The Coconino weekly sun., 1894-09-06
THE PYTHiANS.
Recommendations of the Grand Chancellor
 Condition. of the Order Given.

 Recommendations of the Grand Chancellor
 Condition of the Order Given.
 WASHINGTON, Aug. 29.-The conclave
 If the supreme lodge, Knights of
 Pythias, was called to order by Su-
 preme Chancellor w. w. Blackwell this morning. The entrances were care
 fully guarded. The supreme officers
 wore crape badges on their arm as a
 token of respect to the late Past Sa-
 preme Chancellor Shaw, of Wisconsin.
 Supreme Chancellor Blackwell and Su-
 preme Keeper of the Record and Seal R. l.. c. White read their biennial
 reports
 In his report Supreme Chancellor w.
 W. Blackwell first gives the following <statistics of membership according to unofficial reports to July 1, 1894: Grand lodges, 54; subordinate lodges, G,262; total membership, 465, 741 a net increase of 72,O25 during the past two years, The financial condition is most satisfactory. The order universal is in most prosperous condition, and the times are propitious for much greater increase during the next two years than ever before in our history.
 '"The time has come when America should be Americanized, and, however hard it may appear temporarily, the successful accomplishment thereof will be worth all it may cost. have urged upon our German brothers the neces- sity of losing their identity as foreign- CTS by adopting the English language, becoming in fact American citizens as they all profess to be, and of eliminat- ing from their names and societies the prefix of German American, and thus relieving themselves of the unenviable distinction of being foreigners at all"
 Of the saloon question the supreme chancellor declared that lodges which excluded dealers had secured the best material and were the most progress i've. He urged the grand lodge to take decisive action on this matter at this session.
 The report of the supreme keeper of records and seals, R. C. l.. White, says: The number of subordinate lodges December 3, 1893, was COOS and the number of members AS, ,6l5, a net gain during the calendar year of 430 lodges and 29,26l members, and q net gain during the years of 1899 and 1893 of LOOT lodges and sj, 691 members. While the gain is not so large either in subor- dinate lodges or members, as that of the years 1890 and 1891, it is, considering the widespread financial depression during the past eighteen months, both remarkable and gratifying, and it is believed to exceed that of any other secret fraternal or der. December 3l, 1893, the total amount in the trcasuries of the grand lodges was Sl0O, s99. 10, and the amount in those of the subordinate lodges was Sl,ss3, 443.5s. The total amount of the assets of the subordinate lodges at the same date was S7,OGS, ,O54.47. The amount disburscd for relief by subor- dinate lodges during the year 1893 was Sl, ,2O5, 9s, while for the two years in 1892 and 1893 it was g.. 370, 374.13."
 The report of Thomas G. Sample, su- preme master of exchequer, for the year ending March 3l last is recapitu- lated as follows: Total receipts, SOL los. sG; total expenditures, S62,Oi9Gl; balance, April l, 1891, s20 ,Oj955.
 The report of Maj. Gen. James R. | Carnahan, commanding the Uniform Rank, says: The work of organizing | new divisions has been difficult because of the financial depression, and for the reason that our Knights of Pythias, for the most part, being men of moderate means, have felt constrained to hus- band their resources. Notwithstand- ing this condition of affairs, we have had reasonably healthy growth. During the two years ended with March 31, 1892, there have been received and applications for eighteen new divisions. We had on March 3l, 1894, the close of the last fiscal year, 1, l07 divisions, representing member ship of 43, O36, being net gain during the two years last past of 5,l50 From the best information to be gained from the reports as made, the value of the owned by the Uniform Rank to-day aggregates very nearly l,3OO,-