Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1889-09-17
90, 900 ODD FELLOWS
That Number Expected at the
Gathering at Columbus.
THE SOVEREIGN GRAND LODGE

The City Corge0usIy DECORATED IN Honor
Of Her visitors-Deiegates from All
Over the World = The Grand sIre's
Report shows Greater Progress Than
a. Any Time During fifteen Years.
coLUMBUs, o., Sept. 17.-No less than
10000 members of the Independent
Order Of odd Fellows have arrived and
how the trains are coming in on every
road loaded down with Odd Fellows and
by tonight GO, 900 visitors will be here.
The city is one vast sea Of decorations
and the scene in beauty resembles the
Grand Army Of Republic grand encamp-
ment of a year ago.
The Sovereign Grand Lodge Meets.
The sovereign grand lodge of Indepen-
dent Order of Odd Fellows met here
yesterday in the house Of representa-
tiyes in 0hio's capitol, with the follow
ing grand officers present; John G.
Underwood, grand sire, Columbus, o.:
Charles NJ. Busbee, deputy grand sire,
Raleigh, N. c.: Theodore A. Ross, grand
secretary, Columbus, o.; Isaac A. Shep-
pard, grand treasurer, Philadelphia, Pa;
Allen Jencks assistant grand secretary,
Columbus, o.; Rev. j. w. Venable,
grand chaplain, Hopkinsville, KY; john
III. Albin, grand marshal, Concord. n.
H.: John n. Perkins, grand guardian.
Chelsea, Mass. w. III. Frazier, grand
messenger, Washington, ID. G.
Welcomed by the Governor.
The grand body was received at the
board of trade rooms, where the wei
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ern0r Foraker and Mayor Bruck. 10
which responses we're made by Grand
Master j. l.. Mckinney, Of the Ohio
grand lodge and by Grand Sire Under
wood.
The sovereign grand lodge went into
session and the grand sire made his re-
port. This shows that the annual in
crease of membership Is larger by sew
eral thousand than that reported for a
similar period during the last fifteen
years.
Interesting Reports.
The report from the adiutant generals
files up TO September | shows that there
are AZ patriarch militant departments,
546 component cantons; that 3, 165 cheva-
Tiers have been made; that there are 49,
223 canton members, and that the value
OF military outfit and other assets of
cantons is S7S2, 52S.S3
The report of Grand Secretary Ross
for the United States shows that the ag-
gregate totals Of the expenses of subor-
dinato bodies, separate from benefits
and charities, for the year 1888 and the
amount of interest funds Dec. 81, 1888,
as follows:
Grand lodges-Total current expenses,
81, 775, 6S973; invested funds, Sl4,6O6,-
$500.
Grand encampments-Total current
expenses, Sllg, 055.11; invested funds.
81 .072. 0S9.79.
Number of grand lodges, 81; grand
encampments, 45; subordinate lodges,
1854; an increase of 203 over 1887; sub
ordinate encampments, 1901, Increases
43; Rebekah degree lodges, | 1853, iiTp
crease, 265; lodge limitations, Sc, lie, infA
crease, 2,7Sl; encampment limitations.
III ,515, increase, $50; lodge members,
5S3, 552, increase, 1880; encampment
members, 106,972, increase, $3.50; Re-
belah degree lodge members, 00,436,
increase, 1871.
The Work of Relief
During the year the lodges paid out
for relief of members g, 253 ,02O. 20; in
crease over 1887, $133, 562.91. Relief ex-
tended by encampments, sea, AZ. 81;
increase, S9,S09.45; by Rebekah lodges
SCI. sI5.70; increase, 81, 141.S5. Total
paid out for relief, s., sol 500. 90, an in
crease of STAT, 514.2l.
Every state has delegates and the fol-
lowing are from abroad: Switzerland.
- G.. Infeld, Zurich: Ontario. Henry
Robertson, Collingwood;. Col. T, Camp
bell. London; Francis Fac, Ottawa;
Frank Riddell, London. Lower Prov
inces, Robert Hockin, Pictou, N. S.;
BENJAMIN Bremner, Charlottetown, p.
Il. l.: British Columbia, William Nc
Coll, New Westminster. Manitoba, c.
ID. Anderson, James d. Jonklin, Winni-
peg. Denmark, John Rath, New York.