Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1894-11-21
SUFFERED IN THE PANIC.
1t Was Unfortunate for Odd
Fellowship In Delaware.
LOST IN MEMBERSHIP, BUT sTlLL

A
Strong and United and Anxious to
Reach the Height to which We ARA
Directed BY the subiimity OF Our
Precepts''-Transaction Of the Grand
Lodge To-day.
The Grand Encampment Of Delaware.
together with the annual meeting of the
Grand Lodge of Delaware, I o. o r.
was held to-day In odd Fellows' Hall
Third and King streets, this city. and
was really au enthusiastic oonvooation.
Leading Odd Fellows from every town
In the state were present, notwithstand-
Ing the rainy weather, and the lodge
room In which the Grand Lodge held It's
session was more than comfortably filed
when Grand Master T. Addison Potts
called the lodge to order for business
Odd Fellowship In this state, 1t was
thought previous TO the meeting, had
suffered more severely than any other
state order from the effects of the recent
panic, but the reports did not show any
thing like the loss that was expected.
odd Fellowship in Delaware.
In the grand secretary's report of the
condition OF the lodge In this state, he
says:
THE details will disclose loss Of
forty seven in membership, q condition
arising from an enforced struggle with
untoward influences, that now happily
seem to be dispensing but which have
been powerful enough to arrest our
progress, and curtail the good results for
which we have been striving. SGill we
may congratulate each other, that we
have accomplished so much, and are in
good form for future Of aggressive and
victorious work
The present.membershipi is.2, 95l loss In
membership, AZ; number Of loo ges, 35;
amount paid for sick benefits, $1l, 800
90 special relief, 1918 40; education Of
orphans, $500; burial of dead-males,
So 1877 49, females, 81, 09i O0 total paid
for relief, $l7 O29 05. Total mount Of
expenses, $32. 923 80; receipts. $35,
i2s 73i total assets, $l44, 46l.5
To Elevate Men In the Scale Of Humanity.
In his conclusion. Secretary Isaac w.
Hallam says;
las we join hands To-. day, we can view
with pride our good ship Fraternity
borne upon the flooding waters Of
progress freighted with the virtues of
faith, hope and charity to the haven OF
friendship, love and truth, whence are
disseminated those benign influences
that serve TO elevate men In the scale OF
humanity, to make them nobler purer.
worthier- exemplars, 70 whom none need
fear to conform.
Eve may never reach the height to
which we are directed by the sublimity
Of our precepts, but we are pledged to
make the effort, aud as one or the means
70 this end let our legislation at this
session, be subservient to the develop =
ment and advancement OF all that. Is
good and true Ia the virtues that we
enunciate"
Court Case Necessitates an Amendment. .
The Superior Court case Of Rebecca
Emmons VS. Hope Lodge, No 81, l. O.
0 r., is referred to In a supplementary
/ document. In this case the court
decided, contrary to, and by setting
aside the laws OF the Grand Lodge Of
Delaware and OF the Sovereign Grand
Lodge, o o. that In the case of
member who has lost his right to
benefits by reason of nom payment Of
dues, and who dies while serving a
probationary period Of suspension from
benefits as a penalty for such non
payment Of dnes, that q funeral benefit
must be paid In the absence Of specific
provisions on the subject In the consti
tuition and bylaws OF the subordinate
lodge. Resolutions submitted by a
special committee are:
Whereas, The provisions which were
ignored, are already embodied in the
supreme laws Of. the Sovereign Grand
Lodge and OF the Grand Lodge OF Della.
ware, o o. F., therefore be It
Resolved, That It is the sense Of the
undersigned, that the said provisions
should be collated from the laws OF the
Sovereign Grand Lodge and Of the Grand
Lodge OF Delaware, o 0 f and in.
corporstsd into the uniform constitution
forsubordinate lodges in this jurisdiction,
thus amending the same 80 as to conform
TO our supreme laws of order as well as
to comply with the construction placed
thereon by the civil court OF this state,
which Is superior to our supreme laws,
and be 1t further.
Resolves, That copies Of such proposed
amended parts OF the constitution as are
herewith submitted, be forwarded to
the grand master In sufficient number to
| supply at least one copy to each subordi-
nate lodge In this Jurisdiction, with the
request that be will cause such dlstribu-
tion to be made to the subordinate lodges
| for examination and consideration, with
the view Of acting upon them at the
next annual session November 1894 OF
the Grand Lodge Of Delaware, |. o. 0. r.
In accordance with the provisions for
amendments found In Sec. 1, Art XIII
Uniform Constitution.