The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-08-30
GRAND MASTER A. N. MANUcY.
HAUPT LODGE EXPRESSES ITS
PLEASURE AT HIS ELECTION.

Handsome COLLATION. Spread at odd
Fellows Hall Last NIght-A Picture
of the New Grand Master Presented
20 Haupt Lodge Through MIR. J. f.
II. Beckvvith-The Gift Received for
the Lodge by Grand Marshal Jonas
Mendel-Other Speeches in Honor
of the Occasion.
Haupt Lodge OF Odd Fellows expressed
its qualification and its sense OF honor at
the election Of its faithful secretary. Mr..
A. n. Manucy. to the chair Of grand mas
ter Of the order in no uncertain terms last
night. There was large gathering Of
members and invited guests at the lodge
room. and after the regular exercises Of
the lodge had been gone through with the
meeting was thrown open to guests not
members Of the order.
The first thing on the programme was
the partaking of very satisfactory COLA
ton. The guests were seated at two long
tables one on each side of the room. with
a smaller table in the center. At the head
of the center table were Noble Grand w.
W. Gordon, Jr.. and the grand master.
Other prominent Odd Fellows seated at
this table were Hon. J. +. b. Beckwith,
Mr.. w. w. Chisholm. Grand Treasurer
John S. Tyson, Grand Marshal Jonas Men
del. Maj. John schwarz. Mr.. Warning Rus
sell. T. A. Askew, DR.. L. A. Falligant, ].
van Berschot, T. H. Laird and others. At
ter the eatable had been disposed Of the
noble grand raped for order and pro-
ceeded to read several letters which had
been received from prominent Odd Eel
lows, expressing their regret at their ina
bility to be present and their sentiments
towards the new grand master. Letters
were read from Grand Representative c.
H. Dorset. Hon. John b. Goodwin of At
lanta. Sovereign Representative ]. G.
Bloodworth of Atlanta, Grand Secretary
John G. Deitz Of Macon and Hon. John S.
Boynton of Griffin, grand conductor.
Mr.. Gordon then as noble grand ex-
pressed the pleasure and qualification of
Haupt lodge at the election of one of its
members to the position Of grand Haster,
he being the first member of the lodge
to have such an honor conferred upon
him. Mr.. Manucy's career and his strug-
giles in early life were recited as showing
what will and determination can accom-
plish. At the close of his remarks Mr..
Gordon proposed the health of the new
grand master, which was drunk standing
by the members and followed with three
hearty cheers.
Mr.. Manucy responded to the vociferous
calls for a speech. He expressed his
appreciation Of the sentiments expressed
by the noble grand and their evident in
dorsement by his fellow members. He had
regarded the position of grand master
as a high and worthy ambition since
q hpparnp a he
When he first entered Haupt
lodge fourteen years ago. he said,
he found it very weak. With few other
members he decided to put his shoulder
to the wheel and make the lodge a power
for good in Odd Fellowship. He felt that
this had been accomplished in contrasting
the present strength of the lodge with its
past weakness. The honor which at
tached ito the Office of grand master he
said, fell not upon him, but upon the
lodge which he represented. He assured
them that if love, zeal and desire for
the success of Odd Fellowship could make
the term of the grand master
a success that his term should
be success and the standard
of odd Fellowship advanced fur
Their than ever before. Mr.. Manucy spoke
at some length of the influence of Odd
Fellowship and the power of its friend
ship in aiding worthy ambitions of its
members. The occasion, he assured them,
would ever be treasured in his memory
as one of the most pleasant of his life.
The speech of the evening was made
by Hon. j. +. B. Beckwith in the present.
alton of crayon portrait of the new grand
master to Haupt Lodge. Mr. Beckwith
dwelt eloquently upon the early struggles
of his subject and of the sure and GER
tain manner in which he had gradually
surmounted all obstacles and at last
placed his feet upon the rounds of the
ladder Of success. Mr.. Beckwith drew
a graphic picture of the democratic con-
vention of 1894, when the previously I'M
known commission merchant bounded to
the front and won fame and applause
by his mastery impromptu speech in
nomination of the Hon. William Clifton
for secretary of state 1t was critical
juneture, the gentleman who was to
have put Mr. Clifton in nomination be-
ing absent from the room, and there
being apparently no one to take his place
That speech, the speaker said, attracted !
more attention than any other speech
made at the convention and brought the
speaker into prominence as a man of
weight in his party. There were loud
cheers when Mr. BeckWith unwrapped
the picture and displayed the likeness
of the grand master to the audience.
The picture is an excellent one Three
cheers were given for Mr.. Beckwith for
his eloquent address.
Grand Marshal Jonas Mendel received
the picture in behalf of the lodge and
spoke of the excellent work done by Mr.
Manucy in building up the lodge. When
the present grand master became a men,
Der of the lodge, he said, it was one of the
weakest branches Of the order. To-day
it has a membership of 20 and over 5000
surplus in the treasury, due, Mr. Mendel
said, to the able work of its secretary, now
the grand master.
Addresses complimentary to the grand
master and his work in behalf of the
order were made by Mr.. w. w. Chisholm,
Mr. T. A. Askew Mr.. J. Van Berschot,
DR.. L. A. Falligant, Capt. T. H. Laird and
Mr. Waring Russell. The occasion was a
most pleasant one, and it was a late hour
when the meeting adjourned.