The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1920-08-04
7 new SUPREME
MEMBERS ELECTED
BY THE K. OF c.
David F. Supple of San Fran
cisco Chosen Supreme
sWarden to Fill Vacancy.


Warden.
The new members OF the Supreme
Board are John +. o'Neill, Jersey
City; William f. Fox, Indianapolis
Joseph ]. Meyers, Carroll, Ia: James
]. McGraw. Panca City, Okla; John
A. Dwyer, Toledo; Edward A. Houli-
han. Chicago. and Frank w. Loner-
gan, Portland, Ore. David F., Supple.
San Francisco, was elected Supreme
Warden TO fill the vacancy caused by
the resignation OF Thomas ]. Nc
Laughlin OF Newark, N. j., who has
gone to Panama in connection with
the welfare work OF the order.
The delegates Immediately after the
election took up the consideration of
the report ON educational plans, call
ing for the expenditure of the $1,000
90 fund unexpended in the war ac-
tivities of the Organization.
A message of congratulation from
Secretary of War Newton d. Baker
was received to- day by Supreme
Commander Daniel j. Callahan. The
organization was warmly commend
ed by Secretary Baker for its war
work The message stated that Gen.
Allen, in command of the Ameri-
can army of occupation in Germany,
had been instructed to attend the
unveIling of the Lafayette statue at
Metz as representative OF the Amer
lean Government.
Among the 300 delegates at the
convention are some of the most
prominent Knights OF Columbus in
this country and Canada. There was
Joseph Magma, eighty years old, of
Texas, and a veteran OF the Franco
Prussian War, when he fought fol
his native Alsace-Lorraine. He is
going back to Metz. which he has not
seen since 1870, on the Leopoldina
when she sails tomorrow. The other
delegates and pilgrims saw 10 tina.
when he applied and told his story.
Then there is Jerry Coveny, oldest
OF the New York Knights, who for
al: his years stood guard all day over
the $4,000 gold and enamel Marshaps
baton which the Knights of Columbus
intend to present to the Allied Cen
eralissimo, Marshal Foch, and re-
sumed his post this morning when
the baton was replaced on exhibition.
-Of course, there was James A. Fla
herty, Supreme knight, sixty-seven
years Old, and a Philadelphia lawyer,
but not the usual kind. He 1t was
VINO jumped to the front in the war
work OF the Knights, and like that
other *. Of Q. man, Babe Ruth, drives
nome his points as BUbe drives out
his homers
There was William J. MCKINLEY Of
New York, who totes around with
him all the facts and figures Of the
order at the tips Of. his big capable
fingers.
Looming large in the gathering
was Martin II. Carmody, Deputy
Supreme Knight, who boasts that he
is the only man in his home city of
Grand Rapids who needs a larger
chair than former President Taft. He
and the stern faced Dr. Buckley who
guards the physical portals Of the
organization, quite obsCured the view
OF the exhibits when they left the
convention room and wandered out
side in the hallway tor a time.
Joseph G. Pelletier Of Boston, the
man who has been digging decf into
the mysterious methods OF Charles
POM. stuck close TO the business OF
4 X. of c. and lodged questions
\ lrd.ng the new Boston Mint
William +. LarlIin of New York.
the "orator OF the order" and newly
made successor to Barnard Baruch
as trustee of the City College of New
York, GRATED many times on many
subjects. William Fox, just back
from China and Siberia, where he
ran freight trains OF coal and com
forts to cheer up Uncle Sans fight
ing men in the chill OF a Siberian
winter, was very much there. SO were
Joseph scott, the man who claims TO
have thought up all the superlative
adJectives now in use to describe the
beauties OF California by people of
the Poppy state, and Joseph Meyers,
who brought the corn tasseled dele
cation from Iowa.
Judge Paul Leche, who comes from
DOnaldsWllc, La, wandered discon-
solately about the hotel looking for
some one who could cook him Creole
food, but cheercd up somewhat when
they told him that he had been
elected to deliver the only address in
French that is to be made at the un-
yelling of the monument by repre-
sCntatives Of the Knights Of Column
bus.
John II. Reddin, who left this part
OF the country twenty years ago
hunting health in the West, came
back looking as though he had found
II out in Colorado, along with a mill
ion or so in cash.
Jim j. MCGraw, "Oil King Of Okla
koma," as his pals call him, smiled
an anything but oily grin as he shook
hands with friends in the crush at
the openinE>of the convention. Will
lam A. DwyeT of ST. Paul, who led
tho cheering for Minnesota as the
state which originated the war work
by the knights, also found a number
OF old friends in the jam.
His success at that caused David
Suppe, who comes from where the
waters OF the Golden Gate 20 seeping
and Gathering around McEs Wharf,
and vino was awful lonesome he.
cause he had not found anything like
the wharf in New York, TO hunt old
timers from the West himself. He
was last seen trying 10 outtalk Frank
Lonergan who was saying all that
could be said for Oregon and neigh
boring parts.
John J. Teddy and l.. A. Glvoux led