Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, September 25, 1887, Page 9

4 SAMPTON CLUB FOX CHASE. Tow the Lovely May Brady Came “in at the Delth-“ MRS. JAMES BROWN POTTER. Fhe Great Yacht Races—Mrs. Lang- try's Fallure—Professioual Beau- ties—A Pretty Bootblack— Mrs. Leslie’s Return, .NEW York, Sept. 22.—[Correspond- ence of the Bek.]—Miss May Brady is the proudest belle just now in ‘‘society.’ Bhe is a distinguished figure in the Van- derbilt-Astor set, anyhow, for she is young, pretty, talented and up to all the newest fads. But her winning of the brush at a real fox hunt was a tresh and lustrous glory for the famous daughter of a supreme court judge. The Hampton club of real swélls gave the chase overin the Bhinnecock hills of Long Island, and when the very exclusive invited partici- pants gatherod they found that a thou- sand countrymen were siready there to see the sight. And it was a fine one, so far as the horses, riders and honnds were concerned, but after thess had chased one poor little fox ten miles to death the scene became pitiful. Miss Brady beat everybody on horseback, and so the tail of the vicum was cut off and given to her for a trophy. It is being silver mounted for hanging in her boudoir, The gréat yacht races coming at this season are a relief to the fashionable young ladies whose papas have brought them early back to town, It is now just the hour twix twilight and morn, twi- light meaning the dearth of intercsting events in a city in the summer, and morning meaning the beginning of social activity for the winter. Those who are in town now, therefore, find the yacht races an importani diversion. All the many yachts, steam and sail, that accom- pany the racers to a greater or less extent over the course, have no difficulty in getting ample consignments of livin (nn%u ts neatly done up in petticoats an skirts. And even the .popular excursion steamers have their reserved and haughty quota of girls from the immediate neigh- borhood of Murray hill. And a still more pleasant and thronged place of obserya- tion is the Neversink Highlands, a few miles from Sandy Hook. 'There, under the shadow of the lighthouse towers, hundreds of wealthy people go on race days, driving up in fine style with their liveried . coachmen, and coming from towns and villas miles nwn{. They sit down on the grass and watch the yachts through telescopes and field glasses until the middle of the.day. Then ELABORATE LUNCHES are produced from the carriages, and the government grounds are transformed into a picnic resort, The girls are very fond of the sport—froma distance. They like it better if the ocean is half a mile or 50 away and not rolling their respon- sive craft over the waves with sickening pitches, It 15 immense fun for them to sitdown on the grass, tuck their skirts about their toes, and lean back against the lighthouse. They can chatter to their heart's content, watch the yucht over the entire course without a qualm, and inci- dentally furnish enteitainment to the other spectators should the wind die down and the race refuse to proceed. At least two attempts to race out of every three fail in September on_account of the fickleness of the wind. That wag the case when 1 joined the spectators the other day at the Highlands. The atmos . phere was delightfully clear and the expanse of sea view unexcelled in this f‘" of the country. But the yachts lying motionless five miles out became unlnwreslinq after an hour or two, and attention had to be directed elsewhere. All kinds of people under the influence of the open air incline to get reekless. 8o it happened that now and then a nice grl forgot to keep her eye on her skirts see that no vision of a toe exposed itself beyond their limits, And that explained presumably why so many young men quietly trained their glasses on groups of girls aund then laughed as if dreadfully tickled. Four bad men at the top of a tower amused themselves in this way dll\""fx all the afternoon, and none of the girls realized what was up until late. Then three girls who had been . ROMPING ABOUT BELOW the lighthouse climbed the steep hillock to rejoin their friends. A score of glasses were at once trained upon them and a subdned chorus of ‘*Ahs’ came from the bad young men whose eves were glued to the smaller ends of the telescopes. One of the girls—she was dressed i bright’ red and wore a jaunty red hat-— screnmed a hasty, stifled scream, and ran as fast as she could to the lighthouse, where she stood stock still against the wall, panting and looking lt:ighlenr»d. She could not be persuaded to sit down. There were anxious inquiries, of course, 88 to her trouble. All she could say at first was that it was dreadful. Finally she confessed in an agitated whisper thut she had had to dress in such a hurry that morning, and the confusion of living in a seashore cottage was so great anyway, and one gets into such careless ways at the seashore, you know, that she had done what she never did hefore, and cer- tainly never would do again, even if she missed the last train by it. Well, what? She had been unable to find hose in pairs, und 1n her desperate hurry she ha pulled on one black stocking and one nrll)cd red one, for all_the world like a harlequin, you know. but—? But! Was it not enough to mortify one half to death to think of those horrid young men with ficld glasses and telestopes watching her as she climbed the bank? She should think so, indeed! She wished the ground would open and swallow her up that very minute, indeed she did! But the ground did not come to her aid, and irl in red still lives. ‘Talk in Fifth avenue is again turned té MRS, JAMES BROWN POTTER, and valuably so as an advertisement of er forthcoming aebut on the stage here. The gentlemen immediately concerned in her business management are enough, no doubt; vertheless, one is the manager of t of our variety theatres, another was mixed up with a divorce scandal recently, and a third has for years been a town rounder of notthe Iighest degree. Those facts make them hopelessly unfashionable, of course, though they may not be otherwise detri- mental; and a row has led to the dis- closure of letters showing that Mrs. Potter is on_dining and calling terms with them. Now, the Potters are among our swellest people, and they have nrnentll! protested against the stage ex- ploit. ow comes the news that she will call herself Cora Potter on the biils, because her husband threatened to begin a suit—however hopeless—to restrain her from emblazoning his own name in the form of **Mrs. James Brown Potter.” Thut other famous transfer from so- ciety to the foothights, Mrs. Langtry, has just had a failure in a new play, and, as gm are not likely to ever see it, I will ll you that she smoked real tobacco ttes and drank actual chlmpnfno. as incidents in the mimic deviltry of the beroine. These exploits were gracefully done, but they shocked the feminine ad- nurers of the LHyrenuy and it1s con- ceded that she made a serious mistake in publiely onnhmimmnf her pretty lips with nicotine and alcohol, Well, there are ditlerent ideas of polite- dn a ferry boat a fellow sat and against the wall as though firin, Jui-e at a mark. A cabin full o exclaimed melodrama adies were disgusted. Then an officer canie in and asked him what he meant by such conduct, Can't ]ynu sce the notice?” the officer A framed injunction read as follows: “Out of respect for the ladies, gentlemen will not spit on the floor.” “And that's why I'm spitting on the wall instead of the floor,'" suid the pas- senger. In about the roughest and crudest imaginable, but which is presented in our fashionable AMCADEMY OF MUSIC, the heroine fallsinto a river of real, wet, eplashing water--or a slim boy does 1t as A proxy—and that scene saves the worth- less play from failure. An actress of another character in the same drama, seeming to realize that she must do some- thing striking to make herself felt, elab- orates her dying scene by rubbing white powder on her face, as she lies on the floor in the first agonies of poison, und then tottering to ler feet 1n sudden and awful ghastliness before the final fall. Speal lnfi of professional beauties, a pretty girl set up a boot blacking chair in Wall street. She was an alert creature of sixteen or so, dressed in jauaty neat- ness, and altogether an object to make the brokers turn around for a second look. But her enterprise failed. No m,n? had the moral courage to mount that chair and submut his boots to the brushes of a girl, and so she got no cus- tomers. The return of Mrs. Frank Leslie to town, with all she -has to tell of her ad- ventures with her marquis and her prince, awakens a great deal of life in the set in which she moves. For she is among her own admirers a ver, and they see nothing remarkable abouu her having titled dandies in her train, though they are no less anxious to hear all about them. For my part, as a humn- ble outsider and ‘“looker-on at Venus," to paraphrase an old quotation, I cercly hope that her Prince Eristofl 1s more according to our barbarous New World notions of what a reenl, sure- enough man ought to be than the Mar- uis de Leuville was. My sakes! what a unny creature he was, with his pinched try-our-dollar-corsets-waist and his little legs and flaring coat-tails and ridiculous suggestion of a bustle. I don’t wonder she wouldn’t have him. [ would not, either, for even if L sent him toa tax: idermist to be stuffed and mounted, I should not know what to do with him, But Mrs. Frank Leslie deserves well of her countrywomen and of her sex all over the world, if it is only for showing how false the dleory is that women are not fitted for business. Instead ot that being so, there 18 not one man in ten thousand who could do what she has done, and I'm not belittling the lords and masters one bit, for I confess I don't think the feminine woods are very full of Mrs. Leslies. She had been an ‘editress when she became the wife of the pub- lisner, and she knew no more of trade than a kitten, Her husband discouraged her ever learning, but he petted her, and when she insisted that she could do better at buying the paper stock used in ihe concern than he was doing, he let her take that in charge and she saved him a great deal of money. In time came his iliness and death, and the bapkrugtey of the concern. Here a very queer thing happened. She had to have $100,000, and she had not the faintest notion how or where to getit. I don’t know whether she prayed for it or not, but what 1f she did? JAY GOULD PRAYED at least_once, as he said in court, and George Washington also prayed on some tremendous occasion which'l haye now forgotten. My impression is, though, that Mrs. Leslie simply “willed” the hun- dred thousand. You know the old say- ing, ‘When she wills, she will,"”” and so she did in this case, and next day down came a slrnnEer, a lady, and said: **Mrs. Leslie, I think you need $100,000. Please accept that sum of me.” 1f any man says that isn't business, 1 can only reply with a woman’s answer— don’t the business men wish they could do it, though? That hundred thousand was not a flea-bite to what she needed, but it carried her over the rapids, and now her business is in better shape than it ever was while her husband lived, and she is the absolute, flat-footed mistress of it. She is in her prime, a less than middlo—aui‘d woman, plump, pure bru- nette, wi great eyes of the kind that poets call “‘soulful,”’ a frame of ringlets around a striking, finely featured face, and a form that her friends eavy. A delightful thing about her 1s that she does not think, a3 so many of our sex do, that because she is as smart as # man she must make a guy of herself and dress like a bluestocking, as Susan B. does, or put on trousers as Rosa Bonhenr does, or be a Mary Walker or a Mrs. Tom-ri-jon. On the contrary, she dresses like any other lady, with great expense and ex- quisite taste. She is dotingly fond of silk, and wears them even at her desk in her dainty little down-town oftice. There are people who would criticise this—but what won't they criticise? [ have even heard her taken to task for wearing the largest diamonds in town. Mrs. Leshe holds salons. She is one of the few in town who do. There is Court- land Palmer and Miss Gilder, and I don’t know whether Mrs, Bunce is continning here, and that is about all. I hear, though, that pretty MRS, ELLA WHEELER WILCOX" will establish herself as a social and lit- erary queen, with a throne of her own, in her new home up by the park this winter. I cannot fiud ‘myself hoping that she will, however, for as a rule these American salons are as tedious as Quaker meetings. I don't know whether we can't get up big enough lions, or whether it is that we don't go in for that sort of thing, but really, some of the salons [ have attended have left upon my mind nothing but a confused recollection of twaddle and wholesale complexion, by which latter phrase I mean full dress decollette gowns, as you very well know. Mr. So-and-so sings a song with more airs than melody; Miss Such-and-such declaims with her hands in front of her iike a child in a Sunday school show; Mr. Blank goes about pawing the hands of the prettiest ladies and pretending to know palmistry, and Mrs. What's-her- name scrapes a violin till it shrieks with pain. And who are kh.{ all and what do they amount to? Pshaw?! I suspect salons need the Paris atmosphere. 1hey wilt wkhen you transplant them, But 1 have strayed away from Mrs. Leslie. Her salons are tedious, but they are better than the others. Of course they are mutual admiration concerns, but they are not contined to one cast-iron set. She invites notables from all parts of the world, and gives them a very rich setting in her gorgeous suite of roows in a swell Broadway hotel. queen, CLARA BELLE. s U~xrrorm RaNk No. 4, Knights of Pythias, of this city, says the News of astings, which is'one of the finest and hest drilled orders in the state, has deci- ded to enter for the state prize atthe coming encampment in Omaha, if proper arrangements can be made. In order to g0 as they wish, and take & band with them, the boys will necessarily expense of between $400 ana subseription paper is now being il ted Lo ussist in raising this sum. The ap- pearance of the boys in Omaha will be big card for Hastings, and it is hoped t the business men and capitalists of v will contribute liberally in order that they may make as ereditable a show- ing as possible. Mr. Edward N. Thack- er is captain of the rank, J. A. Kraft, lieutenant; and D. A..Gull“n. herald. o IRA G. Horrr, supreme representative American Legion of Honor and state superintendent of public instruction, of San Francisco, Cal., passed through this city Wednesday on his way home. ECHOES FROM THE ANTE ROOM Items of Interest to the Members of the Varions Secret Orders, THE ORDER OF ODD FELLOWS. 'he Good Work of the B. of L. E.— Doings of the K. of H.—The Pyrh- fan®’ First Regimental Drill— The Orders In the State. ® The BEE is desirous of making this column one of interest to the members of the secret orders of this state. end it is urged upon the officers and To this members of the different organizatous to send 1n, each week, items which may be pertinent and of interest to their respec- tive orders. d The Ovder of Odd Fellows. One of the most diflieult things to deal with is the origin and ancient history of a secret organization. Among the list of these societies there 18 none but for which there is claimed an origin so an- cient that the memory of man runneth not to the contrary. It isconceded in all quarters that the organization known as Odd Fellows is one of the two parents of the secret societies of the world. The assemblage of thousands of members of this order in Denver during the past week, in attendance upon the sovereign grand lodge, will cause a brief review of the history of the organization to be in- teresting. The authentic history of this society goes back but a few years, but in fits spinit 1t is as old as the emblems of Friendship, Love and Truth. While its history as an organization covers less than one hundred of the past years, its emblems and instructions link the charm- ing tale ot the friendship of DAVID AND JONATHAN with its record, and makes the pure traditions of the benevolent lives of ancient patriarchs a complement of its present creed. From the time that men began to heed the injunction to do good to one another they have naturally bound themselves together in societies to accomplish the greater results, David voiced the common feelings of good men, and 1 effect described the benevolent orders of his own civilized times when he said: “Behold how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity.” Plutarch tells us that there ex- isted in the Roman army the societies of And Jater, ys of Titus Ciesar, A. N7, ed in Rome the socicty of izens,” to which the emperor pensation engraved on a golden plate. Some have traced Odd Fellowship back to those socicties and especially to the Iatter whose! nume sug- ests at Jeast a resembiance in prineciple. ome writers claim that Odd Fellowshij existed among the Goths and Huns an other northern nations in the fourth cen- tury, that it was established in Spain in the fifth century, in Portugal 1n the sixth, in Francein the twelfth and in England at about the same time, However this may be, 1t is true that the proper history of the organization begins with the latter part of THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. During that period there were or- ganized in London, clubs conr DO! of mechanics and laborers calling themselves *'Ancient and Honor- able Odd Fellows.” The meetings of these clubs were for couvivial purposes, and commonly held in taverns. It be- caume the custom for the members to muke weekly contributions of a penny each to creute a fund for the relief of the poor, to defray funeral expenses, and to provide for widows and.orphans. Shortly the order extended to Liverpool, and the clubs or lodges then united under the name of the Union Order of Odd Fel- lows, with London as the seat of goyern- ment. In a few years lodges were estab- lished in every part of England. In 1809 reformers sought to abolish the con- vivial feature of the meetings, which at- tempt was ovposed by the orthodox men:bers. The reformers, however, grew stronger, and in 1813 held a con- vention at Manchester, upon which occasion several lodges seceded from the main order and organized the Independ- ent Order of Odd Fellows. In 1825, a committee was estab- ished “at Manchester to govern the order in the interim between the sessions of the grand lodge, This 11 to dissen- sions and to secessions, but did not break up the org: the name of Mar Lusitana and of the solduri in the da t ation, which took hester Unity, and re- mains to this day the main body of the English Odd Fellows, The aggregate membership of all the lodges is over half a million. Thus it appears, that, strictly speaking, the history of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows beging with 1813, The origin of THE WORD “INDEPENDENT" was the secession of the lodges controlled by the reformers from the main order. The seceding lodges continued their or- gamzations without authority from the old body, and were, therefore, properly termed *‘independent.” The first lodge of the order instituted in the United States was at Baltimore, on April 26, 1819, This was the result of some very earnest work on the part of two Englishmen, Thomas Wildey and John Welch. Wildey had been ini- tiated into a lodge of Odd Fellows in Loundon in 1804, which was subordinate toa body then known as the Grand Lodge of England, but which had little authority outside of London, He emi- grated to this country in 1817, before the Manchester Unity had established its premacy, so that he had received no in- structions in the work of the Independent order. He had passed through all the oflices of the lodge and had been noble grand three times. Welch had also been a member of a London lodge. These two men 1n a strange land seriously felt the deprivation of the social pleasures of the lodge, and naturally became anxius to introduce the order into tms country. Rut there were only two of them and five were required for the estublishment of a lodge. After vainly hunting for three or more Udd Fellows for some time, they ‘finally advertised in the Baltimore American, in its issue of February 12, 1819. This brought to light two more, John Duncan and John Cheathum. They still lacked one, and finally they advertised again, March 27. This brought the fiftn man, Richard Rushworth. On Monday, April 26, they met at the *'Sign ot the Seven Stars,” a public house, and with due forms and ceremonies instituted and opened a lodge which they named WASHINGTON LODGE of Odd Fellows. Thomas Wildey was made noble grand and John Welch vice grand. Vithin two or three weeks the new lodge had increased its membership to fifteen. About this time Henry Jackson armved in Baltimore from ™ Liverpool with copies of *‘the charges then recently revisea by the still incipient Manchester Unity,” ‘and with the lectures 1ssued by the same authority. Jackson came with the hope of being the pioneer of Odd-Fellowship in America, but to his disappointment found a lod, already in existence, but operated ou the old plan. He introduced the changes and reforms into the new lodge, and in~ structed the other members in *‘the mode of werk practiced by the Independent Order of Odd Fellows of the nches- ter Unity.” Thue was the order as it now exists established in this country, Within five months the membership had incrensed to gineteen. In the latter part of the year 18190 at SUITS. —— We have this season the largest as- sortment of suits in all grades ever put on sale. We quote a few prices: A first c'ass serviceable suit $4.50 $3 and $6. A Tip-top worsted suit, §7. A fine worsted suit, $10 to $20. Our line of wobby cheviot suits can’t be beat, in style and price, ranging from $10to $16.50, ~ HATS. | OVERCOATS |UNDERWEAR. Our line of hats is five times as large as itwas last season, and we show over 100 different styles of hats The Knox Block, Youman's Miller and Dunlap at the following prices: Boys’ Hats, $2.50t0 $1.50. Crushes from 50c to $2.50, Fine Soft Hats, 75¢ to #5. Fine Stiff Hats, #1.25 to $4. And we guarantee that our prices and goods go ahead of anything in the market. FALL, A full line of light weight over- coats, in new nobby designs, light, medium and dark colors. A good worsked coat for §6.50. A fine cassimere coat from $Sto$ 15, An extra fine coal from 15 to $25. We can truly say our line of over- coats was never surpassed, and that our, prices are away below other This heading includes every grade of Underwear for £1,00 per suit, $1,25 per suit, $1.30 per suits $1.75 per suit. $2.00 per suits $2.50 per suit. 400 per suit, $3.30 per suit. house, needs only an inspection of | And wp to the very best of imported our goods toprove itis so. 1308 the suggestion of P. G. Crowder, a pro) inent Oad Fellow of England, who v ted Baltimore on & tour of this coun- try, “‘an application was prepared in suitable form to be presented to any com- petent authority of the Indevendent })rdnr in England for a dispensation ad- mitting the Indge into the regular fellowship of the order.”” Mr. Crowder, on his return to England_shortly afterwards, presented the application” of the Duke of York lodge, at Preston. The request was granted and a charter 1ssued to the new lodge February 1, 1820, The charter contained, besides the ordinary provis- i the following. “That ‘the said ing the first established in the United States, hath the power to grant a warrant or dispensation to a number of brothers of the Independent Order of Odd Fellowship 1 any state of the union, for the encouragement and sup- port of brothers of the said order, when on travel or otherwise.”” Mr. Ridgely, in his admirable history of Odd Fellowship, says: ‘“This large provision, in which lay the germ of the American system, was 80 little considered at the time us to provoke neither comment nor debate, and even the name of the mover is un- known. So little cognizant are we of the pla g of those potent seeds that have grown to giaut oaks and waving forests.” On the twenty-second of Kebruary, 1821,the past grands of W flshinpiton lodge were orgamzed into & grand o:lx_r\c-,. un- der the title of “Grand Lodge of Mary- land and of the United States.” The mem- bers of this grand lodge of America were Thomas Wildey, grand master; John P. Entwisle, grahal deputy master; Wilham 8. Couth; grand warden; John Welch, grand seeretary: John Boyd, grand guardian; Willtam Larkam, grand conductor; A charter was issued by the grand lodge on the fifth of September, 1821 to Frankhin lodge, of Baltimore. At its November session in 1824 the rand lodge of Maryland and of the Jnited States divided itself into two bodies. Ome became the supreme auth- ority of the order through the several grand lodges and the other subsided mto simply the state grand lodge of Maryland. The former took the name of GRAND LODGE OF THE UNITED STATES and has since exercised the jurisdiction that naturally and properly belongs to such a body. eral attempts had been made to es- h Odd Fellow lodges in this country before the organization ot Washington lodge at Baltimore. A lodge was organ- ized in New York December 23, 1806, called the Shakspeare lodge of Odd Fellows, of which Soloman Chambers was noble grand. This lodge flourished ‘until 1813, when it was broken up by the war with Great Britain. A large ma- jority of the members were aliens, and were forced by that event to leave their homes. It was revived December 23, 1818, and early in 1819 George P. Morris, » celebrated poet, ame a2 member, Through his influence Franklin lodge No. 2 was organized January 27, 1821, and in November of the same year Washington lodge No. 5 was instituted. When the grand lodge of the United States was organized in 1825, as before described, there were only four grand Todges subordinate to it, those of Mary- land, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania and New York. By that act of organization, however, the order of Odd Fellows took a clearly defined organic form as a na- tional institution and nominally took pos- segsion of the whole country. “In Febru- ary, 1825, when the supreme body held its first meeting there were nine subordi- nate Jodges, The next year there were twelve and in 1827 fourteen. But since then the growth of the order has been rapid. There is a grand lodge in every state of the union. In 1878 there were in the United States 6,734 subordinate lodges, and 1,818 subordinate encamp- ments. THE PATRIARCHAL BRANCH of the Odd Fellowship was founded June 4, 1827, by authority of the grand lodge of Maryland, by the institution of Jeru- salem Encampment No. 1 in Baltimore. September 5, 1831, a charter was granted to James L. Ridgely and others to organ- ize the grand encampment of Maryland. The grand lodge of the United States in 1840 granted representation from grand encampments, The grand lodge of the United States maintained its name, exercising jurisdic- tion over the entire union until 1880. Its heudquarters was at Baltimore, but its meetings were frequently held in other cities. In 1880, at a meeting at Toronto, Canada,on acconnt of the enlargement of its jurisdiction, its name was changed to that of | “'SOVEREIGN GRAND LODGE of the Independent, Order of Odd Fel- lows,’ and its jurisdiction was made co- extensive with the countries over which Odd Fellowship extend 1t, in short, became and remains the supreme authority of the great order. This lodge 18 made up of delegates from the grand lodges of the states. All past grand masters and past grand patri- archs are eligible to elsetion as d gluln to the sovercign grand lodge. The headquarters remained at Balti- more, though its anntal sessions were often held in other cities until 1886, when it was changed by a vote to Columbus, 0. 'The actual removal took place n July of this vear. The sovereign grand lodge is the body that met in Den- ver last week, The custom of haldinq sessions in different cities was adopted to allow the members of this supreme body of the order an nEnommity to be- come acquainted with the whole country and learn the needsof the different sec- tions. Atthe close of the year 1885 the number of lodges in America and Switzerland under the jurisdiction of the sovereign grand lodge wus 7,901, with A total membership of 517,810. These lodges reported receints for the yearin the aggregate of $4,766,111,96, aggregate expenditures for relief $1,960,417,417.93 These. figures giye some hint of how Frca( a power for good, Odd Fellowship | hus become. Odd Fellowship was mstituted in Mas- sachusetts, March 26, 1820, hr the organ- ization of the Massachusetts lodge in Bo: ton. It worked for a time under the authority of the old union order of ! England, but in 182 it accepted n char- | ter from the grand lodge of Maryland and of the United States. The first Pennsylvania lodge, which took the name of the state, wiis organized | in Phildelphia, December 26, 1821, Two | years laterit came under the jurisdiction | of the grand lodge of Maryland and of the United States. On the fourth of June, 1823, the grand lodge of Maryland nndlot the United States issued a charter to the RAND LODGE OF NEW YORK, to which in time the self-instituted lodges of that state became subordinate. The grand lodge of Pennsylvania was | chartered by the grand lodge of Mary- land and the United States on the 15th of June, 1823, and was opened June 27. In 1829 there were ten subordinate lodges in Pennsylvania, with a total membership of 1,000, November 12, 1827, the first lodge of 0Odd kellows in the District of Columbin was chartered under the name of Central lodge No.1. About a year later George- town lodge No. 2 was orgamzed in (ieorgetown. September 28, 1828a char- ter was issued to a grand lodge to meet inWashington and exercise authority of the District of Columbia. Dr. Shafiner, in his work upon Odd Fellowship, speaking of_ the order as oniginally established in England, says: ‘It was the practice then to have the MEETINGS IN TATERNS, and the proprietor became the host and furnished the beer and tebacco, "which were freely used. There was a presiding ofticer with gavel in hand. He kept order, but all present were at hberty to engage in conversation ‘until the gavel called for slilence, that they might hear some remarks from a papher oungme;dub. who chanced to e present, They usually took a eollec- tion for anf{ brother on a tramp. This custom originated with clubs organ- ized in the finerent of trades. On the continent any artisan was compelled to work as an apprentice for a term of seven years, and he was not permitted to work in_one place more than two years. At certain times he started on_his tramp from one village to another. He seldom had more money than enough to pay his expenses, Brothers thus travelling from place to place in England frequently re- ceived temporary assistance from the lodges while under the working head of *‘propositions of harmony,”” which meant a state of recess for the use of the mug and the long pipe. The earlier lodges in this country practiced the same style of conducting their proceedings and when the question was asked of the host by the noble grand, “Is there any tramp in waiting?”? if answered in the aflirmative, the warden quickly madé his rounds with his broad axe for receiving the con- tributions. The English people as they came to this country naturally brought their hub- its with them, and among the strongest and most venerated of those habits was the drinking of ale and beer. The original Odd Fellows’ lodge in Baltimore was organized by Englishmen. The membership of the other lodges or- ganized soon afterwards were naturally mostly English. Hence THD CONVIVIAL FEATRRE of early Odd Fellowship in Eng- lanad necessarily avpeared in those early lodges. Beer drinking became a not unimportant part of their proceedings. And it is said that as the association be- cam! d the change was from beer, not to water, but to those stronger liquors that have ever constituted the national beverages. The incbriating products of corn and rye began to sue- ceed the enhvening malt beverages. And as Mr. Ridgley puts it,"'What wus betore comparstively an innocent 1ndulgence ne a serions and growing evil.” But n time the proportion of native born members became so great that they be- gan to seck to impress upon the order the moral habits of their country ana lo- cality. But the old custom not eas- ily abohshed. I'be first direct vigorous attack upon 1t was by a young man named Augustus Mathiot, in 1823 or 1824, He had been rejecte application for bership in another society, “‘on the sole ground that he was a member of that Bacchanalian club of Odd rellows.” While his indignation was by this aroused against the other order, his at- tention was the more seriously directed to the faults of his own favorite associa- tion, He soon introduced into his lodge, the original Washington lodge of Dal more, a resolution “that this lodge will hereafter abolish the use of hquor of any kind in the lodge room.” It was adopted promptly and unani- mously. But "of course it was not immediately enforced. It was. how- ever, a beginning, and in all genuine re- forms the beginning is everything. Mr. Mathiot’s crusade was called the “Mary- land reform,” and is regarded as the be- ginning of A great moral change in the order. It encountered much opposition from ‘‘the host,” the keeper of the house at which the lodge meetings were held, That individual regarded the seling of beer and other drinks as one of his vested privil 1d his claim had, up to that time, Ev en sacredly respected by the order. In the first days the place of meet- ing conld not be moved to the injuty of the host. The original charter from the Duke of York lodge to Washington lodge contained the provision that the said lodge be not removed from the house of Brother Thomas Woodward so long as five brothers are agreeable to hold the same’ This, however, was changed 8o that when upon reorganization the uinrvmnlinu was granted by the grand lodge of Maryland to Washington lodge it was made to “To establish a lodg, any con- | venient place, to be hailed by the utle of the Wuskinzw,n lodge, No, 1.” Through this action it became the easier to enfore® the Mathiot resolution. THE PRESENT CONDITION of the order is as follows: Increase, ®&rand lodges ....... 54' ..., Subordinate lodges. . 8108 152 Grand encampments “ o . Subordinate encamo- ments...... ... . 1,000 49 Lodge initiations.".. 44,06 8,500 Lodge! members.. .. 530, 12,090 Encampment initia- HONE Ry s vidhe 5 9,636 2,472 Encampment mem- Total relef ‘Total revenue. 850,088 60 M Relief. Sovereien Grand lodge. . £2,211,083 69 Australasia . 58,432 00 Germany. ¥ 2,830 05 Rebekah (sisters) . 16,200 80 Totals.... ..ovee oo.l 8 The avalable asscts of the grand lodge are as follows: August 20, 1887, Balance in treasury.... .. United States 41¢ per cent regis- tered bonds, par.... 1 United States 43¢ per cont coupon bonds, par . 40,000 00 United States 4 per cent coupon bonds, par..... = Total assets available.... 81,619 06 The grand lodge secrotary’s report presents the details from which the sum- mary of the preceding reports are made up. It also shows the totals of the opera- tion of the Odd Fellows’ Beneficiai asso- ciation, it has aid or_life insurance so- cicties as follows: For the year 1886, ots $1,742,741.80; paid families of d members, $1,427,780.68; paid expenses, $153,224.00; members received, 13,580; membership terminated exeept by death, 6,118; aeaths, 1,172; members in good standing, 86,334; money invested or on deposit June 44.21. The totals from organization were: Receipts, $11,280,454.70; paid families of deceased membe $0,583,070.55; paid for ex- penses, $1,154,888,80; members received, 77,030; membership terminated except by denth, 25,608; deaths, 6,608; members in good standing, 86,304, The stuf s of the order from 1830 to to December 81, 1886, show the number of families relieved, 1,265,208, widowed famihes relieved, 163,573; b censed, 124,060, the total reli as been, 3,580,061.87; and the total rcceipts have been $115,014,145.25. In Nebraska this order has an interest- ing history, the details of which will appear hereafter, The B, of Lu E. A union meeting of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers was held 1t Boston last week for the purpose of expounding the principles of the order and inducing those outside of it to join. A meeting was held in the morning open to engineers only, but in the afternoon the public was admitted, The brotherhood was well represented, members coming from all parts of New Englahd. William Mead, of Salem, presided, and after briefly re- citing the objects of the gathering, - troduced Lieutenant-Governor Brackett, who spoke of the good the organization seemed to be doing, and expressed his sympathy with it. He was followed by N. H, Taylor, Mayor O'Brien’s private seeretary, who represented the city of Boston. Grand Chief Engineer P. M. Arthur, of the brotherhood,was then introduced,and spoke of the beneficial features of the order and how it aimed to organize the men for mutual protection, and to obtain for the roads better men and a higher standard of work. It aimed, he said, to secure sobriety umong its members above all things, and, although it did not claim to be, was ubout as good a temperance socicty as there was in existence. Many a man had been stopped in his downward career by its influences, kept in his posi- tian and made a sober man. In regard to its insurance department, he urged every brother to avail himself of its op- portinities, The brotherhood had al- ready paid out $2,159,000 to widows and orphans. In regard to the business fea- ture of the order, he would say that al- though at first regarded with distrust by railway managers it was now approved by thein, and he hud not met one in ten years who seriously opposed n every roud where brotherhood was orgar was what was known as a Committee,” which all the grievances of the men e made known. It ought to be composed of cool-headed men and those longest in the vice of the road and known to the oflicials. He was sorry to say it was not always so made out, It was the duty of this committee to lay a grievance, if it wasconsidered a just ol before the ofticials of the road, “star with the lowest and taking it in turn, if not redressed, from one to the next high- est, until the gencral manager was reached. If he failed to settle the difli- culty the grand chief ineer was sent for, and he seldom failed to bring about an amicable adjustm Strikes were discouraged were no cases when the ps brought t for there could be rether that a settlement could not be "f' d upon. Inclosing he urged the brothers to be honest, be just, and be true to their employers and they would not fail to secure suitable recognition, Knights o THE SUPREME LOI of the Knights and Ladies of Honor, which held their biennial session in Philadelphia last week, elected the following officers for the en- suing term: Supreme protector, John I, Milburn, of Kentucky; supreme Vice pro- tector, L. B. Lockard, of Pennsylvania; supreme seeretary, F. Wright, of Mis: souri; supreme tressurer, E. MeBride, of Indiana, supreme chaplain, Sister M. K. Hanna, of lllinois; supreme guide, J. A. Sawyer, of Ohio; supreme guardian, I.J. Wood, of Mississivpi; supreme sen- tinel, 8. B. Breed, of Massachusetts; su- preme medical examiner, Dr. L 1. With- erell, of New York; supreme trustee J.F. Irish of Hlinois, C. W r Indiana, J. A. Pain of Pennsylvania suprewe protector appointed the follow- Honor. goods that can be purchased. FARNAM STREET On conteste Hughes an ing special committees: claims, Brothers Crowe, Hoelzle. _On insurance, Brothers E. T. Funk and C. F. Dudley. e OND MENT Knights of Pythins battalion drill at the buse ball park last Tuesday afternoon was a sue- cess, and a slight intimation ot what ma; be expected in October, at the gran lodge session in this city. On the arrival of Colonel Thomas Burrill the several divisions were formed in line. These were Myrtle, No. 2; Douglas, No. 5; Lily, No. 8; Omaha, No. 12; Launcelot, No. 14; Falcor, No. 15; Mt. Shasta, No. 16; Binck Eagle, No. 17; Trojan, No. 18, in the ag- regate about two hundred and twenty- five sir knights in fatigue uniform. Black Eagle division, however, was obliged to appear in helmets on account of the non= arrival of its fatigue caps. After the mstruction to the various commanders, the regiment was put through a number of cvolutions, all the divisions doing as nicely as could be expected for the first time the regiment has attempted a drill The officers and men appeared (o excellent advantage, but it hooves all who intend appearing in the October display to be on hand at every <3 drill both of division and regiment, There will be dress parade and battalion drill at the basc ball park Tuesday afternoon next at b5 o'clock sharp and 1f the entire membership of the regiment appears there will be at feast 450 men 1n line, and it is hoved that all will be on hand. At this, the first drill, there were a large number of spectators | present, and the number of ladies pres- ent was pnrliculnr]'y noticeable. The cordial invitatien of the regiment isex- tended to all, and to the ladies especially, to be present at the next drill. Nothing educes a better display on the part of the soldier than the presence and applause of the fair sex. *"x A PLEASANT SOCIAL and literary enter= tainment was given Wednesday night b; the Ladies’ Harmony assembly, 9379, Kmights of Labor, in the G.-A. R. hall, The oceasion was the fall and win ter opening of a series of parties and enter- tainments which are to be given monthly by the society. Miss Nellie Wood, daughter of Captain Wood, and Mrs. C. 1. Fitch, were on the literary programme, atd read some ver; good selections, The instrumental an vocal music was rendered by Mrs. Wil- liam Golden and Miss Wood. After the. musical programme refreshments were served in the hall,and the party dispersed at 2 o’clock. * a*e ON WEDNESDAY night Occidental lodge No. 21, K. of P. at Columbus, was resus- citated, with a membership of forty-four, The following were the officers installed: Harry Ragatz, ) arl Kramer, C. C.; Charles Berjnger, V. C.; W. A. McAl* ister, prelate; G, G. Beclier, M. of E., B, ller, M. of I.; L. A. Clark, K. of R.and . N. Hensly ; John Elliott, O, G. The session lasted through the night till 5. m, ,M.‘m A.; D. Dowty, I * **x The Antlers’ lodge Knights of Pything had a grand ball at Elkhorn Friday night, Some fifty mem of the order of this cily were present. Thisisa new lodge and is numbered 72, The master of cer- emonies was C. W, Baldwin: the recep- tion committee, Dr. Cyrus Baldwin, August Bierbach and H, A. Nolton. The committee on inyitations consisted of all members of the lodge. The Omahans returning yesterday morning report that they had received the most pleasant ve- ception ever known in their experience individually or collectively, CoL. L left Thursday for Detroit, accompanieda by his mother, Mrs. Lucinda Monell, Mrs. Monell wil visit friends in Detroit for some time. Colonel Monell wiil return to Omaha to attend the session of the Grand Lodge K. of P, here, after which he will return Jetroil and with his mother will visiy ious cities of the east. SPRIN LD LODG tated at Springfield, Sept. 15, by John Q. ( charter members. , with twenty ‘The oflicers installed neroft, M. K K. John F. Comte, O, G. f . Spearman, Hoover, 1. G.; Frank » pivisioNn Knights of Pythias mght in their quarters on Fourteenth and Dodge streets for the Jiirpose of clecting oftiours. _ Bight Si Knights were re ed during the meet- ing. Captain Henry Anderson was elected eaptain, John Mumum first heutens ant, Charles Helwig herald. ", A xEw lodge of Knights of Pythins will be installed at Nonpariel, Box Butte county this week with a charter membershin of about forty. District Deputy Charles W. Allen of Chadron will resent and will be assis by membe of Sheridan lodge No. 64, of Rushville. oven, G K. of R and 8. of of Pythias, has ri E. E. Fy the Knigh A letter from Grand Chancelle of lowa in which Mr. Hilbert says that he will be present at the grand lodge and that lowa Pythians will be fairly repre- sented upon this oceusion. e Granp Master 8. B WiLkiNson of the B. of R. B., was in Omaha Friday. Mr, Wilkinson reports the order in ‘a thriving condition, ¥ . Succrss Lovae No. 135, B, of R, B, will be represented at the grand lodge at Binghampton, N. by Mr. Hurry Hopkins, of thus city, . Fouest Lovk No. 81 K. of P. will give a grand ball at their new lodge room, Sixth and Pierce strects, October 6, e ———— i e ——