Los Angeles herald., 1905-12-04
.ELKS EULOGIzE
DEPARTED ONES
MEMORIAL SERVICE is HELD
AT MASON
Excellent Music and oratory MARI
Proeram-orations RepIete With
Impressive Sentiments and
Tender Tribute

Beautiful music, fervent invocation,
eloquent oratory and sympathetic eulo-
gies were the order of the memorial
service held by Los Angeles lodge, u.
=. o. Elks, No 80 at the Mason opera
house yesterday afternoon.
A select program was carried out,
Frank Bryson, exalted ruler, having
charge of the opening of the lodge.
The Grafton by Lawrence Holmes was
replete with impressive sentiments for
the good of the order he espoused. He
said In part:
Sunday is good day to meet for
an occasion like this. This order Is,
however often misunderstood and its
methods of geniality and joyous attri-
butes are often misconstrued as utterly
frivolous but there is nothing more
enobling than the character maintained
in this ORDER with the acknowledgment
of the supreme being as an important
factor in all its action and deibera-
tions. Man yearns for higher relations
and heavenly attributes and feel that
the greatest gift Of God is the human
body and intellect We wonder at the
remarkable growth and changes from
the helpless infant during various
stages to manhood and the develop
ments to old age. Many advance the
idea that old age is disagreeable time
in the lives of people for the reason
that their usefulness is closed.
Should Start Child Alright
IT admire the attributes of good old
age, devolving upon the precepts of
useful lives from youth to ripe old age.
And in this connection a great funda-
mental priciple is to start the child
Alright, to be maintained throughout
it's life. Let us make the childhood
of man a dream of nobility, elevating
him to the grand realms of manhood,
and the crowning glory Of old age
when he stands ready to enter the great
beyond"
Rev. DR.. ]. L. Pitner delivered the
eulogy in his emblematic manner inter-
Spersing the humorous with the solem-
nifty of the occasion. He said in part:
This life is one of great peculiarities.
Man is the agent to bring order out
of chaos. 1t is his portion to navigate
the sea and control the elements placed
in his keeping by the overruling power
He is given strength to Withstand all
the tempestuous winds that blow.
81 do not believe in driving all the
sentiment out of our lives. Music and
poetry would then be relegated to OBJ
livion. We require amidst our hard
ships and solemnity the music, poetry
and the mirthfulness that occasions
laughter to keep up our spirits as men
of Christian characters"
Rev. DR.. Pitner referring to the re-
cent railway accidents said that 1t re-
quired more bravery on the streets of
Los Angeles than on a field of battle.
Impressive Program Rendered
Following is the program: March,
orchestra, Harley Hamilton, director;
opening ceremonies, the lodge; invo-
cation, Rev. G. c. Pierce; quartet,
Jesus Lover of My Soul" Misses Maud
Reese-Davis, Maud N. Richards, John
Douglas Walker and William James
Chick; reading, 'In Memoriam," Leo
Cooper; baritone solo, "God Shall Wipe
Away All Tears" w. j. Chick; grafton,
Lawrence Holmes; song, abide With
Me-" quartet; eulogy, DR.. j. L. Pit
ner; soprano solo, Miss Davis; closing
exercises, the lodge; benediction, Rev.
G. G. Pierce; Nearer My God, to
Thee" audience.
: Following are the lodge officers:
Frank Bryson, exalted ruler; Byron l..
Oliver, esteemed leading knight; viii
Stephens, esteemed loyal knight; G. G.
johnson, esteemed lecturing knight;
Walter S. Moore, secretary; Tracy O..
Hall, treasurer; c. w. Fleming, chap
lain, c. M. Benbrook, esquire; f..
Leroy Young, inner guard: Walter J.
Goldsmith, tyler; w. C. Stone, organist;
Milton *. Young, John Luckenbach
and II. C. Dow, trustees.
The memorial committee was COM
posed of the following members: G.
w Fleming, Oliver Morosco, I. H. Rice,
T. Newman. C. G. Pyle, Lawrence
Holiness Joseph Boylson, D. II. Drew,
Walter Goldsmith, Fred Pierce, ]. p.
Burns, George Rice, II. G. Dow, w. c..
Stone, II. b. Woodill, Frank A. Jay,
q. 7. Bennett, S. j. Brown, v. E.
1olehan, j. Montrose, w. Stephens, S.
Levy, r. Hagan, l.. j. Christopher,
Herman Hauser, Martin Neuner, c. II.
Sprecher, D. Stoetzer, T. Mays, H. G..
Zell and Fred Allies