(By our Providence correspondent)
Advance indications point to an attendance of nearly 1200 delegates to the first New England convention of the District Grand Lodge, No. 1 of the Independent Order of B’nai Brith, which will be held at the Biltmore Hotel, May 12, 13 and 14. The convention will draw its delegates from New York State, Canada, Rhode Island, Maine, New Hampshire, Connecticut, Massachusetts and Vermont.
An unwritten law of the I.O.B.B. is that conventions will be held in the cities where the incoming presidents maintain their residences.
Next years’ president of the Grand Lodge will be David Rosslander of Buffalo, New York attorney, a professor in the Buffalo University Law school. Mr. Rosslander waived the right to hold the convention in his city.
The convention activities will open on Saturday evening, May 12 with an informal reception to visiting delegates and guests. A banquet, at which it is expected 1,200 delegates and guests will be present will be held at the conclusion of the sessions.
Included in the list of visitors, who will attend the dinner, according to members of Haggai Lodge, No. 132 of Providence, are: Governor Norman S. Case, Mayor James E. Dunne of Providence, United States Senator Gerry, United States Senator Jesse H. Metcalf, Congressmen Clark Burdick and Louis Monast, Federal Judge Ira Lloyd Letts, Secretary of State Ernest L. Sprague and State Senators Maurice Robinson and Harry A. Sanderson.
New York guests of honor will be Maurice Bloch, minority leader of the New York general assembly; Judge Albrt Cohn, Judge Max L. Pinensky, chief justice of Portland, Me. district court; Judge Abraham K. Cohen of Boston, Judge Julius Illch of Albany, N. Y., Dr. Boris D. Bogen of Cincinnati, O.; Charles Hartman of New York; Henry Monsky of Omaha, Neb. and Max Levy of New York.
The convention of the Order in Providence was held in 1904, also under the auspices of Haggai Lodge. Nathan Werner is general chairman of the convention committee.
Newman Pincus, Providence octogenarian, who as a charter member of Haggai lodge since 1869, has attended every convention, will be present.
Delegates will hold their first session on Sunday morning, May 13 in the Biltmore. The women’s auxiliary delegates will also meet Sunday afternoon.
It is expected that approximately 130 lodges will send from two to 10 delegates.
Besides Mr. Werner, chairman, the convention committee includes. Louis Lipson, treasurer and Philip Davison, seeretary.
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