersede tho dis
charge of any other, social, moral,
or religious.
Brethren, congratulate you
upon the completion of this beauti-
full hall, which We are now about to
dedicate to those cardinal virtues
which should adorn and elevate hu-
mainly, and the names of which we
have selected as the motto and
watchword of our beloved Order.
Beneath this roof you are to encour-
age one another In the duties of
benevolsnce and charity; before
this altar the good works Of
Friendship, Love and Truth
are ever to be presented ms the only
acceptable sacrifices. From hence,
as from perennial fountain, are to
flow the gentle streams Of true
Friendship to gladden. and make
green many waste places. In this
quiet retreat are to be cult
vated those flowers that Love I'M
feigned shall scatter on the rugged
pathway of life, under many
bleeding feet. Here is to be sown
the good seed of Truth in many
hearts, to spring up and yield its
hundred-fold harvest. 1t is, there
fore, not so much this temple made
with hands that should occupy oui