Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-10-30
HOTELS AND WHISKY
PYTHIAN EXPLAINS THE DRAs-
TIC MEASURE TAKEN By ORDER.
Special Correspondence Of The Star.

| special Correspondence OF 1be Stdr.
| RICHMOND, Va, October 3d. 1905.
Judge David c. Richardson Of this city,
who has been attending the sessions Of the
Supreme Lodge, Knights Of Pythias, at New
| Orleans, today discussed the matters of i'm
| portance to the order which were disposed
| of at the session which ended its labors
| with the end of the week just closed. Re-
garding the action OF the Supreme Lodge
on the liquor question, Judge Richardson
said:
1.-The abuse of the hotel privilege in some
of the cities of the northwest was respon-
sible for the drastic course pursued by the
| Supreme Lodge. The regulations for many
years have prevented retail dealers In
| liquors from becoming affiliated with the
order Exceptions were made in cases of
bona fide hotel men. Then it was that In
many places that the people who were de-
sirous of evading the law established no
tells which were nothing more nor less
than clubs for the sale of whisky. In many
cases the meetings would be held, last Tor
| five minutes and then the whisky and beer
and wines would be brought In and gam
bling resorts conducted under the guise Of
a lodge Of the order. Those are the facts
the same order of the fake clubs which we
have been driving out Of the state.
Order is Growing.
" nat Is Oh peculiar lHteISSl " tiiS ReO-
pie of Virginia, however, is the action of
the Supreme Lodge in ordering the pay
ment to the Grand Lodge of Virginia, to be
used for building a memorial in the city
of Richmond to Samuel Holder Hines, Of
the sum of $4,000 This money has been
held by the Supreme Lodge for many years.
and it's payment means that the proposed
Pythian temple will be built here In Rich
mond, to be owned by the Grand Lodge or
Virginia.
From every section came reports of the
growth of the order. Today there are 7Oo,-
eco members in good standing, and the In
crease in membership of the endowment
insurance. rank of the order has kept pace
with the general growth. The Supreme
Lodge directed that the policies should read
for from $500 to 5000, and provision was
made for twenty-year policy. That is for
the benefit of those who desire to take that
form, as it is wholly optional. The insur-
ance feature of the order is on most sat-
isfactory basis.
Dropped a Rank.
Another step was the dropping of the
major general of the uniform rank and the
president of the board of control of the en-
dowment rank from positions as officers of
the Supreme Lodge. The new law provides
for the election of these officers by the
board of control and by the supreme as
sembly.
1.-THE session at Louisville named a COM
mittee to revise the constitution of the Su-
preme Lodge and this work was submitted
to the body at New Orleans. A great deal
was done to build up the order, looking to
raising of the personnel in some places and
for general betterment in many particulars.
1t would be difficult at his time to detail
this work. especially when 1 have not the
printed report before me. They are many,
however. and will prove interesting to the
members of the order throughout the count
try. 1t was one of the best meetings have
ever attended and one of the most intelli
gent gatherings In the history Of the Su-
preme Lodge. The next session is to be
held in Boston,