Morning journal and courier., 1891-09-22
SOVEREIGN GRAND LODGE.
Gathering of fIllustrfous odd Fellow
 at St. Loufs-Fifty Thousand Pres

Gathering of lustrfous odd Fellows
 at St. Loufs-Fifty Thousand Press
 ent-The Big Procession.
 ST. LOUIS, Sept. 21.-This was the first day of the twenty-second conclave of the Sovereign Grand lodge, I. o. O. F. The reception committee were at the Union depot this morning and the large delega- tions arriving were promptly received and escorted to their assigned quarters. Many of the railways ran special trains bringing in cantons and lodges from towns within 100 to 200 miles of St. Louis. It is esti- mated that over 50, 900 Odd Fellows and their families are in the city besides many others who have come simply as specta- tors. The streets present lively and an- imated spectacle From Clark avenue to Washington and from Fourteenth street to Fourth street, the sidewalks were packed with the members of the order. Many were renewing old acquaintances and others were making new ones.
 At 3 o'clock sharp the grand pageant moved down Fourteenth street to Wash ington avenue, thence east to Broadway, south to Chestnut, west to Fourth, south to Walnut, west to Broadway, north to Market, west to Sixth, north to Olive and west to the building where the exercises were held this evening.
 At Twelfth and Olive streets the parade was reviewed from 8 stand erected at that point. On the stand were Deputy Grand Sire Dr. 0. S. Campbell of New London, Ontario; Lieutenant General John c. Un- derwood and staff, many of the grand off, cers, Governor Francis, Mayor Noonan, the city fathers, the board of education, | the Third division commanders headed by Major General E. M. Sloan and staff and Mrs. M. E. Req, past president of the na- | tional convention of the Daughters of Re | bekah.
 This evening the spacious Music hall ,. auditorium of the e1- | position was filled with an audience of | 5000. Five hundred seats were reserved for the sovereign grand lodge members. l These were filled to overfowing and throughout the auditorium could be seen numerous uniformed members of the order. The ceremonies begun by a selection by | Gilmore's celebrated band.
 Governor Francis welcomed the sover eign lodge to the state and referred to the growth of the lodges. On behalf of the city Mayor E. A. Noonan extended the lib
 erty of the city to the sovereign lodge, de
 cloring during the conclave the city be longed to them, and exhorted the citizens
 to see that they got it. He was frequent.
 and loudly cheered.
 Storms of applause greeted the intro
 duction of the Rev. J. B. Jewell, grand
 master and grand patriarch. In behalf o
 order he welcomed his brethren. Dr. c.
 Campbell, deputy grand sire of New Lon don, Can, responded to the welcomin
 speech, accepting, on behalf of the sove1
 eign lodge, the freedom and hospitality Q Missouri and the city. Gilmor then rendered selection, whic | fol hu foh1ooux i1lT1afratin r the commands of Odd Fellowship, whic : were-a grand spectacle. There were fl
 teen applications for the order of decors B tions of chivalry, which as..conferred b r Lieutenant General John O. Underwood 7 The recipients of the order knelt and so emnly repeated the order's obligation an
 went through the remainder of the impre 7 sive ceremony with great solemnity. Fl e ceremonies ended the band struck | 6 "Americs," and with the cheers of 10,0
 voices the audience dispersed.