The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1905-09-27
State Grand Officers Held
An Important Meeting at
Achtel Stetter.' in Newark
ALL VOTED FOR HARMONY
THE EVENING WAS DEVOTED TO
AN INFORMAL DISCUSSION OF
THE ORDERS PROSPECTS IN
NEW JERSEY.

High officials of the Royal Arcanum
held a meeting this week at Achtel
Stetter's, in Newark They came at
the invitation of Grand Regent
James Rodgers, of Crawford It
was styled a convention of the
grand council .'oficial family and, com
ing at the time it did. as a preliminary to
the opening of the Arcanun's usual fall
campaign in this State. and following
close ON the heels Of the controversy over
the new rates which has ragged within
the order. ii censti'ufed. in tie outcome,
a most significant meeting of its kind,
looking solely on the prosperity ef the
institution.
Not the least noteworthy feature was
the presence Of about fifty ont ef the
sixty invited. especially when it is known
that those not present were accounted for
as unayoidably detained but in sym
Dathy with the sentiments which ami
mated those who assembled from all
parts of New Jersey The list of those
who answered TO their names follows
Grand Regent-James Rodgers, Gram
ford.
Grand Orator-Harry R. Ward, Jer-
sey City.
Past Grand Regent-James N. wash
burne, Jersey City.
Grand Secretarv-Robert H. Alberts,
Hoboken.
Grand Treasurer-Henry Hollinshed,
Jr.. Camden
Grand Guide-Rev. W. 7. Dorward,
Metuchen.
Grand Chaplain George Louusbury,
Tenaay.
Grand warden-samuel B. Wharton,
Trenton.
Grand Sentry Charles A. Hicks, Ho-
boken.
! Grand Trustees-William c. McKever.
Rutherford; William Thomas, Trenton:
D. s. Horton. Somerville.
Representatives to Supreme Council
]. NJ. Washburne, Jersev City B. B.
Mcdowell, Excelsior Council 2O6; J. d.
Beach, Bayonne; E. NJ Soaring, Dover.
Alternates-H Bornemann, Arboret
Council 1907; w. W. Baxter. Jersey
City: Anton Steines, Newark; Robert H.
Maddocks, Jersey City.
Supervising Deputy Grand Regents
c. Harold Porter. William T. Sherman
Council 1340 Frank Fl. Walls. yineland; !;
Samuel Drummond, Guiding Star Coun-
Gil 522; Charles H. Haring, Elizabeth /;
William Pfeiffer, Jr.. Jersey City; Chas.
a. Collier, Bayonne; Charles L. Britten,
Jersey City; H. J. Bierman. Newark;
Charles II. Dilts, Trenton; n H Ra-
gan, Jersey CITY; O. H Snow, Mont
clair; F. n. Van Syckle, Andover; Geo
]. Goetz, Ridgefeld Park George w.
Hutchinson. Orange; William E. Day,
Morristown; H. s. Hoffman, Arlington;
W Eddowes. Newark: George J Balm
es. Jersey City: William NJ. Farrar,
Hoboken; james Tumulty. Jersey City;
Charles c. Davis. Plain6eld; William r.
| Duncan, Jersey City.
Committee on Laws. etc.-W. Holt
Apgar. Trenton; H. G. Siegel, Hoboken;
A. Harrington. Madison.
Committee on Finance. etc.F. J. Bit
ter, Hoboken; s.. Kenyon Messick. Gran
ford; Fl. w. Tunis, Newark
Committee on State of Order W ilbur
Alderman. Nutley: A. " Dey, Newark;
R. P. Van Zandt. Jersey City; D. R.
Walls, jersey City: j. H. Farrell, Pater-
] son..
Past Grand Regents William L.
Douglass. 1Ss9-SO: w. A. Tompkins.
| 1S90-91, Rutherford; G, E. Mcdowell,
/ 1S91-92. Newark: Frank J Griffith, 1892
93. s. r. Kallman. 1893-95. Jersey City;
w. Holt Apgar. 1897-99, Trenton: Z. A.
Lightfoot, 1S99'01, Horace r.. Bovine,
f901s03. Hoboken: James NJ. Wash
burne. 1908 '05. Jersey City.
4 State Medical Examiner--Grover T.
/ Applegate. NJ. D., New Brunswick.
The proceedings of the evening were
confined to an informal disdcssion Of the
situation. condition and prospects of the
order in New Jersey. The sentiment ex-
pressed. to which there was no demur,
was that the time for talk had passed
by: that the new rates have been finally
decided on. and that the duty if every
member Of the organization is to remain
loyal to the fraternity, to urge upon good
men. of sound physical condition. to unite
with it. to discountenance the sclismatic
and rebelliQus attitude Of the few breth-
rea who have remained diseontented and
to show by consistent and persistent
pressing toward the societyss ideals that
the old spirit. the better discrimination
the faithfulness and zeal for which the
4 Royal Arcanum has always been noted
afe still its snimating characteristics.