St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-04-26

In line. AT the corner of Fourth street
and Hennepin averue. Immediately
behind that the visiting delegations,
consisting of members from DelanO
Lodge No. So from DelanO: Herman
Lodge No. So, and VermlliOn Lodge
No. s, from Hastings; thirty-tive mem
Ders from the cantOnS. encampment and
subordinate lodges at Ft. Smelling;
Maple Plain No. 81, Charles Hoag
Lodge No. 149. There was also large
delegation from MinnetOnka Lodge No.
l05, Excelsior.
The parade started at 2:30 and
marched up Nicollet to Tenth street,
from Tenth street to Hennepin, down
Hennepin to Sixth, then to the Grand
opera house, and the procession, which
was headed by platoon of police, and
included several bands, made hand
some showing. At least 1900 men
were in line, ana the regalias and ban
ners made the turnout quite snowy
one. The audience filed the Grand
Opera house comfortably full.
The boxes were filed with
the ladies OF the Rebecca
lodges and officers OF the uniformed
rank, and on the stage sat Mayor Babb
and about twenty dignitaries of the
order.
George w. Flanders, of Nicollet Lodge
No. 1l9. made few brief Introductory
remarks by the way of welcoming the
visitors to the city. He called to mind
the occasion of the gathering, the seven
ty-first birthday OF Odd Fellowship,
which has grown within almost the last
half century to become the greatest of
fraternal societies. having a member
ship of 100000. 1t eXpendS $1,000, 600
yearly for benevolent purposes, and
Still Odd Fellowship is yet in its
infancy and there is still to be a
far greater development. Singing by
the Anchor Lodge Cross Quartette fol-
lowed, and then Rev. c. NJ. Heard, of
the Taylor Street Nj. +. church, deliv-
cred the invocation. Grand Master G..
NJ. Sprague, of Sank Center. made a
brief address touching especially upon
the benevolent and enabling features of
the order. He praised the organize
ton of Rebecca lodges, and the military
order. He said that the number of SUBJ
ordinate lodges is now 100000. A So
Clara Williams, and Hon. Alfred Orren-
dorf of Springfield. ILL.,, delivered the
principal address of the day. Among
other things: he said that Odd Eel
lowship in America and England
to-day has a quarter OF a
million of names upon its rolls more
than any other benevolent society upon
earth, Its prosperity is owing to the
fact that 1t is founded upon the prin-
ciples of equal rights among men, and
its organization is adapted to the every
day wants of the people. 1t is the
Grand Army of Humanity. 1t was not
practical until equality of rights was es-
tablished to organize the order, for it
would have been idle TO talk of the
brotherly love until aristOcracy and
kingcraft had persisted in a great meas
ure. Friendship, Love and Truth are
bat blossoms upon the tree of Odd
Fellowship, and its fruitage is
the great underlying principle of
reciprocal rights and duty taught in
taught to do unto others as they would
be done by. While it would seem that
such an order, which has expended over
$100,000,0O0 in its seYenty-one years of
history would receive the G0d-Speed of
all good people, strange to say there is
to-day in session in the city of Chicago
an anti fraternal society solemnly de-
claring membership in such an order
as incompatible with true religion. He
then went on to explain that there is no
secrecy in the order only in the sense
that the family hearthstone is sacred
and made light of the trivial objections
to the regala and emblemS of the order.
and closed by drawing powerful pict-
ure of the benevolent work Of the Odd
Fellows in times of great calamities and
suffering. Mr.. Orrendorf Is an earnest
and impressive speaker, if not eloquent,
and held the attention of his audience
closely, and was warmly applauded.