Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1889-05-17
THE MASONIC HOME.


Hon. &. +. Easlev returned yesterday
from Albuquerque, where he went to rep
resent the Masonic fraternity OF Santa Fe
IN meeting of Masonic delegates from
each lodge in the territory, the object of
the meeting being to consider and rec
ommend to the grand lodge some plan
touching the location Of permanent home
tor the grand lodge and also to take into
consideration whether or not it would he
advisable to erect q Masonic temple as
the permanent headquarters OF the grand
lodge. At this meeting the following
lodges were represented
Montezuma lodge No. l, Santa Fe, G. f.
Easley; Chapman lodge No. 2, Las Vegas,
A; A. Keen; Union lodge No. 4, Upton
vile, G. Bowmer; Temple lodge No. 6,
Albuquerque, f. S. Slower; Silver City
lodge No. 8, Silver City, Il. Black; So
zorro lodge No. 8, SocOrro, c. n. Black
well Mimbres lodge No. 10, Georgetown,
J. II. Bragaw; Gate City lodge No. II,
Ration, Richard English; Deming lodge
No. II, Deming, A. B. Laird Hiram lodge
No. 10, San Marcial, A. A. Shaw; West
ern Star lodge No. IA, Chloride, A. Il.
Rowe; Chama lodge No. II, Chama, J.
l.. Thompson.
A thorough discussion took place in the
meeting as to the best thing to be done
at this time and the committee decided to
report to the grand lodge that, at this
time, it would be unwise to attempt the
erection of temple or the permanent
location of the grand lodges headquarters,
but that Albuquerque should be designat-
ed as the temporary seat of government
for the grand lodge. This covers the
whole action of the committee, and now it
remains to be seen what action the grand
lodge will take.
For the location Of the permanent home
of the grand lodge there were two COM
acknowledgements and Santa Fe.
Gov. Slower presented Albuquerque's
claims, saying the town was centrally
located, and he offered on behalf of his
people to donate building lot
Mr.. Easley said he had been author
lied by the people of Santa Fe to
say that if the temple was
located here Santa Fe would donate lot
l5Oxl50 in the central part of town
would give bonus of 81 900 and would
pay a fair annual rental for the use of the
hall for Masonic purposes when not re-
CURED by the grand lodge. Mr. Easley
further dwelt upon the advantages OF
Santa Fe as the permanent home for the
grand lodge. He referred to the fact that
this was the capital of the territory and
here the annual sessions of the supreme
court, the meetings of the legislature and
other official bodies were held drawing
hither leading citizens from every part of
New Mexico, and explained that it would
be most convenient for people here on
other business to attend the sessions of
the grand lodge. Another point made in
behalf of Santa Fe was that here was
the Masonic "center of light" for
all the broad west; that to Santa Fe be-
longed the honor of having established
the first Masonic lodge organized west of
the Mississippi valley, and besides, Mr..
Easley promised that Santa Feans would
subscribe as much if not more to the
stock for raising building funds than the
people of any other town, while as re-
CARDS cheap building material either
stone, brick or lumber, better terms could
here be made than at any other point.
These matters evidently had weight with
the committee, and hence it was that
definite action, aside from locating head
quarters temporarily at Albuquerque, was
postponed until the whole proceeding
could be taken up for reviewal by the
grand lodge, which convenes in Las
Cruces in January.