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The Washington herald., 1917-11-04
Order Of Washington
Council.

The Order Of Washington Council
meeting was held last night at Ad-
miral Stockton's. 2019 o street.
Mrs. Sidney r. Smith was appointed
to draft resolutions of coincidence to
Mrs. c. H. Bowker. former treasurer
of the order. whose husband recently
lost his life saving drowning wom-
IN at Roosevelt Dam. Arizona.
DR. Edwin Alston Hill. Thomas C..
Washington and Daniel Smith Cor
don were appointed to cooperate with
the Chamber of Commerce in its Feb
ruary dinner celebration.
1t was decided to have a smoker
December and dinner of the order
in February, with James Mcdonald
Stewart. Daniel Smith Gordon, S. F.
Smith and DIR. Joseph G. 3. Bullock
a committee OF arrangements. A. z.
Dent was elected treasurer pro tenn
in absence OF Il. w. Hunter from the
city.
Admiral Stockton entertained the
council for their Halloween party.
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Odd Fellows.

To-day all members will attend church services
at the First Congregational Church. Tenth and
C streets, at 80 O'Clock y. m.
Monday-Lsngdon.- No. S, degree; Union. No.
II, business
Tuesday-Amity. No. 2. degree; Washington
No. 6. business; Golden Rule. No. q. business;
Mount Pleasant, No. 9. business.
MISUNDERSTANDING. No. L. grand vista
ton; Federal City, No. %, degree: Eastern. No.
:, business; Harmony. No. .. business.
Thursday-Colunhia. No. 10. degree; Covenant.
No. Is. degree: Excelsior. No. II; Salem, No. -.
and Phoenix. No. .. business.
Friday-Central No. I. grand visitation.
ENCAMPMENTS.
Wedncsday-M Nebo. 6. degree.
PATRIARCHS MILITANT
saturdsy-Canton Washington, No. ], drill.
Friendship Lodge. No. u. Grand
Master Irving r. Schwinger. was ac-
companied by the officers of the
Grand Lodge on Wednesday evening
at their regular communication. Grand
Representatives W. w. Millen and j.
II. Wood will examine the officers in
the work of the degree, while the
records of the lodge will be examined
by the grand secretary, and the H.
nancisl by Grand Treasurer J. d.
Yoakley. This lodge is the home
lodge Of Past Grand Master Theodore
Mead. who is always present at every
meeting of the lodge. and takes an
interest in the development and prog
ress of the same. In addition TO
Past Grand Master Mead, it is also
the home of Past Grand Master W.
Gawler and James A. Watt.
Columbia, No. 10. will confer the de-
gree at its regular meeting on Thurs
day night. The degree team will be
under the direction of Degree Direc-
tors Schackleford and j. F. Fowler.
At the last meeting the lodge trustees
were directed to invest 81. 800 in the
Second Liberty Loan bond. BY a un-
animous vote It was decided to con-
tribute several large silver cups won
by the degree team in contest before
the Sovereign Grand Lodge. to the
melting pot funds. The cups have an
intrinsic value of several hundred dol
lars.
Central. No. 1. the mother lodge of
the Jurisdiction, and which was in
stituted by the founder of the order.
Thomas Wildey. will officially receive
Grand Master Schwinger and the Of
ficers of the grand lodge on Friday
evening. The past year has been a
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Masonic.

Washington Centennial Lodge en-
srtained last Tuesday night in honor
n the class OF 1917, the event being
Designated as New Members Night"
Nearly all the ffty-four members
|aised to the sublime degree during
3he Masonic year were present. Ad-
lresses were delivered by Grand Mas
ter James W. witten. Past Grand
Master William w. Jermane, Past
Master Jason Waterman. and several
.embers of the class. Each member
" the class present was presented
NTH a special souvenir of the oc-
aston. Light refreshments were ser
ted.
. IT was reported that the attendance
Fas unusually. large. there being pres
mt many officers and privates Of the
|lrmy and navy who belong to the
fraternity. William ii. McCarty was
chairman Of the committee having the
Entertainment in charge. and Wor-
Lhipful Master Kahn took occasion TO
,ommend him highly for the success
hl manner in which he had perform
d his duties.
The lodge has a very ambitious and
interesting program arranged for the
month of November. At the stated
communication to be held Wednesday
Henin& next. at 7:S0 D. m, after the
transaction of regular business, the
,yening will be devoted TO social
uingling of the members and an ad-
lress by Past Master Eli Swavely, OF
Lafayette lodge on a subject highly
Interesting to Masons.
Wednesday. November q. at 80 p.
a., the second stated communication
" the month will occur. and there
Will be the annual visitation of the
Grand Master of Masons and other
,ficers of the Grand Lodge, at which
lime an interesting and entertaining
rogram will be rendered. The grand
risitation will be a joint affair be-
ween Washington Centennial and
Osiris lodges which meet the same
Ivening.
In his bulletin for the month of No
'ember, Worshipful Master Kahn an
Iounced that on Thursday. November
:, at p. m. there would be a spe-
ial communication for the purpose
" comforting the II. NJ. degree by
senior Warden Robert r. Cooke. jr..
assisted by the entire degree term. On
his date, however, it happens that
mother lodge has its regular COM
nunication. and it was necessary TO
;hauge the date to Saturday evening.
November "a, at p. m.
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where the shells were bursting. There
were other lights. too; lights that did
not twinkle and go out. but travelled
about; but the mysteries of the de-
ferse of London are not to be too
closGly inquired into.
And II will convey no information
to the enemy to remark that. under
NewtoT's well-known law. whatever
goes up has to come down, and
pieces of shell soon began to patter
about, sounding ike scattered hail.
stones as they ripped their way
through the foliage or smacked
against the turf. 1t was two hot to
be pleasant: but there was no cover.
and stood my ground.
The result of all this IRE, learned
next day, was that out. of some twenty
German aeroplanes that tried to get
over London and drop bombs, only two
succeeded in penetrating the barrage.
One of them I heard. during lull in
the firing; the deep note of the Gotha
double engine, which sounds like the
hum of a gigantic beehive, Is unlike
the noise of any other sort OF aero
plane. and cannot be mistaken.
Must Keep Indoors.
Shrapnel and pieces of shell must
come down during a barrage, but it
has been found that the fragments
rarely IL ever pierce even the f1imsiest
roof Consequently the casualties
from shell fire would be none II every
body kept indoors, and. since most
people do. they are very small. The
danger even from a bomb that ex-
podes in the street outside a house Is
not great; the authorities after six
full dress raids are convinced that
unless the enemy commences pouring
gas upon a helpless population. he
will not succeed in materially raising
the death rate.
The park, from which I saw the
great struggle of Saturday night was
deserted; so were the streets from
which ! watched the next two raids.
The attacks seemed much like one
another: there was the same rush for
cover. the same sirister silence brok-
ell by the same noises. the same lights
in the sky. the same buzzing as
Gotha or two won through the bar
rage, the same noises of bombs in
the distant suburbs. the patter of shell
fragments in the street. (Delected by
Censor)
BY staying outside, found that 1
saw fireworks and heard noises. but
learned little Of the way Londoners
were taking the attacks, so on Tues
day night of this week, when another
attack was signalled as was dining
in a famous restaurant in Regent
street, I determined to visit tube.
There was a crisis In the restaurant;
the walters sensibly refused to go
on serving dinner. and pointed
eloaucntly to the large skylight over
head. The manager. frantic at the
thought of losing his nights custom,
insisted: but most the guests solved
the. difficulty by .retreating to the
wine cellar. My comrs hion and hav-
inS eaton half way through the din
ner. paid half the bill. and hurried to
a tube station just before the firms
commenced.
The London tubes are not built
like the New York Subway, most of
which runs just under the street
level. They are bored one. two, and
three hundred feet away, and reach
ed by elevators and circular stair-
ways, the latter supposed to be used
only in emergency. We found
crowd, admirably handled by ,spe-
cial policemen. being marshallctl
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Udine. erected in 1885,. is in the styie
OF the famous ducal palace in Venice.
Built of rose ami white marble. it Is
one of the loveliest things in all Italy.
1t will hardly escape the tragic fate
OF the art treasures OF Northern
France and Flanders.
Udine is but ten miles from the wall
Of the Alps, the Austrian frontier. and
eighty-four miles by rail northeast Of
Venice. Until the present disaster. II
has been the base Of Italian military
operations. IL IS important strategeti-
cally because II is backed by the
mountains and is situated at the juno,
tion OF two railways, one leading to
Trieste, one TO Venice.
River Rises osIekIy.
The Tagliamento. which may prove
ltaly's Marine" rises with extrsordi-
nary rapidity in fiood-time. Formerly
il spread itself out over the plain. but
modern engineers have confined IL be-
tween mighty dikes. The river brings
down tons OF sand and stones in its
short. swift run from the mountains
TO the sea. and since Il can no longer
spread them in a thin layer over a
large area. it fills up It's bed with deep
deposits every year.
The walls OF its dikes have therefore
to be raised at regular intervals. 50
that now the town OF Codroipo. on the
left bank OF the river. lies some thirty
feet below the stream. In the sea-
son OF the great spring floods watch
men are stationed. day and night.
upon the Tagliamento's dikes.
The Piave. where Cadorna must es- 4,
tablish his defense in case he fails !
upon the Tagliamento. used TO cover
bed a mile wide. In olden days II
checked many an invading host OF
barbarians. Now its old bed is a
stony stretch of sand. bordering the
stone walls which confine its waters
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authority for its registration. One
or both of the parties must have re-
sided in Scotland for twenty-one
days before the contract is completed.
Soldiers and sailors on short leave
find this convenient arrangement
The soldier may have been in the
trenches of Flanders until that morn
ing or the sailor afioat in the North
Sea: It is enough IL his promised wife
has been on Scottish soil for the
requisite three weeks. Man and wife
go together to the Sheriffs room.
accompanied by the two witnesses
who hear them accept each other as
spouses. They take with them three
documents declaration that the par
tics have accepted each other as hus-
band and wife, an application to the
sheriff for his certificate that the
parties are married. and his warrant
for the registration Of the aTranse-
ment. and the dispositions of the two
witnesses. Court and rsgistrarls fees
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Personal News OF Capital Secret and FrQer1Ql S0ciete

to band. held on Monday evening last,
was voted one Of the most enjoyable
affairs ever given by the band. In
addition to an abundance of oysters.
the patrons were entertained by the
Grotto band with a musical program
and by other entertainers; l.....-...
Past Monarch p. r. Pullman and
Prophet Charles A. Stevens, who are
making preparations for the Grotto
smoker to be held in the near future.
promise that announcement as TO the
date and fun details will be made at
an early date
Prophets Frank II. Ketchum and
Richard N. Thomas. who have re-
sponded to the colors. were recent Wis
itors to the city.
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The work will be done by a special
teams selected by Degree Director r.
H. Sorrell. At the last meeting many
visitors were present to witness the
conferring of the first degree.
The degree team of Mount Pleasant
Lodge announces the thiro degree at
the next meeting. November 6, at 7:30
p. m. As the degree directors are or
ganizing separate castles for each de-
gree. any member who desires to take
active part will be given the opportu-
nifty.
Important business at this meeting
demands the presence of every men,
ber of the lodge. Visitors are always
welcome.
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when with appropriate ceremonies the
demise Of John Barleycorn was
mourned. President ]. Rozier Riggs
presided.
The knights who were of the delega-
ton that attended the dedication OF
the Knights of Columbus recreation
hall at Camp Meade last Sunday were
taken on a tour OF inspection of the
camp after the exercises. and were
astonished at the size and wonderful
organization of the cantonment.
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members. are in various branches of
the governments fighting forces.
The officers of the Supreme Lodge
report steady progress in the nation
wide movement to raise a 5000
Pythian war relief fund.
Contributions by members of the
order in Massachusetts, for a Pythian
ambulance for war service have
reached N.43S, it is reported. Seven
lodges at Lynn gave s277. the result
Of a collection during the patriotic
week celebration.
At the recent session of the Grand
Looge of West Virginia the Rev. DIR.
william Gerhardt, known throughout
the State as 1.-THE father OF Pythian-
ism in West Virginia." celebrated his
Tooth birthday.
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doors of the station. The. four ele-
vators were running. each taking
seventy-five people down her trip.
We decided to walk. All the way
down, 200 feet, were men. women
and children sitting huddled along
the circular stairway. On each land
ing was a special policeman, who
kept open a passage. When We
reached the bottom We found the
place packed to suffocation. The
trains were not running, for passen-
gers could not have forced their
way through the crowd.
Most of the refugees were Rus
SLAMS. Poles, Lithuanians, or South
ern Europeans. The crowd was like
a typical gathering on the New
York East Side. Just such scenes
would be witnessed. I thought. il
enemy aeroplanes bombarded New
York. This station. on the Metro
politan railway. is not situated in
a foreign quarter.
The people most scared by the
raids are not English. think the
evidence of the tubes, where the at
mosphere became unspeakably vile
"hNNi a ht" VI
where at least two people have
been been crushed to death and
many injured during panics, proves
that the terroism the Germans seek
to produce here is effective only
among the kind of people the Ger
mans themselves understand; and II
the majority of Germans in the
great German cities behave like the
foreign quarter of London when
their turn comes to face sky bonn
bardments, the weapon of reprisal
may become a most important mill
tary asset to the allies.
Germans In London.
There remains in London con-
siderable German population, and
the percentage of Germanic faces In
the tube station was striking and
amusing. During the ten minutes
that we remained, before the foul
air compelled us to withdraw.
counted more than 100 men of ap-
parent Teutonic physignomy. and
did not see more than 100 English
in the place. There was a WELL
dressed Englishwoman near me,
who remarked to her companion in
disgust, as she gazed on the crowd
about her: MY dear, IL only the
trains were running, we might ride
to one of the Mayfair stations. /
am sure there would be a better
class crowd there"
But the Mayfair stations, as l veri-
fed after the next warning, are not
niled during air raids. And most of
those who do take refuge, even in
West End residential districts, with
In the tubes. are not English. The
point seems Of Importance, because
breathing foul air at the bottom of
deep shaft for hours is fair evil
oence OF panic. or at least Of undue
alarm. Sensible people go home, and
stay there. Crowds of foreigners
congregate around the tube stations
aours before raid warnings are given.
ana clamor for admittance. which is
not granted them until the enemy
IS slsnalisd. In one very deep tube
shaft at lslington, where the popula-
tion suffered more than elsewhere
IN Daylight raids months ago. women
ana chiidren sat huddled all day long.
and half the night. until the prac-
tiee was stopped.
Inc Germans attack London to ter
rify the population; they cannot do
'Hr'"se OF military Importance from
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BY JOHN LLOYD BALDERsToN.

tCopyrisht 1917, by the Mcclure Newspaper
Syndicate.)
London, Oct 6.-During tne period
of the harvest moon, the greatest
.ity in the world has endured almost
nightly attacks from squadrons of
gigantic aeroplanes, with their ac-
compartment of shattering bombs
and aerial torpedoes. dazzling pyro-
echnics. and appalling noise. as the
hundreds of cannon in and about the
metropolis have belched into the sky
more than twenty prejectiles per gun
er minute.
The reporter who tries to write a
descriptive story of these raids and
heir effect is faced by the disturb
ng fact that 100000 Londoners be-
iave. under fire. in 10000 different
ways. Tragedy and buffoonery, tears
md laughter. joyous excitement and
.error. revelry and prayer, i have
Ieen each a score of times repeated,
% a score of groups. while the Boches
OdL1lh6 GAhdps vic
,est way to convey come impression
II the kaleidoscope happenings that
20 to make Up a night raid in these
lays of protective barrages, when
,eople sigh for the good old quiet
Zeppelin nights will be to detail
lome Of the things i have seen and
leard myself. wandering about Lon
lon while the city was under fire.
Hospitals Everywhere.
Before the war. all tourists will re-
member, a familiar and maddening
lound in London was the incessant
blowing of whistles TO summon taxis.
Today. hospitals are everywhere,
md. out of regard for the patients.
Ehistling for cabs is not allowed. In
he evening. the streets fill with
traffic. thester and restaurant
rowds throng the pavement, glanc-
ns up now and then at the round
md sinister moon. betraying no other
ign that would serve to make the
Gene unlike that to be witnessed on
9iccadilly any moonlight night in
.eace time.
a whistle blows. 1t sounds like
aNi whistle. Perhaps once 1t was
me- Instantly the throngs of people
IN the sidewalk melt away. Every
ioorways receives its little group. the
toors are quickly opened, the cellars
,laced at the disposal of whoever
ares to make use OF them. Throngs
rowd about the tube entrances
'trect traffic for the moment seems
0ralized. confused.
and busses dash wildly about,
ely helter-skeltcr. But each cab
bus driver knows where he
ns. The busses are drawn III,
N the side streets. and their
= and cr"w take .c~ver. The
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Pythian Sisters.

Rathbone Temple. No. s. announces
through Mistress of Records and Cor
responience Bertha Williams, that ar
rangements are being made to enter
tain about thirty soldiers from army
camps near the Capital City at
Thanksgiving dinner. The dinner will
be served in the Pythian Temple and
will be followed by an entertainment.
The committee in charge is composed
or Mrs. Blanche Sommers, chairman; ;
Mrs. Bertha Williams. Mrs. Martha
Jarboe. Mrs. Kate Smith, Mrs. Au-
gusta Runge, Mrs. Ethel Johns. Miss
Josephine Jarboe, Miss Elizabeth
Prescott. and Mrs. Roberta Prescott.
assisted by all men members of the
temple.
Friendship Temple No. 9. after the
transaction of business Wednesday
will have a Harvest Home Supper"
At its last meeting the temple was en-
tertained with a unique program pre-
sented by Mrs. Jane Smith. of Balti-
more. visitor.
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Knights Of Pythias.
LODGES,

Tuesday-webster No. I; Excelsior No. Il:
Capital. No. q. and Myrtle. No. 25. business.
Wednesday, Vernon, No. S. work ;
Equal. No. H. business,
Friday -Syracisians. No. 10, and Rathbone
Superior, No. D. business.
PYTHIAN SISTERS.
Wednesday Temple, No. D. busi-
ness.
Friday-Rathbone Temple. No. 8, business
WAYS AND MEANS COMMITTEE.
ssturday-semi-monthl meeting.
The work OF the Pythian order of
the district in war emergencies was
supplemented by patriotic mass
meeting in the auditorium of the tenn
pie last night for which the follow
ing program was announced: Musi-
cal selections by the Musurgia Quar-
tet. Miss Viola Schippert and Miss
Dorothy Snyder and the United
Brethren Band; addresses by Past
bone-Superior Lodge. No. g; Alexand-
er NJ. Dockery. third assistant post
master general; the Rev. DR.. Abram
Simon and Gaylord NJ. Saltzgaber,
Commissioner of Pensions. The sub
committee of arrangements, acting for
the committee on ways and means
VI Tie III ShoA &c "eso
composed of Past Grand Chancellor
Hamlin NJ vandervort. of Mount
Vernon Lodge. No. ); Col. Thomas f.
Landon. of Calanthe Lodge. No. II.
and Arthur B. Foster. past chan
cellor of Rathbone-Superior Lodge,
No. 29.
The next grand visitation of Grand
Chancellor Melick and other officers
- 81 ~ u,it1 IN nanatnr
Lodge, No. 9, in the Pythian Temple,
Monday night. November L. At the
last visitation. at Syracusans Lodge,
tation from the local lodges and
large number of visitors from out
side Jurisdictions when the roll OF
the states was called. several visi-
tors responded with short talks. not
ing the activity of Pythians in their
domains.
Franklin Lodge, No. .. held its con-
vention Thursday night. at which
"reminiscences were INDUCED in by
speakers in short talks concerning
the history of this lodge. the oldest
Pythian subordinate lodge in the
world.
Grand Chancellor Melick has urged
the lodge to make returns as soon as
pOsSlDle OH " INC sVpy'VVo
Pythian war relief fund. SO that it
may be made available at general
headquarters.
The Home Lodge is making excel
lent progress. Past Grand Chancellor
ickman reports.
Hermoine Lodge. No. l.. expects to
confer the ranks at an early date for
lodges of other jurisdi 'tions whose
applicants are in this section of the
country in war service.
Webster Lodge. No. 7, was paid
fraternal visit Tuesday night by a
delegation of members from Excelsior
Lodge. No. II. The rank of knight
was presented by the team Of the first
named ledge. which was followed by
short talks and q social hour. Past
Chancellor ]. l.. Motyka. Of Capital
Lodge, No. "a. and a visitor, G. l.
Thomas, of Akron. Ohio. assisted in
comforting the work. A. c. Smith,
master at arms of Webster Lodge, an
employe of the Navy Yard. has re-
ceived an appointment to the Aero
plane Engineer Department cf the war
service. A large number Of No. rs