The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-09-17
order of the Black Cat Captures
Zion.
SHARKS AND JOBBERWOCKS
AND OTHER MYSTERIOUS AND
INDUSTRIOUS BEINGS.
Curious and Fantastic Organization
of Lumbermen and Its Weird Or
igin-Visitors Include Some of the
Heaviest Lumber Operators In the
United States.

The Concatenated Order of Hoo. Hoos
arrived in town yesterday morning and
took possession of the Knutsford. From
the south and the east they have jour-
neyed, and brought with them vast re-
sponsibilities attached to the lumber
and allied trades. To be a Hoo Hoo
one must be connected in some way
with the trades that deal in forests,
clapboards and shingles; buzz-saws
and other machinery that tbs better
not to monkey with; or do space work
on lumber newspaper
Origin of the Order.
Tradition says that the order had its
origin one night eight years ago. A
weary lumberman was awakened at
nine minutes to 9 in the evening by a
scratching on the footboard of his bed
He awoke, terroriZed, to find the figure
8 attached to pair of nimble legs, gy-
rating about the room. On the foot
board sat a coal black cat, licking her
chops. Cedar shingles" said the cat.
! L am here to reveal unto you the mys-
| ticisms connected with the illustrious
and ancient Concaterated Order of Hoo
| HooS. Behold the figure endowed
with life! Let that be your symbol,
for therein lies your future strength
and worth. The figure is symbolical
of many things. l have nine lives, and
| there's an irresistible argument called
the cat O. nine tails. There are nine
muses., and a baseball team has nine
players, and they play nine innings,
when they don't end up in a fight at
| the end of the seventh. There are nine
commandments. plus one, and there
are nine stars in the Big Dipper, minus
i q I. q L
4 plus 5, and 2 plus Z. And there are
many other mysteries attached to it
that you will learn when your children
go to school and ask you questions of
an arithmetical nature, when they re-
turn home. l am the Black Cat that
purs when things go the way l wish
them to, and bites and scratches when
they don't. Both of these are virtues
not possessed by the average lumber
man, and you will do we'll to cultivate
them. Retain me as the insignia of
your order"
Modern Interpretation.
The more modern Interpretation of
the Order of Hoo Hoo reveals the fact
that nine lumbeTmen were stranded in
Gurdon, Ark, in 1891, and, to while
away the dragging hours, they origin
ated the society that has extended its
influence and. membership to every
state in the Union and now has an en-
rollment of about $500. The total mem
bership is limited to 1899.
The society exists as a. social organi-
cation exclusively, and it's initiatory
ceremonies are wierd, fantastic and
grotesque enough to suit all tastes.
They meet on the ninth day of the
ninth month at nine minutes to the
ninth hour in the morning, each wear.
and elect officers whose names indi
fI,o+ fhn he road their
Lewis CAROLS Through the Looking
Glass - and the Hunting of the
Shark" to good purpose. The controll-
ing influences of the society are vested
in the supreme nine, consisting Of the
shark of the universe, senior hoo-hoo,
junior hoo-hoo, bojum, scrivenoter, jab-
berwock, custocatian, arcanoper, cur
don.
The Grand Shark.
The grand shark of the universe for
the current year in the Hoo-Hoo call |
endar is Mr.. George Lock of Lake
Charles. La Mr.. Lock was elected at |
the annual convention held in Denver !
last week, and looks much less harm !
full in black suit and white beard |
than the original shark as conceived |
by the fertile brain of Lewis Carroll. |
Some of the bojums and jabberwocks |
took Shark Lock out to Saltair yester-
day afternoon ana soaked MIN III the I!
brine to get out of him the usual
amount of freshness that is always in |
evidence but i'll becomes a newly elect !
ed shark.
Shark Lock will go to the Paris ex-
position next year to see that the |
French Hoo-Hoos are properly in
itiated.
List of the Visitors.
The following Hoo-Hoos were in town
last night with their wives and fam
lilies: George Lock and wife of Louisi-
ana, S. T. Miller of Joplin, Mo-. H. N.
Barnes of Joplin, Mo-; W. F. Branman
of Chicago, j. D. Hand of Mobile, Ala;
Guy H Mallam of Kansas City, j. S.
Bailey of Way Cross, Ga; D. Call of
Beaumont, Tex; j. B. Goodhue of
Beaumont, Tex; G. B. DAIMLER, NJ, D.,
of Mobile, Ala; G. II. Hill of Atlanta.
All these men are prominent in lum-
Der circles and represent some of the
largest operators ir yellow pine in the
country. They wi be in town for a
few days and will hen return east to
Denver.