The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1890-12-30
FRATERNAL NOTES.
Benefits Paid to Date. by the
Knights of Honor.

had well-attended meeting last Saturday
evening, when considerable business was
transacted.
Occidental Lodge, No. %, F.. and A. NJ.
at its regular meeting last evening installed
its newly elected officers.
A new division of the Sons Of Temperance
will be instituted this evening at Grand
Central Hall, corner of Sixth and Market
streets. by the Worthy Grand Patriarch.
At the meeting of Excelsior Lodge, No.
166, F. and A. NJ, last Saturday evening,
there was large attendance Of members
and visiting brethren, when the newly
elected officers were duly Installed. The
retiring Master, F. G. Voss, was pre-
sented with magnificent gold watch, as
also Past Master jewel, In recognition of
services performed.
Beatrice Lodge of knights of Pytbias at
San Lucas will publicly install its newly
elected officers on Saturday evening next
| Memorial Lodge, No. ia, A. o. u. W.,
will give banquet on the evening that its
officers are installed.
E. p. Morse, G. P. of the Grand Encamp-
ment, l. o. y. F., will make the following
official visits to the .encampments named.
Wednesday. 9TH; VisaIia. Thursday, sth;
Oakland, Friday, 9th; Wildey, No. %. San
Francisco, Saturday, 10th; Mokelumne Hill,
Monday. 18th; lone, Tuesday, 18th; Oak
dale, Wednesday, 14th; Redwood City,
Oriental. No. 81. San Francisco. Saturday,
17th:, Stockton. Monday, 10Th; Salinas.
Tuesday. Goth; San Jose, Wednesday, 21st,
and Hay wards, Thursday. 22d.
The new castle of the knights of Pythias
at Pasadena will be dedicated next Thurs
day-New Years day.
Triumph Legion, Select Knights, will in
stall Its officers next Friday evening
New lodges of the Knights of Pythias will
be instituted at San Ardo next Friday and
at Oakland on Thursday, the 18th prox.
In the Knights of II onOr the benefits paid
from date of institution to December LIST
last was $50, 533, 034 26. The membership in
the order july l, $780, was l34, 666.
The Sovereign Grand Lodge Of the I. o.
o. +. allows subordinates to lay aside a
portiOn-say not over per cent-of dues for
a Contingent Fund.
A new castle of the knights of the Golden
Eagle has lately been instituted in Lynn,
Mass. which gives the order over 800 mem
bers in that city.
Court Eucleian, No. 6932, A. O. f. of A.,
had its regular quarterly summoned meet
ing last evening, when officers for the ensu-
ing term were elected and othei important
business transacted :
The officers of Yosemite Lodge, No. 4,
| United Endowment Associates, will be pub
| liely installed next Saturday evening.
! Apollo Lodge, No. 296, l. o. o. F., of
Philadelphia, said to be the largest in Penn
| sylvania, is trying to reach membership of
| 200 before the year is out. 1t has passed the
| 500 mark, and the word is still onward
The Grand Secretary Of the Grand Lodge
| of the Stale of New York reports that there
| are S0,902 affiliated Master MasOns in his ju-
| risdictioD. The proceedings report that there
| were AGO. candidates Initiated, 1902 Master
Masons affiliated, and i213reinstated. There
were HIS deaths, l0S6 Omissions and $50
| dropped or expelled. There are 1888 unaffili-
aled Masons in the State.
The Grand Lodge, /. o. o. F., of Ken
lucky, by resolution, instructed its repre-.
sentatives to invite the Sovereign Grand
Lodge to told its annual session in the city
| of Louisville in 1892.
| Five new lodges of the knights of Pythias
were Instituted in Missouri the last week in
November, with petition granted for one
| more 10 be instituted soon.
Alexander Gurdon Abel, V. w. Grand
Secretary of the Grand Lodge. Free
and Accepted Masons, for the State of
California, entered into eternal rest on
Sunday morning last at o'clock, at his.
residence in this city. Mr.. Abel was APP
pointed to the Office which he held until the
| day of his death on May 10, 1855, by w. II.
| Howard, Grand Master, to fill the unexpired
term OF Levi Stowell. Grand Secretary.
| Office the same year, and has been continu-
| ously reelected every since-a period OF
thirty-six years of elections and service.
Alexander q. Abelrs Masonic record is as
| ioioHo. Xuduc u AdSLeT mason Ov special
dispensalIon in Federal Lodge. No.
1852. Omitted and joined California
EEG se1e No; / Of tbs eity ysnpary 1888
| shipful Master IN 1855, serving as such
| through 1856 and 1857. Was exalted ROYAL
| Arch in Columbia Chapter, No. Is, of Wash
ington, ID. c., on May 49, 1852 receiving all
the degrees on that date by special dispen
sation from the Grand High Priest of that
jurisdiction. Omitted and affiliated with
San Francisco Chapter. No. /. in 1854, and
OMITTED and affiliated with California Chap
ter. No. 8, Royal Arch Masons, in 1855.
Was elected King in 1858, and High Priest
in 1861. Was elected Deputy Grand High
Priest of the Grand Chapter Of California In
1876, and Grand High Priest in 1877. Be-
came Royal and Select Masterin Columbia
Chapter. No. 10, of Washington, d. c.,
Royal and Select Masters, on May 16. 1852
Withdrew and healed with California Coun-
ell. No. 2, of this city. March g. 1860
Received the Knight of the Red Cross and
Templar orders in Washington Encamp-
ment OF the national capital June l6, 1852
Was honorably dismissed therefrom and
became a charter member of San Francisco
Encampment, No. now California Com
mandery, No 1.-The name changed in 1866
in 1854. Was appointed Recorder of said
encampment December &c, 1854 elected
Treasurer April 6, 1855, Captain General
March g. 1857, and Eminent Commander
March 8, 1858. serving as such in 1859, 1860,
'6l. '62, '63, ga and 1871. Was elected Grand
Recorder of the Grand Commandeyv of Cali
fornia in 1859 and served in such
office in 1860. Elected Grand Treasurer in
IS and 80 Was elected Grand Com.
mander in 1861. He received the degrees
from the fourth to the thirty-third
by communication In the Ancient and
Accepted Scottish Rite of Freema-
sonry in 1866. Was appointed Deputy
Inspector-General for California in 1861. In
stltuted California Lodge of Perfection in
1867. Was enrolled member of the Grand
Consstory October II, 1870, and affiliated
with Yerba Buena Chapter OF Rose Croix,
knights Of Kadosh, No. /. Was elected an
honorary member of the Masonic Veterans
Association of the Pacific Coast on Decem-
Der IL. 1879, for eminent services rendered
Masonry in the States Of California and
Nevada, and in Arizona and the Sandwich
Islands. Mr.. Abel was born in the State of
New York on June 90, 1878, and was conse-
quently at the time Of his death 7e wears
and 6 months OF age. For upward of
thirty years he was President and manager
city. and IL was mainly through his efforts
and perseverance that the beautiful temple
which now stands on the northwest corner
OF Montgomery and Post streets was
erected; In civil life Mr.. Abel has filled
several important positions, notably those of
bearer Of State dispatches to Sam Hous-
ton in Texas in 1S45: Consul to the
Sandwich Islands, to which position he was
appointed by President Tyler in 1S47, and
in which year he first landed in California.
the date being November &, 1877, on his wav
to his post of duty; State Senator from
this. city to the fourteenth biennial
session in 1875; Commissioner of I'm
migration for many years; Chairman of the
Republican State Central Committee, and
President of the Society of California Pho
neers for the years 1S57-59. The deceased
Grand Secretary leaves sorrowing him two
daughters. both OF whom are married. His
vile died many years ago, and two sons
and a daughter departed to the unknown
world several years past. Mr.. Abel was
brother OF The late A. S. Abel, founder and
proprietor of the Baltimore Sun, one of the
leading newspapers Of the country. Alex
ander u. Abel was the equal, if not the
superior, of any Grand Secretary of the r.
and A. NJ. in the world. His proceedings are
noted for their elegance of composition and