COLUMBIA LIBRARIES OFFSITE AVERY FINE AR'S RESTRICTED lllllliillllllllllllllill AR01419676 lEx ICibrta SEYMOUR DURST When you leave, please leave this hook Because it has heen said "Ever thing comes t' him who waits Sxcept a loaned book." AVHF ■ J^ELIEF (^OMMITTEE /. O. O. F. Appointed by the R. W. Grand Lodge of Illinois to receive the Benefactions of the Brotherhood, and disburse the same to the Sufferers by the Great Fire, Oct. 8th and 9th, 1871. > CHICAGO : Printed by R. R. Donnelley at the Lakeside Press. TO The Honorable James L. Ridgely, RIGHT WORTHY GRAND CORRESPONDING AND RECORDING SECRETARY OF THE GRAND LODGE OF THE UNITED STATES, I. O. O. F. DISTINGUISHED ALIKE FOR PUBLIC AND PRIVATE VIRTUES, WHOSE EMINENT SERVICES IN THE CAUSE OF HUMANITY, FOR NEARLY HALF A CENTURY, HAVE WON A GENERAL MEED OF PRAISE AND SHED UNFADING LUSTRE ON A FRATERNITY, PEERLESS IN ITS SYSTEMATIC BENEVOLENCE, ^ THIS RECORD OF A DIVINE CHARITY IS RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED BY THE CHICAGO RELIEF COMMITTEE, I. O. O. F. PREFACE. It seemed desirable at one time to publish the matter contained in this report, in connection with other matter of permanent interest to the fraternity, in a memorial volume, and considerable labor was expended in that direction by the Committee, and some most excellent material was kindly prepared by several eminent gentle- men connected with the order. It is proper briefly to state the reasons why such publication was not undertaken. It was obviously impossible to make a final report until tfie funds contributed had been expended. Owing to the generous and prolonged beneficence of the brotherhood, enough was contributed not only to meet the pressing needs of the terrible exigency, but also to relieve cases of special suffering, after the more imme- diate wants of the destitute thousands were supplied. This distribution has but recently ceased. Owing to the lapse of time, the intensity of the interest in the subject has greatly diminished, especially since the kindred calamity which befell Boston. Hence the financial suc- cess of the proposed volume would at this time be problematical. 6 ' Preface. Moreover, the great pressure of private business has rendered it simply impossible for the Committee to under- take an enterprise so laborious. Indeed, impaired health has compelled the Secretary to obtain important assist- ance in the preparation of this Report. It is doubtless desirable that so striking an exemplifica- tion of practical Odd Fellowship should be placed upon the enduring tablet of history, where it may shine with glorious effulgence even when mellowed by the hazy atmosphere of intervening years. But the Grand Lodge of the United States, at its recent session, took the initiative toward the compilation of an exhaustive history of the order, and it seems appropriate that a record of this extraordinary manifestation of the ordinary spirit of Odd Fellowship should find its historic niche in that forth- coming work. In order to meet, however, in part, the general expect- ation, a brief resume of the startling events which called forth this grand exhibition of fraternal love has been given. From the abundant material collected, but here and there a fragment could be used, and much which it was designed to include has necessarily been omitted. It seemed that the multitudinous details of distribution and expenditure, which have been examined, audited and approved by eminent brothers duly authorized thereto by the Right Worthy Grand Lodge of Illinois, and which if given in full would have excluded all other matter, might properly give place to something of more Preface. 7 general interest. Simple justice, however, demanded a detailed statement of contributions, and to render this accurate no pains have been spared. The illustrations contained in the Report were kindly furnished by the publisher, and while they add much to its interest, add nothing to its cost. We desire to acknowledge the valuable assistance ren- dered by Prof. Samuel Willard, P. G. R., P. G. Sec'y, in the preparation of this Report. His accurate and incisive statements of fact, and his vigorous but tem- perate style will no doubt be recognized by those familiar with his writings. FINAL REPORT OF THE Chicago Relief Committee, I. o. o. F. On the eighteenth day of September, 1871, the Right Worthy Grand Lodge of the United States met in the city of Chicago in annual session. Since 1850, when the National Grand Lodge met in Cincinnati, none of its ses- sions had been held in the Northwest, and only those of 1860, at Nashville, and of 1869, at San Francisco, had been'h^ld west of the AUeghanies. To the members of the Order in Illinois, and all the northwestern jurisdic- tions, the occasion was one of great interest, and of enjoyment as well. The Grand Lodge of Illinois assem- bled in special session to receive the supreme organiza- tion, and to welcome it to the great City of the Lakes, and to the Prairie State ; and brothers from Wisconsin, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, Iowa, and even from remoter States, took advantage of the rare occasion to see the Grand Lodge of the United States, and the famous city whose rapid growth and marvelous energy were long since proverbial. The weather was fine ; and in the grand procession of Tuesday, the 19th, five thousand Odd Fellows in holiday regalia, with music and banners, lo Report of the Chicago V moved through some of the principal streets, passing under the Chicago River by the La Salle Street Tunnel, and over the same stream by two of its bridges. The officers of the Grand Lodge and Grand Encampment of Illinois, and of other jurisdictions who were visiting, together with the officers atid members of the Grand Chicago Court House — Before the Fire.. Lodge of the United States, filled a hundred carriages, and added splendor to the line in which the rank and file of the Order bore testimony, by their manly bearing and self-respecting dignity, to the intelligence and power of the wide-spread fraternity. It w^as a day of jubilee. The citizens of Chicago, knowing the representative character of the assemblage, looked on the display Avith pride in their city and in the evidences, on every hand. Relief Committee, I. O. O. F. II of its enterprise, energy and power ; and they gave the visitors a Western welcome, and all the attention that the courtesy of the occasion could suggest. Ruins of the Court House. On Thursday, the 21st, the members of the Grand Lodge of the United States, many of whom had wives and daughters with them, enjoyed an excursion on the little steamer Chicago Belle^ which first took them out into the Lake to " The Crib," the structure covering the lake end of the tunnel which supplies the city with pure and abundant w^ater. Thence the little vessel re-entered the Chicago River, and ascended the ''South Branch" for three or four miles, passing through the heart of the city, and among its vast lumber yards, huge granaries, great warehouses, and other manifestations of the com- mercial greatness and activity of the city of but forty years' growth. To the strangers, and even to many w^ho were somewhat familiar with Chicago, the passage up and down the river gave a succession of w^onders. The Secretary of the Committee of Reception gave a few 12 TR-eport of the Chicago words of explanation or of statistics from time to time, enough to relieve curiosity and to stimulate wonder, which stood with attentive ears and observant eyes. No Jonah was at hand to sa}^, " Yet eighteen days, and this city shall be overthrown I " And had he been there, we Court House Bell in Ruins. should have laughed to scorn the boding prophet of so incredible a calamity. But on the twentieth day from the time of the grand procession, at high noon, there was no living creature, human or brute, in almost all the area of its display ; scarcely an unbroken wall was standing ; the river, so full of commerce, was useless as it had been a century before ; the bridges had fallen in shapeless ruin ; the huge granaries were smoking mounds ; the beauty and wealth of the city had shriveled in the flame, and gone to ashes ; and a third of its busy inhabitants, a hundred thousand souls, were dazed and destitute wan- derers, or fleeing for life from the still-raging fury of the destroyer, while the remaining citizens, powerless to pre- Relief Committee, I. O. O. F. 13 vent or to stay the whirlwind march of the desolation, were equally astounded, terrified, and hopeless as those upon whom the direct stroke had fallen. The incom- municable experiences of those fateful and fearful days may be told of, but can not be told ; but to displa}^ with a tithe of its due praise the grand charity that sprang to the rescue, the historian must strive to relate the ruin and helplessness it came to relieve. THE CITY. Chicago is divided into three parts by the Chicago River and its branches, the sections being called the North, South, and West Sides of the city. The North Side lies between the North Branch of the River and the Lake ; the South Side, between the South Branch of the River and the Lake, the stream formed by the union of the branches separating the North and South Sides ; and the West Side lies west of both branches. This the reader will at once understand from the map of the cen- tral part of the city and of the Burnt District, which is presented on page 15, and which shows an area four miles long from north to south, and three miles wide from east to west. The map does not represent all the streets of the city in that area, nor does it show those which run obliquely, or irregularly, of which there are a few ; but it does show the outline of the region burned over, and the location of some notable points, as well as the courses of the branches of the river and the three divisions of the city. The original settlement was on the South Side ; and there were our Court House, our Post Office, our public halls, also our places of amusement, our great hotels, our 14 Report of the Chicago banks, large printing offices, the immense wholesale and retail houses, the vast railroad stations and depots, the very center, pith, and marrow of what made Chicago the greatest city on the Lakes — the metropolis of the North- west. Into its harbor, formed by the Chicago River and its branches, came the ships and steamers, penetrating for miles, a strange sight to be seen nowhere else ; and the docks and slips with the river banks made a wharfage reckoned by scores of miles. The three sections were united by pivoted . bridges, which swung upon central piers to allow ships to pass ; and from the South Side there passed tunnels, with roadways and footways, one to the West Side and one to the North, making communica- tion independent of the bridges. Of the amount of pass- ing by these bridges one may form an idea from the count made by the police, April 1st, 1871, on which day, between six o'clock, morning, and seven o'clock, evening, 240,000 people crossed the river, and 41,200 vehicles.* Along the river lay vast lumber yards, huge piles of coal, teeming warehouses of grain and meat, and mammoth elevators to transfer grain. Comparatively few dwelt in the heart of the city where traffic had its seat, and the river front was left free for commerce and manufactures. The South Side had, as already said, the great mass of commercial houses, gathered near the main stream of the River ; and south of these, that quarter of the city was principally occupied, toward the Lake, by residences, and toward the South Branch by manufactures and the homes of workingmen and of the poor. Only the southern por- * It will be understood that there were so many crossings of the river each person being counted every time he crossed. The precise total was 236,401, without report from two bridges and the tunnel. The four bridg- es at Madison, Clark, Wells, and Randolph Streets had 136,867 crossings. i6 Report of the Chicago tion of the North Side was given exclusively to business ; the remainder, like the South Side, was occupied in its Lake portion by the residences of the wealthy ; and here were also several fine churches, the Historical Society building, and the Water Works — which should appear on our map on the banks of the Lake where Chicago Avenue comes to the shore ; these supplied the whole city with water drawn from a point in the Lake two and a half miles from shore. The portion of the North Side near the North Branch was like the corresponding part of the South Side. That part of the West Side which was visited by the fire, being near the river, was like the river regions of the other sides, except that here were more lumber yards and planing mills. Chicago, in the fall of 1871, was a city of 334,270 inhabitants, occupying 50,500 buildings, upon an area of 30,000 acres, much of which, however, in the western part of the city, was unimproved. Of the buildings, many were large, beautiful, and costly structures, on streets where only such were seen ; and yet so rapidly had the city grown, that from the great warehouses of Lake and State Streets, from Booksellers' Row — sur- passed in beauty, fulness, and convenience by no book- stores in America, from the churches and trees which were the pride of Wabash Avenue, and from the elegant and substantial dwellings of Michigan Avenue, one might pass in five minutes to old, dilapidated wooden houses, occupied by the poor or the vile — miserable homes for any human being. But the steady demand for room for the best class of buildings was constantly displacing these monuments of the earlier and poorer days of the city. It has been till recently the universal opijaion that the great fire of Chicago was owing almost entirely to the Relief Committee, I. O. O. F. 17 great number of wooden houses ; for Chicago was a wooden city, it must he confessed. The cheapness of lumber had been one of the very causes of the growth of the city, as it enabled workingmen, and men of small means, to build cheap but comfortable homes, with but little delay and cost, as soon as they had even a small accumulation of savings. A long drought had made the wooden houses dry as tinder, so that the fire, when once started, with a high wind, siDread with unprecedented rapidity. Unfor- tunately we have jDroof, in the recent conflagration in Boston (November 9, 10 and 11, 1872), that neither of these conditions of small wooden houses, drought, or high wind is essentially necessary to produce a great fire, which may begin and rage as fearfully among granite warehouses with slated roofs as among the slight structui-es of the city on the prairie, With singular foresight did Bro. Charles Hayden, R. W. Grand Treasuier of the Grand Lodge of Massachusetts, say to the writer of these lines, on the second of August, 1872, that he saw that just such a devastation was possible in Boston ; designating as its field the very part of that city which has suffered. But there is no doubt that the light frame houses of the hastily-built city were in our case the sufficient reasons for the rapid increase of the fire, and quickly produced the intense heat and flying fragments by which it spread. With no experience of the danger, and of its rapid accu- mulation, in ratio greater than that of the mere extent of area so covered, with a reliance upon the activity and efficiency of a trained and well-furnished Fire Depart- ment, with an abundant supply of water from powerful Water Works, it is no wonder that the calamity was un- foreseen. 2 i8 Report of the Chicago THE FIRE. On Saturday evening, October 7th, 1871, a fire broke out in the planing-mill of Bros. Lull and Holmes, on the West Side, near the Van Buren Street Bridge, on Canal Street. There was no great wind, yet the fire spread rapidly, burning nearly the whole of the great lumber yard of Chapin & Foss, and in every direction seizing upon the light wooden buildings on that and the adjacent blocks, until it had burned its way to Adams Street, slightly burning the viaduct to the bridge and a small house north of it. But by aid of all the engines of the city, the fire was subdued ; and on Sunday, curious crowds came to see the area of "the big fire." The Sun- day papers told of twenty acres burned over, and of the loss of three quarters of a million of dollars. A gentle- man said to his sons, as they walked home : " Boys, you saw the largest fire last night you '11 ever see." Of this preliminary fire two things are notable. First, that from the burning lumber yard great coals were borne over the river, and fell upon the South Side, so that if there had been a high wind the great fire would have begun that night. Next, that the Saturday night fire was the saving of the West Side, or at least of a large part of it ; for had it not furnished a limit to the fire of Sunday night, much more of the West Side would have gone ; certainly all east of Jefferson Street ; besides, the fire would have worked back toward the west and the south ; and all of the North Side that escaped would have been burned. On Sunday evening, October 8th, began the great Chi- cago fire. A writer in the Lakeside Monthly says: ''A despicable combination of cow, kerosene, and baled hay, Relief Committee, I. O. O. F. 19 was responsible for it all." To which he should add the force of human stupidity, in the person of a blundering Irishwoman who made the combination, and thus the combustion. About half-past nine o'clock the accident happened in a little cow stable on De Koven Street. The street was a poor, narrow one, occupied almost exclusively Booksellers* Row — Before the Fire. by foreigners — Irish, Germans and Bohemians. In about ten minutes an engine was at hand, but the fire had already' spread to adjoining sheds and buildings, and the firemen soon found it had jumped over them to a planing 20 Report of the Chicago mill. Engine after engine arrived, but the firemen found all efforts vain ; they could not bear to work in front of the fire ; and if they did, it leaped over them, driven by the fiercest tempest of wind of all that memorable au- tumn. When the great wooden church, St. Paul's, thus burst into flames beyond them, at a time when success seemed probable, all hope of stopping the advance of the fire line was gone ; it would stay on reaching the burnt area of the night before, and could be kept from spread- ing to the west. For a while this was all that was at- tempted. The rising and growing light of the fire, and the bright cloud of sparks that mounted higher and spread further, drew great crowds ; some helped the unfortunates that snatched a portion of their little all from the flames, but most stood hinderingly in the way. At about half-past twelve, Monday morning, we must now say, we that worked drew a sigh of relief as we saw that to the west and north the fire had reached its limit. We had not thought of its crossing the River; none had seemed to think of it. But about twenty minutes after twelve a blazing mass of wood, borne fully a quarter of a mile, lighted upon a three-story wooden house near the Gas Works, which were at Adams Street Bridge, on the South Side. Instantly the scene of destruction that had been played on the West Side was repeated here, but with greater fury of the elements. The hot air from the other side and the shower of coals soon set the great Armory building and the miserable little tenements of " Conley's Patch," on Adams Street near the River, into a fierce blaze. In a few minutes the whole of both sides of Adams Street, and the double block on the north side of this street were on fire. Before a messenger could reach the firemen on the West Side, they had seen the new Relief Committee, I. O. O. F. 21 disaster; and, thoroughly discouraged, and ahnost utterly worn out from the Herculean labors of the two nights, some of them crossed the river, to find themselves even more powerless here than the^^ had been on their first field of encounter. From this time the conflagration passed all description and all conception of those who have not seen the like. The restrained statement and the boldest hyperbole must alike fail ; for the former can not gather the particulars, and the latter can not raise the imagination to the reality. The roar of the tongues of flame, the crackling of burning wood, and the crash of falling houses, became like the sounding plunge of Niagara. The wind, which at dusk had been a strong breeze, with fitful gusts of intensit}^, had risen now to a strong gale, which fed the conflagration with limitless supply, and was supplemented by the eddies and currents created by the fire itself; it whirled along the streets with an awful flood of heat and cinders and smoke, and raised some- times blinding, choking clouds of dust ; while high over- head it carried the magnificently terrible cloud of sparks and firebrands, dreadful messengers to tell of the desola- tion they had left behind, a fact of the past, and to prom- ise the destruction that rode forward, resistless as time and merciless as death; — prophets of a doom of which they were also the swift executioners. On the West Side, the fire, on reaching its limit to the north, began to work back along the river, destroying- Van Buren and Polk Street bridges, and more than once crossing the River as at first, and kindling new lines of conflagration. Meanwhile the original column moved on, ^ throwing off to the northward a branch that swept rapidly toward the main stream of the river. The direction of the main column was toward the fine buildings on LaSalle 22 Report of the Chicago Street, the Telegraph Office, the Chamber of Com- merce, the Court House, and the Sherman House. The Sherman was the great hotel opposite the Court House, and north of it, which was the headquarters of the Grand Representatives during the session of the Grand Lodge of the United States ; and at this time it had three hundred guests, all of whom, including five who were sick, were safely removed or hurriedly escaped. So few took note of time that it is hardly possible from the accounts of eye- witnesses to construct a history of the progress of the conflagration ; but from Mrs. Shorey's relation of her experience of that night, we learn that at five minutes before two, her son, standing at the southeast corner of Court House Square, saw no flames on either street ; but at twelve minutes after two, the clock tower was in flames, and the hands fell from sight.* The fire had reached the Court House by one of those prodigious leaps for which it was so remarkable, the buildings to the south of it being still unharmed. The great bell which had sounded the alarm at the outbreak of the fire, and signals since, had begun to toll slow, solemn, regular strokes a few minutes before two, and continued so sounding until the watchman was driven down by the fire. The lower story was used as a temporary prison ; only those charged with serious crimes were conveyed away ; the rest were discharged at once, but rumor had it that a hundred had perished in their cells. Soon the fire passed the main stream of the Chicago *Mrs. Shorey, wife of Daniel L. Shorey, P. G. Representative, gave in Old and New for January, 1872, one of the best personal relations that we have. Standing for a time upon the roof of Portland Block, driven from it by its burning, the excitement only quickened her observation and made vigorous and clear her descriptions. Relief Committee, I. O. O. F. 23 River, and sped on to tlie lake shore in its northeastward line. At every step of its advance men hoped against what we now see was the rule of its progress. It was so unlike all ordinary fires that few could believe that it would do what now seems almost natural for it. By a Ruins of the Post Office. leap of not less than a quarter of a mile over intervening houses, at three o'clock on Monday morning, it set fire to the roof of the Water Works and ruined the mighty engines which gave the city the water which was then its special need. Hope died everywhere when the water failed. Field, Leiter & Co.'s magnificent store and the Tribune Building, McVicker's Theatre, and much of the South Side east of Dearborn street and north of Harrrison, were still defended bravely, though the Post office had yielded ; but without water the contest could not be kept up. The Tribune Building was burned at half past seven in the morning, and the flood of fire pushed on, taking 24 *'Report of the Chicago Bookseller's Row and everything yet spared, down to the mouth of the river, except the First National Bank and one great elevator ; its companion left a pile of scorched and ruined grain fifty feet high, one hundred or more wide, and more than one hundred and fifty long. The fire worked backward on the South Side till near noon, when it was arrested at Harrison street, partly by the use of gunpowder. On the North Side the fire moved as on the South, by successive columns. A line of fire would sweep along leaving houses near it untouched, and the occupants would feel relieved of their apprehensions, but would presently flee as their neighbors had done. So all da}^ the dwellings fell, sometimes slowly, sometimes rapidly, till at night it had reached the northern limit of the city, and was stayed. The Cemetery and Lincoln Park did not escape ; the lofty tower of the Church of the Holy Name sent up a column of flame to the height of two hundred and fifty or three hundred feet ; the New England and Unity churches were somewhat protected by a little park, but did not find it a sufficient defense ; but one wooden dwelling-house near them, Mahlon D. Ogden's, stood unhurt. In this quarter of the city were the greatest losses of fine houses, trees, shrubbery, greenhouses, gardens, libraries, pictures, and the elegances of wealthy homes. , While sketching this immense devastation, we have said nothing of the frail humanity that was but as the grass of the field, that to-day is, and to-morrow is cast into the oven. If the mere physical facts of the fire were utterly indescribable, how much more so are the tragedies of agony and the comedies of folly that were played in all the streets where the terror had its course ! As soon as the fire became unmanageable on the West Side, the con- Relief Committee, I. O. O. F. 25 fusion of the struggle swelled fast and high. Men and women lost all judgment and self-control. They snatched from their burning dwellings alike the most valuable and the most worthless things. Women caught up their canaries and their dogs, and rushed unclothed into the street ; men struggled with stoves and lost their coats. Moving before the fire instead of out of its line, they set down again and again their rapidly-lessening possessions- Families were separated ; children were lost : yet each individual disaster could ask little pity and expect small aid while it was so slight a fraction of the general distress. Wagons, buggies, carts, vehicles of all kinds, drawn by horses or by hand, were filled as near the fire as possible and driven away ; sometimes rushing from various direc- tions at once, they met in narrow or crowded streets and were broken, crushed, overturned, and abandoned to the swift-pursuing flames. For a while policemen vainly strove to maintain a remnant of civic order. As the fire increased in fury and speed, the scene changed^. The dishonest poor and the desperate, and the released prisoners, found it an occasion for license and plunder and robbery. Unable to save their own scanty possessions, and seeing wealth going to destruction in the great marts of the city, they sought to make gain of the losses of others. Men who saw their property in the path of the flames, made frantic efforts to save at least the most valuable things, and often lost life in their ventures, for they could not conceive the rapidity of the oncoming of the destroyer. Houses ignited suddenly all over at once, like a piece of paper held near the fire. In many cases persons entered houses that seemed secure for the few minutes they needed, but were enveloped in flames almost instantly. Perilous leaps for life were made, too often in 26 Report of the Chicago vain. Into abandoned liquor saloons the mad lovers of the fatal draught hastened to revel in their tempting abundance, and sank in fatal delirium on their floors. It can never be known how great was the loss of life in the central part of the city. On the North Side, the region of homes, the frightened people, waked at the hour of soundest natural sleep, were most completely unready for Ruins of Robert Collyer's Church. [Unitarian.] the exigency ; and here the largest number of dead was found. Of course, in so large a city, one-eighth of the great State of Illinois in population, having more inhab- itants than either New Hampshire or Vermont, somewhere the opposite agonies of birth and death were always going Relief Committee, I. O. O. F. 27 on ; and only the greatest efforts could save the sick and the weak, the aged and the infant. From the North Side hundreds found their only avenue of escape to be to the sands of the lake shore, where life was scarcely possible to be saved at last with the hot, stifling air from the burning city pouring over them for a day and a night before they could escape. Some died of the excitement Ruins of Trinity Church. [Episcop.^l.] and exposure, and want of food ; and some were drowned in the lake by venturing too far into its waters. The people of the North Side heard reports that the West Side was burning still, and that it was useless and hopeless to seek safety in that direction ; and that the bridges were 28 *Report of the Chicago burned. By midnight of Monday the fire had ceased to spread, and the people could turn to think of the future, and of the instant necessities. A slight rain fell on the morning of Tuesday, quenching in part the embers and remnants still burning. THE LOSSES. The fire lasted about twenty-seven hours, and burned over an area of nearly seventeen hundred acres, not much less than three square miles. Including the streets, the area was two thousand one hundred and twenty-four acres, more than three and one-fourth square miles. In this area the length of streets was seventy-three miles ; the total length of sidewalk burned was one hundred and twenty-one and three-fourth miles. The buildings destroyed were seventeen thousand four hundred and fifty (17,450), of which thirteen thousand three hundred (13,300) were on the North Side ; three thousand six hundred and fifty (3,650) on the South Side, including sixteen hundred stores ; and five hundred on the West Side. The number of persons rendered homeless was, on the West Side, two thousand two hundred and fifty (2,250) ; on the South Side, over twenty-one thousand (21,800) ; and on the North Side, over seventy-four thou- sand (74,450) ; the total is about ninety-eight thousand. Perhaps the most effective way of realizing these num- bers will be to compare them by the census of 1870 with other cities or even with States. The population of Elizabeth, N. J., Poughkeepsie or Oswego, N. Y., Savan- nah, Ga., or Lancaster, Pa., may represent the 21,800 of the South Side ; the city of Rochester, Providence or Milwaukee had not enough to represent the houseless Relief Committee, I. O. O. F. 29 74,450 of the North side, while Detroit and Albany were not much too populous for the comparison ; and for the entire number of 98,500, the city of Pittsburgh or Cleveland, or the whole State of Oregon would be thousands too small, while Louisville was but little too large. Those who by travel or residence know these larger cities may conceive of them as entirely desolated by a destruction that should throw all their inhabitants in a single day upon the open fields and prairies, for the most part without clothing or food, and under the depression of the occurrence and of their own losses, and they may approximate oar state that Monday evening. In the con- fusion and struggle with the fire, communication between the several parts of the city was interrupted or cut off so that those who escaped out of the fire knew not, for the most part, that there was enough of the city left to afford a temporary refuge. Only about 500 buildings were left on the North Side. Of the losses but few can be specified here. Of grain in the ^iant elevators there was lost over one and a half millions of bushels, and of flour fifteen thousand barrels. Most of the coal piles caught fire, so that 80,000 tons, worth $600,000, of an article most essential to comfort and even to life in our wintry latitude, was destroyed or damaged seriously. A million dollars' worth of lumber had gone to smoke and ashes. Two millions of books had gone as if worthless as chips and shavings, including those in the great bookstores, in the public libraries, the collec- tions of the Historical Society, and of the Academy of Sciences, and the private libraries, that of Mr. E. B. McCagg alone being worth $40,000. The Court House contained all the county and city records, of inestimable value, and of which nothing remained. The Post Office, 3° Report of the Chicago Chamber of Commerce and most of the public buildings of every sort, except school houses and engine houses, were gone ; fifteen school houses were burned, and the necessities of the occasion caused all the rest for a time to be opened for the destitute or for public business. Three great Railway Stations were destroyed ; and the street railways in the burnt district were spoiled. The newspapers were all destroyed — nine dailies. All the great hotels had gone ; the places of amusement, and halls ; and a large number of churches. Eight bridges were burned, including all over the main stream of the Chicago River to connect the North and South Sides, and all for the space of a mile that joined the West Side to the South. For the part of the city that stood unscorched, the greatest loss was of the Water Works, which had fur- nished twenty or twenty-five rhillions of gallons daily, so that no other source of supply was at hand ; and on Mon- day morning there was a water famine that was quite serious for a few days. The total amount of pecuniary or material loss was estimated at once and in the heat of the moment at sums varying from one hundred to five hundred millions of dollars. The Auditor of the State of Illinois made esti- mates based upon the amount of insurance in the city, and upon the tax-valuation of property. From the first of these sources he made the loss to be ^165,000,000 ; from the second, he estimated it at 1153,000,000. A year from the fire the Chicago Tribune adopted the estimate of Mr. Elias Colbert in his Chicago and the Great Conflagration^ deducting some items which time and further knowledge showed to be incorrectly included; and the result, $192,- 000,000, coincides closely with the hasty estimate of the best judges at the time, which was, generally, two hundred Relief Committee, I. O. O..F. 31 millions of dollars. But this was not the whole of the real loss. The interruption of business at a time when everything was lively, the fall trade not being closed, and just before the coming of winter, would have been counted Ruins of the Church of the Holy Name. [Roman Catholic] an immense loss, had it cost not the destruction of a dollar's worth of tangible property or a single life. The losses that cannot be estimated in money were great ; as of scientific collections, works of art, rarities, unique articles, the stores of the Historical Society, and the city and county records. The value of a library to a man who is using it daily in his professional or literary work, is vastly greater than its value under the auctioneer's 32 Report of the Chicago hammer or on the schedules of insurance and taxes. It is estimated that forty thousand people left the city at once ; about five thousand were taken gratuitously by the rail- road companies. The immediate loss of life was probably over two hundred, but less than three hundred ; but how many lives were shortened by ^he labors, exposures and anxieties of the time none can guess ; even yet people are failing from activity and from life itself because of them. The great fire in Chicago burnt its way into the pages of history as an event passing local and temporary im- portance, and its traces will never be expunged. It surpassed similar calamities which the world had expe- rienced. With it may be compared the fire at Rome in Nero's time; the burning of Moscow in 1812 to oust Napoleon : and more like it, the great fire of London in 1666. But taking into vie\A^ the speed of the fire, the area burnt over, the value destroyed, the suddenness of the calamity, and the stage of civilization of the people, furnished with means the best that American ingenuity could devise to encounter and vanquish this particular foe, it must be considered the most notable fire the world has ever known. It startled thoughtful minds everywhere by suggesting new possibilities of destruction. It demon- strated the fallacy of approved theories of insurance and fire-police, and caused grave apprehensions among capitalists. Followed so soon by the Boston fire, it has shown the insecurity of all great cities, and the peril of all ordinary buildings. The utter annihilation of so great an amount of productive capital in a single day inevitably disturbed the fancied safety of dwellers in "marble fronts ; " and the owners of imaginary "fire-proof blocks " and " incombustible safes " lost their faith in architectural skill and ingenious devices. Relief Committee, I. (). C). F. 33 Yet, though the skill and power of scores of writers have been vainly tasked to tell the tale of the destruction, and to depict the grandeur of the action of the physical forces whose fateful drama was enacted so fearfully, far grander and Avorthier of the best words of the poet and the historian was the scene of the next month throughout the civilized world, the great moral uprising of all hearts to pity and the outstretching of all hands to help. The simple recital of a few facts by the telegraph all over the continent and under the ocean to the fatherlands of all Americans, moved such an outpouring of sympathy and practical charity and liberal benefaction as must always stir the hearts of all who witnessed or shared in the giv- ing or the receiving. It is a high- water mark of a spring- tide of the noble impulses of humanity, and a proof of the advance of the race through centuries of enlighten- ment toward the golden age. It is reported that Henry Ward Beecher said in a hyperbole of optimism : We could not do without the Chicago fire." Standing in front of the SBjoking ruins of his beautiful church, on the Sun- day after the fire, Robert Collyer, speaking out of his over-full heart to the remnant of his people that could gather to hear him, said that the time might come Avhen they should see that it was compensation for all this bitter experience to know the wealth of the human heart, and its possibilities in generosity and sympathy. Time soon dulls the smart of disaster; but the noble heart pays the tribute of increasing honor to every generous deed. The waves of disaster and distress had rushed on as a flood ; the enthusiasm of humanity" rose in ample tide to meet them. Writing only to give a brief account of the Great Fire and attendant facts as an introduction to the Report of 3 34 Report of the Chicago the special relief by one organization, it is not our priv- ilege to dwell upon the general relief, nor to tell how all people everywhere sought to relieve and cheer the unfor- tunates of Chicago. No exhortation was needed: the story pleaded most eloquently. Men, women and children vied with each other in efforts to send help, and to do it Chamber of Commerce — Before the Fire. promptly. Special trains ran from St. Louis, Cincinnati and Louisville with food and clothing and stores of neces- saries. The surrounding towns and villages of Illinois, Wisconsin, Michigan and Indiana and even of remoter States, sent cooked provisions until they were no longer needed. The general business of relief was almost immediately transferred to the Chicago Relief and Aid Societ}^, an Relief Committee, I. O. O. F. 35 organization already existing for some years, which had experience in relieving the needs of ordinary times; it was fittest to extend its organization and plans to meet the new emergency. It was composed of citizens of the highest standing in the confidence of their fellows, and performed its difficult work with only those defects which Ruins ok thi-: Chamber of Commercf. were and always are unavoidable in the nature of the case. The total amount sent as relief to Chicago at that time is estimated at seven millions of dollars ($7,000,000), of which the Relief and Aid Society received all but about one million, which is the estimated amount of what was given out by donors in person or by their own agents, and by ^various organizations. The people of Cincinnati sent a 36 Report of the Chicago committee of their own to disburse and expend their $111,413 of private contributions. St. Loais did in like manner. From Louisville, $171,000 was distributed out- side the work of the Relief and Aid Society. Of organizations for relief, the I. O. O. F. was first on its feet and at work, having a store-room open and issue of articles going on in the afternoon of Wednesday, about fifty hours after the fire ceased to spread on the South Side. Beside the religious organizations, all of which stirred at once to the activity proper for their high pro- fession, of which the Young Men's Christian Association, the Ladies' Christian Union and the Chicago Christian Union are instances, the fraternal orders and benevolent societies all took up the work speedily. The Masonic Order received and disbursed 190,000 ; the Knights Tem- plars, about $21,000 ; the Knights of Pythias received about 111,000. Of other associations we should record the American Protestant Association, the Sons of Tem- perance, the B'nai B'rith, the French societies (which distributed contributions from France of large amount), the German Aid Society* and German Society, the United Hebrew Relief Association, the St. Andrew's Society, the St. George's Society, the Dominion Benevolent Society, and the Scandinavian Relief Society. The Good Samari- tan Society was a ladies' society of no slight value. There were also what we may call class contributions ; thus the police of various cities contributed for Chicago policemen over $10,000 ; about $11,000 came from firemen for fire- *It was estimated by this Society that 50,000 Germans were made home- less. This may seem disproportioned to the population of the city and the total number of homeless ; but the North Side, where the greatest desolation occurred, was specially the region where Germans and Scandinavians had made their homes. Relief Committee, I.O. O. F. men ; there was a physicians' fund, a newspaper fund of $5,000 from Robert Bonner, a Rhode Island fund, a jewel- ers', a druggists', a photographers', and a shoemakers' fund. An artists' fund of 840,000 was created by the sale of pictures given by French and German artists, sold in New York. Many inhabitants of Chicago obtained from their friends abroad, considerable quantities of articles for distribution "Chicago Tribune" Building — Before the Fire. and of money, which could be more wisely bestowed than the general relief ; for while the latter was given in pro- portion to needs only, the private and society relief could be given to those who were able to do considerable for themselves, but who were generally not helped from the general relief. Many who could earn something still 38 Report of the Chicago needed help more than the helpless, shiftless, inefficient pauper class who were really better off than usual. This better class got help only from the society, class and private contributions. But greatest of all the help was the self-help of the brave and patient men and women who asked and received as little as possible, and helped themselves as quickly and as much as possible. All the pride, energy and ingenuity of the people was called into instant and constant activity^ and wrought wonders. The Great Recovery is as notable as the Great Destruction. It is not ours to write of it; but when the Chicago Relief is named and told over, let it not be forgotten that it was not bestowed on a mob of pauperized and broken down people, made by disaster spiritless, impotent and contemptible ; but upon hopeful, active, self-helping men and \Vomen. LOSSES OF THE I. O. O. F. At the time of the fire there were twenty Lodges of the I. O. O. F. in Chicago, twelve of which worked in the German language. The total membership was, on the first of July, 2,019, showing an average membership of one hundred and one ; one of the Lodges, Union, No. 9, the oldest of all, had two hundred and eighteen members. There were six Encampments, with membership of three hundred and seventy-seven ; four of these bodies worked in German. There were also several Rebekah Degree Lodges. The following Lodges and Encampments were burned out : Union Lodge, No. 9, - - - 218 members. Duane Lodge, No. 11, - - - 180 Excelsior Lodge, No. 22, - - 140 Relief Committee, I O. O. F. 39 Chicago Lodge, No. 55, - - - 74 membars. Robert Blum Lodge, (G.), No. 58, - 176 North Chicago Lodge, (G.), No. 330, 70 Garden City Lodge, (G.), No. 389, - 105 Home Lodge, No. 416, - - - 78 " Lincoln Park Lodge, (G.), No. 437, 25 Chicago Encampment, No. 10, - 87 Germania Enc't, (G.), No. 40, - 117 Evergreen Rebekah Degree Lodge, No. 24. The membership of these Lodges was 994, or just about one-half the total membership in the city. Nothing was saved from the ruin except a part of the record and work- ing books of Excelsior, No. 22. Some of these bodies had fine regalia and elegant halls ; the hall of the Excel- sior was particularly notable for its fitting up, and was situated on the corner of Court House Square, thus in the most central position. Chicago Encampment used the same hall. It was estimated immediately that about one-half of the membergf of the Order in the city were burned out of house and home ; and of those who were fortunate enough to find their roofs unscorched, the large majority found their business interrupted or crippled, or swept away. Take for illustration the condition of Past Grand officers of the Grand Lodge and Grand Encampment of Illinois living in Chicago. J. Ward ElHs, P. G. M., P. G. R., escaped from rooms in the burnt district, losing everything but what he had on him and in his hands ; his dentist's office, stock and tools were lost ; he had an interest in the contract for printing of the Journal of the G. L. U. S., the means for doing which were swept away; the type was alread}^ set for the whole work, and was being published by The Lakeside Publishing and 40 Report of the Chicago Printing Company, whose new building, erected on the former site, surpasses the old one in elegance and con- venience, and the interior arrangements, completed under the personal supervision of R. R. Donnelley, will render this by far the finest Publishing and Printing House in Chicago or the west, a nucleus of a western Harpers'. Hon. John G. Rogers, P. G. M. and P. G. R., Judge of the Circuit Court, lost his law library and everything else in his office, including his valuable papers in his safe ; his home and his principal property interests were out of the fire. John P. Foss, P. G. R., lost part of his lumber yard in Saturday night's fire, and the rest the next night, losing at once his productive capital and his business. Albert G. Lull, P. G. R., lost his planing mill and stock in the first fire. Daniel L. Shorey, P. G. R., lost a large part of his law library, but was foi'tunate in having gone with his carriage to see the fire before his own office was endangered, and thus saved much. Nicholas P. Iglehart, P. G. P., P. G. R., lost his real-estate office with its con- tents, and suifered in the loss of houses. The same is true of Allen C. Lewis, P. G. P., P. G. R., who was away from the city at the time. Charles Perkins, P. G. P., P.G. R., lost no capital, but was tlirown out of business. Richard H. Jordan, P. D. G. M., lost his insurance office and l)us- iness. Wm. W. Winter, P. D. G. M., lost his doctor's office, instruments and library. Samuel Willard, P. G. R., lost nothing except by the interruption of his business for a while as teacher in the High School. Edward A. Rucker, P. G. R., a lawyer by profession, lived in a block of buildings near the Post Office, and was then a hopeless invalid, almost dying, it seemed, of cancer. So long as he had been able to work, he had been engaged upon a Digest of the Laws of the Order for Illinois. From this Relief Committee, I. O. O. F. 41 whirlpool of fire he was rescued by the exertions of his sister and niece and of a humane expressman who refused to accept any compensation ; but all he had except his Chicago Water Works. Odd Fellow's Library, remembered even in the last moment, was consumed. This paragraph has named every Past Grand Master, 42 Report of the Chicago Past Grand Patriarch, Past D. G. Master and Past Grand Representative of Illinois resident, in Chicago and in membership at the time. If their fortunes may be taken as a sample of what befel others, few of the two thousand members escaped unharmed. It is shown above that the losses fell heavily upon the citizens of German origin; and of the membership in the city, 1,128 out of the 2,019 were members of the German Lodges; and Germans made a considerable share of the other Lodges. The Order is made up, too, to a great degree of workingmen ; or of those who, in a comfortable grade of life, are yet dependent upon their daily business for mraintenance or even for subsistence. But such were also the very men to meet disaster, loss and privation, with courage, hope, cheerful- ness and power of self-recovery. THE APPEAL AND THE RESPONSE. The first appeal to the Order for help w^as made on the morning of Tuesday, Oct. 10th, by E. B. Sherman, P. G. On Monday evening he got out of the city to Elgin, the first large town west of Chicago, and sent the following telegram, which went on Tuesday morning : Elgin, III., Oct. loth, 1870. James L. Ridgely, Grand Sec'y G. L. U. S., I. O. O. F., Philadelphia Pa. : Chicago IS wiped out. One thousand Odd Fellows and their wives and little ones are homeless and penniless. We must have immediate relief. For God's sake appeal to the Order. Nothing left for us but woes and deso- lation, unless God inspires his children to send relief. Have not seen Ellis ; but hope he is all right. Hundreds, at least, have perished ; I hope none of us whom you know ; but God only knows. ^ jg SHERMAN By a singular but fortunate mistake, this was, as shown above, misdirected to Philadelphia, instead of being sent RelU'.k Cummi'i i Ki,, 1. (). O. V 43 to Baltimore ; it thus was sent by the office at Phila- delphia to the Grand Secretary of that jurisdiction, James B. Nicholson, P. G. Sire, who sent a copy of it on to Bro. Ridgely, Grand Secretary. The appeal thus reached the great jurisdiction of Pennsylvania at the same time that it went to the Grand Lodge of the United States. At the same time a similar dispatch went westward to a Grand Representative of California, the members of which jurisdiction had shown their liberality in the matter of the extension of the Order into Europe, and would much more meet with generosity this cry of suffering and need. To John B. Harmon, San Francisco : One thousand Odd Fellows and their wives and children are homeless. For God's sake appeal to the brothers to help us. Nothing left us but deso- lation, woe and want. Chicago is wiped out. Imagination cannot conceive one-half the truth. ^ ^ SHERMAN. By these two telegrams the fraternity on the Atlantic and the t*acific were told our needs, and began their efforts for relief. Everywhere at once, and with the utmost activity, the eager work went on. Where Grand Lodges were in Session, or were easily summoned, they acted with promptness ; in the other cases the Grand Masters and other Grand Officers exercised their discre- tionary powers with no delay. So far as their circulars and journals have reached us, we shall sketch their action, referring for the detail of contributions to the tables in the Appendix. Illinois. — The regular annual session of the Grand Lodge was to begin at Ottawa, eighty-four miles distant. Few of the Representatives of the twenty Lodges of 44 Report of the Chicago Chicago were there to tell the story of their calamity, but their absence was more conspicuous than their presence could have been. The aged Grand Chaplain, Rev. Bro. Edwards, in the fulfillment of his function, with trembling voice uttered the pitying wishes of all hearts for the pros- trate city. A special committee on the Chicago calamity was soon appointed, consisting of D. W. Jacoby, P. G. P., George W.Woodward, P. G. M., and Louis Furst, G. R. The members arriving from Chicago were J. Ward Ellis, P. G. M., G. R. ; John H. Young, of Excelsior, No. 22 ; E. B. Sherman, of Fort Dearborn, No. 214; A. T. Sherman, of Rainbow, No. 400, and Wm. W. Winter, P. D. G. M. of Ellis, No. 447. These did not arrive till afternoon, and as soon as Bro. A. T. Sherman entered the hall, he was called upon to give an account of the conflagratioii, which was received with tearful eyes and breathless attention. A contemplated public procession was given up. Telegrams from various points came in, of which the following appear upon the Journal of the Grand Lodge of Illinois. The first came in just after noon on Tuesday : Cincinnati, Ohio, Oct. lo, 1871. To Thos B. Needles, M. W. Grand Master, I, O. O. F. : The meeting of our Order here has just been held, and the various Lodges and Encampments in this city have been immediately called together, to aid the suffering in Chicago in their great distress. Ira H. Bird, Grand Master I. O. O. F. of Ohio. Rochester, N. Y., Oct. 9, 1871. To N. C. Nason, G. Sec. : Teoronto Lodge, No. 8, LO.O. F., has placed two hundred and fifty dollars to the credit of the Grand Master of Illinois, for the benefit of the suffering Odd Fellows. Send his name and address immediately to Frank Skinner, P. S. Relief Committee, I. O. O. F. 45 New York, Oct. ii, 1871. To Dr. J. O. Harris. We telegraphed Grand Master Needles yesterday Ottawa. No response yet. W. H. Barnes. Philadelphia, Oct. 11, 1871. To N. C. Nason, G. Sec. I. O. O. F. Special meeting of Grand Lodge of Pennsylvania this evening. How had relief for Chicago best be sent? Answer, with all the information about the Order that vou have. Jas. B. Nicholson. Nashua, N. H., Oct. 11, 1871. To THE Grand Lodge of Illinois. Extend to the brothers in Chicago our sympathy in their deep distress. Draw on our Grand Secretary, Joel Taylor', at Manchester, for four hundred dollars for the aid of brothers who have suffered by the late fire. O. P. Smart, Grand Master. Joel Taylor, Grand Secretary. Havana, III., Oct. 11, 1871. To N. C. Nason, G. Sec. 1.0. O.F. Mason Lodge, No. 143, wishes to aid Chicago. Can she do it? Is our case disposed of? j^^^ ^^^^^ # Terre Haute, Ind., Oct. 12, 1871. To T. B. Needles, Grand Master, The Odd Fellows of this city will donate five hundred dollars in money and other supplies for relief of our biothers in Chicago. Advise us how best to dispose of these means. j ^^^^^ Committee. Greenville, III., Oct. 10, 1871. To Hon. J. F. Alexander. Subscribe fifty dollars for the relief of Odd Fellows in Chicago, Draw on the First National Bank of Greenville, J. T. FouKE, Secretary. Decatur, III., Oct. 11, 1871. To J. W, Bear and Jos, Mills, Decatur and Celestial Lodges each vote tv. o hundred dollars, subject to order of Grand Lodge, for relief of Chicago brothers. Resolutions by mail, H. H. & N. Edwards. 46 *^ Report of the Chicago To R. E. Heacock. Henry.. III., Oct. ii, 1871. Anything done for Chicago brethren ? Marshall Lodge, No. 63, is ready to help. Answer quick. j ^^^^^^ Secretary. Many other telegrams were received, at various times during the session, but the manuscripts did not remain in possession of the Grand Secretary ; on Wednesday and Thursday they came in very frequently ; and for immedi- ate information, on Thursday morning. Grand Treasurer A. S. Barry, P.G. M., presented the following, which was ordered to be sent as an Associated Press dispatch : Ottawa, III., Oct. 12, 1871. The Grand Lodge of Illinois, I. O. O. F., in Grand Lodge assembled, returns its most cordial thanks to the brotherhood of the Order throughout the United States and the British Provinces, for their expressions of sympathy and liberal tenders of material aid to our brothers of Chicago in their great calamity. Send all aid to J. Ward Ellis, Chairman Odd Fellows' Relief Com., Chicago, 111. Wednesday morning the special committee presented a report, which was at once incorporated into the following circular, and sent out that night by mail : HALL OF THE GRAND LODGE OF ILLINOIS, Ottawa, III., Oct. 11, 1871. To the Office?'s and Brothers of the several Lodges of Illinois, Greeting : A committee, consisting of D. \V. Jacoby, M. W. G. P., G. W. Woodward, P. G. M., and Louis Furst, G. R., having been appointed to consider and recommend to the Grand Lodge what action should be taken to relieve the distress of brothers and their families in Chicago, submitted the following report, which was adopted unanimously by a rising vote, and with great enthusiasm : To the R. W. Grand Lodge of the State of Illinois : Your committee, to whom was referred the matter of the terrible and devastating calamity by which the city of Chicago has been almost annihil- ated, and, thereby, a large portion of our brothers in that city have been Relief Committee, I. O. O. F. 47 reduced to utter penury, and with their wives and children are homeless — a heart-rending calamity, perhaps unparalleled in magnitude in history — would respectfully beg leave to recommend the adoption of the following preamble and resolutions : Whereas, Our Order is an organization " for the relief of the distressed," and now, if ever, is the time to make that claim good, and a terrible crisis demands extraordinary measures ; and Whereas, There are at least one thousand Odd Fellows and their families in Chicago in absolute destitution, and nine-tenths of the remainder are without resources and employment, and unable to assist their Brothers or support their own families during the coming winter ; therefore. Resolved, That this Grand Lodge appropriate the sum of two thousand dollars, to relieve, in part, the immediate necessities of our suffering Brothers. Resolved, That the Grand Secretary be instructed to send immediately to each Lodge in this jurisdiction a circular requesting a contribution in money, food, or clothing, to the extent of its ability, and to the amount of at least one dollar per member, and that each member and representative of this Grand Body be appointed a special committee to carry this resolution into effect in the full spirit of Odd Fellowship, Resolved, That J. Ward Ellis, P. G. M., G. R. ; Hon. John J. Rogers, P. G. M., P. G. R., and E. B. Sherman. P. G., all of Chicago, be appointed a Committee by this Grand Lodge to confer with the M. W. Grand Sire and R. W. Grand Secretar}- of the G. L. U. S., and the Grand Officers of other jurisdictions throughout the United Slates and the British Provinces, to solicit aid from the entire membership of the Order. Resolved, That the same committee be authorized and empowered by this Grand Lod|j(2 to receive and dispense all contributions which may be received as they may deem advisable, with power to add to their number for that G. \V. Woodward, Louis Furst, Committee. Brothers, nothing need be added to these resolutions. The Odd Fellows of Illinois will respond as becomes the members of our glorious Order. The committee are tried and true men, and they will do all within human power in the premises. Please report at once to the committee what you can contribute in money, provisions, or clothing, and hold the same subject to the order of the com- mittee. Let us resolve that no Odd Fellow shall suffer for food, fuel, or clothing, during the coming winter, while the Odd Fellows have a loaf of bread or a dollar to divide. Address J. Ward Ellis, or E. B. Sherman, No. 214 Sangamon Street, until further notice. T. B. Needles, >L W. G. M. N. C. Nason, R. W. G. Secretar}-. 48 Report of the Chicago Many of the Representatives went to Chicago from the Grand Lodge, and went home stirred to greater efforts by what their own eyes had seen. The new Grand Master, Gen. John C. Smith, who had been in the city at the time of the fire, and Grand Treasurer Barry, came up and aided with personal advice and encouragement. In Chicago, meanwhile, on Wednesday morning, Oct. 11th, the first meeting of the Odd Fellows of the city was assembled at the most central point, the hall of Ft. Dear- born Lodge, No. 214. Confident of early aid, and in any event sure of the need of organization for mutual assist- ance, they prepared for both by appointing a general relief committee of one member from each Lodge in the city, to act independently or co-operate with those who might be appointed to the Grand Lodge of Illinois. Bro. Wm. H. Crocker, P. G., was Chairman of the committee. Judge Rogers, presiding, introduced to the meeting, when they came in soon after the organization, Bros. Victor Burnham and S. H. Pye, of Cincinnati, the bearers of the first relief arriving for the 1. O. O. F. They were received with tears of joy and gratitude, a deep emotion pervading the assembly as they became aware of the prompt and ener- getic generosity of the brothers of Cincinnati. While the fire was yet burning on Monday afternoon, an extemporaneous mass meeting of the Order had been held at 4 P. M., in Cincinnati, over which Bro. Ira H. Bird, Grand Master, presided; and without waiting for action of Lodges, the sum of $1,250 was raised on the spot: "a purchasing committee was appointed, consisting of Bros. J. W. Foote, C. J. W. Smith, and Thos. McLean, who, with the help of Bros. Harry Rose, A. Pittinger, Benj. Stanley, and John E. Bell, bought and loaded into a car 4,228 lbs. crackers, 3,961 lbs. cheese, 1,470 lbs. bologna Relief Committee, I. O. O. F. 49 sausage, 260 lbs. breakfast bacon, 64 lbs. sugar-cured hams, 90 lbs. ground coffee, 419 lbs. butter, 2 boxes bread, and a lot of miscellaneous goods ; and at 10 o'clock that same Monday evening this car load was on its way to the deso- late city." It arrived at Chicago Tuesday evening, 5:30. Bros. Pye and Burnham soon found Bro. Rogers, who called in the aid of brothers near by and arranged for immediate use of a portion of their load, which was sent to the burnt district at seven o'clock next morning ; by eleven A. M. of Wednesday, the remainder was stored in a basement near Ft. Dearborn Hall, and in the afternoon of that day, under the care of the committee just organ- ized, the distribution was going on. Before sunset over one hundred families had already had food and clothing from that depot. We should not forget to say that at this first meeting appeared Thos. Underwood, P. G. M., P. G. R., of Indiana, with cheery face, encouraging words, and promises of help from our nearest eastern neighbor, which were dulj^ fulfilled. Upon the return of Bros. Ellis and E. B. Sherman from the Grand Lodge, the Relief Committee organized by making J. Ward Ellis, Chairman, John G. Rogers, Treasurer, and E. B. Sherman, Secretary. For a while their headquarters were in the parlor of Ft. Dearborn Lodge, and their storehouse was the basement first obtained on Madison street, near Halsted ; but in a short time the large, unfinished audience-room of the Fifth Baptist Church, at the corner of Harrison and Sangamon ^streets, was obtained ; an office was enclosed on one side ; counters and shelves and all the necessary conveniences of a storehouse were set up, and preparations were made 4 5© Report of the Chicago for systematic reception and distribution of supplies throughout the fast-coming winter. Leaving, for the present, the operations of the com- mittee and their work, we return to the subject of the help that came in from many sources. Ohio. — How quickly and effectively the Odd Fellows of Cincinnati acted is told above ; and it will never be forgotten that their assistance was the first that reached our city.- Their hasty organization was enlarged and made permanent, with Bro. John E. Bell as Chairman ; and through the winter they aided us with money and supplies carefully selected and economically purchased — many dealers sold them their goods for this use at first cost. The Grand Master, Bro. Ira H. Bird, and the Grand Patriarch, Bro. C. H. Russell, issued proclamations to their respective branches of the Order, appealing for aid in liberal measure, and in early time, which Avere responded •to with hearty good will; indeed the contributions from Ohio flowed in in advance of these calls, the fact of our destitution being sufficient appeal. Pennsylvania. — We said above that by a singular but fortunate mistake the telegram of Bro. E. B. Sherman was misdirected, and reached Bro. Nicholson, Grand Secretary of Pennsylvania, on its Avay to Baltimore. A session of the Grand Lodge was held on the evening of the 11th, and its plan of operations was determined upon. On the 12th, Bro. Alfred Slack, Grand Master, issued a circular setting forth briefly but pointedly the facts, and embodying the telegram and the resolutions of the Grand Lodge. On the same day the Grand Scribe of the Grand Encampment, Bro. Nicholson, issued a circular to the Encampments, which so well represents the straight- forward, direct and business-like style in which that juris- Relief Committee, I. O. O. F. 51 diction carried on its work of relief, that we copy it, omitting the formal heading. To the Subordinate Encampments and Patriarchs throughout this Juris- dictioji — Sirs and Patriarchs: The recent terrible calamity at Chicago wherein numbers of our brethren are sufferers, and that has made them, their wives, and children homeless, penniless, and destitute of the common- est necessaries of existence, appeals so strongly to our humanity that word^ are useless. Duty prompts to immediate action. You are requested to send your contributions to this office, in order that they may be placed in the hands of a committee of our brethren in Chicago for distribution to the needy. Fraternally Yours, James B. Nicholson, Grand Scribe. The Grand Treasurer, M. Richards Muckle, being ap- pointed to receive and forward contributions, sent on the 12th of October his first instalment, $1,325, one thousand of which was given by the Grand Lodge ; and the re- mainder was the first contribution from Philadelphia. How nobly the brothers of that great jurisdiction main- tained, by their beneficence, their reputation as open- hearted, open-handed Odd Fellows, our list of their contributions partly shows. At the same time, when the collections were made for Chicago, the same Lodges were contributing for the other sufferers of the Xorthwest. When their gifts had amounted to about $24,000 for Chicago, and 812,500 for the Northwest, and $2,600 more was in hand for sending, the word came back that no more was wanted ; and the surplus 82,600, with 81,500 more, was promptly turned over to the fire-stricken town of Somerset, Pa. And this 810,000 was given in addition to the regular beneficial and charitable work of the fraternity in six months' time. The brothers in Philadelphia, as suggested at the outset by Bro. J. W. Stokes, P. G. M., held themselves ready to take the labor of purchasing necessaries with the money. 52 Report of the Chicago Massachusetts. — Among the earliest and most effec- tive of our helpers stand the noble brothers of old Massachusetts. At the meeting of Massachusetts Lodge, No. 1, Monday evening, October 9th, the organization of a relief committee was begun, which went to work ; but it was not completed until Friday, the 13th, when the Lodges of Boston had all met. Bro. Wm. E. Ford, P. G. M., was Chairman ; Bro. W. H. Elliott, Secretary, and Bro. Chas. Hayden, Grand Treasurer of Mass., Treasurer. At the first meeting nearly $4,000 was sub- scribed in- the first hour ; and the amount from the State rose to 110,000. Only about two-thirds of the contribu- tions from that jurisdiction were sent through thq Boston Committee. In their report the committee say : A committee, consisting of Nathaniel Adams, P. G. M,, Charles Hayden, Grand Treasurer, and W. E. Ford, P. G. M., were chosen to proceed to Chicago, and confer with such members of our Order as they should deem proper, in relation to the best method of expending the funds contributed. No instructions were given the committee, but it was gently intimated to them that they would be expected to defray their own expenses out and back, a condition they have kept unbroken, as may be seen by an examination of the Treasurer's accounts. A telegram was sent the next morning after the meeting, to the Odd Fellow's Relief Committee of Chicago, authorizing them to draw upon Charles Hayden to the amount of $4,000, and also informing them that a committee from the Odd Fellows of Massachusetts would meet them the next Wednesday. At that time the committee arrived in Chicago, and immediately went to work to ascertain what was the best possible way of rendering assistance to the unfortunate. These visitors saw that it was best to use their money for the most part in purchasing needed supplies and for- warding them ; and they spent about 14,000 in that way, greatly to our advantage, especially in boots and shoes and clothing. The rest of their liberal contribution came in money. Relief Committee, I. O. O. F. 53 Missouri. — In this neighboring jurisdiction the Grand Master issued a circuhar at once to the Lodges, which responded with notable liberality, sending contributions from time to time until the need of them ceased. Sixty Lodges and two Encampir^^nts shared in this noble work. Indiana. — The brothers of this jurisdiction were as near to us in spirit and sympathy as they are in location. Both branches of the Order sprang to the work and won the honors of liberal souls. The Grand Lodge appro- priated $250 and appealed to the subordinates. Nearly all the remittances from this jurisdiction came directly to the committee, and nothing can be added to the eloquence of the figures contained in the appendix. Delaware. — One can hardly venture to speak of " little Delaware " when he sees the contribution from that great hearted jurisdiction, which came on in Novem- ber. The Grand Lodge in session on Oct. 12th appropri- ated $500 from its own funds, and passed resolutions calling on the subordinates to do likewise. Within a short tii3|e $700 more were contributed by them. Kentucky. — Two weeks after the disaster the Grand Lodge of Kentucky was in session. An eloquent report from a special committee, one member of which was the present D. G. Sire, M. J. Durham, set the case before the Lodges, with an appeal for early action ; and the repre- sentatives present were charged with the duty of present- ing the matter at home. The Grand Lodge itself rippropriated $1,000, and appointed a committee of seven brothers in Louisville to receive and forward contribu- tions, one of whom was Bro. Wm. White, the honored Grand Secretary for many years. This committee issued circulars, and expended the receipts largely in appro^^riate purchases of food and raiment. Debtors on all sides, we 54 Report of the Chicago find ourselves much indebted for the brotherly kindness of Kentucky. Minnesota. — This young but vigorous jurisdiction of the North was called upon by proclamation of its Grand Master, Bro. H. C. Fuhrmann, dated Oct. 11th, a prompt response to the call of humanity, which began to be answered even before it was issued, Lake City Lodge leading off with 1125 on the 12th, others following quickly. The remittances were mostly made through Sherwood Hough, G. S. New Jersey. — The Grand Lodge of this State did not meet till the middle of November, long before which time the subordinates had acted on the promptings of their own generous hearts. The Grand Lodge could only recommend that all should share in their liberality. Kansas. — This jurisdiction, so lately a wilderness and the seat of civil war, now rapidly rising in culture, is honored in Odd Fellowship. At its session on the fire- week, the Grand Lodge of Kansas appropriated $500, and the Lodges responded liberally to the appeal. Iowa. — Another neighbor of the Good Samaritan type, held the annual session of the Grand Lodge in the week after the fire. The Grand Master, Bro. John Gun- daker, presented the calamity in his report, with a recom- mendation upon which the Grand Lodge acted, with an appropriation of $500. A circular was issued to the sub- ordinates, and the representatives were requested to urge the pressing need upon the Lodges. The generosity of Iowa plainly needed no urging. Arkansas. — From the States devastated by the war of the secession, themselves so lately needing help, and still so depressed, but little could be expected beyond the Relief Committee, I. O. O. F. 55 tribute of sympathy. But early there came from Arkansas this telegram, which needs no praise from us : Little Rock, Ark., October ii, 1871. To Dr. y. Ward Ellis, Grand Rep. G. L. U. S., I. 0. 0. F. : Your cal- amity is not unheeded by your brethren. We have appropriated one hundred dollars, subject to your order, and will do all we can to aid you further. May God sustain you in your distress. Answer. J. B. Bond, N. G., Pike Lodge Xo. 12, L O. O. F. The Grand Lodge of Arkansas, meeting on November 1st, added |100 from its own funds, and commended the cause to its subordinates. District of Columbia. — This wide awake jurisdiction is never unworthy of its position at the capital. The Grand Lodge met on the evening of Oct. 11, and earnestl}^ presented the needs arising from the disaster to their sub- ordinates. Next day a mass-meeting of Odd Fellows was held, Bro. W. W. Moore, P. G. Sire, presiding. The reso- lutions passed were but an echo of those in their hearts to do whlit the occasion demanded. A general soliciting committee was appointed to visit each Lodge and Encamp- ment. Tennessee. — The Odd Fellows of Nashville met on Tuesday evening, Oct. 11, in convention, with Bro. E. D. Farnsworth, P. G. Sire, presiding. Bro. R. H. Barry, G. Secretary, offered resolutions of sympathy and for action. A general relief committee was organized, and an appeal to the Order throughout the State was issued by the Grand Secretary, on request of the meeting, to which a liberal return was made. Califoknia. — The golden land proved itself again the land of golden deeds. On Tuesday, the 11th, the Grand Master issued the following eloquent appeal : Report of the Chicago I. O. O. F. — Office of the M. W. Grand Master of the R. W. Grand Lodge of the State of California. Sacramento, October ii, 1871. To the Lodges within this Jtirisdidion — Brethren : When one member of a family suffers, all suffer, and the strong should always help the weak. Brethren, you have read and heard the sickening details of the recent terrible fires in the city of Chicago, and I need not repeat them. That beautiful city is in ashes — untold millions have been swept away. Distress unparalleled, presses heavily upon the sufferers. But I appeal to you mainly in behalf of our brethren of this Order. This telegram, received by Grand Representative Harmon, from a brother in Chicago, tells its own thrilling and heart-rending story. Elgin, III., October 10, 1871. To John B. Harmon : One thousand Odd Fellows, and their wives and children, are homeless. For God's sake appeal to the brothers to help us ! Nothing left us but desolation, woe and want. Chicago is wiped out. Imagination cannot conceive one-half the truth. E. B. Sherman. Can I say more ? Will you not, as Lodges and brothers, do something for these sufferers ? The distress is indeed immediate, but it will also be prolonged. Every dollar contributed now or within two months will be of avail. Some brethren will be relieved ; the sorrow of some poor widow assuaged ; the tear of some orphan dried, even by the smallest mite. If you cannot give hundreds, nor even tens of dollars, give one. Give your dimes if you have no more. What you do, do quickly. All contributions from Lodges or brethren maybe sent to T. Rodgers Johnson, Grand Secretary, San Francisco, who will immediately forward the same. Fraternally yours, in F. L. T., W. H. Hill, Grand Master. How munificently this appeal was answered, our appendix shows. On Oct. 11th, the first dispatch was sent from California, received on the 12th, as follows : San Francisco, October 11, 1871. To E. B. Sherman : Parker Lodge, No. 124, sends five hundred dollars gold, by telegram, via New York, for relief of Odd Fellows. Washington Bartlett, Chairman of Committee Relief Committee, I. O. O. F. 57 Accordingly authority came on the 13th from a New York banker to draw for the amount, with $250 more, added by Magnolia Lodge. On the 16th, Bro. T. Rodgers Johnson, Grand Sec'y of California, telegraphed that the committee might draw for |4,000 more, one- fourth of which was from the justly famous Templar Lodge, noted for its wealth of resources, and its generous use of them ; an equal amount was from Yerba Buena ; and so California answered the cry of distress. Vermont is a land in which the society of Odd Fellows has not flourished greatly ; but the brotherhood there were as ready as elsewhere to meet the emergency. Bro. Abner Forbes, G. Master, issued a circular, dated Oct. 17. CoLOKADO acted, upon the meeting of the Grand Lodge, the week after the fire, giving $50 from the funds of that body, and sending a circular to its subordinates. The pioneer Lodges are neither many nor rich, but know how to share what they have. Georgia, another of the Southern jurisdictions whose ability d«)es not keep pace with the impulses of their hearts, was addressed by a circular of Bro. Chas. C. Kibbie, Grand Master, dated Nov. 24. Ontario. — When humanity moves there is but one nation — the human race. On the 11th of October, Bro. John Gibson, Grand Master, issued his call to the Lodges of Ontario, and appointed a relief committee, consisting of the G. Sec, G. Treas., and G. Rep., to collect relief. His constituency had not waited for the call. The following telegram was among the earliest received : London, Ontario, October ii, 1871. y. Ward Ellis, Chicago : Draw on T. W. Smart for one hundred dollars, gold, for relief of distressed Odd Fellows in Chicago. E. H. Cooper, N. G., in behalf of Dominion Lodge No. 48. Report of the Chicago New Mexico having no Grand Lodge, the senior Lodge, Paradise, No. 2, Santa Fe, took the lead, Nov. 21, and appealed to the fraternity in that region, receiving and forwarding their gifts. Wisconsin was herself suffering from a fearful visitation of fire that ravaged her fields and her forests and con- sumed some of her villages. The village of Peshtigo was entirely consumed, with great loss of life — the most pitiful story of the sad autumn of 1871. But with Wis- consin " charity began at home," but did not stop with the beginning. The Grand Master issued a circular, Oct. 14, in which he says to each Lodge : In view of the terrible calamity that has befallen the city of Chicago, by which hundreds of our generous brothers in that city are rendered houseless, homeless, and reduced from comparative affluence to beggary and want ; and,- if possible, the still more appalling disaster to the brothers of Peshtigo Lodge No. 185 of this jurisdiction, as well as brothers of our Order scattered through the northern counties of this State, so utterly devastated by the sweeping conflagration that so recently swept over them, meagre details of which are before you in the public prints ; and many distressing incidents to our brothers there, already known, too many, sickening and horrible, to be recited here ; several brothers of that Lodge burned to death, some leaving families, others lost wives and children, and all their homes and property, and many of the survivors are maimed and crippled, and totally destitute of means to provide for their necessities against the coming winter ; Therefore, I, Myron P. Lindsley, Grand Master, do hereby authorize and request your Lodge to draw and appropriate from its funds such sum or sums for the relief of our said distressed brothers and their families, as to you shall seem fraternal duty. Tears and resolutions of sympathy are not food and clothing to the destitute. I am persuaded that no further appeal is necessary, and that your Lodge will respond generously. Committees were named b}^ him at Madison, Mil- waukee, and Green Bay, to receive contributions in kind. The first car-load of provisions that came to Chicago (for general relief,) over the Northwestern R. R., was made up and sent by Bro. J. V. Jones, Mayor of Oshkosh. Relief Committee, I. O. O. F. 59 New York. — The first word from the Empire State was a dispatch of the 11th from Rochester, from Teoronto Lodge, giving i250, which had been voted on the 9th. But the whole great jurisdiction was stirred simultaneously as heartily and fully as her next Southern neighbor. As soon as possible an " emergent session " of the Grand Lodge was called on the 14th, to organize action ; but none delayed for its meeting ; the brothers began work independently and coalesced as plans matured. Their letters and despatches came in abundantly, asking, not how much we wanted, but how they should help us, and to whom they should send money at once. Bro. John Medole, P. G. M., G. R., editor of the Heart aiid Hand^ came to Chicago on behalf of the brothers of New York, arriving on the 22d of October, and spending two days in seeing our needs and our plans. The Heart and Haiid and American Odd Felloiv took great interest in the grand charitable movement ; and their zeal and helpfulness were representative of the earnest Odd Fellows of New York. Hon. Jacof) Russell, G, T., was untiring in his efforts in this behalf. Michigan was itself a great sufferer in the fires of that fatal autumn, in the same way as Wisconsin ; the villages of Menominee and Manistee were devastated almost as severely as Peshtigo. The benefactions of the Order were extended to this jurisdiction liberally ; but in their own troubles the Lodges of Michigan did not forget Chicago. The circulars of Bro. Isaac Sides, G. M., included the needs of our city with their own ; and in the giving we were not neglected. Oregon. — Remittances were telegraphed, with but slight exception, in gold, via New York. In space. 6o Report of the Chicago remotest of the American jurisdictions, Oregon made haste to be among the first to rfeach us. Rhode Island. — Contributions from this jurisdiction were transmitted by Bro. John F. Driscol, G. S. The warm reception of a member of the committee visiting this Grand Lodge shows that their gifts were not cold donations but outflowing benefactions. Connecticut. — The Land of Steady Habits stirred from its wonted even course to do most gracious acts of charity with zealous speed. Bro. F. Botsford, G. S., transmitted the generous contributions that answered the appeal of the Grand Master, which was made as early as the 12th of October. Nevada, having a membership of about twelve hun- dred, sent through her Grand officers nearly $1,500 in a single remittance. Her contributions, including those of Utah, are the largest in proportion to membership. ViEGiNiA sent her contributions through the Grand Officers to the Grand Master of Illinois. Their courteous reception of a member of the committee who visited them was only a token of the charity that had come from their hearts through liberal hands. West Virginia responded liberally and promptly. Remittances were mostly made through Bro. H. A. Uthman. The correspondence shows that their sym- pathy was full as their action was ready and hearty. Maine, like Oregon and California, remote, was among the first in point of time. Portland's great disaster made her sympathy quick and strong. Maine Lodge, No. 1, wrote us on the 10th of October, offering her aid ; others followed liberally. Maryland. — This jurisdiction, under the leading of Relief Committee, I. O. O. F. 6i its warm-hearted Grand Master, Joseph Vansant, and of Bro. Ridgely, the living exemplar of all that Odd Fellowship teaches in its best lessons, went steadily and systematically to work to make its deeds correspond with its professiojis, and sent their contributions as long as needed. Lower Provinces, B. N. A. — The Lodges sent their fraternal offerings in gold, which are not valued by their amount only; the kindness of those who are remote gives assurance of the extent of fraternal sympathy. New Hampshire. — On page 45 we have given the telegram of the Grand Lodge of this jurisdiction to our Grand Lodge. The Grand bodies contributed severally 8400 and 8200 ; and the Odd Fellows of Portsmouth made immediate contributions in purchased articles to the amount of about 8800. Europe. — From the newly-formed Lodges of Germany and Switzerland, as yet engaged in the struggle for exist- ence, we had expected no material aid. It was all the more gratifying, then, to find that time and experience in the organization were not necessary to perfection in the lessons of fraternal love, and that they would not be omitted in the list of benefactors. Nebraska. — We are not aware of any action by the Grand Lodge : but its subordinates did what lay in their power. Louisiana and Others. — The most sanguine would hardly have expected a response from any Southern jurisdiction ; contributions, however, were received from Louisiana, North Carolina, Texas, South Carolina, and ^ Alabama ; not large in amount, but under the circum- stances of their own recent and still-present needs doubly precious. 62 Report of the Chicago Work of the Committee. — We spoke above of ob- taining and fitting up as a store-room and place of distri- bution, the unfinished audience room of the large Fifth Baptist Church, at the corner of Sangamon and Harrison streets. Preparations were made for an extensive and systematic winter's work. One of the first necessities was a frost-proof place of storage for vegetables, of which six thousand bushels were deemed the necessary stock ; and to the purchase and sending of this large store Bro. John C. Smith, G. M., gave his attention, traveling, visiting Lodges, soliciting aid, and making purchases. Large quantities of goods, such as groceries, flour, meal, meats, dry goods, clothing, boots and shoes, hats and caps, beds and bedding, blankets, stoves, furniture, etc., etc., were pur- chased, partly by the committee, but largely by the Relief Committees of Cincinnati, Boston, New Hampshire, Tiffin, and other places. In the obtaining of fuel and food, much help was rendered by local committees in Illinois. Proper blanks for applications for relief were prepared, calling for such facts as were needed to show the condition and wants of the applicants ; and these were discriminated into the two classes of general relief and of special relief ; the latter being help asked by those who were able to help themselves for the most part, but who needed some particular articles, as tools or machinery, or being aid rendered in any other way than by the regular distribution of the articles held in store. Careful investigation was made into the circumstances of every case. Lodges were requested to appoint active, judicious committees to cooperate with the committee, and every possible exertion was made to supply the needs of every deserving applicant. The committee endeavored to encourage the timid and Relief Committee, I. O. O. F. 63 retiring by kindness and fraternal sympathy, to prevent imposition and fraud, and, so far as lay in their power, and according to their best judgment, to be worthy almoners of the surprising beneficence of the brotherhood. The committee knew that the contributions made were designed not to repair losses of individuals or to enrich Lodges, but to prevent suffering from the terrible calamity which had fallen upon Chicago, to feed the hungry, clothe the naked, and furnish the necessaries of life, until the victims of this fearful disaster could obtain employment and resume their usual avocations, and become again self- dependent. Especially were all possible efforts made to care for the sick and furnish them with such things as were necessary to alleviate their sufferings. Believing that no gift was so valuable to a laboring man as the means of gaining his own livelihood, the committee omitted no opportunity to provide necessary tools for mechanics and laborers, so that as soon as possible they should resume their usual habits of industry. Sensible that man^^ were discouraged and disheartened, and needed encouragement as much as material aid, all means possible were adopted to to render self-reliant and hopeful those who at first seemed entirely broken in spirit. It had been proudly said, at the public meeting in Metropolitan Hall, during the session of the Grand Lodge of the United States, that no Odd Fellow was a pauper, or had the spirit of a pauper ; and this sentiment of Bro. Shorey, P. G. R., was loudly applauded. The tendency of the times and of the circumstances was toward making the boast an empty one in many instances ; but the committee and the Lodges, one and all, resisted the tendency strenuously and successfully. 64 Report of the Chicago As samples of the applications for relief we give two . from the files : (i.) Name, widow of F. W ; Lodge and No., late member Robert Blum, 58 ; former occupation, ; present occupation, ; amount wages, ; residence before the fire, 196 Van Buren ; residence now, 115 Forquer street; number in family, 3; state of health, i child sick; former relief, if any, none ; reference, Bro. John Gersetta, 58 ; general remarks, Articles wanted — Washtub, washboard, soap, i cook- stove, I bedstead, i mattrass, water pail, broom and brush, clothes-line, 2 pillows, I pr. shoes for self, 2 pr. child's shoes, 2 chairs, and i quilt, a coal hod, stew pan, candles. H. V. Van Dusen. Articles delivered. — S. Polock. (2.) The facts in support of this application are stated in answer to the following questions : Name? C. W . Name and No. of Lodge? Robert Blum, 58. Present residence ? 65 Purple street. Former occupation ? Teamster. Present occupation? None. Married or single? Married, wife dead, Number of children and ages ? 5 — 14, 12, 10, 8, 4. Are any employed and how? Oldest boy working in coal office. Total income of family per week? $3 per week. Were you burnt out? Yes. What did you lose? House- hold furniture, clothing, etc. Insurance and in what company ? None. Any money in bank or elsewhere ? None. Other relief, from whom and amount? None. Real estate owned and value ? None. I certify that the above statements are correct. C. B , Applicant. Articles wanted : One cook stove, bedstead, provisions for two weeks, mattrass, two pillows, three pair blankets, six plates, six cups and saucers^ six knives and forks, six teaspoons, six tablespoons, broom. We, the undersigned committee of Robert Blum Lodge, hereby certify that we have examined the facts in the above case, and know the circum- stances of the applicant, and fully believe the above-named articles are really needed for present relief. JOSRI'H BUECHEL, H. V. Van Dusen. Fred. G. Kruger. Deliver above articles. — E. B.*Sherman. Delivered. — R. H. Jordan. Relief Committee, I. O. O. F. 65 From ten to fifteen persons were employed in the work of the distribution until it was closed on the first of April, the remainder of the stock being properly distributed. Thenceforth only special relief was given, until the final closing of the whole business. A very systematic digest of the work of relief, showing the applications in each month, and the number relieved and other interesting particulars, is given hereafter in the admirable report of the auditing committee, which we will not anticipate in this place. As the winter waned and it was seen that the bounty of the Order had filled our cup to overflowing, the com- mittee determined to decline further contributions, and return them, with thanks, to the donors. Accordingly, all contributions that arrived after the 23d of March, 1872, were returned to those who sent them, accompanied by the following letter : Rooms Relief Committee, I. O. O. F., ) - No. 214 Sangamon Street, Chicago. 1872. f Dear Sir and Brother : Your esteemed favor of received, enclosing dollars for relief. At a session of the Relief Committee, I. O. O. F., of Chicago, on the 23d day of March, the following preamble and resolutions were unani- mously adopted : Whereas, By the surprising and continued liberality of the brotherhood, we have now been furnished with sufficient means to supply the most press- ing necessities of the brothers and their families ; and Whereas, We do not deem it consistent with the true object of our appointment to receive contributions further than seems necessary to prevent present suffering, and supply the more urgent needs of our brothers and provide for special cases of peculiar hardship in this terrible emergency ; therefore. Resolved, That all sums hereafter received be returned to their respective donors, with grateful acknowledgments. 5 66 Report of the Chicago Resolved, That our Secretary be directed to keep an account of all such donations so received and returned, that the same may hereafter receive proper recognition. In accordance with the foregoing, please herewith find above sum, less expense of return, and accept with it our grateful and fraternal thanks. By its admirable fidelity to its divine principles in this crisis, our Order has demonstrated its practical adaptation for the promotion of good will among men, and its fitness as a minister in the trials and adversities which are inseparable from human life, and to-day stands peerless among kindred organizations for systematic and spontaneous benevolence. Fraternally yours, J. Ward Ellis, Chairman, E. B. Sherman, Jno. G. Rogers, Treasurer. Sec'y Relief Com. I. O. O. F. Under these resolutions the sum of $6,644.79 was returned. Some special incidents, not in the work of the com- mittee, should not pass unnoticed. To each Lodge and Encampment that was burnt out, the Christmas present of a handsome • bible was made by the Ohio Relief Com- mittee ; and in the spring of 1872 that committee visited Chicago, inquired into the condition of each of these bodies, and gave money to those Lodges whose circum- stances seemed to require it, and to others a pair of gavels as a complimentary token of their visit. These gifts, both of money and articles, are in addition to those received and disbursed by our committee. Messrs. Seymour & Son, of Syracuse, N. Y., sent a set of jewels for a Lodge and one for an Encampment ; these were assigned by lot, Bro. Stuart, Grand Sire, drawing the lots on occasion of one of his visits, by which the jewels fell to Duane Lodge, No. 11, and Chicago Encampment, No. 10. By Lodges abroad, and by members of Lodges, various sums of money and other donations were given directly to the suffering Lodges and to their members, to the amount of several thousand dollars, none of which is shown in Relief Committee, I. O. O. F. 67 the transactions of the committee ; and to the general relief of the city, by the Relief and Aid Society, about $2,000 was given by the Order as such. Distinguished Visitors. — During the winter the committee had the encouragement of letters from brothers of all the jurisdictions, and were also honored, cheered, and helped by the personal visits of many earnest Odd Fellows and officers of the Order. We have already mentioned the helpful visits of the Massachusetts com- mittee, Bros. Ford, Hayden, and Adams ; of the Cin- cinnati committee, Bros. Bell, Thomas, Smith, McLean, Shayne, Pye, Burnham, and Kennedy ; and of Bro. John Medole, P. G. M., of New York. We were favored by Bro. Fred. D. Stuart, Grand Sire, with three visits, in which he gave us valuable counsel ; and his reports to the Order at large were of incalculable benefit to us. The frequent and enlivening visits of Bro. Thomas Underwood, P. G. M., of Indiana, deserve special mention ; and for frequent advice and assistance the committee were indebted to Bro. A. fe. Barry, G. T., of Illinois, whose business required him to spend most of the winter in Chicago. We were favored, also with the presence and advice of Dr. C. A. Logan, now M. W. Grand Sire ; John Medole, G. R., and Editor of Heart and Hand; G. Representatives Porter, of California, Leech, of Iowa, Underwood, of Indiana, and Needles and Ticknor, of Illinois; P. G. Representatives Furst and Herr, of Illinois, and Morrison, of Michigan ; M. P. Lindsley, M. W. G. M., L. B. Hills, R. W. G. S., and W. Reynolds, of the Wisconsin Relief Committee ; John Gandaker, P. G. M., of Iowa ; F. M. Foster, R. W. G. S., of Michigan, and many other brothers from all parts of the country. Railroads and Express Coivipanies. — Especial 68 Report of the Chicago acknowledgments should be made of the generosity of the officers of the various railroads entering our city, who almost uniformly brought all supplies free, and also fur- nished gratuitous transportation to hundreds leaving the city. The committee cannot forbear to name W. C. Cleland, General Western Passenger Agent of the Pennsylvania R. R. ; F. E. Morse, General Passenger Agent of the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern R. R. ; John C. Gault, then General Superintendent of Chicago and Northwestern R. R. ; J. C. McMullin, General Super- intendent Chicago and Alton R. R. ; Gen. Lewis Viele, General Freight Agent Chicago and Rock Island R. R. ; E. St. John, General Passenger Agent of the same road; and Joseph F. Tucker, General Freight Agent of the Illinois Central R. R. All these seemed to vie in the generous rivalry of good deeds. Mr. Tucker, being applied to for transportation of coal from Duquoin, said, Gentlemen, we will bring all your coal free." ''But," we replied, we may have a thousand tons to bring." " It makes no difference," was his noble answer, the Illinois Central is able to bring all the coal you want for distribution to needy Odd Fellows ; and it will be done." The freight bills on this coal brought over the Illinois Central R. R. would have been more than f 2,500, if charged at ordinary rates ; and every ton came in full weight and measure. The Express Companies, in like manner, treated us very generously : the United States, the American Mer- chants' Union, and the Adams. They brought us money and valuable packages without fee or reward, assuming all the risks of transportation and loss. The pecuniary aid thus given was not small ; and it was so courteously and unhesitatingly given as to increase our sense of the benefit. Relief Committee, I. O. O. F. 69 The Reltef and Aid Society. — This account would fail to be a truthful record did it omit to acknowledge many courtesies received from Murray Nelson, Esq., George M. Pullman, Esq., Rev. Robert Laird Collier, T. M. Avery, Esq., and Wirt Dexter, Esq., chairmen of the several committees of the General Relief and Aid Society, by whose cordial cooperation we were able to avail our- selves of the special privileges and benefits of that organi- zation, as it was able, .by its vast resources, in some cases to give more permanent assistance than we deemed within the scope of our duty. The Press. — To the magazines and journals of the Order, one and all, we owe thanks in greater measure than we can tell for their eloquent presentation of our needs, their approval of our plans, and their cordial and zealous cooperation with our efforts. By their publications relat- ing to this grand charity, all through the winter, they kept the Order advised of the state of affairs, and of what remained to be done, as well as of what had been done. It will not seem invidious if we specially name those of greatest circulation and scope as having put us under pecul- iar obligations : the American Odd Felloiv^ oldest of all, the Odd Fellotv's Companion^ (with the German magazine Ber Odd Fellow^ from the same office,) the New Age^ and the Heart and Hand^ the weekly issue of which made them highly useful to us as a means of communicating with the Order. Newspapers of our city extended their courtesies to us constantly, showed no small interest in our success, and frequentl}^ reported to the public what we were doing, with encouraging commendations ; and in papers from other cities, sent us from time to time, we found similar gratifying recognitions of the benefactions of the Order and of the work of the committee. 70 Report of the Chicago Oun Helpers. — The committee would be chargeable with great ingratitude if they should fail to acknowledge in especial manner, the constant and invaluable assistance and cooperation rendered them ever since their appoint- ment, by the Grand Master of Illinois for 1871-2, Gen. John C. Smith, G. R. It is but just to place on record that to him is largely due the measure of success which has attended the ministration of this grand fraternal charity. He has made frequent visits to and has been in constant correspondence with us regarding the relief work, and his judicious suggestions and excellent advice have guided us in many perplexing circumstances. His self-sacrificing devotion to the interests of this Grand Lodge and the suffering brothers in Chicago, has endeared him to the brotherhood of this city, and will be always gratefully remembered by the committee. To N. C. Nason, the ever-efficient R. W. G. S., we are under great obligations for every official and personal favor which it was in his power to extend to us. It would be great injustice were we to omit to mention the services and assistance of R. H. Jordan, P. D. G. M., Superintendent of Supplies, and A. T. Sherman, G. C, Book-keeper, both of whom discharged their exacting duties with zeal, fidelity, and promptness. We also desire to acknowledge the valuable assistance given by H. V. Van Dusen, P. C. P., Assistant Superin- tendent of Supplies ; Charles E. Minor, P. G. ; P. A. Felt, P. G. ; Louis Kuhardt, P. G. ; and brothers Polack and Jos. Hirschberg, and also the committees appointed by the several Lodges to cooperate with us. Many of these brothers made great sacrifices of time, and labored diligently and faithfully. Dr. W. H. Bradley, who kindly volunteered to attend Relief Committee, I. O. O. F. 71 all sick Odd Fellows and their families without charge, during the winter, is deserving of especial mention. He was not, when he began this service in the cause of humanity, a member of the Order. Closing the Work. — Immediately upon the cessation of the general distribution, the committee desired an examination of their work and settlement of accounts. The following correspondence and report need no other introduction or explanation ; Grand Lodge of Illinois, I. O. O. F. ) Dear Sir and Brother : As we have now nearly closed the duties devolved upon us by the Grand Lodge of Illinois, the receiving and disbursing of the generous contributions of the brotherhood at large for the unfortunate suffer- ers by the " Great Fire," we deem it fitting and desirable to render an account of our stewardship thus far ; and we therefore request you to appoint suet? brothers as you may select as an Auditing Board, to whom, with yourself, we will take pleasure in submitting our receipts, expenditures, books, accounts, vouchers, method of distribution, — in short the entire transactions of the committee. And, inasmuch as contributions have been received from more than forty sister jurisdictions, all under the jurisdiction of the Grand Lodge of the United States, it seems to us proper that the Grand Sire of the G. L. U. S. should appoint a similar board for a similar purpose. If you so regard it, please communicate with him and invite the appointment by him of such brothers as he may select. You will also please fix such time for the examination as may suit your convenience and that of the M. W. Grand Sire. AUDITING COMMITTEE APPOINTED — THEIR REPORT. Rooms Relief Committee, I. O. O. F., Chicago, April 4, 1872. Gen. J. C. Smith, M. W. G. M., Respectfully and fraternally yours. 72 Report of the Chicago I. O. O. F. ) [g.l.seal.] Office of the M. W. G. M.. Grand Lodge of Illinois, V Galena, Illinois, April 27, 1872. ) To the several Brothers hereinafter named, — Greeting : The Relief Committee appointed by the Grand Lodge of Illinois, I. O. O. F., to receive and disburse the generous benefactions con- tributed by the brotherhood at large for the relief of the distressed brothers of Chicago, have officially notified me that, in their judgment, no further general distribution of supplies is necessary, and have requested me to appoint an Auditing Committee to examine the books and vouchers, receipts and disbursements of the committee, and report thereon ; and have also requested me to invite F, D. Stuart, M. W. Grand Sire, to appoint a similar committee on behalf of the Grand Lodge of the United States. After con- sultation with the M. W. Grand Sire, it was deemed inexpedient and unneces- sary to appoint two separate committees. ,At the same time, the M. W. Grand Sire recommended me to appoint such committee in part from Illinois and in part from adjacent jurisdictions. Now, therefore, in accordance with the suggestions of the M. W. Grand Sire, and by virtue of the authority in me vested as Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of Illinois, I. O. O. F., I do hereby appoint and commission you, Thomas Underwood, P. G. M. and P. G. R., of Indiana ; L. E. Hills, R. W. G. Sec'y and P. G. R., of Wisconsin ; T. B. Needles, P. G. M. and G. R., of Illinois ; Louis Furst, P. G. P. and P. G. R., of Illinois ; Samue^ Willard, P. G. Sec'y and P. G. R., of Illinois ; A. S. Barry, R. W. G. T. and P. G. R., of Illinois ; and John P. Foss, P. G. R., of Illinois, as an Auditing Committee for the purpose above specified, and request you to be and appear at the city of Chicago on the fourth day of May next, then and thereto examine the books and vouchers, receipts and disbursements of said com- mittee, and make report to me of your findings and doings in the premises. Fraternally yours, J. C. Smith, Grand Master. Chicago, III, May 6, 1872. John C. Smith, ) M.W.G. M., I. 0. 0. F. of Illinois, \ Galena, 111. ) Dear Sir : Pursuant to your commission as hereunto annexed, the under- signed met at the rooms of the Relief Committee, I.O. O. F., in this city, Saturday, May 4, organized and performed the duty assigned them, and beg leave to report their action. Due notice having been given to the Relief Committee and their assistants, the following were present, viz.: J. Ward Ellis, P. G. M. and G. R., Chair- man ; E. B. Sherman. P. G., Secretary ; John G. Rogers, P. G. M. and P. G. R., Relief Committee, I. O. O. ¥. 73 Treasurer; A. T. Sherman, V.G., Book-keeper; R. H.Jordan, P. D. G. M., Superintendent of Supplies. From a careful examination of the various books and accounts, your com- mittee find the following facts : The committee began its work on the iith day of October, 1871, and closed its general operations on March 30, 1872, making a period of active and laborious duty of five months and twenty days. The first duty performed by the committee was the renting of buildings as storehouses, for the supplies of clothing and food and other necessaries ; as, in addition to the liberal donations in kind, it was found economical to make extensive purchases, and to distribute articles obtained at wholesale prices rather than to give money. The committee employed, in the care and distribution of stores, from ten to fifteen men. Proper blanks were prepared by the committee and given to applicants, to whom upon their filling the same, distributions were made, either for tem- porary need or as regular supply. From October 11, 1S71, to March 23, 1872, the committee received from all sources. Incash... $106,936 54 In supplies of all kinds 16,787 99 Total receipts $123,724 53 The committee has paid out, as per proper vouchers on file, as follows : Groceries, provisions, etc 823,355 96 Stoves, fuel, coal, etc 10,850 70 Labor, lumber, rent, gas 9.569 74 Special donations, cash, sewing machines, tools, etc. 22,831 40 Dry goods 14,711 32 Clothing, hats, caps, boots and shoes 11,683 01 Furniture, bedding, etc 10,354 85 Tinware, woodenware, etc 1,563 78 Loans 944 00 General expenses, stationery, postage-stamps, dray- age, freights, telegrams, etc.. 7,689 63 $113,554 39 Leaving in Treasurer's hands 10,170 14 $123,724 53 On the 23d day of March last, the following resolutions were unanimously passed, and in accordance therewith, all donations since that date received, have been returned to the donors, amounting at this time to $5,986.84. 74 Report of the Chicago Whereas, By the surprising and continued liberality of the brotherhood, we have now been furnished with sufficient means to supply the most press- ing necessities of the brothers and their families ; and, Whereas, We do not deem it consistent with the true object of our appointment to receive contributions further than seems necessary to prevent present suffering, and supply the more urgent needs of our brothers and provide for special cases of peculiar hardship in this terrible emergency ; therefore, Resolved, That all sums hereafter received be returned to their respective donors, with grateful acknowledgments. Resolved, That our Secretary be directed to keep an account of all such donations so received and returned, that the same may hereafter receive proper recognition. Your committee would here state that donations from Lodges of the Order amounting to some two thousand dollars were made direct to some of the suffering Lodges, or else sent to the General Relief Committee of the city of Chicago ; consequently, these benefactions do not appear on the books of the Relief Committee of the I. O. O. F. A careful inspection of the books of the Superintendent of Supplies shows the following : In the month of October, 1871, there were 1,617 applications by 7,904 persons. Daily average of applications " " " persons relieved Average persons in family NOVEMBER, 187I. i»357 applications by 6,970 persons Daily average of applications ..- " " " persons relieved __ Average persons in family DECEMBER, 1871 1,024 applications by 5,107 persons. Daily average of applications — " " persons relieved Average persons in family JANUARY, 1872 735 applications by 3,672^persons. Daily average of applications " *• " persons relieved... Average persons in family 89f 439i 4o|| 204 jV 4iHi 136 Relief Committee, I. O. O. F. 75 FEBRUARY, 1 872, 628 applications by 3,207 persons. Daily average of applications 25 " " " persons relieved ^^^^V Average persons in family.. SitW MARCH, 1872, 412 applications by 2,052 persons. Daily average of applications " " " persons relieved 78_2_4_ Average persons in family ^T^T RECAPITULATION. Total applications 5773 " number of persons relieved 28912 Average number per day of persons - i96L|-0. " " " " " applications 39x^:fV to a family 5g^ j ^ Number of different persons regularly relieved 3220 " " " " relieved 5000 The following resolution relative to funds still on hand, presented by A. S. Barry, P. G. M,, of Illinois, was unanimously adopted by this Auditing Committee : 9 Resolvedy That the getieral relief work of the committee at Chicago, be closed from this date, and the balance of the funds in the hands of the com- mittee be transferred to a special relief fund, to be in charge of the same committee, under the supervision of the Most Worthy Grand Master of Illinois ; and reposing the utmost confidence in the integrity of the com- mittee, and the zeal and ability displayed by them in the discharge of the trust heretofore confided to them, we direct that they expend the same upon ■ special objects of relief which now are or may hereafter be under their charge, making report of their doings to the Most Worthy Grand Master of Illinois. A careful review of the entire work of the Relief Committee shows a large amount of responsibility assumed and a vast amount of toilsome labor per- formed, for which no greater recompense can be awarded than the consciousness of having been able to relieve the pressing wants and suffering of their brethren and families. Your committee are constrained here to acknowledge the services of yourself, so faithfully performed, as evidenced by the books and correspond- ence examined by them. 76 Report of the Chicago The following resolutions, offered by L. B. Hills, R. W. G. Secretary, of Wisconsin, were adopted by this committee : Resolved, That the thanks of the Order at large are due and are hereby extended to P. G. Masters J. Ward Ellis and John G. Rogers, and E. B. Sherman, P. G., " The Chicago Relief Committee, I. O. O. F.," for their faithful devotion to the principles of our Order and the self-sacrifice shown by them in carrying out the mandate of the R. W. Grand Lodge of Illinois, in their work of " relieving the distressed." Resohjed, That to Richard H. Jordan, P. D. G. M., Superintendent of Supplies, and to A, T. Sherman, P. G., Book-keeper of the Relief Committee, are given the thanks of the Order and the commendation of this Auditing Committee, for their diligence, courtesy, and distinguished ability in the per- formance of their exacting and often perplexing duties. The undersigned, having discharged, to the best of their ability, the duty assigned them under your commission, beg to acknowledge the honor you have conferred and the confidence you have shown in selecting them for so responsible a position, and trust that their labors may prove satisfactory to all concerned. Fraternally yours. I. O. O. F. [g.l.seal] Office of the M. W. G. M., Grand Lodge of Illinois, Galena, Illinois, May 8, 1872, Dear Brothers : Your request for the appointment of Auditing Boards by the M. W. Grand Sire and myself, to examine the method of distribution, audit the books, accounts, vouchers, receipts and expenditures of your com- mittee, has received my careful consideration. On consultation with the Grand Sire it was deemed unnecessary to comply fully with your request ; but, with his sanction, I appointed an Auditing Board composed of eminent brothers from the Grand Lodge of the U. S. and the Grand Lodge of Illinois, with instructions to examine and report to me, which duty they have per- formed, and you will find herewith a copy of their report, which, with your letter and this answer, you are requested to publish for the information of the fraternity. Thomas Underwood, P. G. M. and P. G. R. of Ind., ^ ^ Chairman. \ Samuel Willard, P. G. .R. and P. G. Sec. of Illinois, B-i Secretary. 0^ L. B. Hills, R. W. G. Sec. and P. G. R. of Wisconsin, \ ^ Thomas B. Needles, P. G. M. and G. R. of Illinois. | A. S. Barry, R. W. G. T. and P. G. R. " " I Louis Furst, P. G. P. and P. G. R. John P. Foss, P. G. R. Relief Committee, I. O. O. F. 77 I can not permit this opportunity to pass without congratulating you upon the very satisfactory manner in which you have performed the arduous duty imposed upon you by the Grand Lodge of Illinois. During the long and dreary winter, you have toiled night and day to relieve the suffering Odd Fellows and their families. Your work has been done promptly, fearlessly faithfully and correctly, and without favor or partiality. You have counted no sacrifice too great, no labor too exhausting, but have displayed energy, fortitude and ability equal to the terrible emergency which called for your appointment. I am pleased to be able to assure you that the report of the Auditing Board and my own sentiments accord fully with the views of the many eminent brothers who have visited your city during the winter and witnessed your admirable method of distributing the benefactions committed to your trust. I know the M. W. Grand vSire, were he present, would cordially unite with me in tendering you the grateful thanks of this great brotherhood, and in assuring you of their high appreciation of your sacrifices for the interests of humanity. The fervent blessings of the destitute brother and his family, the widow and the orphan, whose desolate homes you have brightened, and whose sorrowing hearts you have cheered, will be a rich heritage, and will be more enduring than resolutions, memorials, or monuments. My own intimate connection with and thorough knowledge of the details of your work, my frequent visitations and almost daily communication with you, authorize and enable me to say that all your acts have met my most cordial approval, as does this report of the Auditing Board. Friendship, cemented by the labor of charity, is as enduring as time. vSuch will be ours. . Truly and fraternally yours, ' J. C. Smith, Grand Master. Prior to the session of the Grand Lodge of Illinois, Oct. 8, 1872, and in preparation for a report to that body, a further auditing was had, as shown by the following letters. The special relief was such as had been contem- plated in the resolutions of the Auditing Committee of May 6, to aged, sick or infirm brothers with large families, destitute widows, and in similar cases of actual need. Rooms RdiiEF Committee, I. O. O. F., [ Chicago, Oc^. 3d, 1872. \ J. C. Smith, Esq., M. W. G. M., I. O. O. F. Pursuant to a resolution adopted by the Auditing Committee which was appointed by you, with the concurrence of the M.W. Grand Sire G. L. U. S. 78 Report of the Chicago to examine the books, accounts, vouchers, methods, etc., of our commit- tee, in and by which resolution we were directed to transfer the unexpended portion of the funds then in our hands to a special relief fund, to be by us expended in special relief, and furthermore were directed to make report of our doings in the matter to the M. W. Grand Master of Illinois, — we beg leave to report to you our doings in the premises since May 6th, 1872. Transferred to special fund May 6th, 1872 $10,170 14 Received on loan and donation account since 470 50 $10,640 64 Expended in special relief .. 6,846 34 Balance now on hand $3,794 30 We also request you to visit us and carefully examine our books, accounts, vouchers, and applications, as soon as you can conveniently do so. Yours, fraternally J. Ward Ellis, ) Relief Com. John G. Rogers, [■ I. O. O. F., E. B. Sherman, ) of Chicago. I. O. O. F. ) [g.l.seal] Office of the M.W.G.M., Grand Lodge of Illinois. V Galena, III., October 5, 1872. ) T. Ward Ellis, )r)Tr/- ^ r\ x? John G. Rogers, \ Relief Com. I. O. O. F., E. B. Sherman, ( In accordance with your ra:juest, and in fulfillment of the duty imposed upon me by the Auditing Committee, referred to in your communication, I have this day examined the books, accounts, vouchers, and applications for special relief, since May 6th, 1872, and have found the same to be correct in all particulars. Furthermore, on careful investigation and inquiry, I heartily indorse and approve your action in all these cases, many of which were in fact referred to and approved by me before being acted upon by your committee. No words of mine can add anything to the general meed of just praise accorded you by the fraternity everywhere, and by the press of your city, for your untiring assiduity in the discharge of the arduous duties imposed upon you. My own official relations with the Relief Committee have been of such a nature, and my knowledge of vpur labors so thorough, as to call forth my unqualified approval of your eveiy act, — to cement in a bond of union never to be broken the friendship begun in years gone by ; and it is my earnest desire that the R. W. G. L. of Illinois place upon an imperishable tablet the names of the Chicago Relief Committee, whose noble example we all would do well to emulate. Relief Committee, I. O. O. F. 79 And now, in closing our official relations, it is my earnest prayer that the blessings of Heaven and the commendation of all men who recognize and appreciate true merit and sterling integrity may be ever yours. Truly and fraternally, • J. C. Smith, Grand Master. At the session of the Grand Lodge of Illinois for 1872, Bro. Smith, G. M., presented the relief work in his report ; and the committee reported upon their work at length, giving a synopsis of the contributions, with a detailed statement of receipts from Illinois. The Grand Master's report and that of the committee were sent to a special committee, who reported as follows, the report being adopted unanimously by a standing vote. To the Grand Lodge of the State of Illinois : Your special committee to whom was referred so much of the Report of the M. W. Grand Master as refers to the subject of Chicago Relief, and also the Report of your special Committee of Relief, would respectfully submit the following : Since all the duties pertaining to the relief of the brothers in distress have been so faithfully performed, and the magnitude of the work committed to their charggf has been so clearly portrayed by their report, but little is left for us to review. Never in the history of our organization, or of those of a simi_ lar character, have any been called upon to administer a charity so vast in its extent, or so intricate in its details : fortunate, thrice fortunate, was this Grand Lodge in the selection of a committee able at once to comprehend clearly the extraordinary' demands of the hour, and to devise the most simple, yet effective means of meeting the terrible exigency, and possessing the execu- tive ability requisite for the occasion. Your Relief Committee displayed a zeal commensurate to the task assigned them, and with patient fidelity and unswerving impartiality has discharged the most onerous and important duty ever imposed upon any committee by this Grand Lodge, by the Grand Lodge of the United States, or by the Brotherhood at large. They report their entire work done in council with and under advisement of our ^L W. Grand Master, who is not only compe- tent to plan, but able to execute " Sweet Charity's behests." During the entire existence and work of this committee, the counsel and advice of the M. W. Grand Sire and R. W. Grand Corresponding and Recording Sec- retary of the Grand Lodge of the United States, and indeed of all who stand first and foremost in Odd-Fellowship, have been sought and freely given. 8o Report of the Chicago It cannot be deemed invidious for us to make mention of the fact that two members of the Chicago Relief Committee have, since the " Great Fire," at the sacrifice of their professional business and to the great detriment of their private interests, devoted their entire time and energies to this the greatest of the world's charities. This Grand Lodge cannot fully appreciate or repay the obligation thus incurred : only in the heartfelt thanks of the thousands relieved from want, in the boundless gratitude of the suffering and needy, and in the consciousness, before God and man, of duty well done, can the Chicago Relief Committee be compensated for their self-sacrificing toil. As a slight token of the appreciation of this Grand Lodge of the work per- formed by that committee, and by R. H. Jordan, P. D. G. M., and A. T. Sherman, Grand Conductor, whose services under the direction of this com- mittee are gratefully recognized, and by J. C. Smith, M. W. Grand Master, and the eminent brothers composing the Auditing Board, this committee would i-ecommend the adoption of the subjoined complimentary resolutions, and that, being suitably engrossed and framed, a copy thereof be forwarded to each of the Chicago Relief Committee, to J. C. Smith, M. W. Grand Mas- ter of Illinois, to R. H. Jordan, P. D. G. M., and A. T. Sherman, Grand Con- ductor, and to each of the distinguished brothers who, under the advice of M. W. Grand Sire and in accordance with the commission of the M. W. Grand Master of Illinois, acted as /Auditing Committee upon the whole work of Relief. Your committee most heartily indorse the publication of the proposed " Memorial Work," which, at the earnest solicitation of M. W. Grand Sire, F. D. Stuart, R. W. Grand Corresponding and Recording Secretary, James L. Ridgely, and other eminent brothers, the committee have consented to undertake. Resolved, That the membership of the Order at large in the State of Illi- nois, through its Grand Loage in annual session assembled, hereby returns most grateful acknowledgments to this great Brotherhood wherever located, for the prompt and substantial tokens of sympathy contributed by them for the relief of our distressed brothers at Chicago, overwhelmed by the great calamity which befel them on the 8th and 9th of October, 1871, thus furnish- ing this Grand Lodge, through its appropriate committee, with abundant resources with which to illustrate practically the great charity of our Order. Resolved, That the thanks of this Grand Body are due, and with an Odd- Fellows' greeting are hereby extended, to F. D. Stuart, M. W. Grand Sire, James L. Ridgely, R. W. Grand Corresponding and Recording Secretary, and the members of the Grand Lodge of the United States generally, for the valuable counsel and advice given to your Relief Committee, and also for their active co-operation through their various Grand and Subordinate Lodges in furtherance of this mission of mercy. Resolved, That to the various Grand and Subordinate Lodges and their committees, of this and other jurisdictions, who vied with each other in the extent of their contributions, and in personal attention in furnishing supplies Relief Commi j tee, I. (). O. F. 8i of food and clothing when most needed, we acknowledge our indebtedness, and assure them that their magnificent exemplification of the sublime injunc- tions of our Order will be ever gratefully remembered. Resolved, That to J. Ward Ellis, P. G. M., John G. Rogers, P. (i. M., and E. B. Sherman, P. G. — the " Chicago Relief Committee, I. O. O. F." — are eminently due the warmest commendations of the R. W. Grand Lodge of Illinois, for the zeal, ability and integrity displayed by them in the discharge of the sacred trust committed to them as almoners of the glorious beneficence of the fraternity, and this Grand Body bids them remember that, in all time to come,they will not only possess the cheering consciousness of duty well performed, but will receive the fervent gratitude of those to whom they have ministered, and the lasting esteem of all who recognize and applaud honorable deeds. Resolved, That the thanks of the R. W. Grand Lodge of Illinois are ten- dered to R. H. Jordan, P. D. G, M., to A. T. Sherman, Gr. Conductor, and to the various employees of the Chicago Relief Committee, I. O. O. F., for their diligent and courteous performance of the exacting duties assigned them in the distribution of the grand fraternal charity of the Brotherhood to the victims of the great calamity which was visited upon Chicago. Resolved, That the thanks of the R. W. Grand Lodge of Illinois are espec- ially due and are hereby tendered to Thomas Underwood, P. G. M. and P. G. Rep., of Indiana ; L. B. Hills, R. W. Grand Secretary and P. G. Rep., of Wisconsin ; Samuel Willard, P. G. Rep. and P. G. Secretary, of Illinois ; Thomas B. Needles, P. G. M. and G. Rep., of Illinois ; A. S. Barry, R. W. G. T. and P. G. Rep., of Illinois ; Louis Furst, P. G. P. and P. G. Rep., of Illinois ; John P. Foss, P. G. Rep., of Illinois ; who, at the suggestion of the M. W. Granft Sire of the Grand Lodge of the United States, and in accord- ance with the commission issued by the M. W. Grand Master of Illinois, performed the delicate and responsible duty of examining the work and aud- iting the accounts of the " Chicago Relief Committee, I. O. O, F.," to the entire satisfaction of the vast Brotherhood in whose behalf they served, thereby adding to the dignity of this Grand Charity the lustre of their emi- nent personal worth. Resolved, That the R. W. Grand Lodge gratefully recognize the valuable aid rendered during the past winter to the " Chicago Relief Committee, I. O. O. F.," by J. C. Smith, M. W. Grand Master, by his frequent visits to and his judicious counsels and constant co-operation with them, in the discharge of their delicate and arduous duties ; and that for this conspicuous fidelity to his obligations, this illustrious exemplification of the true spirit of Odd-Fel- lowship, he will ever be held in loving and honorable esteem by every mem- , ber of this Grand Body. Respectfully submitted. 6 A. S. Barry, ] J. F. Alexander, | M. C. Fames, \ L. Gollhardt, I Joe. E. Conklin, J Committee. 82 Report of the Chicago The following extract from the Journal of the Grand Lodge of the United States for 1872, expresses the views and sentiments entertained by that Grand Body upon this subject : To the R. W. Gratid Lodge of the United States : The special committee, to whom was referred that part of the M. W. Grand Sire's Report that relates to the Chicago Fire, would respectfully report that they heartily concur in the action taken in the matter by the M. W. Grand Sire, and would, therefore, recommend the following: Resolved, That this R. W. Grand Body view s with pride and gratification the magnificent exemplification of the principles of Odd Fellowship, as given by the entire brotherhood, in the prompt and most liberal aid to the suffering members of our Order in Chicago, and that the thanks of this R. W. Grand Body be, and they are hereby, tendered to the Grand Lodges and Enca;mpments, Subordinate Lodges and Encampments, and individual members, who so nobly contributed their funds for their relief. Resolved, That the thanks of this R. W. Grand Body be, and they are hereby, tendered to J. Ward Ellis, G. R. ; E. B. Sherman, P, G. ; and John G. Rogers, P. G. M., the committee appointed for the distribution of funis and other contributions, for the efficient manner in which they discharged that duty. Also, to John C. Smith, M. W. G. M., and the officers of the Grand Lodge of Illinois, for the very efficient services rendered by them for the relief of the suffering members of the Order. The remainder of the funds having been distributed according to resolutions of the Grand Lodge, the com- mittee requested J. C. Smith, P. G. M., who had been authorized thereto by Hon. F. Bross, M. W. G. M., to make a final examination of the books, vouchers, etc., and to audit the accounts of the committee. The following correspondence fully explains itself, and concludes the history of the distribution of this grand fraternal charity. Wm. H. Foulk, Charles N. Hickok, J. H. Baker. )- Committee. Erie J. Leech, John Medole, Relief Committee, I. O. (). F. 83 I. O. O. F. J Office OF the M. W. G. M., Grand Lodge of Illinois, [• Cairo, III., November i, 1872. ) Gen. J. C. Smith, P. G. M., I. O. O. F., Galena, 111. Dear Sir and Brother: Whereas, according to the report of the Relief Committee of Chicago, made by them at the last session of R. W. G. L., of Illinois, I. O. O. F., a certain amount of funds remain unexpended in their hands ; and, whereas, the G. L. ordered such funds to remain in their hands to be expended by them, under the supervision of the G. M., and you being fully acquainted with that arduous task performed by the above said com- mittee under your administration, I therefore hereby appoint you in my place and stead to supervise the expending of the funds on hand by the above said committee, and favor me with a report of your acts and doings in the premises before the next session of the G. L., and oblige. P>aternally yours, F. Bross, G. M. Chicago, March i, 1873. J. C. Smith, P. G. M., I. O. O. F., Galena. Dear Sir and Brother : Having been notified by Hon. F. Bross, M. W G. M., of the Grand Lodge of Illinois, that he had commissioned you to con- tinue the supervision of the work of our committee, until the conclusion of our labors, and having now closed our work, we request you, at your earliest convenience, to examine our books, accounts, vouchers, etc., to date. ■ ^ Yours fraternally, J. Ward Ellis, J John G. Rogers, \ Relief Com., I. O. O. F. "E. B. Sherman, ) I. O. O. F. J Office of J. C. Smith, P. G. M., Grand Lodge of Illinois, [■ Galena, April 4, 1873. ) Hon. Fredolin Bross, M. W. G. iM., I. O. O. F., Cairo, III. Dear Sir and Brother: Pursuant to your commission, I have continued the supervision of the distribution of the funds remaining in the hands of the Chicago Relief Committee at the last session of the Grand Lodge of Illinois, and at the close of such distribution, upon notice thereof, and at the request of said committee, I proceeded to Chicago, and made a careful examination of the books, accounts, vouchers, and papers of the committee, and from such supervision and examination I have the honor to submit the following final statement, compiled from their books : $4 Report of t^e Chicago By cash on hand at last report $3-794 30 Amount special fund book account $5,ooo oo To paid Boston relief $i,ooo oo " " Foreign relief and Cemetery Corn's 1,500 00 " " Printing 10,000 copies Report 2,475 00 4,975 00 By balance transferred to general account 25 00 Total $3,819 30 To paid expense account, postage, etc., etc 754 30 To expended in special relief as per vouchers on file 3,065 00 ^3,6ig 30 I further report that I found their books, accounts, and vouchers full and correct in all particulars, and that I fully approve all their acts in the premises. It is needless to reiterate what I have before said in my report to the Right Worthy Grand Lodge of Illinois, in commendation of the eminent brothers who compose that committee ; indeed, any words of eulogy I might here employ could scarcely add to the deserved meed of praise accorded them by the Grand Lodge of Illinois, the G. L. U. S., the many distinguished brothers from this and other jurisdictions who have visited them, and the fraternity at large. I should, however, do violence to my own feelings, and fail in justice to that committee, did I not repeat that in the discharge of the delicate trust confided to them, the committee have consulted with me so frequently before making such distribution that I may truly say that nearly all their acts have had my cordial approval before they were consummated. In closing my official connection with the Chicago Relief Committee, I desire to add that nothing could induce me again to undertake the exhausting labors of the past two years, unless in a similar emergency I might hope to be associated with a committee of brethren who would prove themselves as worthy of the confidence and esteem of the entire brotherhood as have P. G. Masters, J. Ward Ellis and John G. Rogers, and E. B. Sherman, P. G. Thanking you for the honor conferred, I am, Fraternally yours, J. C. Smith, P. G. M., G. R. I. O. O. F. ) Office of the M. W. G. M., Grand Lodge of Illinois, V Cairo, III., A/>n7 6, 1S73. ) J. C. Smith, P. G. M.. Galena, III. Dear Friend and Brother : Yours of the 4th instant, enclosing final report and closing up of all work committed to the Chicago Relief Com- mittee, came duly to hand. In my own name and on behalf of the Grand Relief Committee, I. O. O. F. Lodge of Illinois, 1 tender you heartfelt thanks for your sacrificing and untiring devotion to our cause. Truly sensible of your arduous and long- continued labors in this regard, I can but congratulate you upon your intimate connection with the ministrations of this magnificent charity. A grand opportunity has been nobly improved, and when the history of our fraternity shall be written, your name, linked with the names of the Chicago Relief Committee, I. O. O. will be inscribed upon its brightest page. Fraternally yours, F. Bross, Grand Master. Did space permit it would be interesting to extract largely from the many letters received by the committee ; containing, as they do, the most exalted sentiments of humanity and the tender est words of sympathy. We can give but a single extract from the eloquent and touch- ing words of Bro. James L. Ridgely : Baltimore, October 28///, 1871. E. B. Sherman, Esq. My Dear Brother : — Words of condolence and sympathy with your people and our brethren, in view of their unparalleled visitation and terrific trial, at this time of day would be no less ungracious than out of season ; it is the time of day for practical demonstration. And to that work we have been assiduously ^voted in this city. Everybody, I venture to say, has felt the power of duty and the spirit of fraternity to be irresistible as well as sponta- neous. All have responded nobly, some magnificently, and the influence has been so universal and diffusive, wherever civilization and Christianity prevail throughout the earth, that the oftering assumes the form of a grand apotheo- sis, symbolizing " humanity " as it was created in the image of God. Never before, in the history of the race, have such divine fruits been born of the human heart ; and well may we, as Odd Fellows, rejoice that in the beauty and loveliness of the development we contemplate the spirit of fraternity as taught by us. True it is that this element owes its vigor and refinement to the chasten- ing influences and guidance of Christianity ; yet it cannot be gainsaid or denied that our principles educate the heart in beautiful sympathy and fellow- ship with the teachings of the Master. But, my dear brother, I weary you with indiff"erent considerations in the midst of your tribulation. To tell you that Our hearts were sorely afflicted and bowed at your sufferings and the des- olation which wasted your Queen City, and agonized your people, and seemed at one time to doom them to annihilation, would but feebly convey the uni- versal prostration and paralysis whirh prevailed from time to time in this 86 Report of the Chicago country, as the winged messenger scattered the awful intelligence, from hour to hour, during the Monday and Tuesday succeeding the inception of the calamity. In truth, no words could even approximately describe the panic which bewildered and staggered the general mind. It is honorable, beyond expression, to contemplate the rapidity of the reaction of that mind after the paroxysm had passed, and the sweet community of heart and soul which constrained all classes and conditions of society " to weary not in well doing." Of course, the first consideration was to relieve and succor the suffering, irre- spective of its subjects. Odd Fellows, under this grand natural impulse, did their best as citizens. This done, their duty and obligations as brethren supervened ; and in this sphere, God be praised, have they measured up to the standards of our beloved Order. Nor have many of them stopped here. But, my brother, what is all this along-side of the terrific and overshadowing night of your desolation ? Comparatively nothing ; not more than the tiny, though beautiful globule, which kisses the opening petals of the morning flower, in contrast with the ocean waters. True as this relative compensation may be regarded in a material aspect, and dwarfed into insignificance as a substantive offering, under a sorrow which is without a parallel in our country, yet it is grateful to contemplate, as the gushing tear of a nation shed in vindi- cation of the truth of human brotherhood. May God commend the moral which the sad experience and its incidents have supplied to the whole world ; and may nations and peoples everywhere realize that "the Lord our God reigneth, and that there is none beside him." Brothers ! The burden placed upon us as almoners of your fraternal bounty, was one entailing incessant toil and harrowing care. Aware of the delicate and difficult trust committed to our hands, we accepted it with reluctance ; we surrender it with a satisfaction and a gladness born of a thorough appreciation of its arduous responsibilities. But we can never forget how grandly the fraternity everywhere responded to the signal of distress. They counted the electric flash too slow to bear us their precious sympathy I They vied with each other in the promptness and abundance of their offerings of love. Yet in all this there was no hurry, no clamor, no waste ; but a clear comprehension of the circumstances, and an instan- taneous adoption of the best methods of meeting the terrible emergency. Odd Fellowship has passed through Relief Committee, I. O. O. F. this trying ordeal triumpliantly, and her fair brow is to- day crowned with fresh laurels and radiant with a brigliter halo of glory. Reverently and truthfully it may adopt the language of the grand Patriarch of old, when in his conscious integrity, he declared : When the ear heard me, then it blessed me ; and when the eye saw me, it gave witness to me : because I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and him that had none to help. I was eyes to the blind, and feet was I to the lame. The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me : and I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy.'" And, as God placed upon tile brow of his faithful servant the crown of his royal approbation, so may we confidently hope for the divine benediction to rest upon our Order, inspired to deeds of sucli divine beneficence : for " God blesses still the generous thought, And still the fitting word He speeds, And Truth at His requiring taught, ' He quickens into deeds." To every jurisdiction, to every lodge, to every brother, whose heavenly charity we were commissioned to bear to those in sorrow and distress, we return the grateful thanks of those who were recipients of your offerings of love. May the Infinite and loving Father preserve you from ever draining the bitter chalice which was pressed to so many lips. But should you ever drink that cup of sorrow, may Heaven grant you the rich compensation of a like mani- festation of Fraternal Love. Mere words can pav no fitting tribute to tliis magnificent exhibition of tlie divine grace of Charity. Had we the gift of poesy we 88 Report of the Chicago would marry it to flowing, verbal music, and both should become immortal. Charity ! O ! never-failing theme, fresh and exhaust- less ! Sea of good unfathomable ! Spring of sweet delight, bubbling up forever ! Fountain whence flow all the gentle courtesies of life ! Offspring of divine Love I Twin sister of Piety ! Efflorescence of Virtue ! Potent Goddess, thy home is in Heaven ! Queen of the Earth, with benign sway thou reignest I All the virtues are thy maids of honor, all the graces follow in thy train I Thy breath is redolent with fragrant odors, and thy voice sweeter than tlie song of birds. With eager step dost thou follow the desolate track of war, and minister with gladness to the wounded and dying ; thy soft hand doth wipe the damp dews from the brow of death, when mother and sister are far away, for thou delightest in the ministry of good, and with heavenly tenderness earest for ^he widow and the orphan, and bindest up the broken heart, and comfortest the bereaved. Luminous with the radiance of paradise, thou dost drive away despair, and with matchless enchantment turnest into light the deep darkness of midnight. Queen of Vestals, we invoke thy perpetual benediction. Touch the hearts of thy loyal subjects with the holy flame which shall never be extin- guished. Consecrate humanity to divinest uses ; upon its sacred altar enkindle the living fire which shall burn until the dross of selfishness shall be utterly consumed. Sway thy scepter till all mankind shall yield thee willing homage, and all hearts confess thee Queen of Heaven and Earth ! THE LAKESIDE BUILDING.-Clark and Adams Sis., C APPENDIX. > DETAILED STATEMENT OF Contributions Received. ALABAMA. FROM LODGES. NAME. NO. LOCATION. AMOUNT. Cypress 31 Florence . . $10 00 ARKANSAS. FROM LODGES. N#ME. NO. LOCATION. AMOUNT. Grand Lodge 12 Little Rock $100 00 100 00 2 CO Pike Bagnell, Bro. J. Helena . _ g202 00 CALIFORNIA. FROM LODGES. NO. San Francisco | 3 Eureka ' 4 Yuba 5 Charity , 6 Auburn .... 7 El Dorado 1 8 LOCATION. San Francisco Sacramento . . JNIarysville Stockton Auburn Sacramento $200 00 30 GO 50 00 500 00 25 GO 200 00 4 Appendix. CALIFORNIA— Continued. NAME. I NO. I LOCATION. AMOUNT. Grass Valley . - Bros, of Harmony Mountain Verba Buena Oustomah Templar. Napa Vreka Morning Star Tuolumne Sierra Volcano Mountain Rose Sonoma Magnolia . Sutter Creek Forest City Hope -. San Jose Los Angeles __ Jackson Memento Placer. Kalmath San Pablo... Mokelumne Oriental Brooklyn Bidwell Union Table Rock lone ._- - Santa Clara . _ Santa Rosa Mistletoe Minerva Polar Star Shasta Mount Horeb Oroville _ _ North Star 12 I Grass Valley. 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 24 25 26 28 29 3i 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 41 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 61 San Francisco Michigan Bluff San Francisco . Nevada City San Francisco . Napa City 1 Yreka . _ j Placerville -j Columbia . . Downieville , . . Volcano Rough and Ready Sonoma San Francisco _ Sutter Creek Forest City Angel's Camp. . San Jose Los Angeles Jackson Georgetown Iowa Hill Crescent City Vallejo Mokelumne Marysville Red Dog Oroville Moore's Flat St. Louis lone City. Santa Clara Santa Rosa ... Alleghany Todd's Valley Fair Play Shasta _ _ Shaw's Flat Oroville Weaverville b 100 00 77 00 100 OC 00 1,000 00 00 1,000 00 GO 32 50 130 50 100 00 SO 00 10 00 53 00 40 00 2C50 00 60 00 so 00 2S 00 112 SO 50 00 2S J 00 III 00 10 00 2S 00 20 y SO 100 00 2qo 00 27 00 80 00 50 00 20 00 15 50 50 00 50 00 58 50 10 00 25 00 25 00 25 00 50 00 20 00 Appendix. CALIFORNIA— Continued. 5 LOCATION. Granite -- Healdsburg La Fayette San Juan Big Tree Bay City Covenant, Bros, of Franklin French Gulch Red Bluff Humboldt Suisun Telegraph Olive Vacaville Comet Anniversary Sharon Plumas __.! Pajaro Cherokee, Bros, of Crusade Four Creaks Branciforte Yo Semite Jefferson Hornitas, Bros, of Sutter Marion, Bros, of Scio Schiller Mineral Valley.- Bay View. Oso, Bros, of Woodland Abou Ben Adhem Mission Peak Fort Jones Germania Willow Apollo 62 64 65 67 68 71 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 81 83 84 85 86 88 90 92 93 94 96 97 98 99 100 lOI 102 105 io6 107 109 1 10 III 112 114 115 116 121 123 Folsom Healdsburg La Grange North San Juan Murphy's San Francisco . Forest Hill Placerville French Gulch . . Red Bluff Eureka Suisun Fiddletown Dutch Flat .... Vacaville Trinity Centre , Areata Vallecito Quincy Watsonviile Cherokee Flat. . Alvarado Visalia Santa Cruz Big Oak Flat.. Woodbridge . . . Hornitas . . Wlieatland Sawyer's Bar Linden Sacramento Copperopolis . . Lincoln Redwood City . Bear Valley Woodland San Francisco . Washington C'rs Fort Jones San Francisco . Snelling San Francisco . 6 Appendix. CALIFORNIA— Continued I NO. Apollo Bros, of Parker Samaritan Mt. Diablo Sycamore Clear Lake Unity Colusa Progressive Indian Valley Soquel - . Bohen, Bros, of Gold Run Miliville Garden City . University Hermann San Bernardino Havilah Friendship San Joaquin Salinas San Diego Gilroy . Pacific Santa Barbara Industrial Independence, Bros, of Golden Rule Donner " Bros. of... Alisal Encinal . . . . . Golden Star Mound St. Helena Chorro ... Yolo Ophir . Montezuma Ukiah 1 74 Dayton I175 123 124 126 128 129 130 131 133 134 136 137 138 139 141 142 144 145 146 148 150 151 152 153 154 ^55 156 157 158 t6o 162 n 163 164 165 166 167 168 169 171 172 LOC.VTION. San Francisco - Washington _ . . . Somerville Hay ward's . Clear Lake Mission Dolores Colusa Lockford Taylorville Soquel Willmington Gold Run Miliville ... San Jose Oakland San Francisco _ San Bernardino Havilah Guenoc Antioch Castroville . San Diego Gilroy San Fiancisco _ Santa Barbara . - Sacramento Railroad Flat . . . Los Angeles Truckee Salinas City Alameda Grass Valley Hollister St. Helena . San Luis Obispo. Davisville San Francisco Dixon Ukiah Dayton Appendix. CALIFORNIA— Continued. 7 NAME. AUemania Occidental Monterey Tehama, Bros, of Etna Yuba City Fresno " Brothers of Fredonia Alpine Mayfield Victoria Columbia N. Westminster Excelsior " Brothers of . 78 79 82 83 48 90 92 I 2 3 LOCATION. San Jose San Francisco Monterey Tehama Etna Yuba City Millertown Smartvilles Victoria, V. I. N. Westminster, V. I. Honolulu, S. Islands AMOUNT. $ 25 GO 220 GO 68 75 15 OG 30 GG 50 00 50 00 50 00 25 00 45 00 33 30 200 00 100 00 5G 00 211 00 118 GO $14,169 30 FROM ENCAMPMENTS. Marysvilk; _ Stella Wildey Mt. Moriah 23 38 Marysville Weaverville . _ San Francisco Vallejo I5G GO 30 GG IGG GO 66 GG 346 GO FROM OTHER SOURCES. Premium on gold An Ancient Odd - Fellow Hartford Joy Hutchinson & Coggswell J. H. Dibble Geo. A. Treat Bro. Glover, of California Lodge No. i 1,757 37 3 00 5 00 30 GG 100 GG IG GG 2G GG $ i>925 37 8 Appendix. CALIFORNIA— Continued. AMOUNT RETURNED. To T. Rodgers Johnson, G. Sec'y ^ Ij93o 77 Currency j 40 00 ' S 1,970 77 TOTAL AMOUNT OF CONTRIBUTIONS. From Lodges §14,169 30 " Encampments . 346 00 Other sources Less amount returned Amount retained for relief. 1,925 37 $16,440 67 1,97^ 77 $14,469 90 COLORADO. FROM LODGES. NAME, NO. LOCATION. AMOUrTT. Grand Lodge 3 4 9 1 1 S 50 00 25 00 50 00 20 00 30 GO Si 75 00 Colorado . Denver Black Hawk Denver Pueblo Pueblo South Park Fair Play . _ CONNECTICUT. FROM LODGES. NAME. NO. I 3 4 5 LOCATION. AMOUNT. Quinnipiac Middlesex Pequonnoc . New Haven East Haddam Bridgeport New Haven S 250 GO 50 GO I GO GO 300 00 Appendix. 9 CONNECTICUT— Continued. NAME. Ousatonic Our Brothers Central - Wopoage Montewese . . Fenwick . Nosahogan . . . Rippowam . . . City. Wooster . Pilgrim Xaugatuck Meriden Centre. .. Germania Hartford... Steuben | 83 Rock Rimmon i 84 6 10 12 14 15 20 21 24 36 37 46 63 68 78 82 Pequot Relief. 85 86 LOCATION Birmingham . . Norwalk Middletown . . Milford New Haven Essex Waterbury Stamford New Haven New Canaan . . Ridgefield Ansonia Meriden New Haven Hartford Bridgeport Beacon Falls . New London.. New Haven Interest S 100 00 200 00 120 00 50 00 25 00 17 75 100 00 50 00 280 00 25 00 25 00 85 00 20 00 200 00 150 00 ICQ 00 10 GO 50 00 25 00 8 61 IS 2,341 36 DELAWARE. FROM LODGES. Grand Lodge Delaware ... Jefferson . Union ... Mechanics Washington Morning Star Fairfax Crystal Fount _ _ 10 Patrick Henry 11 Golden Rule 17 Brandy wine 18 Star of Bethel. j 19 LOCATION. Wilmington Georgetown ... Wilmington New Castle Smyrna Wilmington ... . Milford' Delaware City { Milton Brandywine Banks 1 I Brandywine Head | AMOUNT. 500 GO 75 OG 100 GO IG OG IGG OG 25 GG 25 GG loo 00 25 00 IG GG IG GG 25 GG lo ' Appendix. DELAWARE — Continued. Amity . Hope Columbia Hermann j 29 National ' -12 20 21 26 Chosen Friends 53 LOCATION Camden . Wilmington . . . a (( St. Georges Harrington AMOUNT. 00 00 00 00 25 00 16 25 I 1,196 25 DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. FROM LODGES. Central W^ashington Eastern Harmony _ . Columbia _ _ Union Friendship , Covenant _ _ Beacon Metropolis . Excelsior _ _ Mechanics . I 6 7 9 10 1 1 12 13 15 16 17 Oriental - - 19 AMOUNT. «I 00 100 00 47 '50 53 00 ICQ GO 25 GO 105 GO 9 75 54 50 61 50 17 00 50 GG 32 50 S736 75 FROM ENCAMPMENTS. Columbian . _ Magenenu. _ Ridgely Mount Nebo $ 50 00 50 00 18 GG 28 5G $146 50 Appendix. II DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA— Continued. FROM OTHER SOURCES. Daughters of Rebecca Association, No. Knights of the New World § 20 00 25 00 $ 45 00 TOTAL AMOUNT CONTRIBUTED. From Lodges " Encampments " Other sources Returned to P. Hall Sweet, Grand Secretary Retained for relief $736 75 146 50 45 00 $928 25 43 25 $885 00 GEORGIA. FROM LODGES. #NAME. NO. LOCATION Oglethorpe \ 1 Franklin i 2 United Brothers , 5 Cherokee 8 Miller Savannah Macon Marietta 10 Augusta. Athens. . Warren 20 Grifhn .. Mountain 27 Dalton.. Central 28 Atlanta . Williams 15 $ 50 00 25 00 25 00 26 00 36 00 25 00 25 00 15 00 25 00 §252 00 RECEIVED AND RETURNED. Rome, Brothers of 40 Rome 17 90 Amount retained 1 $252 00 12 Appendix. ILLINOIS FROM LODGES. NAME. Grand Lodge Western Star Alton Clark mini.. Wildey Sangamon . Shawnee. Quincy : Marion Olive Branch Ark Galena Rock Island He'bron Columbia Des Plaines.- Neilson Powhan Winnebago. . . Hardin Mokena Wabash Marquette Nashville Dixon Montgomery Ottawa _ Madison " Brothers of Memento - Waubonsie Edwardsville Kane Covenant Bethel Carroll Fulton Sparta Empire. . . I NO. I 2 3 4 5 6 lO 12 13 15 i6 17 i8 19 21 23 25 29 31 33 34 35 36 37 39 40 41 43 (( 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 54 LOCATION. Alton Greenville Jacksonville . . . Galena Springfield Shawneetown . Quincy Mount Vernon. Canton Beardstown Galena Rock Island... Equality Peoria Lockport Troy - Joliet Rockford . Elizabeth , Peru Mount Carmel Quincy Nashville Dixon Hillsboro Ottawa Collinsville Farmington . . . Aurora . . . Edwardsville .. Elgin Pekin. Bethel Mount Carroll Lewiston Sparta Elizabethtown . $ 2 000 00 50 GO 100 GO 50 00 125 00 100 GO 60 GG 50 00 IGG OG IgS GG IGG GG 50 00 3OG GG IGG GO 50 GG 2GG GG 50 00 25 00 60 00 IGG GG 30 GG IGG GG 50 GO 250 GG 50 00 IGG GG 36 GG 150 GO 5 40 76 50 IGG GG IGG GG 68 25 43 ^'^ 50 GO 30 GO 100 00 II 00 31 00 37 00 Appendix. ILLIN-OIS — Continued. 13 LOCATION. Chester . Marshall .'. Eureka Decatur Saxon. Danville - Pioneer Hancock Irene Pike.. Iroquois Star Remembrance Spoon River Vermont, and Bros... Richview Concord Dallas Chosen Friends Six Mile Lacon Tonnaluka 63 64 65 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 77 78 79 80 82 85 86 87 88 89 Kickapo€) i 90 Edgar 91 Pittsfield.. 95 Olive 98 Opal 99 Jephtha 100 Lasalle loi Hutsonville 106 Fort Clark Mount Olive Hennepin St. Clair Franklin . Friends Bath Mt. Pleasant, and Bros. Wethersfield Diligence. 129 Amity 132 Moline .133 109 114 118 119 121 122 125 126 128 Chester Henry Marshall Decatur Virginia . Danville Winchester . . Warsaw Versailles Griggsville . . Watseka Morris Bloomington . Ellisville Vermont Richview. . . . Concord Effingham Metropolis . . Venice Lacon Princeton . . . Charleston . . Paris ... Pittsfield Clinton Grayville Clayton Lasalle Hutsonville . . Peoria Salem Hennepin Lebanon Franklin Vandalia Bath Farmer City. Kewanee Princeville . . Murphysboro Moline 14 Appendix. ILLINOIS — Continued. Moline Brothers of Martinsville . . . Meredosia, and Bros.. Social Galesburg Mason Military Tract Shawbenee . . Leroy. Warren Newton ..: Newark Savanna Little Rock, Bros, of- _ Geneseo . Pecatonica. . Sterling, Brothers of. . Logan Pocahontas . Crystal Fount Richland South Somonauk Eschol Abingdon . . Celestial New Boston Carmi Central, Brothers of. . Hamilton Girard, Brothers of Tranquil Calumet Polo-. Schiller " Bros. of. . ... Litchfield Lincoln McLean Siloam Onarga Cortland, Brothers of. Mercer ,. 133 134 138 140 142 143 145 146 149 160 161 162 164 171 172 173 174 176 177 178 180 181 182 184 J 86 188 189 190 191 192 193 196 197 200 204 206 207 208 209 210 LOCATION. Moline Martinsville Meredosia Rockford Galesburg Havana _ Macomb. Durand. Leroy Monmouth Newton Newark Savanna _ . Piano Geneseo. Pecatonica . Sterling Atlanta Pocahontas Dover Olney Somonauk Raleigh Abingdon Decatur. New Boston Carmi Carthage McLeansboro Girard . . Oquawka ... Chillicothe Polo-... Pekin a Litchfield Lincoln Lexington Delavan Onarga Cortland Station Keithsburg AMOUNT, 50 00 55 00 17 00 52 00 68 00 100 00 100 50 30 00 50 00 40 00 35 00 6 00 50 00 14 00 50 00 100 00 40 00 50 GO 35 00 33 00 150 00 25 00 25 00 50 00 200 00 42 00 13 00 52 00 50 00 46 50 25 00 15 00 65 00 ICQ 00 30 00 50 GO 100 GO I GO GO 31 75 I GO 00 15 00 35 00 Appendix. ^5 ILLINOIS — Continued. Sandwich Orphan's Hope Camp Point Howard Wilhelm Tell Traveler's Rest Alexander, Bros, of Benevolent Illinois City Hickory Grove Aledo Exeter 238 Freeport '239 LOCATION. 212 213 218 219 220 224 227 229 230 236 Urania. . Wyomin< Sumner . Homer. . Melrose - 243 244 249 252 254 Maquon 1256 Oak. Grove _ . Charter Ridgely . Coles Cofuntv 257 258 259 260 Pontiac I26: New Hope Herr Rochester Elsah Windsor Industry I271 Bridgeport j282 Bros. of--.. " Charity 284 263 265 268 269 270 r.gypt s Star Humboldt ... Liberty . Chambersburg Areola . Hiawatha Golconda ^292 Shabbona, Bros, of 294 Western 295 1285 286 287 288 289 291 Sandwich Xenia Camp Point . . Kankakee City Joliet Gillespie Cairo Whitehall . - _ - Illinois City... Rochelle Aledo Exeter. Freeport .. Jacksonville . . . Wyoming . Sumner . . . Homer Melrose Maquon Morrison Bunker Hill . . . Warren . . Mattoon Pontiac Blandinville _ . . Bloomington . _ . Rochester Elsah . Windsor Industrv Okaw..' _ . Benton Redbud Mascoutah Liberty Chambersburg Areola Anna Golconda Earlville Peoria 25 50 10 00 75 00 50 00 100 00 20 00 119 25 50 00 26 00 65 00 10 00 56 00 100 00 50 00 30 GO 5 00 35 00 10 00 25 00 50 00 50 GO 100 GO lOG 00 47 00 50 00 50 GO 20 GO 10 GO 6g GG 5 50 27 GO 14 50 50 GG 15 OG 40 00 25 GO 16 GO 25 OG 50 GG 50 GG 16 75 150 00 i6 Appendix. ILLINOIS — Continued. NAME. Tonica Germania. Mount Zion WilL- --- Ashley. - Concordia Coal Valley National Ohio, Bros, of Clayton, Bros, of Enfield - - : - - Maroa - Tuscola - Niantic. _ Fairmount . . - Johann Huss.. Steuben Globe- Patoka Moonlight Lessing-- Bavaria. Walpole . - Champaign Adar Koerner " Bros, of Barry Mason City Belleville Oak Carrollton and Bros. of, Dongola Irwin - Mozart Cerro Gordo Palmyra Carlinville Rockwood Leland Rosedale Ross 299 300 301 302 303 304 306 311 312 313 314 316 318 319 320 321 323 324 325 326 327 328 333 334 335 i( 336 337 338 341 342 343 344 345 346 348 350 351 352 354 355 LOCATION. Tonica Alton Mount Zion . . . Wilmington Ashley Aurora Coal Valley Washington Eureka Sparland Enfield Maroa Tuscola Niantic Fairmount Geneseo Galena Mechanicsburg Patoka Bristol Station . Ottawa El Paso Griswold Champaign Pana Pittsfield Barry Mason City Belleville , Prentice Carrollton Dongola Bement Lincoln Cerro Gordo. . Palmyra Carlinville Rockwood Leland Kinmundy . . . Majority Point 40 00 100 00 10 00 50 00 43 00 117 00 100 00 30 00 34 00 40 00 50 GO 50 00 IOC 00 27 00 19 40 50 00 50 00 12 50 40 00 6 00 120 00 14 00 25 00 50 00 40 00 22 GO 8 GO 75 00 35 00 lOG GO 50 OG 234 GO 13 GO 50 OG 50 00 28 GO 50 OG 25 GG 3G GG IG GO 25 GG 50 00 Appendix. 17 ILLINOIS — Continued. LOCATION. Lynnville 1356 Darwin. 359 Bowen 360 Paxton - Woodford Mispah, Bros, of Adams Brighton Pestalozzi Enterprise Yates City Bardolph J. R. Scroggs Golden Rule Davis Minonk Good- Will Bros. of.. San Jose Irvington Clover Clay City Arbeite» Arrow Chenoa, Bros, of Kankakee City Edina Williamson Rome Alliance . _ Welcome Tonti Minooka, Bros. of. . Selah ... Robert Brooker Franklin Grove Elwood AUemania Denver 1 41 2 Taylorville, Bros. of.J4i3 Mattoon German I414 Murray ville -- - 1415 362 363 364 365 366 367 369 370 371 372 374 376 377 379 a 380 381 383 384 385 386 387 390 391 392 394 395 396 399 401 403 406 409 410 411 Lynnville . . Darwin Bowensburg Paxton Metamora. . Philo - . - - - Quincy Brighton Alton Belleville Yates City Bardolph Orangeville East St. Louis Davis.- Minonk Forrestville San Jose Irvington Woodhull Clay City Nashville Harrisburg Chenoa Kankakee Streator Marion Dix Odin Staunton Ottawa Minooka Monticello Quincy Franklin Grove Elwood Mendota Denver Taylorville Mattoon Murravville 25 10 15 50 27 35 100 15 25 ICQ 25 10 10 72 20 50 35 45 35 50 39 2 2 30 50 20 100 32 25 60 20 30 100 10 24 100 60 8 50 15 40 50 CO 00 00 00 85 50 00 00 00 GO 00 00 GO GO GO GO GO GO 00 GO GO GO GO GO GO GO 75 GO GO 00 00 GO 00 GO GO GO GO GO GO GO GO 00 i8 Appendix. ILLINOIS — Continued. Beacon Light Arlington Mystic, Bros, of Greenwood Greenview Bros. of-_.. Pvock Creek Crescent Rantoul Bureau Marble City Mutual O'Fallon Douglas Pride of the Valley ) and Bros, of _ . . . j Jefferson City Dewees Chapin First Scandinavian Silurian ... Buckley, Bros, of Relief. Elkton Mount Pulaski Jupiter Otterville Morrisonville Murphysboro O'Fallon German Odell Myrtle 417 418 420 421 423 u 424 426 427 428 429 430 431 432 435 439 441 443 446 449 450 452 453 454 455 456 459 461 463 464 470 LOCATION. Grand Tower. Arlington Edgewood Buck Inn Greenview Lanark Caseyville Rantoul Princeton Lemont Kane O'Fallon Chicago.- East St. Louis Jefferson City. Alexander Chapin Galesburg Grafton Buckley South Pass Elkton Mount Pulaski Effingham Otter Creek . . Morrisonville . Murphysboro _ O'Fallon Odell Middletown . . AMOUNT. 20 CO 2 1 00 14 GO 50 00 100 00 41 00 27 25 24 GO 50 GO 50 GO 50 00 16 00 32 50 50 GO 37 00 20 00 22 50 30 00 37 00 37 00 2G GG 7 50 29 75 15 00 2G GG 2G GG 30 GO 37 00 25 00 23 GO 16 GG $17,244 80 FROM ENCAMPMENTS. NAME. NO. LOCATION. AMOUNT. Lead Mine 5 12 15 Galena $ 5G GO 50 00 250 GO Rock Island Rock Island Peoria Appendix. ILLINOIS — Continued. NAME. NO. LOCATION. AMOUNT. Ottawa 33 50 69 76 90 Ottawa 25 00 25 00 25 00 25 00 Bethel Morrison Anna Anna Pekin Pekin Mascoutah Mascoutah 3 490 00 FROM OTHER SOURCES. NAME. -1 LOC.\TION. AM' TNT. Winnesheik Lodge ^ 30 Freeport $ 100 CO (Spent by the Lodge for family of a Brother.) DONATIONS OTHER THAN MONEY FROM LODGES. N.A.ME. NO. LOC.VnON. estima'd value. St. Charles Memento Empire. Iris ..^ _ - Calhoun 14 44 54 267 444 St. Charles Farmington _ Elizabethtown Millersburg Hardin $ 57 50 50 00 20 00 70 00 40 00 S -37 50 FROM OTHER SOURCES. From Bro. H. Horn and other Bros., Du Quoin . " " L. Dodge, Chicago " C. B. Hefter, " " Monmouth " Ladies of Peoria, value of work done ESTI.VIATED. 8 440 00 4 50 3 00 70 00 S S17 DONATIONS SENT BUT NOT RECEIVED. NAME. NO. LOCATION. AMOUNT. Bros, of Oregon 94 Oregon S 13 00 20 Appendix. ILLIN OIS — Continued. CASH DONATIONS RECEIVED AND RETURNED — FROM LODGES. NAME, Napierville Amicitia Stark .._ Atalanta Portland Teutonia North Fork Farmers' _ _ . _ _ Carbon Livingston •_ _ . _ Fox River Browning Butler, Bros, of Biishnell Giittenburg Sherman Chatsworth Neoga Sheldon Utica, Bros, of Ashton _ _ Galatia Mount Carbon Pleasant HilL. Springfield Newman 8i 83 96 116 148 166 245 253 276 290 297 309 317 322 331 332 339 347 349 402 422 433 434 462 465 469 LOCATION Napierville ._. Naples Toulon Greenup Fulton Springfield Rossville Milford De Soto Fairbury Yorkville . Browning Butler Bushnell _ . Napierville Nokpmis Chatsworth Neoga Sheldon Utica Ashton Galatia Murphysbero _ Pleasant Hill . Springfield Newman AMOUNT. $25 00 50 GO 10 CO 26 00 17 00 25 00 26 00 36 00 32 00 15 00 15 00 31 60 16 00 20 00 25 00 16 00 31 GO 10 00 37 00 26 00 8 GO 20 00 45 00 24 GO 5G GO 6 00 $642 60 RECAPITULATION. Received from Lodges " " Encampments " " Other sources _ Lesc cash returned $642 60 " " not received 13 oo Cash retained by Committee Value of Donations not cash Retained by Conimittee , ;i 7,998 40 49G OG IGG OG $18,588 4G 655 60 $17,932 80 1,055 00 $18,987 80 Appendix. 21 INDIANA. FROM LODGES. NA.ME. Grand Lodge New Albany . Monroe Jefferson Morning Star- Patriot NO. 3 7 9 New Albany } lo 1 1 13 14 15 23 25 31 36 Washington Chosen Friends Fort Wayne Lafayette Hoosier Heneosis Adelphon Fayette Laporte Bros, of... Shelby White Water Lafontaine Putnam. St. Anastasia Mesnil. Rochester 39 41 42 45 46 47 Carlisle 50 Cheqiieuk Columbus Ridgely Princeton Ringgold Eden Mount Ida Magnolia Amana Hope ... New Harmony Guilford Americus Sherlock Charleston Mississinnewa . Dufour loi 56 58 61 64 66 69 73 80 82 83 87 90 91 93 94 96 LOCATION, New Albany __ Madison Jefferson Evansville Patriot New Albany.. Madison Aurora . . Fort Wayne Lafayette Centreville Delphi Connersville. . Laporte Shelbyville Richmond Huntington . _ Greencastle Wabash Rochester Carlisle Valparaiso Columbus Ladoga Princeton Lagro Kewanna Vernon Fairfield Jonesboro New Albany. . New Harmon) Guilford Plymouth Madison Charleston Marion Rainsville AMOUNT. $250 GO 60 00 25 00 50 00 50 00 50 00 350 GO 10 00 25 00 lOG GO IGG GO 50 00 10 00 50 GO 50 00 50 00 25 00 30 GO 10 GO 50 00 25 GO 25 GO IG GO 25 GG IG GG 25 GG 2G GO 15 GO 10 GO 50 GO no 00 2G GO 223 GO 10 GG 25 GO 50 GG 2d GO 25 GO 53 00 25 GO Appendix INDIANA — Continued. LOCATION. Miriam. _ Liverpool Carpentersville - Auburn Versailles Chinkaroror Silcox Capital _ _ . Indiana _ _ Moore's Hill , . . Reliance Anderson Kokomo Greenfield Everton Spencer Eureka Taylor Union City Abington Morton Star in the West Cecelia Richland . Angola Rossville Shannondale Selma Crown Point Greenwood Seymour Tell City Stuartsville . Brazil Crawfordsville - _ . Border Galveston Concordia Adullum. Alamo McCarty Humboldt io6 I lO 115 116 117 120 123 124 126 127 130 131 133 135 139 140 142 148 152 154 155 159 166 171 180 183 187 189 195 198 204 206 214 215 223 224 225 228 229 230 233 ;234 Elrod Washington Carpentersville. Auburn . _ . Versailles Williamsburg . . Danville _ Indianapolis _ _ . Vevay Moore's Hill... Paoli Anderson . Kokomo Greenfield . Everton Rockport Leavenworth . . Taylorsville Union City Abington . Liberty La Grange Bloomington _ . . Newtoii Angola Rossville Shannondale Selma Crown Point Greenwood Seymour Tell City Stuartsville Brazil Crawfordsville . College Corner. Galveston Fort Wayne . . . Michigan City . Alamo - Plainfield New Albany Appendix. INDIANA — Continued. 23 NO. LOCATION. Young America ' 243 Lowell - - Cicero New Haven Carthage Pierceton Michigan City Caldwell TelL-. Callis Little River CharlottsviUe White River Schuyler Zionsville, Bros. of. Monitor Magenta. Fortuna DeWolf Orleans . . Ridgeville Grandview Rockfifld Mount yEtna . _ Walton Clear Spring Waverley Tetersburg Waynetown Old Post Earle Grant Alma New Garden Greenville Greencastle Medora Whitestown Heart and Hand - . _ Arcadia . Clay Young America Lowell Cicero New Haven Carthage Pierceton Michigan City _ Oaktown Jeffersonville Martinsville Roanoke CharlottsviUe . - Edwardsport . . Remington Zionsville Mishawaka Wheeler Lawrenceburg .. Wheatland Orleans Ridgeville Grandview Rockfield Mount ^tna - . Walton Mooney Waverley Tetersburg Waynetown Vincennes Hobart Red Key Booneville New Garden . . Greenville Greencastle Medora Whitestown Albany . Arcadia Harmony Dover ^ 10 00 5 00 10 00 20 00 30 00 25 00 25 00 21 30 25 GO 109 19 20 GO 5 00 25 GO 28 OG IG GG lOG GG 15 GG IG GG 2 GG 25 GG 5 00 IG GG 20 GG IG GO 13 GG 5 00 I 2 GO IG GG 5 00 IG GO IG GO 5 00 10 GG 26 50 20 GG 50 OG 43 50 25 GO 5 00 II 50 5 00 10 5Q $4,376 14 24 Appendix. INDIANA — Continued. FROM ENCAMPMENTS. NAME. NO. LOCATION. AMOUNT. Grand Encampment _ Ebronah $ lOO OO 25 00 $ 125 00 21 Wabash . _ FROM R. D. LODGES. NAME. NO. LOCATION. AMOUNT. Fidelity 22 Mishawaka $ 86 00 FROM OTHER SOURCES. Odd Fellows, by C. E. Hosford, Terre Haute J. B. Chadwick, Brazil Lodge, No. 215 $ 280 25 I 00 $ 281 25 DONATIONS OTHER THAN CASH. From Fidelity R. D. Lodge, No. 22, estimated value, " Plymouth 50 00 100 00 $ 150 00 CASH DONATIONS RECEIVED AND RETURNED. NAME. NO. LOCATION. AMOUNT. Lebanon 48 187 328 Lebanon . $ 50 00 6 00 Shannondale Shannondale Greentown Greentown 10 50 S 66 50 Appendix, 25 IN DIANA — Continued. AMOUNT OF CASH CONTRIBUTIONS From Lodges *" Encampments " R. D. Lodges " Other sources Less amount returned Amount retained for Relief Value of Donations Total $4,442 64 125 GO 86 00 281 25 $4,934 89 66 50 $4,868 39 150 00 $5>oi8 39 IOWA. FROM LODGES. LOCATION. Grand Lodge Washington Muscatifie Kosciusko Davenport Manitou Ottumwa Henry _ Schiller Julian Keokuk, Bros, of Mahaska Wildey.... Osceola Louisa " Bros, of Bonaparte . . . . Bloomfield Fort Des Moines ... Troy Garnavillo Empire _ 10 1 1 1 2 13 16 17 18 19 u 22 23 25 27 29 31 Burlington Muscatine Iowa City Davenport Tipton Ottumwa Mount Pleasant Dubuque Keokuk Oskaloosa . . Farmington Marion Wapello--.. Bonaparte Bloomfield - - Des Moines . Troy Garnavillo . - . Fort Madison $ 500 00 ICQ GO 25 GO 15 OG 25 GO 50 GG 55 00 50 GO 100 00 100 00 75 00 25 GO IG GG 25 GG 20 GG 15 GG IG 00 50 OG IGO GO IG GO I I GG 50 00 26 Appendix. IOWA — Continued. Kossuth Scott Lafayette Puckechetuck Eureka Delhi Salem Council Bluffs Colony Mystic Winneshiek, Bros, of _ Franklin Indianola Central - Montezuma Centreville. Hamilton Boonsboro - Monroe Eagle Knoxville Bedford Glenwood Sigourney Arcturus Covenant Pulaski Clarinda Itasca - Germania Brooklyn Hermann . _ _ Banner _ . Goethe Commercial _ . Afton Carlisle Madison Jonathan _ . Relief Cedar Rapids Burr Oak _ 32 37 39 43 44 46 48 49 50 55 58 59 70 73 74 76 78 79 81 86 90 91 97 98 100 lOI 107 109 III 112 114 116 123 211 128 130 131 136 137 138 141 143 LOCATION. AMOUxXT. Richland Davenport Sabula Keokuk Iowa City Delhi Salem . _ _ Council Bluffs . Colony Mount Pleasant Decorah Quasqueton Indianola Newton Montezuma Centreville Hamilton Boonsboro Albia Dewitt Knoxville Bedford Glenwood Sigourney Iowa Falls Washington Wilton Junction Clarinda McGregor Franklin Centre Brooklyn Keokuk Marshalltown __ Oskaloosa Afton Carlisle Winterset Des Moines Lowell Cedar Rapids. . Burr Oak 10 00 50 00 25 GO 75 00 ICQ CO 10 00 25 00 25 00 50 00 50 00 63 00 25 00 50 00 20 GO 10 GO 20 00 5 00 10 GO 25 00 50 25 GG 5 00 IG GO IGO GG IG GG 15 GG IG GG 25 GG 25 GO IG GO 25 GO 84 00 80 65 25 CO 16 50 5 00 27 00 41 50 5 00 IG GG IG 00 Appendix. IOWA — Continued. 27 I NO. i LOCATION. Prairie City 144 Walhalla •-ii5o Belle Plaine '151 Tama City 152 156 159 167 168 175 183 189 192 193 197 199 201 Northern Light. Enterprise Viola - - Jasper Atlantic, Bros. of. Mozart Chorazin, Bros, of, Victor Rescue Hamburg Tabor Robert Blum Stilesville Pleasanton . _ 204 Green Mountain 205 Harmonia 1209 Dexter 1215 Audubc»n '217 221 222 223 228 Storm Lake Boone. _ Stella, Bros, of . College Springs. Prairie City Clinton City Belle Plaine . - . Tama City Monana Talleyrand Viola^_ Monroe Atlantic Cedar Rapids . . Ackley Victor Denmark Hamburg Tabor Tama City Stilesville . Pleasanton Brighton Burlington Dexter Louisville Storm Lake Boone Anamosa College Springs $3,098 oc FROM ENCAMPMENTS. LOC.\TTOX. AMOUNT. Grand Encampment . [ | $ 100 00 Eureka. Burlington 10 00 $ I 10 CO 28 Appendix. IOWA — Continued. FROM OTHERS. Brothers of Dubuque $ lOO 00 Patriarch of Hamburg 50 $ lOO 50 TOTAL AMOUNT CONTRIBUTED. Total amount contributed - - 50 Less in hands of Wm. Garret, Gr. Sec. _ _ 20 37 Total received . - _ $3>288 13 REPORTED BY WM. GARRET, GR. SEC, BUT NOT SENT TO THE COMMITTEE. NAME. NO LOCATION. AMOUNT. Davenport* Ottumwa* 7 9 Davenport Ottumwa $ 25 00 100 00 $ 125 00 KANSAS. FROM LODGES. NAME. Grand Lodge Shawnee, Bros. of. . Leavenworth . . Bros, of Friendship, Bros, of White Cloud Burlingame Union. Garrett, Bros, of - - - Fort Scott 22 Bros. of... I " LOCATION. Topeka . Leavenworth Atchison White Cloud Burlingame - _ Emporia Garrett Fort Scott- _. $ 500 00 25 00 100 00 30 00 53 50 10 00 50 00 25 00 18 00 16 00 10 00 ♦ Sent to a Brother in Chicago. Appendix. KANSAS — Continued. 29 Gardner Pardee Metropolitan, Bros, of Salina Schiller " Bros, of Holton,Bros. of and Visiting Bros. Wildey Topeka, Bros, of Phoenix Council Grove Clinton, Bros, of Eureka " Bros. of.-.. Arvonia " Bros. of-. - Olanthe Bros of Excelsior Lynden Highland, Bros, of. Forrest . . Borthers of the Order Lodge there NO. 23 26 27 28 33 u 34 37 40 41 43 47 52 54 59 u 61 62 67 71 LOCATION. Gardner Pardee Leavenworth Salina Atchison Holton Coyville Topeka Wathena Council Grove Clinto-n . Eureka Arvonia. Olanthe . Lawrence Lynden . _ Highland Shawnee _ residing at Wichita — no Less returned to S. F. Burdett, Gr. Sec. Amount retained by Committee $ 5 00 10 GO 20 00 50 00 50 CO 18 50 20 50 25 00 20 00 49 50 25 GO I I OG 25 00 15 GO IG GG 5 00 25 GG 18 5G 25 GG 5 00 5 00 15 GG 9 GG $1,299 5G 136 GG $1,163 5G KENTUCKY. FROM LODGES. NAME. Chosen Friends Watson yEolian . . . " Bros, of 2 32 51 LOCATION. Louisville Mount Sterling Bowling Green 5225 GG 203 GO IGG GG 21 GG 30 Appendix. K ENTUCKY— Continued. NAME. NO. LOCATION. AMOUNT. North Star, Bros. of. _ Good Intent 76 166 Newport Covington S 136 88 150 00 $ 835 88 DONATIONS OTHER THAN CASH. Relief Committee, Louisville Louisville Committee in Chicago . . Total value of contributions LOUISIANA. FROM LODGES. $1,645 48 250 GO 11,895 48 )2,73i 36 Independence 23 Germania 29 LOCATION. New Orleans. $ 100 GO 100 GO 20G GO LOWER PROVINCES — B. N. A. FROM LODGES. NAME. NO. 6 1 1 LOCATION. AMOUNT. Eastern Star . . Picton % 60 00 31 OG 14 36 Norton New Glascow Westville Premium on Gold S 155 36 Appendix. 3^ MAINE. FROM LODGES. Maine Ancient Brothers . Ligonia Penobscot Saccarappa _ . Androscoggin LOCATION. Laconia Oriental Manufacturers and { • ^ Mechanics ' Portland Bangor Westbrook Auburn 44 I Biddeford _ 60 Bangor Lewiston , AMOUNT. $ 100 00 100 GO 50 CO ICQ 00 00 100 GO ICQ GG 100 00 100 GO $ 8gg go FROM ENCAMPMENTS. Machigonne Eastern, Star. LOCATION. Portland From James M Andrews, Biddeford. Total Contributions 00 75 00 S 150 00 $ lOG GO Sl.O^O GO MARYLAND. FROM LODGES. NAME. NO. Washington i Franklin 2 William Tell 4 Harmony 6 Friendship 7 Marion 8 LOCATION. Baltimore 25 GG 50 GG 50 OG IGO GG 2:; GO 32 Appendix. MARYLAND — Continued. Jefferson - Corinthian Maryland Monumental . . Mechanics Miller Morning Star - Daniel & Jacob. Mount Pisgah . St. Tammany _ . Potomac ■ Mt. Moriah Chosen Friends. Adam La Grange . Centre Mount Savage . . Thomas Wildey Patuxent . Germania Iris . Frostburg . Brookville Herman Oriental Buena Vista Schiller . Golden Rule . . . Ocean Jackson Bayside Warren Atlantic Independence _ . Towsoh Mountain Lonaconing Mount Zion Philos Madison Good Intent Blenheim NO. 9 10 1 1 14 15 18 20 23 24 25 31 32 34 35 36 40 43 44 45 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 55 58 61 65 66 71 72 77 79 84 85 87 91 98 99 102 LOCATION. Baltimore Easton . Havre-de-Grace. Manchester Port Deposit Centreville . Hagerstown Clearspring . Cumberland Frederick City_. Boonsboro' Ellicott's City. _ . Mount Savage . . Baltimore Laurel . Baltimore Frostburg __ Brookville. _ Cumberland Baltimore _ _ Cumberland Baltimore Snow Hill... Baltimore ... St. Michael's. Baltimore . . . AMOUNT. Towsontown Baltimore Lonaconing Pikesville Westernport Baltimore . Sharptown Hall's Cross Roads. 32 20 25 00 25 00 100 GO 50 00 20 00 20 00 10 GO IG GO IG GG 6g GG 5 00 25 GG 25 00 5 00 50 00 2G GG 25 00 50 00 100 GG IG GG 50 GO 5 00 IG GG 25 00 IG GG 3G GG 30 00 IG GG 25 00 IG GG 25 00 IGG GO 2GG GG 2G GO 25 GO IGG GO 10 00 75 00 50 GG IG 00 5 00 Appendix. 33 MARYLAND — Continued. NAME Escaville Prospect Catoctin Garden Providence . . Shealtial . NO. io6 no 113 114 116 122 LOCATION, Baltimore Phoenix Middletown .. Gardenville Catonsville Oakland AMOUNT. ;i,9oi 50 FROM ENCAMPMENTS. NAME. NO. LOCATION. AMOUNT. Gilead Hagerstown . $ 30 00 FROM OTHER SOURCES. Jas. L. Ridgely, Grand Cor. & Rec. Secretary Bro. Freitchner 25 00 2 00 $ 27 GO CASH RETURNED. To Joseph Vansant, Grand Master | $ 117 20 AMOUNT OF CASH CONTRIBUTIONS. From Lodges " Encampments " other sources Less amount returned Amount retained for Relief c $1,901 70 30 00 27 00 $1,958 70 117 20 $1,841 50 34 Appendix. MASSACHUSETTS. FROM LODGES. NAME. Massachusetts Siloam New England Suffolk Oriental Bunker Hill Tremont Covenant Warren Friendship. Howard Franklin Winnisimmet Boston Hampden Bethesda Ancient Landmarks Montezuma Acushnet . _ _ _ Norfolk Agawam Atlantic Elliot Mount Hope Nantucket Unity Mutual Relief Neponset Ocean Mount Auburn Marine Mount Roulston Fredonia Aurora Uxbridge Hermann Bass River Eastern Star Oasis Mispah . LOCATION. lO 14 15 16 18 20 22 23 24 25 27 30 32 33 41 48 52 55 58 63 66 77 83 84 91 94 96 98 103 107 120 133 141 143 146 151 Boston. East Cambridge. Boston Charlestown Boston Boston Highlands Cambridgeport Charlestown ^ Boston Chelsea Boston Springfield South Boston Boston • New Bedford Dorchester Ipswich Marblehead Needham Fall River Nantucket Boston Haverhill Port Norfolk Glocester Cambridge Provincetown Fitchburg Shirley Village. . North Attleboro' Uxbridge Boston Beverly East Boston Somerville Haverhill AMOUNT. $ 300 GO 560 00 100 GO 5GG 00 25G 00 lOG GO 5OG GO 75 00 20G GG 2GG GO 100 GO 2GG GO 251 25 2GG GO 50 00 250 GO 157 GG 126 GG 50 GO 75 00 65 50 IGG GO 50 00 25 GG 50 00 279 69 300 GG 50 GG 2GG GO 54 00 50 GO 197 50 40 GG 1 40 40 75 00 2GG GO IGG GG 25 GO I2G GG IGG GO $6,466 34 Appendix. 35 MASSACHUSETTS — Continued. FROM ENCAMPMENTS. NAME. Massasoit Bunker Hill Mt. Washington Merrimack Naumkeag Wanacmamack . Metacomet Eagle . New England . . Alethian_ _ Palestine Ozias NO. I 5 6 7 13 i6 26 32 34 35 37 40 LOCATION. Boston Charlestown South Boston.. Newbury port . . Salem j Nantucket I Fall River I Haverhill j East Cambridge. Shelburne Falls . Lynn Marblehead 150 00 50 GO 25 GO I5G GO 25 GO 25 GO 200 GO IGG GO 25 GO 50 GO 25 GO I' 875 GO DONATIONS OTHER THAN CASH. NAME. NO. LOCATION. AMOUNT. Beulah, H. D. L 3 Lynn ... CASH DONATIONS RECEIVED AND RETURNED. NAME. NO. LOCATION. AMOUNT. Tri Mount Enc'p't ^ Boston $ 150 GO REPORTED AS BEING SENT TO CHICAGO AND THE WEST DIRECT, BUT NOT RECEIVED BY THIS COMMITTEE. NAME. Essex Hope Bay State LOCATION. ! AMOUNT. Salem \ % 526 50 Methuen ■ 26 34 40 I Lynn Bass River 141 ! Beverly 50 GO IGG GO 2GG GO 36 Appendix. MASSACHUSETTS — Continued. NAME NO. LOCATION. AMOUNT. Worcester Quinsigamond Wachusett Enc'p't Mary Washington, R. D. L. 43 10 I 5 6 Worcester Boston __ __ 500 GO 50 GO 2GG GO 2GG OG $1,826 50 Martha Washington,. . R. D. L Ipswich Friendship, R. D. L.__ Beverley TOTAL AMOUNT OF CONTRIBUTIONS. Cash contributed by Lodges " " " Encampments Received on above. Cash $35090 4^ Returned " " 150 gg Received " Goods 4,050 86 " for Chicago Encampment igg gg " Germania " igg gg $6,616 34 875 GO $7,491 34 $7,491 34 MICHIGAN FROM LODGES. NO. LOCATION. Wayne 2 Detroit AMOUNT. 50 OG FROM OTHER SOURCES. Through F. M. Foster, Gr. Sec, cash paid for beans 146 50 Total $ 196 50 Appendix. 37 MINNESOTA. FROM LODGES. NAME. St. Paul North Star Prairie - . Vermillion . St. Peter Mankato Waseca Lake City Humboldt Comee Root River Steuben Schiller Winnebago City Sunbeam NO. I LOCATION. 2 6 7 8 I 2 15 17 22 24 25 26 27 29 30 31 j St. Paul I Minneapolis j Winona ; Hastings I St. Peter i Mankato I Wilton I Lake City . _ _ Winona Waseca . . I Lanesboro Rochester Mankato Winnebago City. Farmington AMOUNT. ^ 100 00 60 00 53 00 22 00 37 50 25 GO 7 00 125 GO 50 00 12 65 2G GO 34 00 25 GG 25 OG 15 GG $ 611 15 MISSOURI FROM LODGES. Travelers' Rest Far West Howard Savannah Laclede Randolph Constellation . . Wingenund Evening Star. . Paris Olive Branch. . Capitol Franklin . Robert Blum. . Saint Francois. NO. I 4 IG 14 22 23 26 27 28 29 36 37 44 46 48 LOCATION. St. Louis Booneville Fayette Savannah St. Louis Huntsville Hannibal St. Louis Louisiana Paris Booneville Jefferson City. Canton Hermann Farmington . . AMOUNT. i 441 00 50 00 IG GG 25 GG 50 00 25 GG 50 GG 168 75 15 GG 50 00 25 GG IGG GG 25 OG 25 GG 25 GO 38 Appendix. MISSOURI — Continued. NO. Liberty 1 49 Grand River | 52 Hebron i 55 Boonslick | 57 Osage 1 61 Harmony ! 71 Bellefontaine j 73 Fidelity ! 78 Neosho -_ --! 85 Adair i 96 Rural . 1 100 Otterville jio2 Granby |ii3 119 126 143 150 155 159 161 167 171 172 175 184 186 191 194 195 199 201 208 210 211 212 213 214 228 230 236 Easton Jefferson Saint Charles. . La Plata Eclipse . Bailey Rolla Marshall Brookfield Gallatin Carthage Madiso n Albany Holden Walnut Grove. DeKalb Nevada America Cainsville Purity Richmond Novelty Craig Altona _. Moberly Key Stone Palmyra Newtonia . Salisbury . LOCATION. Liberty Trenton West Port. New Franklin Bolivar Springfield St. Louis Potosi Neosho Kirksville Pisgah Otterville .... Granby Easton St. Louis St. Charles La Plata St. Joseph Macon Rolla Marshall , Brookfield ' Gallatin. _ Carthage Fredericktown Albany Holden Walnut Grove DeKalb Nevada City Springfield Cainsville . Lee's Summit Richmond Novelty Craig Altona Moberly Elleardsville Palmyra _ Versailles Salisbury AMOUNT. Appendix. 39 MISSOURI — Continued. NAME. Big Spring-. Polk La Motte... Washburn _. Eskridge ... Kansas City. 237 243 244 246 253 257 LOCATION. Meramec Iron Works. Half Way Mine La Motte Washburn Bevier _ Kansas City 10 00 5 00 15 00 10 00 16 50 155 00 $2,584 95 FROM ENCAMPMENTS. Frontier. Umpire . 2 42 LOCATION. Weston Springfield AMOUNT. 25 00 10 CO $ 35 00 FROM OTHER SOURCES. From H. A. Whiten, Kansas City DONATIONS OTHER THAN CASH. From St. Louis, clothing, estimated I $ 50 00 TOTAL AMOUNT OF CONTRIBUTIONS. From Lodges . _ " Encampments. " Other Sources Less paid Brothers in St. Louis $ 91 00 " returned to Grand Secretary Sloan_ . 323 95 Total Cash. Value Donations Amount retained for Relief $2,584 95 35 00 200 GO $2 >8i9 95 414 95 $2 ,405 GO 50 00 $2,455 00 40 Appendix. NEBRASKA. FROM LODGES. NAME. NO. I LOCATION, Capital II Lincoln 105 00 NEW HAMPSHIRE FROM LODGES. NAME. NO. 20 LOCATION. AMOUNT. Grand Lodge S 400 00 50 00 Mascoma Lebanon . FROM ENCAMPMENTS. NAME. NO. I LOCATION. AMOUNT. Grand Encampment. _ Nashoonon $ 200 00 50 00 Nashua $ 250 GO DONATIONS OTHER THAN CASH. FROM LODGES. Piscataqua New Hampshire Osgood NO. 6 17 48 LOCATION. Portsmouth AMOUNT. 375 00 187 65 75 00 637 65 FROM ENCAMPMENTS, NAME. NO. LOCATION. AMOUNT. Strawberry Bank 5 Portsmouth- _ $ 150 00 V Appendix. 41 NEBRASKA — Continued. TOTAL AMOUNT OF CONTRIBUTIONS. Cash $ 700 00 Goods 787 65 Total $1,487 65 NEW JERSEY. FROM LODGES. NAME. Trenton New Brunswick Howard Newark Mount Holly. - . Monmouth Protection Pennington South Trenton. Mystic' Olive Branch Woodbury Lawrence _ - Senatus Phoenix Columbian Teutonia Germania Jefferson Stella Eagle Humboldt Hermann Farnsworth Fred. D. Stuart . Lodge unknown i NO. I LOCATION. 19 20 28 31 36 46 51 54 62 76 92 117 118 121 125 133 136 137 142 143 154 I Trenton New Brunswick Newark Mount Holly. Freehold Newark Pennington. _ Trenton Bordentown . Bloomfield . _ Woodbury . _ Perth Amboy Camden Burlington . . Newark Union . Newark Jersey City Heights. Trenton $ 50 00 200 00 ICQ GO 18 GO lOG GG IG GO 2GG GG 25 GG IGG 00 50 00 IGG GO 105 GG 25 GG IGG GG 2GG GG 50 GO IGG GG 2GO GG 50 GO 25 GG 25 GO 68 50 50 GO 20 00 $2,071 50 42 Appendix. NEW JERSEY— Continued. FROM ENCAMPMENTS. NAME. NO. LOCATION, AMOUNT. Mt. Lebanon . . 7 Burlington $ 50 00 FROM R. D. LODGES. NAME. Lady Washington NO. LOCATION. AMOUNT. 10 Eatontown $ 10 00 CASH RECEIVED AND RETURNED. NAME. NO. LOCATION. amount: Lafayette Lodge I? Orange _ _ _ $ 100 00 TOTAL CASH CONTRIBUTIONS. From Lodges " Encampments " R. D. Lodges Less amount returned Amount retained for relief $2,171 50 50 00 10 00 $2,231 50 100 00 $2,131 50 NEW YORK. FROM LODGES. NAME. Columbia Hope Whitehall.... Cortland Clinton NO. LOCATION. AMOUNT. I New York $ 43 33 50 00 40 00 50 00 116 67 2 Albany 5 6 Whitehall Peekskill 7 Albany Appendix. 43 NEW YORK— Continued. NAME. Teoronto 8 Tompkins 9 New York Gettys Germania Saratoga German Colonial . Fireman's, Bros, of Pqughkeepsie Knickerbocker Mariners' . I 23 Brooklyn | 26 Trojan I 27 NO. Ark National Olive Branch American . . Covenant Enterprise Nassau Greenwich Phoenix ._ Conccfrde State Rights Mercantile Principle Hancock Atlantic United Brothers Rensselaer Mutual Albion " Bros. of. Ulster Howard Crusaders' Calumet Empire Beacon Central City. ..j 68 Sincerite 69 Ithaca, Bros, of I 71 28 30 31 32 35 36 39 40 41 43 46 47 48 49 50 52 53 57 58 u 59 60 61 62 64 67 LOCATION Rochester New York a Saratoga Albany Poughkeepsie. New York Brooklyn. Troy New York (( a Albany New York Brooklyn New York Albany New York u ii Brooklyn New York Brooklyn New York Troy New York Albion Saugerties New York Brooklyn Binghampton . New York Utica New York Ithaca AMOUNT. 250 00 66 66 50 00 ICQ GO 50 GO 25 GG lOG GG 51 GO 25 00 100 GO IGG GG 50 00 IGG 00 283 33 IGG GG IGG 00 106 00 IGG 00 66 67 33 33 IGG 00 50 GO IGG 03 IGG GG 133 30 IGG GG 466 67 IGG GG 75 00 50 00 56 67 15G GG 25 00 IGG GG lOG GG 50 00 IGG GG 25 00 50 00 10 00 120 00 44 NEW Appendix. YORK — Continued. NO. I LOCATION. Pilgrim Cryptic Neshoba Brookhaven Niagara Falls German Oak , .. _ Piermont Warren Pacific Richmond County. _ Suffolk Allen Athenian Salina Ogdensburg Otsego " Bros, of Mechanics' Montauk Valatie Smyrna . _ _ Continental Solon Polar Star The Woods Oneko Jefferson Union William Tell Schiller Steuben Mount Sinai Oundiaga Humboldt United States Diamond _ . Hempstead Ustayantha _ . Worth Schuyler Neptune Astoria Oswegatchie 74 75 78 80 81 82 83 84 85 88 90 92 96 97 98 103 n 114 115 116 117 118 119 121 122 124 125 129 133 135 136 138 139 T40 141 143 146 147 152 155 156 New York Peekskill . ... Malone Patchogue Suspension Bridge.. New York Piermont New York Flushing . . . N. Shore, Richmond. Sag Harbor Hudson Troy Syracuse Ogdensburg Cooperstown _ , New York Brooklyn. . Valatie ._. Smyrna . . . New York New Utrecht Nyack Watertown Brooklyn New York Brooklyn New York Onondaga Valley Rochester New York . Hempstead Port Jervis New York Utica Stapleton, Staten Is.. Astoria Oswego - Appendix. 45 NEW YORK— Continued. NAME. Farmers & Mechanics Spring Valley Elk Creek, Bros, of Accord - Uncas Rhinebeck Magnolia Marathon, Bros, of Collins Freeman's Morrisania Patterson Eureka Greenport Lincoln Point Gratiot Alleghania . l Constellation Hendrick Hudson Yorktown Goethe North Pembroke Moun> Vernon Canadesaga Batavia. Parma Stella Harlem . . _ . .... South East 1 202 Canasawacta 1 205 Olympic Emanuel Attilla Spartan Robert Blum Beethoven Jordan Cayadutta Manoca . _ Guttenberg Ellicott Stafford 157 158 159 160 161 162 166 167 168 170 171 173 177 179 180 181 183 184 189 191 193 194 195 196 197 199 200 201 207 208 209 210 213 214 215 218 219 220 221 222 LOCATION. Greenbush. Dobb's Ferry Westford Accord Lafayette Rhinebeck Brooklyn Marathon Belleville Walden Morrisania Patterson New York Greenport Syracuse Dunkirk New York Lockport Catskill Jefferson Valley. Morrisania North Pembroke Mount Vernon _ . Watkins Batavia Parma Corners _ _ Brooklyn Harlem Brewster Station Norwich New York Port Jervis Cohoes New York Jordan Johnstown Waverley . _ Amsterdam Jamestown Stafford AMOUNT. 100 GO 15 00 5 00 50 00 50 00 10 GO 33 33 6 5G 2G GG 6 67 216 67 IG GO 75 00 25 GO IGG GG 30 43 50 OG 25 GG IGG GG 25 GG IGG GG 2G GG 16 67 24 90 52 GG 5 00 IGG GG 14 50 I I GG IG GG IGG GG IGG GG 16 67 36 67 IG GG 11 33 18 33 17 65 29 GG 46 Appendix. NEW YORK— Continued. NAME. SocrMes Oriental Ceres Mozart Schenectady Gloversville, Bros of Henry Clay Arndt Yonkers _ Olive Leaf Peabody . . Red Jacket Govvanus Adelphia Colfax Yorkville Jamaica Rhine . Southern Central ... Marvin Arminia Thos. Wildey Beaverwyck Guiding Star Monticello ... Daniel Webster Farragut Grahamville Mount Nebo Orient Gustave Adolph Jupiter Woodbine . Goodwill Unity, Bros, of Star of the East I NO. 223 224 225 226 227 228 230 231 232 234 238 239 240 242 244 247 248 249 252 256 257 261 262 263 264 265 268 269 273 274 276 278 280 283 284 LOCATION. AMOUNT. Brooklyn Buffalo Brooklyn New York. _ Schenectady Gloversville New York - . Yonkers . . Greenport New York. Buffalo Brooklyn, . Cochecton . New York. Jamaica. . Troy Weedsport College Point New York Albany New York . . . Schuylerville New York . . . Grahamville New York. . Rochester . . Hortenville. New York - . Brooklyn New York . . DONATIONS OTHER THAN CASH. Watertown, estimated I S 20 00 Appendix. 47 NEW YORK— Continued. FROM ENCAMPMENTS. NAME. Mount Horeb. Mount Vernon Bethlehem Mam re NO. lO 20 LOCATION. New York Buffalo Brooklyn New York AMOUNT. 50 00 50 00 50 00 41 67 191 67 FROM DEGREE LODGE. NAME. NO. LOCATION. AMOUNT, United Brothers 5 New York , $ 200 00 FROM OTHER SOURCES. ( Bro. Aj'ch. Cowan | f 20 00 CASH RECEIVED AND RETURNED. To Jacob Russell, Grand Treasurer | $ 206 46 TOTAL AMOUNT OF CONTRIBUTIONS. Total amount cash contributed " returned Retained by Committee Value of Donations Amount retained for relief $10,832 17 206 46 $10,625 71 20 00 $10,645 71 48 Appendix, NEW YORK— Continued. DONATIONS SENT BUT NOT RECEIVED.'^ NAME. Teutonia Lafayette Poughkeepsie Mohegan Phoenix (Regalia) Cataract Havana Kosciusko Schoneghtada Cornucopia Venus Minerva Steuben Hudson City Mount Ararat Union (Regalia). Talmud Mozart NO. i8 21 29 41 54 56 86 87 106 120 130 133 142 144 169 204 226 LOCATION. New York Wappinger's Falls. Poughkeepsie Baldwinsville . Albany Lockport Havana Kingston Albany . New York a Brooklyn Hudson Greenport Brooklyn . Wellsville New York 6 barrels potatoes.. 200 00 50 00 50 00 ICQ GO 100 GO 100 OG 50 OG 50 GO 20G GO 50 GO I GO GO IGG GO 2GG GO 2GG GO 50 GO $1,700 GO NEVADA FROM LODGES. NAME. Silver City Mount Davidson Carson Dayton Nevada _ Washoe NO. 2 3 4 5 7 LOCATION. Silver City _ . Virginia City Carson City. Dayton Virginia City Washoe City. AMOUNT. 44 278 55 44 1 1 1 ♦These amounts are reported by Jacob Russell, M.W.Grand Treasurer, as having been sent direct to Chicago, but not received by this Committee : Appendix. 49 NEVADA — Continued. NAME, Austin Virginia Olive Branch Fruche Reno Humboldt . . Hamilton Elko Utah NO. 9 lO 12 14 19 16 17 LOCATION. Austin Virginia City Reno I " -----f Winnemucca Hamilton Elko ....^ Utah Territory FROM ENCAMPMENTS. Pioneer LOCATION. AMOUNT. Virginia City $ ICQ GO FROM R. D. LODGES. Colfax NO. LOCATION. AMOUNT. Virginia City $ 55 50 TOTAL CASH CONTRIBUTIONS. From Lodges " Encampments. " R. D. Lodges $1,470 25 100 00 55 50 Total $ 1,625 75 NORTH CAROLINA. FROM LODGES. NAME. NO. 2 LOCATION. AMOUNT. Cape Fear Wilmington S 50 00 50 Appendix. OHIO. FROM LODGES. Ohio I Cincinnati 3 Franklin ! 4 Montgomery 5 Charity 7 Wayne 10 Union 12 Lebanon 15 Hope --■ 16 Hamilton 17 Marion 18 Mansfield 19 Friendship. 21 Chillicothe 24 Erie 27 Muskingum 28 Columbia 32 Seneca 35 Valley 36 Huron _ 37 Wapaukonica 38 Nimisilla 39 New Haven 41 Wooster 42 Chosen Friends 45 Clermont 49 Summit 50 Olentangy 53 Covenant 54 William Penn 56 Grand River... 57 Apollo 61 Mount Pleasant 63 Ogontz 66 Fidelity 71 Tecumseh 80 Goshen 82 Magnolia 83 Bros, of--.- " Mohican 85 LOCATION. Cincinnati Dayton Lancaster Dayton Warrentown Lebanon Middletown . . . Hamilton Miamisburgh _ . A[ansfield . Germantown Chillicothe Cleveland Zanesville Circleville Tiffin McConnellsville Norwalk Toledo Canton New Haven Wooster New Lexington Milford Akron Delaware .. . Somerville . ... Cincinnati Madison Middleburg ._ _ Mount Pleasant Sandusky Cincinnati Chillicothe Canal Dover Cincinnati a ^ Ashland AMOUNT. ^ 100 GO 300 00 100 00 217 00 100 GO 205 GG IG GO 20G GG IGG GG 25 GG IGG GG 75 00 200 GO 100 GG 100 GO 100 00 50 00 25 00 100 00 75 00 IGG GO IG GO 25 GG 15 GG 25 GO 100 00 I GO GO 20 00 IGG GG IG GG 50 OG IG GO 25 GG 50 00 IGG 00 10 00 I,OGO 00 5 00 30 00 Appendix. 51 OHIO — Continued. LOCATION. Marysville .| 87 Concordia 1 88 Clinton i 92 Nachee j 94 Sewanie - 1 95 Milton Eagle New Philadelphia Fulton Morrow Larmatine . . Bellevue Amity . . Woodbine Clement Cadiz Vesper Springdale Social Metropolitan Good Will Relief 1148 Woodward '149 99 100 107 1 12 116 118 123 124 126 129 130 131 135 139 142 143 Mohawk Lynchburgh Flag Spring 150 151 152 155 157 161 Canfield Rural . . . Richland Fairfield -|i63 Auglaize 1 168 Mount Gilead I169 American . _ - - '170 Palmetto -!i75 Crystal Fount 1176 Teutonia 177 j Marysville I New Lisbon ! New Vienna j Monroeville I Felicity j Milton Cincinnati New Philadelphia Cincinnati. Morrow Ripley Bellevue Salem Mount Healthy ... Bridgeport Cadiz Neville Springdale . Addison Cincinnati - _ Steubenville Springboro'- Cincinnati- . Lynchburgh . Newtown Canfield Rural Dale-. Mansfield Pleasantville - Wapakonetta . Mount Gilead Cincinnati Vulcan '178 Lily of the Valley '179 Boston 189 Mount Carmel 190 Laurel ji9i Horicon 1 192 ! Lockland Station Boston Mount Carrael-- Madisonville Gratiot 25 00 75 00 25 00 40 00 50 00 13 00 300 00 50 00 50 00 25 00 10 00 50 00 ICQ 00 50 00 30 00 50 00 15 00 10 00 16 GO ICQ GO 25 00 163 25 100 00 50 00 31 OG 2G GO IGG GO IG GO 5 00 25 GO 39 00 I GO GO IGO GO IGG GO 100 00 IGO GO 50 GO 10 00 90 GO 15 00 2G GO 52 Appendix. OHIO — Continued. NAME. Pleasant Valley Cumberland Baltimore Schiller Hermann Emerald Home Gallon Tarlton Protection Belmont City _ _ Minerva Auburn Temple Queen City Angola Phoenix Dove - Mill Creek.... Delhi Van Wert Industry Beacon Hocking Valley Glenn Alliance Sparta Westfield Ark Humboldt Hopewell Blanchard Wood Grove Hemlock Chagrin Falls . North Western Caledonia Cambridge Fostoria Edenton Deep Cut Oakley NO. 1 93 200 202 206 208 211 214 215 218 219 221 222 226 227 229 231 233 234 249 250 251 256 258 262 263 266 268 269 270 274 276 284 288 289 290 296 299 301 305 308 3ii 317 LOCATION. Pleasant Valley Cumberland Baltimore Dayton Cincinnati New Petersboro Brunswick Gabon _ . Tarlton Frankfort Martinsville Minerva Aurburn Washington C. H. . Cincinnati Williamsburg Cleveland Mount Washington Cumminsville Delhi Van Wert Lena Doylestown . . Logan Brooklyn _ Alliance . _ Sparta Westfield Worth ington. Cincinnati. Jefferson Ottawa Seeleysville Unionville Chagrin Falls Cincinnati Caledonia Cambridge Fostoria Edenton Deep Cut Tiffin AMOUNT. 15 GO 10 GO IG GG 2GG GG IGG GO 5 00 18 GG 20 GG IG GG 2G GG 10 GG 25 GG 50 00 IGG GO 25 00 25 00 100 GO 24 8:; 15 GG 5 00 107 75 50 00 15 GG 25 GG 15 GG 100 00 25 00 41 GG IG GG 31 15 39 00 2GO 00 30 2G 25 07 50 00 IG GG 28 25 50 00 Appendix. 53 OHIO — Continued. NAME. NO. Green Springs Guttenberg Wakatomo Ivy Concord Day Windsor Harries William Tell Losanteville - Hockhocking 1339 High Hill .I340 Syringa [^42 3i« 319 321 324 325 328 329 331 335 336 Vienna Empire Spencer Eclipse - - . Palmer Harmonia Morgan _ Wauseon Williams McArt^iur Wilstach Lansing Bluffton Pearson East Liverpool Rush Covington Anchor 1387 Lincoln 1388 Orion 1390 393 394 398 401 405 408 409 411 413 345 346 347 348 351 358 361 362 363 364 368 369 371 372 379 381 383 Dover Forest Star Kirkup Kansas Manheim Texas . Truro Robert Blum LOCATION. Green Springs Marietta Chandlersville Omega Hayesville LaRue Windsor _ Harries Cincinnati _ a Nelsonville _ . _ High Hill Centerfield Vienna X Roads North Royalton Columbia. _ Cincinnati Lower Salem. Columbus _ _ Pennsville W^auseon Hebron McArthur New Martinsburg Waverley Bluffton Kingston East Liverpool Rushsylvania Covington Cleveland Cincinnati - .... Washingtonville Dover _ . Forrest Middleport Cincinnati Kansas Canton Texas Reynoldsburg Toledo 54 Appendix, OHIO — Continued. NAME. North Bend.. Ashley Bros, of Wapatomica _ Fair Haven Ada Kern Shoenbrunn Fayette. Richmond Brainbridge . _ Lowell Silver Moon New Bedford Eureka Madeira Jaeger Syracuse Elmore Powell Keith Johnsonville Globe Grand Valley Fairmount _ Durban Evansport Adrian Augusta Huston Citizens of Straitsville I. O. O. F. and Citizens 419 421 n 424 425 427 428 430 431 434 437 438 440 446 447 448 449 453 462 465 466 469 470 471 4S0 487 489 494 499 500 503 LOCATION. Cleves Ashley _ . << Zanesfield _ . Fair Haven Ada Bellaire New Philadelphia ... Gorham Richmond Brainbridge Lowell South Perry New Bedford Withamsville Madeira. Amherst Syracuse , Elmore , Powell. Keith Johnsville Cincinnati Camp Dennison Cincinnati Nashport Evansport Adrian Augusta Oliver Branch, Cler- ) mont County j New Straitsville Salem . _ AMOUNT. 100 00 50 00 70 00 25 00 5 50 12 00 50 00 20 75 28 00 25 00 25 GO 25 00 10 00 20 GO 10 OG 18 5G 12 GG 7 GG 25 GG 51 5^ 12 35 23 GO 69 GO 2G 00 25 00 10 GG 2G GG 13 GG IG GG 25 25 48 GG 136 GG $11,567 37 FROM ENCAMPMENTS. NAME. Wildey Butler. NO. I 7 LOCATION. Cincinnati Hamilton . IGG GG 2G GG Appendix, 55 OHIO — Continued. ENCAMPMENTS. Washington Pickaway Mohiccon Mad River.. Shawnee Cincinnati , _ Eureka Erie Hochhocking Mahketewah Milford Hesperia Kokosing Bethesda Amelia Lafayette Philadelph(m Preble Madison Marion Fremont Bellefontaine Germantown Addison Charter Oak Anderson North Wing Golden Rule Concordia Lincoln Alliance Good Will Canton Nelsonville _ Bellair I122 Ashley Jewett Ravenna " Lodge . . . Ashland 9 1 1 13 16 20 22 24 27 28 32 34 37 38 39 45 51 53 54 60 61 64 73 74 75 77 85 88 92 96 100 104 III 112 125 128 129 65 130 LOCATION. Cincinnati Circleville Mansfield . Springfield _ . Xenia. . Cincinnati Massilon Sandusky Lancaster Cincinnati Milford Cincinnati Mount Vernon New Philadelphia _ Amelia Ripley Cincinnati Eaton Madisonville Van Wert. Fremont Bellefontaine Germantown Addison Cincinnati Columbia _ _ Cleveland Findlay Columbus Lebanon Alliance Salem Canton Nelsonville Bellair Ashley Uhrichsville Ravenna Ashland ICQ 00 100 00 20 00 50 00 5 00 200 00 25 00 25 00 25 00 200 00 25 00 50 00 25 00 15 00 15 00 5 00 ICQ GO 10 00 10 00 5 00 10 GO IG OG 15 GO 5 00 50 00 IG OG 50 00 25 GG 50 00 lOG GG IG GG IG GG 50 00 10 00 10 OG 10 GG 20 00 ICQ 00 10 00 S6 Appendix. OHIO — Continued. ENCAMPMENTS. NAME. Maumee Valley. Versailles American Jefferson 132 138 143 146 LOCATION. Napoleon Versailles Mount Carmel Jefferson AMOUNT. 5 00 10 00 30 00 10 00 $1,740 00 FROM R. D. LODGES. NAME. Ivy Colfax Grace . 39 165 00 10 00 10 GO S 185 80 FROM OTHER SOURCES. Relief Committee I. O. O. F,, Seneca County A Brother in Cincinnati, by A. Cripe E. J. Mallory, Steubenville, O. H. L. Stiles, drayage returned Wilstach, Baldwin & Co., donation of printing bill Cincinnati Committee, sale of goods 17 00 5 00 2 00 2 GO 2G 75 23 G7 S 69 82 DONATIONS OTHER THAN CASH. Relief Committee I. O. O. F., Cincinnati, goods, value From Michigan, for account Cincinnati Committee, I Crate Crockery (The above was paid for out of the above mentioned donations). Relief Committee, I. O. O. F., Seneca County J8,GOG GG 112 OG I,g67 GG $9>i79 00 Appendix. 57 OHIO — Continued. SENT BY RELIEF COMMITTEE, I. O. O. F., CINCINNATI, TO LODGES AND ENCAMPMENTS, AS PER REPORT. Cash . Sixteen Bibles Eight Gavels _ 200 00 68 00 $ 433 64 AMOUNT OF CASH RECEIVED BY RELIEF COMMITTEE, I. O. O. F., CHICAGO. From J. E. Bell, Chairman, Cincinnati " Jos. Dowdall, R. W. G. Scribe " Lodges, Encampments, and others direct Total goods valued and cash received by Committee " value Bibles, Gavels and cash for Lodges and Encampments $ 300 00 550 00 1,483 00 $2,333 00 1,512 00 433 64 $11,945 64 Balances retained by Cincinnati Committee or oth- erwise expended, as per their report in hands of Jos. Dowdall, R. W. G. Scribe $ 2,593 55 90 GO $ 2,683 55 RECAPITULATION. Donations from Lodges for Chicago and the North- west _ $10,165 37 Donations from Encampments for Chicago and the: Northwest i 1,050 00 Donations from R. D. Lodges for Chicago and the Northwest 176 00 Donations from other sources for Chicago and the Northwest 47 82 SiJ>439 19 58 Appendix. OHIO — Continued. RECAPITULATION CONTINUED. As reported by the Cincinnati Committee, _ Donations from Encampments to Chicago as re- ported by J. Dowdall, R. W. G. Scribe Donations from Lodges to Chicago direct_$i,4oi oo " " Encampments " _ 50 00 " R. D. Lodges " . 10 00 " other sources " . 22 00 Total cash contributed $ 640 00 1,483 00 ^13,562 19 ONTARIO (Canada). FROM LODGES. Brock Union Chatham Eureka . . Gore - - Samaritan Forest City Avon - Excelsior Unity . - Dominion Canada Otter Bissell - Covenant . Niagara Falls Collingwood Queen City of Ontario Howard Wardsville Corinthian Huron Friendship . _ _ . Florence Nightingale. NO. 9 16 29 30 34 35 38 41 44 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 56 58 60 61 62 65 66 LOCATION. Brockville St, Catherines Chatham London Brant ford IngersoU London Stratford Hamilton London Toronto. . Tilsonburg _ . , Mitchell Toronto Clifton Collingwood _ Toronto Strathroy Wardsville Oshawa Goderich Petrolia Bowmanville . 50 00 ICQ 00 99 87 33 33 ICQ 00 100 00 ICQ 00 100 00 50 00 ICQ 00 ICQ 00 125 00 20 00 15 00 125 00 90 20 50 00 40 00 25 00 13 00 26 50 191 50 43 00 50 00 Appendix. 59 ONTARIO, (Canada)— Continued. Eastern Star Fergus Bothwell Warriner Oxford Premium on 72 73 74 75 77 gold LOCATION. Whitby Fergus Bothwell Port Perry IngersoU AMOUNT. ) 25 00 ICQ 00 25 CO 20 50 10 GO 13 06 $1,940 96 FROM ENCAMPMENTS. NAME. Burlington 7 Hamilton NO. LOCATION, AMOUNT. $ 25 GO TOTAL CASH CONTRIBUTIONS. From Lodges " Encampments Total $1,940 96 2q 00 ^1,905 96 Chemeketa. OREGON. FROM LODGES. 2 7 9 12 15 17 18 LOCATION. j I Salem Samaritan Barnum Spencer Butte Covenant Hassalo Orient Olive Minerva 19 Buena Vista 24 Baker City | 25 Eliam I 31 Premium on gold Portland Corvallis . Eugene City _ . Harrisburg _ . . Portland East Portland. Salem _ Portland Buena Vista _ . Baker City Malheur City AMOUNT. ^ 229 GO 287 35 27 50 60 GO 10 GO 342 GG 113 50 55 00 115 00 21 25 69 GG 40 GO 53 31 $1,422 91 6o Appendix. OREGON — Continued. WASHINGTON TERRITORY. Olympia . . Vancouver NO. I 3 LOCATION. Olympia _ . Vancouver AMOUNT. * 55 oo I GO GO S 155 00 IDAHO TERRITORY. ■NAME. Pioneer . Owyhee NO. LOCATION. Idaho City Silver City. AMOUNT. $ IGO GO I GO 00 $ 2GG GO FROM OTHER SOURCES. W. B. Stevens.. 1 2 CO Two Brothers 2 GO $ 4 GO RECEIVED AND RETURNED. NAME. NO. LOCATION. AMOUNT. Olive Branch 4 Seatle, W. T 1 $ 25 go TOTAL AMOUNT OF CONTRIBUTIONS. From Oregon Lodges " Washington Territory Lodges. " Idaho Territory Lodges " Other Sources Less amount returned Amount retained for Relief. $ 1,422 91 180 GO 2GO 00 4 GO $i,8g6 91 25 00 $1,781 91 Appendix. 6i PENNSYLVANIA FROM LODGES. NAME. Grand Lodge. Pennsylvania Washington Morning Star Franklin General Marion Hermann Rising Sun - Mechanics Philomathean _ _ Kensington Jefferson Philadelphia Philanthropic Harmony North Liberties Lafayette Amity Miners Teutonia Adelpl^a - Friendship Western Star America Penn Schuylkill Heneosis Adelphon Robert Morris McFarlane Manayunk Duquesne. Decatur United States Columbian Monroe Benevolent Southern Hancock Haydn William Tell- I 2 4 5 6 7 8 9 lO 1 1 12 13 15 i6 17 i8 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 36 38 40 41 43 44 45 LOCATION. Philadelphia . _ u (i II a Frankford Pittsburg Germantown . Philadelphia . . u II u (( u (( u Pottsville Philadelphia . . II Pittsburg . Philadelphia -- Port Carbon. . Philadelphia - _ Alleghany City Philadelphia. _ Pittsburg Philadelphia. . u <( Village Green. Philadelphia. . Pottsville Pittsburg AMOUNT. 1,000 GO II GO 54 40 I GO GG IGG GG 31 60 61 GG 22 10 IGG GO 194 GG 72 GO 28 8g 31 6g 72 GO 100 GO 25 00 lOG GG 36 GG 61 GO 25 GG 56 60 11 GO 222 GG 12 86 100 00 19 40 58 8g 122 GG III GG I GO GO 22 GG 36 72 88 8g 144 GO III GO 25 00 25 00 ICQ 00 19 75 250 GG 62 Appendix. PENNSYLVANIA— Continued. NAME. Excelsior _ Birmingham Allegheny Girard Northern Star Social Montgomery Cambrian Montgomery Concordia Adam _ _ ■_ Beaver Meadow Hand in Hand Gomer Hazelton _ Roxborough Lancaster Harrisburg Allen Mount Zion Columbus - - Mauch Chunk Brotherly Love Keystone Howard Susquehanna Charity Lehigh Mutual Friendly " by Committee Harmony Hopkins ^ Freedom Good Samaritan Cumberland ._. Carlisle Hope Doylestown Lewisburg Lewistown Clinton NO. 46 48 49 53 54 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 71 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 82 83 84 85 « 86 87 88 89 90 91 93 94 96 97 98 LOCATION. Philadelphia Buchanan Pittsburg 1 Pottsville Richboro Minersville Norristown Carbondale Reading Catawissa Philadelphia Beaver Meadow. Frankford Pittsburg Hazelton Roxborough Lancaster Harrisburg Allentown York Chambersburg _ . Mauch Chunk Kutztown Bethlehem Honesdale Columbia Halifax Allentown Milton Macungie P. O. . Tamaqua Bristol Honesdale Philadelphia Shippensburg _ . . Carlisle Philadelphia Doylestown Lewisburg. Lewistown Lock Haven Appendix. PENNSYLVANIA— Continued. 63 NO. LOCATION. AMOUNT. Spring Garden 99 Chosen Friends jioo Symmetry ... 1103 Empire 1104 Salome !io5 Presque Isle Cussewago Montour Crystal Fount Fatherland Lycoming Oriental I113 Covenant I114 Bros, of ' " Brady Juniata Iris _ Hollidaysburg Carrol Bernville Gettys Mount Tabor ji25 Paradise 127 Elizabethtown Industry Miffintown General Harrison. 107 108 109 110 III 112 116 117 118 119 120 122 124 128 130 131 133 Fort Penn 134 Fidelity Van Camp Shiloh 138 140 142 Mount Vernon I143 144 145 146 147 148 150 151 153 154 155 Fourth of July. Fredonia Southwark . . Metamora . _ Pine Grove . Metropolitan Montrose Centre Green HilL. Vigilant . Philadelphia. Hamburg Philadelphia- Reading :_ Erie Meadville Danville Philadelphia. Easton Williamsport Philadelphia. Muncy _ Huntingdon Bethany . . Hollidaysburg Schuylkill Haven Bernville Gettysburg Shamokin Philadelphia Elizabethtown Manayunk __ Miffintown Philadelphia Stroudsburg Philadelphia Bloomsburg Philadelphia Shewsbury Philadelphia Reading Pine Grove - Philadelphia Montrose ... Bellefonte . . Philadelphia. 64 Appendix. PENNSYLVANIA— Continued. NAME. Olive Leaf Germania Golden Rule Dauphin _ Pequa. Bradford Emblematic Capouse Walhalla Mount Dempsey Conodoguinit DeKalb United Brothers Bros, of Orionto Bros, qf Wissahickon Iron City Perseverance Farmers & Mechanics. Justice Prospect Star of Bethlehem Conemaugh Lykens. . . Aquetong Shenango Northumberland Clearfield Star of Hope Pacific _ Enterprise Bedford Sunbury . - - - - Centre Square Evergreen Cincinnatus Old Monongahela Merion York Springs Phoenix Manatawnv . . . NO. 156 158 159 i6c 161 167 169 170 171 172 173 174 176 177 (( 178 182 183 185 186 187 190 191 192 193 195 196 198 199 200 201 202 203 204 205 206 209 210 211 212 214 LOCATION. Carbondale Reading Woraelsdorf Harrisburg Paradise Tovvanda Reading Hyde Park Philadelphia Landisburg Newville Philadelphia McAlevy's Fort__. ) --•s Attleboro' Flourtown. . Pittsburg Millersburg- Linwood Philadelphia Johnstown Berry sou rg Doylestown New Castle Northumberland Clearfield Coatesville Philadelphia Bedford Sunbury Centre Square Duncannon Philadelphia. . Elizabeth Cabinet York Springs . Phoenixville . . Pottstown Appendix. 65 PENNSYLVANIA— Continued. LOCATION. Mechanicsburg Gratitude J Brookville Oley Eagle Philadelphia National Shawnee Taylor Welcome Macungy Radiant Star Integrity Mount Airy Fairfield Mercantile Tacony Curtis Richmond Twin City Monterey . Bros, of Protection Lehicton Tremont Berwick Priam Peters' Creek Clarion Upland Fort Necessity. . Venango . Commercial Templar Perry Eureka Atlantic Leiperville Mountain Siloam " Bros, of Adelphic _ Catasauqua . 215 216 217 218 219 223 225 226 229 |23i {232 234 235 1236 I237 238 239 240 241 242 (( 243 1 244 ,245 1246 i247 1 248 1252 1253 1254 255 256 258 259 260 262 263 264 265 a 268 269 Mechanicsburg ! Conshohocking [ Brookville ! Manatawny I Huntingdon V. . j Philadelphia { Plymouth Ashland Philadelphia Fogelsville Philadelphia N. Columbus Mount Airy Montoursville _ Philadelphia Bridesburg Norristown Philadelphia Alleghany City. Lancaster Philadelphia Easton Tremont I Berwick Troy . . Finleyville . . Clarion Chester Uniontown _ Franklin Philadelphia Liverpool _ . Greenbriar . Philadelphia. Chester Orangeville. . Newtown Rutland Catasauqua. AMOUNT. $ 10 12 9 40 137 00 6 38 29 40 54 84 7 20 38 80 III GO 28 80 52 00 5 00 25 00 10 00 72 00 29 40 36 00 2 20 222 GO IGI 74 III GO 36 00 28 80 26 76 17 60 31 GG 25 00 79 40 100 00 22 00 86 00 50 00 8 63 6 10 36 OG 97 GG 23 85 14 4G IG OG 2G GG 39 OG 66 Appendix. PENNSYLVANIA— Continued. NAME . Mystic Palistine Liberty William Penn Rose Tree Mount Joy Conquenessing Calumet Lily of the Valley Ajalon Merchants' Mineral Mohegan ... Angerona Paoli Lackawanna Vulcan Alhambra Ashland Apollo Unity Greenwood Bros. of.. Walker Triune Conyngham Kingsessing . Alemania Orphans' Home Pocahontas Chihuahua Ringgold Penn Township Great Island Bros, of Mercer Fairview Purity Hanover Spring House Cowenesque Conestoga ^ . _ NO. LOCATION. 270 271 272 277 278 279 281 282 283 285 288 289 290 291 292 293 294 296 300 301 306 307 308 309 312 315 316 317 318 319 320 323 324 325 327 329 332 334 Holmesburg . Philadelphia. Haverford Media Mount Joy_. Butler Danville Pottsville Philadelphia. St. Clair Lebanon Pittsburg Tredyffrin _ _ Scranton Wilkesbarre Greenville- _ . Philadelphia, u New Hope _ Millerstown . ii Germantown . Middletown _. Conyngham _. Kingsessing .. Philadelphia.. Williamsburg . West Chester. Wrightsville _. Tamaqiia Philadelphia. . Lock Haven.. Mercer Oxford Philadelphia _ . Hanover Spring House. Mansfield Safe Harbor. AMOUNT. $ 118 50 50 00 25 00 14 65 100 GO 24 40 8 80 25 00 25 00 10 00 14 40 36 00 36 00 122 GO 22 88 25. GG 25 00 29 40 15 40 25G GO 25 00 68 94 50 GO 5 00 15 15 50 GO 61 GG 14 4G 61 GG 25 00 43 00 122 GG 16 GG 38 G4 7 20 IGG GG 2G GO 15 GG IG GG 14 4G Appendix. 67 PENNSYLVANIA— Continued. NAME. J NO. Quittapahilla 1335 Bros, of! Pittsburg 1336 Peace and Love 337 Loller j338 Warren. j339 Kittanning 1340 Manoquesy I341 Humane I342 Improvement '344 Providence 345 Palladium 346 Reading 348 Cressona 1349 Moss Rose '350 Marble Hall 1351 Cadwalader I353 Neptune I354 West End ^355 Amphiction 356 Sincerity 357 Myerstown ;358 BanAer '359 Mount Moriah 1360 Strasburg . . '361 St. Clair ,362 Pughtown 1363 Yohogany '364 Tonnaleuka ^365 Beaver _ 1366 Cove. - 368 Octoraro I370 Oneida 1371 Stoyston --'372 Kosciusko 1374 Mount Olive '375 Albion 376 Nucleus 377 Banyan Tree. 378 Freeport 379 Mackinaw 380 Donaldson 382 LOCATION. Annville Pittsburg- _ Jenkintown Hatboro' _ _ , Warren Kittanning Bethlehem York Philadelphia Kulpsville Indiana Reading Clark Mount Pleasant Barren Hill Philadelphia Hamlinton Thompsontown . Myerstown New London Pittsburg Strasburg Temper'ville Pughtown McKeesport Uniontown Rochester Woodbury Penning'ville Dallas Stoystown Rawlinsville Philadelphia Albion Monongahela Cabinet Freeport North Bloomfield Donaldson 31 16 29 50 150 00 24 40 7 20 25 00 1 1 00 31 60 72 00 29 40 12 20 46 00 8 80 20 00 20 00 50 00 25 00 1 1 00 20 00 7 20 45 55 9 40 73 80 102 20 10 00 216 00 10 00 44 45 100 00 100 00 52 50 4 40 1720 26 04 14 40 72 00 4 40 38 20 10 00 61 00 15 00 24 40 68 Appendix. PENNSYLVANIA— Continued. NAME. NO. LOCATION. 384 385 386 388 390 391 392 393 394 396 397 398 402 Cohocksink Chatham Zocco _ _ - . General Worth Brandywine Coopersburg Black's Eddy Archbald Kossuth Patterson Frankford " . Economy Block House Eastern Star American Star [405 Cocalico _ I408 Day Spring I409 Earl 1413 Robert Blum 1414 Fidelia . -I415 Cherry Tree 1417 Path Valley.-' I419 Little Britain 1420 Neshamony I422 423 424 425 426 428 430 431 Starucca Rhine Hoffnung Uncas. Highland Norris George S. Morris Ivanhoe I432 Blairsville 1436 Hebron |437 Somerset '438 West Newton Monocacy Veritas Hiawatha Roaring Spring Valley Wangum 440 441 443 444 445 446 448 Philadelphia Chatham Pittsburg Connellsville Downingtown Coopersburg Point Pleasant Archbald Media Sadsburyville Frankford Lower Providence . Liberty Unionville Philadelphia Rearnstown Pittsburg New Holland Alleghany City Grant Roxbury Oak Hill Hulmeville Susquehanna Pittsburg . Wilkesbarre . . Yardleyville .. Ebensburg Norristown __. Pittsburg Sugartown Blairsville Cockranville . . Somerset West Newton Douglassville Philadelphia.. Addison Martinsburg . Sheshequin _ . . Hawley Depot. AMOUNT. $ 72 00 20 00 50 00 33 44 100 00 30 GO 24 40 36 GO 7 2G 5 88 19 4G 12 2G IG GG 30 GG IGO GG 13 2G 100 GG 7 2G 72 GG IGG GG 2G GG 14 4G 5 00 33 80 47 88 100 00 29 40 19 4G 14 4G III GG 2 11 GG 25 GG 29 4G 14 4G 15 GG 52 30 7 20 50 GO 14 GG 12 2G 36 25 18 80 Appendix. PENNSYLVANIA— Continued. 69 NAME. LOCATION'. Pennsburg 449 Temperance 453 Pilgrim . 1455 Peace and Union 456 White Haven '457 Upper Dublin 458 P. Magee 460 Berlin 461 Equal Rights 464 Aurora 465 Madison 466 Falls of Schuylkill 467 Waynesburg 469 Aughwick . 472 Altoona 473 Middleport ^474 Henry Lambert '475 Meridian Sun '477 Wallen Paupack 1478 Alpine ';479 Huron 483 Fort Littleton 484 ' " Bros, of! " St. John's 487 Asylum 488 Arbon 489 Lincoln 492 Du Progres 1495 Saxonia 496 Red Stone 1499 Youngsville 500 Academy 502 Wyalusing 503 Mingo 1505 Blucher j5o6 Iroquois Drumore Fayette City Thistle Residenz Neversink . . Gallitan 508 509 511 512 513 514 517 1 Pennsburg i Etna Lionville Riegelsville . . I White Haven ' Jarrettown . _ . Pittsburg Berlin Philadelphia . Pottstown Falls of Schuylki] Waynesburg North Hamilton. x\ltoona Middleport Pittsburg Philadelphia Newfoundland Brady's Bend Jackson Fort Littleton. Port Perry New Era Blossburg Providence Philadelphia Saxonburg Upper Middletown. Youngsville Frazer Camptown Strattonville McKeesport Philadelphia Green Fayette City Pittston Scranton Birdbsoro' Smithfield 70 Appendix. PENNSYLVANIA— Continued. Meshoppen Neshannock Alma Red Jacket Shamokin Valley Trevorton Braddock's Field Normal Veranda Long Swamp Butler...- .... Nockamixon Rhizoma _ Locust Mountain North Huntingdon... Alliance Latrobe . Carmel Auburn Colerain Greenboro Allaquippa Elysburg Elias Wildman . .. _ Herndon Mahanoy Humboldt Worth Youghiogheny Perrysville Caernarvon . _ _ _ Hoshimka Manor Coalmont . Gratztown Colfax Lost Creek New Washington Ellsworth Williamsport Rich Hill Sandy Lake . . 520 521 523 524 527 528 529 531 532 534 535 536 537 538 539 540 541 542 543 544 545 547 548 549 550 551 553 554 555 556 557 558 560 561 563 565 566 567 568 570 571 573 LOCATION. Meshoppen North Wilmington Johnstown Factory ville Snyderstown Trevorton Braddock's Field South Canaan Altoona Long Swamp Drum's U. Bl'k's Eddy Wilmore Ashland Irwin's Station Scranton Latiobe Salem X Roads Auburn Kirkwood Greensboro' Hopewell Elysburg Pittsburg Cressona Mahanoy.... Philadelphia Hendersonville Duncan __. Port Royal __. Morgantown Waynesburg Lee's X Roads Coalmont . Gratz Masontown Miffintown North Washington.. Sacramento Williamsport Wind Ridge Sandy Lake AMOUNT. $ 5 00 31 25 III 00 47 66 5 00 10 00 10 00 30 00 24 40 50 00 20 00 17 70 35 39 24 40 20 40 24 40 29 40 17 20 12 20 14 40 12 20 18 40 88 100 00 14 40 9 40 36 60 9 40 10 00 10 GO 4 40 29 40 5 00 14 40 15 00 15 12 7 5 25 4 38 20 20 00 00 40 20 05 Appendix. PENNSYLVANIA —Continued. 71 LOCATION. General Grant 575 Summit 576 General Steuben 578 Broad Top City 579 Bros, of " Goethe 580 Oliphant 581 Ninevah 583 Uhland ---'584 J. B. Nicholson 585 Centralia 586 Tarentum 587 Six Mile Run 588 Oil City 5*89 Bros, of " Marysville 590 Shenandoah 591 W. G. Brown 592 West Middlesex . . 593 Saxton 594 " Bros, of " Renovo 595 Hamilton 15 96 Schubert '597 Hebel 1599 Bloody Run j6oo Bros. of.. " Magnolia '602 Uniontown '603 Cherusker Wells Valley Amor 605 607 608 Monitor 609 610 611 612 614 615 616 North Wales Freeburg West Fairview Augusta Mineral Point Rich Valley.. Watsontown . . '619 Fort Augusta 620 Mahanoy City.. Summit Hill Philadelphia Broad Top City. Philadelphia. Oliphant Nineveh Philadelphia _ Wilkins Centralia Tarentum Six Mile Run. Oil City Marysville Shenandoah Sheakleyville . _ . West Middlesex Saxton i Renovo I " i Philadelphia. ! Lancaster . . . I Bloody Run. Phiilipsburg. . Pillow Philadelphia . . Well's Tan'ry. Marchand Penn Station.. North Wales.. Freeburg West Fairview Augusta Apollo Mansfield Val. Watsontown . . Sunbury 72 Appendix. PENNSYLVANIA— Continued. LOCATION. AMOUNT. of.. Paxton Valley Echo Beavertown Slateington Concord Bainbridge New Buffalo Linglestown Mount Carmel . Arcana Dempseytown . . Live Oak Lebanon Valley _ Horton Seely Creek Elm Energetic Emlenston Bros. Warrior Run William Youdan Kinnear Farmer's 649 Mount Holley 650 Leechburg 65 1 Granite 652 Montana _ 653 Lisbon 654 Griffin 655 " Bros, of Bellevernon Selah Sellers ville West Freedom, Prosperity 1661 Amazon |662 Letterkenny j663 Amicus .665 Eden 666 667 668 669 621 622 623 624 626 627 628 629 630 631 632 635 636 639 641 642 643 644 a 645 647 648 656 658 Lackawaxen Taylorville. . Glen Hope - . Dauphin Beaver Falls. . Beavertown Slateington Mifiinville Bainbridge New Buffalo ._ Linglestown . . Mount Carmel Wesley Dempseytown. Harford Lebanon . . Hortonville Dagget Mills . . Plymouth Philadelphia . . Emlenston Turbottville West Elizabeth Harmony Summit Station Mount Holly Springs. Leechburg Alleghany City Bendersville Carmichaels Roaring Branch ) Bellevernon . Manheim. Sellersville West Freedom . _ Delpsburg Williamsport. . . . Upper Strasburg Brady Tidioute Hawley Lackawanna Glen Hope Appendix PENNSYLVANIA— Continued. 73 NAME. NO. LOCATION. AMOUNT. Sodi 670 Coal City 671 Laurel 672 Paul Ketterlinus 673 McCoysville 674 William's Valley 675 W. H. Devore 676 Mount Union -- 677 Plumstead ,678 Burnside 679 Petrolia 680 New Albany '682 Green Valley 683 Mountain Home 684 Gnadenhutten 686 Granville Centre 687 Ariel 688 Coalville 689 James L, Graham 690 Weatherly 691 J. S. McDonald 692 Coal Valley 694 Drift*n 695 Vesta 696 Bro. J. Foster. . John F. Logan Morris Run Bros, of.- Tunkhannock Caledonian . . Blackmore . . McWilliams . Moscow ^703 Bright Star 1705 Blain 706 Harper's 1707 Lamberton 1708 Kingston ^709 Harrisonville 710 lola 711 Osage |7I2 Claysburg 1713 Bros, of....! " .697 698 n '699 700 701 702 , Plainsville . . I New Castle I Punxutawny j Philadelphia I McCoysville I Williamstown . . . j Wilkinsburg ! Mount Union j Plumsteadville . . ' Burnside j Rouseville New Albany I Aleppo i White's Tan'y i Lehighton 1 Granville Centre I Kittanning j Hendricksburg. _ I Alleghany City . . i Weatherly i Sewicklyville j Coal Valley I Jeddo : Pike Run Coal Bluffs Morris Run Tunkhannock. _ Philadelphia Webster Richfield Moscow McVeytown Blain Peckville Harrisburg Kingston Harrisonville . . lola Lehman Sarah . 74 Appendix. PENNSYLVANIA— Continued. Quakertown Petroleum Centre Lake Shore United Occidental . . Luzerne " Bros, of Dexter Star New Bethlehem Heginsville Bloomington Bros. of. lona R^-insburg Remembrance Mount Bethel Jacksonville Crawford Putneyville Mount Hor Aqua Dayton Valley Home Invincible Natrona Martin's Creek Bros, of Benton Osceola . . Zeno Beaver Valley Jeansville Salladaysburg Sharpsburg NO. Mingle Mainsburg Tower Washington Irving. Corn Planter Beaver Falls Derry . 714 715 718 719 720 721 a 723 724 725 726 728 a 729 730 731 732 733 734 735 736 737 739 740 741 743 745 746 747 748 749 750 751 752 753 754 755 756 757 758 759 LOCATION. Richland Centre Petroleum Centre Erie Philadelphia Beaver Pittston Shousetown Philadelphia New Bethlehem Heginsville Dawson Station . Newberry , Rainsburg Philadelphia . . Mount Bethel.. Kent Meadville Putneyville Cassville Girardville Dayton Fairfield Millsboro Natrona Martin's Creek Benton .. Osceola Mills.. Ormsby Homewood Jeansville Salladaysburg. . Sharpsburg Troutville Mainsburg Tower City Philadelphia Oil City Beaver Falls... Washingtonville AMOUNT. 2 20 ^52 25 27 92 10 00 24 40 34 75 34 00 61 GO 20 CO 7 20 54 34 9 50 10 00 31 00 10 00 2 20 54 40 38 20 30 00 79 19 36 55 12 25 7 80 18 65 32 00 10 GO 5G GG 26 60 67 6g 12 2G 36 GG 2 2 GG 3 32 25 15 GG 9 36 IG GO 4 40 5 OG Appendix. 75 PENNSYLVANIA— Continued. Ahiman 760 Vincent _ 762 Silurian 763 Mizpah - _ 764 Fall Brook 765 May _ 767 Scenery Hill 1 770 Waterfall 773 Clintonville I774 Amicita , Turtle Creek. 775 777 LOCATION. Bowman's Creek . East Vincent Hyde Park Moorestown Fall Brook Wyoming Hillsboro Waterfall Mills..., Clintonville Pattonville Post Office Order, Lodge not known Difference in per cent, in amount sent to Wiscon- sin and Michigan 9 17 40 59 24 40 10 00 19 57 7 52 I 58 14 24 47 70 22 98 24 50 13 20 8 85 $24,530 21 FROM ENCAMPMENTS. Phila(felphia Pittsburg Morning Star. . Franklin Hebron Dauphin Washington Mount Vernon Siloam I 2 3 4 8 10 II 14 17 Juniata 19 Carbon Delaware County . . Fredonia Apollo Mnemoloton Heneosis Adelphon Reading Ashland . . National Jordan _ 21 32 36 38 40 42 43 45 47 55 LOCATION. Philadelphia Pittsburg Philadelphia Pottsville Reading Harrisburg Lancaster York Philadelphia Thompsontown Mauch Chunk . Village Green. - Philadelphia Danville Erie Reading . Philadelphia _ . . AMOUNT. 25 00 II 00 10 GO 10 00 25 CO 33 20 25 00 14 40 150 00 5 00 11 00 10 GO 50 OG 25 GG IG GG IG GG 50 00 50 00 25 00 25 00 76 Appendix. PENNSYLVANIA— Continued. NAME. Olive Beaver Apalachian Olympus Excelsior Lawrence Clarion Big Spring Flourtown Perry Allegheny William Pitt Hamburg Pennsylvania Peace Branch Montgomery Lehigh Waynesburg Freeman Armin W. F. Packer... Altoona Aurora Scott Shekinah Perseverance Eureka Valley Union . _ . Star Fort Augusta Uncas Vulcan Buffalo Valley.. Eagle - . Wayne Monroe Salem . Tremont Union Arcturus Fountain . Clay Moshannon NO. LOCATION. 56 Harrisburg 67 Hazelton 69 Hollidaysburg _ . 82 Meadville 85 Pottstown . _ 86 New Castle 90 Clarion 92 Newville 94 Flourtown 100 Duncannon 101 Allegheny City . . 104 Cochranville . 106 Hamburg . . Ill Philadelphia 114 Bedford 115 Merion Square.. 118 Fogelsville 119 Waynesburg 121 Linwood 124 Scranton 127 Johnstown 129 Altoona 130 Wilkesbarre 132 Tamaqua 134 Ashland 135 Germantown 137 Halifax 138 Easton 139 Bethlehem 140 Sunbury 144 Lebanon 145 Wilkesbarre 157 Lewisburg 158 Hanover 159 Hamlinton 161 Stroudsburg 162 Salem X Roads 167 Tremont 168 Blairsville 170 Summit Hill 172 Mahoney City. . 173 Phillipsburg Appendix. PENNSYLVANIA— Continued. 77 NAME. Shiloh Canton Shenango J. B. Nicholson Zion Butler Freeport Youngsville Oneida 174 184 186 187 191 193 195 201 207 LOCATION West Fairview Canton Sharon . Tarentum Coalmont Drum's Freeport Youngsville . _ Lehman 3 25 5 00 5 00 5 00 10 00 10 00 10 00 5 00 2 25 $ 1,447 40 FROM R. D. LODGES. Charity Salome 3 30 LOCATION. Easton York . AMOUNT. ID 00 2 20 12 20 FROM OTHER SOURCES. Methojiist Episcopal Church, McVeytown . Finance Committee, Grand Lodge Through J. H. Henry, Shewsbury L D. Steel, New Buffalo C. J. Bruner Henry Clement George A. Cesna Richard Clay, of Fort Du Quoin, Pittsburg. 12 00 50 00 30 00 12 35 5 00 I 00 88 5 00 $ 116 23 DONATIONS OTHER THAN CASH. Chambersburg, Clothing, estimated _ 1$ 15 00 CASH RECEIVED AND RETURNED. To W. M. Stedman, R. W. D. G. M $ 2 ,610 74 00 McAllisterville Lodge, No. 716, McAllisterville. . . 20 $ 2 5630 74 78 Appendix. PENNSYLVANIA— Continued. TOTAL AMOUNT OF CONTRIBUTIONS. From Lodges " Encampments R. D. Lodges " Other Sources Less amount returned Add value donation $24,550 21 1,447 40 12 20 116 23 $26,126 04 2,630 74 1$ 23,495 30 1 15 00 Amount retained for Relief 1^23,5 10 30 RHODE ISLAND. FROM LODGES. NAME. Eagle 2 Roger Williams 3 Hope 4 Harmony 5 Good Samaritan 8 Canonicus 9 Woonsocket 10 Rhode Island 12 United Brothers 13 Manufacturers i 15 Sevarts ! 18 Friendly Union NO. 200 50 200 50 250 ICQ ICQ 230 25 GO 00 GO GG GG GG GG GG GO GO GG 50 00 FROM ENCAMPMENTS. NAME. NO. AMOUNT. Moshassulk 2 S 50 00 Appendix. RHODE ISLAND — Continued. 79 DONATIONS OTHER THAN CASH. NAME. NO. ! AMOUNT, 1 Manufacturers 13 valued! $ 47 00 DONATIONS RECEIVED AND RETURNED. NAME. Mechanics NO. 14 LOCATION. Hope Valley AMOUNT. $ 25 00 TOTAL AMOUNT OF CONTRIBUTIONS. Received from Lodges " Encampments Retained by Committee. $1,355 00 50 00 $1,405 00 SOUTH CAROLINA FROM LODGES. NAME. ! NO. LOCATION. AMOUNT. Lafayette 8 Chester $ 10 00 CASH RECEIVED AND RETURNED. NAME. Marion . AMOUNT. S 30 00 8o Appendix. TENNESSEE. FROM LODGES. Washington _ I 5 Howard | 13 Strangers' Refuge - Union Haywood Pythagoras. Calhoun East Tennessee Lincoln Richmond Safe Retreat Tullahoma Aurora Phillips McKendree Knoxville Culleoka Milan 14 19 20 23 26 34 50 59 77 lOI 105 1 1 2 136 138 143 155 LOCATION. Dresden Gallaten Murfreesboro'- . Winchester Brownsville. . _ _ Clarksville Fayetteville Knoxville Lynchburg Richmond Mooresville Tullahoma Nashville Chattanooga Fountain Head. Knoxville Culleoka Milan FROM ENCAMPMENTS. NAME. NO. LOCATION. AMOUNT. Wildey 7 Murfreesboro $ 10 00 FROM OTHER SOURCES. Hugh Carroll, from sundry parties Mrs. Fernandez Lewis Abbott W. N. Carr T. L. Marshall G. P. Gibson _ G. F. Fuller J. B. Haddox A. H, Coussens Appendix. 8i TENNESSEE —Continued. FROM OTHER SOURCES. P. Billiad R. H. Barry William Boyd E. D. Farnsworth _. J. L.Weakley Robert Thompson.. W. G. Pearson John Harper J. A. Adcock D. G. Reed Gustave Werein Alexander Bennie A. C. Coutellier .... W. K. Dobson W. C. Gunn H. C. Shutz William Gadsey W. H. Trafford Nathan Fry Charles Katzeustein Newton Recton Hugh Carroll D. H. Felts Daniel Donoho W. H. Fletcher B. Wright George F. Lloyd — J. R. Harewell C. B. Hall Wm. Chidsey Wm. Hailey C. Burr B. R. Cutler A. W. Cady 5 oo I oo I oo lo oo lo oo lo oo lo oo 5 oo oo oo oo oo oo oo oo oo oo 5 oo 5 oo I oo 5 oo 5 oo oo oo oo oo oo 5 oo lo oo lo oo 5 oo 5 oo 5 oo lo oo $ 195 00 TOTAL AMOUNT OF CONTRIBUTIONS. From Lodges " Encampments " Other Sources F $ 784 50 10 00 195 00 82 Appendix. TENNESSEE — Continued. TOTAL AMOUNT OF CONTRIBUTIONS CONTINUED. Returned to H. C. Hensley, Treasurer. .$19 05 Expense in Nashville 16 25 » 989 50 35 30 Total amount retained $ 954 20 TEXAS. FROM LODGES. NAME. Wildey NO. LOCATION. Paris AMOUNT. S 27 50 VERMONT. FROM LODGES. NAME. Green Mountain Caledonia Lake Dunmore. C. A. Miles .... NO. LOCATION. 6 1 1 31 I , Burlington St. Johnsbury. Middlebury St. Albans.. I AMOUNT. IOC GO ICQ GO 30 GG 61 GG $ 291 GG VIRGINIA. FROM LODGES. NAME. Washington. . Jefferson Old Dominion Union Monroe Lafayette Friendship NO. LOCATION. AMOUNT. 2 Norfolk . _ $ 50 GG 4 Richmond IG 50 5 Portsmouth IG GG 7 Richmond 5 00 8 Petersburg 25 GG 9 Norfolk 5 00 10 Richmond 25 GG Appendix. 83 VIRGINIA— Continued. NAME. Harmony 19 Loudoun 26 Charity 27 Potomac 38 Myrtle 50 Rockbridge 58 Thompson 88 Henderson 105 Mount Sidney 119 Blackberry. ; 124 Greble ii37 Schiller _ _ . _ . . ' 139 Stiiart 1141 LOCATION. Norfolk $ Leesburg Warrenton i Alexandria _ _ ! Fredericksburg , Lexington j Marion | Manchester. Mount Sidney j Blackberry I Hampton . I Richmond Manchester 118 50 20 CO 6 25 20 GO 26 00 20 00 8 40 25 GO 5 00 IG GO 60 00 20 00 25 GO $ 494 65 WEST VIRGINIA FROM LODGES. LOCATION. Virginia Virginius Franklin William Tell Monongalia Panola West Columbia Ravenswood Concord ' 19 Liberty. 21 Tuscarora ■ 24 Kanawha j 25 Gratitude ' 26 Sharon 28 Grafton 31 Point Pleasant 33 Magnolia 42 Mount Hebron j 43 Harper's Ferry Wheeling Morgantown Wheeling West Columbia Ravenswood Wheeling Hartford City Martinsburg . _ Charleston Hedgesville Parkersburg Grafton Point Pleasant North Martinsville.. Bloomery AMOUNT. ; 25 GO 50 00 100 00 50 00 25 GO 50 GO 10 GO 27 75 25 GO IGO GO 25 GO 50 GO 50 00 GO 10 GO 50 GO 10 GO 35 00 84 Appendix. WEST VIRGINIA— Continued. NAME. Clifton Eureka " Lodge Committee Lincoln Cassander 45 48 <( 49 53 LOCATION, Clifton Wheeling _ . . Benwood Kabletown AMOUNT. 25 00 71 00 90 00 25 00 10 GO $ 918 75 FROM ENCAMPMENTS. NAME. Abram's Wheeling Toliver AMOUNT. RECEIVED AND RETURNED. NAME. NO. LOCATION. AMOUNT. Clarksburg, Bros. of.. 37 Clarksburg _ 1 30 00 TOTAL CASH CONTRIBUTIONS. From Lodges " Encampments . Less returned Amount retained for Relief $ 948 75 100 00 $ 1,048 75 30 00 $ 1,018 75 Appendix. ^5 WISCONSIN FROM LODGES. Hope Hercules NO. LOCATION. 12 Shiillsberg 17 Madison _ . ... 72 Monroe 112 Fond du Lac _ 164 Forrest 181 Staffordsvillc- 100 00 25 00 50 00 75 00 5 00 1 2 00 267 00 FROM ENCAMPMENTS. Wisconsin Golden Rule Jefferson Sparta. Berlin Union 9 I 18 32 36 39 52 LOCATION. Milwaukee Green Bay. Jefferson _ . Sparta Berlin . Plymouth . 10 00 7 00 5 00 4 00 5 00 8 00 39 00 TOTAL CASH CONTRIBUTIONS. From Loda^es " Encampments $ 267 00 39 00 $ 306 00 NEW MEXICO. FROM LODGES. NAME. Paradise. LOCATION. 2 Sante Fe _ I $ 90 00 86 Appendix. EUROPE. FROM LODGES. NAME. Helvetia _ . Saxonia _ . Germania. Borussia . . NO. LOCATION. Zurich _ . Dresden Berlin _ _ From 4 Charter Members of Templar Lodge, No. 4 Being in American Gold Premium on same Wurttenberg Lodge, No. i, of Stuttgart . . Total contributions. Thalers. 12 27 82 25 70 CO 41 15 8 GO 12 65 71 $ 238 41 UNKNOWN Currency sent without any data $ 56 00 DONATIONS OTHER THAN CASH. Provisions and Clothing estimated. ICQ 00 ILLl^ OlS—lRevised.^ DONATIONS REPORTED SENT BUT NOT RECEIVED. NAME. NO. LOCATION. AMOUNT. Prairie Perry Macedonia 20 97 315 Russelville cash Tamaroa ..provisions Macedonia cash $ 15 00 42 GO 34 00 $ 91 OG Many donations were sent directly to Lodges or individual members, or to the Relief iNi> Aid Society, and which therefore do not appear herein. Appendix. 87 RECAPITULATION. Amount of Cash received and retained by the Coimnittee and the Jurisdictions sending the same : Alabama Arkansas California . . . Colorado Connecticut Delaware District of Columbia Georgia Illinois . Indiana Iowa Kansas Kentucky Louisiana : . Lower Provinces, B. N. A. Maine . Maryland Massachusetts Michigan Minnesota Missouri Nebraska New Hampshire Ne^v Jersey . New York Nevada North Carolina Ohio Ontario Oregon Pennsylvania Rhode Island - _ _ South Carolina. ... Tennessee Texas Vermont Virginia West Virginia Wisconsin . . New Mexico Europe Unknown % 10 CO 202 00 14,469 90 175 GO 2,341 36 1,196 25 885 GO 252 GO 17,932 8g 4,868 39 3.288 13 1,163 50 835 88 2GG 00 36 1,050 GG 1,841 50 3,290 48 196 50 611 15 2,405 GG IG5 GG 7GG GO 2,131 50 10,625 71 i>625 75 50 00 2,333 00 1,965 96 1,781 91 23.495 30 1,405 GG IG GG 954 2G 27 50 291 GG 494 65 i,Gi8 75 306 GG 90 GO 238 41 56 00 $107,075 84 88 Appendix. Amount of Cash returned by the Committee^ per resolution of March 23, 1872 : California District of Columbia. Georgia Illinois Indiana Iowa Kansas Maryland Massachusetts Missouri New Jersey New York ... Ohio Oregon Pennsylvania Rhode Island South Carolina Tennessee West Virginia I 1,970 77 43 25 17 90 642 60 66 50 20 37 136 GO 117 20 150 CO 323 95 100 00 206 46 90 00 25 00 2,630 74 25 00 30 GO 19 05 30 CO % 6,644 79 Donations other than Cash, ( estimated :) Illinois Indiana Kentucky Massachusetts . . Missouri . New Hampshire New York Ohio Pennsylvania Rhode Island - . . Unknown 1,055 00 150 OG 1,895 48 4,iGG 86 50 00 787 65 20 OG 9,179 GO 15 GO 47 00 I GO GG $ 17,399 99 Total amount contributed in cash ajid donatiofis Amount of Cash retained for Relief. . " " returned Value of Donations other than Cash. $107,075 84 6,644 79 17,399 99 $ 131,120 62 1