The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1910-07-13
NOTES OF THE ElkS.

NOTES OF THE ElkS.
Ex-senator A. b. Kittredge heads
delegation OF q Elks and ladies from
South Dakota, who have their head
quarters at the Griswold House.
The st. Louis delegation Is in win
bagpipe band and Is registered d.
the Burns hotel. The band attracted
considerable attention on the party
arrival.
New York city's famous Elk lodge,
No. /. arrived in the city 500 strong
Monday night and marched up from
the depot behind the Fort wayne
band. The delegation Is quartered al
the Hotel fuller.
Friends OF Charles A. Rasbury, OF
Dallas, Texas, have succeeded In get
ting him TO become a candidate lot
the Office of grand exalted ruler III
1911. He Is regarded as one or the
leading members OF the grand lodge
Al present he Is a member or the
judiciary committee.
One of the most important ques
lions to come before the grand lodge
ia the proposal TO abandon the Elks
home ut Bedford City, Va. Ii Is
argued that the present structure
should either be done away with OF
remodeled Just now there are 40 per
sons IN the home. It's maintenance
for the past year cost $2l,62S.
A pile OF building tile near the cor
ner OF Grand River and woodward
ayes. furnished amusement for
bunch OF Hello Bills" about l o'clocE
Tuesday morning. When one or the
tile was thrown on the sidewalk, II
would make a noise like the SMASHING
OF a big show window, and ther,
would be a scurrying OF bluecoats
The original charter OF the Grand
Lodge of Jolly Corks, from which III,
order OF Elks sprung, is on exhibition
in the headquarters of Grand Exaitet
Ruler Sammis, In the Pontchartrain
and is attracting considerable atten
ton. The Jolly Corks were organized
more than SO years ago by party Of
theatrical folk, for purely social pur
poses.
Charles c. Schmidt, mayor OF
Wheeling. w. Va. is a candidate fol
grand trustee and Is receiving loya
support. He is the present incum
bent of the office, having been APP
pointed to I'LL vacancy. Mr.. Schmidt
IS a man of pleasing personality
which In itself wins him many friends
Although the city OF Wheeling Il
strongly Republican, he has been
elected mayor for three successive
terms on the Democratic ticket.
Robert McWade. past exalted ruler
OF the Washington lodge OF Elks
heads this years delegation TO the
forty sixth annual convention of the
order In Detroit Most OF the dele
CATION are chartered in the Griswold
house. The other members registered
from that city are: Joseph A. Burk
hart, alternate delegate; Walter j.
Thorp, Herman Richards. A. w. Bar
ron, J. Farrell and William Morrison
The Washington delegation favors AT
lantic City for the 1911 convention.
Electric wires set fire TO some bunt
Ing on the thirteenth floor of the
Hotel Pontchartrain Monday evening
but there were no serious conse
quences. The blaze died out before
the fire department arrived. Some
visiting Elks iollied the flremen BY
poking their heads out OF windows and
proffering settler bottles as extin
kuishers.
Henrietta and I.avina Rice, of fight
ing fame. and Gertrude Smith, were
all arrested Monday in connection
with the disappearance of $50 belong
ing to David King, an Elk from La
trobe, Pa. King and Theodore J. Hon
man, also OF Latrobe, met the Rice
girls and Gertrude Smith and went
with them 10 Rivards cafe. Later
they moved TO Rocks pace on Grand
River-ave. II was there the money
disappeared The girls tried TO make
a getaway In a waiting taxicab. and
In the melee. Lavina Rice beat Hon
man over the head with an umbrella
Richard Blight. an Elk from Eagle
River, Mich, formed the acquaintance
OF George Frazer, waitress. who
gave her residence as No. 33S Ran
dolph-st. In a house on Park-pl.
Blight missed his roll OF $50. That
was Monday night and Tuesday morn
ing Detectives Reid and Good AT.
rested George on a grand larceny
charge.
Brooklyn lodge No. %, which
boasts that II is the largest Elks
lodge in the world, has the entire zoe
floor at the Cadillac, the party mum,
bering 125 members and ladies'. and
a band of 81 pieces. The members
Of the band are all sons OF members.
Brooklyn is booming w. J. Buttling,
past exalted ruler, and former sheriff
OF Kings county. for grand exalted
ruler in 1911. Albert T. Brophy. ex.
allied ruler OF No %. who is in charge
OF the party, is attorney for the
Brooklyn Rapid Transit railway, and
says that the number of damage suits
against the ID. Y. II. is nothing to
what the b. II. r. has TO meet, the
damage actions there running into
thousands. George NJ. Cohan, the &C
tor. is member OF the party.
What everyone in the party pro-