The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-05-07
MEMORIAL OAK DEDICATED
ODD FELLOWS OF CITY OELE-
 BRATED ANNIVERSARY.

Speaking fin CommemoratiOn of the
 Eighty-Hfth Birthday of the Order
 Sturdy Young Oak on the Central
 Green.
 Several thousand people, members of the odd Fellows lodges of this city, their friends and families. and citizens in general participated in the dedica- ton of the memorial white oak, which the odd Fellows planted some time ago on the site of the old state house on the central Green. The celebration was both to commemorate the eighty-ffth birth day Of the order in the United States and was also held last night because yesterday was the day appointed by Governor Chamberlain as Arbor day.
 The members of the subordinate lodges formed in front of the odd Eel lows building at s5 Crown street about seven o'clock and rested on the north | side of the street extending in sin gle file through Crown street almost to | College. The cantons formed in full re- galia in the Sassacus armory corner Crown and church streets.
 At the command of Colonel Peter Ter 1 hume, who was grand marshal of the | occasion, the second regiment band un- der the leadership of Frank Fchtl struck up an inspiring march and the several cantons filed out from their ar- mory across Church street and took up their position immediately back of the band stand. They made fine and im- posing appearance, next came the mem- bers of the various city lodges, ten in number, in the following order. They occupied positions in the line with re- spect to the number of years which they had been organized. They were as fol- lows:
 I Quinnipiac No 1, E. l. Isbell, mar shal Harmony, No. 5, s. J. Latta, mar < shal; Montewese No. 15. Fl. w. Miller, marshal; City No. S6, Fl. c. Young, marshal; Croswell No. S9, E. Hotchkiss, marshal; Svea No. 40, J. M. Peterson, marshal; Polar Star No IT, J. T. Rice, marshal; Germania No IS, G. Teichert, E shal; Humboldt No. 91, Frank Pauly, marshal.
 The marching order of the entire par ade was as follows:
 Platoon of police, todd Fellows), Second Regiment Band. Frank Fiehtl,
 Leader.
 Grand Canton Sassacus, No l. First company. A. 0. Chatfield. com
 mandant; W. H. Northwood, lieu
 tenant E. Benedict, ensign. Canton Aurora, L. Rempfer, captain; E.
 Glouskin, lieutenant; F. Wester-
 man, ensign.
 Grand officers and guests in carriages. Among the guests in the carriages were his honor. Mayor Studley, Grand Master Frank R. Upson, Rev c. H. Smith, Hon. James Bishop. Grand Gee retary Frederick Botsford and E. S. i Pickett.
 The line of march was from the Odd Fellows building to Orange street, to Elm, to Church, to York. to Elm, to l Temple and to the spot on the Green where the tree is planted
 Thousands of people lined the streets where the parade passed and enjoyed the sights.
 Arriving at the appointed spot the guests and master of ceremonies mounted a temporary platform and af- ter the opening ode by the band, the Rev. c. H, smith, grand chaplain, made the invocation. Mayor Studley was in- troduced and made witty address. He accepted the oak tree on behalf of the city and remarked that it stood for friendship, love and truth, the motto of the order, and was therefore a very appropriate emblem. Mayor Studley said that it was unfortunate that the tree which bore the fruit that caused the downfall of Adam had not been an oak. for then there would be no naughty people in the world, and per- haps no New Haven and then, of course, there would have been no pool rooms. He closed his brief address by expressing the hope that the small oak would continue to thrive and grow to be a grand memorial of the day and event.
 Grand Master Upson was then intro duced and he spoke on the topic "Odd Fellowship" He briefly gave history of the founding of the order in the United States and traced it's career from that time, eighty-five years ago. up to the present. giving many statis- tics of the membership, the amount of money contributed and the great good which the order has accomplished. He was followed by Judge James Bishop. who told Of the work of the Odd Eel lows in the state of Connecticut. He said that the order was brought to this state about sixty-five years ago by four men who were introduced into the mys- teries in New York lodge From those four men had grown the many subordi- nate lodges of to-day so that there were many thousand members in the state. He said that if any one desired to know more of the order all that was necessary was to ask their next door neighbor, and he would almost invari- ably find out all desired.
 After singing the closing ode to the accompaniment of the band, the master of ceremonies dismissed the subordi- nate lodges while the cantons paraded back to their armory. headed by the Second regiment band.
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