The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1888-12-30
PIONEER FafE MASONRY.
Early Lesge Days in seastle-Lewss
NcwEEG2n .s Teacher Of the
Work.


letter day for ancient York Masonry,
the subordinate OF s'alue" lodges OF
Seattle. 81. John, No. and Eureka No
~. net al their hAlI for annual install
lsfion Of ofsieerz. The ceremony was
coadactea BY Past Master W W
/ Poole, asSists4s by Past Master Trus-
ten ?. Dyer as grand MARSHAL The
following were the officers invested
with authority:
ST. John LoIge 40 a-Wo-shipfnl
master. ] ". TAYLOR: senior warden.
Henry b. Looms; Junior warden-
H. F. Whitney; treasurer, q. T.
{ sllorey: secretary. Thomas VI Catch I,
7 senior deacon, Mr. Wheeler; junior
deacon, II. H. Ames: stewards, c. K
Brown and Mr. Cook; tyler tof both
/, lodges c. d. knight.
Eureka Lodge. No. -. WoFshipfEl
Master. B. Il. Freed: Senior Wardea,
Daniel P Mekinn0n; Junior Warden,
John Megrafh; Treasurer. 4 L. Pal
mer; Secretary, W W. Poole Senior
Deacon, Thomas Burnett; Junior Dea-
con, Mr. Radcliffe: Ste wards, T. It.
Cam, Root. Ireland.
At the conclusion OF the ceremonies
OF nstzliation, Bro. John F. Damon,
Past Deputy Grand Master OF Wash
incton, arose and after paving FIRST
tribute 10 the moral and Masonic char
aeter OF the i5te Brother Lewis MeMd-
Ian, presented 10 Saint John Lodge
No. 9, Mitehell's Masoni: History. =
digest in two large SFo volumes On
fiy-leaf was the name OF the speaker,
dated AZ Port Town end, $50. On the
a..osas.4 rissf-
presentation by him while Grand
Teacher 10 his pupil, Lewis Mcmillan.
whom he qualified as Deputy Grand
Lecturer. March g. IS3- On bis dying
bed Bro Mcmillan had been attended
BIZ the speaker in the double capacity
OF clergyman and Masonic brother.
He had never witnessed = more
intelligent and earnest Christ
ian faith. and passing away
from earth was an ecstasy of triumph
Among the last requests before the
great change. while interest in sub
Iguary things was failing away, and
only those which may be wisely utilized
for the spiritual and moral elevation
of humanity were entitled to con>id-
Grafton. his mind dwelt upon the sub
lime mission Of Free Masonry, and he
asked that these books might be given
TO the lodge in which he had enjoyed
more than quarter OF centurg's
honored membership. IL was in COM
plianee with this request that the
speaker appeared before the lodge al
this time This solemn commi sion,
and the temporary pos ession OF these
volumes, quickeuei the senSe-bFush-
ing aside the cumber- ONE and Opaque
draperies which hid the silent past
from 4 present OF more diversified ac-
tiFities, and a condition OF enlarged
opportunities for usefulness. bringing
him face to face with the glad COM
pany of bright-eyed and youthful Wig
orous men, who welcomed him in
that isolated two-story house on Plum
mer's Point on September day in
lG0, when he arrived with a charter
from the Grand Lodge, and proceeded
to constitute and install them, that
! they might, from such humble begin
ing cultivate the order for human ad-
vanement and mutual good. OF that
| paternal band there were now before
| him only two, Bro. John Webster,
whom he had installed the first Wor-
1 shipful Master OF the lodge, and
/ Bro. Hillory Butler. Neither of them
were youthful now, any more than
/ himself. And their books, with their
later date. brought him in memory of
| the hall in. which they were now as
I sembled: there were no lathes upon
( the studding; no untenpered mortar
/ had been brought upon the floor. The
Notwithstanding alone concealed our
| movements from the curious gaze of
/ the profane, and the din of the busy
cooper in the shop below, prevented
! the story OF our secret mysteries from
{ penetrating beyond the yet crude pre-
cincts sacred 70 the use of the initiated.
( In that impoverished Eat, seated
upon boart supported upon the ends
of two nail kegs, with the late Past
( Grand Master Jordan on one side and
Bro. Mcmillan on the other, he
. prosecuted the office of instructor.
I with what success, the brilliant history
OF these pupils renders it necessary for
HIM to say To his younger brothers,
strangers in this further west, whose
( Masonic labors have been confined to
the walls OF elegant temples, where,
when duty done, they could descend
in elevators and take street cars to
their homes through lighteiand police
guarded avenues. ne could hardly
make plain the discomfort and sell
sacrifice, and hardship. and dangers
through which our pioneer Masons
passed in order TO the performance OF
their lodge duties, and the enjoyment
of their olge principles. The state of
the country can duly be suggested by
the fact that the cooper who sho
was beneath while these lectures we're
being delivered, was. with bis loved
and loving wife, subsequently muir
dered in cold blood by Indians at a
point only few miles from town
less remote and less expo ell than were
the houses OF those who had fer wears
made it their business to attend every
regular meeting OF the craft Bro.
Mcmillan, himself, lived - miles up
the river There were no roads over
which large freight could be carried
only Indian trails through the forest.
After the time Il which ailiI.ion has
been made, il took three DAYS to get
their hon ehoid oois in It square
bowed b1tteau to the home in which
he had sheltered his youug and lovely
wife. Through her kindness these
books now come; and may the brief
outline Of pioHeer sacrifice be incen-
/ tive for profitable. weii-iirected en-
T ergy on the part of orr Masonic youth