Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-01-26
S. p. X. S.
The Wichita Consistory No. 2. A. snd A.. Scot.
tsh Rite REORGANIZATION OF Oncers
and Comforting Of the Sind Degree.

| anu CONNECTING Ol inc J-uu DeSfce.
E. Carr, thirt y-third degree Inspector
general for Kansas, visited this city for tn,
purpose of installing the officers of Wichita
consistory, No. 2, A. and A. S. r. Masons
jeremiah Giles Smith, Bend degree COM
mander
jeremiah Simpson Cole, a2nd degree
first lieutenant commander.
John Ward Shuts 3ond degree, second
lieutenant commander.
Harry Clay eager, 3and degree, chan
cellor
| John Lemon Boyd. Send degree, orator
John T. Sargent, Send degree, almorier
Oliver Perry Hood, Send degree, secre-
| tary.
Robert Hugh Smith, Send degree, treas
urer
Also to confer the thirty-first and thirty
second degrees upon the following candi-
dates, all prominent citizens of Wichita
or Hazleton, Kansas:
j. p Allen. j. H. Alley, o. D. Barnes, A
W. Biting r. c. Hall. f. D. Holbrook,
Thos. Jewell, l., c. Jackson, G.. NJ. Jones,
c. B. Lee, ID. A Mitchell, J. H. Mccall, NJ.
j. Oliver, +. W. Oliver, J. +. Oldham. Ed.
Phillips, Finlay Ross. H. c. Sluss, Alex.
Steel, W. II. Sternberg, G. c. Strong, o.
b. Stocker, of Wichita; S. B. Steck, Hazel
ton, Kansas.
There were quite a number who We're
called away from the city on business and
Will receive the above degrees at some flu
ture time
Inspector General Carr was assisted in
the work by Burton E. Langdon. 3sd de
gree, of Fit. Scott, kas., and also by James
ID. Snoddy, 32d degree, of LaCygne, Has
After comforting the degrees the breth-
rem partook of a sumptuous banquet in the
hall of the Order provided for that pur-
pose. Each member was the recipient of a
small triangular shaped souvenir COM
memoratory of the occasion. This is the
only Regular Consistory in the state out
side of Leavenworth, and already has a
large membership and a bright future
Inspector General Carr and the other Wis
itors will leave for home today we'll pleased
with the work
The supreme council for the southern
jurisdiction of the United States, under
whose. Jurisdiction Wichita consistory is
chartered, is the Mather supreme council
of the world, of the Ancient and Accepted
Scottish Rite
French writers call this the ancient and
accepted rite" but as the Latin constitu-
ton of the order designate it as the Anti
quus Scoticus Ritus Acceptus' or the An
Gent and Accepted Scottish Rite" that
title has now been very generally adopted
as the correct name of the rite, although
one of the youngest of the Masonic rites.
having been established not earlier than
the year 1901, it is at this day the most
popular and the most extensively diffused.
Supreme councils of the rite are to be found
in almost every civilized country of the
world and in many of them it is the only
Masonic obedience. The history of its or
ganizatiOn is briefly this: In 115S a BODY
was organized at Paris called the Council
Of Emperors of the East and Vest This
council organized a rite called the ''Rite of
Perfection" which consisted of twenty-five !
degrees, the highest of which was Sub |
lime Prince of the Regal Secret In 1861 |
this council granted patent to |
Stephen NORM, authorizing him to
propagate the rite in the western /
continent, whittier he was about to repair.
In the same year Marin arrived at the city |
Of st. Domingo, where he commenced the
of the rite, and appointed |
many inspectors, both for the West Indies |
and for the United States. Among others,
ne conferred the degrees on NJ. Hayes, |
With power of appointing Others when
necessary. Hayes accordingly appointed /
saac Da Casta deputy inspector general |
or South Carolina, who in 1888 introduced
he rite into that state by the establish
nent of Il grand lodge of perfection in
charleston. Other inspectors were subse-
luently appointed, and in 1901 supreme
.ouncil was opened in Charleston by John
Mitchell and Frederick Dalcho. I'd
o that time the twenty-five
legrees Of the rite of perfection were alone
ecognized. But suddenly, With the Or
,anization of the supreme council, there
rose new rite, Fabricated by the adop-
ion of eight more of the continental high
egrees, so as TO make the thirty third and
ot the twenty-ffth degree the summit of
he rite, since which time the rite has CON
listed of thirty three degrees. The age of
he rite must not be confounded with the
ge of the degrees. Some of the degrees
re supposed to be the oldest known TO
Ian, and were conferred upon thejinitiates
honsands of years ago
The following visiting brethren were
resent:
:. H. Horner Send degree, Caldwell.
James p Rule, Send degree, Central CITY
onsistory, Syracuse, n. Y
Burton, Z. Langdon, 33rd degree, Fort ,
colt =
Erasmus T. Carr, 33rd degree, Insp.
enl Kansas IeayenWOrth
Herbert +. Woodbury., 32nd degree, :
arlington, Vt
James ID. Snoddy, Send degree. La /
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