The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1890-10-19

French No. 10, Monday, Goth; Pentalpha No 90,
Monday, Goth; National No. IL, Tuesday, 2lst;
New Jerusalem No. 8, Thursday, 23d; St Johns o
No. IL, Friday, 24tb; Hope No 20, Friday, oath.
A. A. s. r. Sanctuary, 1907 G street--Cathe-
dral: Harmony No. II, Thursday, 23d :,
Masonic Hall, Georgetown Potomac No. 8, |
Monday, Goth; George Q. Whiting No, ~, Thurs
day, 23d.
Masonic Hall, Virginia avenue southeast,
(meeting temporarily at this hall. )-Anacostia |
No. 81, Monday, Goth.
Royal Arch Chapters Masonic Temple
Lafayette No. 5, Tuesday, 21st; Washington |
No. g Thursday, 23d; Eureka No. 4, Friday,
oath.
Masonic Hail. Virginia avenue southeast
Naval No 6, Tuesday, 21st.
Commdnderies knights Templdr. = Masonic
Tempe-Washingto No. l, Wednesday, 22d.
AncieiH and Accepted Scottish Rite.-House of
the Temple, Third and G. streets northwest
Supreme Council for Southern Jurisdiction,
Monday, Goth, ~ o'clock noon; Mithras Lodge
of Perfection, Tuesday. 21st; Albert Pike Con-
sistory, Wednesday, 22d, Especially Mithras
Lodge of Perfection. Thursday 23d, Especially
Theapproaching session of the Supreme Coun-
Gil of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite
fol- the Southern Jurisdiction of the United
States which will be held in this city on Mon
day, the Goth instant, will be a very interesting
and highly important event in Scottish Kite
Masonry 1t will bring to this city the most
prominent Masons of the country, distinguished
alike in the Scottish and York rites. The Su-
preme Council is the legislative body of the rite
in the Southern and Western States, and also eX-
ercises jurisdiction over the Sandwich Islands
and Japan. Its membership is limited to thirty
three active members, there existing at the pres
ent time several vacancies, which will probably
be filled at this session. The members and Off
GERS are as follows: Grand Commander, Albert
Pike, Washington, ID. c.; Lieutenant Grand
Commander james Cunningham Bachelor,
New Orleans La; Grand Prior, Philip Crosby
Tucker, Galveston, Tex; Grand Chancellor,
Thomas Hubbard Caswell, San Francisco, Cal;
Grand Minister of State, Erasmus Theodore
Carr, Leavenworth, Kan; Secretary General,
Frederick Weber, Washington D. c.; Treas
urer General John Mills Browne, Washington,
d. c.; Grand Almoner, Robert Carroll Jordan,
Omaha, Neb. Grand Auditor, Samuel Manning
Todd, New Orleans, La; Grand Constable,
Odell Squer Long, Wheeling, w. Va. Grand
First Grand Equerry, John Quincy Adams Eel
lows, New Orleans; Second Grand Equerry,
Buren Robinson Sherman, Waterloo, Iowa;
Grand Standard Bearer Gilmor Meredith Balti-
more, Md; Grand Sword Bearer, Henry Moore
Teller, Central City, Col. Grand Herald, Sam
uel Emery Adams, Minneapolis, Mimi; and
Theodore Sutton Parvin, Iowa City, Iowa; James
Smythe Lawson, San Francisco, Cal; De Witt
Clinton Dawliins, Jacksonville, Fla; Michel
Elio Girard, Lafayette, La; Charles Frederick
Brown, San Francisco, CAL; James Daniel Rich
ardson, Murfreesboro, Tenn; Samuel Emery
Adams Minneapolis Mimi; Rufus Eberle Flem-
- iuo, Fargo, Oak; -Adolphus Leigh Fitzgerald,
Eureka, New; John Frederick Mayer, Rich
mond, Va; Nathaniel Levin, Charleston, s. c.;
Richard Joseph Num-, Savannah, Ga, and
George Fleming Moore, Montgomery, Ala.
The Session will commence a. noon on Monday
the Goth instant, when the standard OF the Su-
preme Council will be hoisted on the flagstaff of
the House of the Temple, and simultaneously
with the appearance ofits double eagle the Coun-
ell will be declared in session aud opened in the
thirty-third degree, after which it is customary
to call down to the fourteenth degree to permit
the presence of brethren of that and intermediate
rank to hear the allocution of the Grand Com
mander, Albert Pike, thirty-thrd degree, at the
conclusion of which the Supreme Council will
probably go into executive session to hear the
reports of committees etc. Tuesday and We'd
nesday will be occupied in legislation. We'd
nesday evening the 33d degree will be conferred
at the Cathedral of the Scottish Rite on G street,
the use of which has been rendered the Supreme
Council by the board of trustees. At 6 p. NJ.
the members of Albert Pike Consistory will as
sembe at their Sanctuary for the purpose of act
ing as escort TO the Supreme Council from the
House of the Temple on Third street to the
Cathedral, and it is understood that the mem
bers of Mithras Lodge of Perfection and the
other bodies who have not obtained the 32d de-
gree are invited to participate with their breth
rem of the Consistory in showing respect to the
supreme body. AT the conclusion of the con
ferring of the SD degree the members of the
Supreme Council will be the guests of Alber
Pike Consistory in the banquent-room attached
to the hall. The committee in charge have
made elaborate preparations The Venerabl,
Master of Kadosh, Bro. Alexander Hollinbrool
Holt 32d degree, has designated Bro. John III
OlcOtt, 32d degree, the marshal or ceremonies
of the Consistory, to take charge of the escor
duty On Thursday Mithras Lodge of Perfec
ton will confer the 14th degree at the Cathedra
in the presence of the officers and members o
the Supreme Council. The reputation of thi
lodge for the perfection of its work is such tina
it will confer the degree by request that tht
visiting dignitares may have the opportunity o
witnessing the degree and hearing the music o.
the unriyaled Scottish Kite choir.
Royal order of Scotalld.-The Provincia
Grand Secretary of this old Masonic Rite ha
issued the customary orders for the meetings o
the Provincial Grand Lodge to the Knight
Companions to meet in council at the cathedra
of the A. A. S. r., 1907 q street, on Monday
the Goth instant, at o'clock F. M. This bod
meets only during the sessions Of the Suprem
Council and alternately in the Southern au'
Northern Jurisdictions Its membership i
limited to $50. The order of meetings as an
nounced by William Oscar Roome, Provinces
Grand Secretary, is as follows: Monday, open
ing of p. G. Chapter and P. G.. Lodge, election
of candidates advancement and promotion
Tuesday, Oct. 81, annual dinner at the Arling
ton Hotel. The rooms of the Provincial Gran
Master are at the House of the Temple, 43
Third street northwest and those of the Gran
Secretary at the Scottish Rite Sanctuary, 100
G street. This is an order composed of tw
parts, viz: That of ii. Il. NJ. and r. s. Y. {
s. The former took its rise in the reign c
David of Scotland and the latter in the reig
of King Robert the Bruce. The latter Is SUI
posed to have been originally the same as th
Ancient Order of the Thistle, and to contai
the ceremonial of admission formerly practice
in it. The first portion of the order is cathC