The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-05-22

IuB uGW SLdIB EAECuIIFG NOuuCII UE nv III
cient Order of Foresters of America is composed
Of a bright lot of men, whose hearts and souls
are wrapped up in the interests of the order.
The council expects to organize twenty new
courts during the coming year; in fact, that
number of towns nave already been heard from,
most of them in Central and South Jersey. One
new court Will ne opened IN Burlington peIore
June !.
CHOSEN FRIENDS.
There will be an important meeting of Wash
ington Council No. Z. Order of Chosen Friends,
at Rocne's Hall this evening. Many visitors
will be present. A card has been sent out to
each member, upon which is printed in large
black letters, For goodness sake don't let the
visitors outnumber the council"
Is. p. o.. e.
New York Lodge No. i, of the Order of EIks,
which for several years has had dissensions with
the Grand Lodge and has maintained a Grand
Lodge of its own, decided at a meeting held last
night to re-enter the fold of the regular order.
This move has been brought about through ad-
verse decision handed down from the courts in
which the New York Lodge has been fighting
the order for several years past.
Throughout Elkdom interest is manifested in
the probable results Of the committee appointed
by the Grand Lodge at its last session TO in
vestigate the dismissal of the original Jolly
Corks, y from which the Benevolent and Protec'
tive Order of ElKs sprang. Unlike many othe r
orders, the Grand Lodge is the supreme ruling
body OF the order throughout the United States.
Al its last session Richard Sterling. of Hoboken.
who was one of the Jolly Corks, and
VIZ ctOn% w q q EL NAS AN
been expelled by New York Lodge, No. l, after
the order assumed the naiae of Elks, made ap-
~plication for reinstatement. Stierllng's is a
test case upon the results OF which the rein
statement of the others dismissed will hinge.
STEERING claimed that his dismissal was illegal
and not in accordance with the original consti-
tuition and bylaws, as founded by himself and
others. The Grand LJdge appointed Past
Exalted Ruler W. II. Gordy of Jersey City
Lodge, W.. K. Devereux of Asbury
Park Lodge and District Deputy of the
ordar In Nav .IarSaY and Oscar Il. Clifford
of Newark Lodge, No. q, as the committee to
investigate ST erling's charges. The committee
has been Investigating eves since It's appoint
ment. and at a meeting recently held in Hobo
ken, besides Sterling, john r. Kent and d.
Vandewater, of this city, and Il. Bosworth, OF
New York. who are included among the original
Jolly Corks,' who were expelled from the
Order of Elks, appeared before the committee.
The comnittee will report the result of its in
vestigations at the session OF the Grand Lodge,
which opens in Detroit Mica., on June ~. Shouid
the committee report favorably upon the rein
statement of the dismissed Jolly Ccrks, and
its report is adopted. it will upset some ira
members of the c, der. 1t is expected that the
report of the committee VIII start u discussion
that will probably NOT end for several days. Tue
expelled members believe that they were oustei
by q clique of members who wished to pose as
Fathers o. the order.
The Jolly Corks,'t as an organization, was
first formed in Stierling's room in a New York
boarding house, one Sunday afternoon, over a
quarter OF a uentnry ago. As the membership
increased, it was found necessary to secure new
headquarters. A gentleman named Charles
Vivian. shortly after the organization was
formed, arrived in this country from England.
He was a emo of an organization with SINH
lar aims and purposes, named after the Bufraio.
He became acquainted With members OF the
'sJolly Corks,' = aud joined the new organization.
An incorporate organization was soon afterward
formed. A OF five was appointed to
select a name. Three of the were
Americans and two were Englishmen. The
Americans selected the name OF the ElkS as a
fitting one for the organization. because it was
a typical American an imaI was strong or IlInD,
fleet of foot, keen of perception, and at the same
time, gentle, and unaggressive, save when at
tackled: and its prototype in man should be
quick to hear the cry of distress, fleet of foot to
succor the unfortunate, and by its strength, ex-
ercise a protective interest for the weak and de-
fenceleSs.
Tonight's meeting of the Jersey City Lodge Of
Eiks will be an unusually interesting and impor-
taut one. 1t will be attended by large delega-
tions from Asbury Park, Newark, Brooklyn and
Paterson.
r.. &c A. III.
Right Worshipful Brother Benjamin Wake
field held q District Lodge of Instruction IN
Bergen Lodge, +. and A. NJ, on Saturday even
lug last, in which the correct WORK IN the Master
Mason degree was exeTapii1ed.
UNITED ORDER r. RED MEN.
The consolidated Hudson lodges of the United
Order of Red Men are holding a mammoth pic
mic this afternoon and evening at Berg's
Park. The members, many OF them
with their wives and children, paraded III
decorated coupes and wagons through Hoboken
aue Jersey City. The band wagon was preceded
by a noun ted baud OF Red Men IN iull indian
costumes They created quite a sensation,
There were, perhaps, twenty coupes, some halI
dozen wagons aud several attractive noatS or
tablesux wagons in line.