St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-04-27
Preparations for Memorial
Day--The Programme Not
Yet Completed.
Trouble Among the Coopers
Seems Very Probable This
Summer.
Three of the Garrity Gang
Sentenced--The "Ma-
chine Girls"
ODD FELLOWS CELEBRATE.

Sixty-Ninth Anniversary OF the
Order.
Amid the fitful changes of a Mime
sofa April day the siXty-ninth anniyer-
sary of Odd Fellowship was celebrated Ill
Minneapolis yesterday. Although there
are perhaps as many members OF this
organization in Minneapolis as there
are in any city of its size in the coun-
try-there being over 200 here-yet the
turnout yesterday was not as satlsfac-
tory as anticipated, mainly due,
perhaps. to the fact that
the hour of the parade was
at such time that it kept many of the
order, who are business men, away: yet
the procession was creditable one, ana
what it lacked in numbers was made
I'D in fine appearance and enthusiasm.
At 9 o'clock the members OF the differ
ent organizations rendeZvOused at the
intersection of Third and Fourth streets
and Nicollet avenue, and soon after
formed in procession in the following
Order:
Squad of Police under the Command of
Segt. Coffin.
Willard and Thyles Band.
Three Cantons of Sixty Men, Consisting of
Apollo No. 3, of ST. Paul.
Grand Canton Minneapolis No. l, and Ad-
vance Canton No. z.
Then followed the subordinate lodges
Northern Light No. 121, with 81 men,
bers; Nicollet No. 119, with 35; High
land No. SO, with SO; Anchor No. SO,
with %; Ridgly No. So, with 40; Fra
ternity No. 62, with So; St. Anthony
No. 40, with 60; Robert Blum No. p,
with so; North Star No. 6, with 80. Sis
tiers of Rebecca and citizens in carriages
followed. The march extended up
Nicollet to Tenth street; thence to Sec
ond avenue and back by way of Sew
enth street to Hennepin, following
down Hennepin to Washington, and
thence by way of Nicollet avenue and
Bridge square to the Peoples theater,
where the public exercises were held.
Rev. Dr. Forbes was down on the
programme for the opening prayer, but
as he was not present Brother John
Mills, of Fraternity lodge, performed
that ceremony, after which the hymn.
Nearer my God to Thee" was very
badly rendered by the assembly. G. L..
Abbott acted as master of ceremonies
and introduced Grand Representative
Robert Stratton, who GRATED on the
Sovereign Grand Lodge" He said:
1.-THE order i'll this country is scarcely
past the swaddling clothes of
its infancy; it was not born away
back in the feudal times, among
the ruins of ancient temples,
but it is child of modern light, born
under the influence of the printing
press, art and sciences, and the benign
influence of the nineteenth century.
The first mention made of this organi-
cation was in a pamphlet in 1740. and
the first public assembly was in 1888,
which was one more of cOnviviality
than of anything else. Washington
Lodge No. was formed in Baltimore
in 1902, and consisted of four men.
From this small beginning we have
to-day 1000 lodges, with 10000 members.
The order has grown in the same pro-
portion that the churches have in spite
of all opposition. 1t is spending 81, $50
600 yearly for it's charities. Odd Eel
lowShip does not properly belong in the
catalogue of secret societies, although it
must have pass words and other secret
work in order that the members may be
the better united and drilled in its
philosophy for the advancement of
good. In 1850 Schuyler ColfaX insti-
tuted the Rebecca degree that the ladies
might attend and have an understand
ing of the secret workings of an order
so we'll beloved by their husbands. The
speaker closed with an eloquent perO-
ration on what the Odd Fellows have
accomplished for the good of humanity.
DR.. J. c. Cockburn, G. NJ. spoke on
the subject of the grand lodge, which
was mostly historical. He stated that
the world to-day was eXtolling the
praises of Thomas Wilde, who
started the first lodge of
Odd Fellows with four members in Bal
timOre siXty-nine years ago today. The
first lodge to be organized in Minnesota
was at Saltwater in 1919. 1t was COM
posed of five members. The next one
was in st. Paul, July 10, 1S49, and of
that lodge, Hennepin No. 2, there are
only two members alive to-day. Their
names are Comfort Barnes and Benja-
min Bronson. The first grand lodge
was organized May 5, 1853, and the first
lodge in Minneapolis was North
Star No. 6, instituted in 1854.
No. 6 was Instituted in the hall of
the old building that was torn down
to make way for the present ST. James
hotel. The first officers were: Noble
grand, George w. Chowden; vice grand,
Charles Hoag; secretary, Isaac j.
Lewis; treasurer, Ii. B. Wright. OF
the old members, p. 3. Clark is the
only one now in the lodge. The next
lodge instituted was Robert Blum, No.
81, in 1865. st. Anthony, No. 40, was
the next, in 1878. Fraternity, No. GO,
followed in 1877. The order now
has in Minneapolis ten lodges,
four encampmentS, six Rebecca
lodges and three companies of
PatriarchS Militant with membership
of over 1900. The names of the lodges
are: North Star No. 9, Robert Blum
No. q, st. Anthony No. 40, Fraternity
No. go, Ridgely No. IS, Anchor No. S.,
Highland No. 80, Flour City No. lis,
NicolIet No. 120, Northern Light No.
121. The encampments are: Schetter
No. 5, Union No. IA, Ridgely No. % and
Minneapolis No. 81. The Rebecca
lodges are: Myrtle No. II. Mime
haha No. Is, Martha No. 81, Vine No.
%. Hoag No. rs. There is also general
relief committee through which the Or
der carries Oh its benevolent work
under whose auspices the parade and
other exercises to-day are gotten up. Its
members are: Northern Light, w. NJ.
Brown and E. U. Treat; Nicollet, E. B.
Thubey and William Mulligan; High
land, w. f. McCrea and w. j. Barber;
Anchor, Thomas II. Bowens and Will
lam Ferguson; Ridgeley, G. l.. Abbott
and Y. E. Armour; Fraternity, John
Miller, w. S. Clark; st. Anthony, q. B.
Foster, d. n. Noel; North Star, w. G..
Wheeler and Am. Greeley; Union En-
campment. A. n. Wheeler and Thomas
McCabe; Ridgeley Encampment, w. S.
Wright and NJ. ?. Satterlee.
A musical selection was next on the
programme, and was beautifully rem
dered by Willard and Thyles band.
Judge N. Ii. Hemiup facetiously
begun his speech on the subordinate
lodges by addressing the audience with.
Dear Fellows and Odd Sisters" and
saying that Brother Stratton had stolen
his thinker and taken from his mouth
what he himself had intended to say
but he nevertheless made fine address,
saying there had been opposition to
Odd Fellowship from the start, but it
had not amounted to anything. Odd
Fellowship satisfies the best part of