Omaha daily bee., 1888-09-16

only knows how to found an order, but how
to build it up and extend it over the country
after he has founded it. The name of D..
Wilson will go down in history as that of the
founder of the knights of Honor. He was
also the saviour of the Royal Society of
Good Fellows, which was founded by James
G.. Whitehouse at Providence. II. l..
The manner in which Mr.. Wilson revived
the order of Good Fellows is of interest. His
first movement to revive the dying order was
to organize a mammoth lodge at Providence,
the home of the institution. lie went to
Providence, and in several months had OBJ
tanned more than twelve hundred charter
signers, of which $50 odd were accepted and
became members of the biggest lodge ever
formed in the United States. The first and
direct object in forming so large a lodge was
to advertise the Good Fellows and set every
body throughout New England talking about
the order. From tnat time the Good Fellows
have grown to a membership of more than
fifteen thousand.
During the lastthree years the name of w.
a. Rice as an order organizer has acquired a
vide reputation among order men in all the
principal towns and cities of New England.
He first became known through his connec.
tiOn with the United Fellowship which was
organized at Boston, October 4, 1850. While
the order was in its infancy he began build
ing it up in Maine, and extended its member.
ship in that state to almost one thousand.
After establishing the U, f. in Maine, Mr..
Rice continued his work in Massachusetts
duu Z u III ItOlE tiihllls Olllc tllC
old lodges on the point of failure, and insti-
tuting new ones. He next introduced the
order in Rhode Island, and concluded his ser.
vices for the U. +. at Providence, through
the organization of a lodge composed of l0l
members of the Masonic fraternity.
Last April Mr.. Ricc's services were en-
gagged by the supreme sitting of the order OF
Iron Hall, and his record since then has
eclipsed the work of all order organizers.
His record shows two lodges a month, with
an nVprap 90 charter LIST of thirtV Mr. Fm-
bree, of Salem, the ablcst organizer of the
Ancient Order of United Worimen, insti.
tutes but one lodge II month, averaging
twenty charter members, and he is consid.
cred as doing excellent work. The Order of
Iron Hall has some of the ablest officers con
nected with any frateLnal organization, for
during the seven and a half years of its ca.
reer it has attained "a membership of nearly
40 LOCO, and has more than 500 lodges.
Worked For Principle.
In the list of representatives who voted in
the negative on the test vote IN the X. of p.
difficulty in Pennsylvania, will be found the
names Of some of the ablest and brightest
men in the order in that state, says the
Knight editorially, who contested every inch
of ground in the three days bebate, and
made it rather lively for their opponents
from a parliamentary standpoint. When the
vote was finally reached, and they found
themselves fairly and honorably defeated,
they yielded gracefully, and even made
overtures for n basis of reconciliation, de
claring through Representative Payson, for
instance, that they were not opposed to the
correction of the laws if II was done in
what they considered the legal way. Further
than this, we have just received a copy of a
resolution which one of the most pronounced
opponents of the supreme lodge, up to that
time, was about to offer Just before the final
adjournment, but he could not obtain the
floor in time:
Resolved, That this grand lodge is con.
WINGED of the illegality and untenableness OF
its previously declared position, now agrees
to be governed by laws of the supreme lodge
Knights of Pythias of the world, and will
recognize it as the source of all Pythian law
and authority.
Such a resolution, offered in good faith by
the late opposition, and adopted by the grand
lodge before adjourning, would have still
more strongly emphasized the general desire
for peace and harmony By adding to it the
open expression of those who were previously
recorded as against a peaceful settlement Of
the difficulty.
A Worthy Gift.
Brooklyn Review: Hon. Joseph Farwell, {
benevolent and wealthy member Of the |. o
o. f., has presented to the Grand lodge o.
NiaAlS W oh VI ItllbNs Luilc, u luIul u
225 acres, together with the best set Of farm
buildings 10 be found | in the town of Unity
The promises are valued at Si3, 900. The farm
was the homestead of Brother Farwell.
father, and has been in the family for over
hundred years. The farm has forty acres o
wood land some in its native state of growth
Recently the buildings have been ~remodeleC
at the expense of over 81, 600. III house il
mOInrpiynl aud N.aru hanlcnnA II bo,
a mansard roof, slated. two bay window
and several dormer windows in the root
Above tho house is an cxcellen
spring, which gives a stream of beautiful
spring water all over the house. The build
ings contain sixteen rooms. Opposite ar
two large barns and several outbuildings
which 10 themselves make quite a village
In making the gift Brother Farwell says
II have money enough for all my wants,
my wife is dead, i have but one'child, an in
valid son, am getting old and do not wan
the care of the place. | am ready TO give
warrantee deed Of the premises to the ODD
Fellows, and only ask three conditions. On
is that the place shall forever bear my name
the Farwell Odd Fellows home; second, tina
it shall! DO held forever for benevolent pur
poses; and third, that the little cemetery OF
the premises, where lies the remains of m.
aged father and mother and my wife, sbal
be kept in good condition"
The Charter Arrested.
Some time previous 10 the last Gran
Lodge session, says a writer in the PythiaI
knight, the charter ana property of Ger
mama Lodge No, o, of st. Louis, Mo-, wer
arrested by order of the grand chancellor
1t seemed that No. 6 ignored the repeate
protests of Damon Lodge No, IS, agains
the admission OF one John ID. Camp, who is
saloonkeeper of said city, ana who, Damon
lodge claims, also keeps q disorderly house
and is, consequently, not of good moral char
acter. The law in this grand iurisdictio
requires that where two or more lodges ar
located in a city, notice must be sent to tn
said lodges OF all applications received TO
membership within twenty.four hour
from the receipt of such applies
ton, and also that one week mus
elapse between tie comforting OF rank
and two weeks between the application 10