Morning journal and courier., 1886-01-21
GnaND1opGEoF mAsoNs.
Annual Session in Hartford Yester-
 day-An Unusually Large Attend-

 day-An Unusually Large Attend- ance.
 The Grand lodge of Masons of the State of | Connecticut commenced it's ninety eighth an-
 nual session in Hartford yesterday. About | three hundred Masons from all parts of the | State were present. The morning session
 was devoted to the address of Grand Master Waugh, Deputy Grand Master Green and l Grand Senior Warden Mix. Each address was of a most interesting character. l Grand Master Dwight Waugh, of Stam-
 ford, reported that shortly after the close of | the last annual communication of the Grand lodge he appointed the following deputy grand masters:
 l Worshipful Brothers Isaiah Baker, jr., for | Hartford county, c. B. Prince for New Ha-
 ven county, Hugh Sterling for Fairfield coun- | ty, A. E. Blakeslee for Litchfeld county, A. H. West for Middlesex county, Bernard L.
 Lynch for New London county, Charles H. l Chesebro for Holland and Windham coun- | ties.
 Worshipful Brother Baker has visited if I teen of the twenty-four lodges in his district, | and, as whole, has found those visited ia | good condition, though Nos. 25, 99 and 1O1
 were not as proficient in work as could be | desired. Of the remaining nine, four having performed good work the year previous, he | deemed unnecessary to visit them. Worshipful Brother Prince has visited all | but four of the lodges in his district, and renders an excellent report of their con | diGion.
 Worshipfu1 Brother Sterling visited ten of the lodges in his district. St. John's No. 8 l and Corinthian No. 104 are excellent in every 1 respect.
 Worshipful Brother Blakeslee reports the lodges in his district generally prosper ous He has visited but five of the number. Worshipful Brother West visited the ten lodges in his district and finds them general ly in good condition. Worshipful Brother Lynch visited twelve of the thirteen lodges in this district, and, with one exception, he found them in good condition.
 Worshipful Brother Chesebro finds all the lodges in his district in good condition, with perhaps two exceptions.
 The amount expended for charity through out the jurisdiction, though not fully re- ported in some districts, is little less than S5, 900, sum considerable in excess of last year.
 The following have been appointed repre- sentatives near sister Grand lodges:
 Brother Thomas M. Waller to the Grand lodge of England, Brother J. G. A. Braden to Dakota, Brother James s. Dobb to Della ware, Brother Reuben Barney to Missouri, Brother Sidney Moore to Ohio, Brother Thomas Grenaman to Nova Scotia, Brother Joseph w. Congdon to New Jersey.
 The deaths during the year were Hiram W. Hubbard, past master of King Hiram lodge No. 12, and for fourteen years district depu- ty grand master of Illinois; c. F. Mckenzie, district deputy grand master for New Lon don county, and George A. Smith, for nine years tyler of the Grand lodge.
 The session yesterday afternoon was occu- pied in the appointment of committees and in the disposition of routine matters. The election of officers for the ensuing year will be the order of the day at 10 o'clock this morning.