ODD FELLOWS
ANNIVERSARY
Historical Address Delivered
. . By Hon. C. B. Moores
'. - "Last Night
A VERY COMPLETE OUTLINE OF
THE INSTITUTION OP ODD FEL
LOWSHIP , ON. tins .COAST
SALEM' HISTORICAL, LODGE
THE ORDEIt THE WOULD OVEIL
. (From Sunday' Dally.)
On December C. IS77. Just twcnty
flve y?earr ago tonight, on the stage of
needs Opera House, jn thin city. .It
was my privilege to read a historical
review of Chemeketa Lodge, No. I, J.
O. O. 1 the mother lodge of this juris,
diction, upon the occasion of the cele
bration of .'Ita - 25th, anniversary. This
evening ends another chapter of twenty-
five years In - the history of that
lodge and of Oregon Odd Fellowship.
In the presence of. a nevsgeneratlon,
and facing new conditions, froth an
eminence of fifty years, we have again
called ! a halt, to Indulge for a brief
hour, In contemplation of the past, and
in congratulations that the future is
full of hope and promise. Fifty years
In retrospect seems but an atom of
time. ! Fifty years, stretching out Into
the future, with all of its hidden and
boundless possibilities, seems to ; al
most trench uponjhe very domaTri of
eternity. What i held in store by the
coming fifty years outruns imagina
tion, and Is beyond the ken of the
most fxuberant prophecy. No period
of emjal 'length, since the mornlne
stars first sang-together, has ever even
remotely approached the 'commercial
and political an Inventive develop
ment of the rtfty years that lie just be
hind Us. In 18"2 the fathers of Ore
gon Odd Fellowship stood upon the ut
termost, confines of nn undeveloped
continent, nnil Iho Ihrpuhnlrl ttt a, half
century, the drawing aside of whose
curtains would have revealed a dax
gHhg apocalypse, luminous with glories
such as had never before entered into
the remotest conceptions of artan. De
cern 1m r fl, 1852, was one of the red let
ter days of the pioneer era of, Oregon.
In a certain material and comparative
Sense i that day lies centuries behind
us. It wan the opening; portal of a
new and marvelous era. The charter
members of Chemeketa Lodge, with
worthy co-laborers In other fields of
effort,; then laid rthe foundation stones
of what is soon -to be, the seat of a
great j commercial empire. Tonight,
facing new i conditions, that have
brought in their, train new and torn
. plete responsibilities, w:e meet to pay
"tribute to' these modest heroes of an
earlier day? to draw new Inspiration In
contemplation or weir worg, ana iio
renew; our pledges that the future
work of this Order sbairoe. worthy of
the best tradition of its past. The
occasion ia itself ? historic. We are
met to commemorate the work of the
past, rather than to speculate upon the
possibilities of the future Conditions
seem to require that any address upon
such sn occasion shall be historical in
Its character, yet we are, admonished
that local history may be -made dread
fully dull in the telling. The Jtlstorlcal
sketch must hit only the high places,
although it 1st down In the valleys that
we find the strong historical currents
that determine the destinies of men
and of nations. "I.oeal history," we
re told, "Is the ultimate substance of
hatlonal history. The history
of a, nation Is only the history of its
villages written large, and it Is the
largeness of the scale that gives -dig
nity and spirit." o, we may assume,
the history of our ompeslte of jration
aP charities and benevolences isi sim
ply the history of the local agencies In
that work. .These -local agencies are
the ultimate substance of that nation
al, aggregate of benevolence that Is
. .. , . thA fi trc Am the
..ntnito, (h town ail "c'rHI-
iruui I J -'- - . . - - - - r
munitles widen into siates-aS colon
ic develop into hatlons---o the Work
. .. . Kn mull'
ot tnfl ooscure iourc,
less obscure Order, widens and devel
ops. jv.nJ becomes a living and active
end controlling-force, mat maK ii
se.ll apparent Jn the amelioration of
the -condition of hundreds of thous
ands In the nation at large.. No more
potent agency in the amelioration of
the conditio of man exists than Amer
ican Odd ellowship. No mote worthy
branch of that great Order exists than
that Which has been doing tt work
In Oregon during the fifty years that
have enied tonight, and this anniver
sary oeeaslort invites consider flem
of the history of that branch of the
Ordert Only the bare outlines of that
history are possible at this time, and
what Is given necessarily "fst
tie or nothing of the real spirit of the
Order. ; - I . : ,
Fori much that follows renting jo
the early history of Odd Fellowship In
Oregon we are Indebted tcHa sketch
rrepared many years ago by ?n. E . M
Barnum. the first Grand Master of the
Grand Lodge of Oregon. - From this
and other sources, we gather that ; the
earliest recorded efforts to ,t,.,
Odd Fellowship in Oregon occurred in
the year 1S48. There were in that ye"
applications looking toward, that eiiJ
from Washington, from St Ius and
from Massachusetts. P. O. s -
Atlee.j of Washington, D. V was one
who made application for this purple
to Thomas Sherlock. wH"
ci Lfinm brothers In St. Ijcuv
"authority t fefj
. . ...... mi eenove ; tnei
same to some pelnC f.ft Ortron. It her
of these applicatlohs-:Waa -Kian
m.. . , ....... voir irll'atlon w
tm r.flrrt Walson, V. i-
Massachusetts, for a disnsntlon
establish a lodg In v;;?'-;
arrival there. He represented th t IJv
Odd Fellows were In party
about to start forx Oregon. '""nX"
. JLiin-he recilvfld t'lu-
his repr
tho a I). C Klref
without warmnt of taw. Th.-f
r. ..i. ,.A hyianvr. to Iegaiire tne
act by afterwards forwarding to Ur
wlwow a hew charter In-h pto
th one tirat fven. an that f"'
ered Intuits treasury $30 to
of."Oirgon City Lodge, No. 1. a J"
In . Odd Fellowship that was dotlned
to find H iporm.Tiin v,
of mlleM ni r "c: tuuuunoi
InalTy de?, v?. the pIate orie'
ueiccipe charter, which was Intended
tor a lodge In Oregon Cltr. .
8 '" .Z.6d by bequent vote of
me o l,. u. 8.. was the official nucleus
around which was gathered 'the first
lodge of Odd Fellows ; west . of the
Rocky Mountains. It took root, how
ever, not In this northwestern state,
but. by a singular chance, ln Honolulu,
away out In the waters of the Pacific,
and there today, In the hall of "Excel
sior Lodse. No. I is doubtless hanging
that old charter, which, but for a sin
gular chance, might today be hanging
In the hall of "Oregon Lodge,! No. 3,"
at Oregon Citps Th constitution may
not have followed the flag to those dis
tant Islands of the Pacific, -but it Is a
satisfaction to know that in less than
fifty years the flag followed the char
ter of that pioneer lodge, and now com
mands the allegiance of every patriotic
citizen In the land of its adoption. Ad
terse winds and stormy seas carried
that charter thousands of miles out offing .been duly opened by that officer
vurw, ano inai is ai least one cir
cumstance that made December ft, 1903,
the fiftieth anniversary of Oregon Odd
UowshJp. and brought us together
upon this occasion.
The Sovereign 'Grand Lodseof the
United Btat?w. learning of th! failure
to transplant ;the order into this terri
tory, made several other efforts to do
SO. . "! -f . ,- :ui r i i
"J - .! ' f v :;'.'':.
In his report to the Sovereign Grand
Lodge, in 184S, Grand J Sire Horn R.
Kneass says: 'In May last I received
from , Bro. William Towers. M. W. G.
My of the Distlrct of Columbia, a com
munication upon the subject of estab
lishing lodges on the PjiClflcCoast. par
tleularly In Ore:fnd suggesUng to
me a ready means "by Which that object
can be; accomilihed In the event of
my seeing no Impediment In the way
of authorising sotmportant a ntep. ,The
Introduction of the light of Odd Fel
lowship to that remote region would n
doubt contribute, in a' great degree, to
make that comparative wilderness
smile and 'blossom .with. the fruits of
civilization and! Impart additional
warmth to the hearts of the sparsely
scattered population k of that recently
explored seaboard." Yet 1 was con
strained to drfer to the decision of this
Iwdy, made ot Its last session. In the
hope that at the reassembling of the
representatives at this session, some
efforts might be made to send the glad
tidings of our brotherhood across the
tocky , Mountains and pnylalm them
In accents of fraternal ; love upon the
ocean-bound coast of Oregoh. V ?
Plwns to carry into effect these sug
gestions took form in the 'appointment
of P. O. Alex V. Fra.se r, of the District
of Columbia as a "special' commis
sioner" to establish and supervise the
Order In California and Oregon and in
the islands of the Pacific during the
pleasure of the Grand "Lodge. , Bro.
Frazer , vVas sent outy the Govern
ment in that year to supervise the rev
enue Service on the Pacific Coast He
was commissioned for his work as an
Odd Fellow, as a Special Deputy Grand
Sire of the order. September 23. t848.
The discovery of gold In Callfornli so
modified his duties as a Government
Revenue officer that he never came to,
Oregon -another ; circumstance ' which'
had Its weight in bringing us together
upon this occasion, -j By a somewhat
singular coincidence, Bro. Fraser did.
however,. visit Honolulu., and, bearing
a regularly Issued charter from, the 0
L. U. S-, intefided'ot "Oregon Lodgt.
Na. 1 " he made use, of It In placing
"Excelsior Lodge, No. 1," at that place,
on a proper footing.. From this time
until 1850, nothing seems to have been
done toward introducing the order into
Oregon. In 1860 there was a feeble ef
fort made., but without result. In 1831
the Odd Fellow of Salem and Port
land began to canvass.a he matter of
organizing subordinate IpflS. - in De
cember of that year, while the Terri
torial Legislature was holding its first
session in the old University building,
located where, the '.University gymna
sium now .stands, and the Supreme
Court ..Was -'meeting In that Imposing
structure known as the Bennett" House,
which J was located on , the southeast
corner of the block on which this Odd
Fellows' Temple! now stands, notices
were distributed by Bro. E. M. Bar
num Inviting Odd Fellows to meet and
discuss the question of organising an
Odd Fellows Iodge. To this call Bros.
E. ;M. : Barrium, E. N. ; Cooke, Samuel
EL May, A. W. Ferguson, C, S. Wood
worth and J. It. Hardin responded, and
on January 7. 1852. Ja strong iietition
for tlm establishment here of a subor
dinate lodge was forwarded to the O.
1 U. S. While this petition was blng
considered by thos ln authority, the
matter of choosing; an appropriate
neme for this new taby In Odd Fellow
ship was-leiisg tsns1derfd by the peti
tioners, "Chemeketa Prairie" was the
nbinf! liy; which the site af . Salem was
originally known and the name which
v as selected for this new lodge perret
uates the place of Its birth, tt was
adopted at the sugrs-estion of Dr. Wm,
H. WlUson. the original proprietor cf
the town site of Sitktn,fwho gave,iil
alter whom is named, the beautiful
park in this city known as Wlllsoh;
Avenue. Chemeketa the name select
edsignifies In the Indian dialect" "the
old home," or the ''old camp." After
arlous delays' on the part of the peti
tioners in forwarding the cards, a war
rant for "Chemeketa Lod ge, No. 1,"
was Issued on the 16th of August, 1852,
to P. G. E. M. Barnum, with special
tommlision to open ; the lodg?. The:
five brothers whose; cards were duly
forwarded and whose names appear in
the original warrant are. E. M. Barnurn,
K. N. Cooke, B. F. Harding, Cyrus S.
Wood worth and Joel Palmer. A gloomy,
dingy garret on the third floor of what
was known as the "Rector building,"
a two and a half story., structure then
standing across commercial sireec. ,
from, and somewhat south of. the Wil
lamette Hotel, was fitted up as the first
home of the lodge. ; Alter us session
of the winter before; In the old Uni
versity building, the Legislature had
also taken quarters In the ?Rectr
building, and was octupjing humble
apartments cn the second floor. Housed
in this old barnjn the. somewhat sus
picious and dotihtful compon'onsbip of
an Oregon legislature, Oregon H
F'-Jlowshlp first savrj the Hi;ht of life.
Chemeketa Loljr was here Instltct-1
cn December 6. 1832. ' ,
t'pon the first page of thf first vol
Ue of the recoil books of th To1?i
under th bcadinr, -Sjl-m. - orepon
Territory. December fi. 1852, we Tead
9 follows: -Ii acconla ncP with a
f hatter for a subordinate lodge of the
Indecende-nt rder of Odd Fellows, is
sued by the . I- U. R. to Bros. K. M.
Sum. IL N. Cooke, B F. Harding. C.
S. Woodorth and il IVtlmcr, anj by
WEEKLY OREGON STATESMAN; TUF3PXT. PKfnarncrt 5; 1572.
. . .
virtue or a warrant from the, Grana
S,re o th Orpnd Lodge. W. XT; Moore,
Oranrt sir- v r..,.,, ,
institute at Salem. Matlcn county, and
Territory of Oregon, a subordmate
lodge of Odd Fellows, to be known and
hailed, as 'Chemeketa Lodge, N1. L
O. O. F.' The brothers named In the
charter being all present, together with
sundry other brothers.' a lod go, was
opened In due form, the Instituting of
ficer. E. M.. lUrnum, Jn the N. G.'s
chain Bro. J. A RIpperton In the' N.
O.'m chair; Bro. S. E. May. Secretary;
Ciawford Geddes, Guardian, and the
same named as above,- .Chemeketa
Lodge,, No. 1, with all the Immunities,
rights and privileges of a subordinate
lodsre of Odd Fellows. (Slgrfed) M.
Barnum." v !V'';,'- A.-t''i
Under the same date follews thlsi
"The brothers of Chemeketa Lodge met
in thHr hair at Salem, pursuant to an
appointment by Special Deputy Grand
Sire K. M. Barnum. and the lge- bar
In the N. G.s cbair, the members there
of prot-eded to an election of officers to
fill the first chairs of said lodge.? The
following brothers '. were thereupon
chosen, to-wit i . IJ. F. Harding as' N.
E. N. Cooke:as V. O.i C S. Wood
worth aa Seretary; and Joel Palmer
Treasurer. The Special Deputy Grand
Sire E. M. Barnum then proceeded to
install said elected officers Into their
respective chairs In the - lodge, i Tha
following brothers" were appointed to
the Grand offices for assisting in the
installation, vis; Bro. Jv. A RIpperton
as Grand Warden- Samuel Black, see
rctary; Luther Carey. Treasurer; Bro.
Vineyard. Guardian: S. A. Miller. Mar
shal.... .Bros. S. E." May and A W.
Ferguson were admitted on card. .. .Pe.
tltlons for membership were, received
from I. N. Gilbert. C. P. Cooke. Milton
Shannon. W. K. Leverldge, AI Zleber.
and C A. Reed, (Signed) C. 8. Wool
worth. Secretary." With this the ini
tiatory, work wag done,: the entering
wedge was driven, the order was no
longer a mere dream or hoiw, Kut a
reality, and Odd Fellowship in this
small beginning obtained a foothold on
this jinorthwest coast from which noth-.
ing can urlve it in all the years to
come. The second meeting of the lodge
was held December 8, 1852, at which
time C. A. Red was Introduced as an
Ancient Odd Fellow, and Albert Zieb
er was received by Initiation.. Of the
brothers hereinabove named J. A. RIp
perton and C. A. Reed still survive and
'aie aiiwf residents Ipf Portland. Bro,
Reed was formerly Adjutant General
of; this state and several timea repre
sented Marion county In the Legisia
tive Assembly. .Bro. Zleber - was af
terwards United .States Marshal of
the state of Oregon, and for i many
years a prominent citizen of Port
land. Bro. E, M. Barnum, an attorney
of high character, was the leading
competitor of the , late Hon. John
Whiteaker as n, candidate for the first
Governojihip of the state of "Oregon,
being defeated at the polls by aLnar-
row margin. He was afterwards
leading . citizen of the Territory of
Utah, where he died a number of years
ago. B. F. Harding afterwards repre
sented Oregon. In the United States
Senate, .and was at one time Judge of
this judicial district. C. 8. Woodworth
was long a leading business man '-' of
this city, dying about a year, ago, the
fast survivor otr the- original officers
of Chemeketa Lodge. E.N, Cooke, "was
eight years Treasurer of the State r-of
Oregon- S. E. May was eight years
Secretary of SUte of the State Of Ore
gon. and served two terms as Grand
Master of the Grand Lodge of Oregon,
the only case of its kind In its history.
General Joel Palmer was many years
one "of, the most , conspicuous of Ore
gon's pioneers, especially .ln the In
dlah senice. In 1870 he was the Re
publican candidate for Governor of
tfcjs state, and wbs defeated by Oovcr
tiar firover by . a. small majority. . The
public careers of these brethren indi
cate the high character of the men
who laid the founVatlons of Odd' Fel
lowship in this state.
Of all those who united with Chem
eketa, the mother . lodge prior to 1860,
but three survive as "Odd Fellows to
day, viz: Brothers C. A. Reed, of Port
land, and. John O. W right anI John
Hughes, of Salem.
On May 5, 1859. the Grand Lodg of
Oregon met In the halt of Chemeketa
Idge, and in conjunction with that
Jodjre prfM'eeded . toj the grounds and
.there dedicated what we now know mm
frfte Odd Fellows Rural Cemetery, one
mile south of Salem, which Is believed
to be the oldest Odd Fellows1' Cemetery
on-the Pacific Coast, and which , now
perhaps numbera a much larger popu
lation than the Capital City of the
State. - . - :--',- i
The . first public celebration f , the
order, which was Indulged irt by
brothers from all parts of the. terri
tory, took place In Portland, under the
auspices of Samaritan Lodge, No. 1 2,
April 2iS. 1853. at which, time a credit
able demonstration took place, closing
with an Oration at the M. E. church by
Bro. E. M. Bamum. ... On August 13.
1853. in the hall of Chemeketa. No. 1,
was organized the first Rebekah De
gree Lodge in Oregon, at which time
Mesdames Samuel R. Thurston (after
wards Mrs. W. II. Odell) E. N. Cooke, C
A- Reed. S. E. May, J. A. Riperton, with
several brothers, were Initiated, and
Mrs. .E. M. Barnum and Mrs. Wiley
Kenron ajpeared as visitors. On March
21. 1S53, a committee was appointed by
Chemeketa Lodge to arrange for tl
funeral obsequies of Bro. Samuel R.
Thurston, Oregon's first delegate ' to
the National Congress. 1 fe had died
on shipboard, off Acapulso, on his way
Lhome from Washington, and was bur-
fed at;;that place. By resolution of
the Legislative Assembly y of Oregon
his body was exhumed and brought to
Salem for burial. It was bnrleJ Jtist
In the rear of the First; M. E. , church
of Salem, the cer.emony Iieing In Vhargei
of Chemeketa Lodg. This was the
first funeral ceremony performed un
der the auspices of the order in Ore
iron, and was lancely attended by
brothers from various points, On April '
26, 1858. the anniversary of the; order,
Bro. Thurston's body- wss f again ex
humed nd rrnioved to its - present
rpstingple Ij" the Odd I'VIlws Rural
Cc.metry. ondcr the aqsplres of Ch?-i
mckt ta "'IHge, ssltf I hjr the rlster
lodges of the jurtadictlon. ; i I
fhcrnketaj Iodste borea ronsplcti- ;
ous part In the Institution of all the
tinner lodges of (he Oregos ; jurfsdic-j
tion. Bro. E. M." Bmum. on of fh
inckcta's charter members. In MitUtd'
at Portland.' on "April- 8. 153, Smarl
tan Lodge No. 2. Following this, -on'
December Jl, 1853. was the organiza-
tlon' of Oregon Ejrdc. "So. 3. at Oregon.!
City. On July 2S. 1M. Albany '. lvig.
Na. 4, was organized. On April ' 23,
iS3S. representailves were chosen. by
Chemeketa Lodge for 'a convention to
be Iseia la Salrm.on April 25th of that
year. to petition the O. L. U. S. for a
Territorial Grand Lodge. The petition
of this convention was granted, and
Thursday, May 23, 1S35, was designat
ed for the organization of such Grand
Lodge at Oregon City, This Grand
Lodge was composed of Chemeketa,
No 1; Samaritan. No. 2; Oregon, No.
3, and Albany, No. 4. The aggregate
membership of the order in the terrlr
tory "at that time was lit. The first
preliminary" session of the Grand
Lodge was held at the Odd Fellows'
Hall, in Oregon City, when Ero. E. M.
Barnum was chosen the first Grand
Master. The organization was fully
completed on the ,10th of July follow
ing. .- ;'' '..' :.' ''-
The members of that Grand Lodge
-ere: " From Chemeketa Lodne.' No. 1,
E. M. Barnum, C. A Keed. C. N. Terry
and Jonathan O'Donald; Samaritan
Lodge, No. 2, J. C. Carson, Sctb S.
Slater, Israel Gradon. 1L W. Davis, 1L
Seymour and Z. N. Stansbury, Oregon
Lodxe, No. t, Aroory HolbrooJc, Thom
as Charman and Wm. P. Burns.
The .Patriarchal Branch of the order
had its origin In Oregon Jn the Institu
tion of Ellison Encampment, Xo. 1, In
1857. - .: . .
.The first Grand Master . of the Ore
gon Grand Lodgewas E. M. Barnum.
He has been succeeded in turn by II.
W. D-avis. .Wm. P. Burns. S. S. Slater,
Samuel E. May, Ezra St, John. A. G.
Hovey, J. JL Douthlt, Samuel E. May,
A. I, Stinson. William Morton. John
T. Bloomfleld. Silas J. Day;? J. M. Ba
con, William Dlerdorff, E. L. Bristow,
Hon. J. T. Apperson, A J. Marshall,
Hon. II. G. Struye, Prof. T. M. Gatch,
Hon. J. N. Dolph, W. J. Snodgrass.
lion. H. H. Gllfry, John Kenworthy, I.
W., Case, Hon. lhll Met'schan, J. A.
Boyer. Chas. EJ Sitton, Hon. J. J.
Walton. W. C. Tweedale, R. Alexander,
H. E. Dosch, C. L Palmer, Dr. O. D.
Doane, Hon. Geo. H. Burnett, P. P.
dates, A. D. Helmnn. Dr. W. T. Wil
liamson, L. C. Parker, T. J. Stites.
Hon. W. I. Vawterk Hon. Claud Gatch.
T. B. Weils. Hon. J. K. Weatherford.
J. W. Welch, J. II. Nelson and Robert
Andrews. ' ..,;"-''.''
- Amory Holbrook- was elected the
first representative to the Sovereign
Grand Lodge, but as he could not at
tend, the vacancy was-supplted by the
election of Geo. H. Jones.
' TheLfIrst Secretary , of the Grand
LodRe Jwas Wm. P. Burns. Aft-r one
year's service he was succeeded by
Chester -N. Terry, who sirVed seven
teen years, he by1 John M. Bacon, who
served fifteen years; he. by A. N. Gam
ble, who served, five years; .aiid he by
E. E. Sharon, our present Secretary,
who has served nine years.
The Grand1 Treasurers have been
Chas. Pope, Z. N. Stansbury. Geo. IL
Jones, Thos. Charman, Ceo. M. Stroud,
who served four years; I. R. Moores,
who served eighteen years;' John G.
Wright, T. O. Barker, and Dr. B. E.
Miller.". '-, ' "
This, in brief, is the local history of
a great movement that had Its Incep
tion oh American soli nesrly eighty
four years ago. When, on Monday,
April 26, 1819, five Englishmen met at
the "Sign of the Seven Stars. at Ij Up
ton's, on Second street, in the city of
Baltimore to Institute Washington
Lodge No. 1, I. O. O. F.;" they little
dreamed that on December . 1902,
Jhere would be commemorsted, at a
olnt on the Pacific Coast J thousands
of miles away, the fiftieth 'anniversary
of the Introduction of their rder into
this remote region. Thomas Wlldey.
uncouth, and untutored, but a master
spirit, the evangelist of the order.
With the faith of a devotee and the
zeal of a crusader, preached the gospel
of fraternity as exemplified ' In Odd
Fellowship, for full forty years, and
when oh October 13. .1861, In his 80th
year, 'he ended his life's work, he left
behind -him . forty-1 wo jurisdictions
and a. membership of 200,000.,. Yet he
pcrhap little dreamed that In another
forty years the order would cover the
continent and tl.icwhere within Its
folds j a ihctribrshir of more thn one
million souls. Insist) American Odd
Fellowship comprised a band of five
obscure English mechanics In the city
Of Baltimore. Since that time it-has
developed Into an srmy of more thnri
a million patriotic American 4t-ltizcns.
representing every trade, profession
and branch of Industry,
In England there are today over
90O.C00 members of the parent body
the Manch-tcr Unity of, f Kid . Fellows
In theUnltelft States and Canada there
are sevWn secret benevolent, ..'orders,
whose membership exceeds a quarter
of a million, in numbers, Odd Fellow
ship leads them all.
The last accessible repofts .of the
supreme bodies of thse various or
ders obtainable at the b?slnnlng of the
present year showed their membership
in the United Staes and Canada to b
as Follows:
No. Odd. Fillows 1.0Z7.S2
No. Mwonn 902. 601
No. M. W. A. .......... 612.957
No.. Knights of Pythias ........ C1S.944
No... A. o. U. W. 420,000
No. Red Men ,.;.....-'..,..-....-... 250.4'5 ,
No. Woodmen of the World .. 232.130
The reports of-the Sovereign Grand
Lodge for the year ending December
51, 1900, showed the ferilowlng as tt
reoord tf Odd Fellowship for that
year, .'-:- "
Widowed families relieved ...... M74
Brothers relived .......i .... ..112,764
Paid for the education 6t or
phans ...... ' 8305
Pafci widowed families 143.840
Intd for burying the dead .. T21.I53
PaM for the relief of brothers 2,Krt.02J
Total disbursed for beneVo-
lene-e.. ........ .... .... ..tJ.S76,926
Thess disbursements for a single
year represent nearly eight times the"
amount, to be raised in a' two years
levy, of the proposed Lewis and Clark
appropriation, which our -bucolic and
Journalistic economlscrs would have
us believe is to bankrupt tbe taxpay
ers of the state. It is nearly four times
as much as the imperial state -of Ore
gon spends yearly upon all of its In
s?n, - its e-rimlnals. its judiciary, its
high prlctd officials of every grade,
and all of its other expenditures of
every description. : Every day over 200
brothers are rtlived by this great
order. Every, day 40 is 'disbursed
fr thV, relief f her wi'oweI families.
Every day $Z,m is spt nt In the burial
of he r ded. Every day IS.'sJO ta spent
In the relpf of - suffering brothers.
Every etsy of the 3SS ses the dis-.
burse-ment of more than J1.00 In the
Hlicf of want and suffering and
tress. Yet. withlng the tnnejry of j
Hvlns men. this order, that now makes;
Its yearly disbursements of millions e.f
dollars in charity aril benevolence. In-'
'eluded within it m?mborhli Jurt.five
"men, a coach spring maker, a "printer,
I a currier, a house and ship painter.
and a mahogany sawyer five men of
pLblan birth, EnRlish aliens, launch
, ing a, new enterprise In the city of Bal
j tiiaore. only ft.rty miles distant from
the National Capital, which barely five
British troops. How well have, these
men, aliens and plebeians though they
were, compensated their adopted coun
try ftr the ruin wrought by British
arm's, n glvin,?'l!fe and form to this
great system -of ben'oience, that has
been for nearly three gcmratloni past
ar.d is to be for generations to come,
ah cnfaillng and abaundjnt source of
comfort and support for mliiitm of
the clllzctis-of thilr adopted cimntry.
In the' association of these simple nwrn
there ; was underlying j high pur fwre
stftl Mt$ ideals. In Its Urigln th. so
rfctl ffature' was dominant, but there
was yet evidence, ever jresent, of a
serious purpose. It was an animating
and controlling purpose. In harmony
with the ispirit and cxprestsoiv of the
ei'.iatrain: htvlng deep cnt rn
"For the wrongs that need resistance.
For the cause thgtt lacks assistance.
For the future In the distance,
For the god that w-e can tto.'
The unfailing , tst of merit is re
sults. We have little concern for the
tradition that traces the order back to
the Jewhdt Lrgion under Titus, or the
le f am lal account of Its origin in the
18th century. To the boast of the de
generate, that "he -euld trace his an
cestry back for nine generations, came
the pertinent response; "Ah, you can?
Well, what else can yeu do?" A wdl
greee wltheiut- a personal ncord, is
but an empty bo.ist. A coat f- nrnu
that represents nothing but anthiuity
Is a badge of dishonor.. Odd Fellowship
lrvftts youf confidence, not because of
its'anecnt tyisirt. but l"-ran f the
assurance tbst It measures fully un to
the requirements and tbr resrwHisll.HS
tles of the 20th -century; becaus Its
fifty s-ears In tills state have shwon
fifty years In this state have shown
b:csum: its profeifkions have been con
summated In its daily history:" incause
'Its ceremonials have been pure and
elevating and ennobling: because the
lessons of Its ritual have benn ab
sorbed and practiced and transmitted
Into form and substance ,ln its diily
nilnlf trntlons. No. man reaches- his
Idols. ' No bv'nsvolcnt Institution fully
meet's Its professions. No church
practices all the rrnuirements.of Its
creed. There M something or ilivlnlty
In every agency for the uplifting
man, and th lack ef one js-supple-meiUed
by the work of snolher. Too
often are hungry souls fed on the
husks of doctrine. --: Too eften ,ln the
congenial - task of preaching foreeirdl
nation,' and total depravity, and pur-
Jgatory snd ierdltlon, do we ignore
the supreme lmiortance of a simple
faith, and pure living and high ldeilw.
The more there Is of toleration and
practical sympathy, and the less the.
is of dogmatism and serif-righteousness,
the less do the fraternities wax fat at
the expense of the church, and the less
the necessity for stated meetings to
discuss the cause and the remedy for
decreased religious Interest.
'Tls not the wide phylactery '
Nor stubborn fjst. nr stated rr'rii
Tht makes us faints; we ju'lg the
' tree
By what it bears. ' , r - !
. $
And when a man tan live aa-t
From works, on theolojsic trurt.
We know tthc.bltol about his hart
Is dry as duct."
The frgitrnal brotherhtHxls take issue
with -the churches upem nothing thit
Is essential or fundamental. They are
natural allies. Tilling places i ft vacant
and doing suptietnontury work. Hu
manity Is hungry fur sympathy and
companionship. Hundred of thous
ands, homeless In every real sens?,
swarm the highways an; the iyway.
Of life. 1 To atisf the heart himgvr
of the World's waiidt rcrs Is the hlh st
Ideal of the fralern il .brotherh'vxi. in
the -consistent wltv: rencc: of Odd Fel
lowship to the cestntia!s "of C'hrlsttan
ity and in its dcvtlon to the every da
wu.nts of dependent humanity Is found
th secret ef Us strength, Its mer and
Its: influence, Ajung these lines It has
d;;vtleied for fifty years In Orgot.
Ojratlng in its own clrcumwnVil
field' of effort, it Itos tetn the great
outside werd advancing with the tre
mendous strites of a planetary Kiaht.
treading s)m-t uixttt the U'jniain of
omnliKtence., Its work' has run piiral-
let. with-a lilty years' deve'f.fn'.rit ofl
s learn arid eleetrP lry a fifty ' ve'srs
that eliseovereil the - p-lcj.hotie, the
phonograph, the X-rV and thi v.lre
Ires telegraph a fifty years that hjs"
seen ear railroads growTrom lO.OO to
over 200. rulle-s and our telegraph
line-s from liO.lo l.WW,Ofi mil's, and
Oregon develop In truIatlon i from
13,000 to tMM and the Nation, ad
vaneink' t the rate ef n mfllion a
year, fren 23,fO,000 to eo.WO.eww.
Standing tonight .upon this eminence
of fifty years, and looking back upon
a pathway luminous with achieve-,
menu that dazzle,, and Inspire and
embolden we see great armies coming
up the slope; v,e see kingdoms grow
arw print ipaiitJt-a rle; w hear the
crash and the thunders of war; a peo
ple fre-ed: a continent conquered by the
forces of civilization; the flag floating
over distant seas. and American
thought and invention and cnterprlsa
dominating the world.
A modest eontlngent .In Ihe preecs-sion-
that sweeps along In this world
movement is the fraternity whose ban
nerg are inscribed with tle sentiments;
Friendship. Love. Truth, Benevolence,
Charity, Sobriety, Mutual ilellef. n
Universal Brotherhood - sentiments
that are sacred, and. pregnant with
hope and comfort and inspiration. Dur
ing all cf thse years, in tompjratlve
obscurity, it has lcen doing holy wtrk,
rellerlng the distressed Visiting the
sick, burying tbe dead, caring for the
wHewe, cdue-atlng the orphan, estab
lishing Its libraries, buildinjr Its tern-
pls find founding its asylums. In the
face of its rcerd -u?goy Is a mockery
Its, eul.tjlts sre Its lwflclaries. Its
crrlenti4ls are Its works. Its record
for all thtjre years the pioneer.
th mouMift, the shaping. th pre
paraury -ears, lies before us an open
book. That record is our warrant for
deelslng that CId Fellowship Is Chris
tianity In its essentials; that Odd Fel
lowship is gol citizenship: -that -t;.
pwwj M H low Is th ge. K merles
arid that the work of the fraternity Is
worthy of all iicceptan-e at rs. ajgury
for the betterment of the man and the
eltlsen, re1oun'lins- to the credit and
the profit and the alory of tbe Nation,
and tbe age in which we live.
PASSED TO
FINAL RESV
Ex-Speaker Reed SuccumtcJ
v This norning-
SHORTLY AFTER TWELVE
' . . . ''' A 9 . A
When Distinguisnea raucni
.Breathed His Last and
Departed
VICTIM OF l-RAlMIA CHANCE
CAME YKHTERDAY MOKNIN:.
TBANSFCStONH OF SA1.INI: .SO
LUTIONS WEI IE IHWKKI.ESS!.
CONSCIOUS UP TOL8T IIOUU.";
f
Brackett Heed, cx-HK;iker cf the
House of llepresentatl vos, and for
many years prominent In puWIc life,"
died here tonight at 12:10 o'tlo.k'ln
his apartments In Arlington. The Im
inetiae cause of death was tirnemi.i.
The ch.inge for the worse was nfte.l
In Mr. Heed's condition early this
morning. At ; 30 o'clock he was given
a subcutaneous s.illne trsnsfwslt n Jn
oi.l.-r t- stimuhvte his klJiKjs. which
were f.iiHng"Wo jwrform their prop.r
functions, j At K oVlotk this nfteniotin
the saline solution was aiMln ndrtilrd
ter?d. about three nurts of tu lluiij
being used. The heal I became we-iker
and weaker,- but the patient rct.iin-.,
const lousness until li 'el.k tonight,'
At the bed si d when he died wire
Mrs. Keed nnl Miss rCathcrliu P.eed,
Doctors Gardner, . McDonald, Bishop
an 1 Good now and th (li'"i. Mr.
Iteed's mind, was In such a st,"l9 dur
ing the day that he did not recogu'Uo
the seriousness of. his contlltlon. II"'
was cheerful and conversed with tho -c.
about Ms bedside. When It tej.ime
apparent that he would n-t survive liH'
illness. Ms wife and d;iKhter wete no
titled nnd they remnlned const n fitly .it
the bedxidc until the distinguished pa-,
tient breathed his last '; '
Wim oniy a rami n'u e oi ivinn m,-i
life, oxygen was adnUnlstered throurh.
out the day. Mr. Heed hud han suf
fering from Bright' s disease for some
time., which rencrfed tho neute stnge
today, and this furnished sdJ!tlonr'
cause for alarm. He. passed away
. ....11.. , I t , i . . ....In V i . .
rangements have been made for Ujo
funeral. ; .
Mr. Iteed came to Washington Mfn
day to attend to sorfie buslne-s,s beffr
the United States Supreme Court, He
wSs taken ill that day and. went to
bed. He had a sllaht ntta!nf appen
dicitis, but-Jater kidney troul.le devcl
0ed: - . , .
f- . -
The Latest BulUtln.
rs, Wnshlnarton. Iec. e. The tdiysiHanS
m attendance uon ex-Fpenker Iteed
at :30 tonight Issue! the following
bulletin: "Mr. Heed's condlthm is not
so favorable; uraemle symitfms aro
becoming truM-e prfnouneei. Almost to
tal suppression of the kidney fune
tions." ,
A DISGRACEFUL AFFAIR s
fist FiniiT in rni:NfH ciiAMnr;i:
o ii:pi:tii:s Ijui;i. u h.i ,
'. FOI.l.ejV.
PARIS. France. lV r. C.--The C!i nn- j
f.pr rr jreiiuues was irir- criir ri .1 vo--
lent .Hltiirb.inee-tHis iiftetfiriti ,1urlilg '
which a jrencrn! m'elee occur re I I". th''
space In front of the Tribune, re'cHi".
Ing the .summoning of ; the Military
Conim.ndint of I'lnfS Bourbaii with a
platoon eif .oh.r l il Infantry. ftHi f'i"!
tly r-J"-ted Iho two disrd rl nieiii
bers wivf' derirneI to retire tt(i"f tba
order for lhelr temporary . xpu!,m
had le--n voted.
The affair ws lb oulcome of le.itcli
If.eixoK wni.-n ri;s ra i ,- i f"-j
h'-lty-f-n th? ejovernment's itippoi ters
Stiil.
tli minority. The iov'ornm mt
Lli'
H'Slred to el'ive Parillnie;it today
Ur
lioltd.iy recess and this was r--
tlt
ck
1 hy the minority in the trr.-iiMt
I thit the Chflmher should rti ilo,,' in
S -sjSto discuss the budget. The fcf 1-
titts wjiis Intensined when the ltvilou
1st peputy Osuthler made S savrg t
tar k of the Government for lis laxly. In
T tosecutiiur the p-irtles connei te I with.
tr Humlert sc'sndl. ...
If called on Minister of jIit.Jlc
Vail, for sn ext.l.-rnatlon of the afTalr
and 'the Mlntsltr male an eiwphatle
reJoJn'Ter. He closed with J'.v "i'r
tlon that Frederick Humbert- had h.- n
a Boulangist IVputy. Deputy Couf.irif,
a Scf lallst. exclaimed that -.'Minister
Yalle's statement wss a lie. -
M. Syveton, s Nntlonallst mmlKf,
a'blressed the . Ministers ' with . -'inKfy
frnprecatlons, end th two sng.'v . et
rnents surged back and forth, exchang"
lng Moas with lenhed fists fr sever
al minutes. .
The President ef the ('hmbr call
ed on M. Syveton hd M. ntant to
pootz4. for their -e-ondui I. Th' re
fused and both were expelled fnl s
rotted eu t hy. the rotlitary. .if. Kyve
ton said Minister Valle wu,. the ck
srensor and he had sent his sej oivU to
Ihe Minister. The seconds of J-f.
Syveton and Valle will mike She fl i .1
srranaem"ftts for meeting th-lr pilnel
pals on Monday,
IlOU) ItOBBEXtS FOILED.
BOISE. Idaho, Dee, A bold hold
up was attempted this evening nt t 'i
meat market snd grocery store of
Hyatt At .VIekery, In th" center at tVr
town." " Two masked men, e;wh c Try
ing two fod'-(J guns, entered the rn':-f
market. bout 9 o clock, snd whil on -
h'l , np fSerge Iy, th other sl-.: l
int';ihe grocery and rovere-i J.,hn Ilv
att. Thomas D. Vickery. who wai'tn
tbe office, sefr.ed a pistol and ty--: . t
fire. At the first shot one ' th- r'-
br f If, : lie quP kly regaine d m r- '
and , withvhis compaoion rn fhrou-.n
the meat market, lth men firing
eut effect st I-y us ihy ITt t'
building.. No arrests. ... .
BrsUe'' ISM :: ' " ' '' " I -