Evening star., 1925-07-19
10000 MACCABEES COMING HERE
TO-DAY FOR SIX-DAY CONVENTION
Hotels and Tourist Camps Are Filling With Members
OF Order attending What Promises to Be
Biggest Meeting in History of Organization.

Metropolitan NJ f. Church. Supreme
Commander A. w. Frye will preside,
and reports will be made by him and
Supreme Record Keeper Thomas
Watson.
A sightseeing tour about Washing
ton is scheduled for Tuesday after
noon, with the supreme review at 2
clock at the Raleigh. An informal
dance, reception and entertainment
will be held at the Raleigh Tuesday
evening
Program Until Friday.
The program from Wednesday to
Friday follows:
Wednesday morning, July 22-
9 to 12-Pay off trip winners, Mac
cabee offices, sos Commercial Ma
tional Bank building, Fourteenth and
G streets.
9 to 10-Concert, Caravan Enter
tainers, Hotel Raleigh.
10-Supreme Review, Hotel Raleigh.
10-Sightseeing, Geological Gardens
and Rock Creek Park.
Wednesday afternoon
II TO Concert, Caravan Enter
tainers, Hotel Raleigh.
1-Sightseeing, Alexandria, visiting
Masonic Lodge and Christ Church.
and to Mount Vernon. Trip winners
and visitors.
2-Supreme Review. Hotel Raleigh.
Wednesday evening-Concert, Cara
van Entertainers.
7I5-Maccabee moonlight, steamer
st. Johns, leave foot of Seventh
street.
The Maccabee Entertainers will
broadcast over station WCAP.
Thursday Morning. to 10-Con-
cert, Caravan Entertainers, Hotel
Raleigh.
Q to 12-Pay off trip winners Mac
cabee offices.
1O-Supreme Review. ballroom,
Hotel Raleigh.
1o-Sightseeing, Arlington National
Cemetery, Washington Monument and
Lincoln Memorial.
Thursday Afternoon-12 to 1:30-
Concert, Caravan Entertainers, Hotel
Raleigh.
1:30-Sightseeing, New National Mu-
scum, Smithsonian Institution, Botan-
ical Gardens, Corcoran Art Gallery,
Freer Art Gallery and others.
2-Supreme Review, ballroom, Hotel
Raleigh.
Thursday Evening - Maccabee
theater party, Earle Theater, Thir-
teenth and e streets. Caravan Enter
tainers included on the bill as d spe-
cial attraction.
I IIiudy -hOIIllllS- AUTO caravan TRIP
to Maccabee home, Chatham, Pa. AS
semble at Maryland avenue northeast,
between First and Third streets.
The District Commissioners, Su-
preme Comdr. Frye and the national
officers will review the parade tomor-
row afternoon from the stand near the
south end of the Treasury Building.
A squadron of motor cycle police will
head the parade, which will be fol-
lowed by floats from all the camps
of the Maccabees.
The Maccabees is a fraternal or
ganization, founded AZ years ago, now
numbering 100000 persons. 1t has
insurance benefits, maintaining its
own insurance organization, and a
home for aged and INDECENT members
at Chatham, Pa. Homes for orphan
children OF members of the order are
maintained in various places all over
the country. The order has upward
of 5000 members in the District of
Columbia.
National officers of the organization
follow:
Supreme officers - Supreme past
commander, d. p. Markey, Detroit; su-
preme past commander D. D. AItken,
Flint, Mich; supreme past commander,
l.. E. Sisler, Akron; su~reme COM
mander, A. w. Frye, Detroit; supreme
lieutenant commander, S. c. C. Ward,
Portland, Me-; supreme record keeper,
Thomas Watson, Detroit; supreme
chaplain, w. F. Trader. Chicago su-
preme sergeant, r. P. Kuntz, Atchi.
son, Kans.; supreme NJ. at A, j..
w. Sherwood, Portland, Greg; su.
preme first NJ. of G J. E. Turner.
Norfolk; supreme second M. of G., r.
o. Croy, Birmingham, Ala; supreme
sentinel, j. c. Bartram, Little Rock.
Ark; supreme picket, Hugo II. A
Becker. Rochester.
Supreme board of trustees-Edward
l.. Young, Norwalk, Conn; John ] i.
Volk, Buffalo; w. E. Blaney, Pitts
burgh; j. B. Sawtell, Waco, Tex; Ed
win H. Haas, st. Paul, and z. w.
Thompson, Port Huron, Mich.