Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1897-08-26
IMPROVED ORDER OF Red MEN
Annual Session of Great Coun-
Gil of the United States.
ORGANIZATIONS GOLDEN JUBILEE
Notable Occasion in PhiIadel-
phia Next Month.



of Evehts-Dciawarean Z" DO Present.
The Yernaouihr oil the Braves.
The annual session Of tho Great
Council of the United Statoe. Imp'd.
.. II. NJ, will be held in Philadelphia
during the week commencing Sepiem-
Dor 18th. The occasion will he Of more
than usual interest becauss it will TIC
the celebration OF the golden Jubilee OF
the order. The Great Council Of Della
ware will he represented ny Gaorg1 q.
Byron and William II. Taylor Of this
city and W. G. G. knowles of Laurel.
The general committee having the
celebration 10 charge, of which Harry
j. Shaw is chairman and Harry LAW.
renee secretary, has received numerous
and affirmative responses from business
people who have been requested 10
decorate their establishments with iings
aud bunting aud the colors 0f the order,
green, blue and scarlet, during heu
Mems week, and SO far az the com
mittee and the various tribes can
accomplish it, Philadelphia will wear
gaia dress in honnr Of tho 20, 600
strangers who will be within her gates
The perfected programme OF tho wees
hau not yet been determined, hut tho
rough draft dictates the extensive and
elaborate range Of events that will
mark the jubilee. Some OF tho features
will be the following:
Monday, September l3th-Arrival OF
delegates and other visitors and recep-
| tions at the Headquarters, parlOr q.
Continental Hotel. Committees will he
assigned to meet incoming trains Mt the
various railroad stations
Tuesday neutrality-suspicious. at the
! Continental Hotel and addresses OF vel
CONS by Great Sachem Walter II. Rogers
and larry t. Shaw. chairman of Tho
local committee. In the evening demon
strations at the Academy of Music. ST.
JameH' Hall, Thirty-ninth and Market
streets; Music Hall, Twenty sixth street
and Girard avenue, and Textile Hall,
kensington avenue anu Cumberland
street. .-a.
Wednesday Trolley parties to Willow
Grove for ladies' and drives through
Paramount Park. In the evening ex-
ompliiicstions of the unwritten worl;
at Industrial Hall by teams of Man
tihalah Tribe, No. 3l4; lliawatha Tribe,
No. 36, and Waseua Tribe. No. AZ. These
teams in the order named will work the
degrees of adoption, hunters, warriors
and chiefs.
Thursday All.day excursion tc
Washington Park and steamboat trir
on the Delaware River to delegates and
representatives, including visit tc
Cramps anipyard. In the evening ex'
qualification of the revised degree oil
Tocohontas at hail, Thirtieth and Locust
streets, by Moconaequa Council, No. :3
Friday Banquet by the Dignitief
Club to visiting delegates and variou'
other entertainments.
The business sessions of the Great
Council will take place in parlor u
Continental Hotsl, ON Tuesday, Wed
nesday, Thursday forenoon and Friday
1t is expected that important changes
will be nude in the ritualistic work ant
in the work used in the revised degre,
OF PocnhontHs.
The yernacular of the Rod Mon Il
pitt iresque and interesting. and il
borrowed from the Indians, frum whom
tho order claims TO have descended u
a society. Following are some OF th
forms and phraaee with their deiinI
tions: A minute is breath; an hour
a run; a day, sun; u night, q sleep
morning, rising of the sun; evening
|
midnight, low sun; a week. seven suns
a month, a moon; January, cold moon
February, snow moon; March, worn
, moon; April, plant moon; May, fiowe
moon; June, hot moon; July, bucl
moon; August, sturgeon moon Septem
her, corn moon; October, travelling
! moon; November, beaver moon Decem
| Der, hunting moon; year, greh
, sun; meeting, a council; place o
meeting, wigwum; organizing q meet
, ing. kindling council fire; closing
, meeting. quenchins council fire; |
( tribe, branch OF the orders, a grsa
council, head Of order in u State; on
J white friends, palo faces; treasur
. purac, wampum belt; usual business
3 following the hunt; wronging one
crossing his path twigging. vorine
, money, wampum one dollar, q fathonl
10 cents, foot; one cent, an inch; in
cohonee, chief national officer; sachon
chief officer of state; sagumore, sui
8 chief; chief of cords, secretary
Y keeper of wampuni. treasurer.
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