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MOOSEHEART MAGAZINE
The Builders of The Moose
No. 113 by Mr. Galvin for the purpose of carrying on the Victory campaign for 2,000 members. The results show that this number will probably be exceeded. So many applications were written that Rochester Lodge was forced to increase its bi-weekly initiations to once a week, and recently there were two initiation meetings in one week. The largest class consisted of 273 new members, but it is difficult to handle so many at one. meeting, so the average classes have been from 150 to 200 new members each time. Rochester Lodge now has over 6,000 members, and it is Brother Galvin’s ambition to make it the second largest Lodge in the Loyal Order of Moose. He scarcely expects to exceed Philadelphia Lodge, but he will not be content with anything less than second place. The Victory Campaign in Rochester Lodge has been under the personal supervision of Brother Galvin, and the big results show how he obtains the applications.
On the evening of February 21st the great Convention hall in Rochester was crowded to the doors by 4,000 people, with 3,000 being turned away, to see the motion pictures of Moose-heart. It was the most crowded meeting ever held in Convention hall, except when W. J. Bryan spoke there in 1896. After the pictures were shown Brother Galvin gave an address on Mooseheart, which resulted in two׳ hundred applications the following day.
On Sunday, February 23rd, a mass meeting was held at Hamilton, Ont. Over 2,000 people crowded into the theatre and as many were turned away. His Worshipful, Mayor Booker, presided over the meeting, and inspiring addresses on Mooseheart and fraternity were given by Congressman James M. Mead of Buffalo, and Rev. S. Banks Nelson, a prominent Presbyterian clergyman of Ontario. William F. McGuire is the deputy in charge of organization work in Hamilton and is achieving great results for Hamilton Lodge.
It is the intention of Brother Galvin to take his corps of workers now conducting aggressive campaign in the Lodges of New York territory to Ontario later on in the year for the purpose of instituting lodges in every city and town of the Province. Ex-Mayor John C. Barry of Cortlandt,
Not enough has been said about and by the men who have builded and are building the Moose Order. Accordingly the Editors have invited each District Supervisor to say something about himself, his working force and the Order in general. All the other fraternities taken together cannot show a more impressive galaxy of organization talent—that is the reason that the Moose Order is the leader. These articles will run from month to month.
JAMES J. DAVIS, Director General
The Creator, Supervisor and Genius of The Organization Department
Rochester,״ n. y., March 1.—
The Organization Department for upper and western New York and the Province of Ontario unde District Supervisor P.. H. Galvin reports unequaled success in class initiations and of enthusiasm among the lodges. Moose history is being made rapidly wherever Brother Galvin and his deputy supervisors and lecturers are working, and that means the whole territory under his supervision. These are stirring times of fraternal accomplishment, and the effects are shown by large class initiations, big mass meetings for the Moose and their friends and expressions of loyalty heard everywhere in these districts.
Brother Galvin is completing the organization work in New York State and is opening up the Province of Ontario with vigor. Not only Galvin himself, but his whole corps of deputies are harvesting the results of their forceful field campaigns, with new members coming in so numerously that all are fatigued from writing applications and supervising the initiations. The Lodges are booming as they have never boomed before, there is great interest among the members, and all the Lodges show an excellent financial condition. Moose on the streets, in business houses and the club rooms are talking of the benefits of the Order more than ever before. Their loyalty is catching.
These conditions have been developing during the past three months. While the war was being waged the interest of most people was given to the conflict and such patriotic enterprises as Liberty Loan campaigns, the Red Cross, and hospital and tobacco funds. When the armistice was signed their attention was turned to other things and it seems that there is a great ambition among all people to engage in fraternal work. This explains partly why the field of New York and Ontario has become so productive, but the biggest reason is that District Supervisor Galvin has taken advantage of the situation by throwing in his tireless enthusiasm and splendid organizing ability to reap a great harvest for the Loyal Order of Moose. He has made the finest records 6f his career, as the results show.
This great opportunity for a big harvest was taken in Rochester Lodge
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