Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1898-12-05
'ELk'S LODGE Of SORROW.
Very Impressive Memorial Services
Field Yesterday Afternoon

IN THE OPERA HOUSElBELLAIRE
LODGE JOINED WITH WHEELING
LODGE STAGE DEC
CREATIONS = EXCELLENT MUSIC
RENDERED-THE DEAD MEM
BEERS OF THE TWO DODGESLTHE
ADDRESSES DELIVERED BY MIR.
FOLuETT AND THE REV. MR.
DOGGETT.
The annual memorial service of
Wheeling Lodge No. %, B. P. o. Elks,
was held in the Opera House yesterday
afternoon, the recently organized Bell
aire lodge also participating in the ex-
erciSeS, which were of beautiful and
impressive character. In spite of the
inclemency of the weather, there was
very large audience. General sorrow
was expressed when it was announced
by the Rev. Mr.. Robb, just before the
conclusion of the exercises, that Mr..
A. w. Ebberts, chairman of the Memoir
ial Committee, is lying seriously i'll at
the North Wheeling Hospital. Mr..
Ebberts' associates on the committee
were Messrs. julius Reizenstein, John
Klari, Thos. A. Little and DR.. L. n.
Refer.
The stage decorations were very
handsome, the details having been ar
ranged on a more elaborate scale than
heretofore. Suspended from the top of
the proscenium arch, in black frame,
were the words, "Iin Memoriam," light
ed by electricity The officers chairs
were brought from the lodge room and
placed uS3n the stage, and there was
a very tasteful arrangement of palms
and other potted plants. The most
conspicuous and most significant fea-
ture, however, was the grave, covered
with flowers, upon which stood fac
smile of marble shaft, containing the
names of deceased members of Wheel
ing and Bellaire lodges. A wreath Of
evergreen was entwined about the shaft,
symbolic of the beautiful sentiment
which appeared upon the programme:
"The faults of our brothers we write
upon the sand; their virtues on the tab
lets of love and memory"
On the shaft were the names of the
following deceased members of Wheel
ing Lodge: Samuel A. Miller, R. T..
Mansfield, Joseph Melrose, Rufus Will
marth, Samuel Letzkus, William Davis,
Robert B. Simpson, Albert Adler, A. d..
Garden, T. j. Geraghty, A. G. Sprague,
John D. Brown, j. T. Cline, and Kate
Castleton, the last named an honorary
member; and Charles W. Vance, OF
Bellaire Lodge No. 419.
The programme opened with a selec-
ton by the Opera House orchestra,
after which the Elks conducted their
beautiful opening service, in accordance
with the ritual of the order, during
which each member walked to the
stage and deposited a flower upon the
grave. After the singing Of the open
ing ode, prayer was offered by the Rev.
A. G. Robb. Mr.. Will B. Day sang
THE Resurrection, by Chuck, and was
followed by another selection by the
Opera House orchestra. Mrs. Zou
Hastings Frazier sang very sweetly
my Redeemer and My Lord"
The principal address was made by
Hon. A. D. Follett, member of Mari
eta lodge. 1t was brief, but contained
many beautiful sentiments, and was
delivered in a very pleasing and forci-
BILE manner. Mr.. Folqett said:
Amid the onrushing current of this
busy world of ours, when each ones
gaze is firmly fixed ahead on some goal
of his ambition, when each ones
thought and soul are too much absorb
ed in his own affairs to take much note
of the situation of his fellows, when
every man is eagerly pressing forward
to outstrip his comrades, his ears deaf
to their cries, his hands prone to push
aside those who Obstruct or hinder his
advancement, and to push back those
who are crowding upon him, it is we'll
that we have amongst us organizations
like the noble order under whose aus
pices we are here assembled, and whose
departed sons we have here met to hon
or, to call upon us TO look around us
and behind Us. Upon this annual oc-
casion our beloved order commands us
to pause awhile in the pursuit of our
various ambitions, to put out of our
minds the various schemes and plans
for worldly success which so absorb our
thoughts, and to think only of our de-
parted brothers and their sacred mem
DRY. Got that we have ever forgotten
them. Have we ever been assembled
at the solemn hour of eleven but in
silence and in tenderness we have re-
membered "our absent brothers,"
But at this annual Lodge Of Sor-
row we call upon our friends to join
with us in public tribute to the mem
cries of those whose hands once clasp
ed ours in brOtherly recognition, whose
hearts once beat with ours in brOtherly
affection. We are not here to trumpet
forth their fame; we are net here TO re-
cord their achievements upon the page
of history; we are not here with full
some eulogy to sound their praises and
extol their merits. We are here simply
to say-they were our brothers, and
we loved them-they are gone, and we
mourn them. They were men good and
true. With varying degrees of wealth
and station. of brain and culture, Of
fame and worldly success, they were
our brothers, and within our walls we
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