Birmingham age-herald., 1894-09-19
The Sovereign Grand Lodge of
 Odd Fellows,
AFTER ELEUTING OFFICERS
And Participating in a Grand Parade and Reception,
 Adjourn.

CHATTANOOGA, Tenn., Sept. IS. At the business session of the sovereign grand lodge this morning, which reassembled in Lookout convention hall, the question of the next place of meeting cameup. Wash- ington City had determined set of dele- gates working for her, but they were in the minority, and Atlantic City was chosen. Among those who favored Washington there is Q great deal of dissatisfaction [. They say that wires were pulled by the ho- tel men al Atlantic City.
 When the election of officers for the en- suing year came up, Representative Morris of Kentucky nominated Deputy Grand Sire John w. Stebbins of Maryland for the of- flee of grand sire, and he was unanimo usly elected. For the office of deputy grand sire, Representative Musson nominated William E. Carlin of Illinois, and further nominations were made in the persons of John B. Goodwin, mayor of Atlanta; Hon. Fred Carleton of Texas, Alfred s. Pinker- ton of Massachusetts, Gen. D. M. Sloan of St. Louis.
 There the nominations ceased and the first ballot was taken, resulting as follows: Carleton 51. Pinkerton 32, Block 27, Izard 25, Carlin 19, Goodwin 15, Sloan 6.
 Second balot-Pinkerto 4O, Carleton s4, Block 20, Izard Is; total l65. Carleton of Texas was declared elected.
 Theodore Ross of New Jersey was unaui- mously reelected as grand secretary and Isaac Sheppard of Pennsylvania was unani- mously reelected grand treasurer.
 Alter some routine business the meetin 2 adjourned.
 The grand parade was an hour late in moving. The column reached the corner of Ninth and Market street at 8 o'clock. Never before was the main street of the city so packed and jammed with humanity. A of EiUhfb nd Mo- rfy a nd triumphal arch had been erected and just completed this morning barely in time to permit the removal of the scaffo1ding be- fore the parade moved. The structure is the most artistic aud oostliest thing of the kind ever erected in the south. It is built in the manner of construction used on the Worlds fair buildings,T and cltJEly re- sembles marble. Embleinatic gares of the order decorate it's several sides. The arch is really three arches in one, the tallest being 60 feet from base to top. Three hundred incandescent lights illuminate it at night.
 Under this arch one of the most credita- ble parades of the kind ever seen in Chat tanooga passed, headed by Chattanooga police force, state militia and two bands. It was an imposing spectacle. The feature of the parade was eight emblematic floats of the order. These, in we'll arranged manner, represented "Daughters of Re- 6ekah,, ''rhe Sea of Life, ,, Jonathan tan," ''The Temple of Truth" todd Fellowship Encircles the Earth,'' "Re- bekah at the We'll" " "An I. 0. o. F. Home.'
 After the parade the visitors were driven over Missionary Ridge to Bragg's old headquarters, and owing to the excep- tionally fine weather of the afternoon the drive proved much more enjoyable than the one the day previous to Chickamauga.
 Tonight a brilliant reception and re- union, in honor of the past grand repre- sentatives, is being held in the First Bap- tlst church auditorium.