Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1891-05-28
LAID IN THE RAIN.

at Utica, y. ", Laid with the Ceremo-
nial OF the Order Amid a Downpour of
Rain-Twenty-Five Thousand Strangers
In the City-Address of Hon. Chauncey
N Depew at the Evening Exercises in
fhe Opera House.
UTICA, \. Y, May 22.-Although the
rain fell in torrents yesterday morning,
the city was filed with visitors and the
principal streets We're covered with
flags, bunting and masonic emblems.
The occasion was the laying of the cor
uer-stone of the Masonic home. About
800 masons from New York and
Brooklyn arrived yesterday morning.
Each masonic district in the state
was represented and it is estimated
that fully p, 900 strangers were in the
city Hotels and all places which af-
ford shelter were filled to OVERLOOKING,
while the streets were crowded with
people who walked aimlesSly up and
down in the rain. The streets were in
Il fearful condition, and especially
those which were unpavad and which
led to the grounds.
The organizations formed at the posi-
tions designated for them by the grand
marshal and waited patiently. The
rain still continued to fall and orders
were given TO defer the parade till
D. m. There were only about /, 900 men
IN line.
While the parade was moving nearly
every business house in the city closed
its doors, while the schools and facto-
ries closed for the day. At the grounds
the ceremonies as laid down in the rit-
uai of the grand lodge, were carried
out Grand Master Nrooman delivered
a short speech, Introducing Past Grand
Master Lawrence, who delivered the
GRAFTON of the occasion.
The building will be basement-and-
three-story brick structure, and will
accommodate 500 people. The cost of
the home will be about S1S2 900,
At the opera-house last evening the
exercises were begun. Mayor Good
win delivered an address of welcome,
after which Hon. Chauncey NJ. Depew
arose and said:
Fifty years ago a free mason who was
-Cich in faith but poor in purse, contributed
n silver dollar as the commencement fund
for the building of Il suitable home for the
craft in the state of New York and an aSy-
Ium for its INDECENT members and orphans.
NO investment ever before yielded such
magnificent returns. That brother must
have had a bounding hope and expansive
Imagination, and yet the results have sur
passed his widest dreams.
This last half century has been full of
marves beyond all other periods in the his
tory OF the world. 1t excelS in intellectual
and material progress.
s'Vast are these exhibits of the develop
.nent of the period, the best is the growth of
this Silver'coin. From it has accumulated a
fund from which over s., 100000 have been
expended on hall suitable in soldity and
grandeur for the craft in the Empire state,
and hundreds of thousands have been added
fyl- Ehn If typd md mfr fC
provide for the means of educating the or
pfianS.
Masonry was founded by workingmen.
Its whole mission and spirit is work From
the surplus OF those who are able and will
ing to do their part for themselves and their
brethren, the funds have been raised, and
Will continue in larger measure to be con-
ytributcd, for the maintenance of those who
are utterly helpless and have no relatives
,unon whom they can rely, and for that
nobleSt of all efforts-the substitution as
far as human love can supply the want of
the care, the tenderness and the thoughtful
ness of father and mother for the children
of the craft who have lost both.
Institutions do not survive their ages by
accident; they live only through the posses
sion and operation of everlasting princi-
pies. Dynasties have Disappeared thrones
have crumbled: whole races have been an
initiated governments have succeeded one
another with a frequency beyond the power
of the historian to record civilization itself
has risen to the highest excellence and then
sunk in darkness and oblivion. But ma
sorry has continued through the centuries
with the same spirit of universal brother
hood, of equal democracy as existed by
legend among its traditional founders.
During all these ages there have been no
trials for hereSy or rewards for orthodoxy
in masonic lodges. The disciples of DR..
Briggs and his adversaries are equally well
come. The followers of Heber Newton and
chose who would cast him out can find with
f,<~rv stnHV oinfin ava 4,
one which celebrates to-day are the crea-
sures OF localities, nationality or temporary
emergency. But masonry, marching
under the leadership of God and
the banner which bears the motto:
Love thy neighbor as myself" which The
peasant and prince. the mechanic and mer-
chant, the workman and the millionaire, the
learned and the unlearned following in equal
rank and common step, knows neither race
nor nationality, neither caste nor condi =
ton, it proudly and benetcally moves
down the centuries.
4.When the world has been plunged in saw
sgery and supersttution, when continents
have been drenched in blood, when cruelty
has immured in dungeons and stretched up
the rack the disciples of civil and relig-
ious liberty, the Masonic sing of distress ha )
always been recognized upon the battle field
,-1r in the torture chamber, and with it the
kinship of blood and brotherhood.
Masonry has been satisfied in all ages of
she world to be loyal to all governments I'M
der which 1t might be- no matter what their
form. but has afforded to each member the
fullest liberty as citizens or subject to carry
out and live up to his own ideas. 1t is only
within the walls of his own temple that, re-
-a.ardIess of autocracy, monarchy or rcpub
iiCaniSm without, the mason STANDS upon
ehe plane and square of Il pure democracy.
Our order could live under Judaism, and
upon the completion of Solomons temple
carry its principles and faith into every
part of the civilized world. 1t could thrive
under the Roman empire without exciting
the hostility or the jealousy of the Caesars.
A hundred years ago at Newburgh, when
the revolution had succeeded and the con-
-Hnental army was disbanding, Washington
and all his generals standing within the
precincts of masonic lodge of which they
we're all members could rejoice in the fact
men before the law had at last, after unnum-
6ered centuries, become the corner stone OF
their republic.
\ century of successful operation of this
principle enables us to contemplate day
n government of sixty three millions OF
people possessing more power, enjoying
more happiness, delighting in more liberty,
and richer and more prosperous than those
of any nation upon earth.
The Civil-Service Commission will Inves.
tigate.
WASHINGTON. May 22.-The Star says
that the civil-service commission will
Investigate the matter of the appoint
xnent made by Green il. Raum, Jr., and
has asked the encouragement for an
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