The San Francisco call., 1910-10-18
DRUID SESSION TO
Open HERE TODAY
Delegates From Many States
Gather for Convention at
the St. Francis
Effort Will Be Made to Have
City IndOrsed for the 1915
Exposition

The supreme officers of and the rep
the United Ancient Order OF Druids
arrived IN this city yesterday and this
| morning the first session of that body
will be held in the colonial room OF
the st. Francis
The supreme officers are julius S.
Godeau of this city, supreme arch;
Louis Huff of Louisiana, deputy su-
preme arch; Henry Prudential OF
New York, supreme secretary, who is
serving his thirty-fifth continuous year
in that position; Louis Krauss of In
diana. supreme treasurer, and Arthur
). Peters of Louisiana, supreme herald
The representatives are from Call
fornia, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Louis
lana, Minnesota, Missouri, New Jer-
sey, New York, Nevada. North Caro-
Washington. West Virginia, district OF
Columbia and British Columbia.
GERMANY REPRESENTED
Secretary Freudenthal will repre-
sent the following grand groves of the
German empire: Brandenburg, Hansa
SaXonia, Bavaria, Provenz, Sachsen,
Holstein, Rheinland, Westfallen, Schle-
sfen and Pommern and the chapters OF
Berlin and Hamburg. California is the
banner state for the number of groves
and members. 1t has 1876 subordinate
groves.
The session will be opened at $50
o'clock this morning. when Noble
Grand Arch c. o. Dunbar of the grand
grove of this state will make an intro
ductory statement, after which Mayor
Mccarthy will deliver an address of
welcome and present the supreme body
| golden key to the city. This will be
| I1-l - ,-,l,
Others will deliver short addresses,
after which the grove will be formally
opened
To BE ENTERTAINED
There will not be any session in the
afternoon, but the visitors will be
taken in automobiles on a sight seeing
tour
In the evening the supreme grove
will be received and entertained by the
grand circle of Druidesses in Golden
Gate hall
Yesterday the members of the sew
eral committees of the supreme body
| were engaged in preparing their re-
| ports for presentation this morning.
Among many matters to come up
| for consideration will be a proposition
| to have the supreme body indorse San
| Francisco the city in which to hold
| the Panama-Pacific exposition in 1915.
lAlS, III Splte Oh the IdcI LHdI Depuly
| Supreme Arch Huff. who will become
| the next supreme arch, and Supreme
Herald Peters, who is in line for the
| Office of deputy supreme arch, the two
| highest offices in the order, are resi-
dents of New Orleans, La. Legisla-
| tion will be sought in the direction of
| spreading the order in the east. which
| in the main there Is confined to Ger
| man speaking people. An effort will
| be made to rescind the action of the
| previous supreme body, which created
| all past supreme arches life members
| of the supreme grove with voice and
vote The effort to change will be on
| the ground of the heavy expense Of
mileage for Is of these life members.
OPPOSITION TO PETERS
An effort will also be made to make
| past noble arches, that is, the presid
| ing officers of subordinate groves, ELI
gible to become members of the SUI
preme body. AT present only past no
BILE grand arches and past supreme
representatives are eligible.
Louis Huff of New Orleans will be-
come the next supreme arch A. j.
Peters, also of New Orleans will be a
candidate for deputy supreme arch.
but he will meet opposition, as there
will be objection to the two highest
offices going to the same state. Sec
retary Freudenthal and Treasurer
Krauss will be reelected, and Past No
BILE Grand Arch George H. Bertram of
Modesto will become supreme herald.
as that Office always goes to the state
in which the supreme body meets.