The morning call., 1890-11-18
FRATERNAL NOTES.
Erection of the New York State
Masonic Asylum.

San Francisco Chapter, No. l, Royal Arch
Masons, at its stated meeting last evening
only transacted business.
Excelsior Degree Lodge. No. 2 /. 0. 0. F.,
at its regular meeting last Saturday evening
conferred the degrees of Brotherly Love and
Truth on candidates.
King Solomon's Lodge, No. 260, f. and A.
NJ, at its called meeting last evening had
raising"
Mstletoe Council, No. 1856, Order of Chosen
Friends, initiated two candidates at lis meet
ing last Thursday evening.
Golden Gate Commandery. No. &c. Knights
Templar, held stated assembly last even
ing, at which there was a good attendance.
The Veteran Odd Fellows will pay visit
to Porter Lodge of Oakland this evening.
The cornerstone for the States Home for
Feeble minded Children at Glen Ellen, So
mona County. will be Masonically laid by
the Grand Lodge of the jurisdiction to-
morrow.
Golden City Lodge, No. 60, Knights of
Pythias, Will give an entertainment and
dance at B'nai Birth Hall, tomorrow even
ing.
A union meeting of District g., /. o. o. F.,
of this city will be held in the Western Adj
dition Ledge, No. 2s5. next Saturday even
ing.
II. Hutton. G. G., of the Order of Chosen
Friends will pay an official visit to Alta
Council at Occidental, Sonoma County, to-
morrow evening.
The proposed open meeting of TEN plar
Lodge, No. II, |. o. o. F., will take place on
Wednesday evening, the 10th prox. The
address OF the evening will be delivered by
C. n. Fox, p. G. Nj.
A district meeting will take place with
Bradford Council, No 100. Order of Chosen
Friends on Thursday evening, when the
grand officers will be present.
Amity Rebekah Degree Lodge, No. 16l,
will hold an open meeting next Saturday
evening. Dancing will follow the literary
and musical exercises.
Spartan Lodge, No. sc, A. O. u. W., will
give an entertainment next Friday evening.
There are 1900 Odd Fellows in New York
that have been members of the order over
twenty-one years.
Robert Sellers, the Oldest Mason in Cana
da, lately died at Kingston. The deceased
was just about to enter his one hundredth
year, 5ut death interviewed and brought a
long and eventful life to an end The direct
cause of his death was bronchitis, aggra-
waited by old age. Up TO ten minutes before
death ensued Dir. Sellers had the quick per-
cepti0n and intellectual vig0r OF many men
OF 80 and could talk and reason Oh tine lead
ing topics of the day as well as any one. In
1919 he was made, passed and raised to the
sublime degree OF Master Mason and had
been member of good standing in the order
for SeYenIy-One years.
According to reports received by the Grand
Secretary, i. o. o. f., for the term ending
June 30th last, the present mem bership of
the jurisdiction of Minnesota is 9776. The
combined membership of st. Paul and Min
neap0lis is 3096.
The building for the New York State Ma
sonic Asylum. which is to be erected shortly
at Utica, Will cost about $4,000. 1t will
have three wings, the frontage measuring
200 feet and the side lines through the wings
about 125 feet. The entrance, a spacious
vestibue, is to be at the head of small
flight OF stairs outside OF the building proper.
All of the rooms are to be separated by slid
lug doors, which will allow the entire fl or
to be made into one large room If necessary.
In the west wing are eight rooms, four OF
which are to be occupied by the resident
stall, While the Others are TO be utilized as
class-rooms At the rear of this wing there
is to be an officers diDipg-r00m, while at the
ture-room, capable of comfortably seating
$50 persons, is to be situated. The style of
the building is renaissance, and it is 10 be
built OF quarry faced stone and Philadelphia
Croton pressed brick, the former Tor the
basement and the latter for the upper
stories. The trimmings are to be of Lake
Superior redstone. 1t is expected that The
work will be advanced enough in Nav next
for the laying of the cornerstone, and the
building completed in the spring of 1892 =
Baltimore Telegram.
Memphis, Tenn, is said to have the finest
asylum for the care of the orphans oil de-
ceased Odd Fellows. There are accommo-
dations for $50 children, and it is complete
in all its appointments, finely situated,
and has ample farm room to make ii almost
Self-suStalnlng