The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-08-05
A ROUND OF THE LODGES.
MIDSUMMER NOTES FROM THE
SEVERAL SECRET SOCIETIES.

A Masonic Detective Bureau.
The attendance at the lodge meetings
is slim. It is not comfortable to sit in 6
room with windows closed and shades
drawn at this season. Few are comforting
degrees and little of interest is taking
place. The majority have called off and
are meeting only once a month. The in.
terest will be revived next month, when
the regular weekly or semi-monthly
meetings will be resumed. The majority
of the lodges nave candidates to initiate.
There is in Hoboken a man who be
longs to three secret orders. He has not
been seen at a meeting OF two lodges 10
which he belongs for fifteen years. But
he is square on the books.
Some of the lodges and councils OF the
mutual benefit life Insurance orders nave
three or four hundred members, yet SO
few attend the meetings that it is dlfilculb
sometimes to get q quorum toge6hef'
Plans are under consideration TO arouse
interest and attract the apathet1c mem
berS to the meetings. d.
Where is that hall that the Knights OF
Pythias lodges were going to erect a few
years ago?
The recently instituted C~ommandery
Knights Templar is growing rapidly.
There is talk of building atMason1c
Temple. The success of the lodges IN
New York in that direction has excited
the ambition of the wearers OF the square
and compass in this county.
Before many moons it is likely that o
lodge of the Benevolent and Protective
Order of Elks will be established in this
city. There can be only one lodge OF this
order in any city or town. The only lodge
in this county now is Hoboken, No. "a,
which was instituted on January 80 of
last year. Since then sixty lodges have
been instituted in this country, two of
them in this State, one at Trenton, the
other at Asbury Park. William Is.
Devereaux, of the Asbury Park Spray, is
secretary of the latter. There are five
lodges in the State. Newark is the Oldest.
Paterson follows in age.
Hoboken Lodge of Elk will meet We'd
nesday night. The report of the repre-
sentatives to the Grand Lodge will be
presented.
The courts of Foresters who remain
true to the High Court of England dom
regard as loyal the courts who respect the
High Court of this country, and vice
versa. They do not have the same pass
word as the High Court OF England,
which does not give its secret word to the
, unruly offspring, who think they are
strong enough to have a High Court of
their Owl. The courts subordinate to the
High Court of America outnumber by a
large majority those who obey the High
Court of England.
It is remarkable that frauds who so fire.
quently appear and impose on members
of the secret societies are rarley prose-
cuted.
The Mecca of the Hoboken Odd Fellows
N Tuesday of next week will be Floral
Park. Martha Washington Lodge,
Daughters of Rebekah, will have their
festival there on that day.
The Independent Order, Sons of Benja-
min, is growing wider. Its work must
be attractive as there is a goodly number
present at the sittings of Hudson Lodge,
of Hoboken. The order has NO lodge in
this city. There are lodges here of the
sister orders of K. S. B.. and the J. 0.
B.. B. All are in a flourishing condition.
Euclid Lodge, F. n A. M, will have a
special communication tonight. I'M
portant business will be transacted.
There is a hitch in Progressive Council,
American Legion Of Honor, Collector
Ed. A. s. Brown abSented himself from
the last meeting for some real or imagi-
nary grievance. Commander Rudolphy
sent him a check for the amount collected
at the meeting. This was returned to the
commander, with the property of the
council in Browns possession. 1t was &C
companied by a brief note. saying that he
desired to withdraw from the order.
Brother Hoyt, of Columbia Lodge, l. o.
q. f., who has been an inmate of the Odd
Fellows Home, was in a dying condition
on Saturday, and his relatives were suIn-
moned to his bedside.
Fraternity Lodge, I. o. o. F., worked
two degrees at the last meeting.
Fraternity Lodge and Granite Lodge, of
Newark, will have a jolly time on Thurs
day at Hoboken. They will play a game
of baseball, and at the close will have a
feast.
Mozart Lodge, of the Order of Wander
ing Bards, has been invited to a reunion
and clambake arranged by Beethoven
Lodge, at Providence, R. L., for next
Tuesday.
Division No. Z, A. o. H., have an outing
at the Schuetzen Park on the Both inst.
Invitations have been sent to all the divi-
sions in the county.
The Amalgamated Committee of the
courts of Foresters of the county met at
Roche's Hall last night to advance the ar
rangements for their mammoth picnic.
Cour Hamilton has fifteen candidates
TO receive the degrees tomorrow night.
This court has been in existence only
-four months n has 25S members. One
OF the 1858 is eX-Postmaster Kelly.
h delegates from New York city,
Brooklyn and New Jersey will go to the
High Court as a unit. They propose to
have the next session of the High Court
in this vicinity, probably in this city.
The delegation were to leave this city
next Saturday afternoon at four o'clock,
by a special vestibule train. The New
Jersey delegates will meet at Roche's
A4dAA bOllO1lOM nlSilDs
Leasing Council, A. l.. of H., attended
the funeral OF Companion Krumschied, of
New York, yesterday.
Water Commissioner Rudolphy. is fond
of secret societies. He belongs to half a
dozen Il takes an active interest in all,
He is Junior Warden of Euclid Lodge, Fl
and A. NJ, Commander of Progressive
Council, A. L. of H., and delegate to the
Grand Lodge from Advance Lodge, A. o.
u. w.
The members of Hancock Lodge, ia.
Is. OF r, are requested to meet at their
lodge room next Thursday evening for the
purpose of paying a fraternal visit to
Pythag0ras Lodge.
The Masonic lodges in this district have
formed a detective bureau to shut ont
beats. 1t has worked like a charm. Dis
trict Deputy G. W. M. r. A. Simpson dis
covered in his tour of the lodges a few
months ago that in one year over $500 had
been expended by the lodges to assist
strangers.
This large outlay was discussed at the
district meeting and it was concluded
that the majority of those aided were i'm
posters. Several plans were devised, and
it was finally decided to send all appIi-
cants to the District Deputy. The result
is that only So have been expended in
three months and of thirty applicants for
relief not n was worthy.
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