Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1883-03-24

The Supreme Council. Scottish Rite
masOns, and the New Home I'm This
City.

Az stated in The STAR of Saturday, Albert
Pike and VIM. N. Ireland. respectively. grand
commander. and secretary general of the
supreme council of the SD degree Of the An
cient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Free Ma
sonry for the southern jurisdiction of the United
States have purchased from Mr.. Samuel E. Mid
dleton, for the Supreme Council. the building
erected some twelve years ago by Col Wright
Rives at the corner of Sd and streets north
west, for 1900; and it will hereafter be ''The
House Of the Temple" OF the Supreme council.
This body has exclusive Jurisdiction over
the rite in all the states formerly
and the in sa All st'fe States s1s sa
territories west Of the river Mississippi When
full it is composed Of 80 inspectors general OF
the different states and territories, who hold
their offices for lite and I'll vacancies in their
own number. It administers and governs the
degrees from the 4th to the 32d, having no con-
troll over Blue or Symbolic Masonry and no con-
nection with Royal Arch or Templar Masonry.
1t was established at Charleston, S. c., as the
Supreme Council Of the United States, on the
S1st of May, 1901; and in 1914 created the Su-
preme Council for the northern jurisdiction at
New York. of which Henry L. Palmer, OF Mil
waukee, is at present Grand Commander.
General Albert Pike was elected Grand
Commander for life in January 1859, and is
now over q years Of age. Among the present
III.
Secretary of the Interior, and Hon. Buren, R.
sherman, governor Of Iowa. elected in October
last. Hon. w. w. Upton, Second COmptroller
of the Treasury, Is an honorary member.
John C.. Breckenridge and Robert Toombs were
active membership former until his death, the
latter havingresigned The Supreme Council pos
sesses library of some seven thousand volumes,
composed In largest measure of books of value,
of the most costly editions and costly binding
historical, scientific. religious, philosophical of
poetry. the drama and literature, as well as Mason
II, which is constantly being increased bypurchase.
The Supreme Council has printed and pub
lished for the use of the bodies and brethren of
the Rite, since 1855, twenty-five volumes of
rituals, ceremonies and other works, most of
them stereotyped, and many Of them costly and
music alone. not yet completed, costs it over
$500. OF some costly works not more than 100
copies were printed, and these are now worth
from $25 to $50 a volume. Several copies of
one work have been sold at 500 each. The
new "House of the Temple" will be at once oc-
sessions (bienniaD will be hereafter held there,
the next in October 1884, and it will at once
erect library building on the portion Of the
premises not covered by the main building.
Grand Commander. Albert Pike Washington
D. c.: Lieutenant Grand Commander, James
Cunningham Bachelor, New Orleans La;
Grand Prior ad interim, Philip Crosby Tucker,
Galveston, Texas; Grand Chancellor, Henry
Buist, Charleston, S. c.; Grand Minister OF
State ad interim. Thomas Hubbard Caswell, San
Francisco. Cal; Secretary General, William
Morton Ireland, Washington, D. c.; Treasurer
General, Frederick Weber, Louisville KY;
Grand Almoner, Luke Edgar Barber, Little
Rock, Ark; Grand Auditor, Sam
uel Manning Todd, New Orleans, La;
Grand Constable, Erasmus Theodore Carr. Leav-
enworth, Kan; Grand Chamberlain, Martin
Collins, st. Louis, Mo-; First Grand Equerry
Odell squier Long, Wheeling, WA; Second
Grand Equerry, Robert Carrel Jordan, Omaha,
Neb:; Grand Standard Bearer, Wilmot Gibbes
De Saussure, Charleston, SC. Grand Sword
Bearer, John Lonsdale Roper, Norfolk, Va
Grand Herald, Gilmor Meredith, Baltimore, Md;
Theodore Sutton Parvin. Iowa City, Iowa; JAS
Smyth Lawson, San Francisco, Cal; Achille
Regulus Morel, Galveston. Tex. Dewitt Clinton
Dawkns, Jacksonville Fla; Michel Eloi Girard,
vermilionville, La; DR.. John Mills Browne. IS.
Navy. Washington, DC; Charles Frederick
Brown, San Francisco, Cal. Hon. Henry Moore
Teller Teller Central CITY Col; Robert strachan
son Sherman, Vinton, Iowa.