The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-05-06
A. 0. U. W.
THE ORDER OWNED THE JUNCTION
CITY LAST NIGHT.
One Of the Most Pleasing Events
That Has Ever Occurred in the
History of the Fraternity in Utah.
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by the A o. U. w, this being the day
decided upon for general fraternal
visit from the Salt Lake members of
the order to their brethren in this city.
The Union Pacific made rate of 81
for the round trip, and all arrange
ments were made for receiving a large
crowd The train arriving here at
o'clock brought seven carloads of mem
bers, together with their wives and
other relatives. The terrific rain storm
was at it's height when it arrived, but
a delegation met the visitors at the
depot All the street cars available
were put at their disposal and. preced-
ed by band, they were conducted to
the lodge room Many of the visitors
were taken to the private homes of
friends. but the greater number were
entertained at the lodge room. There
were in all 800 visitors, 307 on the first
train and SO on the train arriving at
Z o'clock 1t had been the intention to
have the ball in the hall north of the
lodge room, but the crowd was so much
greater than was anticipated that the
Union opera house was secured for the
occasion. The ladies of the
DEGREE OF HONOR
attended to the entertainment of the
guests who were outside of the lodge
room, and dancing began about
o'clock In the hall the regular meet
ing of Fidelity lodge No. g was held,
and it is probable that Master Work
man H. A. Lamdin presided over one of
the largest and most enthusiastic fra
ternal gatherings ever held here. There
are about 500 members of the order in
this city, and these, together with the
visitors, crowded the lodge room,
seated in tiers five deep. Routine work
was gone through with, including the
comforting of both degrees on a candi-
date This candidate was Deputy Sher-
if John D. Sullivan, and while none ex-
cept members of the mystic order are
permitted to know the details of the
institution, it is understood that he re-
manned the self-same Sullivan through
out all and will be on duty today.
A PLEASING INNOVATION
in the regular order was when Judge
H. H Rolapp of Protection lodge "a
made an address of welcome to the
visiting members, saying that while
Ogden members did not pretend to be
great speech makers, still they were
glad to extend to the residents of the
capital city a sincere welcome to the
little city on the north. He further
said: Permit me also to thank you on
behalf of the order generally for this
fraternal visit. Besides the pleasure it
gives to meet you it teaches some
thing. It teaches to members outside
the order that the A. o. U. w. is some
thing besides business organization.
It shows the public that true fraternity
exists within its lodge rooms and
amongst all it's members. 1 can further
say that the password is all you need
tonight. We have the officers under
our control. 1 have personally seen the
chief of police and received a promise
from him that no man who can give
the password will be put in Jail. The
mayor has given US the freedom of the
city and we tender it to you. L can
say. however, that the weather clerk
made a mistake Naughter) We or
dered the rain; it came ahead of time.
We had intended it for representa-
ton clf tears for your departure to-
morrow, but it came too soon. APP
plause.) But however great the gloom
outside, / assure you there is nothing
of the kind, no lack of fraternal
warmth in our greeting to you" Great
Applause.)
Under Good of the Order,' Mr..
Evans of Salt Lake made a strong
speech saying that the visit was plan
ned to deepen fraternal feeling.
]. d. Sullivan sang two fine selec-
tions. Deputy Grand Master Taylor ex-
pressed his qualification over the signs
of the fraternal feeling and compli-
mented the local lodge on the excel
lence of its degree work.
Master Workman Howe of No. u,
Mr.. Brown Of No. is, Mr. Kelly of No
10, Mr.. Bachman of No. 2, Mr.. Gala
CHER GU No. 10, Judge Rolapp and
Major Breeder made ringing speeches
A supper was served to all in the
rooms below the lodge room, the last
table getting through about 1890
o'clock. The ball room was thronged
with large crowd.
Many of the visitors returned on the
special train at 2:30; others returned on
the owl train, while many remained
over to return tomorrow.