The San Francisco call., 1899-03-12
Gathering From All
Over the State.
TO ELECT REPRESENTATIVES
RECEPTION IN OAKLAND ON
THURSDAY NIGHT.
a Team CT knights in Rich Robes to
Exemplify the Ritualistic
Work in B'ne Birth
Hall.

Next Friday there Will be a grand
gathering in this city Of the knights
Of the Maccabees of the World
as that day has been chosen by
State Commander S. w. Hall for
State convention. The previous one
was held here in 1897. On the same day
the Ladies of the Maccabees will hold
their first State assembly, which has been
called by Mrs. EudOcia S. Moffat, deputy
supreme commander for the West and
and State commander for California.
These two organizations by the delegates
will represent eighty tents of the knights
with a membership in this State of about
$500 and thiTty-nine hives of the Ladies
with g membership of 1900. Dur
ing the past two years the knights have
increased their membership in this juris-
diction by 1000 and instituted thirty-four
new tents which is the name used to des-
ignate what in other orders are known as
lodges. During that period six lodges con-
solidated-four in San Francisco, one In
Los Angeles and one in Redwood City.
The largest tents in the State are Los
Angeles No. 2, with 1015 members; Call
fornia Banner Tent No. 6, with 465, and
San Francisco Tent No. IS, with 297. Cal
ifornia pays the second largest camp tax
in the entire order in the United States,
Minnesota leading.
The principal business of the approach
ing convention will be the selection Of
representatives TO the supreme Tent
which is TO meet in Port Huron, Mich,
next July. Under a rule of the order the
officers who are to assist the State COM
mander during the convention only are
named by that officer at the opening OIL
the convention. During the session there
will be brought up matters looking TO the
advancement of the order in TINS state
and there will be something done IN the
matter of establishing a uniform rank OF
The programme that has been decided
on is as follows: On Thursday evening,
the 18th there will be a public reception
in the Maccabees Hall at Twelfth and
Franklin streets to the delegates to the
convention and to the assembly by the
members of Oakland and Argonaut tents
and of Carita and Oakland hives, acting
in unison A fine programme has been
arranged for the entertainment of the
visitors and their friends who have been
invited. Two thousand invitations have
been distributed.
On the following day, at 10 o'clock, the
knights will meet in the metropolitan
Hall of the B'ne Birth building, where
the representatives of the different tents
will be addressed by Mayor Phelan, who
has consented to welcome them to this
city. The forenoon session Will be taken
up with the presentation OF the report OF
the State commander and discussion
thereon. In the afternoon the chief busi-
ness will be the selection Of representa-
tiVes to the Supreme Tent, and in the
evening there will be an eXemplifcation
of the ritualistic work by the degree team
of San Francisco Tent in its most elab-
crate regaGa and costumes, which cost
nearly $500. This team has been rehearS-
ing for some time and will have the ex-
emplification letterrperfect. This will be
followed by a collation. and speeches.
The following named are delegates to
the convention:
John E. Nalon. jamestown; D. R. Shafer, Big
Oak Flat; Charles J. Walter J. NJ. Schaefe
William Z. Chamberlain, D. w. Flanagan and
c j. Dahl Los Angeles; F. L. Mitchell, Santa
Ana; D. G. Clayton. Riverside; W. S. Lacey,
lie san Bernardino; W. A. Beckett, Garden
Grove; J. H. Platz, Santa Barbara; P. a.
dolph Jansen. Pomona; R. J. Smith, San Diego;
Elk; Frank W, smith, Reddng; William Ham
Switzer Napa J. P. Belsham, Antioch; ].
MacCarville, Dunsmuir; E. G. Burland, Wat
sonvine H H Hines, LOOMS: Charles Gug-
giles Lodi; D. W. Bates and H. L. Tickner.
San Francisco; Marion +. Ball, Santa Cruz;
F b TIchenor and R. NJ Brown Oakland; W.
l, Rose, Amador city: E. F. Hebener, Wood
land: W. F. Retro, Sacramento; ]. G. Kirch-
ner. Klamathon; J. D. Swartz. Middleton; j.
D. McNeal, Compton; I. H Lehi. Santa Monica;
J. H. Hardis Downey; ]. z. Place. Dos Palos;
A Mock, Alameda; G. b. Clark. Hanford; T
H. Hammer, Red Bluff; H V. Muller, Salinas
J. H. Gregory, lone; r. E. Ross. Fort Bragg
z. E. southwont, Benieia; E H. Gum, Au-
burn
The Ladies of the Maccabees will hold
their assembly in Golden Gate Hall. with
headquarters in the Lick House, where
be the election of the States representa-
tives to the supreme hive. In the after
noon there is to be a business session in
Golden Gate Hall, commencing at 2
o'clock, and that will be devoted exclu-
sively to an eXemplification of the rit-
ualistic work in full paraphernalia by a
team from San Francisco Hive, and in
the evening there will be served lunch
con to all lady. Maccabees The, follow;
ing morning the State commander will
conduct a school of methods in the par.
lors of the Lick House under the good of
the order
The local committees that are to look
after the welfare of the delegates are:
For the knights-Edwin Seary, 7. j. Har-
ris, z. II. Stevens, H. L. Tickner. II. II.
Coggels, D. B. Richards and w. II.
Waterhouse. For the ladies-Mrs. G.
Wastier Mrs. Ida J. Leroi. Mrs. frankie
Harris and Mrs. Iibbie Diel.