The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-05-08
MASONIC.
Items of the Graft Gathered from Many


Items OF thu Grant OatEered from -ASaS
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The fees for eonferring the degrees OF the
Scottish Rite in Chicago are as follows;
From the fourth TO the fourteenth degree,
inclusive, $50; fifteenth and sixteenth, 80;
seventeenth and eighteenth, SIS; nine
tenth to thirty-second, inclusive, SO
total, S100 The annual dues for each body
of the rite are 81; provided, if member
resides outside the county he shall oe
charged half dues only. Candidates re-
siding outside the city are allowed sn
abatement of ten cents 8 mile, one way
mileage.
A majority of the Masonic lodges in San
Francisco have voted f1voTably on the
proposition TO dispose Of their present TEN
pie and erect new one.
NJ. W. Bro. Walkem, grand master Of
Canada. was recently presented with an oil
painting Of himself By the brethren of An
cient st. Johns lodge, of Kingston. The
recipient IS very popular with the MEM
bers of the craft in his native city, and not
less so throughout the entire jurisdiction.
Bro. Peter W. Yates was worthy master
of Union lodge No. l, afterward called
Mount Vernon lodge, No. g. OF New York,
from 1865 TO 1893. II IS doUbted that this
thirty-seven years of continuous master
ship can be paralieled
The Masonic Record, of California, has
been revived. From November, 1887, TO
February, $780, it was merged in The Illus
trated Pacific States.
All the lieutenant governors Of Upper
Canada, from Sincoe down, and all the
governor generals of the dominion, lnclud-
ing Earl Stanley, We're Masons.
The centennial of Freemasonry in Can
ada occurs in 1902, and a becoming celebra-
ton is to be made.
There are now in Holland grand mas
ter, deputy grand master and three Pro
vincial grand masters over distant depend
encies. Under the Dutch Masonic govern
ment there are about lightweight lodges,
OF which twenty-five are in South Africa,
eight in East India, three in the islands of
| Amenca and Curacao and fifty-five IN Hol-
land. Membership about 4,5OO.
Prince Frederick William Charles cele-
brated his tiftieth year as grand master in
1856, and continued as such for dozen and
more years thereafter. The present grand
master is p. j. q. Van Diggehn, at Zwolle.
Bro. Sir Henry Aaron Isacs, the lord
mayor of London, is acquiring much popu-
larity by his capacity for singing humorous
songs in a good baritone voice, and playing
a capital rattletybang obigato on the pi-
ano at the same time. At a dinner the
company was agreeably surprised at the
lord mayors rolhcking rendering Of The
Low Backed Car" which he gave when
called on for a speech. His intimates say
that the way he sings We've Both Been
There Before" would be worthy of the
| finest impersonator.
In a somewhat recent issue The Freema-
/ son says: The Freemasons Of Friedland
| have been much pleased by a present from
| the Emperor William, consisting OF valu-
! able engraving of Frederick the Great as
| grand master Of the lodge. The portrait
| represents the king in his insignia, and
| bears the underline, Frederick the Great
/ as Freemason III 1740' This does not bear
/ out the rumor current some time ago that
/ the present emperor entertained feelings
. of antagonism to Frecmasonry, and we are
| glad to see any indications that such ru
mors were false"