The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1894-08-31
THE PY1HlAns.
Observation-Disclosures Of the Grand Chancellor
Condition Of the Order Given.

Neutrality-suspicious. of the Grand Chancellor
Condition of the Order Given.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 29.-The conclave
of the supreme lodge, Knights of
Pythias, was called to order by Su-
preme Chancellor W. w. Blackwell this
morning. The entrances were care
fully guarded. The supreme officers
wore Grape badges on their arm as
preme Chancellor Shaw, of Wisconsin.
Supreme Chancellor Blackwell and Su-
preme Keeper of the Record and Seal
r. L. c. White read their biennial
reports:
In his report Supreme Chancellor w.
w. Blackwell first gives the following
statistics of membe rship according to
unofficial reports to July 1, 1894:
Grand lodges, 81; subordinate lodges,
6,262; total membership, 465, al, net
increase of 72,O25 during the past two
years, The financial condition is most
satisfactory. The order universal is in
a most prosperous condition, and the
times are propitious for a much greater
increase during the next two years
than ever before in our history.
uc llIuS lIdS COLic WHICH
should be Americanized, and, however
hard it may appear temporarily, the
successful accomplishment thereof will
be worth all it may cost. have urged
upon our German brothers the neces-
sity of losing their identity as foreign.
ers by adopting the English language,
becoming in fact American citizens as
they all profess to be, and of eliminat=
ing from theft names and societies the
prefix of GermaH-American, and thus
relieving themselves of the unenviable
distinction of being foreigners at all"
OF the saloon question the supreme
chancellor declared that lodges which
excluded dealers had secured the best
material and were the most progress
i've. He urged the grand lodge to take
decisive action on this matter at this
session.
The report of the supreme keeper of
records and seals, r. C. L. White, says:
THE number of subordinate lodges
December 3, 1898, was COOS and the
number of members 443, 615, net gain
during the calendar year of 436 lodges
and 29,261 members, and net gain
during the years of 1892 and 1898 of
1,OO7 lodges and 5,691 members. While
the gain is not SO large either in subor-
dinate lodges or members, as
that of the years 1890 and 1891,
it is, considering the widespread
financial depression during the past
eighteen months, both remarl<a BILE and
gratifying, and it is believed to exceed
that of any other secret fraternal or
der. December 81, 1898, the total
amount in the treasures of the grand
lodges was $40, 500. 10, and the amount
in those of the subordinate lodges was
assets of the subordinate lodges at the
same date was S7,O6S, O54.47. The
amount disbursed for relief by subor-
dinate lodges during the year 1898 was
S1,2O5. 135. 9S, while for the two years in
1892 and 1898 it was So, 379, 37413."
The report of Thomas G. Sample, SUI
preme master of eXchequer, for the
year ending March 81 last is recapitu-
lated as follows: Total receipts, SOL
1Os.s6; total expenditures, $50, Oi9.31;
balance, April 1, 1894, 29,O59.55.
The report of Maj.-Gen. James r.
Carnahan, commanding the Uniform
Rank, says: 1.-The work of organizing
new divisions has been difficult because
of the financial depression, and for the
reason that our Knights of Pythias, for
the most part, being men of moderate
means, have felt constrained to hus-
band their resources. Notwithstand-
ing this condition of affairs, we have
had reasonably healthy growth.
During the two years ended with March
81, 1892, there have been received and
approved applications for eighteen
new divisions. We had on March 81,
1894, the close of the last fiscal year,
1,1O7 divisions, representing n member
ship of 43, O36, being a net gain during
the two years last past OF $3.50. From
the best information to be gained from
the reports as made, the value of the
property owned by the Uniform Rank
to-day aggregates very nearly $780,
OOO"