The Detroit times., 1910-07-12
NOTES OF The ELks.

| Ex-senator a. ID. hllIouBo hOouS -
delegation OF q Elks and ladies from
South Dakota, who have their head
quarters at the Griswold House.
The st. Louis delegation Is In with
a bagpipe band and Is registered at
the Burns hotel. The band attracted
considerable attention on the party's
arrival.
New York city's famous Elk lodge,
No. /, arrived In the city 300 strong
Monday night and marched up from
the depot behind the Fort Wayne
band. The delegation Is quartered at
the Hotel fuller
Friends of Charles A. Rasbury, or
Dallas, Texas, have succeeded In get
| ting him TO become candidate lor
the office of grand exalted ruler In
1911. He Is regarded as one OF the
leading members OF the grand lodge
At present he Is member OF the
judiciary committee.
One of the most important ques-
tions to come before the grand lodge
is the proposal to abandon the Elks'
home at Bedford City, Va. II is
argued that the present structure
should either be done away with or
remodeled. Just now there are 40 per-
sons in the home. It's maintenance
for the past year cost $21 ,62S.
| A nile OF building tile near the cor
ner of Grand River and Woodward
ayes. furnished amusement for a
bunch OF Hello Bills about l O'Clock
Tuesday morning. When one or the
tile was thrown on the sidewalk, IL
would make a noise like the smashing
of q big show window, and there
would be q scurrying OF biuecoats
The original charter Of the, Grand
Lodge of Jolly Corks, from which the
order of Elks sprung, Is on exhibition
in the headquarters Of Grand Exalted
Ruler Sammis, In the Pontchartrain,
and Is attracting considerable atten-
ton. The Jolly Corks were organized
more than 90 years ago by party OF
theatrical folk, for purely social pur-
poses.
Electric wires set fire to some bunt-
ing on the thirteenth floor OF the
Hotel Pontchartrain Monday evening
but there were no serious conse-
uuences. The blaze died out before
the fire department arrived. Some
visiting Elks jollied the firemen by
lpoking their heads out of windows and
proffering settler bottles as extin'
kuishers.
Charles c. Schmidt, mayor oil
Wheeling, w. Va, Is a candidate for
grand trustee and Is receiving loyal
support. He is the present incum'
bent OF the office, having been ap'
pointed to fill vacancy. Mr.. Schmidt
Is a man of pleasing personality
which in itself wins him many friends,
Although the city Of Wheeling is
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 auartered 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, ]. Farrell and William Morrison.
The Washington delegation favors At
lantic City for the 1911 convention.
Henrietta and Lavina Rice, OF fight
ing fame, and Gertrude Smith, were
ell 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 Hice
girls and Gertrude Smith and went
with them TO Rivard's cafe. Later
they moved to Rocks pace on Grand
River-ave. IL was there the money
disappeared. The girls tried to make
| IN md
I'm the melee, Lavina Rice beat Hon
man over the head with an umbrella.
A delegation OF $50 Buffalo Elks ar
rived by special train late Monday
afternoon, accompanied by the famous
band OF the Seventy-fourth regiment,
New York National Guard. Follow.
ing In the wake OF the main body Will
come several men prominent in New
York politics, including John j. Ken
nedy. a probable candidate for COVER
nor on the Democratic ticket next
fall; James Prendergast, of the New
York civil service commission, and
Mayor Louis Thurman, of Buffalo. The
Buffalo crowd will appear In the
parade in Buffalo Bill uniforms.
Brooklyn lodge No. %, which
boasts that Il Is the largest Elks
Hodge In the world, has the entire zoe
floor at the Cadillac, the party mum
bering 1875 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 sherif
of Kings county, for grand exalted
ruler I'm 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
lagainst the d. u. r. Is nothing 10
what the B. r. 7. has TO meet, the
damage actions there running into