CONTENTS

Frontispiece in Colors—"The Flag of Our Country."                                     '?

CHAPTER I.

Transatlantic History.

Page
Early Guilds and Brotherhoods—The Royal Antediluvian Order of Buffa¬
loes—Theatrical Organizations in pngland—VIVIAN in England—
The Old Tavern Near Westminster Bridge, London.............    12-33

CHAPTER IL

Formation of the "Jolly Corks."

Popularity of Minstrelsy—The Theatrical Situation in New York in 1867
—The Excise Laws—The "Free and Easies"—^VIVIAN arrives in
America—Growth and Membership of the "Jolly Corks"—Military
Hall—Change of Name Adopted—First Elks' Charter—Passing of
the "Corks"—Biographies, Old Songs, etc......................  33-113

CHAPTER III.
The Birth and Rise of the B. and P. O. of Elks.

The Formative Period—First Constitution Adopted—Relation of the Early
Elks to the R. A. O. B. —First Ball —First Benefit — Origin of
"Eleven O'Clock Toast," Auld Lang Syne, and Social Session—•
First Death in the Elks — First Lodge of Sorrow — Birth of the
Grand Lodge, and Its History by Administrations, with Portraits
and Biographies of Past Grand Exalted Rulers, etc...............114-373

Pioneers of Elkdom, Famous Minstrels and Old Players................373-343

CHAPTER IV.
First Ten Elk Lodges (Schoolmaster Group)—Elk Lodges in American

Insular Possessions, with Portraits, Homes, and Old Benefit Bills. .343-393
The Growth of the Order (Tables), and the Spread of the Order (Maps),

etc.........................................................        i-x

CHAPTER V.
The Forget-me-not (Color Plate) and the Prose and Poetry of Elkdom.. .393-448

CHAPTER VI.
The American Elk (Color Plate) and the History of the Elk (Natural

History)....................................................449-458

CHAPTER VII.
The Elks' Colors (Color Plcite)—Ox{gm of the Motto—Elks' Rest—Elk

Press—National Elks' Home, and Miscellaneous.................459-473

PART II.
Official History of Chicago Lodge, No. 4;  Portraits and Biographies of

Her Past Exalted Rulers, Members, Illustrations, Necrology, etc...    1-333