The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1899-04-10
The Grand Lodge Meeting to Be
Held During May.
now THE ORDER ORIGINATED.
s.er<sasy LiaeoIa II Hard ~ wsYlk
uaking ArranG~aents tn Eater
tsiu . Large Nomber Of Dele
Gates and Members Of the Order
The Flee t0n Of GRaaA O0cerp.

tic Eagles will c1ngregate here In
Aeks next month. They VIII come sailing
= from all over the Pacific coast. from
vancouver and from San Diego. Every
iage city Of California Oregon and Wash
s,gfon and most Of those OF Idaho and
Montana. will furnish delegations. For On
Iays :. and the grand lodge Of the
Traxrnal Order OF Eagles will pe held
{. Ills city. There viii be seventy-tive del
U4es 10 the lodge, and probably 100 yss-
stos From the number who have prom
is1 10 come and the hundreds that are
dtcussing the visit, II would not be sur
pislng IL a greater number came.
This will In reality be the frat grand
bdge Of the order meeting was held
Ast May, but the membership at that time
Eas so small, being confined TO Seattle
alone, that IT could hardly he iignlied by
TIE name Of grand lodge On this ocea-
sion. however, there viii be. represented
twelve lodges and possibly seventeen
Each one 10 entitled TO a delegate at large.
and one for every fifty members.
The order was started a year ago as a
Joke by John cort. John W c0nsialne and
r. j. consiiins. Nose Goldsmith and Ar
thur c. Williams. This ORDER has grown
10 vigorous proportions There ars now
9.38 members, and the weekly Increase IL
enormous The twelfth lodge VIII be or
xanixed at Victoria with large member
ship today. Five other cities viii 10 In
during the next three weeks. AZ Helena
Everett, Los Angeles. San Diego and the
new mining town OF Republic. In Ferry
county, lodges will be organized In time
10 send delegates TO the grand lodge meet
ing, .
and to the fertile imagination OF John
(.ort their existence All order IL chiefly
due. He with the four others mentioned
were saunteFlng about the water 'front.'
one sunday In February, ISIS. when they
reached Moran's wharf. There CDEt. In q
epirtt 0f fan, called meeting 20 order
aud performed some Of hts antics
crowd gathered and be continued the
joke So successful w8s II that 8E aa-
1oarnmsnt waa taken tta the next Sun
day when meeting waA held IN a down
town iheater In few weeks the gath
ering became known RS the order 81 Good
Things Later on when t1e anAlr became
su.5se what more serious s9rt gsgxessei the
name NJ the FrateFDai order al Eagles
Since that time ~ has fourished. The
mesnbeTs are almost wholly sporting men.
RohAnians and men apeut town. In fact
the chief qualification for membership Is
good Fellowship.
Great preparations are being made for
the grand lodge meeting Grand Ssc:e-
making arrangements. benefit per-
formanca will be given az the Seattle
theaier April 10 and -. ut which Doug. as
White will give Illustrated lectures on the
Philippines.
A han0uet Of 500 covers will be given
al Armory aali on the night ~ Mas Z
Probably tie most interesting event OF
the grand lodge feSsfan Riil he the cleo
ton Of grand officers for the ensuing
year. 1T la believed that there wlll b. a
spirited contest. John cort ls now grand
worthy president and most ~ the other
officers are Seattle men. Bat Il ia be-
iievea that Tho possssaHs with ba dstrib-
uted among the several states