The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-04-23

the Grand Lodge. the following dele | gates answered:
 Memphis-Emi4 Nathan, M Sam field. H, wahrhafteg. Charles J. Haase. J M Friedman, Louis Schwartz. l. Vicksburg--Laz Hirsch. J. K. Hirsch, | S. Susman.
 | Hirsch. D. s. Hausman. P. H. Stern. l Canton, Miss.-Jacob Loeb. | Shreveport. La.-Ben Landman. Ma than Meyer.
 l Natchez, Miss.-Jufius W. Roos. B. C. Geisenberger.
 | Eufaula-Silas Stern. | Uniontown-L. J. Adler. | Selma--Isaac Schwartz, Walter Bloch, I B. J. Schuster.
 | Bayou Sara. La.--Morris Burgas. Columbus. Miss.-Julius Loeb.
 New orleans-Joseph Loeb; Lag Levy, A. seekbach. A. steeg. Joseph Wagner.
 Dallas. Tex.--J E. Michaelson. Arthur
 Waco, Tex.--c L. sagner. Dave Ro- | man.
 Jackson. Miss. .--Isidore Dreyfus. Monroe. La----Jonas Meyer. | San Antonio, Texas-J. M Oppenhei-
 a; Pensacola. Fia.@L B Horshman. Rabbi Samuel Koch.
 | Galveston. Texas.-H. s. Marx, Jo-
 Summit. Miss-B. Forcheimer.
 Demopoiis-Lewis E. Mayer. | Tyler, Texas-H. Liebreich.
 Houston. Texasoc D. Wolf, Jules Hirsh.
 l Chattanooga, Tenn-Julius Bukof- User.
 1 Lake Charles, La-Sam Levy. l Hot SDrinRs Ark,---A. B. Rhine. | Gainesville, Texas.--S. Zacharias.
 Fl Paso, Texas-Rabbi Martin Zei- lIonka.
 Fort Worth, Tex.-H. Gernsbacher. | Texarkana, Tex.--S Rothause.
 TusealoosaEJudge ignatius uar1en;, Green; | Leo Pfeifer, Louis Volmer. l Helena. Ark.-Aaron Meyers.
 Past Presidents-Sigmund Haas, Mo bile, sam Ullman, Birmingham; Abe gomery; A. A. Marx. New Orleans; M. J. Meyer. Selma; Jacques Loeb, Mont gomery; Gabe Kahn. New Orleans. l Grand Omcers Present.
 The grand officers present were: Lewis Mayer. president; NJ. Mohr. first ice-president; Julius M. oppenheimer' treasurer; Nat Strauss. secretary. Charles H. Haase of Memphis. sergeant | at arms, was the only officers absent. He was detained in Memphis on lodge affairs. but 1t was stated that he would reach Montgomery today.
 Before taking up the further routine of business, President Mayer secured | the attention of his audience and then held in view the gavel with which he had rapped the meeting to order. He | said that the gavel had been presented to the lodge by some of the younger pupils of the manual training school at New Orleans to be used hereafter at all sessions of the order. He desired the lodge and himself sincerest thanks | for the useful token.
 President Mayer then introduced to the convention William Dorsey Jelks: Governor of Alabama, who welcomed the delegates heartily on behalf of Alabama.
 The District Lodge feels itself hon ored hy the presence of one of the Souths most distinguished sons." said | Mir. Mayer. "a man who has served his State and country with fidelity and ySa my Wa@ io Dorsey Jelks of Alabama" (continued l applause.) l Governor JeIks Speaks. After waiting for the applause to | abate. the governor arose from his seat and advancing to the front of the platform, spoke as follows: l Tt becomes my most pleasant duty | to welcome to Ala abama the represent atives of the great order worldwide | in influence for good.
 We welcome you to great State. Not one under the canopy of Heaven I men or old men for advancement In the northern part of the State we have mines of diamonds that hold riches that equal the fabled Golconda, and l the two are running easily through our furnaces in thousands of tons each day. It makes the price of pig iron for the world. Pig that makes steel and we hope that the day is not dist | ant when it will be said of Alabama, she sets the price of steel to all the world. With few more locks on the Warrior River, and all these richest, in | their several individual and their com bined and finished condition will be in water reach of all ports and all the bosom of the same waters, enough | cement. dug out of their own banks, to build the walls which are to hold the land from the waters of the des- that on the bosom of the great canal itself in a few years will be floating ships whose masts and hulls and plates and engines are of Alabama soil and | product. almost feel like saying we | will claim possession of the canal walls in the name of Alabama. and the ships that do ride upon it's bosom. Then we have smiling fields in Ala bama. Nearly every acre of the 52,OO0 square miles of the State surface is ar able. and will produce abundant re- wards for the. husbandman's efforts. Smiling fields, delicious climate. and all the material things that go to make one happy and prosperous are here in this great State, and you are welcome ! to us. You come in a happy year and a happy part of it. We are prosper ous. You have read that from your car windows, and that we are happy you can see from our smiling faces, | From our gladness we extend gladness | to you.
 | "A Peculiar People"
 We extend welcome to you, a .pecu- liar people, We have authority for I ar a Ia Reading the story of your forbears, of the very early and far-away times, and reading the living story of your own life, and those who went along be- l fore you in the cycles of time, it is clear that you were peculiar people, and that you have been in all times, and we may reasonably infer that you will be a peculiar people for the bal l ance of time.
 1 You are. peculiar in several things | that especially recommend you to me. do not find that you will fll the T find that your orphans are not | shelterless-there are homes for tbano