Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1894-09-27
SOVEREIGN GRAND LODGE.
The Odd Fellows Assemblage at
Chattanooga.

CHATTANOOGA, Tenn, Sep
tember 1S-The business session
Of the Sovereign Grand Lodge of
Odd Ferlows this morning as
sembled in Lookout Convention
Hall. The question of the next
place of meeting came up. Wash
ington City had a determined set
of delegates working for her,
but they were in the minority
and Atlantic City was chosen.
Among those who favored Wash
ington there is a great deal of
dissatisfaction. They say that
the wires were pulled by the hotel
men at Atlantic City.
When the election of officers
for the ensuing year came up
Representative Morris of Ken
lucky nominated Deputy Grand
Sire John w. Stebben Of Mary
land, for the office of Grand Sire,
and Representative Mason nomi-
mated Herman Block, of New
Jersey was also placed IN nomi-
nation. Representative Hum
phrey nominated VIM. E. Carlin.
of Illinois. and further nomina-
tions were made in the persons
of John B. Goodwin, of Atlanta;
Hon. Fred Carleton, of Texas; A.
S. Pinkston, of Mass. Gen. E. M.
Sloan, of st. Louis. The nomi-
nations then ceased. and the first
ballot was taken, resulting as
follows: Carleton, 81; Pinkston,
80; Block, %; Isard, %; Carlin,
10; Goodwin, Is; Sloan, +. Second
ballot-Pinkston, 40; Carleton,
"a; Block, %; Isard, 16. Total,
165. Carleton, of Texas, was de
clared elected.
Theodore Ross, of New Jersey
was unanimously reelected as
Grand Secretary and Isaac Shep
pard, of Pennsylvania, was un
animously reelected Crane
Treasurer.
After some routine business the
meeting adjourned.
The grand parade was an houl
late in moving. The column
reached the corner of Ninth ant
Market streets at 3 o'clock
Never before was the main stree
of the city so packed and jammet
with humanity. At the Corne
of Eighth and Market, a gran,
triumphal arch had been erected
and just completed this morning
barely in time to permit of th'
scaffolding before the parad
moved. The structure is the mos
artistic and costly thing of tn
kind ever erected in the South
1t is built in the manner of con
struction used on the World
Fair buildings, and closely re
sembles marble. Emblemati
figures of the Order decorate it
several sides. The arch is reall
three arches in one, the TALES
being sixty feet from base to tor
300 incandescent lights il
Illuminate 1T at night. Unde
this arch one of the most credi
able parades of the kind eve
seen in Chattanooga passee
headed by the Chattanooga polio
force, and two bands. 1t was
imposing spectacle. The feature
of the parade were eight embb
matic floats of the Order. Thes'
in a wel-arranged manner repr'
sented Daughters of Rebekah
THE Sea of Life, ''Jonatha
Before King Saul, +" 1.-The Goo
Samaritan, The Temple {
Truth" ''Odd Fellowship Eli
circles the EARTH" ''Rebekah
the Well" and '.An I. o. 0. ]
Home"
After the parade the visitol
were driven over the Missional
Ridge to Bragg's old headqua
tiers, and owing to the exception
ally fine weather of the afternoe
the drive proved much more e
joyable than the one the ds
previous to Chicamauga.
Tonight a brilliant receptle
and reunion in honor of the pa
Grand Representatives is bei1
held in the First Baptist Chur'
a,alsfori11rp