The morning call., 1892-10-03

The Grand Encampment Will meet In this city
on Tuesday, October Is. Delegates from a dis.
tance can receive reduced fare returning by OBJ
tanning proper certificates when purchasing their
tickets coming 10 the session.
The regular quarterly meeting OF the Veteran
Odd Fellows will be held at /. o. o. f. building
on Monday evening. october II. Any member
of the order who has been in said order for
twenty years and resides west OF the Rocky
Mountains Is eligible for member ship.
The members OF Danyle Lodge No. 37S are
going 10 have q public reception, celebration,
dance. etc., on Friday, October 81.
Sacramento gave the victorious canton rouS-
Ing welcome last Monday evening when II re-
turned With the first prize Of $500, won at the
competitive drill at Portland Lodges, encamp-
ments, patriarebs. etc, turned out in procession,
and thousands or people lined the STREETS. AT
the hall c0ngratulaIory addresses we've made by
Hon; Grove L. Johnson and James Leonard, Z.
won the second prize, was not forgotten, and
highly compmented.
For the coming session OF the G L. OF Colorado
at Aspen the railways have made a one-fare rate
for the round trip. and the Denver and Rio
Grande and the Colorado Midland have prepared
n special train from Denver. Colorado Springs
and Pueblo at even less than 0ne-fare rate. This
train Is TO be decorated, and all employees, en-
gineer and fremen will be members OF the order.
number OF the visitors 10 the Supreme Grand
Lodge at Portland came by this city on their way
home, among whom We were pleased TO meet
7. &. Sire Nicholson of Pennsylvania, John key-
nolds OF INDIANAPOLIS publisher OF the Tall man |;
Ex-Governor Rlddell OF Kansas, editor Kansas
Workman. and other workers.
Porter Lodge No. 272 OF Oakland has invited
the Veteran Odd Fellows TO call upon IL on the
evening OF Wednesday,. October &c. This insures
an acceptance and an Instructive and valuable
gathering. No. 2I2 meets on Washington street,
near Fourteenth.
The Odd Fellows OF Denver fitted up series
OF tents, beautifully decorated with Transparent
cies, electric lights, etc. and Kept open house
NAL OF the latter In that city. Over 10000
Knights enjoyed. call UPON them. II was
and a true type Of me generous feeling which
| should ever exist among brethren OF legitimate
societies.
M. U.-There is no afiIatlon or visitation be.
| tween members OF the American order q. .. .. f.
| and any other order called Odd Fellows (Man-
| chester, Birmingham, Leeds, Sheffield, Bolton or
/ oyner unitiesl, Each Is as separate ana dis.
| tinct as are Masons. Odd Fellows, Pythians, etc.
| 1t has never been held by the reflective members
| that It would be OF advantage 10 consolidate. In
/ fact it Is impossible. owing TO distinctive fea-
| lures peculiar 10 each. which would not be &C.
! cepted or Endorsed by the others. II was these
| very differences which produced the American
| unity.
No one can read the report of Grand Secretary
Rose without being impressed With the startling
figures OF increase. On January 1, aSsS S -,
| lac members, a net gain OF nearly 40, 600 mem,
Ders; 1907 lodges, gain OF nearly 4oV a., Anu Anu
this in the face OF the fact that never IN tne MS
| tory OF the world were there so many enter.
| prises of a fraternal semifraternal and business
| society nature before the people as during tue
| past year. Tne records OF sIxty.two years snow:
| III
| Iieyed I97, O97 families relieved, 159012 mem.
| bers buried with the rites OF the order and $751;
| A49375 81 paid for relief. The average age
and average death rate remains the same.
/ The figures show death rate Tor
| 1890 OF only l 10 per cent, eyldeDcing the
| neebborhood OF az years. And this at the end
| OF seveniy-two years OF history. Twenty-two
| dollars from every Odd Fellow In 1891 would
| have paid $4,000 for each OF those who died 10
/ that year. Aud this order has no age limit OF
| admission, ard tens of thousands belong TO II
| who never passed medical examination by
/ physician, but whose own word as 10 their
| physical health was taken.
What does 1t all prove? Simply that the world
| believes In American Odd Fellowship. Ihat II
| has redeemed Its every promise, aud that rot
| many years VIII pass away before II will number
| 1000 600 members, and IL also proves what the
| average death rate and average age OF the menu
| bership OF progressive fraternity are