The Portland daily press., 1894-09-13
1. o. o. r.
The Sovereign Grand Lodge to Meet on
Lookout Mountain.

| Nio S"'o1oiSn Grand LOuge TO Meet on
| Lookout Mountain.
1t is doubtful if the Sovereign Grand
Lodge of Odd Fellows will ever have a
much more pleasant meeting than has
peen arranged for them during the
week OF September 1924 on Lookout
Mountain. The program is one full of
ln1erest TO every member of the great
| oroer. The headquarters of the grand
rouge Will be at the magnificent Look
OUT lnn. which is the finest all the-year-
round resort hotel in the United States
| anu which is much larger than any
MOTEL In the White Mountains. 1t will
oomlclle 600 or more Odd Fellows and
| more Than 1000 will be fed at each meal.
Included In the the programme the en-
tertainment Of the Odd Fellows is a
steamboat excursion Saturday, Sept.
l5th on the Tennessee river giving views
OF some OF the most romantic and beauti-
lui scenery in the world. On Sunday,
sept. 10, Grand Chaplain, J.W. Venable,
Will preach at st. Pau's Episcopal
church. All the churches in Chattanooga
extend cordial invitations to the visitors
TO attend their services. The reception
ceremonies will take place at Lookout
Inn, Monday, September II at a. m.
Addresses of welcome will be delivered
by Hon. Peter Turney. governor of Ten
nessee, Hon. Geo. W. Ochs, mayor of Chs at
tanooga, and the officers of the Tennes-
see Grand Lodge. In the afternoon there
will be drive to Chickamauga battle
held and park. At night there will be
reunion of the past grand representa-
tlves. Tuesday, September is, there will
be meeting of the grand secretary and
grand scribe association at 10 am. In
the afternoon there will be a great street
parade ending with drive to Missionary
Ridge and about the city. On Wednesday
night there will be brilliant reception
and ball in the magnificent dining hall
OF Lookout Inn in honor of the Sovereign
Grand Lodge. There will be various
excursions to many points of historic
| and scenic interest about Chattanooga
Prizes will be offered for the best drilled
| cantons of the Patriarchs Militant
Lookout Mountain is 2,400 feet above
the sea level. The mountain rises
abruptly from the Tennessee river
| which flows at its base and is three
| miles distant from the court house in
the center of Chattanooga. The meth
| DDS of transportation are the Chatta-
nooga & Lookout Mountain railroad
which is broad gauge road, having it's
| terminal at the Union depot. and the
| electric cars connecting with the incline
to the point and thence by the narrow
gauge TO the Lookout Inn. The view
| from the world famous point rock is the
most peaceful and magnificent panorama
| IN the world. Some scenery in the A lps
| or Rocky mountains may excel it in
rugged grandeur, but none in it's sub
| timely refreshing beauty. Several of the
battlefelds of the civil war may be seen
from this eminence. Lookout Mountain
derives its name from the use the Indians
made of it to watch, or "lookoutn for
early settlers who came down the Tennes-
zee river in fat boats. The mountain
was evidently formed by volcanic action,
as the sandstone conglomerate from
| which the mountain is formed is made
up of shells, sharks teeth, pebbles, etc,
which were evidently once in the.bottom
| of the ocean.
The prize drill OF. the canton Of the
Grand Lodge of Odd Fellows will take
place on September 10. For competitive
| drills, etc., not less than five cantons
| to enter for each prize in class A. and
each canton to have present not less than
| three officers and eighteen men in said
| class,
Glass A-First prize, $3.50; second prize
$3.50; third prize, 100.
| Glass B-Frist prize, to the canton
| having the largest number In the parade
Sept. Is. 500, second prize, to the canton
having the next largest number in the
pc rade, $50.
Tennessee cantons are excluded from
competition for the prizes in classes A
| and B.
Glass Cali gate receipts, after de-
ductlng necessary expenses, to be dis
tri buted among all cantons in. the parade
of drill.
special prize to be known as the
"Chickamauga cupn will be awarded to
the Department commander whose de-
| partment has the largest number of
chevaliers in line of parade Sept. 1S.
The cup will be of solid silver. Tennes-
| see is excluded. There will, also, be a
number OF prizes for the lodges, but the
| list has not yet been completed.
Few people have any idea of what a
| great and representative body the Sow
| ereign Grand Lodge of ODD Fellows is.
There are in the United States and Can
ada nearly million members of the
| splendid order. According to the
official figures presented at the last an
nual meeting the mem bership is dis
trlhuted as follows:
Alabama, 1855
Arizona, 614
ARKANSAS, 4,015