The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1875-06-24
MASONIC COLUMN.


council of royal and select masters, held
May Goth, 1876, the following officers were
elected for the year ensuing:
Geo. w. Beckwiih r. |. NJ.
George II. Bigelow, Il. |. NJ.
George II. Kinsey, l. NJ. of W.
VIM. Brinsmaid, Treasurer.
Ed. f. Greenleaf, Recorder.
nj. b. Kinney, Prin. Con.
A. X. Cole, G. OF G..
David Fay, Steward and Sentinel.
AT special convention of Burlington
Council No. s, Il. IL s. NJ, held June 10Th,
the above officers were installed by Ed
ward S. Dana, M. /. Grand Master of the
Grand Council of Vermont. Regular con-
ventions of the council are held on the
fourth Wednesday evenings of each month,
at 7:30 p. m.
MASONIC ITEMS.
1t is noted in England that there is now
a fashionable impulse" toward the order
OF Freemasonry, and that in consequence
of the large numbers who desire to join,
some lodges have raised the fees.
AFTER-DINNRR SPEECH OF BENNINGTON
BOY AT THE MASONIC DEDICATION BAN
QUIET AT NEW YORK, JUNE %, 1875.
Sir knight Ed. c. HARDWOOD, NJ. D., of
Ivanhoe, who has recently received distinc-
ton at the hands of his professional breth-
rem of the United States national medical
association by being chosen to represent
them at the international medical
congress to be held in Brussels in Sept, on
being loudly called mounted the rostrum
and after the applause which had q eeted
HIM had subsidized said:
Sir Knights of Ivanhoe and Portsmouth
communicates: This is proud epoch for
our order, and l rejoice with you all that
we have lived to see the sun dawn on 80
beautiful day, rise and reflect its glitter
ing rays from the steel of the largest body
of Christian Sir Knights that ever ASSEMBLE
ed upon our Continent.
have with you enjoyed the grand
parade, the banquet, and now comes the
feast of reason and the flow of soul.
Now caterer, eminent sir knight Gugel,
has seen fit to order me to be served up at
this stage of the proceedings. If it were
not for the eminent sir knights of old
Virginia who are present, should question
his taste and judgement in presenting you
with 80 unsavory dish, after having
tasted each dainties from eminent sir
knight grand capt., gen. James G. Balm, of
Portsmouth, No. Va, Dongan of Ivan
hoe, No. SO, and others who have pre-
ceeded me, but in compliance with the
principles of our institution submit cheer
FULLY to the will and pleasure of my super
ior's order, that there may not appear to be
any want Of discipline ON my part.
Now you all see am much embarrassed
therefore claim your brotherly sympathy,
my tongue falters, knees totter, senses are
touched up and mind alienated, feel an
uncomfortable weakness, but will say in
my own behalf, that this is not consequent
upon having drank 'firewater" to aid di-
gestion, and got to large dose, for you all
know am q teetotaler. 1t is said am re-
lated to the Grants, at all events there was
never much eloquence in my family, and
all there was has been distributed to my
grandfather and father, the first was a
farmer in the old bay state on the Berk-
shire Hills, like the Great Vanderbilt of
to-day, he always drove a splendid double
team, with the exception that his horses
did not require brides nor russell reins, but
they had horns (applause). The latter
attained to the distinction OF civil justice
in old Vermont, in the town where "Molly
stark" did not sleep a widow after the
General and the Screen mountain bows"
had given the red coats good trouncing
on the battle field Of Bennington-But /
am in the presence OF sir knight of Virgin
ia, who sprang from the same soil that
George Washington did, and this thought
brings up a subject that feel unworthy
to treat on this occasion, therefore my
feelings. Again ! have recently came
from a tour in the south and have been
among the homes of our visiting Sir
knights, partook of their generous hosp-
talities and my tongue fails to tell the
heartfelt emotion of pleasure and gratifica-
ton that ! experienced then and now.
The Greeks and Romans who were desir-
Gus OF perpetuating their attachment by
rendering its union more extensive and
sacred, and used to take small piece of
stone or ivory, divide it in equal parts,
one wrote his name on one of these and
his friend on the other; then making
mutual exchange, promising to retain the
tally rs pledge of invOlable friendship
Let the badges we have in exchange from
the Knights of Virginia serve to cement
lis, and emulate the ancient custom, and
when outsiders charge us with demoraliz-
ing principles, we will tell them that some
OF the most orthodox respectable clergy
man are of our order, and when they i'm
pute to us disorganizlng attempts, we will
remind them that Washington was our
patron brother and friend.