The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-09-19
SOVEREIGN GRAND LODGE.
Officers Elected and Other Business
Transacted-Pretty Street Parade.

- AAah5dSLSo EEeLEY street Parade.
Chattanooga, Tenn, Sept. 1s.-The busi-
ness session Of the sovereign grand
lodge of Odd Fellows this morning re-
assembled in Lookout Convention hall.
The question of the next place of meeting
came up. Washington City had de-
termined set of delegates working for her.
but they were in the minority, and At
lanttc City was chosen. Among those
VINO favored Washington there is a great
deal of dissatisfaction. They say that
the wires were pulled by the hotel men at
Atlantic Citv
When the election of offers for the en-
suing year came up, Representative Nor
rls of Kentucky nominated Deputy
Grand Sire John w. Stebbens, of Mary
land for the Office of grand sire, and
ne was unanimously elected. For the
ONCE OF deputy grand sire, Repre-
sentative Musson nominated Her.
man Block of Iowa, Dr. W
h. lard of New Jersy, was
also placed in nomination Representa-
tive Humphrey nominated VIM f. Car
lin of Illinois, and further nominations
were made in the persons of John b.
Goodwin, mayor of Atlanta; Hon Fred
Carleton of Texas, Alfred 5. Pinkerton
OF Massachusetts,, Gen. e. M Sloan of
ST. Louis.
The nominations then ceased and the
first ballot was taken, resulting as fol-
lows:
Carleton 81, Pinkerton 80. Block 27.
lard 25, Carlin 19, Goodwin 15, Sloan 6.
Second BallOt-Pinkerton 40, Carleton
"a, Block 25, lard 16. Total 1856
Carleton of Texas was declared elected.
Theodore Gross Of New jersey was
unanimously reelected as grand secre-
tary and Isaac Sheppard of Pennsylvania
was unanimously reelected grand treas
urer
After some routine business the meet
ing adjourned.
The grand parade was an hour late in
| moving. The column reached the corner
of Ninth and Market streets at o'clock.
Never before was the main street of the
city so packed and jammed with human
| lty. AT the corner of Eighth and Market
| a grand triumphal arch had been erected
and Just completed this morning, barely
iu time to permit the removal of the scaf.
folding before the parade moved.
The structure is the most artistic and
costliest thing of the kind ever erected in
the south. 1t is built in the manner OF
construction of the world s fair buildings
! ard closely resem bles marble. Emblemat-
ic figures Of the order decorate its several
sides. The arch is really three arches in
| one, the tallest being sixty feet from base
to top.
Three hundred incandescent lights il
illuminate it at night. Under this arch
one of the most creditabe parades of the
kind ever seen in Chattanooga passed
headed by the Chattanooga police force
the state militia and two bands 1t was
an imposing spectacle. The features oil
the parade were eight epblematic floats
of the order. These, in a well arranged
manner represented: Daughters of Re
bekah, 4" The Sea of Life,'' Jonathan
Before King Saul, The Good Samari
tan, The Temple of Truth" "Odo
| Fellowship Encircles the Earth" ere
bekah at the Well" and can l. o. o. F
Home"
After the parade the visitors were
driven over Missionary Ridge to Bragg's
old headquarters, and, owing to the ex.
ceptiOnably fine weather of the afternoon
the drive proved much more enjoyable
than the one the day previous to Chicka-
mauga.
Tonight a brilliant reception and re-
union in honor of the past grand repre-
sentatives is being held in the first Bap-
tist church auditorium.