Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1894-04-26
.TODAY'S EVENTS.
lisp News Concerning the Important Occurrences
 This Day.
lis Diamond Jubilee.


 NEW YORK. April 2d.-Tmroughout 4he United States today the Odd Bellows of America are celebrating fheir diamond anniversary In Kan sas City the newly-elected Mayor, Rehster Davis, will extend tie well Rome and the celebration will be one Df the most elaborate ever seen in the West, and will he participated in by hundreds Of the most prominent members of the order in the country. sIt will be an Interstate affair, and NilI be in charge of committees from both Kansas and Missouri The ar- Engagements provide for public meeting at the Auditorium in the @aaytime, at which addresses will be alclivcrcd by some of the most proI.i- hent members of the order in the eouutrH; ;t night there will be sseland ball, at which the Patriarchs sAIilitant will drill fer prizes, and on Nthe same night an nelaborate banquet, Eat which plates will be set for 800 Sgnests, Will be given
 The exercises in Baltimore will Sconsist of parade in the afternoon, Hspeeches and musical and literary Entertainment and addresses at the KFemple. Sarato2a and Cathedral sstreets. ai night The first part of #the parade will be from the Temple Sto Broadway. There the members Twill assemble around the Wfdey monument and listen to an address by Congressman James C. Mcguire. of California; The addresses at the Temple at night will be by Hon. George L. Wellington and William F. Porter Cantons are expected from Washington
 The Independent Order of Odd Eel laWs was born in Baltimore at the old Seven Stars Inn, on Second street, and Thomas Wfldcy was the father of it. Wildey was born in London on January l5, 17S2, and in carly life was apprenticed to learn coach-spring making. He arrived in Baltimore in September lS!7. Be ing stranger and d member of the Manchester Unity, his first thought was to establish an Odd Fellows lodge in Baltimore. His object was probably more to meet congenial friends and to institute lodge after the conyiyial style of England, but when the order was started it grew so beyond his expectations that it was reconstructed on d very different basis from the then merry lodges of Manchester.
 1t was some time before Wildey could find an Odd Fellow. Finally ne met John Wclch, and on March zG lSl9, the two had the following published in a daily paper:
 "A few members of the Society oi Odd Fellows will be glad to meet their brethren for thepurpose of fom- Tn ledge on Friday evening, April < at the Seven Stars, Second street at the hour of ' p. m At the houl named, while Wildey and Welcl Were wondering if their call would receive any response, Richard Rush worth, John Duncan and John theatham made their appearance They had been initiated in England They made five, the requisite number Tor the organization of q lodge After several consultations, Wash ington Lodge No. l, which is still il existence, was instituted on April 26 lSl9, just three-quarters of century ago. Wildey was elected Noblt Grand and Welch Vice Grand.
 For two and half years Washing ton Lodge was the sole exponent . the rights of the order. The Grant Lodge of Maryland was chartered ol February 2, 1922. with the following officers: Thomas Wilder, grand mas ter; John P. Entwisle, deputy gran' master; William $. Gouth, gram