Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-07-11
WILMINGTON ELKS
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| The real owners arr sundry thousands
| of EIks, among them q slzcab'e lot oi
Wilnungtonians. notable among them ~
this juncturc officially, beng Canhy I,
| Mammele, Wilmington Lodge reproS, n'a-
tive to the Grand Lodge, now IN session
here for the golden anniversary q the
order, and Judge Sylvester ID TUvnStud
.Jr.. who Is Mr. Canhvs alternate
And after about POO male Whining
| tonians reached town today night hitic.
| tight little Delaware was as we'll repre-
| scntcd in proportion 10 It's ~lzc - conn
pared with the other States Of course
| as any commonwealth IN the mon.
| Which, Is saying a lot, because they rc
all here
| It isn't often this place lets go with
| enthusiasm They r. used 10 bic things
| down here-big pocketbooks, big People.
/ big times. big prices, big crowds and hIg
/ conventions As q matter 0i fact A.
Ianuc City expects these things because
/ it proudly calls itself -.the playground 81
/ the world But SINCE the ilks have
/ come around It's been p ease Of stop
| look and loosen with the heretofore
/ callouscd natives The flk has WAY
/ about hun that bullscycs the popularity
! target every tIme, wherever hc goes. and
/ this convent ion session hasn't been anE
| exception to { he rtllc
| As he did some wears ago At q similar
| stunt, he came here saw tho city from the
/ bus that took hIm t0 his hotcl, and then
I promptly annexed j for his own
He actually owns he lty> rhHi
/ patrol wagon No no the rhronIclrr
I dotsn t mean 10 say ha5 the llb owns
/ the official hurrz up machine rs reason
Of personal enforced occupancy to the
exclusion OF Other citjurrv OH no.
the Dlks are rot built tina, Way The
truth Is hat tht, wagon ha~ teen decorated
with the Orders coior~ purple and Wlut"
and laundering Ing Ellis emblem and
is running auou, the streets hauing ftNs
luggage 10 and fro And il YOU can beat
that for owning q town when you gel into
it, lei hear IT.
Last night. with pretty much All Of the
conventions official business hehind 7.
al thoughts ,urn toward the hugo parade
which i To be today outstanding feature.
TIE HiG PARADE
In the first place. a great annual herd
Iug of t.lks wouldn bc real unless here was
!. whopplng hg parade lis one of th"
Things The convention LOOKS forward to
Some uI hem have u4aGc history So tar
a. parade are concerned
This one today is going 20 MAKE
history A. the familiar advertisement
SAYS there "a reason
Tie war has bit the order hard no
Is, han 80 600 of it, members being WITH
the co!or- somewhere I'D France Or
elsewhere III America han their honc
towns and their home lodge Our tnI9ty
and wclI-bcloycd fellow citizen, Jack
Pershiug B, one ot that 20 600 and
everybody knows what Lr dong and the
| other ~ 500 are doing their blg OT lItiIc
duty iilSf n hc dong j.
50 you SEE that sort Guns down the
convention attendance or at least, ~
you 4 think But tho ni-c chaps who
know the order inside and Out down both
sides, ou top and underneath say thcy
haven't yct recovered from the astonish-
ment they experienced when they got
here and saw hoN many were here The
convention attendance Is almost as hIg
as It ever wac and when the delegations
get IN tmor o~ for the parade past figures
except ia one or two notable and extra
ordinary instances. will have nothing
on those Of Thursday. july II. 1918
They re here from the | ultcd States
Dan (which is Maine the United States
Bcersheba winch is California, such way
stations az New York Delaware, Ohio,
Virginia Maryland, Illinois. Michigan,
| Missouri Colorado, Montana Texas.
etc. al hbitun are also here Each
State boasts lis special added attraction
ike the movies Texas. for instance
furnishes gent who wears 4ombrero
built al generously aS a family umbrella 4
and plays -oulfully on q big wooden.
sqneaky thing that look, Ike Il flute, but
acts ike backwoods tenor fallen upon
evil days ore Of hi7 chief delights is
Hail Hail, the Gangs All Here" and
you can take it from an observer caught