The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-12-22
THIRTY-oNE NEW Hoo-HooS.
THE MYSTIC RITES CONFERRED ON
THAT NUMBER OF INITIATES.

Merry Meeting of the Concatenated
Order at the De SOtO-Kittens
Whose Eyes Were Opened to the
Mysteries of Observation-Disclosures
Cats COn&reEnted From Three
States-The List of Initiates-The
Banquet Jolly Affair.
The concentration of the Conca tenated
Order of Hoo-Hoo, at the De Soto last
night, was jolly affair. The expectations
of the local Hoo-Hoos as to the number
to be received into the order were very
nearly realized. They said they would re-
ceive forty and there were only nine less
than that number initiated.
The confederation was held in the ban
quet room. 1t was called for $50 O'Clock,
and some minutes before that time the
cats began to prowl around the premises.
The lobby was overrun with them before
they were finally corralled and taken up
stairs. There were cats of all kinds and
descriptions, the pur-blind kittens show
ing up among them in considerable num-
Der, and evidently anticipating the ordeal
of iniation through which they were to
pass
The wearers of the badge of the back
cat had been gathered from all over the
state. Some of them were of only a
years standing in the order, while others
had not been in even that long. Many of
the kittens had been called from the lum-
Der regions, though more were from Sa-
Vannah than elsewhere. There was
sprinkling of railroad men and of supply
men among the initiates, the membership
not being restricted to lumber men.
When the Hoo-Hoos closed the doors
in haI 10
knowledge of the outside world in their
doings ceased
They took up the dread secrets Of The
order and went to work with a will ON
the neophytes. An appointment of Hoo
Hoos to perform the initatory tasks had
been made by Vice Regent Shark M. w.
Dixon. They met the night before and
renewed their familiarity with the ritual.
Those who obliged the purring kittens by
receiving them into the full and exalted
standing of grown up cats were: Shark,
NJ. w. Dixon, Senior Hoo Hoo, w. B.
Stillwell; Junior Hoo Hoo, w. F. Baker;
Bojum, A. B. Palmer; Scrivenotor, w.
e. Grady; Jabberwock, Thomas E. King;
CustccatiOn, Harvey Granger; arcanoper,
r. G. Stevens; Gurdon William Den
hardt. When they received the applicants
into the order the officers acted as the
representatives. of the supreme nine. The
initiates were William Church Howard,
Savannah Charles Roderick Mcleod,
Fitzgerald; Frank Xavier Douglass, Sa-
vannah; Walter Boyer Chilean, Ryner;
George Halves Smith, Savannah; Wash
ington Connors Mauldn, Hampton, S. c.;
Alexander st. Armand, Charleston; Wal
ter Byron Bynum, Ryner; Richard Minor
Williamson, Savannah; John Robert Shu-
mate, Augusta Jacob Charles Whteford,
Augusta; John Elton Rountree, Midwife;
Thomas Edward Pelot, Savannah; Will
lam Newton Drake Lyons; Benjamin BaX-
ter Neal, Savannah; James Whitfield
Thomas, Savannah; Charles Catiness Mar
tin, Savannah; Lucien Hamilton Raines,
Savannah; James LawtOn Hers, Savan-
nah; Henry Adams Tabb, Brunswick;
Robert Lee Titcomb, Savannah; John
Bunyon Lucas, Cobbtown; Edgar Shaw
Player, Baltimore; Marion Macleod Dix
on, Offerman; John Leslie Meredith, Sa-
vannah George Alexander Price, Savan-
nah; William bennett Simkins, Savannah;
James Ferris Cam, Savannah; Charles
| Walker Saussy, Savannah; Charles Eu-
gene Jones, Savannah; Lawrence Clark
| Gugcl Savannah and Honorary Member
| Wilmington w. Starr, Savannah.
| A number of visiting Hoo-Hoos attend
! ed the concatenation and were at the BAN
| quet. Among them were ex-Vicegerent
/ Shark of Georgia; Harry w. Anderson of
Atlanta and Vicegerent Shark r. NJ.
| Shankln of the North Georgia division,
! also of Atlanta.
The concentration did not adjourn until
/ 1890 o'clock. The nocturnal habits of cats
were exempllfed in the hour at which the
! banquet was concluded. A number of in
| teresting speeches were listened to, and
! the Hoo oos found it hard to tear them
| selves away from such eloquence.