The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1892-06-13
Il VIII Take Place on thursday In
stead Of Tuesday A.
Announced.
No Other Change In the Arrange
ments for the visitors' I'm
tertainmont.
sincs the Tirst Lodge Wa Organ
tied Here.

row has been postpsnsd BY Gen. H. =.
Howell, marshal Of the day, until Thurs
day. Owing 70 The heavy rain the streets
are In such condition that Gen. Howell
Was compelled TO issue the following order:
Notice IL hereby given that the grand
parade heretofore ordered for Tuesday,
June IA, has been postponed until Thurs
day, the 18th inst, ut the same hour and
place a. given in general order No. 2, vt
which time. weather permitting. II will
positively take place. Division marshals.
aides, and participating organizations will
govern themselves accordingly. No other
change In the arrangements for tho enter
mont Of the visitors 10 contemplated.
Marshsl 81 the day.
CHARLES D. CuRrrs, Adjutant Gent.
William Zastrow, chairman of the COM
mittee on parade. announces that on ac-
count Of the postponsment Of the A. Q. Y.
w. parade from Tuesday to Thursday. all
engagements for horses and carriages made
will be for Thursday.
Two hundred members Of the A. O. q. w.
are delayed at Great Falls by washouts in
the Prickley Pear. Supreme Muster Work
man Kinsley thinks they will be able to
reaoh Helena on Wednesday. The first
delegates to arrive yesterday were A. I.
Roever. of Cincinnati. and J.. w. Hender-
son, Of Lynchburq.
When ]. w. Kinsley instituted the first
lodge of the A. O. U. w. in Montana he lit
tie thought that in ten years he would be at
the head Of tho order and that 10 highest
legislative body would hold It's annual ses-
- T., A. ~n~sk.l >{k~ - ~. MAc~kcl .Sakn
But all this has come to pass. and to no one
10 more credit due than Mr.. Kinslsy. The
history of the growth of the A. O. q. w. in
Montana is an intsrsstinR mo. In 1882,
acting under : commission issued by the
supreme lodge, Mi. Kinsley instituted Butte
Lodge No. !. with forty charter members.
In the same year he instituted Capital
Lodge No. 2, Of Helena. with sixty-one
charter members. Ihon follossd Union
No. 3. Of Missoula, with thirty-Av mem
bers. Alta No. 4. OF Wickes. with thirty
six, Bohemian No. 8, with twsnty-tw0, and
Gem No. 6, Of White Sulphur Springs,
with fifteen. The same year MI. Kinslsy
was elected deputy grand master workman
and grand lecturer Of the order. He con-
tinued the work OF institutinR new lodees,
and the next year was made grand master
workman. Al that time Montana was in
what was known as tina Nevada iurlBdic-
tion. comprising Nevada, Montana, Utah,
Wyoming and Idaho. 1t was under the
direct control of the supreme lodge, but
the members vera anxious to have il set
aside a. : separate beneficiary jurisdiction.
This was accomplished August 10, 1889.
BY this time Mr.. Klnsley had associated
with himoalf euch hard workers az Col.
James Sullivan, M. Burns, n. q. YaeRsr
and others, mi the order began to make
great strides. Dec. 8, 1890, 1t had grown to
such proportions that Monsana was set
apart as . separate jurisdiction by itself,
and since that tim its growth has been a.
rapid a. its best friends could desire F rom
the forty members 1t started with in Butte
there are forty-ons lodges in its jurisdlc-
instituted thirty-six. He has been q repre-
sentative TO the supreme lodge at every
session since 1883, and no one has worked
harder for the lodge than he.
Few people realize the work that has been
dono by some three or four men in conpec-
ton with this session Of the supreme lodge,
Col. Sullivan, as chairman OF the executive
committee, neglected his private affairs
during the same time. Other members OF
the grand lodge residing in Helena have
also put in months of time in the same be-
half.
AS the order has grown in Montana dur
ing tho past ten years, 40 has it throughout
the United States. 1t numbers among it's
officers and member men eminent in eyery
walk of life, while thousands of widows and
orphans have been kept from want through
its benefcence. The following table shows
the total disbursements Of the beneficiary
furd to Jan. !, 1890: