Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-02-03
.HOO-HOOS TO MEET
Mysterious Order of Lumbermen
to Hold Convention This
Week.
HAS A MEMBERSHIP OF 5000
But All VIII Not Be Here Plans
OF Entertain
ment.

The coming convention of lumber
men in Davenport this week will be
fraught with many strange and cur
ious doings, one of which will be
meeting held by the Concatenated
Order of Hoo-Hoo next Thursday ev-
ening.
The lumber industry is the only in
dustry known which has fraternal
| organization of its own. In the space
of a few short years it has grown to
great proportions, and even contem-
| plates the erection of a 100000 club
house at the worlds fair in ST. Louis
| for the entertainment and care of it's
members.
The Concatenated Order of Hoo-Hoo
was born in the fertile brain of the
Original Five in the year 1892. Now
it numbers over 5000 members, who
are scattered from Canada to Next
| 60. and from east to west in Europe
and Africa. Like many other secret
organizations its doingS are shrnuded
in mystery, and outside of the fact
| that its members reverence the black
cat and the figure Q. little is known of
its objects except that there are nine
supreme officers, the chief of which is
the Shark of the Universe, who rules
under the direStion Of p, Hoo-Hqo him
self. The Other, eight are the Senior
Hoo-Hoo, Junior Hoo-Hoo, Bojum,
Scrivenater, Jabberwock, Custocation,
Arcanoper and Gurdon. Hoo-Hoo,
the great. makes his appearance upon
this sphere but once each year. on the
ninth day of the ninth month at
nine minutes after o o'clock. His
q in Dnl-
on the 9th day of last September,
where from amidst the tombs in the
House of the Ancients, with fingers
pointing to Buffalo, he said: lin
ninety-three we'll meet again in the
realms of light" Al this next an
nual meeting in Buffalo in September
will occur the embalming of the SUI
preme Shark of the Universe, for
he holds the Office for one year and is
then embalmed and laid away in
clients. In response to an inquiry of |
how a mummy feels. eN-Snark Weir |
who was embalmed last September,
thus describes his feelings:
Ex-Snark Talks
The murlly midnight darkness had |
wrapped Milwaukee in gloom. The |
very air was pregnant with the pulsa-
ton of events of mighty import. y
soul was shaking off IFS human form |
and passing into the great beyond. |
The mighty potentate was laying |
down his sceptre of power, and the |
universe gathered in solemn awe as
the Snark-hc who had ruled for so
many moons with power that none
dared gainsay, he whose frown made |
he myriads of his subjects tremble-I
was fading from sight and passing |
into the inocuous desuetude of his |
fathers. gone before. With fearful |
eyes and sorrow-burdened hearts, |
his people saw his form dissolve in the |
mists of the great unknown and fade |
from earthly vision; and the last
mournful sigh was of his mummied
remnants reposing in sacred niche
in the House of Ancients. the abode of
the dead Pharaohs who had preceded
HIM"
The time was when the deposed
Shark was branded with n red hot
iron before becoming a mummy.
and when the candidates for initiation
into the order were paraded through
the streets in cages, strapped with
chains to log; but, by decree
handed down by the Grand Shark, all
that was done away with, and no
public display is now allowed. The
refined fortunes of the candidates
are now confined to the lodge room.
and here. during last week. under
the direction of ,Nive-Gerent Shark,
Harry V. Scott. some fifteen or more
blind kittens, who are awaiting in
fear and trembling the royal man
date to appear before the throne of
the Vice-Gerent Shark and be taught
the mysteries connected with the fig
ure o, will he given the degree of
Playful Kitten.
Nice-Gerent Shark Harry V. Scott
will be assisted i'm his work by +. {.
Roberts. j. \. McAllister. !. Il. Bur
bank and L. Il. Fuller, of Davenport;
Fred Mum, of Ames, Ia; Tom Ar
mold. of Rock Island and Nelson S.
Darling, of Oklahoma City. Okla.
Banquet at Harper
The Southeastern Iowa Lumber
mems Retail association, which meets
i'm Burlington, Muscatine and Daven-
port, successfully, will hold its
convention in Davenport Feb. 6. An
attendance of about 200 representa-
tive lumbermen IL expected. Inc
wholesale lumber and sash and door
manufacturers of Rock Island and
Davenport are making extensive ar
rangements to entertain the lumber
men attending the convention, and to
this end will tender them u banquet
at the Harper house, which will be
followed by variety entertainment.
Nelson S. Darling, of Oklahoma City,
Okla. will give give some remark
able representations. The convention
viii also attend the performance of
the prince of Pilsen' in body
The wholesale lumber dealers OF
Rock Island and Davenport have do