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St. W. JOHN W. SIMONS, P. G. M., Editor.
WHAT CAN WE KOBE ’
Were we aa rich in charity of deed
As gold—what rock would bloom not with the seed ?
We give our alms and cry! What can we more ?”
One hour ol time were worth a load of ore I
Give to the ignorant our own wisdom! give
Sorrow our comfort! lend to those who live
In crime, the counsels of our virtue! share
With souls our drills, and Satan shall despair !
Alas, what converts one man, who would take
The cross and staff, and house with Guilt, could
make I —7'Ae New TVmon.
FORMS.
Some one has said : “Of what use are forme,
seeing that at times they are empty ? Of the
same use as barrels, which, at times, are empty
too.” In Masonry there are many forms, and
all are empty unless the real, essential, under
lying principles of brotherly love, relief and
truth, fill them. The barrel, if allowed to re
main empty, becomes dry, and in time will fall
to pieces. The forms and ceremonies of the
various degrees in Masonry, if allowed to re
main empty shows, will dry up and fall to
pieces. There is too little of the meaning of
the ceremonies understood by the great mass
of the fraternity. Every degree, from the first
to the last, has some beautiful moral lesson,
and, as in England, every road leads to Lon
don, so in Masonry every form should lead to
the great central truths of Faith, Hope and
Charity. Of what use are the forms if they do
not convey some thought to the mind that will
be lasting? The more of the senses we can
bring to bear upon a lesson in virtue and mo
rality, the deeper will be the impression made
and the more lasting the results. The ear hears
the words of wisdom, the eye sees the beauties
fully pictured in form and ceremony, and the
feeling is made to receive the impression of the
lesson.
Very few in the world are so devoid of senti
ment that they are not impressed by beautiful
pictorial representations of great moral truths.
Those who are not touched by scenes of sad
ness and solemnity, are not of those who make
good Masons. Those who cannot' appreciate
the beautiful, are not likely to reflect very much
honor on any society with which they may
unite, and certainly would only see the empty
forms in many of the degrees of Masonry.
Forms and ceremonies should be beautiful in
language, ritual, pictorial presentation and tn
everything that goes to make them attractive,
but should never be so beautiful in pomp and
parade as to hide the greater beauty ot the les
sons intended to be taught. They are worse
than empty, worse than mockery, if brotherly
love, relief and truth are wanting in the scenes
enacted.
No matter where the scene may be taken
from, whether from the Holy Scriptures, from
historical incident, from fabled story, or from
the imagination of the mind, the same great
lesson must be taught, or It is not Masonry. All
of the ritual of Masonry is intended, in the
most striking manner possible, to impress upon
the candidate the most lasting truths, and any
form or ceremony that in the least degree de
tracts from such teaching is worse than empty.
Some degrees are better understood by witness
ing their portrayal in a dramatic representa
tion, others can only be fully appreciated by a
direct participation in the ceremonies. Every
degree has a moral significance that embodies
pure principle and upright living. Masonry is
not a society for vain show. Show is only to be
used where it can be made to inculcate some
sound doctrine and sublime truth. Painted
fire never warms. It may be very beautiful,
and very true to nature, but it is devoid of the
very element that makes it useful or desirable.
An ieeberg glistening in the morning sunlight,
and sending forth a thousand prismatic colors,
may be a very beautiful object, but we prefer to
see it at a distance. The scorching beams of a
tropical sun may bring to life the luscious
fruits, and the sweet perfume, but we can not
bear the ardor of his vertical rays. No more
do we desire the lifeless form and ceremony, or
the cold, unfeeling ritual, nor the burning ardor
of overwrought dramatic effect. There must
be a gentleness, a deep feeling, a moderation m
all form and ceremony, but above all there
must appear, as the only reason for it all, the
beautiful and important lessons sought to be
impressed upon the mind.
“Do unto others as you would that they
should do to you,” used to be a rule prized by
our forefathers. It is a good rule, but it is one
not often taught in these days of hurly-burly
business. “ The golden rule ” has been chang
ed to “ the rule of gold,” and the rule itself is
made to read:
“ Get all you can, keep all you get,
No matter how you get it.”
And the lessons taught in Masonry, intended
to inculcate the golden rule, in beautiful types
and symbols, are forgotten. There is therefore
the greater need for a careful attention to the
forms and ceremonies, that they do not degen
erate into empty shows. Let the real golden
rule be taught, or the show of glitter that may
dazzle but is worthless, be cast aside. True
principle, real fyona fide brotherly love, relie*
and truth, should be plainly seen in**every de
gree from the first to the last.
z THE SCOTTISH RITE IN ELMIRA.
VALLEY OF THE CHEMUNG.
A more earnest set of Masons cannot well be
found than those who successfully bent their
efforts to construct the beautiful Temple at
Elmira. Every brother is ardent in whatever
role he is set to do. All seem to work upon the
principle, “ whatever your hands find to do,
do it with all your might and with all your
heart,” and yet without great demonstration.
Their effort to root out the disturbing elements
of anarchy and ruin in the Scottish Rite, was
lately thoroughly considered and digested, and
then the move was made with such decision
that no question was entertained of the result.
One hundred and seven of those who had been
misled, gladly availed themselves of the oppor
tunity of taking the Degrees of the Scottish Rite
under the regular Northern Jurisdiction. Three
distinct movements were made to restore good
fellowship among the fraternity on the southern
line of the State, and the results were most suc
cessful. There has been left scarcely one mal
content. It now is evident that the greatest
good feeling prevails throughout the whole
fraternity in the beautiful valley of the Che
mung.
The celebration of the era of good feeling was
a marked one, and the accompanying banquet
was not without its noted points. The speeches
were not uncertain in their declaration that no
further error would be made, that the future of
Masonry would be as brilliant among them as
it had beeen depressing for the last two or
three years. The remarks of Judge G. L.
Smith, and more especially those of the Mayor,
John B. Stanchfield, were warmly applauded
and their sentiments echoed with great feeling.
The coming Winter will feel the impulse that
has been engendered, and a more flourishing
season than has been experienced lor years may
naturally be expected.
The banquet table was handsomely decorated
with floral designs, presented by the ladies of
Elmira. Among those present were noted John
D. Williams, Hiram Berry, C. N. Shipman, Dex
ter D. Curtis, Frank B. Brown, Charles S. Dav
ison, John Stobo, J. T. Hill, Theo. Van Wormer,
L. M. Mills, W. T. Bowlby, W. 8. Hodgman, F.
D. Kingsbury, Thomas 8. Pritchard, George
Hitchcock, Hiram Pritchard, Seymour Lang,
and Charles H. Heyzer and C. T. McClenachan,
of New York city, who were guests. The Daily
Advertiser, of Elmira, reporting the remarkable
gathering, closes by saying: “ All present de
clared that the day would be ever kept in
pleasant memory until the last light breaks
upon those who enter the new life beyond the
borderland.”
NOTES AND QUERIES.
B—— What has become of “ Gander Green”
and his New Jersey chum, “ Pugwash ?” Fears
are entertained that they may have faded away.
The fat carrier of Barclay street makes daily
inquiries lor “ G. G.” at the Astor House.
Answer:—Gone “ where the wood-bine twin
eth.”
Danibl Cabpenter Lodge No. 643.—
The Second Degree will be conferred in full
form on next Thursday, 9th inst. The Middle
Chamber work is in the hands of competent
brethren, and the craftsmen are cordially in
vited to attend.
Copestone Lodge, No. 641, will call
from refreshment to labor on Wednesday next,
on which occasion the Second Degree will be
exemplified. A large attendance of the mem
bership and visiting brethren is anticipated.
WHAT IS MASONRY-IS IT CHRISTIASItt 1
BY BRO. 0. T. McCLENACHAN.
In the September number of " The Voice of
Masonry,” p. 782, we find a criticism by Comp.
Samuel Harper upon some of the opinions ex
pressed by Comp. Youngs, of Wisconsin, that
Masonry does not admit of sectarianism, but
was strictly cosmopolitan. Comp. Harper, in
his report to the Grand Royal Arch Chapter of
Pennsylvania, says : There is a great deal be
ing said nowadays in regard to what is Masonry.
Comp. Gurney, of Illinois, for instance, says
that the lodge only is Masonic, while all other
so-called Masonic bodies are merely associa
tions of Masons. Comp. Youngs goes a step
further and adds the chapter, because, in his
opinion, Masonry is strictly cosmopolitan and
requires no religious belief, except belief in
the Supreme Architect of the Universe. Many
others are earnestly of the opinion that the
Council, Commandery and Scottish Rite are
also Masonic. We do not, however, intend to
discuss the question. Our present purpose is
to point out the mistake of Comp. Youngs when
he says that no organization can claim to be
Masonic that requires its members to be the
supporters and defenders of any religious be
lief, and to do this we need only remind him
that Masonry originally was not cosmopolitan,
but was essentially and thoroughly Christian.
This fact is indisputable and forces us to the
conclusion either that our companion is in
error or that in the beginning Masonry was not
Masonry.
We cannot accept Comp. Young’s test as to
what is Masonry. We cannot believe that
Masonry is limited to teaching God in a general
sense and that we are not permitted to take our
Masonry with us into our religious life, and into
our companionship with Christ and our fellow
ship with the Holy Spirit. We are among those
who believe that Masonry teaches Christ to-day
as much as it did in its origin and before it be
came cosmopolitan, and that is why we love it
as fervently as we do. Ot course the lodge and
chapter do not enforce such a belief, but it is
equally true that neither of them denies to us
the right to entertain it.”
If these are the true principles of the frater
nity, we are not alone in having mistaken what
Masonry is. That Companion Harper may en
tertain this idea of Masonry there can be no
possible objection, but to put forth these views
in a report for record, as of, and for, a Grand
Royal Arch Chapter, and to have them remain
unquestioned, we enter our dissent. We are
well aware that we are liable to be misinterpre
ted and charged with attacking the religious
laith of the large majority of the people of the
country in which we live, yet even at that risk
wo are unwilling to permit these views ex
pressed by Companion Harper, to remain with
out a protest, and we score the point at once,
that it is unworthy of any reader who will place
our answer as an attack on any faith.
We will first assert our belief that there is no
such thing, per se, as Christian Masonry, or
Jewish Masonry, or Egyptian Masonry, or Per
sian, or Mahommedan, or Indian Masonry;
that is, there is no such thing as one Masonry
for the Hebrew and another for the Christian,
or that for those of any other specific faith.
There is but one Masonry for all of our Father's
children so long as they believe in God and in
the immortality of the soul. Or, to exemplify,
that the Order of the Temple is not Masonry,
because of its exacting of its disciples a certain
specified faith. To this conclusion we had pre
sumed all assented. The Order of the Temple
has its own specific glorious work to perform.
We did not presume that the fraternity could
be required to believe that Freemasonry was
still Christian because it is claimed by some to
have emanated from a society or associations of
guilds composed of Christians. The Masonry
of to-day is the Masonry that was given its birth
in the beginning of the last century, alter it had
assumed a form, began to be surrounded with
ceremonies, was lilted from its operative shell
and given a speculative existence, when not
even a Holy Bible was placed upon its altar.
If our good companion merely meant that
through all Masonry, from the apprentice up,
there might be traced, by those so inclined, an
ideal of the Nazarine and Him crucified, there
could be no objection, any more than that those
of the Osirian faith or of the Islamitic, the Zoro
astrian, the Hebraic or the Brahmitic faith
might trace the doctrines and teachings of their
respective ideals. But this is not the brother’s
declaration. The report says, “ Masonry origin
ally was not cosmopolitan, but was essentially
and thoroughly Christian,” therefore an organ
ization can claim to be Masonic that requires its
members to be the supporters and defenders of
a particular religious faith.
This idea promulgates the doctrine that a
constitution cannot legally and effectually be
amended. This idea disrupts the entire institu
tion founded on the old charges, which dis
tinctly aver that “Though in ancient times
Masons were charged in every country to be of
the religion of that country or nation, whatever
it was, yet ’tis now thought more expedient only
to oblige them to that religion in which all men
agree, etc.”
Masonic historians permit us, unquestioned,
to accept the Constitutions of 1723, and if we
quote from them as to Masonry being an opera
tive art in ages back, we find from Hughan’s
Copy, page 21, “ But none of the Nations, nor
all together, could rival the Israelites, far less
excel them in Masonry ; and their Temple re
mained the constant pattern.” This history,
which precedes the Constitutions, thus speaks
of Hebraic Masonic skill, a thousand years be
fore the Christian era. If Masonry was essen
tially and thoroughly Christian in the begin
ning, where are we to go for that beginning, to
show that the Masonry of to-day was the Ma
sonry then. It is true the preceding history to
the Constitutions commences with asking grace
of the Christian Trinity, but it might j'ust as
well have been preceded by the Moslem Bismil
lah, so far as enforcing a creed, for it is to the
text of the Constitution we must refer and ad
here.
There is nothing sectarian in the Charge, Ad
ditional Orders or Obligations of 1663.
Brushing away the mists of speculation, no
nistorian, as yet, has demonstrated the exact
origin of Masonry, and it is still a question of
assumption whether the Ancient Mysteries, the
Essences, the Roman Collegia, or the Culdees
were the lineal ancestor of the Masonic frater
nity.
Able and trusted authors are not wanting who
allege “ that the esoteric doctrines, which in
Egypt, in Persia, and in Greece, preserved the
speculations of the wise from the ears and
tongues of an illiterate multitude, passed with
slight modifications into the possession of the
early Christian heretics; from the Gnostic
schools of Syria and Egypt to their successors
the Maniceans ; and that from these through
the Paulicians, Albigenses, and Templars, they
have been bequeathed to the modern Freema
sons.” (Marras, Secret Fraternities, see Gould.)
The earliest Masonry has not yet been deter
mined, hence we must not claim that “ the be
ginning of Masonry was essentially and thor
oughly Christian.” The premises are wrong.
“ It is therefore important that those of us who
aspire to be teachers in the Craft should be ex
ceedingly careful,” as Companion Harper re
marks.
It is as possible with Masonry as with other in
etitvtions, that even where an historical connec
tion is capable of demonstration, it may assume
a Protean form, and thus from a pre-existing
institution, an entirely new one may take its
rise. And so of Masonry. We will accept it as it
is, an Institution or Fraternity pronounced by
its most ardent supporters, devetees and learn
ed writers as a fraternity, universal, tolerant
and cosmopolitan. It would be needless to go
further than Dr. Mackey, under the heading,
“Religion,” in his Encyclopaedia, for he is so
complete: “Masonry is a religious institu
tion.”
“ The opponents of Freemasonry confound the
idea of a religious institution with that of the
Christian religion as a peculiar form of wor
ship, and in supposing, because Masonry
teaches religious truth, that it is offered as a
substitute for Christian truth and Christian ob
ligation. Its warmest and most enlightened
friends have never advanced nor supported
such a claim. Freemasonry is not Christianity,
nor a substitute for it. It does not meddle
with sectarian creeds or doctrines. It does not
claim to be ‘ the way, the truth and the life.’”
We therefore conclude that it is not wise to
pin a sectarian faith on the beginning of Ma-
NEW YORK DISPATCH, SEPTEMBER 5, 1886.
sonry, or to assert that it was then essentially
and thoroughly Christian, until we have ar
rived to a certain demonstration as to when
and where and what was the beginning of Ma
sonry. We must, therefore, accept Masonry as
it is generally understood and always taught,
to be a universal and cosmopolitan fraternity.
PUTNAM LODGE, NO. 338.
On last Friday evening this popular lodge
held its annual picnic at Elm Park, and it may
safely add another triumph to its many success
lul affairs, for which Putnam is so justly fam
ous, Early in the evening the clans began to
gather, but it was not until about 9 o’clock P.
M. that the brilliantly illuminated plattorm
showed to its best advantage the many beauti
ful girls and graceful dancers who crowded the
structure to its utmost capacity. Among the
many we noted only a fow: W. Brother Bragg,
of Strict Observance Lodge; Davis and Ludwig,
of Tecumseh; W. Brother Waterbury, with his
pretty wife; Geo. B. Hebard, of old Independ
ent Lodge No. 185; and W. Bros. Hunt and Pren
tice, and their good ladies: W. Bros. Hibbs and
Walker, with - their wives looking after them;
W. Bro. Bowen, and many others. W. Bro.
Judge, the Master of Putnam, was very active
in looking to the comfort and’enjoyment of the
guests, and he was very ably assisted by all the
members of Putnam, especially by Bro. Gled
hill, who managed the dances, and Capt. Ben
Tinsler, who had a bevy of pretty girls with
him, and Louis Laux, and D. Meister with
Henry Koch and Mrs. Meister with Mrs. Koch,
and Bro. Wm. Roulston and all the rest. But
above all Bro. Henry Vaughan was everywhere,
and only the great good nature of the boys o'
Putnam saved them of being talked to death by
Bro. Harry; and he knows what he is talking
about, too. And Bro. John May, the gas man ot
Bleecker street, was seen flirting around with
all the pretty girls; and everybody was happy.
We have since been informed that Putnam kept
this thing up until morning, but this is only
hearsay testimony, for we confidently believe
that they retired in good season, and in good
order, as they always do under such itble guidr
ance as W. Bros. Judge, Prentice, Bowen, &c.
■lt was a great success, and everybody voted
aye, with a great big “ tiger.”
INDEPENDENT LODGE NO. 185.
Last Monday, August 30, was a gala night in
this lodge. The Third Degree was conferred
in excellent style, and there was a large gather
ing of distinguished craftsmen present, not
withstanding the extremely hot weather. In
conferring the Degree W. Bro. Henry Stengel,
Master of Hiram Lodge, presided ; W. Bro.
Samuel Holmes, Master of Polar Star Lodge,
acted as 8. W.; and the remaining offices were
filled by others of the visiting brethren, among
whom were W. Bros. Philip E. Herrlich, of Ra
diant: Washington Alexander, of Washington ;
L. J. Campbell, of Hope; Thomas Anderson, of
Reliance; David M. Drury, of Progressive; J.
' C. Heineman, of Long Island ; Peter Van Cott,
of Ridgewood,; Louis Harlan, of Shakespeare ;
Gustave Baum, of Emanuel; E. 8. Cooper, of
Albion ; John P. Dallimore, of Polar Star;
Moses Strouse, of Mount Moriah ; W. 0. Ben
nett, of Zeredatha; John H. Bierworth, of Col
umbian and R. W. Bro. George H. Toop, of
Alma Lodge, Representative of the Grand
Lodge of Porto Rico.
Alter the lodge closed, the brethren repaired
to a well known hotel, where a banquet had
been prepared, and during the discussion of the
good things for the inner man they were enter
tained with songs by Bro. Richard Senior, and
humorous recitations and imitations by Bra.
Frank Bush. The company separated at a
seasonable hour, well pleased with the even
ing’s enjoyment
A regular communication of the lodge will be
held to-morrow evening, September 6. Visitors
are cordially invited.
OBITUARY.
Bro. Stephen A. Jenks, son of Elijah P. Jenks,
one ot the surviving veterans of the war of 1812,
died Saturday, August 21st, at his Summer res
idence, Port Washington, L. I. He was Treas
urer of Worth Lodge, No. 210, for the past
twenty-one years, and a director of the Roslyn
Savings Banks since its organization; also a
trustee of the school at Port Washington for six
years.
He had been engaged in the business of dock
building for the past thirty years, and during
that time completed many large contracts in
New York, Brooklyn and vicinity.
His characteristic integrity, combined with a
sympathetic heart and open hand to the afflict
ed, gained him well-merited esteem in business
and in private life.
The funeral, from his late residence in Brook
lyn, was largely attended, brethren-of Keystone,
Doric, Manuel and Morton Lodges uniting with
Worth Lodge in accompanying the remains oi
our late brother to the family plot in Cypress
Hills Cemetery, where the last sad tribute to
his memory was rendered in an impressive and
eloquent manner, W. P. M. William H. Cald
well officiating.
For him a monument more true than art
Reveals deep sorrow in each brother’s heart.”
THE LATE MRS. JOHN HOOLE.
The obsequies of Mrs. Mary Hoole.. the de
ceased wife of our worthy and respected friend
W. Bro. John Hoole, Grand Tiler, were solemn
ized on Saturday, the 28th ult., with a spirit of
fraternal condolence, expressive of an all per
vading sympathy on the part of the Masonic
Order, ot whom a very large number of veteran
brethren were present at the ceremonial, with
our bereaved brother in his hour of trial and
affliction. Before leaving the late residence of
the deceased lady, Bro. Stephen Merritt deliv
ered an appropriate and touching discourse, el
oquently enunciated with marked pathos. Con
tributiohs of flowers from the Sisterhood of the
Eastern Star and other mourning friends deck
ed the casket, while old and tried friends, Bros.
H. F. Philips, C. V. R. Ackerman, I. Ellis and
A. Birmingham, officiated as pall bearers. The
remains were, in consequence of the request of
the deceased, made some fifteen years since, de
posited by the side of along lost granddaughter
in a grave in Cavalry Cemetery.
We regret to chronicle the domestic loss ol
our worthy brother Sir Knight Surgeon Well
brock of Morton Commandery, and of Herman
Lodge, whose wife was buried on Tuesday last
with most impressive ceremonies.
Empire Chapter No. 170.—The annu
al re-union of this prosperous and wealthy
Chapter will occur on next Thursday evening,
Sth inst. There will be no work except to re
ceive and refer to the usual committees the
numerous propositions that are always handed
in on this night. Members who have these
propositions are requested to hand them in
early in the evening, in order to give all a fair
and equal chance, as they will be positively
acted on only in their proper rotation. The real
work of the Chapter will begin on the next con
vocation following, Thursday, 23d inst., when
the Mark Degree will be conferred, and as is the
custom here, the very best talent in the Royal
Cralt will be invited to assist in the work.
We are informed that several of our young
and active brethren who are well known m
“ about the Temple,” have been proposed in
Empire, and many others are anxiously waiting
their turn. There is no doubt this will be an
other busy season with Empire Chapter, but
the companions are equal to the demand for
admission, and while they sift a man’s standing
most thoroughly, no worthy brother is ever re
jected. The High Priest requests us to say that
members of the Chapter are most urgently re
quested to be present on next Thursday. Com
panious of sister Chapters are cordially in
vited.
Union Chapter, No. 180.—On next
Tuesday, 7th inst., this chapter is going to fes
tivate at Elm Park. To the best of our knowl
edge this is the only chapter in this city which
had the courage and the good sense to offer its
members and friends (ladies included) a good
days’ sport and a pleasant evenings’ entertain
ment, and Royal Arch Masons will not be slow
to appreciate that tact, and we have heard of a
great number already who intend to be pres
ent. The affair promises to be a most sociable
gathering of congenial spirits. We have had
the pleasure to be eutertained by Union on sev
eral occasions, and there ore know of what we
speak, when we say that their hospitality knows
no bounds, and their members have unbounded
staying qualities. Our good wife is still in the
mountains, and we need not report at our desk
until 9 o’clock A. M. ’Nuff ced.
Copestonb Association. — The long
talked of reception of this association, compos
ed ot the live element ol Copestoue Lodge, will
take place on next Tuesday, 7th lust., and
promises to be a very fine affair. The most
elaborate preparations have been made to make
it a success, and the way things look now it
seems to us that it will surpass anything and
everything that has ever been offered to the
public by this popular band of working and en
thusiastic brethren. The tickets are absolutely
free, and can be obtained from W. Tom Moore,
Demarest, Grant, and we presume from any
member of Copestoue Lodge.
Arcturus Lodge, No. 274.—This lodge
will work the F. C. Degree on next Tuesday
evening. A cordial and fraternal invitation is
extended to all to be present. “ Old Arcturus”
generally does its work in good form, and with
the officers fresh from their Summer “ call off'”
may be looked to to lurnish a pleasant even
ing to those who will pull the “ latch string,”
which is always kept on the outside.
Benevolent Lodge, No. 28.—The Fall
opening of Benevolent Lodge, No. 28, will be
held at their rooms in the German Masonic
Temple, East Fifteenth street, near Third
avenue, on Wednesday evening next, September
Bth inst., on which occasion they will confer the
Second Degree. Brethren of sister lodges are
cordially invited to be present on that occasion.
Gkbenpoint Lodge.—Last Thursday
evening, Greenpoint Lodge, No. 403, was called
from refreshment to labor by the sounding of
the gavel in the East by Worshipful Master John
F. Valentine. Visitois were present from
Ileiiance, Seawanhaka, Herder, Arcturus, Hill
grove, I’olar Star and Island City Lodges.
Washington Lodge, No. 21, will con
fer the First Degree on next Tuesday evening,
at their rooms, No. 28) Bleecker street. Wor.
Bro. Hazleton will make it pleasant to all visitors
who may honor them with their presence on
that ocei.s on.
SHRINES IN THE ORIENT.
FROM U. 8. CONSUL AT MALTA TO JAMES H.
THOMPSON, GRAND POTENTATE OF MJSDI
NAH TEMPLE, CHICAGO.
I am in receipt of your cordial and valued
favor of the 11th, for which I beg you to accept
my warmest thanks.
It is a great pleasure for me to receive com
munications such as yours from a brother in
America, and the pleasure is enhanced when
such agreeable sentiments of fraternal friend
ship are conveyed to me as were expressed in
your letter. Noithe least of Noble George Mil
lar’s kindnesses to me are those which, as in the
present case, introduce me to the acquaintance
and correspondence of some good and loyal
Noble whom I have not 1 had the gratification of
knowing before.
Piease feel assured that the expressions of
your regard and esteem are heartily recipro
cated at this end of the brotherhood line, and I
know no more comprehensive or fitting term to
use at this our introduction to each other than
the sublime Moslem greeting, Es Selamu Alei
kum I
I bog to acknowledge the receipt of a copy of
the by-laws and list of members of Medinah
Temple from you, and to thank you for putting
my name on your mailing list.
Nothing in your letter pleased me more than
your statement relating to the flourishing con
dition of your Chicago Temple. You have a
Temple well named, the origin of which can be
traced well back with the ages. The first
mosque of the prophet was, I think, called El-
Medeeueh. No shrine of your illustrious order
could have a more appropriate title; not even
the New York Shrine of Mecca has a better.
Mecca is perhaps more enlarged in its embrac
ing meaning; but Medinah is the very soul-spot
of Mecca. As the heart is to- the human frame,
so Medinah is to Mecca. Flourish, then, oh !
Medinah, and send the lite blood ot your good
deeds through the veins of every temple within
the mystic circle of our ancient and honorable
order I May your shadow never grow less, no
ble potentate, and may the illustrious Nobles
ot Chicago never know grief 1 Bishmilla. I
hope some day to have the pleasure of seeing
the rights and ritual of your Medinah per
formed within the sacred precincts of your
shrine.
You will be gratified to know that our order
is flourishing here in the East. Throughout
the Orient new shrines have everywhere sprung
up, rivaling often in their effective ceremonies
and brilliant appointments the more ancient
and more richly endowed shrines whose line
ages were hoary with age centuries before
America was discovered.
In Constantine and Algiers and Bona and
Tenes and Oran, and other towns of Algeria,
there are shrines, each and every one in a pros
perous condition. In Tunis, Hamammet and
Susa, in the Regency of Tunis, the shrines are
doing well, and increasing annually in member
bership and wealth. The great Shrine in the
city of Tunis is, next to the one in Alexandria,
and one in Cairo, Egypt, the finest I have ever
visited. I gave a brief and ineffective descrip
tion of the Tunis Shrine in my report to the
imperial Council, published in the tenth an
nual proceedings, which doubless you have al
ready read, but no words of mine can fitly de
scribe the absolute beauty and gorgeousness
which attended the sessionof this temple. Each
individual regalia, every altar, every sceptre,
urn, mallet, spear, etc., are inlaid, or incrust
ed, with precious stones or jewels, and often
such stones and jewels have historic or
classic associations that make them of value
beyond the reach of cold figures. But
above the wealth of this temple in ap
pointments and jewels, and large real
estate investments, I count the order and en
thusiasm of its noble members of higher value
to the true spirit and intent of our order. The
next Grand Potentate of the Tunis Temple will
probably be his ex-Highness Mustapha Ham
zeh; late Prime Minister to the old Bey.
Mustapha’s career has been an eventful one,
and contains such a variety of startling changes
and events as to make his actual life read more
strangely than many a wild fiction. He was of
the humblest Arab birth. His parents were of
that wandering type that folds its tents and
steals away, and he himself was born on one
evening forty-four years ago under an olive
tree In an oasis in Barea. He picked up knowl
edge and languages during his nomadic youth
hood, never forgetting them, so that at the age
of eighteen bo could speak nearly all the dia
lects spoken in the deserts and on the shores of
the Mediterranean. He was a bright-eyed,
finely-formed young man, ardent in tempera
ment, zealous and purposeful in all his acts and
brave as a lion. He drifted into the Tunis
Regency one Summer day, and soon after
was employed in the banking house of A. Chap
pellie and Co., as confidential clerk. While in
that house he acquired his knowledge of Ori
ental and European finance which stood him in
good stead later, when a change in the political
relatione of the Regency with the countries
north, made it necessary to send some smart
Tunisian over to London and Paris to arrange
:or a loan. Mustapha Hamzeh was chosen on
the delicate mission, and accomplished it suc
cessfully, making friends and admirers whom
ever he went. He lived and entertained in
princely style while sojourning in the European
capitals, and finally returned to Tunis almost
in triumph. The Bey made much of him then;
lodged him at the palace, where Mustapha saw
and loved, and was loved by the Bey’s prettiest
daughter, a veritable houri. My wife, who was
graciously permitted to visit this lovely crea
ture in her haven, during our first trip to
Tunis in 1883, reported to me that the princess
(she was Mustapha’s wife now), was sim
ply and truly most beautiful, with charm
ing manners and winning presence. Mus
tapha had not only won the daughter of the
Bey, but had “ caught on” to the Prime Minis
tership of the Regency. At the time I met
him he had retained the former, but had lost
the latter, and was living in great elegance and
wealth in his palace in Tunis. He was a semi
prisoner then, owing to the intrigues of Orien
tal statecraft, and was not permitted, to leave
the generous limits of his extensive residence;
but, as he was a student and deeply engaged in
literary work at the time, he told me his con
finement was, in reality, ins opportunity. He is
an extremely affable and entertaining gentle
man, polite ’and thoughtful to strangers and
dresses in the richest of Eastern costumes.
His conversation is Oriental and abounds in
florid compliments, but has at its rock-bed a
solid strata of the best sort of common sense.
It is this enlightened and wealthy Noble who
will soon occupy the highest office in the Tunis
Shrine. He takes a deep interest in the order,
and has already served in the Temple as Re
corder, Guide, Prophet and Chief Rabban.
Achmet-el-Makri, the present illustrious
Grand Potentate cannot, in the natural course
of things, owing to his age, live many years
longer ; but while he does live, the Nobles with
out an exception insist that he shall wield the
scepter to the last. Achmet looks for all the
world like an old master's idealization of one of
the patriarchs of the Mosaic period. Bis beard
is as white as snow and falls in a full cascade to
bis waist. He makes a never to be forgotten
picture when presiding over the Imperial Coun
cil, and lam sure I shall always carry in my
mind the impressive and venerable appearance
of bis dignified bearing which he made at the
grand session of 1883, held in Tripoli. He is
greatly loved and respected, and has in the
highest degree fulfilled his enthronement vow
to exert his best endeavors to promote the true
happiness of his brother Nobles of the Mystic
Shrine. May his end be peace.
The Shrine in Smyrna is again at high tide
and works smoothly and willingly under the
constitutional authority of the Temple at
Rhodes.
It is a pleasure to see brothers dwelling to
gether in such unity as they do in Eastern Asia
Minor. There is no clashing, no jealousy, noth
ing but a healthy rivalry as to who shall build
the best and work the hardest.
A successful Shrine has been planted at
Aleppo, Syria, and one equally promising at
Larnaka in the island of Cyprus.
The Gozo Shrine has increased its member
ship from 340 to nearly 400 during the past fif
teen months. The purple velvet domino worn
by the Grand Potentate is one that was once
worn by Grand Master Wignacourt of the
Knights of St. John on a carnival occasion m
Malta in 1608. You can fancy the value the
Nobles of Gozo set upon such a robe as that.
The first Ceremonial Master wears a turban
that he himself plucked from the head of a re
bellious Dervish whom he had slain at the bat
tle of Tel-el-Kebir.
The Headman of the Athens Shrine showed
me the curved blade battle-axe he used in the
ceremonies. Its handle was fashioned from an
elephant’s tusk, with a hugh glaring cat’s-eye
stone let into the end, while along the length of
one side ran the legend in Arabic formed of
letters in diamonds, Nemesis. The blade was
of the finest steel and shone like a plate-glass
mirror. Its value, or rather its cost, was said
to be £3BO sterling.
But I must bring this rambling letter to a
close ; or you and the Medinah Nobles will wish
you had not asked me to write you. Stationed
as I am in the great highway of the nations be
tween the West and the East; on an island
whose location in the midst of the “storied
sea ” has made it the depot for historic and
chivalric events during unnumbered centuries;
witWVlighty Etna in sight, one hundred and
tw.iwy-five miles away on the one hand, and
ruined Carthage only a day’s steaming distant
on the other, I am most advantageously situat
ed to observe aud take pride in the workings
of our Order in this section of the world. That
the Mystic Shrine is a living and powerful force
in the economy of human life and social exist
ence in scores of places east of the Pillars of
Hercules, you may rest assured.
It is a fact. No Noble has ever recanted or
weakened in his allegiance who has ever en
tered the mystic circle. No Noble ever will.
Only an entr&ce into the Unseen Temple can
loosen the golden tie that binds him in happy
bondage to our Mundane Shrine, and, even
then, the sacred cord is not broken; it is simply
stretched in its faith elastic until its end slouch
at and reach from an earthly Medinah to an
heavenly Mecca.
With every good wish, believe me,
Always faithfully yours,
John Wobthington,
Deputy and Representative of the Imperial
Council, at Malta.
FACTS ABOUT “SHRINES,” PARTICULARLY
MOOLAH, OF ST. LOUIS.
In the mountains of the Caucasus are many
“ Shrines,” some in one kind of a locality and
some in others, toward which the feet of the
Faithful tread, but not for purposes ot revenge,
not to wreak vengeance on some helpless mortal
shouting “ Uobur et Furor,” but with very
different views they seek these localities, and
the true follower of the Truth (from the esoteric
standpoint) will put forth this question:
" What Is it destroys tranquility and joy ?
What Is it destroys all contentment?
What is the root of bitterness (poison).
Which destroys every virtuous principle ?”
To which the following reply was given:
“ Destroy anger, there will be rest and joy;
Destroy anger, there will be contentment.
Anger is the root of bitterness (poison);
Anger destroys every virtuous principle."
These are the teachings of one of whom per
haps most of us have heard little, but whose
religion embraces nearly half the population of
this globe, and which was not propagated by
bloodshed.
Some of the followers of Mohammed relate
that it is recorded in the traditions that a reve
lation came to the venerable prophet of Arabia
resembling " the tones of a bell,” which Hafiz
of Shiraz expresses thus:
"No person knows where my beloved dwells;
This much only is known, that the sound of the
bell approaches."
The devotees who assemble around these
"shrines” have their eyes and ears open in more
ways than one—of which we know not—and it
cannot be said ol them as of us:
" We are still tangled in the coil of lite and death,
Because we still indulge our taste for sinful pleas
ure;
We treasure up ourselves vengeance when we die;
Vain as these pleasures are, they entail nothing
but sorrow," etc.
No; but the following will be more applicable
to them:
" Scrupulously avoiding all wicked actions,
Reverently performing all virtuous ones,
Purifying their intentions from all selfish desires,
Is the doctrine of the Follower of the Truth."
Having said a few words as to the character of
the Mussulmans who frequent these places as
pilgrims to the shrines of their holy men, we
will close by saying that at the great village of
Gamzali one may visit the tomb of Sheik Moo
lah Mahomed, much renowned for its occult
properties; so much so that no person, guilty at
any time of perury, can approach or touch it
without instantly falling into violent convulsions,
often followed by death.
There are others of different properties. The
following will illustrate:
Not far from the village of Balaratma there
stands a mausoleum of great renown. It is a
memorial to the saint, Baba Ryutyabe, who
served for years the Prophet Mahomet in the
capacity of a gardener.
A native of Mekka, the Baba died in India.
Having visited these parts in the Caucasus, Baba
Ryutyabe chose for a place of worship Babarat
ma, and caused the inhabitants to build this
tomb with the small mosque attached to it. Ever
since that time people visit the place every Mon
day and Thursday. Here all kinds of diseases
—provided they are disturbing the body of one
of the faithful—quickly disappear.
The ford of Miaguetchaour is very famous for
its ‘-shrine,” situated at the very top of the
mountain. It is that of El Baba, another re
nowned saint, and is located near the village of
Okhoota. It radically cures gout and spine dis
eases.
At Pambak, near the great Karakliss, in the
district of Vonautgor, the Mussulmans, in re
membrance of Meslrin Abdal—a Tartar of great
renown and sanctity, who is said to have once
upon a time encamped upon this spot—met
at a place called Odjag, where the holy man had
cooked his dinner. Here they pray and sacri
fice. A large pear-tree is covered from top to
root with countless rags torn from the wearing
apparel of devotees.
There are many others scattered over various
localities, but these will suffice to give us an
idea as to what a true Moslem “shrine” is.
“ Vengeance is mine, saith the Lord,” and
“Strength and Fury” are not the weapons of a
true follower of the faith.
TEMPLAR NOTES.
COLUMBIAN, NO. 1.
A special conclave was held on Friday even
ing, August 27th, and by special dispensati n
both orders were conferred. Quite a gathering
of the Sir Knights were present, notwithstand
ing the intense heat. In the absence of E. Sir
Charles A. Benedict, the Captain-General, Chas.
H. Anderson, opened the commandery, and the
venerable Past Commander, Frederick W. Her
ring, officiated, assisted by Sir Charles H. Hey
zer as Prelate in the conferring of the degrees.
ST. ELMO, NO. 57.
The delightful weather of Wednesday even
ing served to bring out a large attendance of
the Sir Knights of St. Elmo Commandery No.
57 at its regular conclave in Masonic Hall,
Brooklyn. Valentine Hammann, the eminent
Commander, was at bis post, and extended a
hearty welcome to all. The attendance was
largely augmented by visitors from Clinton,
Manhattan, and Palestine Conjmanderies. Emi
nent Sir Knights Clark, Rhinehart, and John ft.
Bennington, of St. Elmo; and John B. Hill, of
Manhattan, graced the council by their pres
ence. A novel feature for St. Elmo was intro
duced by having the commandery opened in
full form. Commander Hammann was ably
assisted by Generalissimo Henry L. Connell,
Captain General William J. Anderson, Senior-
Warden John F. Valentine, and Junior Warden
Paul Kies.
THE GRAND ENCAMPMENT U. 8.
The Grand Triennial Conclave of the Knights
Templar of the United States opens in the city
of St. Louis Tuesday, September 21st. From
present prospects it will be the most notable
convention ever held in St. Louis. The dele
gates alone will number over 20,000. The mem
bers of their families will at least double the
representation. To these visitors are to be
added the curiosity-seekers from all parts of
the States of Illinois, Kansas, lowa and Arkan
saw, who will be attracted to the city by the
grand pageant and the other features of the en
tertainment provided.
“ We will have over 20,000 men in line,” said
Chairman Parson, of the Entertainment Com
mittee. “We have not heard from many of the
commanderies, but that is the estimate I would
make. The commanderies are a little slow in
reporting because they wish to make as good a
showing as possible of men in line. I know a
great many commanderies, wnich have con
tracts with hotel people here, which have not
reported to the committee that they were com
ing. Chicago will send five commanderies, and
only one has reported that it was coming.”
Mr. Parson’s estimate, however, will proba
bly be found to have been a little under, rather
than over, the number in attendance on the day
of the grand parade, Sept. 21.
THE ARRANGEMENTS FOB THE DISPOSI
TION
and entertainment of the visitors to the con
clave have been in the hands of a general en
tertainmentcommittee, composed of the follow
ing gentlemen: John R. Parson, St. Louis; Geo.
W. Belt, St. Joseph; John D. Vinoil, D. D., St.
Louis: Francis M. Tufts, St. Joseph; John Ure,
Hannibal; C. J. Atkins, Louisiana; S. E. Wag
goner, Macon; Dr. Wm. G. Hall, St. Joseph,
Wm. J. Terrell, Harrisonville; F. J. Tygard.
Butler, and H. Given Hagey, W. W. Hopper, E.
H. Coffin, John J. Baulch, Robert L. Henry, H.
L. Aldrich, John H. Krippen, H. L. W’hitman,
Dr. L. P. Pollman, Robert McCulloch, James
Gates, St. Louis.
To this committee, appointed three years ago,
is due the credit of the perfect arrangements
which promise for the visitors to the conclave a
most enjoyable season. The committee was
appointed'by the Grand Commandery at San
Francisco at the conclusion of the triennial con
clave of 1883, when it was known that the next
conclave would be held in St. Louis.
Sub-committees on finance, decorations,
transportation, printing, etc., were immediately
formed. Members of the general committee
were appointed chairmen and each of them
selected the members of his committee among
the active Knights Templar of the State. The
general committee for the first two years met
once a month. It now meets regularly once a
week and often holds two or three special
meetings in addition. John R. Parson, Chair
man of the General Entertainment Committee,
is a young, energetic man, a member of the
firm of Parson & Co. The burden of most of
the work in advance of the conclave has fallen
on him. Mr. Parson is forty-seven years of
age and a native of Buffalo, N. Y. He came to
this city twenty-seven years ago. For twenty
rears past he has been a member of the Knights
Templar. He has gradually risen in the order
until he has attained the dignity of Past Grand
Commander of the State of Missouri.
Mr. Parson has also been for six years past
Grand Drillmaster and Inspector of the Knights
Templar of Missouri, and in addition he is
Grand Sword Bearer to the Grand Encampment
ot the United States. Mr. Parson is oom
mander-in-chief ot the parade which will inau
gurate the public ceremonies of the conclave.
John J. Baulch, first vice-chairman ot the
General Entertainment Committee, is one of the
youngest Masons in the State. Mr. Baulch is
freight agent of the St. Louis Bridge and Tun
nel Company, and well known in the business
community. In the Knights Templar order he
is Past Commander of Ivanhoe Commandery,
No. 8, the mounted commandery here. He is
also Grand Warden of the Grand Commandery
of Missouri. Mr. Baulch is probably further
advanced in Masonic honors than any man ot
his age in the city. Mr. Baulch is chairman of
the Transportation Committee and has full
charge of all transportation matters for the con
clave in Missouri. His father, John J. Baulch,
was an assistant engineer in the old Volunteer
Fire Department of New York.
H. Given Hagoy, Secretary of the General
Encampment Committee, is a commission mer
chant, and a member of the firm of Hagey &
Wilhelm. Mr. Hagey has been a Knight Tem
plar for about eight years past. He is now
Past Grand Commander ot St. Louis Command
ery, No. 1. In addition to his duties as secre
tary of the committee, Mr. Hagey acts as Chair
man of the Fireworks Committee.
John H. Knppen is Treasurer of the General
Entertainment Committee. Mr. Krippen is a
gentleman of about fifty years of age, engaged
in the painting trade. He is one ot the oldest
living Masons in the city. He is Past Com
mander of Aecalon Commandery, No. 16, Past
Master of Anchor Lodge and Past High Priest
ot Oriental Chapter. In addition to his work
as Treasurer of the General Committee, Mr.
Krippen acts as the Chairman of the Committee
on Police Matters.
All the Chicago commanderies and the Nobles
of the Mystic Shrine will go to St. Louis, Sep
tember 20-25.
Minnesota Templars will go to St. Louis in
style, taking a drill corps and the Elgin Band
Apollo, of Chicago, go to St. Louis by spe
cial train, and take the lull band of the Second
Regiment, Illinois National Guard, and the
Apollo quartette. It will give a musical enter
tainment every evening at its head juarters—
the Southern Hotel.
Louisville, No. 1, has perfected arrangements
and secured quarters for fifty men at No. 1426
Lucas place, St. Louis. The Grand Command
ery of Kansas will establish headquarters in
the same building, and has generously tendered
to Louisville Commandery the use of their par
lors. This is opposite Texas and Georgia head
quarters, one block from the Exposition and
one block from DeMolay’s quarters.
DeMolay will be at No. 1706 Lucas place,
where accommodations for 100 have been con
tracted for. It will take a band of twenty-three
pieces. On “ Charity Day ” it will give a dis
play drill with the California corps, minus five
or six, who cannot attend, and whose place will
be filled by others. The commandery com
menced the practice drill last week.
At the Triennial Conclave it will occupy a
portion of the Armory Hall, corner of Pine and
Seventeenth streets, for the purpose of enter
taining their friends every day, giving a grand
reception on Tuesday evening, the 21et of Sep
tember.
The Grand Commandery of Kentucky will
have headquarters in the same building, where
true hospitality will be dispensed without stint,
giving a reception on Thursday night. Grand
Commander Lyle and all officers of the Grand
Commandery, and every Kentucky Templar are
expected to register at headquarters as soon as
they arrive.
California and Ivanhoe will also occupy Ar
mory Hall, and California truits will be received
by the car-load each day, to be distributed to
“poor and weary pilgrims” journeying from
afar or near, and their ladies : while Ivanhoe
Commandery, of St. Louis, will gracefully keep
up the festivities in the centre.
Tennessee has headquarters at No. 1428 Olive
street, where Captain Generals and officers in
command of detachments, and unattached Tem
plars, are required to report on Monday, Sep
tember 20, at 7:30 P. M., for orders and matters
of interest as to programme, etc.
Maryland Commandery Drill Corps, one hun
dred strong, are practicing for St. Louis. Bro.
D. F. Pennington, M. D., of the Newt, says that
one hundred swords were in tl;e Lne a’t their
drill last week, when “ every conceivable move
ment known in the tactics of Templar Masonry”
was executed !
Masonic editors are requested to register at
No. 1113 Olive street, on arrival, to prepare tor
an assembly of the Knights of the Quill and
Pencil.
Sir Knight Allesandro Liberati, of Columbian
Commandery, No. 1, is especially engaged tor
the St. Louis Exposition, and his sweet cornet
will be heard in the Mound City. He will be on
hand to greet the New Yorkers upon their ar
rival.
New York Battalion ot Knights Templar head
quarters will be at the Lindell Hotel, on Wash
ington avenue.
Connecticut Grand Commandery will also have
their headquarters at the Lindell Hotel.
THE NEXT CHIEF.
At our next triennial conclave the represent
atives of the Knights Templar of the United
States will be called upon to select a chief, who
will be the first officer for the next three years.
We know of no one more eminently fitted to oc
cupy so high a position, and fill it with dignity
and honor, than our present Deputy Grand
Master, Gen. Charles Roome, andjwe most earn
estly hope that the choice will fall upon the
gallant old hero. No man is held in higher es
teem, at home or abroad, for his strict integri
ty, ability and long Masonic service—qualifica
tions that are needed for our chief. Sir Charles
Roome possesses all of these. He is a polished
gentleman and one of nature’s noblemen.—
Terns Masonic Journal.
CLAM BAKE ON BERGEN HIGHTS.
A pleasant time for the Dispatch representa
tive with one of its old-time friends last Sunday
at Bergen Hights. Precisely at 3P. M., a con
genial party of Masonic brethren, consisting of
Col. Chas. Meserole, Geo. H. Pride, L. Warford,
“Ed.” Brockner, Marvin R. Clark, Geo. A.
Osborn, J. J. Brown and R. B. Talfor, took the
boat for Jersey City, where the train was cap
tured, and at 3:25 the party landed at Jackson
avenue station, where a guide piloted them to
the hospitable mansion of Capt. Wm. Fowler.
pere, on Cluke street, who, with Wm. Fowler,
Jr., fils, and Mr. John Adams, gave the visiting
brothers a hearty welcome and a goodly sur
prise in the way of a clam feast. If the party
were astonished, our host “ Fowler, n'ere, was
doubly so, when he discovered what clam fiends
he had to contend with, especially the “ Pride”
ot the clam eaters, who was soon hidden from
view by an increasing breastwork of sheels.
The evening was delightlul, not a mosquito
intruded, the clams had disappeared and in due
season the guests departed also, with most
pleasant memories of “ Eagle’s Nest” on Bergen
Hights, and its hospitable hosts.
PERSONAL.
John Wiuford.—We learn with sincere re
gret that this brother, an old and esteemed
member of Eastern Star Lodge, has recently
passed under the rod, having lost his beloved
wife. She was buried on Saturday, 21st ult.
Wo tender the grief-stricken brother' our heart
felt sympathy, and hope that the Good Father
above will aid and console him in this hour ol
grief and sorrow. We have no doubt his breth
ren of Eastern Star feel most kindly toward
him, and that he has their full and hearty sym
pathy in bis bereavement. May the Heavenly
Father keep you and console with you, Bro.
Wilford.
GOODLY OPINION FROM OVER THE SEA.
The Freemason, of London, England, in its
last issue, thus eulogizes Grand Master Law
rence : “ The list of offieers of Grand Lodge,
New York, includes the names of twenty-nine
District Deputy Grand Masters, whose duties
correspond to those performed by our Provin
cial and District Grand Masters, only no officers
are appointed as in onr provinces. One Dis
trict Deputy Grand Master has charge of the
lodges working in German, .and another for
those speaking French, Spanish and Italian ; so
that all needful arrangements are made to ob
tain efficiency under the rule of M. W. Bro. F.
R. Lawrence, one of the best Grand Masters
that have ever occupied the Masonic Throne in
New York.”
“ La Revistica Masonica del Peiiu”
is the title of a monthly Masonic journal pub
lished at Lima. Peru, by 111. Bro. Eduardo La
vergne. It is the organ of the Grand Lodge of
the Republic of Peru, and, being printed in the
Spanish language, it is not only interesting to
the brethren of the South American lodges, .but
also to Spanish reading brethren generally, as
it is a revista de la Masoneria universal. The
June number, which has just come to hand,
contains a great deal of interesting reading
matter, including articles on the Jesuit order,
chronicles of lodges, and Masonic news from
various parts of the world. It is a well-printed
and well-conducted journal, and deserves the
brilliant success which has thus far attended it.
National Lodge, No. 209.—This
lodge begins work on next Friday, 10th inst.,
when the First Degree will be conferred on sev
eral candidates already accepted and others are
ready to be proposed. The Master, W. Bro.
David Newmark, informs us that National is in
a very flourishing condition and expects to have
a good and busy season, beginning next Friday
and continuing through all Winter. So mote it
be.
Pabk Lodge, No. 516.—The next
regular communication will be hold on Tuesday
evening, the 7th inst., at their rooms, No. 742
Seventh avenue, on which occasion R. Wor.
Bro. Geo. W. Cregier, D. D. G. M. ef the Seventh
Masonic District, will pay his official visit.
Brethren of sister lodges fraternally invited.
Come one, come all 1
Abcana, No. 246.—The regular com
munication of this old lodge will be held at
their rooms in the Grand Opera House, on
Tuesday evening, September 7th. The Third
Degree will be conferred. Many distinguished
brethren have been invited, and an enjoyable
evening is anticipated. Brethren of sister
lodges will be cordially welcomed.
LABOR U.XCHAXGE.
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character. Is willing to make himself generally useful,
and has the best of references. Address “ BOOK
KEEPER,” care ol Masonic Editor of Dispatch.
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WATCHES, JEWELRY AND DIAMONDS.
Masonic Jewelry a Specialty.
No. 31PABKR0W, WORLD BUILDING (opp. Post Office)
and
NEW No. 2 CHATHAM SQUARE, above Worth street,
DEBffTISTRY
DR. B. H. DUPIGNAC, No. 159 BOWERY, five doors
above Broome street. Forty-five years of active*practice.
Extracts, Inserts, and Fills Teeth without pain.
A Specialty: Artificial Teeth, $4, $3, SB, $lO, and up.
Repairing, sl, and up. Gold Filling, sl, and up. Clean
ing and beautifying natural teeth, 50 cents, up.
Open Sundays and evenings.
Lady Dentist in attendance.
JAMESLUKZK,
MANUFACTURER OF
KNIGHTS TEMPLAR’S,
MASONIC,
AND
ALL KINDS OF SOCIETY GOODS,
No. 133 GRAND STREET. CORNER OF CROSBY.
WARING & HUBBARD,
No. 22 FOURTH AVENUE. NEW YORK CITY.
KNIGHTS TEMPLAR
and other SOCIETY UNIFORMS a specialty.
Our system of self-measurement and samples of goods
sent free on application.
COATS, $15.00 to $20.00. CAPES, SIO.OO to $16.00.
NOTARY AND COMMISSIONER
FOR JIEE THE STATES,
He II i\v C- Banks.
LAW AND COLLECTION OFFICES of BANKS A BANKS
Nob. 3 JOHN ST. and 192 BROADWAY.
House . No. 131 East 127th st., cor. Lexington ave.,
NEW YORK CITY. _
MASONIC DIRECTORY.
NEV YO.ll
ACACIA, No. 327, meets first and third Tues
days. Clinton i.i-om, Mason.c Temple, Twenty-third
bl n er and S xth avenue. Adam G. Vail. M.
George D. au.-r, .iej» James D. Cutwater, S.W.
jjiuuk A. Hovey, Sec. Wm. H. Ferre, J. W.
ADELPHIC, No. 348.—The regular communi
cations are held on the first and Third Tuesdays of each
month, at 8 o’clock, P, M., in lonic Room, Masonic Tem
ple. E. s. Inner, M.
R. H. Foote, Treag. w. W. WaUer, S. W.
Wm. H. Innet. Sec. W. E» Marrenner. J. W.
AliUl’UßUb, No. 274.—Regular communications
of Arcturus Lodge are held at Miller’s Hall, No. 202 E
86th st., S. E. cor. 3d avenue, on the first and third
Tuesdays of each month. Geo Campbell; M.
Henry H. Dahnke, Treag. William Kurz, 8. W.
James Allwood, Sec., John A. Paradiso, J.W.
No. 58 Sands st., Brooklyn.
BUNTING, No. 655, meets first and third Mon
days of each month, corner 124th*street and Third av
enue. Harlem. Harry C. Harney, M.
Cyrus O. Hubbell, Treas. Theodore A. Jasper. S. W.
Z. T. Benson, See. Fred. M. Randell, J. W.
CHANCELLOR WALWORTH, No. 271, meets
second and fourth Wednesdays ea h month, in Austin
and Commandery Room, Masonic Hall, 23d street and
Sixth avenue. Wright D. Pownall, M
Geo. W. Millar, Treas., John W. Je t .-m- 8. W.
F. W. Herring, Sec., Andrew H. Kellogg, J. W.
No. 841 Broadway, N. Y
COPESTONE, No. 641. meets every second and
fourth Wednesdays, at 8 P.M.. in the Corinthian Room,
Masonic Temple. William Mc 'aul, M.
Martin Kalb, Treas. William J. Mathews, S. M
H. T. Gibson, Sec. Joseph J. Moen, J. W.
CORINTHIAN, No. 488, meets second and
fourth Thursdays, at Grand Opera House, 23d street
and Sth avenue, at 8 P. M. Oscar G. Ahlstrom, M.
Geo. Stone, Treas. Fred. K. Van Court, S. W.
Geo. F. Thornton, Sec. Thomas Bonner, J. W.
CRESCENT, No. 402, meets second and fourth
Thursdays,in Austin Room. Masonic Tempie. Strangers
in the city, and others of the craft, are cordially invited,
rtr tt w . m Edward B. Harner, M.
Wm. H. Francis, Treas. Wm. J. Walker S. W,
Jas. H. Bailey, Sec, F. H. Wall, J. W.
DIRIGO, No. 30, meets second and fourth Mon
days of euch month, in Composite Rooms. Masonic
Temple, Sixth avenue and 23d street.
Moritz N. Sil er t-lf, Treas. Aaron Morris, M.
William R. Oldroyd, Sec., L Jacobson, S. W.
No. 67 Charlton st A. Crozier, J W
EMANUEL, No. 654, meets second and fourth
Thursdas each month, Koster & Bial’s Hall, No 117
west Twenty-third street. Gustave Baum, M.
M. Laski, Treas. Jere. H. Goldman, S.W.
v-,-»v^?.°,? ar<l .<^ eißerßohn ’ Sec - Edward F. Smith, J.W.
ENILBPRISE, No. 228, meets the first and
third Tuesdays of each month, Grane Opera House
corner of Eighth avenue and West Twenty-third street
Joseph Graham, Treas. John G. Hoffman, M.
John Foster, Sec., De Forrest Nichols’ S. W.
Res.. No. 608 Tenth ave. Dr. Molesworth. J. W.
GEORGE WASHINGTON, No. 285, meeta first,
third and fifth Fridays of each month, at Eastern Star
Hall, corner Seventh street and Third avenue.
» tt „ m Adolphus D. Pape, M.
A. H. Bradley, Treas. W. P. Kent, S W. •
T VP pso Pa S®®- „ Ral P h Bogart, J. W.
GIRARD, No. 631, meets first Friday iu each
month, Livingston Room, Masonic Temple.
Thos. P Clench, Sec. Thos. W. James, M.
Chas. Clark, Treas. Peter G. Arnott’ & W.
INDEPENDENT, No. 185, meets first and third
Mondays of each month, at German Masonic Temple
East 1< ifteenth street. C. B Parker M F
W. Lindemeyer, Treas. G. M. Johnson, S. W
S , eC l t, , aR - Trumbull, J. W.
ivAiNL, Mo. 4o4.~Regular communications of
Kane Lodge are held on the first, third and fifth Tues
days in Austin Room, Masonic Temple,
™ Joseph J. Little, M.
Chas. A. Whitney, Treas. Thos. E. Stewart, S W
Fenoyar, Sec. Charles F. Ulnch, J. W.‘
xUONTGOMERY, No. 68, meets in the Dorio
Room, Masonic Temple, every first and third Mondav
evenings, at 7:30 o'clock. J
p w druff ’ W. P. Worster, M. D. K.
Maspnio Temple. Thos. J. Pardy, 1 W.
MUNN, No. IDO, meets on the second and
loin-th Thursday evenings, a. Livingston Room, Mason-
T C ? e ’ m Joseph Abraham, M.
John Maguire, Treas. Tims. Maguire, S. W.
Ezra B. Stock vis. Sec. W. E. Harwood. J W
272, meets first, third and
at Easteru star H »ll, cor. Seventh street
and Third avenue. Henry G. Edwards, M.
C has - W. KatteL Treas. Henry C. Dougherty, S. W.
Geo. Smith, Jr., Sec. James P. Styles. J. W.
Residence. 354 Second av.
NATIONAL, No. 209, meets in Clinton room
Masonic Tempie, 23d street and 6th avenue, second and
fourth Fridays each month. David Newmark, M
J. L Voorhees, Treas. Hugh Hawthorn, S.W.
B. Percival, Sec. Max Boremsky, J. W.
___ _ Reß!deQ ce, No. 804 E. 85th street.
NEW YORK, No. 330, meets the first and third
Wednesdays each month, Austin Room, Temple, Twen
ty-third street and Sixth avenue. John Jay Griffin M.
Chas. Heizman, Treas. John J. Brogan, S. W.
o , r , ad l? y ’ Sec ' Val Schneider, J- W.
PACIFIC, No. 233, meets first and third Thurs
days of each month, in the lonic Room, Masonic Hall
Sixth avenue and Twenty-third street.
tt t « John T. Lee, M.
Henrv Lee. Treas. William J. Conway, S. W
James Hyde, Sec. William Irvine, J. W.
Address, No. 869 Green ave., Brooklyn.
PARK, No. 516, meets first and third Tuesdays,
N. W. corner of Seventh avenue and Forty-ninth street
T „ George W. Cregier, M.
Charles Lehntter, Treag. Wm. W. Seymour, S. W 1
D K?rL^m nd < s L S T e A . H Winterbottom, J. W.'
PERFECT ASHLAR, No. 604, meets first and
third Thursdays in the Doric Room, German Masonic
Temple, Fifteenth street, east of Third avenue.
T m John C. Miller, M.
L. Greenbaum, Treas. Wm. L. Darmstadt, S. W.
. -r. chas - H - Jackson, J. W.
FUEAB STAR, No. 245, meets first and third
Wednesday of each month, in lonic Room, German Ma
sonic Temple, No. 220 East Fifteenth street.
/-< Samuel Holmes, M.
George W. Moore, Treas. George A. Harkness, S. W.
W. S. Lightbody, Sec. William H Miller, Jr, J.W.
PRINCE OF ORANGE, No. 16, meets second
and fourth Saturdays, in Doric Room, Masonic Temple.
W ra. T. Wardwell, Treas. Lewis H. Ra'vmond, M.
John F. Graham, Sec. James B. Taylor, S. W.
om at - Ri cha dV. W. Dußois, J. W.
ST. CECILE, No. 568, meets the first, third and
fifth Tuesday afternoons each month, at 1:30 P. M.. at
Tuscan Room, Masonic Temple. Visitors are alwavs
t; elc . 0!n ?,- a. David H. Agan, M. ’
Martin Pap«t, Treas Michael Schllg, S. W.
Lawrence O'Reilly, Sec. John E. Morse J W
STRICT OBSERVANCE, No. 94, ineeta second
and fourth Tuesdays of each month, at No 953 Third
avenue, corner Fifty-seventh street.
t rv „ m Levi Gibb, M.
James F. Bragg. Treas., S. D. Smith, S. W.
Jackson Bell, Sec.. Robert Kopp, J. W.
Address, No. 1,035 Third av.
SYLVAN GROVE, No. 275, meets second and
fourth Tuesdays of each month, at'eight o'clock, P. M.
in Livingston Room, Masonic Temple, Sixth avenue and
Twenty-third street.
Theodore Reeves, Treag. Wm. Madara, M.
Edgar Kirby, Sec. Wm. Helms, S. W.
For. Dept. N. Y. P. O. Wm. S. Merritt, J. W.
TECUMSEH, No. 487, meets first and third
Thursdays of each month, at Eastern Star Hall, Third
avenue and Seventh street.
Wm. Kemble Hall, M.
James Stone, Treas. Joseph Hoffman, 8. W.
F. E. Davis, Sec., J. Theodore Tunstall, J. W.
No. 207 East Nineteenth street.
TEMPLAR, No. 203, meets first, third and fifth
Friday evenings, at No. 161 Bth av., coiner of 18th
st. W. J. L. Maxwell. M.,
George Banfield, Treas. 805 Broadway.
James S. Stitt, Bec.. Robert Graham, S. W.
424 West 19th. Benjamin More, J. W.
Thug Loughrey, Tyler. 447J£ West 17th.
VERITAS LODGE, No. 734, meets every second
and fourth Tuesdays, at Grand Opera House. 23d street
. and Sth ave. Richard Koch, M.
Dennis Redmond, Treas. John C. Koopman, S. W.
P. M. John W. Sokel, See. Dan. C. Springsteel. J.W.
WASHINGTON, No. 21, meets on the first and
third Tuesdays of each month, at No. 289 Bleecker
street (Dixon's Building). Irving Hazelton, M.
R. B. Coppins, Treas. John J. Kelley, S. W.
J. H. Malees, Sec L. F. W. Seifert, J, W.
CHAPTERS.
ADELPHIC, No. 158, meets 2d and 4th Wed*
nesdays of each month, in Egyptian Room, Masonic
Temple. P. C. Benjamin, H. P.
J. V. Kirby, Treas. R. G. Larason, K.
Wm. H. Innet, Sec., H. J. Emerson, Scrlba,
Res., 102 Sixth avenue.
AMERICUS CHAPTER, No. 215, meets the
Third Tuesday of each month, in the Egyptian Rooms,
Masonic Temple, Twenty-third street and Sixth avenue.
Wm. H. Adams, Treas. Oscar G. Ahlstn m H. P.
Harry G. Kimber, Sec., James S. Fraser. K.
221 East 52d street. Geo. W. Hallock, S.
MANHATTAN CHAPTER, No. 184, meets on
the first and third Wednesdays ot each month, in the
Egyptian Rooms, Masonic Temple, 23d st. and 6th ave«
F. O. Woodruff, Treas. William H Smith, H. P.
Frank Magee, Sec., S. M Perkins, K.
No. 238 Greenwich st. M. W. Goodyear, S.
WASHINGTON, NO. 212, meats in convoca
tion the second and fourth Tuesdays of each month, at
289 Bleecker street.
A. B. Haines, Treas. J. B Mockabee, H. P
H. D. Seward. Sec. B. H. Dupiguac, K.
Address, 62 Jefierson Mkt. H -nry Wells, S.
COMMANDERIES.
ADELPHIC, No. 59 (mounted), meets in con
clave second Thursday of eacji month, at Masonic Tem
ple, Twenty-third street and Sixth avenue.
Wm. Wallace. Walker, 0.
J. W. Sanlord, Treas. J. O’Neil, G.
W. H. Innet. Rec. V. Mott, C. Q.
CONSTANTINE, No. 48, assembles in stated
conclave the fourth Tuesday of each month, at their
asylum, 130th sti eet and Third avenue.
William H. De Graaf, C.
A. M. Underhill, Treas. James Cochrane, G.
J. I. Conklin, ir., Recorder. C. P. Pierce, C. G.
CJSUR DE LION, No. 23, assembles in conclave
Second Friday of each month, at Masonic Temple,
Twenty-third street and Sixth avenue.
Wm. Otis Munroe, C.
Edwin R. McCarty, Treas. Thomas B Inness, G.
Charles W. Sy, R c. Corelius Way dell, C. G.
IVANHOE, No. 36, assembles in conclave third
Friday each month, bank building, Fourteenth street
and Fourth avenue H. S. Sanderson, E. C.
E. C. Ha’wood, M. D., G
Joseph F. Waring, C. G.
Wiliiam H. Peckham, Treas.
William 8. Hemmerig, Rec., No. 77 E. 86th street.
PALESTINE, No. 18, assembles in conclave
first and third Mondays of each month, at the asylum,
Masonic Hall, 23J street and Sixth avenuu.
James W. Bowden, Com.
W. R. Carr, Treas Chas. H. Gillespie, Gen.
C. S. Champlin, Rec. Chas. E. Lansing, C. G.
ANCIENT ACCEPTED SCOTTISH RITE.
(Four Bodies.)
THE LODGE OF PERFECTION OF NEW
YORK CITY meets at Consistorial Chambers, Masonic
Temple, on the first Tuesday of every month, at 8 P. M.
Chas. S. Ward, D. M. Joseph B. Eakins, M
N. Ponce de Leon, Treas. Geo. W. Van Buskirk, S.W.
Wm. S. Paterson, Sec., Geo. H. Fitzwilson, J. W.
No. 100 Read ■ street.
THE COUNCIL OF PRINCES OF JERUSA
SALEM OF NEW YORK CITY meets at Consistorial
Chambers, Masonic Temple, on the third Saturday of
every month, at 8 P. M.
E Porter Cooley, D. M. Stephen D. Affleck, M.
Martin Kalb. Treas. George Wood, S. W.
Wm. S. Paterson, See., G. W. Van Buskirk, J. W.
No. 100 Reade street.
THE CHAPTER OF ROSE CROIX OF NEW
YORK CITY meets at Consistorial Chambers, Masonic
Temple, on the fourth Saturday of every month, at 3
p M George W. Miliar, M.
G. W. Van Buskirk, Orator. Jamez McGee S. W.
N Ponce de Leon, Treas. John S. King, J. W.
Wm. S. Paterson, Sec., No. 100 Reade stree .
THE CONSISTORY OF NEW YORK CITY, S. P.
R 8 meets at Consistorial Chambers. Masonic Temple,
when specially convened. C. T. McClenachan, Com.
Charles S Wze?, Ist L. C. George W. Millar, 2d L C
Joseph M. Levey, Treas. D. Garrison, M. State
Wm. S. Paterson, Sec., No. 100 Reade street.
COUNCILS, R. S. M.
ADELPHIC COUNCIL, No. 7, R. and S. M.—
The regular assemblies are held on the first Saturday
of each month, in the Council Chamber, Masonic Tein
nle Sixth ave and 23d st. P. C. Benjamin T. I. M.
P JohTW Coburn, Rec. Alex. Butts, D. M.
Royal E Deane, Treas. Fred Ranter, P. C. W.
NOBLES OF THE MYSTIC SHRINE.
MECCA TEMPLE, A. A. 0., holds its passions
at Masonic Temple, New York city, on the least day of
Kammedin month, of which due notice will
be given. Walter M. Fleming, Grand Potentate.
A W Pe'ters, Chief Rabban.
Philip C Benjamin, Assistant Rabban.
Charles H. Heyzer, High Priest.
Jo wT 8 Pa& D GraS Beeorder, No. 100 Reade st.
BKOOKLYN.
COMMANDERIES.
DE WITT CLINTON, No. 27, meets in assem
bly oa the second, fourth, and fifth Tuesdays of each
month, at Nos. 87, 8J and »1 Broadway,. Brooklyn,
muuvu, . Juaa B . Arcii 0
I. J.' Scharfenberg, Treaa. Wm. H. Bryant, 0.
8. T. Waterhouse, Rec. G e°- Glaum, u. g.
ANCIENT ACCEPTED SCOTTISH RITE.
aurora grata LODGE, of perfection.
Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite, Valley ot Brooklyn
Regular communications are held on the second Friday
Of E each month at Nos. Conrt sueet. q m
John W. Richardson, Deputy.
Mark Mayer, Treas. E. D. Washburh, 8. W.
G H Koenecke, See. Rev. Warren 0, Hubbard, J. W.
’ {{q. 492 Dean street.
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