The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1882-12-30


der for the first toast of The evening. In giving
this toast he said WoRsHIPFUL MASTERS, WARD
EMS. AND BRErHRES-It being obligatory on mem
beers of Lodge le Progress to drink several toasts
OH this occasion, before doing so, 1 will in
form YOU that the corner stone of this ediice,
the palace. was laid by the Masonic fraternity on
December 31st, 1879 by the request of His Maj
esty Kalakaua, King of the Hawaiian Islands
And now, my brethren, his Royal Majesty, King
of the Hawaiian Islands, and Past Master of
Lodge lie Progress de POceanie, has become our
host, honoring US with the first festival in this
edi6ce. Nv Brethren, 1 Will Invite you to
charge your glasses and drink the first regular
toast of the evening, His Majesty the King, and
the Royal family.
On drinking this toast the band played the
national anthem, after which, by request of Orator
Dayton,
BROTHER CLEGHoRN
on behalf of His Majesty. replied as follows
WoRsHIpFUL MASTERS AND BRETHREN 1 beg
to thank you sincerely for the enthusiastic man
ner in which you have drank the health of His
Majesty and theiRoyal family of Hawaii. 1 am
| certain that / express the feeling of His Majesty
when 1 say that he is much gIati6ed with the
| numerous representation of the Masonic frater-
nifty here tonight, the largest that has ever
assembled in the Hawaiian Kingdom. 1t gives
His Majesty much pleasure to receive US here
tonight as it does to Us partake of his gen.
erous hospitality. 1t augurs well for the
interest that he takes in Mssonry-that the first
public entertainment given in the new Palace
was to the Brotherhood. Masonry has been
we'll represented by the rulers of Hawaii. First
His Majesty Kamehameha ", who passed
| through the various degrees, and finally became
Master of his Lodge. Kamehameha V. also
took a great interest in Masonry. Afterwards,
| we come to the young and brilliant Prince Lei
lihohoku, who, though called away at the early
age of % years, was a Master Mason and held
office in his Lodge. His Majesty, on his visit
to the United States in 1876, was received with
open arms by the Masons in every city that he
visited in the Great Republic, and also on his
recent tour round the world, the Masonic frater-
nifty extended a cordial and welcome greeting
both in the East and in Europe. l feel certain
that there is no body of men more devoted to
His Majesty and his family than tho Masons.
To be u good Mason one must be a good citizen.
Again on behalf of His Majesty and family, /
thank you most sincerely. loud applause.)
Brother Dayton next proposed the Supreme
Council of the Grand Lodge of France. The
Brethren gave the Royal Honors and the Band
played LIE Marsellaise.
BROTHER j. O.. DoM1N1s
being called upon by the Orator. responded to
the toast in the following words:
w. NJ, OFFICERS AND BRETHREN In the
name of the Grand Body, the Supreme Council
of France under whose authority we act and meet
here tonight, I thank you for this remembrance
and recognition of your distant, though none the
less watchful and indulgent parent, who claims
with some degree of masonic pride. the honor of
having organized the first masonic lodge in the
Pacific. You are all perhaps acquainted with
the beginning of masonry in the Pacific. How
Brother LIE Teller (whom but q few beside my
self remember) a French navigator and a mason,
during his several voyages to the Pacific; stop
ping to recruit at these islands, here met with
other brother masons, partly brother navigators
from his own and other lands, partly masonic
waits from every cline whom life's currents had
waited hither. There was then no temple in the
Islands in which to gather, no altar at which to
kneel, and the sound of the gavel was not heard
calling the brethren to order. On his returning
to France, on applica ion to the Grand Body of
that country, he obtained authority to institute
lodges in the Pacific, and revisiting these islands
in 1S43, this lodge LIE Progress de IOceanie, was
the first fruit of that far-seeing and enterprising
brother. From that day onward, the Grand
Body Of France has always treated its distant
daughter with marked consideration and kind
ness, and well deserves this tribute of recogni-
ton at your hands. Among the numerous
Masonic Grand bodies which dot the world in
every direction, e~xerting. through their subord-
mate lodges their silent, but patent influences
upon the culture Of mankind, expanding and
calculating the principles OF Brotherly Love,
Relief and Truth the Grand Body to which we
owe allegia ce as Masons, stands conspicuous
and honored amongst its fellows and by none
more so, than by the M. W.. e.. Lodge of
California, whose subordinate lodge, Hawaiian,
No. 81. a sister lodge and fellow worker on these
islands. has this night honored US by accepting
orr invitation in that true and fraternal spirit
which we and they so often inculcate of who can
best work and agree - in the fulflment of the
objects of masonry. AS q personal illustration
of that good will and high consideration which
these two Grand Bodies entertain for each other,
1 cannot but most feelingly refer to the very
courteous, I may say distinguished, reception, 1
met with from members of the California G..
Lodge and from individual lodges under its
jurisdiction when last l visited San Francisco.
Long may that harmony exist and I know that
our worthy Orator will not forget SO great an
ally, so good o friend. And now, for our own
venerable mother, the Supreme Council of
France. whom you have Just rendered honors be-
fitting the occasion, 1 thank you.
The third toast announced by the Orator was
1.-The Grand Lodge of California" to which
royal honors were also accorded, and the band
played the Star S~pangled Banner"
BROTHER FERNANDEZ,
upon being called upon by the Orator to respond
to this toast, said
Most WoRsHIPFUL OFFICERS AND BRETHREN:
On behalf of the Most Worthy Grand Lodge of
California and its Grand Master, whom you
have honored with the compliment Of the tsast
Just offered, it becomes my pleasant duty to- re-
spond as best l may. / merely wish that that
NJ. w. Body could have had on this occasion a
Detter, u more RlIIeu ana u more nuent lnt6rpre-
ter of its good wishes towards the Progress del
Oceanic Lodge, that oldest organization of
Masonry in the Pacific, at whose brotherly and
festive board you now have the honor to be
assembled. During the 80 years that have
been connected with Masonry, and during many
of which 1 had the honor of being in rather
intimate correspondence with successive officers
of the Grand Lodge of California, I have learned
enough of the sentiment of that Grand Body to
express with full confidence the high appreciation
i and kindly, brotherly regard which If entertains
towards the "Progres de POeeanie" Lodge.
That sentiment has been exercised, on several
occasions, by the warm and respectful reception
visiting brethren. and, what 1 may call repre-
sentative members of LIE Progress de TOceanie y
Lodge have met with in the subordinate Lodges
of that Grand Lodge in California; and on this
occasion my voice is but a feeble echo of that
sentiment; a sentiment, however, which one day
In the not far distant future, when Puck or Mr..
G. o. Berger shall have put his girdle round
about the earth" I hope the Grand Lodge OF
California, itself, may be able to transmit in
stanter without a proxy. Once more 1 thank
Won on hehalf of the NJ W Gron5 r o5oo1s I'll: