St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-08-15
DELIGHTED TIE DRUIDS.
Cookies of Their Hearts Warmed By
Hospitality.
NO BUFFALOES ABOUT.
PROGRESS of the Order in Minnesota
Within a Quarter of a
Century.
BUFFALOES ABOUT.

SEVERAL IOlS IdUleS SuTrOuHueu ny
ladies and gentlemen; each table bur-
dened with dishes generously heaped
up with the good things of life; Mayor
Smith making characteristic address
of welcome; the committee on arrange
ments busting hither and thither
waiting upon the guests of
the Minnesota Grand Grove, with
commendable energy and good will
such was the scene at Market hall to-
night while the Grand Grove of Druids
of the United States was being enter
tanned. The session opened yesterday,
and after a hard days work it was
deemed fitting to exhibit some of the
hospitality peculior to the Northwest.
EX-Chief Weber, one of the grand
representatives of this state, presided
at the festal board. Mayor Smiths adj
dress of welcome. compelled every one
to listen in Difference to his well-turned
remarks. He did not forget to
impress upon all present that the
city of st. Paul received her guests with
wide open arms, and that they were
welcome to
ANYTHING THEY SAW.
Past Noble Grand Arch III. S. Temple,
chairman of the committee of arrange
ments, welcomed the visitors on behalf of
the grand grove of Minnesota in the
following address:
This is the second time our city has
been honored with a meeting of the
Grand Grove of the United States, and
we hope that you will be so entertained
as long as you will stay with us, that
this gathering may be to every one of
you, full of pleasant recOllectionS, and
that it may not be the last time
we shall have the pleasure of
seeing you. You are strangers to
most of our people, but there are
those among us. and they OF our best
known and most influential citizens, to
whom you are not strangers, and from
them we know you will receive broth
er's welcome, and enjoy brothers. hos
social combinations which the human
race has ever formed. Its adaptnesS to
the increasing intelligence, civilization,
and mental power of our race is daily
BECOMING MORE APPARENT.
The physical sciences and the utili-
tartan arts are not more instrumental in
adding to mans comfort and dominion
on the earth, than are the principles of
our fraternity, i'll adding to his social
and moral well being and happiness. 1t
is this, not in any change or corruption
of its ancient landmarks, that the pro-
greSs of DruidiSm consists. 1t extends
bestowS upon it the refin-
ing power which influences the
operations of intellect, and receives
from it the benefits which increasing
knowledge has stamped upon religion
and every moral movement of the age.
In these brilliant annals, which fix the
attention and admiration of the world,
you, my brothers, may not have con-
| SpicuouS place-indeed you have not
sought it-but in the record of benevo-
| lence, which shall remain indelible after
earthly annals have passed away, your
names
WILL BE ENROLLED.
| Most Noble Grand Arch n icholaS
Berg, of St. Louis, the supreme officer
of the order in this country, responded.
| He thanked Mayor Smith for the kindly
welcome extended by the Sanity City.
"When | started to come up
here" said he, Il thought l was
! coming to a country infested with
Indians and buffaios, but | find,
! instead great city-two great cities
teeming with energetic life, her giant
buildings rising up as monuments to the
enterprise and industry of a few years,
and her prestige conceded as the gate
way of commerce Of the golden North
| west"
J. P. Leitner, past grand represent
| atlve, also responded, giving a history
of the growth of Druidism in Mime
| sofa. He said:
The United Ancient Order of DruidS
was introduced into this state by one or
two brethren of Milwaukee in the sum-
mer of 1856, the first grove, Minnesota
Grove No. l, being opened by dispense
ton July 90, 1856. The charter was
granted by the Grand Grove Of the
| United States at Cincinnati. Aug. II,
1856. Of the original charter members
| there are
LIVING AND PRESENT
Adam Finch, who is good for another
| half century, and William Dressler,
now at Minneapolis. He organized the
second grove. Franklin Grove No. 2, at
WATERFOWL 1868. The next grove was
formed by members of Minnesota
| Grove No. l, of whom there are present
Wendelm Weis. John Haeusler, Henry
| JustuS, William GeiSenbegner, IL.
Schade and Charles Il. Schmidt. 1t
opened in this city Sept. 16, 1869, and it
has now some siXty-five members. be-
lieve. The first English grove, North
Star No. 4, was organized i'll Septem-
Der, 1870, mainly through the efforts of
| Brothers HauesSler, Weis, Romano
| Sheire and myself, and / had the honor
/ to initiate about sixteen of them in
| the English language with only about
| fifteen minutes to look over the ritual.
| At the close OF the war, and since then,
the order has spread very rapidly. Now