Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-07-23

Wayside Inn, the Grove City, Pa. home
provided for their aged and infirm by the
Odd Fellows of Pennsylvania. was dedi-
Gated Thursday, the ceremonies attracting
to the town a crowd of 1900 the largest
which has ever visited it. The dedicatory
services were held in the afternoon with
Grand Master Robert Graham of Phila-
delphia presiding.
The impressive ritualistic services Of the
order were used. The president of the
home association. Louis K. White Of Allie
gheny, delivered an address telling how the
association had been started with q treas
ury fund of 81. In three years time
farm and home have been secured costing
$4,000, every cent of which is paid. Grand
Master Graham then made an address ana
formally dedicated the building to the uses
for which it had been designed.
The Elks convention in Cincinnati this
week was somewhat agitated the other day
over report that persons not emitted 10
admission had been In the Grand Lodge 70
vote for grand officers Tuesday. 1t Is
charged that about twenty substituted Gre
dentials were used Proxies are not per-
mitted, and past exalted rulers only are
entitled to vote. 1t is claimed that some
past exalted rulers, unable to be present
gave their cards to others. The grand Of
for the OF srand
allied ruler; F. c. Tomlinson of Winston.
n. c.. grand esteemed loyal knight; Chas.
w. Huffman. Hoboken, N. J., grand es-
teemed lecturing knight; w w. Mcclellan,
lefoi, Pa, grand treasurer; r. ]. Woods
Sioux Falls. 8. D., grand esteemed leading
knight; B. F. McNulty, San Antonio. Tex.
grand trustee, Fred c. Robinson OF Du-
buque, Iowa, grand secretary.
Retiring Grand Treasurer Samuel H.
Needs in his report criticised the financial
system Of the order. He suggested that
the various committees should be called to-
gether by the grand exalted ruler only and
that the grand exalted ruler should be held
responsible for the business transacted and
the expense coming from such meetings.
Last year there were five Elk lodges with
over 900 members. This year there are six
There are lodges now in !84 cities. hfty-nve
d.spenSationS having been granted the past
year. The state of New York made the
greatest gain in membership, although IL
lodges. The Grand Lodge considered
changes in the ritual. The recommended
ton of retiring Grand Exalted Ruler Fan
ming abolishing the grip and sign was
adopted by the convention The commit
tee of ritual was directed to prepare new
edition for exemplification in Buffalo next
July.
The date for the meeting Of the Grand
Lodge next year at Buffalo has been fixed
for July 10. when a system of vot-
ing for officers will be proposed, so as not
to protract the election through two days,
as was the case in Cincinnati this week.
The reports of the supreme officers to the
triennial review of the Supreme Tent,
knights of the Maccabees of the World,
held in Detroit this week, show that the
and substantial increase. The past year
has broken all records in the increase of
membership, net gain of %, $40 being
shown During the past term 5.15S death
ola inc
prompt and satisfactory.
In other respects the reports are equally
gratifying. The fact that the ADA tents
of the order average a membership of y
each. as against an average of CO during
the term previous. speaks of a substantial
growth in the present field The total
membership is very close to the 100000
mark, which means an increase of nearly
$4,000 year for the term. The fact that
the order has a reserve fund of about
three and half million dollars makes it
the strongest, financially, of the American
fraternal insurance societies.
Supreme Commander ID. +. Marley IN his
report welcomed the officers and members
of the Supreme Tent to Detroit, and said
there Is no more delightful spot on all the
continent at this season of the year than
Detroit.
d. w. Gall. state commander of the Mac
cabees left last Sunday evening over the
Pennsylvania railroad for Detroit, Mich,
to attend the Supreme Tent review OF the
Maccabees, which convened In that city
on July 10. Quite a number of friends OF
the state commander were at the Stauon
to see him off.
Mr. Gall has just closed a very successful
term of three years as the business man
ager of the order in this city, and Is very
much liked by the members, as evidenced
by an election held recently, when he car
ried ten of the eleven tents voting at the
time for alternate to the Supreme Tent
review.
In the triennial report of Miss Bina West,
record keeper of the Supreme Hive. Ladies
of the Maccabees, to the fifth regular re-
view of the order in Detroit this week, the
following pertinent language was used con-
corning the raising of rates, which has
been so widely discussed for several years:
There is no disposition on the part of
the executive officers to force this ques-
ton, to unnecessarily bring a higher
cost to the members. But with the facts as
disclosed by our own experience and yalua-
ton, and with the experience of older
orders before US. there is no other honor
able course to pursue than to place the
facts before our members and representa-
tives, upon which they themselves shall be
judge.
"Our experience and valuation show our
order to be in most excellent condition,
solvent because eur members are young. So
far as our present officers are concerned we
might run along for twenty years with the
present rates before feeling the result of
the advancing ages of the members But 1T
is of your interests are thinking and the
interests of those in the order when twenty
years older, who, if this question is not
disposed of soon, may be left without pro-
lection twenty years from now.
THAT this question be finally dis
posed of while conditions are favora BILE will
certainly be the wise and safe course to
pursue, and one which will increase our
standing nothing else can do
The last hot weather session of Mithras
Lodge of Perfection Scottish Rite Masons
was held in Scottish Rite Cathedral, 1907
G street northwest, last Tuesday night.
The lodge has adjourned until October T.
Robert de Bruce Council, Knights of Ka-
dOSh has arranged for a meeting next
Tuesday night. After considering the mat
ter of larger accommodations for degree
work. the council will call off until Tues
day, October %.
A stated quarterly meeting of Albert Pike
Consistory, Scottish Rite Masons, was held
last Monday night. The 32d degree was
conferred.
The Order of the Red Cross was conferred
at the concldve of Orient Comma ndery,
mo 5, X. T., last Monday night.
Mount Horeb Chapter. No. Z. r. A NJ,
conferred the Mark degree last Saturday
night.
Columbia Chapter, No. 1, r. A. M