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The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1904-09-23
RAIN OR SHINE GREAT ODD FELLOWS PARADE WILL START ON MARCH THIS MORNING
Sovereign Grand Lodge, After Long Deliberations De-
cides to Hold Next Meeting at Philadelphia
instead of at the National Capita.

crowding, the officers and chevaliers
who have won distinction for services
to the Odd Fellows received from Ma
jOr General NJ. A. Raney, through the
hands of Miss Jessie Harris. the in
sigma Of the grand decoration of chiV-
airy.
While the long lines of the battaliOns
Of Patriarchs Militant stood at atten-
ton General Raney addressed the men
chosen for the highest decoration in the
order. He babe them advance to the
altar, which consisted OF large drum
placed in the center of the hall. on
which rested an open Bible. To this
altar the men advanced and were asked
If they were ready to assume the obli-
cations that go with the acceptance OF
the decoration. In full, round tones
came the answer in unison I am" AT
this the candidates for the honor were
directed TO kneel in a circle around the
drum while they each repeated IN uni
son the following vow:
OF my own free viii and accord, in the
presence OF these living witnesses, voiun,
tarily promise and pledge myself 70 oetend
maidens wives widows and orphans IN their
rights: to relieve distress. 70 permit no ex-
tortion in so far as 1 am able TO prevent l- 20;
OF honor and the suppression OF vice. All OF
which 1, in this presence. do vow IL is my
penalty which shall be less than a degra-
dalton or loss OF my PERSONAL and military
honor III i violate this solemn ODllBatlOn-
After repeating this vow the men
arose and formed in line across the Pa
vilion. Then occurred speeches Of adj
vice, wisdom, encouragement and
warning, spoken by the young women
of the Rebekahs who participated in
the ceremonies when the members of
the Rebekah degree received the deco
ration.
The first Of the speakers was Miss
Rachel z. Mitchell. She was followed
by Mrs. Mabel Richardson Kromiller.
Miss Edna Hales and Miss Carrie Inch
Each of the BETTING speeches received
| loud applause from the audience Then.
as the uniformed line knelt to be dec
/ Grated little Miss Harris advanced and
receiving each insignia from the gen
eraI Of the Patriarchs Militant pinned
it on the breast of each kneeling man.
| AS each man was decorated there came
/ a round Of applause from the crowded
| Pavilion. A short prayer by the brigade
| chaplain, Major George 7. Shaw. ended
/ the ceremonies.
| Those who received the grand decora-
! ton last night were:
| G. A Vincent West Virginia; .. W. Erie
/ wine, Sacramento: A. C Mauk, Nevada; Jo-
/ seph Howard Tennessee Thomas Dryden.
/ Kansas; W. II. Earnest. C. d. Shaekleford.
| D. v chisholm District OF Columbia; A.
! HaiRht indian Territory: George L. Godfrey.
/ C H Holloway Oklahoma; w. H.. Boney,
| Nebraska: L. B. McBrayer. North Carolinas
| n r. Kimballs Vermont; Robert Mooley.
/ Idaho.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1904-09-23
All Cherish Hope
That Showers
Will Cease.
Pageant Will Be
DiSbanded if
Necessary.

Rain or shine. the grand parade OF the
odd Fellows viii start on its march
through the city at 10 O'Clock this morn
ing. Il was announced by the commit
tee last night that it would take a
pretty brisk September shower TO
dampen the ardOr o. those that have
made Up their minds TO join in the
pageant, but If the heavens began 10
pour the rain down in sheets the grand
marshal would use his discretion and
oisband the column.
II nature favOrs, San Francisco will
he treated 10 a view Of the largest
fraternal parade ever held on the coast.
Twelve thousand paraders in fourteen
divisions have been provided for. and
they viii form line some miles in
length III the bombardment from the
clouds does not drive them TO cover.
AT 10 O'Clock this morning the whistles
of factories and steam vessels will
sound a h0arse salute to the odd Eel
lows as they start on their way through
The city's streets. Every one is hoping
that nature VIII permit the covering Of
the route selected.
At the conclusion Of the parade the
Sovereign Grand Lodge will again go
into session at Native Sons Han and
the Grand Encampment Of California
Viii meet at the odd Fellows building.
A concert viii be given at Mechanics
Pavilion in the afternoon, and in the
evening the Patriarchs Militant will
hold a dress parade, after which prizes
viii be awarded TO the cantons that
contested for the same throughout the
week. The final function Of the encamp-
meut viii be a full-dress ball at the
Pavilion. This promises to be a bril-
liant affair.
The most important events Of yester-
day were the contests Of cantons at
Mechanics Pavilion and the comforting
OF the grand decoration Of chivalry
upon distinguished members of the
order Of Odd Fellows. Thousands of
visitors and residents witnessed these
events. which proved TO be the most
pleasing Of the encampment
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1904-09-23
ORDER FOR THE PARADE.
Brigadier General Black Issues Final
Instructions for Information.

lAzlMlNE AuElCLdl ISSUES
Instructions for Information.
Brigadier General F. H. Black,
p n. has issued the following order
for the formation Of the Odd Fellows
parade. which is scheduled to start
this morning at 10 o'clock:
F0rmation-Place Of assembly, Battery and
Market sJfeets-hl aloon OF police, Commander
.. W Whitman, Chief Of Police; E. H Black
grand marshal; J. h Ritter, chief aid: aids,
5qhn q Gibson, " j; shufelt, John Ristow,
Shufelt, o. A. Lovdal Chris Schmidt. c. r.
o'Neil. John Z. McDougald, Frank Dodge,
Joseph ~ lnterburn, F. P Duley, George A.
Cash. T. =. W. Leland and s. NJ Thompson;
Eatrlarchs Militant escorttng Grand Sire John
j. Goodwin, officers and representatives Of
The Sovereign Grand Lodge in carriages
ing "a Marker street-f5enerai n A Rsnev
commanding Army Of Pstriarchs Militant. and
stan, followed boy visiting cantOns of p. NJ.
Department of California, Patriarchs Militant.
Brigsdier General H. o. Brewer commanding.
on west side Of Front street right resting
OF Market street-First Regiment. Colonel W.
= SierD-ll, coilllaIl1lng ana stan; second
Regiment. Colonel C.. H. Viewer. commanding.
end stan: Third Regiment. Colonel c. W.
Blker, commanding. and stan; carriage con-
tanning the ladies officiating in the Decoration
Of Chivalry-
subordinate and Rebel,ah lodges-Flrst divi-
sion. Alameda County. ". N Simpson mar
shal commanding. north side Of Market street,
below Front; aids. D O. Herrick Jessie a.
a. p. Smiley; float containing members Of
Eebekah LODGES. and carriages.
second division, Sacramento County. Charles
j. Bliss marshal COmmancing-South side Of
Market street. below Fremont: aids. A ".
o. Brien LOUIS Plate. " II. Renwick and A.
4 Dunbar, followed by Rebekah foaG and
Carriage
Third division. Santa Clara County. Victor
BassignanO marshal commanding-E side Of
Fremont street, right resting on Market; aids,
Richard Brem, r. B. Roll c. i. Snyder, B. Z.
Williams I. O. Smith. followed by a float
containing hfty orphans Of the Rebekah Or
phans Home a. GilrOy.
Fourth division. T. 3. ". Leland marshal
cmonandln e-West side OF Fremont street
right resting on Market; aids c. Platner. J.
A. NcIEenry, A. A. Young, L. r. Mather;
California Lodge No. ]. san Francisco Lodge
DO ?. Templar Lodge no. Il. Magnolia Lodge
10. - and visiting lodges: followed by a
foat Of California Rebekah Lodge No. J.
Flfth division O.. / Perham marshal com
rnanding-East side Of Battery street, right
resting on Market: aids. George Laeb. Frank
krul. ". W. Cross. I. l. Remy; Yerba
Buena Lodge No. t. Harmony Lodge No. 49,
Ccncordia Lodge 10. ID. Hermann Lodge No
i4b. float Excelsior Degree Lodge No. 3
Franco-Americsn Lodge No. 2O7 and visiting
lodges; followed by a float and carriages con-
tanning members Of Oriental Rebeksh Lodge
10. 20.
sixth division, H. D. savine marshal com
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1904-09-23
T o-Day's Programme

10 a. m.-Grand parade on
leading streets of the city.
p. insisting of Sovereign
Grand Lodge in Native Sons
Hall.
Up. m.-Concert in Mechanics
Pavilion.
. p. m.-Meeting of Grand
Encampment of California at
Odd Fellows building.
1880 p. m.-Dress parade of
Patriarchs Militant in Me-
chanics' Pavilion.
ID. m.-PriZes awarded by
Judges in Mechanics Pavilion.
8 ID. m.-Grand Ball, Me-
chanics' Pavilion.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1904-09-23

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The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1904-09-23
RECEIVE GRAND DECORATION

Arrayed in the SNOWY dress uniform
of the Patriarchs Militant. before the
throngs that filled the Pavilion to over
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1904-09-23

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outfits are as low as the lowest. Don't
forget this. Sanborn, Vail & Co., TAI
Market street.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1904-09-23

gamely regained his position in line
and went through the difficult drill
without making another error. The
canton was particularly complimented
on the brisk manner in which it exc
cuted its movements. The ginger that
the men from the East put into their
work counted much with the judges.
In the evening there was a dress pa
rade. in which all of the cantons that
have attended the encampment took
part. The Rebekah drill corps of San
Francisco was also in line and was fire.
quently applauded. Captain Allie Park
ers young ladies have certainly made
a study of time and space" and know
how to apply it mechanically. After the
dress parade the young ladies gave an
exhibition drill, executing a number of
difficult orders, and were on the floor
for nearly three-quarters of an hour.
The usual tactics employed in the
ceremony of dress parade were exc
cuted by the cantons. The commands
were formed in a hollow OblOng, and in
the center the commanding officers
were stationed, at the front and center
of the battalion, facing the grand
stand
RECEIVE GRAND DECORATION.
Arrayed in the snowy dress uniform
of the Patriarchs Militant. before the
thrones that filled the Pavilion 10 over
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1904-09-23
TWO CRACK DRILL CORPS.
Washington, ID. c., Canton and Sac.
ramentO Give Exhibition.

No better exhibition of crack drilling
could have been given than that of
Washington, d. c., canton and Sacra-
mento canton yesterday afternoon at
the Mechanics Pavilion. The contest
is to decide the national championship
in class A, Patriarchs Militant drill
regulations. The cantons both did so
well that it was hard to determine
which of them is entitled to the prize,
but the impression seems to be that the
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1904-09-23
AFTERNOON SESSION.

The mornings session adjourned at
100 o'clock, to meet again in the after
noon. Promptly at 8 o'clock the after
noon session began. The routine bust
ness of the order was followed by a Sc
cret session until o'clock, when the
session adjourned until to-day at p. m.
1t is announced that the Internation-
al Press Association of the Odd Fell
lows, that has been holding meetings
in conjunction with those of the Sow
ereign Grand Lodge for several years,
met yesterday and elected the follow
ing officers: President, L. r. Shepherd
of Iowa: vice president, D. L. Bailey
of Idaho; secretary and treasurer. w.
H. Leedy Of Indiana. The association
meets each year in the city designated
by the Sovereign Grand Lodge.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1904-09-23

to help pay a mortgage on some little
property. The grand sire was granted
leave to return home at his pleasure,
owing to his having been here some
days before the session opened. A hand
some gavel was presented to Grand
Sire John B. Goodwin by the Past
Masters Association. The gavel is
made of wood brought from the Holy
Land
The San Francisco call., 1904-02-24
Germany's Little Var.

While watching the extreme Orient
with breathIess concern the world has
failed to realize that war on a smaller
scale but of the most ruthless charac-
ter, has been raging for months in Ger
man Southwest Africa. News from that
section Of the globe is Obtainable only
in the merest driblets. But the meager
kilograms, that leave most Of the story
untold, indicate nevertheless with ter
rible cIearness that the white conquer
ors are fighting a hard-pressed battle,
not only for supremacy but for exist
ence. A small host of civilized men,
trusting to the power of higher inteIi-
gence and modern implements Of war,
have pitched themselves against the
overwhelming numbers of a barbaric
native population. And, as always
when such is the case. a struggle be-
tween the invaders and the Indigenous
threatens to bring with it that most
awful feature of war-the massacreinS
of women and children. RumOrs have
already told of the slaughtering Of
whole German families and the tOrtur-
ing of captives by the rebelliOus blacks
but so far they have remained unveri-
fed
The territory involved lies in the
southwestern corner of Africa. 1mIne-
diateIy north of Cape Colony, from
which it is separated by the Orange
River. 1t stretches itself some 900 miles
along the coast to the north, with an
average width of about 500 miles. It's
total area exceeds that Of Texas by just
one-fourth The coast districts are only
wastes, but the inland, which is noun
famous. offers excellent chances both
to the agriculturist and the miner. The
total native population is thought To
number POO, 900. while the whites do not
exceed 7OOO.-Collier's Weekly.
The San Francisco call., 1904-02-24
Sa1iIig His UagcS.


at is really remarkable what some
men will do when their appetites are
stronger than their wills, said a GER
tain prominent attorney to group or
listeners down in the clerks office or
the United States District Court the
other day
Nov l know a printer who is en-
ploved on one of the morning papers
here in town, who has TO take a re-
narkable precaution against his love
for a little tipple on each recurrent
Saturday night. Just as regularly as
the end of the week comes around the
unfortunate printer starts out TO for
get himself and does not come TO until
Monday morning. Until recently every
Monday morning saw him broke abso-
lutely.
But. finding that he was powerless
TO abstain from his weekly period OF
giIded joys and the consequent impov-
erished exchequer of Monday, this man
adopted a peculiar remedy-against the
blue Monday only, 1 am sorry to say.
Every Saturday when he received his
weeks pay he would go around TO
the branch postoffice on New Mont
eomery street and there make out and
mail TO himself a money order for all
of his salary save the s. which he had
set aside for his bust Then on Mon
day the postman would bring TO MS
lodgings the money order and the prin-
ter's purse would be saved for the re-
mainder of the week"
The San Francisco call., 1904-02-24
A PURE FOOD EXPOSITION.

HE retail grocers of San Francisco do themselves
| much honor. and promise much benefit TO the
i community, by their proposed pure food exposi-
tion to be held here in April The work of the Agrcu-
tura Department has disclosed an alarming condition of
sophsticaton imported wines and glassed and timed
goods 1t is estimated that threefourhs of the foreign
wines we take every year aduterated. This aduter
alton is not confined such frauds dried apple cham
pagne and still wines treated with gypsum and anti
ferments but includes the of agents dangerous to
health.
California is vtay interested in the exposure of these
aduerations and in establishing her own commercial
honor because produce and purvey majority of the
articles which are the subject of adulteraon abroad
Other nations are particular about the
sanitary conditions of their imports and necessary
precedent to finding market for products is the
establishment of their purity
Already it reported that the proposed exposition has
ftyseven applications for space, and this before
the intention to have exhibit made public it
shows admirable spirit the part of the projectors
and exhibitors. We want established that wines
jees ams canned goods, dried fruits spices, syrups
brandes and other uxures and necessities pure and
wholesome, handled and preserved to make them
fit for use and bene6caInstead of risky and harmful
The cannot effect this. 1t must be done by
The San Francisco call., 1904-02-24
Pension Oddities.

The economists, for instance, may
find consolation in the statement made
here that the pension system was the
greatest as a burden to the people of
the United States in 1898, since which
time the burden has been constantly
decreasing until it has shrunk in ten
years from 50 "a to 81 32 per $1,000 of
taxable wealth. In ten years more,
Mr.. Ware thinks, the burden will cease
to be noticed, unless some new legisla-
ton is enacted such as that recently
demanded by the Grand Army of the
Republic, in which case it may be
larger for a while instead Of less. The
report places the total number of pen
sioners now on the rolls at 996,545, OF
which 729.356 are soldiers and 267, ,1S9
are widows and dependents.
1t is interesting to learn that what
the Commissioner calls "the unknown
army" that is, the living soldiers OF
the Civil War who have not applied
for pensions. numbers about 200. 600
or about 80 per cent of the total mum
The San Francisco call., 1904-02-24
OCEAN SHIPPING INTERESTS.

a hearing before the House Committee on
"A Merchant Marine and Fisheries number OF i'm
1 portant facts were submitted bearing upon the
urgent need of legislation for the upbuidng of our mer
chant marine To large of the facts were
essentially the that have been often repeated
during the campaign of education carried on by the
friends of American shipping but OF the statements
concerning the personal experiences of shpowners and
shipbuders and merit attention by reason OF
the light they throw upon the obstacles in the OF our
shpownes when competing for trade against the subsi
diced ships of other nations.
One of the interesting of these personal state
ments was made by Alfred Windsor president of the
Boston Steamship Company. report of the hearing,
given by the Washington correspondent of the Iron Age
says:
"Mr Windsor gave some practical illustrations of
present conditions in the shipbuding industry Several
years when the subject OF aiding the merchant
rne agitated in Congress. the Boston Steamship
Company began build 5ooo-ton vessel and another
company started which built two vessels of I2
tons capacity each The original intention was to
them England but the expected Congressional aid
did come, and it ceen that there was no
opportunity running British ports against the sub
sidized mail steamers Then the company made up
its mind that as the United States had taken possession
of the Philippine Islands, there a chance to build UP
line Manila. The ships referred to therefore
placed she Pacific Coast and were run from Puget
Sound and Seattle to Japan, Hongkong Manila, Vlad
vostok and Port Arthur. But right alongside of these
Canadian Pacific Steamship Company. subsidized the
amount OF 100000 year, while running directly into
Seattle Japanese steamship line receiving 100000
per annum in subsidies i'll addition bounty of $Io per
ton for every ship that is built There is sufficient
merchandise moving and from the Philippines to begin
to load the companys large ships and heavy annual
loss is being made. Such business be carried
indefinitely and the only end in sight is the hauling
off of those ships placing them under foreign flag
The experience of the Boston Steamship Company is
not an isolated AS matter of fact the inability of
American ships to compete with the subsidized lines of
other countries we'll recognized that the
structon of deep vessels in American shpyard for
American has virtually ceased 1t is stated that
since June IooI keel has been laid in any American
spyard either coast of the United States for
steel ship designed for foreign commerce That is the
condition which proud shipping industry has
been reduced While foreign trade is advancing by
leaps and bounds paying tribute to foreigners to
carry it, if incapable of maintaining
| chant marine of
The San Francisco call., 1904-02-24
Elm Tree or Palm.

OAKLAND, Feb. %.
Editor Call: AS subscriber to your
paper and a property owner on Tele-
graph avenue and an opponent Of the
elm tree planting on said avenue.
was much interested in an article in
vour editorial of February IA. which
reads. "it goes without saying that if
a winter month picture Of Southern
California scene had no trees in it but
the leaf1ess elm. sycamore and other
deciduous trees, it would attract no at
tention at all.
LAS a start at pulling together we
advise Oakland and all cities in this
section of the State to pull up their
deciduous trees on the streets and put
instead palms, etc.
"a professor in the university lifted
his pen against the palm and he is
from a wintry country; he desires to
give a winter aspect to our cities"
The professor has captured our city
government.
I have not heard of a single property
owner on the avenue who wants tho
elm tree. Their objections to it would
take up too much space in your paper
l have informed Mayor Olney myself
of the peoples opposition to the elm
but he says it has been decided upon
that on the streets running north and
south it will be the elm or sycamore
and east and west the palm.
That is the way the matter stands
Southern California will be all summe
in appearance and we will be half ant
half-half summer and half winter
| This to please a professor of the uni
versity. Yours truly,
]. F. ". sOHST.