Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1899-09-21
PATRIARcHs MILITANT LEI
TEN THOUSAND ODD FELLOWS AND
REBEKAHs IN DETROIT.
Arch of Welcome a Failure and Had
to Be Torn Down-PrOposition to
Hold Biennial Instead of
Annual Sessions Was
Voted Down.

DETROIT, MICH, Sept. 2o.-For more
than an hour this afternoon, 4,5DO Odd
feilows and their sisters of the Rebekah
oroer were passing in review before Grand
sire Plnkerton, Deputy Grand Sire Cable
ana Major General ]. P. Ellacott, chief of
the grand sires staff. 1t was the finest
and largest professions seen in Detroit
since the great C. A. r. parade in 1880.
fuiiy n score of bands furnished the music
Street car and other traffic was suspended
along the line of march, and the police
Kept the crowds of spectators we'll back
on the sidewalks.
Brigadier General Martin. commander of
the Michigan department of the Patriarchs
Militant, led 1,0JD members of the military
branch of Odd Fellowship. all in full uni
form, carrying drawn swords. Their per-
iect marching. excellent evolutions and fine
appearance drew constant applause from
the crowds that packed the Woodward ave-
nue. sidewalks from curb to building fronts
ONO sent SIX cantons of PatriarchS, Indi-
ana three. New York three, Pennsylvania
three, Massachusetts, three. Michigan three
and st. Thomas, Ont, one. Grand canton
from Akron. O., and Syracuse canton at
tracted especial attention by their num-
bers and perfect marching.
Subordinate encampments followed the
gayly attired and military looking Patri-
| archs with a large float representing THE
| Plains of Mamre.' About 200 members of
the subordinate encampments, a majority
| from Michigan, were in line. At the rear
of their division came the grand encamp-
ment of Michigan in carriages.
| Over 100 members of the Detroit lodge
headed the third division, composed of SUBJ
| ordinate lodges and the grand lodge of
Michigan. Lodges We'd with each other
-
men uniformed in some striking manner.
Riverside lodge. of Detroit. made the hit of
this division, with 200 men all uniformed
| in brown linen suits and caps. Colored
| umbrellas were carried by several lodges
adding picturesqueness to the long pageant
| Two floats portraying The Good Samari-
| tan" and Saul Listening to David Playing
| the Harp were drawn with this division
After the grand lodge of Michigan was
| drawn tremendous float with children
bearing the legend, We Educate Or
phans." Banners in the childrens hands
told of the many orphan asylums main
| tanned by the order. Women Of the Re-
bekah branch rode in sixty-five carriages
with a large float illustrating "Rebekah
| at the Well in their midst.
The representatives to the sovereign
grand lodge occupied respective carriages
designated by shields hung thereon, bear
| ing the names of the states and the oc-
| cupants represented.
| All the states and the Canadian provinces
were thus in the line. When Grand Sire
| Pinkerton and assistants had finished the
review, stheys entered carriages, and. es-
tcorted by the-Junia HussaFs, of Columbus
| o., brought up the rear of the grand pro-
cession. The gorgeous uniforms and dash
| ing evolutions of the Hussars were the fin
| al features Of the spectacle. 1t Is estlmat-
ed. that 10000 persons connected with the
various divisions of Odd Fellowship are
now in the city.
A large arch of welcome, which the com
mon council ordered erected on Woodward
| avenue in honor of the l. o. o. +. Diamond
jubilee. and under which to-day's parade
was to have marched, was torn down anC
totally destroyed to-day series of mis-
fortunes had pursued the unfinished struc
ture. 1t was built in two halves both oi
! which became strained and broken in the
attempt to raise them. Last night wher
finally gotten up, they would not properly
join, and to-day great crack appeared il
the upper sidewalk near the front of al
adjacent. building. caused by the strain o
arch raising tackles attached thereto. To
day a gang of public works employees low
cred and destroyed the whole structure il
the interest of public safety.
Propositions to make membership in botf
Patriarchs Militant and grand encamp
ment compulsory for representatives of tn,
to-day's session of the sovereign grant
lodge. A proposition to hold biennial ses
sions instead Of annual was also votet
down.