The daily morning journal and courier., 1899-09-26
NATIONAL CAMP, POS OF A.
LIST OF DELEGATES WHO HAVE
 ALREADY SRRIVED.

All Parts of the United States Repre-
 sented-The Importance and Growth
 of the Order.
 The delegates to the biennial session nf the national camp of the Patriotic Order Sons of America arrived in town in large numbers last night, and below is given their respective hotel addresses, Others are expected this morning to the number of eighty or more. The session will open in Odd Fellows hall, 95 Grown street, at 10 o'clock this morning ana will probably continue two days, with morning and afternoon sessions It Is not expected that any radical leglsla- tion will be enacted. This body meets biennially, the last session having been held at Reading, Pa, in 1897, when the semi-centenniaI of the order was cele- brated with elaborate detail. The or- der was founded in Philadelphia in lS47 and flourished principally in Pennsylva- mia until the breaking out of the civil war in 1861, when so many members enlisted in the Union army that the or- der was practically broken up, whole regiments being composed of members. After the close of the war it was reor- ganiZed and has since spread all over the country from Maine to California. The first camp in Connecticut was in- stituted in 1883.
 The list of delegates and the hotels at which they are quartered follows:
 At Hotel Davenport--National Master of Form Asa G. Neck of Ohio, National Assistant Secretary Charles H. Stees of Pennsylvania, National Conductor F. A. Pope, National Guard A. M. Geisbert, Past National President H. J. Stager of Philadelphia, William Weand, state sec- retary of Pennsylvania; Charles A. Bertram, P. B. Erwin, w. s. Frantz, Alfred Frankel, D. J. Gensenier, jr., Charles A. Hasett, Robert c. Hicks, H. A. Klock, M. D., J. Shindel Krause G. s. Maurer, George H. Mover, R. M. J. Reed, James A. Robb, John Ruth, W. H. Schwartz, P. A. K. Schwenk, M. D., c. Allen Smith, George w. Webster, J. K. Whittle, Daniel M. Sharp, Henry S. Frank, all of Pennsylvania; J. A. Metz jr., of New Jersey, F. D. Pprviance, s. D. Symnes of Indiana.
 At the New Haven house-National
 
 National Vice President J. G. Horner of New Jersey, National Treasurer F. P. Spiese of Pennsylvania, National Secre- tary F. E. Stees of Pennsylvania, State President Cameron Shultz, M. D., of Pennsylvania J. Harry Hughes, wife and daughter, Arno Leonhard and wife, J. Harry Hughes, jr., w. w. Baker, AL bert Labenstein, R. B. Clayton, Mrs. R. M Grove and daughter, Mrs. A. Hesger, all of Pennsylvania.
 At the Hotel Garde-D. K. Keiss, M. D., National Chaplain D. F. Rupley, c. w. Brunner, B. G. Hess, George H. At water, C.. N. Chapele, John Rover, c. B. Reis, A. c. Cleaver
 The badges worn by the committee men were startling and elaborate It was very expensive badge and one that was generally admired. A gold plated bar pin supported the body of the badge. The word word "Committee," cut from bars, was mounted on a heavy silk background. The seal of the order in enamel work fringed with gilt form ed the centerpiece. From this wooden nutmeg hung. Two miniature Ameri- can flags were set on either side. Red white and blue streamers appropriately inscribed completed the badge. The members of the committee are: E.. B. Evarts, chairman H. H. Hayden, secretary; l.. H. Beardsley, treasurer; c. w. Ross, J. H. Peck, c. E. Hayes, M. s. Wadhams of Camp No. 1, F. A. Evarts, w. E, Beardsley, B. Bretzfe!der, G. R. Johnson J. Mcclure, T. Whittle- sey, R. O. Phillips of Camp No, 4, A. J. Willard of Camp No. S.