Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1890-12-11
Mr.. REED Is CHOSEN.
THE GRAND LODGE or mAsoNs ELECT
HIM GRAND JUNIOR DEACON.
Other Oricers Promoted One Degree-The
Nasons' Home Visited and in'
spected-Pcrsonai Notes.

The Masonic Grand Lodge of Virginia,
now holding its one-hundred-and-thlr-
teenth annual communication in st.
Albans Hall, elected the following officers
last night: Most Worshipful Grand
Master. John Howard Wayt, of Stauuton;
Right Worshipful Deputy Grand Master
W. II. Peasants. Of Hollins; Right
Worshipful Grand Senior Warden, Mann
Page, Of Prince George; Right Worship
ful Grand Junior Warden. J. r Fitzgerald,
OF Farmville: Right Morshiptnl Grand
Treasurer. William 7. Allen. OF Richmond I;
Right Worshpful Grand Secretary, VII
liam b. Isaacs, of Richmond; Right Wor-
shipful Grand Senior Deacon; n. Il:
Courtney. of Richmond, and Right
Worshipful Grand Junior Deacon, FRAN
els A. Reed, Of Alexandria.
Over this last Office there was quite
lively contest The other candidates were
Senator ID. J. Turner. of Norfolk. ald W..
l.. Jefries, OF Culpeper.
ALL HAD TO SPEAK.
Each grand officer after being invested
with the level of his Office was called on
for remarks. All the remarks were brief
and 10 the point. The Grand Secretary
said that he was invested for the fifteenth
time. but that he had been in service niue
longer. In forty-eight years he had been
absent from only one meeting OF the Grahd
Lodge.
TO APPOINT THE DEPUTIES.
The Grand Master announced that ne
and his council would meet this morning
M Q o'clock TO appoint the Right Worship
fnl District Deputy Grand Masters, and
that at IL o'clock sharp this morning he
would open the Grand Lodge tor the dis
patch of business.
The Grand Lodge viii close tonight.
VISIT TO THE HONE.
Little else than committee work was
done Yesterday before the evening session,
which was devoted almost entirely TO the
elections.
Early in the afternoon members OF the
body to the number of about one nun
dred and fifty boarded the train ON the
Seven Pines road and were taken down 20
the Masonic Home, about two and hali
miles below the city. They were greatly
pleased with the place, which is one OF
rare beauty, aud the manner IN whicn IL Is
conducted. Captain A. j. Babcock, whc
founded this noble institution. was pY lar
the happiest man in the crowd Each one
of the visitors was presented personally &c
the matron, Mrs. Acree.
Mr.. f. n. Eubank, of the Grand Work
! ING Committed, arrived from Newport
| News yesterday.
Rov. George II. Ray, who has recently
| located in Richmond, Is member Ot the
| Working Committee and IS one OF the
brightest and most popular Masons IN Nlr
| gina.
Major A. Il. Courtney. who was elected
| Grand Senior Deacon last night, Will %,
/ Grand Master. If ne lives, by 1897 or 1898
| There IS talk of limiting the term OF Grano
Master to one year, and the matter vii
probably be discussed to-day.
The Grand Working Committee eXempll
| fed the work at st. Adams Hall yesterday
morning. Grand-LectureT George W
! Wright has been kept busy since last FRIDAY
| instructing tho less-informed brethren.
Mr.. W. ". Barrow. one of the bes
| known and most cultivated Masons o
| Richmond. has been elected q correspond
| ING member of the famous Quatuor COro
| natl. No. 2O76, London, and this week re
| ceived through the custOm-hOuse a large
collection of the antiquarian reprints iron
| the lodge.
Mr. j. Howard Wayt. who was advanced
| 10 the Office of Grand Master last night. L
one of the kndest, brightest, aud mos. ge
nial of men and one of the most modes
wIthal. He makes the sixth Grand Maste
! that old Stanton Lodge, No. -, has fur
nlshed. No other lodge has such a record