The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1892-07-30

| preparations for the entertainment of Wis
lung knights, and quarters have already
been assigned for more than $1,000 appii-
cants; and although 1901 600 are expected,
there will be no lack of accommodations.
1t is estimated that 10000 Sir knights
will be in the parade.
Most Hon. the Marquis of Breadalbane
was rec emily Installed, in Edinburgh.
Grand Master of the military order of
the Temple. 1t is about thirty years
since any function of this kind has taken
placein Scotland.
The Grand Commandery of Missouri
has decided not to serve II Intoxicating
liquors at their headquarters at Denver
during the %triennlal.
Excelsior conslstory, of Pennsylvania.
has taken Sl0.0 600 worth of stock in the
new Camden Masonic hall.
st. Alban Commandery. Knights Tenn
plars. of PHILADELPHIA. has received a
handsome standard from its lady friends.
E. Sir ]. Wright, the Grand Com
mander of Knights Templars, of Penn
sylvania, is making inroads into the
hearts of the Knights of his iurisd lotion
by his good work.
There are 1900 Knights Templars in Ire
land.
The wives and daughters of the
Knights Templars of Denver are making
extensive arrangements for the enter
tainment of the ladies of the visiting
knights.
AT the forty fifth annual conclave of
the Grand Commandery of Kentucky R.
E. Sir Charles Henry Fisk of Covlngton
was elected Grand Commander, and Sir
Lorenzo D. Cronineer of Covington
Grand Recorder. During the past year
JGl vvnra kninhfoA Total mann haTlhin
1851.
INDEPENDENT ORDER OF ODD FELLOWS.
The official Board of the Odd Fellows
Home has adopted a novel scheme to wipe
out the debt. They purchased thirteen
acres of land to prevent any upsightly
buildings from being put up close to the
grounds and DESTROYING the beauty of the
Home and surroundings. They a de-
cided to lay out d short street and dispose
of 100 lots ON the instalment plan for
$500 a lot. Judge Puster, of Lincoln
Lodge; Thomas D. Mills. of Monticello,
aud President George Hammill. of the
! Home, comprise the committee to
dispose of these lots. The surveyor
| has laid out the street and lots, and Com
mitteeman Mills has already disposed of
ten lots. The receipts from this unique
scheme will be $40, 600. The total indebt-
edness of the Home is $4,000. of which
! S13. 600 was incurred in the purchase of
land. This will leave the Home free from
debt with a balance of $4,000. The
Home is admirably managed. The
expenses lave been kept down
below the amount received monthly from
the lodges in the Home Association, and
consequently a few dollars is saved every
month. The board will not meet again
until October and Judge Puster predicts
that all the lots will be sold before the
Board %convenes. They are nearby located
and high and dry.
The lodges have no desire to confer de-
grees during the hot spell and action on
applications is slow. No good material
will be allowed to escape even ii it be-
comes necessary to work the degrees, but
the costumes Will not be used until the
dog days are over.
Waterloo. Ia, now has a new and COM
plete ODD Fellows hall, which cost the
order about SIC, 900 furnished. The in
come from rents, with free use of the hall
for the various branches of the order is
s1.625.
In Concord, N. H., the Odd Fellows
have d mutual relief association, and its
members pay each to any Of its members
taken sick 5 cents per week for Il period
of fifteen weeks. This. in addition to the
benefit derived from the lodge, makes a
fair amount Of benefit.
The value of property of tine lodges in
PHILADELPHIA amounts to g. 500, 900. The
debt is a little over $500, 600.
The Odd Fellows of Toronto will oon
have their new temple completed. 1t will
have lodge rooms, business places and
everything that modern taste ami archi-
lecture can suggest in the way of elegance
and comfort.
National Lodge, No. 30, of New York.
charges 5000 initiation fee. 1t has less
han forty members. Though small in
membership it is large in funds. Its bank
account and other assets reach nearly
$40. 900.
The Pennsylvania Odd Fellows home
project is being pushed vigorously.
A st. Lon paper stated that at a meet
ing of archbishops it was decided that Odd
Fellows could be admitted to the Sacra-
ments of the Catholic Church. This has
brought forth a positive denial from one
of the attending bishops, who %pronounces
the statement false in all particulars.
Brother Samuel Berry recently ce!e-
brated his fftieth anniversary as a mem
Der of Wayne Lodge, of Philadelphia.
A lady seventy-two years of age was
one OF the fifty candidates who, received
the Rebekah degree in Crescent Rebekah
Lodge in Sunapee, n. H., on the night OF
its insti uLion.
St. Louis has one lodge with s1o0, 900 in
its treasury.
Idaho is to hive An Odd Fellows Home.
The ground selected covers 200 acres.
KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAS.
A meeting of the officers of the First
Brigade, Uniformed RANK of New Jersey,
was held at Elizabeth on Friday evening,
in command. 1t WAS decided that the an.
nual parade of the brigade should be held
at Bloomfield on Wednesday, October 5.
An invitation was extended To Grand