Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-08
YEOMEN OF THE BOW.
Followers of Robin Hood Coming to
the City to Attend the
GRAND COURT OF FOREsTERs.
The Order to Plant Tree With Great Cere-
mony in the Park.
THREE THOUSAND MEN TO BE IN LINE

The Foresters will take charge of this
city on Tuesday and hold possession for two
or three days with the fourth annual ses-
sion of the grand court of the order in this
State. For the opening day grand parade
and public mass meeting have been ar
ranged. On Tuesday afternoon parade OF
5000 men will take place over the principal
streets in the lower part of the city and
the mass meeting in the evening will be
held in Union Legion Haii, Sixth avenue,
where the sessions of the grand court will
be held. Great preparations are being
made by the local members and 1t is e1-
pected that the meeting will be successful
in every way and tend to spreading the or
der in this end of the State
The Ancient Order of Foresters is one of
the Oldest secret organizations in existence,
and in England it ranks second in influence,
membership and antiquity to the Masonic
order. Although it is strong in some parts
of this country, notably in New York,
where there is a membership above 25, 200,
it has not reached that position of influence
attained in its birthplace and which it ex-
poets ultimately to reach here. William
the Conqueror, by his persecution of the
Saxons on his invasion of England in 1866,
gave rise to the first order of Foresters.
Subsequently Robin Hood, declared an out
law for shooting the deer of the King to
provide food for the suffering people, ergan-
lied the Forest Rangers, and the organiza-
ton has been perpetuated in various forms
until it now has more than $50, 900 members
in America and many times that in Eng
land.
1t is benevolent fraternal organization,
and, its promoters claim, does more in the
way of relieving distress and intoxicating
morality than any similar order in this
country. 1t is rich order, too, the na-
tional treasury having over $500, 900 on
hand, and every State body having a good
surplus to draw from
Tuesdays parade will be oficered as fol-
lows: Chief Marshal. George Tam; aid,
Robert Erskine; Marshal, nr5t division, Ar
thur Thompson; second division, William
H. Round; third division, John j. Lewis.
The parade will form on Water stree at 2:l5,
and, starting promptly at 2:30, will pass
along Smithfield street to Third avenue, to
Grant street, to Fifth avenue, down Fifth
avenue to Wood street, to Liberty avenue,
to Tenth street, to Penn avenue, to Seventh
street, to Seventh street bridge, to Robinson
street, Allegheny; to Federal street, to North
avenue, to Irwin avenue, to West Ohio
street and to Allegheny Parks, where the
procession will pause and the ceremony Of
planting the Foresters tree will be per-
formed. The parade will then proceed to
Cedar avenue by West and East Ohio streets.
where it will be dismissed.
The mass meeting will be held at 7S0
O'Clock Tuesday evening. when the follow
ing will be the programme: Overture, Sc
lect Knights Band; address of welcome,
Hon. II. /. Gourley; quartet, the National
Quartet; solo, Miss Edith Harris; address,
Hon. W. d. Moore; address, Pennsylvania
Forestry" Eli Moon, H. e. R.; overture, Sc
lect Knights Band; recitation, Miss Bessie
Thomas; address. "The Order" W. V.
Runkle, P. II. C. F.; duet, VIM. Davis and D.
Morris; overture, Select Knights Band;
quartet, the National Quartet: address,,
Good of the Order" DR.. j. Milton Duff: re-
citation, Miss Edith Harris; solo, Thomas J.
Jarrett: address, "Good Night" Hon.
Alfred Marland.