Evening star., 1895-09-16
ODD FELLOWS CONCLAVE
Large Gathering Of the Order at Atlantic
City.
Program of the Exercises to Begin
Representative Parade.

The annual conclave of the Sovereign
Grand Lodge, I. o. O. r. will be held this
week at Atlantic City, y. J., and it is esti-
nated that about 10000 members of the
order and their friends will meet there.
Nest elaborate arrangements have been
made for the entertainment and convent
ence of the visitors, and the convention this
year promises to be one Of the most enjoy
able and successful ever held. The city has
been handsomely decorated, and in front of
the bureau Of information magnificent
arch has been erected, and each state and
territory is represented by flags and shields,
the number of members in each being
shown. Pennsylvania forms the keystone
of the arch, that honor being given the
state, because it leads with a membership
Of 10000.
The visitors began arriving Saturday, and
yesterday special services were held in As
cension P. E. Church, Grand Chaplain J..
w. Venable of Kentucky conducting the
services The program for the rest of the
week is as follows:
Monday, September 16.-9 am. reception
to the officers and members of the Sover-
eign Grand Lodge in the pavilion; addresses
of welcome by mis- excellency, George T..
Werts, governor of New Jersey; his honor,
Franklin P. Stoy, mayor of Atlantic City;
John H. Griffith, grand master of New Jer-
sey; James McMahon, grand patriarch, and
Mrs. Sarah butcher, president OF Rebekai
Association; responded to by j. w. Steb-
birs, grand sire of the Sovereign Grand
Lodge; public admitted. At PM in Odd
Fellows Hall there will be an exemplifica-
ton of the encampment degrees by noted
teams.
Tuesday, September 17.-Parade at 2 pm.
The parade will be under the supervision
of Col. George Wales department COM
m VaTSaU
and his associates on the committee. Should
the day prove stormy the parade will take
place the next day at the same hour.
Formation of parade-PatriarchS Mill
tant, States avenue, right resting on At
lantic; encampments and lodges of New
Jersey, Maryland avenue; encampments and
lodges of Pennsylvania, Virginia avenue;
encampments and lodges of Delaware and
all Others Pennsylvania avenue; grand en-
campments, grand lodges and Rebekahs.
North Carolina avenue; Sovereign Grand
Lodge, South Carolina avenue; all on south
side.
Route of parade-Down Atlantic avenue
to Missouri, ccuntermarching to Rhode
Island. to Pacific, down Pacific to Georgia,
out Georgia to Atlantic, up Atlantic to
Reading railroad depot and dismiss.
Past grand representatives reunion at s
pm. in First Baptist Church, ON Pacific
avenue, below Pennsylvania, to which the
public Is invited. Past Grand Sire Camp
bell of Ontario will preside and Mr.. George
Wright of Allentown, Pa, and Mr.. John B..
Ccchrum of Indianapolis, Ind, will deliver
addresses.
At Odd Fellows HalE New York avenue,
there will be an exhibition of the work by
two or more noted teams at pm.
Wednesday, September 1S Rebekah Day..
disqualification of the work at Odd Fell
lows Hall at pm. Complimentary recep-
ton and ball in the evening to the officers
and members of the Sovereign Grand
Lodge, their wives, daughters, sisters and
friends, at the United States Hotel, on Pa
cifc avenue
During their stay the visitors will be
handsomely entertained, ocean trips. fish
ing and boating excursions. and carriage
rides being provided.
The District will be represented by Can
ton Potomac, Uniformed Rank, which body
left here this morning accompanied by
their drum corps Of twenty-seven pieces,
over the Baltimore and Potomac railroad.
Quite a-number of representatives from the
southern states were on the same train.
The District Grand Lodge will be represent
ed by VIM. p. Allan and F.tA. Stier, and
the District Grand Encampment by Joseph
RurcoughS. NO.