The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-10-14
THE SILVER
ANNIVERSARY
Twenty-Five Years
Old is Harmony
Lodge.
CELEBRATION AT
MOANA HOTEL
Speeches by Judge Estee. Rev.
A. Macintosh, J. A. Magoon
and Sister Williams.
= wo HUNDRED brother oddfel-

= WO HUNDRED brother Oddfel-
lows and sister Rebekahs gath
cred at the Moana Hotel on Sat
urday evening to celebrate the silver
anniversary of the organization of Har-
mony Lodge, l. o. o. f, all the lodges
of Honolulu participating in the cere-
monies
Excelsior Lodge, Polynesian Encamp-
ment, and the Pacific and Olive Branch
Rebekahs were present in almost the
full strength of their membership to
do honor to the celebrating lodge The
celebration was to have taken place
last month. but owing to the death of
President Mckinley it was postponed
until October u. The dining room of
the Moana Hotel was used for the oc-
casion, the only decorat tons being ar
tistically draped from the balcony of
the musicians gallery. There was no
banquet as was first intended but this
was more than compensated for in the
euJOS IleHL Oh lnTce hours dancing.
The floor was covered with dancing
canvas and upon this chairs for the
guests We're placed, facing the sea side
of the room where table was placed
behind which the speakers of the even
ing and officers of Harmony Lodge were
seated. The pleasure of the evening
was augmented by fine breeze which
swept through the dining open on
all sides. The exercises did not begin
until half past eight but the guests ar
rived early and the corridors thronged
with the lodge members, their wives
and sweethearts, who spent half hour
in pleasant conversation.
The exercises were opened with pray
er by Rev. Alexander Macintosh of
Excelsior Lodge, following which was
a brief address of welcome by Noble
Grand c. Charlock of Harmony Lodge.
Judge Morris NJ. Estee, who has long
been an Oddfellow, was introduced and
made one of his characteristic addresses
teeming with humorous and serious
thoughts. He said in part:
JUDGE EsTEEs ADDRESS.
Odd Fellowship is a social and benev-
for the sick, the widows and the orphans
and to bury the dead. 1t is composed
largely of those who may need assistance
in time of trouble and who, when in
health, contribute to fund which can
be drawn upon for their aid when sick.
1t is not popular or fashionable order
It's membership is composed largely of
plain people, men who work for their
bread. 1t stands in no ones way. The
humblest and the greatest in this order
are on an even plane with each other
and are entitled to the same benefits,
have to pay the same dues and receive
the same honors.
The lodge is a school for its members
The business of the lodge teaches the
members the sober art of self-govern-
ment; thus every lodge room is a little
republic.
Pleasurable enjoyment is one of the
objects of our society. Members of the
order are encouraged in being happy
and in making others happy. They glad
ly join in social gatherings like the pres
ent one. The social side of the order is
never forgotten.
No Odd Fellow is away from home
anywhere in the United States. We can
not find town which has not an odd
Fellows hall in it. In most of the large
cities like San Francisco there is a relief
committee formed by all the lodges, with
funds to meet the immediate wants of
the distressed stranger in our midst If
he is sick the committee finds it out and
relieves his needs and then reports the
facts to his own lodge, which. under our
laws, respond at once
We are taught that being sorry for a
brother who is sick or in distress does
not afford relief; that while sympathy IS
good as far as it goes. yet no one will
get well on sympathy or grow strong on
an empty stomach.
We are also to remember that sick
Odd Fellow is not an object of our char
ity, but rather a brother who is entitled
to our aid. HE has been and is a con-
tributor to our funds; he has aided us in
all the past, and when We care for him
While he is sick, We but reciprocate what
he has many times done for others when
they We're sick, so that it is but recip-
rocal duty to watch over him in his sick
ness
1t is claimed with much truth that all