The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-09-19
REPORTS OF THE OFFICERS
M embership Is Creeping Up Towards
the Million Mark - New Lodges
Are Being Instituted All
Over the World.

spirits of Odd Fellows enough to keep
them away from the public welcomes
extended at the Detroit opera house by
Mayor Maybury and Michigan Odd Eel
low officers. Every representative en-
Titled to place on the floor of the Sow
ereign Grand lodge was in his place
when the session opened, 1879 men from
every state and territory and the
Canadian provinces.
1t was necessary to postpone a trolley
ride about the city planned for this
evening until Saturday. which had been
left open for individual sight seeing,
Tonight the visiting ladies were enter
tanned in Light Infantry armory by the
Union Rebekah Degree Staff of this
city Fffty-six ladies, the largest de-
gree team in the history of Odd Fellows,
exemplified the Rebekah degree.
sovereign grand officers. grand lodge
ana the grand encampment and various
other functionaries of the independent
Order of Odd Fellows walked to the
opening session of the 18th annual
meeting of the order to-day through a
drenching rain. They were escorted
from headquarters, the Hotel Cadillac,
70 the Detroit opera house, where pub
Tic reception exercises were held by the
military environments of the order pres
ent in the city.
Arriving in front of the theater, the
patrfarchs militant stood in line with
swords at present, while 800 umbrella
bearing sovereign and state officers,
delegates to the sovereign grand lodge
ana to the Michigan grand lodge, filed
past In pairs and entered. The proceed
ings opened with orchestral music.
On the stage were sovereign grand
nd
were to voice the welcomes. GREETINGS
were extended by Col. o. A. James,
chairman of the general local commit
tee; Mayor Maybury for the city and
state: Col. II. 8. Sellers, grand master,
representing the Michigan grand
lodge; Robert Donovan, grand patri-
arch Of the Michigan grand encamp-
ment; Brigadier General c. S. Martin,
department commander of Michigan
patriarchs militant and by Mrs. Emma
Haskin, president of the Rebekah as
sembly.
Governor Pingree was unable to ap-
pear owing to illness and Mayor May
bury welcomed the visitors on behalf
of the city and state. OF Odd Fellow
ship the mayor said:
1t was one of the first, if not the
nrst, society to make men brothers and
to make my neighbor the man who
needs me and is deserving of my help"
Hon. AlfredsS. Pinkerton, grand sire,
responded to the welcomes, after which
the sovereign grand lodge representa-
tives proceeded to Harmony hall, where
the first business session was held
Grand Sire Pinkerton made his an
nual report to the sovereign grand
lodge. Mr.. Pinkerton said:
THE evidence of the work of aggres-
sive, progressive force of Odd Fellow
ship is a refutation of the false asser-
tiDn that the nj af ha
world are not as good as We're their
fathers. Welcome every agency that
lends a helping hand to those who need
1t. Dec. 81 last our subordinate lodge
membership was SS0,961 and the num-
Der of sisters enrolled in Rebekah
lodges numbered 10000
Referring to the finances of the order,
Mr.. Pinkerton said:
The great source of our financial
life is the outcome derived from the
sale of supplies. 1t has never been our
policy to accumulate money, nor has
intentional extravaganza been INDUCED
in. Still, as a rule, our expenditures
exceed our revenues and a continuance
can have but one result. i do not be-
lieve that biennial meetings of the SOW
ereign grand lodge or fixed place Of
meeting will solve the problem. The
only remedy is a reduction in the sum
paid for mileage"
L ne SFdflu sire gave an epltOme MS
tory of the order and it's growth, re-
ferring to the relations existing be-
tween the American order and those
of foreign countries. Appended to the
report We're reports of the condition of
the order in Europe, Japan, Hawaii,
South America, Alaska and Northwest
Canada.
Grand Secretary Grant made a very
voluminous report. The secretary re-
nnrta6 OipO SnprapspS hp
year in both the subordinate and Re
bekah branches, that of the former hav-
ing been greater than in any year since
1892. A small decrease was reported
in the encampment branch, smaller,
however, than in any other of several
years past Another evidence of pro-
gress during the year, said the secre-
tary, is found in the unusually long
list of warrants issued. In Hawaii.
the Netherlands and
Alaska new charters have been asked
for
Favorable reports are coming in from
Cuba, and a new lodge is to be insti-
tuted at Buenos Ayres.
1.-THE number of foreign grand lodge
is increased to 1897
The secretary gave the following sum-
mary of the condition of the order Dec.
81, 1898:
Sovereign grand lodge, /; indepen-
dent grand lodges, Denmark, Germany,
Sweden and Switzerland; subordinate
grand lodges. IS: subordinate grand ell
55; subordinate lodges, H. |
T96; subordinate encampments. 2,641; |
odge members. S59, 1923; encampment |
MEMBERS 12S,267: Rebekah lodges, 5.OIl; |
members of Rebekah lodges, 313. 1853. |
The whole increase in all branches of |
he order for the year was S0,225. The |
report showed the relief expenditures |
by lodges to be $3,126,o50 relief by en- |
1929, 1856, and by Rebekahs, |
AZ ,147 making a total of sS.422, 1856. The |
otal expenditures of subordinate |
edges figures s4,159,726. The revenue |
If subordinate lodges amounted TO ST. |
~ ,2S2; subordinate encampments, |
1850. 1852; Rebekah lodges, s44334 total, |
IS, 1883. The total invested funds az
sregate s27, 1884
Many resolutions were offered The |
most important one was introduced by |
Young of Maryland and |
s aimed at the mileage paid representa-
ives to the Sovereign Grand lodges At |
present 10 cents per mile is allowed for |
delegates living east of the Rocky |