The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1899-09-19
ODD FELLOWS.


49,, .o,
opening Oh tue sevehIy'hL'" n'u
Meeting OF the Grand Lodge anu
Grand Encamnmcnt.
,,,,r,,,,,,1, 80 40 -co,,ora,s,r GRAND
LEI 1oAA' SEPT i''
officers, grand lodge ana grand ehealHP-
ment officials and various other func-
| ,t,,,,,o. ~ tho Tp5anendent Order OF
ItCt,',I'I ~ .,,,,,t,,,, sac
ODD Fellows. walked 10. lhe opehius 'e
sion Of the Seventy-fifth annual meet
,rg NJ the order to-day through q
,.1,.,- Th.,, ,ya-o escorted
drenchihB ram Ahe' Mee
from headquarters, the Hotel CadlIlac'
10 tho Detrolt Opera. House, where pub
~, ....-,,to,, ,o,,aroI.a, v,oro hold nv the
'lc teUep''V4l 80 49, - ~ o,5or
military encahlpIheh's o s"e oNst
present in the city. Arrived In front
NJ the thentre the patrinrchs militant
III, I,,,..,,, a. n-oSant
STOOD IN hhe Win s"o'uS ~ PteSs"N
while 800 umbrella bearing soVereighs
and state officers. delegates to the SOW
| 49, -, -, o,,l % tho Michigan
eFe'sn st"i'u 49, - -, p.
grand lodge hled past IN pairs anu GU
tered the theatre.
Tho nroceedInRs Opened with or
| q ~. 40 ,,,.ro tbs
chesUal music y" 'i'e S'"e. "
sovereign grand sire ana grand otlceFs'
| and those who were to voice the well
comes. Greetings were EXTENDED by
Col. c. a. Jones, chairman oil the gem
eral local committee; Mayor Maypury'
for the city and state, Colohel ~ n
Sellers, grand master, representing ne
Michigan lodge, Robert Donovan, grand
patriarch OF the Michigan grams. en-
campment; Brigndier c: 5. Martin, aS-
partment commahder NICnlsai 49, st.II
archs militant, and by Mrs. Haskin'
president OF Rebekah assembly.
Governor Plngree was unable 10 up
pear, owing to illness, and Mayor May
bury welcomed the visitors on Dshalt
OF the city and state. OF Odd FelioW-
ship the mayor said: 1t was one OF
the first, II not the first society 10 make
men brothers, and to make my nelgh-
Dor the man who needs me ana Is de-
serving Of my help"
Hon. Alfred S. Pinkerton, grand sire.
responded to the welcomes, after when
the sovereign grand lodge representa-
lives proceeded to Harmonic nall whGye
the first business session was heIu:
Grand Sire PlnkeTtOn made MS annual
report to the sovereign grand lodge
Mr., Pinkerton said: The evidence OF
the work OF the aggressive. progressive
force OF Odd Fellowship Is REPUTATION
OF the false assertion that present ciu-
zens OF the world are not as goou as
were their fathers Meicome every ~
agency that lends helping hanu 70
those that need 1t. December l last
our subordinate lodge membership was
SSO,gOi, and the number OF sisters en-
rolled in the Rebeknh lodges numbered
i9O.OO7. These figures enable US, iOT
the first time, to honestly claim frater-
nal affiliations with over a million per-
sons.
Referring to the finances OF the or
der, Mr.. Pinkerton said: The great
source OF our financial life Is the In
come derived from the sale OF supplies.
II has never been our policy to accu-
mulate money, neither has Intentional
extravaganza been INDUCED: Still, as
n rule, our expenditures exceed our
revenues, and Il continuance OF such n
condition Gan have but one result -!
do not believe that biennial sessions OF
the sovereign grand lodge. or fixed
The seeming remedy is a reduction in
the sum paid for mileage"
The grand sire gave an cpitome his
tory Of tho order and its growth, re-
ferrIng to the relation existing between
the American order and those OF for
elgn countries. He reported that M,
fairs OF the adversely situated ana
| widely separated DfotheTHuuu WIZ
generally In prosperous condition. APP
panded 10 the report were reports on
mo condition OF the order In Europe,
Japan, Hawaii South America, Alaska
and Northwestern Canada.
Grand Secretary Grants was very
yoIumInous report. The secretary re-
porfed encouraging Increase In mem
hcribip FOR the year In both the sub
ordinate and Rebckah branches. that
of the former having been greater than
", y,n s"' rsported in the encampment
branch, much smaller. however, than W
any othcr OF several years past.
Another evidence OF progress during
Tho wear. said the secretary, 'is found
IN the unusually long lIst OF warrants
/ the Netherlands md Alaska new char
, tiers have been nskad for, Fnvoraplg
reports are coming In from cuba ana
, n new lodge IL 10 be Instituted NJ sue