WOMAN'S CHRISTIAN TEMPERANCE UNIONS. 227 ORDER OF THE KINGS' DAUGHTERS. Officers of the Central Council.-Office, 47 West Twenty-second-st., New-York. Presi dent Mrs. Margaret Bottome; vice-president, Miss Kate Bond; general secretary, Mrs. M. L. Dickinson; treasurer, Miss G. H. Libby; corresponding secretary, Mrs. İsabella Charles Davis. This order, founded in January, 1886, has now 170,000 members. It originated in New-York and has spread all over the Union and into Europe, Asia and Australia. Its object is to "develop spiritual life and stimulate Christian activity.", Its members are Lound to serve the needy and the suffer n", to consider the poor and be helpful in good work." The motto of the society is "In His Name." The badge is a purple ribbon or a small silver Maltese cross bearing the initials I. H. N. Any woman may form a The yearly branch by uniting other women with herself for joint effort in doing good. membership fee is 10 cents, payable to the treasurer. THE NATIONAL WOMAN'S CHRISTIAN TEMPERANCE UNION. GENERAL OFFICERS.-President, Miss Frances E. Willard, Evanston, Ill. Miss Anna A. Gordon, Private Secretary, Evanston, Ill. Miss Alice E. Briggs, Office Secretary, Evanston, Ill. Corresponding Secretary, Mrs. Caroline B. Buell, Evanston, Ill. Miss Bertha G. Brown, Secretary; office, 161 La Salle-st., Chicago. Recording Secretary, Mrs. Mary Woodbridge, Ravenna, Ohio. Assistant Recording Secretary, Mrs. L. M. N. Stevens, Portland, Me. Treasurer, Miss Esther Pugh, Evanston, Ill. PLEDGE.-"I hereby solemnly promise, God helping me, to abstain from all distilled, fermented and malt liquors, including wine, beer and cider, and to employ all proper means to discourage the use of and traffic in the same." ORIGIN AND OBJECTS.-This society is the lineal descendant of the great Temperance crusade of 1873-'74, and is a union of Christian women for educating the young, forming a better public sentiment, reforming the drinking classes, transforming by the power of Divine Grace those who are enslaved by alocohol, and securing the entire aboition of the liquor traffic. With its for y-three auxiliary State and eight Territorial unions, besides that of the District of Columbia, it is the largest society ever composed exclusively of women and conducted entirely by them. It has been organized in every State and Territory of the Nation, and locally in about ten thousand towns and cities. Great Britain, Canada and Australia, Hawaiian Islands, New-Zealand, India and Japan, Madagascar and South Africa have also organized. The number of local unions in the United States is estimated at 7,000, including Young Women's Christian Temperance Unions, with a membership of about 150,000 and a following of 250,000. Superintendents-Miss Frances E. Willard, Mrs. Caroline B. Buell. OrganizersMrs. Sallie F. Chapin, Charleston, S. C.; Miss Henrietta G. Moore, Springfield, Ohio; Mrs. M. L. Wells, Chattanooga, Tenn.; Mrs. L. H. Washington, Port Jervis, N. Y.; Mrs. Mary Read Goodale. Baton Rouge, La.; Miss Frances E. Griffin, Montgomery, Ala.; Mrs. Helen L. Bullock, Elmira, N. Y. AMERICAN ORGANIZERS FOR WORLD'S W. C. T. U.-American Committee -The five general officers of the W. C. T. U. Mrs. Mary Clement Leavitt. 36 Bromfield-st., Boston; Miss Jessie Ackerman, Sacramento, Cal.; Mrs. Sallie F. Chapin, Charleston, S. C. American Secretary, Mrs. Mary A. Woodbridge, Ravenna, Ohio. YOUNG WOMEN'S TEMPERANCE WORK.-Superintendent, Mrs. Frances J. Barnes, 146 West 103d-st., New-York City. Department Secretary, Mrs. F. S. Evans, 40 West 25th-st., New-York City. WOMAN'S LECTURE BUREAU.-Secretary, Mrs. R. A. Emmons, 161 La Sallest., Chicago. NON-PARTISAN W. C. T. U. President, Mrs. E. J. Phinney, Cleveland; Vice-President, Mrs. Harriet C. Walker, Minnesota; Corresponding Secretary, Mrs. Howard M. Ingham, Cleveland; Recording Secretary, Mrs. Florence Miller, Iowa; Financial Secretary and Treasurer, Mrs. C. Cornelia Alford, New-York. Organized at Cleveland in January, 1890, as a protest against the attitude of the W. C. T. U. toward political parties. The first annual convention was held at Allegheny City, Penn., in November, 1890; the second in Brooklyn, in November, 1891, when an amendment to the constitution was adopted providing that the right of individual members to take part in political and denominational work should not be abridged. THE ACTORS' FUND OF AMERICA. Incorporated 1882. Headquarters, 12 West 28th-st., New-York City. President, A. M. Palmer; vice-presidents, Louis Aldrich, Edwin Knowles; treasurer, Frank W. Sanger; counsel, A. J. Dittenhoefer; secretary, Charles W. Thomas. Trustees-A. M. Palmer, Louis Aldrich, Edwin Knowles, Frank W. Sanger, Charles W. Thomas, Joseph F. Wheelock, Joseph W. Shannon, F. F. Mackay, De Wolf Hopper, Daniel Frohman, Edwin H. Price, Martin W. Hanley, Antonio Pastor, Al. Hayman, Augustus Pitou, H. S. Taylor and Rudolph Aronson. The Fund assists sick and indigent persons connected in any capacity with the dramatic profession, and provides for their decent burial. The last annual report, June 2, 1891, showed total receipts for the year, $31,884 22; expenditures, $28.879 82, of which $19,901 26 was paid for relief, funeral, physicians' expenses, medicines, etc., in different cities. The total expenditure under this head for nine years is $136.314 42. In the same period 2,571 persons have been relieved, and there have been 509 burials. AMERICAN SOCIETY OF CIVIL ENGINEERS. Organized 1852. President, O. Chanute : vice-presidents, Alphonse Fteley, Charles Hermany; treasurer, John Bogart; directors, Charles B. Brush, Rudolph Hering, Clemens Herschel, Edward P. North, Sam AMERICAN INSTITUTE Organized 1871. President, John Birk inbine; vice-presidents, Henry W. Howe, S. F. Emmons, H. S. Munroe, S. B. Christy, E. C. Pechin, J. C. F. Randolph; treasurer, Theodore D. Rand, Philadelphia; secretary, R. W. Raymond, 13 Burling uel Whitney; secretary and librarian, F. OF MINING ENGINEERS Slip, New-York City; honorary members, 14; members, 1,914; associates, 164; foreign members, 42. Annual meeting, third Tuesday of February. Two other regular meetings are held every year. AMERICAN SOCIETY OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERS. Organized, 1880. President, Charles H. Loring, Brooklyn. Vice-presidents, George I. Alden, Worcester, Mass.; E. F. C. Davis, Richmond, Va., and Irving M. Scott, SecSan Francisco. Treasurer, William H. Wiley, 53 East Tenth-st., New-York. Ho orary members, 18; retary, F. R. Hutton, 12 West Thirty-first-st., New-York. life members, 18; members, 1,119; associates, 52; juniors, 142; total, 1,344. annual meeting is held on the first Thursday of November. The AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF ELECTRICAL ENGINEERS. Organized 1884. President, Alexander Graham Bell; vice-presidents, Francis B. Carl Hering, Crocker, Frank J. Sprague, Joseph Wetzler, Thomas D. Lockwood, William J. Hammer; treasurer, George M. Phelps, 150 Broadway, New-York; secreNumber of members, 571. tary, Ralph W. Pope, 12 West 31st-st., New-York. ENGINEERING ASSOCIATION OF THE SOUTH. President, A. V. Gude, Atlanta; first vice-president, James Geddes, of Nashville; second vice-president, E. P. Clute, South_Pittsburg, Tenn.; directors from Tennes see, E. C. Lewis, W. L. Dudley and W. F. Foster, Nashville; director from Georgia, Hunter McDonald, Atlanta; director from Kentucky, John McLeod, Louisville; di rector from Alabama, Charles B. Percy, Montgomery; secretary, Olin H. Landreth, MemberNashville; treasurer, W. B. Ross, Nashville. Headquarters, Nashville. ship, 108. THE GAELIC SOCIETY. Established 1879 to extend acquaintance with the Gaelic language and history. NewYork headquarters, 17 West 28th-st. Officers, James S. Coleman, president; Thomas J. The athletic branch of the society, Morrow, treasurer; Pierce Kent, secretary. known as the Gaelic Athletic Association, was organized in 1888 for the The grounds and club-house are at Tailtin, Woodside, he practice of Celtic games. ANCIENT ORDER OF HIBERNIANS. New-York officers-Edward L. Carey, county delegate; John Magniore, recording secretary; Bernard Ford, financial secretary; John Madden, treasurer. This is a social and benevolent organization, having also for its object the liberation of Ireland. The parent body, which is called "The Board of Erin," has existed in Ireland for over fifty years. Membership is restricted to Irish Catholics and their gons. The American organization consists of 48 divisions and has 5,000 members. Monthly meetings of the County Board are held at Central Hall, 229 East 47th-st. A permanent home for the order is to be built in East 44th-st. An annual convention of delegates from all parts of the United States is held in New-York on May 1 of each About nine years ago a section of the order year for the election of National officers. rebelled and started a rival organization. Judge Bartlett, of the Supreme Court of Kings County, set aside their claim to the title in favor of the older body. IRISH PARLIAMENTARY FUND ASSOCIATION. Officers-President and treasurer, Eugene Kelly; secretary, J. M. Wall. Organized in November, 1885, by Eugene Kelly, Gen. James R. O'Beirne, Richard M. Walters, Lawrence J. Callanan, Judge Morgan J. O'Brien, David Mc Clure, Edward Browne, Michael Giblin, Joseph J. O'Donoghue, William R. Grace, Colonel William L. Brown, Bryan G. McSwyny, John D. Crimmins, James S. Coleman, J. P. Farrell, and other prominent Irishmen. Its object was primarily to raise money to help defray the expenses of Irish Members of Parliament, but this was afterward broadened to include furtherance in other ways of the Irish Home Rule agitation. One of the first subscriptions was an anonymous one of $5,000 which came through Mr. Kelly. Total amount received to May 4, 1889, $163,200 18. During the visit, in November, 1890, of the Irish Members of Parliament, Dillon, O'Brien, Gill, Harrington, Sullivan and T. P. O'Connor, $37,000 additional was subscribed. IRISH NATIONAL LEAGUE OF AMERICA. Founded 1880. Officers elected at the National Convention at Chicago in October, 1891 President, M. V. Gannon, of Iowa; first vice-president, Patrick Boyd, Toronto; second vice-president, E. J. O'Connor, Augusta, Ga.; treasurer, William Lyman, New-York. National Executive Council: Daniel Corkery, Illinois; Captain George Sweeney, Ohio; John J. Donovan, Massachusetts; James Monagan, Wisconsin; H. J. Carroll, Rhode Island; Nicholas Ford, Missouri; and A. P. McGurk, of Iowa. New-York headquarters, Ledwith Hall, Forty-fifth-st. and Third-ave. Coleman; IRISH NATIONAL FEDERATION OF AMERICA. treasurer, Founded in New-York in 1891, by Dr. Joseph Francis Fox, M. P., as the representative of the Irish Parliamentary party of which Justin McCarthy is the head. The Federation, in both Ireland and America, takes the place of the irish National League, which continues in the control of Parnell's last partisans. its object is "earnestly and actively to sustain the cause of Home Rule for Ireland, with moral and aid." New-York headquarters, Room 24, Cooper Union. Missouri Montana FREEMASONS. MASONIC GRAND LODGES IN NORTH AMERICA. Grand Lodges. Alabama Arizona Members. Arkansas 12,651 British Columbia.. 678 California 15,831 Canada 20,499 Colorado 5,252 Connecticut 15,505 Delaware 1,699 District of Columbia. 3,832 Florida 4,118 Heorgia 13,450 Idaho 751 Illinois 42,369 Indiana 23,890 Indian Territory. 1,357 iowa 23,463 Kansas 18,089 Kentucky 15,974 Louisiana 4,280 Maine 20,968 Manitoba 1,711 Maryland 5,491 Massachusetts 30,880 Michigan 31,864 Minnesota 12,168 Mississippi 8,390 27,824 1,833 Grand Secretary. Myles J. Greene. Dewitt C. Dawkins.. J. H. Bromwell. Stephen F. Chadwick. material Address. San Francisco. Denver. Hartford. Wilmington. Washington. Cedar Rapids. Grand Rapids. East Las Vegas. Casselton. Halifax. Cincinnati. Salem. ANCIENT ACCEPTED SCOTTISH RITE MASONS. SUPREME COUNCIL OF SOVEREIGN GRAND INSPECTORS-GENERAL OF THE THIRTY-THIRD DEGREE. Officers of the Northern Ma-onic Juri diction-M. P. Sovereign Grand Commander, Henry L. Palmer, Milwaukee, Wis.; P. Gr. Lt.-Com., C. L Woodbury, Mass.; Gr. Min. State, S. C. Lawrence, Mass.; Gr. Treasurer-General, Newton D. Arnold; Gr. Sec.Gen., C. F. Paige, N. Y. The address of the Grand Secretary-General and of the Assistant Grand Secretary-General, Albert P. Moriarty, is 104 Stewart Building, New York. ; Lt. Gr. Officers of the Southern Masonic Jurisdiction-Grand Commander, Commander, James Cunningham Batchelor, La.; Gr. Min, State, Erasmus Theodore Carr, Kan.; Secretary-Gen., Frederick Webber, D. C.; Treasurer-Gen., John Mills Browne, D. C. These grand bodies maintain friendly relations with the Supreme Councils for France, England, Scotland, Ireland, Belgium, Brazil, the Argentine Republic, Uruguay, Peru, Portugal, Italy, Mexico, New-Grenada, Chili, Central America, Greece, Canada, Cuba, Switzerland, Egypt, Tunis and Spain. Grand Master. KNIGHTS TEMPLAR. OFFICERS OF THE GRAND ENCAMPMENT. Deputy Grand Master... Grand Standard-Bearer. Grand Sword-Bearer.. Grand Captain of Guard.. John L. S. Gobin.. Number of Grand Commanderies in the United States. 38; ..Lebanon, Penn. Richmond, Va. Wilmington, Del. Chicago, Ill. Washington, D. C. Knoxville, Tenn. ...l'lattsmouth, Neb. commanderies subordiEncamp nate to them, 845; membership, 86,044: commanderies subordinate to Grand ment, 23; membership, 2,050. Total membership, 88,094.). INDEPENDENT ORDER OF ODD FELLOWS. OFFICERS-Charles M. Busbee, Grand Sire, Raleigh, N. C. C. T. Campbell, Dep. Grand Sire, London, Ont.; Theo. A. Ross, Grand Sec., Columbus, Ohio; Isaac A. Sheppard, Grand Treas., Philadelphia; George Coburn, Ass't Grand Seet., Columbus, Ohio; the Rev. J. W. Venable, Grand Chaplain, Hopkinsville, Ky.; A. C. Cable, Grand MarDel.; E. A. shal, Covington, Ohic; Alexander Guthrie, Grand Guardian, Hockessin, Kelly, Grand Messenger, Orting, Wash. GRAND LODGES AND MEMBERSHIP. ANCIENT ORDER OF FORESTERS. This order has 807 courts or lodges in America and 84,220 members. OFFICERS OF THE HIGH COURT.-Supreme Chief Ranger, William A. Kitts ; sub-chief ranger, E. A. Bachman; senior woodward, Philip F. Orgler; junior woodward, Daniel Lanigan; senior beadle, G. H. Hagenmuller; junior beadle, James B. Taylor; treasurer, T. L. Schultze; recording secretary, J. J. Bushnell; permanent secretary, E. M. McMurtry, Exchange Building, Chicago, Ill. |