The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1889-11-14
A KNIGHTLY GREETING.
A Pythian Welcome to a Pythian
Pilgrim.
Reception by Mystic Lodge, Knights of
Pythias.

One of those knightly gatherings,
under the auspices of Mystic Lodge No.
2, which have often happened of late
and at which genuine feeling of honest
kind good fellowship is most plainly
apparent, happened again last evening,
the occasion being the rendering OF re-
ception to a visiting brother knight Col
4. H. Brooks of Lima, Ohio, and aide de
camp to Major Carnahan of the
J Uniform Rank. The reception was in
tended merely as a testimony of courtesy
| for one who holds such high rank in the
Order and it fully accomplished the pur-
pose, the gathering being representa-
| tive one of the order, on these islands.
AS necessary accessory to occasions
of the kind the usual banquet table was
set, provided by mine host, F. Horn,
with the usual delicacies of the season,
and series of toasts, both regular and
| impromptu, were placed on the pro-
gramme, the c.. G. of Mystic, Bro. G. w.
| Ziegler, acting as POSTMASTER, while
Lodge, assisted.
| the kindly guidance of Bro Geo. Strate-
meyer and aids, the business of the
evening was commenced by the promul-
cation of the first toast, The Supreme
Lodge, responded to in fitting terms
by Deputy Supreme Chancellor David
Dayton.
The next "Our Guest" brought the
| recipient OF the honors of the occasion
Col. Brooks TO his feet. With but little
hesitation the knightly representative
stated that the meeting and reception
thus rendered him was very satisfactory
and he would assure them that he would
carry back to his home a feeling of deep
gratitude for favors freely given. To his
home lodge he would carry the tale of
the honors done him and he would say
| that his lodge would fully honor those
who i'll strange country honored their
| representative. Their gratitude would
| freely flow out to the Mystic Lodge and
attendant brother knights of other
| lodges and where those here were
| but little know now they would find
| that on this occasion they had builGed
better than they knew. The speaker
paid a glowing tribute to the order of
| Knights of Pythlas, saying in substance
| that although he had knewn of many
orders, yet he found none others to ex-
| hibit the same degree of friendship and
brotherhood. Let brother OF the order
meet another in Maine or Texas, New
! York or San Francisco, in the wilds of
| the Northern country, or the Glades Of
Florida, the same identical peculiar
friendship would come out when they
knew each other. In his section, when
at home, he knew members of all the
| orders in his town, and that included
everything from the Scottish rite to that
late addition amongst orders, the Princes
| of the Orient. (Laughter.) In his viii
'iage the men of it belonged to nearly all
the secret orders, but in time OF sickness
or trouble their call was always first on
the K. p. Lodge. Pythianism was a
grand order, the grandest in the world,
he thought; it now stood second in the
list of secret orders and had not yet
| passed it's twenty-sixth birthday. In
ten years the KnightsNof Pythias would
| be an Eiffel tower above the others if it
increased in the same ratio as it had
from its birth. Let good man say that
he will not belong to us and we can make
him let a bad man desire to join ever so
much and we won't let him. The speaker
closed by again rendering his heartfelt
| thanks, and seated himself amidst hearty
applause.
The Future Prospects of Our Grand
Lodge was the next toast and to which
! Past Chancellor Bro. j. A Hassinger
responded in his usual happy manner
saying, that; he had hoped to be let
| alone, he had become SO habited to
facing the front on occasions of the kind
that he could claim exemption on the
score of being a veteran in service and
although not weary he might be placed
on the retired list. He did take pride
in the fact that he was the first Chan
cellor Commander of the first lodge
formed in the Kingdom, old Oahu
| Lodge; he had striven to do his duty
| and now as again retired chief
officer of Mystic he believed he had sue
ceeded. The organization was one for the
general good. 1t was rare to hear in
this country the sigh of distress of the
widow or orphan. He opined that it
was on account of the good hearts and
| generous feeling which could be found
nowhere else like here. The old Ha-
waiian idea prevails with US, our latch
string is always out to sickness or dis
tress, and like the old hospitable native,
our salutatIon to a hungry brother Is
"have you eaten" (Applause.) The
speaker closed with q glowing tribute to
the guest of the evening and the good
work engaged in.
Aloha Lodge No. 8, being proposed,
was fifty responded to by Bro. George c..
Potter.
Oahu Lodge No. was answered for by
the Chancellor Commander of the Lodge,
Bro ]. G. White, who then proposed:
Mystic Lodge No. 2. Past Chancellor
q. K. Myers responded saying he was
proud to be member of the Mystic; he
had grown up and had staid by it in all
its trials and tribulations. To might to
see the condition in which Mystic Lodge
appeared showed that the struggle had
not been in vain. He proposed
The Endowment Rank and called on
Bro. Henry Smith to respond but that
gentleman not being present Past Chan
cellor @. J. McCarty was called on and
!, he in a brief pithy speech showed the
benefits ofinsurance to Pythian brothers.
Past-Chancellor Bro. F. Horn, re-
sponded to a toast, after which Bro.
Hassinger proposed the health of the
Deputy Supreme Chancellor, and to
which that officer, Bro. David Dayton,
fifty responded.
The Expected Baby, was placed in the
hands of Bro. Chas. T. Wilder to attend
to. and he gave short but succinct &C
count of the near birth of another lodge