El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1898-02-09
First Public Odd Fellow Funeral.

In the early spring of 1923. Andrew
Work, memb Der of Franklin Lodge,
No. 2. while engaged in superinterd nQ
d shad fishery on the shore OF Chesa-
peske Bay, was accid entally knocked
overheard and drowned. His body was
found and brought for interment 10 his
home in Baltimore, on Bridge Gay
street, near High.
On the ay OF the funeral the widow
informe' the writer that her husbaod
would be buried at night, as the Soc
iety of which he was a member. buried
its dead at m1dn ght. The time fixed
for the funeral was ten o'clock D. M,
when, with several lends, we were
punctually present. The lodge, how
ever. did not appear so early, but was
there in ample time with band of six
or seven pieces, who marched in front.
The procession came iu view with
great glare of light as it was crossing
the bridge, Illuminating the street
thr ough the middle of which it was
passing. To an Impractical eye the
procession seemed to be in the utmost
;ghty men took position in front of
the domcile of the d" ceased. The
chief officer, probably the msrshal,
was the only prison OF the party of
whom we bad any knowledge. Ezekiel
G.. Gill, trunk max er, who was known
to us, but not favOrably. He was very
busy up and down the line, keeping
the columns in order, as we fOOlishly
supposed. But that was our MISTAKE.
We did not know that good order in
tn sse ranks consisted in preserving the
sections in such way as not to have
more than five files in each, and in no
case to have an even number
of files in a section. By such
an arrangement everybody could
readi see that they were Odd Fell
lows Marshal Gill was kept hard at
work preserving equipois of the eec-
tons that is. a front one, three or five
files. Officers and mem bers were in
appropria tie lodge custom gowns, caps,
sashes, collars and aprons of white.
black, blue and scarlet colors. The
gowns as general thing, had been
made to fit much larger men, the same
being true OF cars, which were fashion
ed after the forms of crowns and
coronets Each officer bore the EN-
blem of his Off e in his hand. Six or
even of the mem hers were in deep
mourning and occupied the center of
crowd. These were cnveloped 10 mar
row strips of black muslin or Grape,
which hung from their hats am ost to
the ground They bore black rods,
light or ten feet long, surmounted by
spears of some kind. The spears were
streamers three or four feet long,
pendant Every person not provided
with an Off .ial emblem Of some sort
bore q flaming torch. Some OF the
torches recognized as belonging to q
fire company in the neig hborhood,
others of them were eXtemporized for
he occasion; many OF the latter re-
sem bled rope torches, said to have
been used by the spc'ents on similar
oil ~ n1 n
the coffin was brought forth and placed
in a hearse, which then took in the
center of the column, the bearers of
the black spears surrounded the hearse,
as if acting as pail bearers. The line
of march was taken up with solemn
music aud slow step, toward the church
yard. The distance of half or three
quarters of mile was accomplished q
few minu es before midnight. The
remains were silently lowered into the
grave. Not word was spoken, but
each member threw one or two shovels
full of earth upon the coffin until the
grave was filed up. TIE procession
reformed its disordered ranks, the
mutes as heretofore in the center, and
departed as it came.-From Ridgely's
History Of Odd F QOwship
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