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Show pJM OF 10DD FELLOWS flilj Be Celebrated I text Wednesday, i I it I -opriate Ceremonies in sven Thousand Lodges I I in the World. I -ammo for the Celebration in ' lt Lake Being Arranged by I Special Committee. fiflpmmon with the ll.COO lodccs of the Kfeenl Onlpr ot Odd Fellows throuchout IWrid. tho Sftlt Lake nnd Utah brandies KJRjVrAtcrnlty will rccopnlzc with nppro-a nppro-a FwrcmonloB April 2G. tho dato ot tho tV it ot Odd Fellowship In tho United Jjt fin ISIS. Tho celebration will bo hold j jd if Odd Followa' templo, but tho pro- I 8 le, which Is belne arranged by a spc-M spc-M immlttcs, la not yet rendy tor publlca- 9 I Is Natal Day. JP flato mentioned la tho natal day ot the secret society In tho world, an offshoot JJ (great Encllsh Friendly society with a II iiname. Tho total membership In this If rjf.lncludcs lC00,(KO men, and In Hh II h Iodces. the feminine attachment, lift (W.0CO women, thus reachlnc or aftcct-tA: aftcct-tA: JQ'.CGQ people. Tho proportion In foreign (ot American obcdlenco 13 relatlvoly 38 (but is steadily growlne. 91 ISO la recalled each yenr with especial 3 L It Is worthy of attention by tho SI IJpubllc, who may or may not bo awaro impulses for tho Rood ot humanity. Wtho widow und orphan, tho suffering 1 tltuto brother, set In motion at Dalti- fSgl loarly a century ago. Theso uro now "?"S a mighty organization of a mll-n. mll-n. half, both men and women, who, across tho continent, assemble In t frequent Intervals, hard upon tho churches and schools In tho -work atcrlal as well as a spiritual upllft-lanlclnd, upllft-lanlclnd, e Immigrant Blacksmith. jMjfGeorge "Washington was to tho Amerl-Wfoubllc, Amerl-Wfoubllc, Thomas TVIldcy aa to Amerl-ik Amerl-ik ,d Fellowship, a liuniblo English black-21 black-21 '.who had emlirratcd to America, and 5 rllh four comrades at Baltimore, formed J it Odd Fellows' lodKe In tho now world, M had more thnn a transitory existenco J5f y and John Welch had both been made A ellowa In UiiEland. and conceived the I'jj Ifcstubllshlng tho order hero. To that ey published a call for Ruch brcthron M rht fco tho notice, and John Duncan. J :hcatham and Richard Ilushworth re-sTp re-sTp Lyon April 13, 1610. They were, most jjj, i members of the Urltlsh United Order, its Vsaew ot whlfh any five Odd Fellows 15 Organize nnd constitute a lojml lodge m nione existed, and this they did on n of April In that ynnr. Mps of British Odd Fellowship had ap-Ht'nt ap-Ht'nt "altlraorc in 1S02. nt New York In (fed others after tho "War of 1612; but ithem lived Jonp i sushington Lodge Organized. ilngton lodge No. 1. that formed by f.fanJ his friends, received an 13nglls,h it i,rmi? ,od'J0 ot 11,0 Independent order 4Vf. tnlH was forraally condrmed with W r,'V,0.n,a' Prerogatives of a grand lodge. I? ST. M1',1?'3", tl,e ttnt Kran,l ninstrr. If the Ilrltl.sh Independent order, Manchcs-ilty Manchcs-ilty allegiance, and subordinate lodges lEton No. 1 and Franklin No. 2 were :ly chartered by him. may imaglno the difficulty AVIIdey nnd utenants had In keeping allvo tho flici huslasm over tho newly transplanted Bllowfhlp In thoso early days of difficult , mmunlcation. and during tho period !, when tho entire East was ablazo ho flames of not only anti-masonry but BIsm to all sreret societies. Yet, within ars. they formed grand lodges in Pcnn-ft. Pcnn-ft. 0"'. York, nn'1 Massachusetts nnd 'J. flZ7l grnn(1 l0JK of Fellows of olttd Stntes. at a tlmo when tho total m 'm,?'03 0Ii,y ln nlno subordlnnto U X. Wlldcy, of coume, was mndo grand I: fr1.0 cw PnU111 lodge, and In lSl, when P faknglanrt, lic was Joyfully received J" Follows an tho founder ot tho order iII;:.vy Growth in Membership, mp from COD members ln 1825 to 20) -61. in which year TVIldcy died, vtas 'a lal to not only tho character ot tho of tho institution, but a tribute no tho principles inculcated, which, when d, steadily grow nnd spread. But as was tho gain In membership in prty-two years, tho lost forty-four fer qulto as remarkablo exhibit, with Lion, net, of 1.000,00) to tho brothcr- story ot Odd Fellowship is punctuated ro schisms than that of anv other loty in tho -world, which is saying a mericaji order has not failed to keep , th6 procession, and has itself con- stltutcd a schismatic brrfnch slnro 1812, at which tlmo It dropped Its allegiance to tho British Manchester Unity, the latter tho largest larg-est British Odd Fellows' society. which branched off from tho parent or Grand United British order In 1512. Tho negro Odd Fellows' ln tho United States, strange as it may seem, some 130.000 In number, num-ber, aro a loyal branch of the Grand United (parent) British order, having been Instituted hero through tho effortH of Peter Offdnn. a New York negro of education, a fallor. who had been mndo an Odd Kellow in Liverpool. Where Odd Fellows Came From. Tho English Odd Fellows dato back, so far as recorded, to Loyal Arlstarchus lodgo So. 1. ot 1713, at Southward, a schism, perhaps, from Masonic sources, or possibly ln emulation of that craft. At first it was "pines nnd alo" and later tho "friendly society" beneficiary features. Daniel Do Foe mado rcfcrcnco to Its existence and the poet Montgomery wrote an "odo to Odd Fellowship." Tho soclotv ujav under varying "Odd Fellow" titles until the end of the eighteenth century, when It began to split Into numerous Odd Fellow societies, so-cieties, tho parent, or Grand United Unity, dropping to xecond place In membership compared com-pared with its offspring, tho Manchester Unity of 1812, from which tho Independent Order hero descended. Thin is how tho condensed genealogical treo looks; FAMILY TREK OF ODD FELLOWS. 1710-1755. Several Dntaichc'd Lodges Appeared ln England. Eng-land. Later, Consolidated as Ancient nnd Honorablo Loyal Order ot Odd Follows, which, in 1S00. becamo The Union (and In ISM) Tho United Order of Odd Fellows, and. finally, in 18-13. Grand United Order of Odd Fellows. " Co cn iy V5 5 3 - 2 2-r- 5 S S ? . -'rlrr v 3S! i o- g 3- Egg? 1 ?a ?? 1 Tho twcnty-flvo or moro British orders comprise com-prise today, about 1,200,000 members, three-quarters three-quarters 6f them In the Manchester Unity, whllo tho Independent Ordor hero numbcrn 1, 600,000, and tho Amorlcan negro branch of tho English parent order 160.000 more, nearly threo millions in all. It Is a mnttor of keen j regrot to tlw Amorlcnn Independent Order that tho groat Baltimore ilro of 1901 destroyed the old "Soven Stars" tavern, in which Thomas Wlldcy and his collengues, Wolch. Duncan. Cheatham and Rushworth, formed Washington Washing-ton lodgo "n. 1 on April 24, JS1D. nnd wher that lodgo met for somo years sftor-arfl Tint tavern had long been a landmark. Its picture 1 vemalnsjjand with It. only tho memory. Whllo hundreds of thousands of the world's workers have been wearers ot tho triple link, havo participated ln the. work ot lodire. encampment, en-campment, canton and tho Bcboknh lodge, wher women and men meet as Joint member?, thoro havo been h. goodly number of prominent Americans Identitlcd with the Institution. Some Distinguished Men Named. As notablo nfnonir thorn, on any, porhans, belnc former Presidents Grant, llnycs, Garfield Gar-field and Harrison, former Vice-President Schuyler Colfax, Austin Jones, second vice-president vice-president of tho Republic of Toxas; John Sherman nnd Oliver P. Morton. But none has been greater among Odd Fellows whoso oddity od-dity in mnlnly In theJr consistent organised work in behalf of tho opprcssnd or unfortunate; unfor-tunate; and tho momory of nono will llvo longer anions them than that ot tho British-American British-American blacksmith, Thomas Wlldcy, the founder of tho American order. In whoso honor thousands, even hundreds of thousand?, on Wednesday next, will meet In full acclaim, bohlnd closed doors, |