The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1900-04-29
now nousroN Captured N.
The Invitation Estsnded the Grand


| Lodge, \. u. ". ".
Mr.. H. J, Dannenbaum is back from New
Orleans, where he attended the grand
lodge of district No Z. l. o. y. p. This
district OF the order is composed OF the
States OF Texas. Louisiana. Alabama, Mis-
sissippi, Arkansas. Tennessee and Flori-
da and its work is chiefly OF a benevolent
character. consisting OF the support OF the
! Home of the Jewish Aged and lnfrm and
the Jewish orphan asylum at New orleans
and of the Touro nhrmary OF the same
place. The doors OF the latter institution
are open to all classes and conditions of
people, white or black and in its free
clinic over $4,000 cases were treated Lass
year.
Upon the invitation OF Houston lodge.
No. i3i. the grand lodge viii hold Us
meeting next year in Houston. To Post
reporter Mr.. Dannenbaum stated that this
| insures the visit TO this city OF about sew
enty-hve OF the leading lsraelites OF the
district, who In their homes are prominent
! in commercial and professional circles.
! The speech OF Mr.. Dannenbaum, extending
the invitation, was commented on by the
! New Orleans paper as a happy effort and
! from one OF them is taken the following
! extract:
The gallant band Of Bnai Birth, whose
| commission l bear, attached to my Gre
dentials the condition that during your
| deliberations / should look wise and say
| little. They warned me specially to alb
stain from lengthy remarks when offer
ing their hospitality for the entertainment
OF the grand lodge next year, lest it should
! be thought that the fame Of Houston need
| ed support from any effort In my power.
| But. as Shakespeare well put It: a hot
| temper leaps over cold decree and after
| listening 10 the speech OF our distinguish
I ed brother from Vicksburg. all the prom
| Uses J had made and all the intentions !
| had harbored we're swept aside by the
| determination to yindlcate in your hearing
the claim Of my home city as the greatest
seaport on the Mexican gulf. So long as
/ he made light OF the pretensons of San
| Antonio and Dallas, / smiled with him
! for everybody knows that those villages
have no claim to greatness except their
/ dry rivers. cacti bushes and tamale dogs,
but when he referred to the Buffalo bayou,
| that stream upon whose bosom our great
commerce Is borne TO the sea and thence
/ 10 foreign lands, as a creek across which
men can step with ease. I reply that he
must have had in mind, not men OF
/ human size. but giants such as CULVER
met with. or like that tabled Colossus of
/ Rhodes whose feet rested on two con-
tinents Why, sirs. ! could stay here all
night talk until daylight and begin again
in the morning without eXhausting the
mass of statistics which prove that Hous-
ton is rapidly becoming the metropolis
OF the universe. But you have already
| listened to a great many figures and |
shall content myself and | trust please
you by inviting you to come and see for
yourselves. Twelve railroad lines VIII
| give you connections with any place on
earth and II any Of YOU want to ramble
further, we have gifted prophets and poets
/ who will disclose to you the glories OF
the hidden universe. Houston may or
may not be the spot on which the Divine
Surveyor located the garden of Eden. but
/ | am free to say that it was his second
/ choice"