The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-02-19
|PYTH|AN CHIEF
SCORES PRESENT
BENEFITS PLAN
Urges knights to Cut Short
Scheme of Continuous
Sick Payments.
$50 DEL EGATES ATTEND
GRAND LODGE OPENING
Order in New Jersey Shows
Gain-Chancellor Pleads for
Support of Lodge Paper.
Special to the Evening star,


TRENTON, Feb. 19.-The forty-first
annual session of the grand lodge of
New Jersey, Knights of Pythias, con-
vened at II O'Clock today in the as
sembly room of Masonic Temple. About
$50 delegates from all parts of the
State were present.
The convention was called to order
after the examining of credentials by
Grand Chancellor w. II. billiard, of
Salem. He submitted a brief report
of the events occurring during his adj
ministration, and thanked the members
for their loyal support and courteous
treatment Throughout the year.
He expressed regret that he had been
unable to visit as man lodges as ne
should have done, and said that it was.
because he lived in the extreme SOUTH
ern part of the State. Other officers If
the grand lodge, however. cooperatod
with him in the visitations, and nearly
all of the sixteen district meetings were
attended by one or more of the officers.
Lodge Paper Started.
Through his efforts and aided by
Supreme Grand representative Dewitt
C. Cobb, a periodical called the New
Jersey Pythian was started, and it has
been very successful.
He recommended that some action
looking toward the support of the paper
by the grand lodge be taken, either by
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ma Advertising for the good of the or
der, to such amount as would produce
enough to cover Deficiencies.
Another accommodation made by the
grand chancellor was that all lodges
which pay continuous benefits would
do well to take measures at once to dis
continuefhem before their accumulated
capital Is exhausted, lest their Younger
members, when they need assistance,
will find the resources of the lodge dis
sipated In a vain attempt to pay con-
tinuous benefits.
In Members.
His reports showed that applications
for insurance in the insurance depart
ment had increased from 1864 in 1906
to S4,446 in 1907. and that the whole de-
partment is showing a general pros
perity.
The report of Grand Keeper Of
Records and Seal Elmer E.. Margerun,
of this city. showed that there had
been a slight increase in membership,
the order having gained forty-nine new
members in the past year. The net
membership on December 81, 1907, was
a. 1886. Toward the relief work of the
-fdl- o.l H. It,,tn1 80 kI.. laa1 ILL.,
order paid $50, $1,000 during the year,
and $34,752.O2 wa invested in securi-
ties. The total receipts for the year in
New Jersey Were $167. 744.12, and the
disbursements $54.4S2.81.
John Patrick. grand master of the
exchequer, reported a balance on hand
February 10. 1908, of So, 7S0.17.
The printing committee. composed of
Charles f. Mackey, Morris Fox and j.
Leo Eldridge, reported that $S75.2S had
been spent in the past year, and that
5000 worth of printing would be re-
quired during the coming year..
So Get Grand Lodge Honors.
Sixty-three past junior chancellors
We're made members of the Grand
Lodge this morning. Grand Chancel-
Tor billiard performed the ceremonies.
The afternoon session was taken up
with routine business.
A short meeting will be held tonight
and the following elections already
made by the subordinate lodges will 20
Klenert, of Paterson; grand vice-chan-
cellor, Henry A. Henrichs, of Paterson;
grand keeper of records and seals, Ell