The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1901-04-19
CONVENTION OF BUFFALOBS
The Supreme Herd to Hold Its
First National Session.

An AssembIage During the Pan
American Exposition 10 Be Attend
ed by Representatives of Fifty
Thousand Minor Organizations.
The Great Bison. of the Order OF the
Buffalo. George L. Shoup, has been di-
rected to call a grand convocation of Buff
faIoes TO be assembled in Buffalo during
the Fau-AmeTican Exposition The Su-
preme Herd will meet in Buffalo the latter
part of June when the great fair will be
at its best and every Buffalo in the Unit
cd States is expected to be in attendance.
The Order Of the Buffalo Is new instftu
ton 1t has within a few months sprung
into universal popularity When and
where it first saw the light of day is not
of evidence, but It is here, and like the
proverbial our-eleven-fOrty-fOuT, is here
to stay. It is founded or two broad princi-
ples-charity and good-fellowship- The
man who has been initiated Buffalo in
America can carry these tenets into the
Fiji Islands If he wants to-
The origin Of the order is shTouded in
mystery 1t has only been within the
past two or three months that the order
made its appearance in this city Since
that time the order has been firmly es-
Established in every city and town, in ev-
cry State and Territory in the Union.
The statement was made today that the
order was born in San Francisco last
Christmas and that it was brought East
by ex- Representative Gerry, the author of
the anti-Chiuese law Be this as it may,
however. the order took definite shape in
Washington A member of the Supreme
Herd Of BuffaIoes declared that the order
was first brought into prominence in the
Capital on the night of March last in
the room of the Senate Committee on Ter
Titories, of which Senator Shoup was
chairman when the following officers Of
the Supreme Herd were elected:
The Great Bison. president. George l.
Shoup: the High Bison. first vice presi-
| dent, Robert 6. Cousins; the Low Bison,
second vice president, Frank x. Ray
mond: the Jack Bison. third vice presi-
dent, Arthur Blanchard; the Game Bison,
treasurer, Emil schafer; the Straight BIZ
son No l, the Straight Bison No 2, lee
trITeTs, Frank II. Hosford, E c Snyder,
respectively; the Little Bison, secretary,
james English. the Good Bison, CHAP
| lain, George Williamson; the Bad Bison,
eTgeant-at-arTns, Richard Plunkett, the
RObtail Bison, the Flush Bison, the Bull
/ Bison. guards, Albert n. Dulin, G. r.
! Murphy, Duncan 3. Harrison, respective
| iy. the Expelled Bison, James F. Young
/ Grazing Committee, chairman, Warren J.
\ Coffin; George W Driver, Ernest Gersten-
/ berg. Bsau johnson. Thomas Marshall.
/ August Noack, Tom LIE Cuyer, Fritz Reu-
] ter, J P Herman. E K SombOTn, George
/ W. Harvey, Dennis Mullaney, John NJ.
| Perreard-
! The officers of the Supreme Herd have
] held several meetings and yesterday the
! Great Bison was directed TO Issue q call
/ for convocati0n of Buffaloes to meet in
| the city Of Buffalo. y. Y. the latter part
! OF June or the first week in Jiiy for the
! purpose OF adopting d constitution, by
! laws and a ritual TIE ritual which was
! temporarily adopted in this city on the
/ night Of March ) viii then be perfected.
] Subordinate herds. Of which there are
| be commanded by the Great Bison to
/ elect one delegate and an alternate to at
/ tend the cOnyOcatiOn in the city Of Buff
| falO- The failure to comply with this or
! der viii result in expulsion. The order
| is purely a charitable one, as all fees and
| fines, which are many and frequent are
! devoted to some worthy object, such as
| hospitals homes for the aged, relief asso-
! cia ions.
The initiation fee is II cents but should
I an applicant for admission into the order
! hand the member who performs the act
/ Of initiation a piece Of money IN excess
/ OF this sum, no matter what its
/ denomination, he receives no change
/ the residue being turned into the
/ charity fund.
! In Washington there are seventy-five
1 subordinate herds. and every one OF them
/ VIII be represented at the great convo-
/ cation in Buffalo.