The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1875-12-13
MONDAY MORNING. DECEMBER IS 1875.

DECEMBER IS. 1875.
I GRANpLopgE OF YrzGIssA, a. T. Asp Al. Me
Isoss.--T To-day the Masonic Grand Ledge 3
Virginia will assemble lid 81. AIbana Hall
The cficers are General nv. 3. TALrAYFsRo
Grand Master OF Masons; JUsige RIcHaRp
PARxEz, Deputy Grand Master; Judge lB
Z. WKILFaRp, Grand Senior Warden; Pr.
TON S. Coles Grand Junior Warden Judge
b. NJ. PAGE, Grand Senior Deacon; MAYO
81. CARRrsGTox, Grand Junior Deacon;
fHoMAs U. DUDLEY. Grand Treasurer; JoHs
DoyE. Grand Secretary = ". b. IshkCs, De-
putty Grand Secretary JAMes e. El6DIcK,
PoursnfYsnt;; JAMss M. Taylor, Gran d
Tier: and THOMAS AHasL, Grand Stew
ard. Rev. GfoRas w. DAxs, Grand Chap.
lain 2gt F{;tatstss s3gi EffT
The Grand Lodge Of Virginia was forased
in 1H8; and represented but SIX or eight
lodges. General GEoReH WisHrsaroN,'
Mason OF high standing, was proposed fou
Grand Master, but declined first, because
he had never been Waraef, or Master of q
lodge; snd secondly, because he was then Ia
the heid With an army. In IT'S regulations
were ordered to be reported; butthe Reyo.
luton came on, aud there was no meeting OF
the Grand Lodge In 1881, ,tl7S2, and 1883. In
1884 committee was spp0inted 10 report
regulations for the 9eyernfnent OF the Grand
Lodge. The famots FDMUYD RAHDsIPa was
chairman Of this committee. In 17S5 Mr..
RANDOLPH reported these regulations. AS
the same question Is still an Interesting one
amongst Masons, and will probably come
up this week for discussion, it may
be well to state that Mr.. RANDeLpH reported
eight rules, Of which one provided that the
Grand Lodge should elect ali officers except
the Deputy Grand Master. In 1871 Grand
Master MATHEWS decided that he had not
the right to appoint his deputy, and so the
Grand Lodge elected one, anG has ever since,
we think, continued to elect the Deputy
Grand Master. In ancient times the Grand
Master appointed his Wardeus and the Se-
nior Deacon, whilst the Junior Deacon was
appointed by the Grand Senior Warden,
the Grand Lodge being then mere mass
meeting Of Masons instead of, as now, o
representative body. i: t>psls35.i 80
Iu 1921 a Grand Lecturer was first chosen,
and also District Deputy Grand Msstera, of
which latter DR.. JoaN Dovs was one.
In 1919 a committee was appointed to re-
port on HENpERsoN's Textbook, and Of this,
committee br. JoEN DOVE was member. .
JOHN BLAIR, Of Williamsburg, was the
first Grand Master; then EDMUND RANDOLPH; !;
then ALExAfDEa MosTeoMERIE; then THoNAs
MATTHEW'S Chief-Justice MARSHALL was
Grand Master In 1898; and In 1925, as act
ing Master Of lodge in this city, he received
and welcomed General LAFAYETTE, q brother
Mason, to Richmond Some Masons are al
ways iisputing as to whether they ought to
say :" Grand Senior Warden" or Senior
Grand Warden" &c. To such It; may
be worth while for US to say that in
ITS, when there were but few lodges
represented, the Grand Lodge report
reads, ~.s Senior Grand Warden, ,n-&ss.- In
1889, after .EDMgsD: RANDOLPH had been
Grand Master, and had reported rules fol
the government Of the Grand Lodge, The
report reads the other way-that Is. & Granl
Senior. Warden" !" sc. In 1791 aud 1893 they
read both ways, WADDELL being Grand Sec
retary. But, in, 1874, HENDERSON being
Grand Secretary, it, reads /" Grand Senior
Warden" &C. In May, 1874, WADDELL hat
learned the correct way, and wrote it a
HEsDERsoN did. In November, same year
new Grand Secretary (PRrcEl was chosen
and he arranged the titles wrong for twt
OayS, HIVLC ntSts II
1893 w. q. FiTzwHYLsoN was elected Crane
Secretary famous Mason. He wrote th
titles wrong that year; but the next yea
and always afterwards wrote GhGrand Senio
Warden &c, In 1918 a Deputy Grand Sec
retary wrote them wrong. DR.. JOHN DOVE
the successor to FIrzwHYLsoN, has alWays, "
think. adhered to the correct formula. B.
the way, in 1920, flity-6ye years ago, DR.
DOVE was elected Grand Junior Deacon
and is so styled in the minutes. The reaso
lis plain. The word " grand Is simply pre-
fixed to the titles Of, the officers of the su
bordinate lodges. :ta ~
We are telling no tales out of school
These facts are all stated in very interes
| ing book published by the Grand Lodge
being in factthe minutes of the various ses
sions Of the Grand Lodge up to the yea
1921. 80. H. !.