Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1890-10-18
SCOTTISH RITE SrAsONs.
Biennial Session of the Supreme Council
Next Monday.

Biennial Session of the Supreme Council
Next Monday.
OFFICERS OF THE HIGH BODY AND IT'S prsrIN-
aUrsHED MEMBERsHIP-MErHopo OF PROCEDURE
DURING THE SESSIONS AND DEGREES THAT WILL
BE CONFERRED UPON cANDIpATKs.
Tho supreme council of the Ancient and Ac-
| cepted Scottish Rite of Masonry will assemble
In biennial session in this city on Monday next
Ii Is the supreme body of that rite and has ju-
risdiction over all the old slave states and all
the states and territories west Of the Mississippi
river, as also Hawaii and Japan. When the su-
promo council is full it consists Of thirty-three
members, but there are several vacancies In it
that may be filed at this session. 1t is pre-
sided over by that most eminent Mason, Albert
Pike, and the other dgnitaries are: James c.
Bachelor Of Louisiana, lieutenant grand COM
mander; Philip C. Tucker of Texas, grand
prior; Thomas H. Caswell Of California, grand
chancellor; Frederick Weber OF Kentucky,
secretary general; John Mills Browne, surgeon
general U.S.N NJ, treasurer general: Samuel N.
Todd, OF New Orleans, grand auditor; William
Oscar Roome of the District of Columbia, sec
ond grand auditor; Henry NJ. Teller of Colo
| RADIO, grand sword bearer; Robert Carrel Jor-
dan, Nebraska, grand almoner; Erasmus Theo-
dore Carr. Kansas, grand constable; Martin
Collins, Missouri. grand chamberlain; Odell
Squier Long, West Virginia. first grand
eequerry; John Quincy Adams Fellows, Lou
isiana, second grand equerry; James Rudolph
Hayden. Washington. grand standard bearer;
Gilmor Meredith, Maryland, grand herald; Will
liam Reynolds Singleton. District OF Columbia,
grand tiler.
Also the following members: Theodore SUIT
ton Parvin, Iowa; AchIlle Regulus Morel, Cali
fornia James Smyth Lawson, CALIFORNIA;: De-
Clinton rod
erick Brown, California; Hockey Preston Ear
hart, Oregon; James Daniel Richardson, Ten
ncssee; Samuel Emery Adams, Minnesota;
Michel Eloi Girard, Louisiana; Rufus EberIe
Fleming, Dakota.
THE sIrTINGs WILL DE- HELD
at the House of the Temple, corner Sd and E
streets northwest, commencing ut noon Mon
day and continued during the entire week.
In addition to the above named active MEM
bers there are representatives OF the various
| supreme councils OF foreign jurisdictions near
this supreme council, as follows: or the su-
preme council of Colon. Albert Pike; of the
supreme council of Uruguay. Martin Collins;
OF the supreme council OF Ireland, Belgium and
Canada, Frederick Weber; of the supreme
council OF Italy Odell Squier Long; Of the
supreme council of Estadas Unidas de Mejico
Philip Crosby Tucker; OF the supreme council
OF Egypt, Clement Wells Bennett; of the SUI
preme council Of Centric America, Edwin B.
land, VIM. Oscar Roome: Of the supreme coun-
Gil of Scotland, Nathaniel Levin; of the ma
tlonal grand lodge of Norway and Sweden. Jas.
Z. Bachelor; of the national grand lodge Of
Danemarck, John Mills Browne; of the grand
lodge of the federal district Of Mexico, VIM r.
Singleton.
1t Is customary for the supreme council to
open on the SD degree and then call down to
tho l4th degree. when the Masons of that rank
are admitted to hear read the alocution of the
anal =. A.
council returns to the 33d degree in executive
session to receive the reports of the several
inspectors general and refer the same to ap-
propriate committees.
DEGREES TO BE CONFERRED.
On Wednesday evening the supreme council
will confer the thirty-third degree at the
cathedral of the rite on G. street and on Thurs
day evening the fourteenth degree will be
worked by the officers of the Mithras Lodge of
Perfection III the presence OF the supreme
council 1t Is expected that the cathedral will
be taxed to Its utmost capacity to accommo-
date the number of distins uished Masons who
VIII be present on that occasion.
The officers who participate in the
comforting Of this beautiful degree are:
William Oscar Roome 33i degree. venerable
master; Francis Joseph Woodman, 32d degree.
senior warden; Augustus Burt Coolidge, sd
degree, junior warden; Ashbel Floridus Steele
32d degree, orator; William Harvey Douglas,
32d degree, amoner; Alexander Hollenbeck
Holt, sd degree, h c. c. H., secretary; Warren
Jesse Lown. Sd degree, treasurer; Martin
OConnor, SD degree. master of ceremonies;
Samuel Edwin Tomlinson, 18th degree, Junior
master Of ceremonies; George Harold Walker,
32d degree, expert; Henry Washington Smith,
SD degree, assistant expert; John Augustus
Zoos. 32d degree, captain OF guard; William
James Hay, SD degree, tiler.
The Scottish Rite choir. so well known to the
Masons OF this jurisdiction, consists Of Edwin
Sanford Holmes, 32d degree, musical director:
VIM. Eliot Middleton, 32d degree, organist;
Robert Ball, 32d degree; Frank Hyde Birbariu
l4th degree; Frank Ware Bird, 14th degree /;
John Milton Buchanan, sd degree; Charles
Webster Hancock. SOD degree; George Herbert
Lillebridge, 32d degree; Samuel Allen Sawtel,
32d degree; George Lewis Sheriff, I4th degree;
John Waldman. Sd degree; Edward johnson
Whipple, 32d degree; Granville Adelhert Whit
aker, 18th degree; Charles Xander, sd degree.
FROM THE TEMPLE TO THE CATHEDRAL.
Sir Alexander II. Holt, thirty-second degree
knight commander of the Court Of Honor and
the venerable master of the Kadosh, will, with
his consistory accompanied by the members OF
MIthras Lodge of Perfection, escort the grand
commander, officers and members OF the su-
preme council from the house of the temple
to the cathedral on Wednesday next at 6 D. M
where the supreme council will confer the
thirty-third degree, after which they will be
the guests OF the consistory in tho banquet
room at the sanctuary. The escort will be
under the immediate command of Sir John H.
| Olcott thirty-second degree marshal of the
cons!story. The thirteenth annual meeting OF
| the Provincial Grand Lodge for the United
| States of the Royal Order of Scotland will also
be held in the cathedral on q street Monday
night