New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-07-03
TO rXPEL DTsOBEDIENT ELES.
cr,vnAy MEETINGS TO Re NORTHUMBERLAND
EXALTED RULER FRIDAY WORKING
FOR HARMONY.

.s..un,v,,an w. H. Friday returned 70 his home
IN brooklyn. Saturday. after attendance upon inc
arnual session OF the Grand Lodge. BeheVoieht
o,1 pro,ective order OF Eiks a, Jamestown y. l.
p which he was elected Grand Exalted Rnier' VIII
out opposition. Mr. Friday sail' reiatVe 10 'he
spit In the order: ~,
go, is probable that before another year rolls
oro,,d vve sbau again be n practically united body
Tue grand lodges cannot exist The Grand Lodge
Mold n. jamestown was indispu,aby the parent
ord regular body That being true. 1t is unneces-
sarv TO define the status OF The so-caiied "iahu
Lodge held at the same time at Atlantic ely.
."rba Western Southern and Southwestern lodges
r made I'm OF high-mlnded men eminent In litera-
~ legal and political walks Of life. They are OPP
nosed 10 Sunday meetings, and always nave peeh.
The example OF Sunday meetings was established
bv the lodges in New-York. Philadelphia, Boston
baltimore Washington. Brooklyn ana Newark The
order grew rapidly. and the character Of i's mem
bers In different parts OF 'ne country De0@''e ieS'
and less Bohemian.
..The question OF Sunday meetings has been for
a number OF years a debaable question at each
recurring session OF the Grand Lodge Fnafy the
Grand Lodge refused to adjourn TO any city whose
lodge met on Sunday. At the end OF the session
in Detroit, on June o. 1898. the question OF select
ing a meeting place for the next annual session
was finally left to the grand trustees. me gram
trugtees I'm February, 1884 without any consuiia-
ton with the Grand Lodge officers, selected AZ
lantic city. y. j. carrying OUT no part OF ,o shelr
to selecting the most advantase2us place. as mere
vas no lodge in Atlantic city. The Grand ENaiten
1uer fearing that the interests OF the order would
suffer called n meeting OF the grand trustees: 10
meet at Cincinnati se.ect another Place. Ihe
grand trustees being antagonstic 10 Grand Exalted
Ruer Apperey purely personal GROUNDS re-
fused 10 respond. Mr. Apperey then hed the ofhces
Of the grand trustees by special appointment. ana
named jamestown, y. y, which has a lodge OF
ase representative men The recalctrant trustees
refnsed TO recognize the authority or the CRANE
Ersited Ruler and met at Atlantic city. AS near.y
a. can ascertain they had about sixteen looges
a. a, The Atlantic City meeting AT jamestown Jig
grand lodges represented At our speelai'
session in jamestown the Grand l|odBe uHaHi-
rnousiy Endorsed Mr. Apperiey's official acts o
~ ehal now bend every effort toward Teconclnt-
,on With our errng brethren who met at Atlantic
CIV shall approach the subject IN me spirit OF
30 order OF charity justice and brothery love Bui
they viii have 1t pointed out to them that they nave
hmsiress about II. IT, after every honorable means
has been exhausted the recalcirant lodges are SUI
abaiito,,s shall do the only thing left Tor me 10
do and that is 10 expel the rebelious lodges ,ao.
The NeW-York lodge OF Eks is one OF the Ionges
u,btcb met al Atlantic city. Sunday meetings by
the Elks will have TO be ao9s Sas gone forth and
| lodges disobeylng 1t will be expelled