The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1891-03-10
FRATERNAL NOTES.
Average Membership of ]. o. U.
f. in New England States.

Western Addition Lodge, No 2S5. 1. 0. o.
F., at its regular meeting last Saturday
evening conferred the initiatory.
San Francisco Chapter, No. 1. Royal Arch
Masons, at its regular meeting last evening
had work on the Most Excellent Master
degree
California Lodge, No. 1, l. o. o. F.. at its
regular meeting last evening conferred the
initiatory and elected delegates to the Mis-
sion-street lot special meeting.
Golden Gate Commandery, No. 16, knights
Templar, at its special assembly last even
ing had work in the order of the Temple.
Concordia Lodge, No. 122, l. o. o. f., at
its regular meeting last evening transacted
important business and elected delegates to
the Misson-street lot special meeting.
Islam Temple, Ancient Arabic Order OF
the Mobiles of the Mystic Shrine, will hold
It's regular monthly meeting at its oasis, 131
Post street, Tomorrow evening. when SIX
unbelievers will have lots cast for them as
they desire to enter the faithful fold. Inc
celebration is that of the festival of Seyyideh
Zeynab, daughter of Ali and granddaughter
of the Prophet, which will be commence
rated by many pleasing advertisements, in,
Guiding the Moslem test, the unexpected
meeting OF the dervishes, descent from the
Pyramids charge of the faithful, tradi-
tonai banquet and musical 'vaporlngs" by
tho ChanterS-al-k oran.
Yerpa Buena ParOr, No 81, n. 5. G. W.,
will celebrate its fifth anniversary with a
banquet to take place on Saturday eve nlng
April 4th.
Unity Encampment No. g. !. o. o. f.,
meets this evening, and viii celebrate its
anniversary with a banquet, having for its
guests, as usual, Golden Rule Encampment,
Ne. "a, of Oak and.
Enoch S. Brown, S. c. of the A. L. Of H.,
under date of Goth ult., announces the APP
pointment of j. Foster Bush, Md, of COL
Boylston street., Boston, Mass, as Medical
Examiner-in- Chief, to fill the vacancy
caused by the death of John p. Mcfarland,
NJ. ID. All applications for membership
should be hereafter sent to Dr. Bush.
The members of the Alexandra Club, as
preliminary to the formation of lodge of
Daughters of the Order of ST. George, met
at the residence of Mrs. Il. G. Williams,
613H Lombard street. last Thursday even
ing, and the following officers were elected
for the ensuing term: Dr. Anna Booth,
W. p. p: Mrs. s. Wyatt. ". r; Mrs Gee,
W. V. p; Mrs. NJ. Jones, w. c., Miss
Mrs. Humphreys, W. r. S. Miss A. Clark,
w. First Con-. Mrs. Graves, W. Second
Con-; Miss J. Clark, w. 1. G.; Mrs. l..
Tomas, w. o. g. After the business of the
club was over the hostess invited all the
members present to an ice-cream social.
hlllNll wac bIIOlOuSl4tJ OhJO1 ca duu Will W
remembered as very pleasant evening for
long time to come, after which the club
adjourned to meet again on thursday even
ing of this week
AT the quarterly meeting Of Unity Lodge,
No. q, A. o. U. W., this evening, Rev. T.
C. Easton will deliver lecture, taking for
his subject ''Slang." a fine musical and
literary programme of exercises will also be
presented.
Occidental Lodge. No. 1890, KnIghts of
Honor, will hold It's first public meeting and
basket party at Unlon-square Hall to-mor-
row evening. There is no doubt but what
the affair Will be social success.
Confidence Lodge, No 1892, Knights of
Honor. meets this evening, when there viii
| probably be an initiation.
Nowhere in the world is the average mem
bership for lodges Of the |. o. o. +. 50 large
as in the New England States, and of the
| six Jurisdictions, whose average member
| ship exceeds 100 per lodge, five are com-
| prised within the limit of that territory.
Massachusetts leads with an average Of
! 19j, Connecticut has ITS, Maine 152, New
| Hampshire 1873, Rhode Island 1T, District
| of Columbia 207 From that point the num-
| Der decreases to twenty-five, which honor
| belongs to Arkansas.
Tennessee has 405- Masonic lodges, with
| 49, 155 members.
| Ii is estimated that the various fraternal
| orders are paying out to their benenciarieS
| over Sl,0OO,00O per month, and in the past
| ten years they have expended in the good
work over S100,000000.
In certain Kansas A. O. i. w. lodge
| seyera! faithful members were on hand
night after night to attend to the necessary
| business OF the lodge, receive new members,
| make out reports, ETC., and in vain they
tried to induce others to attend. Coax as they
| would, nobody would come, everybody ap-
piled to giving trivial excuse, or none at
all. Then new plan was tried. Those
! who did attend decided thai the lodge should
| furUish an oyster supper to those who were
| present. Next lodge night the room was
| full OF kickers, who wanted 10 know what
right they had TO squander the money that
way
We have somewhere seen the statement
| that the wOru Tyler is given to that Masonic
| officer because he covers or seals in the
lodge as If with tiles, closes it from the out
side, the idea being also a Masonic one-he
completes the Masonic building by thing it,,
| as roof covers in, protects and completes the
| house. 1t may seem strange, but it is
nevertheless the fact, that the two words,
Tyler" and detective" both come from
| the same root; not that the word TYLER
means a detective, though the Tyler de-
! teetS impOstOrs seeking admission. ;The
| prefix de prevents that Interpretation. The
| word detective" comes from the Latin root
tegere, to eoyer-while detegcre is
to- uncover or detect. Tile comes
| from the same root tegere, but by way OF
the Gothic or German, and Anglo-SaxOn,
whence our ancestors got it. One of its
meanings is to cover, but more prominent
| one Is to protect, presumably to protect by
| covering, not in the sense that we roof or
protect house by covering it with tiles or
covers, but in the sense in which the word
is used when we say that we cover a man
with pistol, or when a man is said to cover
another with his bOdy-that is. stands be-
tween him aud the danger and so protects
him. The Tyler is not the fnisher of the
complete Masonic structure. He is not fur-
nished with rOofer's kit, as working tools
or emblems of his authority. He is the