El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1901-02-08
TEXAS.
COSTLY CHARITY.

COSTLY CHARITY.
The State Grand Lodge of Odd Fell
lows including RebekahS and grand
encampment. opened is sixty-frst an
nual session at Dallas Monday and
closed yesterday. More than 1000 Wis
iting delegates were present. Among
the features of the session were the
considering of various official reports,
the comforting of past grand degree
and grand lodge degree upon 200 MEM
bers and the installation Of grand Of
ficeVs who were elected a year ago.
Grand Master Anderson in his report
the first day caused somewhat or a
sensation by the following statement
'.The moneys paid into subordinate
lodges last year amounted to Sl34,-
40 There was paid out for sick
benefits to brothers. relief of widowed
families. educating orphans, burying
brothers and wives. support OF widows
and orpans' homes and for special re-
lief. SIS. 362.4S. leaving a balance of
s1O6. 02S9S. OF this balance there was
paid in per capita tax to grand lodges
for expenses and for other purposes
SEQ 255.O7. In other words. taking
this one years business, We find that 1T
costs us 800. 225.07 to pay out $2S,-
362 4S in visiting the sick. relieving the
distressed. burying the dead and ed
ucating the orphans. and left us with
only s., SO3 81 more in the treasures of
all the subordinate lodges at the close
of the year than we had to begin with.
Don't You think. brothers. that this
sounds a little like giving 81 10 the
missionary fund and it taking Csc to
get it to the place you want to use it?''
Members of the order say that the
grand masters language is directed
largely at the manner in which certain
with the Galveston hurricane relief
fund.
PROMINENT MAN SENTENCED.
Among the bills of indictment re-
turned by the present grand jury at
San Antonio were two against Joseph
II. Blumenthal, manager of the Postal
Telegraph and Cable company He
was charged with forgery and with
swindling over $50. He Immediately
gave bond for his appearance in court
and Tuesday he went before the court
and plead guilty to the charge of swind-
ling. receiving a sentence of two years
in the penitentiary. The district at
torney dismissed the forgery case
against MIN. The charges were made
by the Postal Telegraph and Cable
company, in which Blumenthal is al
legged to have acquired the sum of $500
representing that w. T. Way deposited
with him $500 on the 221d ult., and
making a draft for that amount pay
able to Woods e Son, placed to their
credit by Blumenthal and that he ex-
ecuted an order of the telegraph COM
pany for $500 to Thomas s. Hutton
in care OF the Strayhorn-H utton-Ev-
ans company of Fort Worth. The in
dictment charges that the representa-
Fol f~ar a
had been with the company ever since
it began business in San Antonio and
won many friends who are shocked by
mis- misfortune.
A VETERAN TELEGRAPHER.
dispatch from Fort Worth says
that John J. Egan, an old-time tele-
graphoperator and railroad agent, died
there Monday at the age of So years.
Mr.. Egan was one of the first to enlist
with General John G.. Fremont's ia
nous telegraph corps during the first
years of the civil war. and he served as
General Sherman's chief operator until
the close of the war.
In 1866 he went to Brownsville. Tex |
as, at which place and at BraZoS San !
tiago he was employed as agent and |
operator until sickness compelled him |
to quit about two months ago. A wild |
vive him.
4 HE CITY OF BRIDGES.
San Antonio might be well termed |
the city of bridges. there being 4.S00 |
bridges and culverts in the city. The
San Antonio river and the San Pedro,
Alazan, Padro. Martinez. and Apache |
creeks twist around through the city |
while numberless drains, irrigation.
and storm water bitches permeate the
city and all these have to be bridged |
wherever a street crosses them. The
city has been to great expense in the
past few years building new bridges
and repairing the old ones. Some of
them are massive, costly iron struct-
ures and they range from that class on
down to the plain wooden foot bridges.
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