Evening journal., 1911-03-21
ELKS PREPARE
FOR GRAND LODGE
Annual Reunion to be Held
In Atlantic City In
July
EXPECT l25,OOO VISITORS
At THE BIG REUNION

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ATLANTIC CITY, March 21.-With
the Grand Lodge reunion. an annual
event Of great faternal interest to the
multitude of members of the Benevo-
lent and Protective Order of Elks
throughout America, still four months
distant, reservations have been made
by Atlantic City hotel men for 10000
OF the antlered fraternity. and the
number of Elks and their friends who
will invade the resort IN July is now
estimated at from 100000 to 125,000.
Nearly every day brings additional
applications for the reservation of
accommodation from points near and
far, and the headquarters established
by the Executive Committee of At
lantic City Lodge to perfect the de-
tails of reception and entertainment
is already working under heavy pres
sure.
For the first time, it is believed,
reunion city lodge is assuming the
responsibility of seeing to it that
every delegate who comes to meet his
fellow "Bills" is properly sheltered.
With thousand hotels and boarding
houses to draw upon this would seem
to be simple matter, but the early
/ demand for reservations already indi-
Gates that it will be no easy task.
But one very important thing is
assured. There will be no raise IN
rates on the part of grasping boni-
faces during the week or ten days
the army of Elkdom is at the shore.
Mayor Stoy made this promise very
emphatically in the name Of the re-
sort when Atlantic City's invitation
was proffered at Detroit last year,
and the members of the Hotel Mems
Association have entered into COM
pact with Atlantic City Lodge to
guarantee its fulfllment.
$4,000 for Entertainment.
A finance committee Of prominent
citizens is busily engaged in raising
a fund of $4,000 for the purpose OF
entertainment. The Steel Pier.
magnificent structure extending near
ly half a mile into the sea from tbs
famous Boardwalk has been leased
outright for the week Of the reunion.
The Grand Lodge will hold its ses-
sions in the big Music Hall, at the
extreme end of the pier, and the
whole structure with its numerous
attractions including three concerts
daily and other entertaining features,
will be entirely free to the thousands
of Elk visitors.
Headquarters for Grand Exalted
Ruler Hermann and the members of
the Grand Lodge. to the number OF
| $50. will be established at the Hotel
Strand, a no-license hostelry, fire
proof and palatial The whole first
floor Of the big hotel will be devoted
to offices and committee rooms for
the business purposes Of the conven-
ton. The Grand Lodge will get down
to business on Monday. July 10, and
the annual election of officers, an
incident which promises to be OF
great interest with several aggressive
candidates in the field for the ranking
office of Grand Exalted Ruler, will
take place on Tuesday, the 11th.
Atlantic City's broad and splendidiy
paved thoroughfares will offer admir-
able opportunities for the great parade
on the 18th The annual ball will take
place on Friday evening, July 14th, on
the famous Million Dollar Pier, which
is said to possess the most gorgeously
illuminated auditorium in the coun-
try. Ten thousand people have fire.
ouently attended functions within its
gates.
Word has come across the continent
that Portland, Oregon, proposes to
make a strenuous fight for the 1912
Reunion. Boomers of Portland Lodge
who are raising a fund Of $125,000 to
capture next years reunion and to
entertain their brethren when they in
wade Portland a year hence, ii hopes
are realized, will cross the country to
Atlantic City in a palatial train with
tons of "war materials" to establish an
Oregon exhibit on the Atlantic shore.
Headquarters have already been en-
gagged at the Hotel Islesworth where
Portland's fight will have its storm
centre.
Lodge Reservations.
Lodge reservations 70 date are as
Oklahoma. Hotel schlitz; Pough-
keepsie. Hotel Seaside; Allentown,
Hotel Pierrepont; New York, No. 1,
Grand Atlantic; Pittsburg, Hotel Ru-
dolf; New Haven, Hotel Rudolf; Bos-
ton, Hotel IsleswOrth; Jersey City,
Hotel Rudolf; Carlisle, Hotel Isles
worth; Bronz. New York, Hotel
Storck; Troy, n Y, Hotel Windsor (;
Belville, n. j., Hotel Windsor; Hart
ford, Hotel St Charles; Newark,
Craig Hall; Queens Borough, N. Y,
Hotel Schlitz; Brooklyn, Hotel Shell
burne; Mount Vernon, Hotel Jackson; (;
New Brunswick, Hotel Westminster; ;
Hoboken, Hotel Ostend; Orange, Hotel
New Dunlop; Cincinnati. Young's Ho-
tel, st. Charles and Traymore; New
Orleans, Young's Hotel; Buffalo, Hotel
Jacks on; Youngstown, o., Hotel Lo-
raiue; Cleveland, Hotel De vile;
Trenton. Hotel Clarendon; Chicago
Hotel New Dunlop; Newport, KY
Hotel Calvert; Syracuse, Hotel Raj
eigh; New London, Conn, Hotel Royal
Palace; ST. Josephs, Mo-, Hotel Ken
lucky; Easton, Pa, Hotel Cornell
Lancaster, Pa, Hotel Raymond; Will
mington, Del. Hotel Wellsboro; AL.
bany, ~ Y, Hotel Fredonia; Colum.
bus. o.. Risley's Hotel; Middletown
Conn, Hotel IrOquois; Dallas, Texas
Hotel Islesworth; Buffalo, Hotel Ponce
de Leon; Paterson, N. j., Hotel Monti
cello; Bridgeport, Conn, Hotel New
, / ENGLAND PuffalO Hotel SchlitZ.