Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1895-11-23
HEAVY LOSSES.
REV. w. w. BROWNE'S
AWFUL BLUNDER.
Four Weeks Showing.
Receipts Fall Off $II, ,5oS.
Io in Four Weeks.
THE ORDER PARALYZED BY THE IN
SANE ACTION OF THE GRAND
FOUNTAIN.

When the Grand Fountain, United
Order of True Reformers voted at the
dictation of the seller ($50O00) fifty
thousand dollars for q one dollar copy
right on plans which belonged TO The
Order, we said that further growth of
the organization was impossible, that
it's progress would be checked.
Rev. w. W. Browne, with the fifty
Thousand dollars which he had secur-
ed in an apparently legitimate way,
would not see that be was sounding
the death-kneli of the organization
which he claimed to love SO well
The institution had done grand
work, and that one man at the very
moment wnen it seemed to stand on
the thresh-hold of the realization OF all
OF its hopes should wreck it was a
thing to be regretted.
1t was the wish that President
Browne would rise above personal
considerations, disavow the fifty
thousand dollar grab, and tell the
members plainly that the grievous
bluoder would be remedied
Instead of doing this. boasting was
resorted to, and unreliable reports of
progress rolled under the tongue as
sweet morsels We knew that there
were inviolable laws which could not
be changed and that no colored organ
ization in this or any other country
could vote away fifty thousand dollars
TO one man TO be paid now or In the
future, without destroying its pros
poets for permanent success.
We sounded the warning. 1t was
not needed That an idea may be got
ten of the situation. we reproduce an
extract from Grand Worthy Secretary
w. P. Burrell's official statement:
Notwithstanding the slanderous
and libelous articles of the RICHMOND
PLANET, the Chiefs and Deputies re-
port the members as standing solid BY
the Grand Fountain. Four hundred
additions have been made to the mem.
bership since September /, 1895 and
ten applications for charters have
been received
| And again:
"We are perfectly solvent, anC
stand ready to pay dollar for dollar ts
/ any fnint-hearted depositor, who be
, lieves with Mr.. John Mitchell that tn,
Order is on the verge OF dissolution.
As late as November Q, 'o5. Mr. Bur.
relI writes again, no doubt at the die
tation OF the Boss, under the caption
of "A False Prophet"
"In a recent copy Of The RIoHMoNl
PLANET, we saw the words, 'furthe
J growth OF the organization is impossi
ble.'
; The man who wrote those word
wss like the snail, who thought hi
= she'll was the world. Again the sam
prophet said TO STATE reporter, 'Th
! Grand Fountain is on the point of dis
I.olr,ffnD fxrrn -
p block OF the Office of the Grand Fouu
q tain where information is given away
he failed TO enquire for it -
Well, Col" Burrell, we had n
need to enquire for it. You sent it t
q the public.
ri Here are the tell-tale figures Of Nj
R. T.. Hill. Get your Official state
o meiit and compare them as we pro
n pose to do. TIE figures we quote ma
be found in the official statement ii
It sued under date OF September, 189
Il page 16, beginning in the first colum
q and in the official statement issue
n under date of November 8, 1895, pas
IL, beginning in the fourth column.
ghe reports OF the Bank for I'll
d month OF August, 1895, and the r.
l. ports OF the Bank for the month
e September, 1895
1t will be observed that during
rs period of four weeks the total d
J. crease on cash received was ($1I 80
le l8) eleven thousand five hundred al
Ii mine dollars and sixteen cents II
decrease in business done" for Il
a. same period OF time was ISIS, ,939 8
fifteen thousand. nine hundred al
le thirty nine dollars and ninety cents
is The August reports ended Septel
Is lber Is, 1895 and the September ]
" ports ended October IA, 1895.
pc INDIVIDUAL DEPOSITS.
For August, 1895, $1O.4O8
TO For September, 1920
II.
C Decrease in four weeks, 3.17S
The falling of in four weeks v
as three thousand one hundred and s.
OF enty-eight dollars and twenty t
he cents.
m. SOCIETY DEPOSITS.
be For August. 1895, 12S:
ar For September, 1,Oo'
len Decrease, %
ION The falling Of in four weeks was
his hundred and twenty-six dollars
OF twenty-five cents.
'sseI FOUNTAIN DEPOSITS.
a6- For August. 1895, 1,Ss
al For September, 1,eS
to Decrease. d
The falling of in four weeks was
- hundred and sixty-four dollars