The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-12-04
ELkS TRIBUTE
 TO BROTHERS CONE BEFORE
Beautiful Music and Feeling Ad-
 dresses Marked Annual Me- morial Services of Bridgeport
 Lodge
Hundreds of Members, Relatives and Friends Attended Simple But Impressive Ceremony of Lodge of Sorrow

Beautiful music and feeling ad- dresses marked the simple but i'm pressive ceremony of the. annual memorial services of Bridgeport lodge No. 36, B. P. o. E., held last night in Polls theatre. Following the GUS tom which has prevailed with this lodge for years, the services were public. Admission was by ticket and the theatre was filled to capacity by mem berS of the lodge their relatives and friends.
 This beautiful custom of a yearly service designed to keep green the | memory of the brothers gone before affords the general public an insight | of the principles and objects of the
 order. Beautiful and inspiring
 though the prescribed form of ritual
 for this ceremony is the memorial
 address, the eulogies and the music
 arranged for such occasions, always
 brings the purpose of the occasion to the audience with 8 closer human | touch.
 "The faults of our brothers we | write on the sands; their virtues on l the tablets of love and memory" In | this sentence from the ritual is ex- emplified the purpose and meaning of | the memorial service. Since the for, l nation of the lodge 93 members have been called away. After the open | ing of the lodge the roll of the dead was called and their pictures shown | on a screen.
 The order of services was as fol-
 lows: Polls theatre orchestra, Tran hauser," Wagner; Love Melody"
 Engelman; "Nabucodnozor," Verdi, Oscar Berg, director.
 Address of welcome, B. B. Plum
 Bridgeport lodge,> No. s6, B. P. 0. E. Vacant Chair St. Cecelia quartette. Memorial address, Brother Caryl Cole
 man, No. ! lodge D. D. G. E. R., Southern district of New York. The motto of the order and one of Love- was the topic which Brother Caryl Coleman took for his memor- ial address. His remarks were de- livered with a force and quiet elo- quence which denoted that the speak CT felt and meant every word he ut tered. Pursuing his subject he point ed out the great benefits of the order and the fact that it was built on toleration without regard to creed or condition. Friendship and love, the principles on which the order was founded are the principles on which it ais still standing today said the speaker.
 He told of the growth of the order from No. l, lodge formed 40 years ago with seven members to the pres
  ed the members present to follow the teaching of the order and declared there could be no better citizen than an Elk who lived up to the principles of the organization. He advised that care be exercised to admit none to membership but those who measured up to the qualifications necessary to make good Elks. In closing he paid a touching tribute to the departed brothers.
 The eulogies by Rev. MT. France and Rev. MT. Craft received the closest attention of the large audi ence. The musical exercises were of more than usual excellence. The singing of St. Cecelia quartette, com posed of Miss Margaret Hogan, Mrs. Joseph Weller was of the highest or der as were the solos of William A. Tomlinson and Riley Phillips. The program included:
 .'Thy Will Be Done." Liszt; St. Ce- baritone solo. Buck; Riley Phillips. "Crucifix. Faure; Miss Margaret Hogan and Mrs. John F. Fay. Eulogy, Rev. John c. France, Memphis lodge, No. 27, B. P. o. E.. Consider and quartette. "Jesu Misere," tenor solo, Neven; Brother William A. Tomlin- son. Rock of Ages" Buck; St. Ce- celia quartette. Eulogy, Rev. Ernest J: Craft, rector Christ Episcopal church. Closing ceremonies by Bridgeport lodge, No. 36, B. P. O. B. Finale, Knights of a Glorious Mis- sion," Jerome May.
 At the conclusion the audience rose and joined in the singing of Nearer My God to Thee The exercises closed with the benediction by Rev. E. J. Craft.
 The Memorial committee were John F. Fay, chairman; Edward J. Naylor, John J. Nevins, William c. Howe, William H. Lawrence, and Iohn T Reynolds.