Omaha daily bee., 1902-05-12
WORKMEN COMING IN FORCE
Large Delegations Expected to. Attend the
Grand Lodge in Council Bluffs.
CITY CAN EXTEND THE WATER MAINS
Governor Cummins, in Speaking of
the Council BUNS Fire. Says Il
shows Necessity of Erecting
Fireproof Buildings.
From a STAFF Correspondent

aTdilOnS are DelQE maze 10 SEM q large
delegation of the Workmen to the grand
lodge of the Ancient order Of United Work
men at Council Bluffs next week. The
grand officers will probably leave tomorrow
or Monday for the meeting.
Grand Recorder b. f. Rehkopf Of this
city, who keeps the records Of the order,
is prepared to report that there has been a
substantial increase in membership the
past year and this despite the fact that the
order changed its system OF assessments
from the fat rate to the classified plan.
At the grand lodge meeting in Marshall
town last May the order showed a total
membership in this state of 1904. The
new rate system went into effect in July
last and there was an immediate falling off
in membership. but by the close Of the year
the membership was back to exactly one
less than at the grand lodge meeting.
Since then nearly 1000 names have been
added and the report will show about 49,
600 members. The new members in the or
der are generally younger persons and thus
the character of the order has been inn
proved by the change.
Eight new lodges were organized during
the year. Grand Master Workman Narvis
Of Muscatine will recommend the adop-
ton of the biennial grand lodge plan in
stead of having a grand lodge meeting
every year. The grand lodge meetings have
been costing the last ten years an average
of S2,S14.S4 and there is now no reason
why meetings should be held every yea-.
He will also recommend a change in that
the local officers shall be elected for a year
instead of for six months.
He will also recommend to the grand
lodge the adoption of the new rule made
by the supreme lodge defining hazardous
: occupations and including therein profess
sional base ball players, foot ball players,
bicycle riders, circus riders, employees in
powder factories or persons in charge of
dynamite or nitroglycerine, etc.
The grand lodge has had but little liti-
cation on hand the last year, the most i'm
! portant being a case in which the payment
Of a certificate was resisted at Dubuque
because the member had entered the saloon
business. This is prohibited by the laws
of the order, but inasmuch as his original
statement was not made a part of the GER
tifcate, as required by Iowa laws, the
grand lodge was beaten. Another similar
case was settled without suit.
The grand master workman during the
year rendered a number of decisions,
I among which is one that a doctor of oste-
opathy cannot be considered eligible for
the place of medical examiner of a lodge.
Two disappearance cases have been CIV
ing the grand officers some trouble. One is
a case from Sioux City, now in the courts,
where NJ. II. Daily disappeared in 1894
and had not been heard from since by his
family. They claimed the payment of the
certificate. This was refused and an inves-
tigation showed that he was still alive in
1897, hence under the Iowa law is not yet
! to be declared dead.
Another case is in court in Muscatine
where George Furnam went to California in
1884 and has not been heard from since.
The grand lodge has required that proof
Of death be furnished.
Dear May stay in Council Bluffs.
Governor, Cummins did not learn Of the
loss Of the lowe School for the Deaf at
Council Bluffs until Saturday. He expressed
himself as extremely sorry that the build
ing had burned.
ut emphasizes the necessity for the erec-
ton of strictly f~reproof buildings at all
our state Institutions" he declared. 1--WE
must build permanently and for the flu
ture." He could give no estimate as to
what could or would be done.
There is a contingent fund in the con-
troll Of the executive council, a part OF
which may be used for furnishing tenn
porary quarters for the School for the Deaf,
but there is no way by which the state can
build the school until after the legislature
again meets. 1t has been suggested that
the school could be temporarily housed in
the state buildings at Knoxville, which
were erected for a blind institute, but
which are now idle, but they are not large
enough for the purpose, and it is more
generally assumed that temporary quarters
for the school will be found in Council
Bluffs.
None of the state buildings are insured
and all Of the newer buildings are of fire.
proof construction, so that in a few years
there will be little danger of loss from fire.
Three other large state buildings have
burned In the last four years, at Glenwood,
Ames and Iowa City. Members Of the
Board of Control went to Council Bluffs to
meet with Superintendent Rothert this
morning.
Water Works Injunction Refused.
Judge A. H. McVey Saturday denied
the injunction sought for in the case of }.
II. Phillips against the city of Des Moines.
the water company and the city auditor
and city treasurer, TO prevent the city's
paying over to the water company the $50.
600 which the city agreed to loan to the
company for ten years at 2 per cent inter.