The Wichita daily eagle., 1891-10-18
SCOTTISH RITE REUNION.
The Masons Of that Exalted Branch WIN Meet
Here This Week.

to be one of the great secret society events
in the history of Wichita 1t will occur on
the 18th, 10Th, 21st and 22nd of the present
month, and Masons from all over the state
will be here to attend it. These gentlemen
represent the cream of the citizenship of
Kansas and can be depended on to spread
the fame of the Peerless Princess after
they shall have visited here and partaken
of the hospitality which the good people of
Wichita so generously extend to all their
guests.
The following are the committees that
have been appointed for the occasion:
Committee on arrangements-Ed Gold
berg, j. S. Cole, J. Giles Smith, William
NJ. Annawalt, f. w. Lanyon, T. P.
Waskey, E. E. Bleckley, o. B. Stocker, c.
NJ Jones, Geo. 1. Ross, o. d. Barnes, j.
L. Huey, H. NJ. Walt and ]. R. Holiday,
all thirty-second degree Masons.
Reception committee-C. E. Martin,
]. H. Alley, ]. p Allen, NJ. w.
Levy, H. C. Loomis, Thomas
G. Fitch, F. w. Oliver, George L. Pratt,
]. H. Mccall, C. w. Biting, William j.
Puett, John Watts, j. D. DEAN and j. Z.
Oldham, all Thirty-second degree Masons.
The work will be rendered under the di-
rection of j. 5. Cole, deputy for southern
Kansas; J. Giles Smith, commander-in-
chief of Wichita cousistory, No 2; Charles
NJ. Jones. Com. c. K. Kadosh, No 5; Geo.
L Ross, wise master of Rose Croix chap
ter; Ed Goldberg. venerable master of
Elmo Lodge of Perfection, aud John L.
Powell musical director.
The program is as follows:
Monday, Oct. 19, z p m.-On that even
ing all the degrees from the Fourth to the
Eighth, inclusive, will be conferred The
degrees are as follows: Secret Master,
Fourth degree; Perfect Master, Fifth de-
gree; Intimate Secretary, Sixth degree;
Provost and Judge, Seventh degree; In
tendent of Buildings. Eighth degree.
Tuesday, Oct. 90 10 a. m.-Master Elect
of Nine, Ninth degree; Flu of Fifteen,
Tenth degree; Knight Elect of Twelve,
Eleventh degree: Grand Master Archi-
tect, Twelfth degree; Knight of the Ninth
Arch, Thirteenth degree
Tuesday, Oct. 20. 2:30 p. m.-Grand Elect
Perfect and Sublime Mason, Fourteenth
degree.
Tuesday, Oct 90, Up. m.-Knight of the
Sword or Eagle, Fifteenth degree; Prince
of Jerusalem, Sixteenth degree.
Wednesday, Oct. 2, 2 p. m.-Knight of
the East and West, Seventeenth degree;
Prince of the Rose Croix, Eighteenth de-
gree.
Wednesday, Up. m.-Pontiff. Nineteenth
degree; Master Of the Symbolic lodge,
Twentieth degree; Noachite or Prussian
Knight, Twenty-first degree.
The program for Wednesday evening
will conclude with lunch.
Thursday, Oct. %, 10 a. m.-Knight of
the Royal Axe-Prince of Libumis, Twen-
ty-secoud degree; Chief of the Tabernacle,
Twenty-third degree; Prince of the Taber-
nacle, Twenty-fourth degree; Knight of
the Brazen Serpent, Twenty fifth degree;
Prince of Mercy, Twenty-sixth degree;
Knight Commander of the Temple, Twen-
ty-seventh degree; Knight OF the Sun
Adept, Twenty-eighth degree; Scottish
Knights of st. Andrew, Twenfy-ninth de-
gree
Thursday, p m Knights of Kadosh,
ThirIieth degree.
Thursday, p. m.-Inspector Inquisitor,
Thirty first degree; Master of. the Royal
Secret, Thirty second degree.
The reunion will conclude Thursday
night with banquet at the Carey hotel
which will exceed any banquet that has
been given in this city this year and equal
anything of the kind that has ever been
given in the city.
The candidates for the degrees
specified above who are not residents of the
city will be the guests of the Consistory
while here
The work done at this semi-annual re-
union is principally for the convenience of
candidates living out of the city, and is
carried forward in such manner as to
render it agreeable TO them and afford the
tivities of the cccasion.
Owing to the great amount Of labor and
expense incurred providing banquets and
other necessary arrangements for work in
the Council of Kadosh and Consistory,
they confer these degrees only at these re-
unions, at which time all the degrees from
the Fourth TO the Thirty second degrees
inclusive, will be conferred.
HISTORY OF THE RITE.
The supreme council of the southern
Jurisdiction of the A. and A Scottish Rite
of Freem" sonry of the United States now
has its headquarters at Washington, ID.
G. 1t OWNS its asylum. which belongs to
all the members of the rite alike in its
jurisdiction, where its business may be
transacted and official and fraternal inter-
course held with every Mason, who viii
always find cordial welcome under its
roof Its constituency is constantly and
steadily increasing with over two hundred
regularly organized bodies of the rite in
its widely extended territory, and nearly
approaching in number of members that
of its more prosperous sister council of the
mort harm Jurisdiction whose mem bprShiD