The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-10-15
A. P. A. COUNCILS TO DlSBAND.
THE ORGANIZATION ABOUT TO BE
DISSOLVED IN SAVANNAH.

The order In Bad Way for Some
Time and the Election of Last
| Week Gave 1t It's Death BIOw-A
Decision to DiSband Reached at
"A Meeting of Two Councils Held Mt
odd Fellows Hall Last Night-OnIy
One other Council Here, and That
Expected 10 Join in the Movement.
A Committee Appointed to Make
Arrangements for the Dissolution.
There is good reason to believe that Sa-
vannah will soon see the last Of the A p.
A. A movement for dissolution is on foot,
and the probabilities are that it will Gull
inmate at an early date A meeting was
held at the Odd Fellows hall last night,
attended by about 200 members of the or
der, to consider the question of dissolu-
ton. 1t was discussed at length, and
resulted in the adoption of resolutions,
one of which was for the appointment of
a committee to wind up the affairs of the
order, or al least Of the two councils rep
resented in the meeting. The committee
was appointed, and will make it's report
at meeting to be held next week, when
formally dissolve. This will leave only
one council in existence here, and it is
said that a meeting has been called for
tomorrow night to consider the question
Of its dissolution
The order here has been in a chaotic and
disorganized state for several months, and
the election OF last Wednesday week gave
n HrafG afr,c~
at the meeting,a member of the order said,
that the election had given it a death blow,
and that there is no longer any reason TO
continue the organization The verdict was
that the politicians had ruined it,
The Morning News informant said that
he became a member of the order nine
months ago when it had a boom. There
were then six councils, he said with to-
tai membership of over 1000. Council
meetings were held weekly, a meeting be-
ing held every night in the week except
Friday and Saturday. Harmony did not
prevail, however, and the order decreased
in strength as rapidly as 1t had increased
Some time ago the six councils were con-
solidated into three. Now these three are
to go out of business
This information was corroborated by
others who were at the meeting. One
member, who Is on the committee ap-
pointed to consider the winding up of the
COUNCILS SAID, that while his oath would
not permit him to discuss what took place,
the information as to the dissolution of
the order here is correct. The two coun-
ellis which met last night have not dis
solved yet, he said, but very probably will
do 50 at the next meeting, this being con-
templated in the appointment of the COM
mittee. 1t is inferred that this committee
Is appointed to confer with the remaining
council, which was not represented. A
lack of harmony had prevailed for some
time, he said the result being that the
membership did not give it's undivided sup
port to the Citizens Club ticket in the
election. "The election killed it," he add
ed
That the A. P. A. was very strong in
Savannah at one time is generally ac-
knowledged, though the claim of 1850
members may be an overestimate. 1t
certainly did not show any such strength
in the election. Notwithstanding the
large number of members of all classes
who belonged to it it was very difficult
to obtain any information of its doings
showing that the oath taken must have
been very effective one. There is good
reason to believe, however, that the
politicians on both sides had emissaries
in the organization who kept the leaders
fully informed of all the dolngs of the
order