The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-08-12
SECRET SOCIETY NEWS.
BUSINESS AND PLEASURE OF THE
LOCAL LoDGES.

BUSINESS And PLEASURE OF THE
LOCAL LODGES.
Odd Fellows Are Making Great Efforts to
Pay the Debt on Their Home-Forest-
ers Preparing for Their Parade-Pic-
mics Planned for the Near Future.
Lodges cannot exercise too much care
in selecting candidates. The writer met
a man who is well known in the lower
section of this city on Saturday night
He had been indulging. and was describ
ing the potent power of a little sign of
distress. He gave the sign and said:-'I
can tell you are not a member of the
order.''
This sign was given in the presence Of
two strangers. This is the way in which
frauds contriye to learn lodge secrets.
They meet some thoughtless person who
gives them the opening test This ena-
bles the observant fraud to give the sign
to some member who naturally returns
the answer, and the swindler has been
advanced q peg.
He goes on step by step until he has ac-
CURED all the signs and is ready to de-
fraud those who, do not put him to
thorough test. l know the sign of dis
tress now of one of two prominent orders,
as the man who so kindly gave me one on
Saturday belongs to two orders.
Picnics, excursions and pleasure trips
now interest the members of lodges and
societies. Almost daily one of the lodges
has a trip for enjoyment.
MAsoNs
District Deputy G. w. M. Simpson is
making preparations for an active fall
campaign. The district lodge OF instruc-
tion will be held regularly and the attend
ance Of the members OF the order will be
urged. The object is to have the men,
bers perfect in the work.
Hiram Lodge has had its rooms reno
waited. A large amount of money was
expended in the improvements. The
lodge is ambitious to have the handsomest
apartments In the State: 1t has large
fund and can well afford to satisfy this
laudable ambition. A richly furnished
lodge room will attract members.
A delegation of HobOken MasOns will
pay visit to Past Master Charles Gross,
of Euclid Lodge at Island Heights, near
Barnegat, this week. A band of Elks will
wander that way before the close of the
season, as Charley was the first Exalted
Ruler of Hoboken Lodge
Water Commissioner Rudolphy, of Ho-
boken, expects to be promoted to the East
at the next election of Euclid Lodge.
Leo Trichel, ]. w. of Euclid Lodge
and E. L. X. of Hoboken Lodge of Elks, is
in business at Saratoga
Enterprise Lodge works the degrees
in costume. 1t makes it more solemn and
impressive.
Odd Fellows.
A strong effort is being made to wipe
out the debt of the Odd Fellows Home at
Trenton. Mr.. G. w. Hammel, Jr., presi-
dent of the Home, has issued circular
appealing to the lodges, encampmentS
and District Deputy Grand Masters to
cancel the debt.
The lodges have shown desire to re-
move all liens and obligations, and it is
probable that when the fall meetings
open and the actual lodge work begins,
the contributions will be heavy, and not
only the mortgage of $4,000 will be paid
but handsome surplus will go into the
permanent fund asas.a
Mayor Grassman, Of Hoboken, desires
to again represent the lodge at the annual
session OF the Sovereign Grand Lodge.
He has been renOminated by 104 lodges
The election will be held in October.
Jefferson Lodge, of Union Hill, has re-
duced its initiation fee, so rumor has it,
This is not healthy sign. Cheap initia-
tion fees mean invariably cheap material.
Beethoven Lodge worked the degrees at
its last meeting.
Guiding Star Lodge is early in the field
for the round of fun this coming winter.
1t has appointed a committee to arrange
for masquerade ball. 1t is proposed to
invite the uniformed division or encamp-
ment to give an exhibition drill
Columbia Lodge has 100 members It
has been the pioneer in many movements
and has the credit of having inaugurated
that which resulted in the establishment
of the Odd Fellows Home.
George Runton, District Deputy G. NJ,
Is anxious to present a report that will
show a marked growth numerically and
IN llu nf hn lnAr I'm ,hrio
He is working zealously to arouse in
terest. ~
Mrs. Woodall, Noble Grand of Martha
Washington Lodge, Daughters of Re-
bekah, is enthusiastic in the work.
Brother A. W. Hoyt, who died at the
from Odd Fellows Hall, Hoboken. He
was also a member of Hoboken Lodge, f.
and A. NJ.
The lodges are making arrangements to
receive Grand Master Jennings and the
Grand Lodge officers. They will visit
United Brothers Lodge on Thursday,
their first call in the district.
Legion of Honor.
The Supreme Council of the Legion of
Honor was wise when it fixed certain
dates for the payment Of assessments.
The assessments fall on the 1st and 18th
of each month, except that when either of
these dates fall on Sunday the payments
are due on the I'd and 18TH The two as
sessments each month are caused by the
fact that the order is not one where a
man has to die to win. One can draw
twenty per cent. of the total
amount of his insurance for sick
benefits. A sixth degree member
is insured for 5000. He can draw when
sick twenty dollars per week. IL his ILL
ness is protracted he can continue to
draw until he has received $1,000 This
allowance is distinct from the sick bene-
fits allowed by the majority of the coun-
ellis. 1t is grand order for poor men who
have families to provide for. The other
degree members are entitled to draw in
proportion; that Is, one insured for 81 900
could draw one-ffth of the amount al
lowed to a sixth degree member This
sick benefit is attracting many to unite
with the order.
Ever Faithful Council has on its roll
Sheriff Davis, County Clerk Mclaughlin,
Surrogate O'Neil, Commissioners Edel-
stein, O'Donnell and Kelly, Counsellor
McGrath and other officials
The Supreme Council of the A. L. of H.
will meet at Chicago, August 81.
Collector Waterbury declares that he
has no Sinecure.
Foresters.
The delegation to the Subsidiary High
Court will have happy and profitable
trip. They will be entertained by their
respective courts on their return. If they
fail to have the next session of the High