The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-06-22
EIGHT THOUSAND ELKS IN LINE.
The Bozeman Delegation Presents the
Lodge a Silver-Tipped Gayel,

Lodge silver-Tipped Gavel.
st. Louis, June 21-Incoming trains
brought in several hundred beated
Elks from various parts Of the coun-
try. Chairman Kehrman Of the regis
tration committee estimates there is
fully 5000 Elks in the city The
weather continues fine though warm.
To-day the principal event was pa
rade, in which all the Elks partici-
pated The buildings along the line of
march were beautifully decorated and
thousands of spectators cheeTed the diff
ferent lodges as they marched. 1t took
the parade one hour to pass a given
point. During that time not a car
wheel was turned in the down town dis
trict, owing to the congestion of traffic,
and business on the streets was prac-
tically suspended.
The grand lodge went into secret SEES
sion at 2 o'clock, the proceedings being
opened with an invocation by Grand
Chaplain Rev. r. F. Rosecamp of Ko-
komo, Ind. A silver-tipped gavel was
| presented to the grand lodge by the
Bohemian, Mont, delegation. The ques-
ton of new constitution was debated
at great length and finally, after the
| submission and adoption of a number
| of amendments, brand new constitu-
| ton and an entirely new code of laws
| We're adopted. The new constitution,
| it is understood, differs radically in
| some respects from the old one, and
| these changes are considered by the
| members to be of the utmost import
! ance to the order Just what these
! changes are could not be learned,
| owing to the profound secrecy main
tanned by the delegates.
1t was decided that hereafter the
grand secretary and grand treasurer
shall furnish bonds at the expense of
the grand lodge, and that all officers
shall be elected at the first days
meeting of the grand lodge. A propo-
sition to abolish the pass word was re-
| iected. A warm contest over the place
for holding the next meeting between
Milwaukee and Atlantic City, resulted
in favor of the latter The meeting is
to be held on the second Tuesday in
July, 1900. The conelave then adj
| journed until 9 o'clock tomorrow
morning.
made a great hit. 1t appeared as the
prospective Manila lodge, the members
being blackened up and dressed as
Filipinos.
A platoon of mounted police led the
procession, followed by the marshall
and his aides on horseback and the
| St. Louis lodge acting as escort to the
grand officers and members of the
! grand lodge in carriages. Organiza-
tions from the following cities were in
| line: Ottumwa, Iowa: Lexington, KY
Belleville Ill.,: Grand Forks, N. D..
i Owensboro, Ky; New York, Cincin-
natl, Toledo, Terre Haute, Baltimore
! Denver, Milwaukee. Greenville, Miss.
| Kansas City, Allegheny City, Pa.
| Greensburg, Ind. Louisville, KY; Jol-
| let, ILL.,; Nashville, Davenport Sioux
Falls, Newport Ky: Indianapolis
| Washington and delegations from Ar
| kansas.
! Each lodge In line had some distinc-
tive dress, either in form or something
| unique or startling in effect The ST
Louis lodge, with 400 men in line
dressed in gray and carrying purple
and white umbrellas, made a fine ap-
| pearance. Owensboro, KY, lodge No
513, the youngest in the order, at
tracted attention all along the line.
| Calling themselves the babies of the
order, they dressed accordingly in
long white slips, with white bonnets
and carrying bottles of milk. Gin
cinati lodge No. 5. dressed as golfers,
with red coats and short trousers.
The cherry pickers'' of Toledo in red
uniforms and carrying rolled umbrel-
las; Terre Haute, Ind. lodge No. Sc. in
| white duck Prince Albert suits, and
| Louisville lodge No. s, in immaculate
white flannel drill uniforms, divided
honors for neatness in appearance and
the precision in their movements The
members Of the Greenville, Miss. lodge
NO AS, were dressed as southern field
handS, carrying bags of cotton.