The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-01-23
200 new FORESTERS
Glass Initiation of F. of A.
Proves Biggest Kind of
Success
Supreme Grand Officers Present
Court Park City Secures
Largest Number of
Members.

Twelve local courts Of the Foresters
OF America uniting in a class initia-
ton Of nearly 200 candidates. enter
tanned Supreme and State officers of
the order here yesterday at one Of the
most memorable events in the history
Of the order in this city.
To Court Park City goes the honor
Of bringing in the largest number OF
members. This court. with 10 MEM
bers at it's inception. has grown so
rapfdly that it Is now second Of the
IL local courts in point OF member
ship.
Mayor Buckingham. member of
Court Marina. welcomed the visitors
with a timely address in which he
extoIled the lofty principles underly-
ing the growth and prosperity of the
Foresters.
The chairs were occupied. during the
initiation. by the following officers:
ranger. Patrick j. Carroll; recording
secretary. D. e. O'Neil: financial Sec
Rotary. William Gallbrunner: treas
urer. John Connors: senior woodward,
James Farrell: Junior woodward,
James Durkin: senior oeadle. J. II;
/ Court Peouonnock degree team ex-
emplified the impressive initfatory
ritual. The team included: Chief
ranger. Allen Mcdonald: sub-chief
sanfer. James Mullins: senior wood
ward. Andrew Campbell; junior wood
Arthur MCGEE: ecturer. Alexander
sergeant. John Lyman: and Messrs.
William Boyhan. Walter Parsell. Os-
car johnson. Charles Nichols. John
Noonan. Peter Tyer. John 3. and
El<1> ~ INV Tn1,y
Thomas scane. Andrew Higgins.
Frank Richards. William Chesky and
Paul Maloney, with William Daley
pianist.
As guests Of the local Foresters. the
visitors were tendereds a banquet at
esters present besides the chief ran
gers Of the city. were: James Tierney.
Shelton. chairman of the board of
grand trustees: j. j. Kiley. +. L. Pin
der. John e. Lyddy. D. e. O'Neil. r.
NJ. Flynn. J. J.. Gaffney. Hugh Tole.
Fred Hit. John H: Grant. A: J, Britt.
James Seymour. William H. Callen,
Willis Wilmot. Frank Finn. James II.
Redden. w. T. Meyers. Peter Umstat-
ter. Allan Pratt.
John e. Lyddy. q former supreme
sub-chfef ranger. acted as POSTMASTER
and brief remarks We're made by Su-
preme Chief Ranger Cosgrove. Grand
Chief Ranger Bagley. Grand Secretary
O'Laughlin and Mayor E. T. Bucking-
ham.
Arrangements for the initiation and
banquet were made by committee
of the local courts including Hugh
Tole. Arthur 8. MCGEE. John III. Grant.
Willis Wiimot. James H Redeem. John
e. Lyddy and William T. Meyer.
The guests present from out of town
were: Supreme Chief Ranger John F.
Cosgrove. Hartford: M. c. Kennedy,
member Of the supreme board of ap-
peals: George o. Malley. Meriden. SUI
preme representative from Connecti-
cut; Charles W. Bagley. Waterbury,
grand chief ranger: Thomas O'Laugh-
lin. Naugatuck. grand secretary:
James ]. Walsh. Meriden. grand
treasurer; Dennis Kehoe. Bridgeport,
grand recording secretary: P. cav
anaugh. TorrinRton, grand junior
Martin Lynch. Danbury,
grand junior beadle: George p. Sulli-
van. Derby. grand senior beadle;
Thomas Dowd. Norwalk. grand aud
itor. and Eugene Fov. Hartford. Sec
retary Of Court Erickson Of that city,
the largest court in the State.
On the arrival of these visitors at
the railroad station they were greeted
by State Organizer F. r. Garfield.
John E. Lyddy, J. j. Gaffney, Hugh
Tole and F. NJ Flynn.