The morning call., 1891-03-22

ing the reliability or character OF any person or
firms in This city or elsewhere.
Questions, answers TO which are in the nature
OF an advertisement, will not be answered.
Every inquiry must have the true and full
name OF the sender, as well as the correct resi-
Cence. Any inquiry that hns not the COR
rect name and address of the sender will
be treated as if 1t was not signed, and the
writer need not expect AN answer.
LODGES OF CoLoRED MAsoNs-J, T. L.,
City. The Trestle Board for January quot
ing from Rev. Brother John d. Vincil in
Constellation answers your question and
treats 1t simply in its legal aspects. He de-
clares: There can be no legal lodges of
eolored MaSonS in the United States under
our laws governing the sovereignty of grand
lodges. Our coored friends assume to have
legal grand lodges in many Of the States of
this land, in every one of which there is
legally constituted Grand Lodge of their
white brethren. These grand lodges, organ
lied by the white Masons of the country,
were in existence and were recognized by
the older grand lodges of the world long be-
fore the col0red Masons claimed to have any
existence among us. 1t need only be
stated that two sovereignties cannot exist
in the same domain. Ii one is sovereign the
other one claiming sovereignty cannot be
recognized as such. To Illustrate: The
white Grand Lodge of Missouri has
been recognized by the grand lodges of
this country and of the Old World as the
supreme Masonic authority in the territory
Of the State for more than sixty years.
Within the last few years another body.
claiming to be Masonic, called the Grand
Lodge of Colored Masons, has come in and
set up its so-called affairs. Can it be recog-
nized as supreme also? If the grand lodges Of
the world, which have recognized the sOver-
eighty of our white Grand Lodge of Missouri,
should recognize this colored establishment
as supreme and entitled to Masonic fellow
ship, that recognition would negative and
necessarily render nugatory their former
recognition of our Grand Lodge. This
would embroil us in strife with such grand
lodges, and become the cause of conflict be-
tween the white Grand Lodge and the con-
Germ set up by the sO-ealled colored Masons.
1t would also be in violation of the well
established and generally accepted doctrine
of absolute sovereignty of grand lodges in
their own territory. Then it follows that
no colored Grand Lodge can exist in Mis-
souri, by any right or law, from the simple
fact that they are invading territory ac-
corded TO the body previously occupying the
premises. As no one can give legality to
this claim for Masonic standing as n Grand
Lodge, it equally follows that lodges created
by said organization are Illegal and
CanUOl D6 IeCOBHlLeu ny TIE fraternity.
1t follows, says the writer, that a Mason is
=" not at liberty to recognize a colored man
pretending to be Mason. He (the colored
MANI has not been a Mason in a legally
constituted lodge of Ancient Free and Ac-
cepted MasOns,' furnished with the Holy
Bible, square and eompasSes and charter
authorizing them to meet and work" Ac-
cordiDg TO this contention, cOlored Mason
from the Jamaica Islands, unless he is
Mason of lodge constituted as described
above, could not visit a lodge of white
Masons in the United States, because not
Mason.
MARINE COMPOUND ENGINE-J. B.,
Stockton, Cal. Admiral Preble in his
Notes for History of Steam Navigation"
makes reference to two early marine COM
pound engines-one built by Hallette of
Arras, France, and used in the Union, a
steamer launched In June, 1929, and the
other built by Fol ST., of Bordeaux, and
used in 1912 on LIE COrsair Noir His
authority is work published at Bordeaux
in 1872, when the steamers named Piled
upon the Gironde and Gar0nne. In 1925
james p. Allaire of New York built COM
pound engine for the Henry Eckford, and
constructed similar engines for
several other boats. of which the Sun made
the trip from New York 10 Albany in twelve
hours and eighteen minutes. The Holland
ers, according to another authority, were
foremost among EurGpea in introduce
ing the double cylinder, NJ Roetgen
OF Rotterdam having built marine engines
on this principle since 1912 from a patent
taken cut that year by lander, another
Dntchman. Then, in 1913, the Rhine boat
hron Prinz Won PreusSen was built with
one of these so-called ''Woolf engines"
The invention is claimed to have been Eng
lsh, originating with Jonathan Horn
blower in 1881, though three-quarters of
century had TO elapSe before England made
any important application of it. In 1854
John Elder, an enterprising engineer of
Glasgow, built his first boat, the Brandon,
Buckeye State was running between
Buffalo and Detroit and giving much salts
faction for high rate of speed and economi-
cal use of fuel, because fitted with the new
double expansion engine.
HOMESTEAD REsIDENCE-G. j., City.
claimants under the United
States laws must comply with the law in
the matter of residence continuous with
cultivation for five years, unless he prefers
to pay for his land rs at private en- try after
six months settlement and cultivation and
making the necessary proof. The entries Of
herdsmeD, miners, business and professional
men and other people, whose employment
keep them away from their farms. are liable
to contest. There are rulings that residence
on a homestead must be in person and can
not be by proxy, even by a member of the
entryman'S family; moreover that resi-
dence cannot be maintained by occu-
patton by tenant, and that oc-
casionai visits are not residence. ~
1t has also been held that a temporary
absence occasioned by the fatal Illness Of a
friend cannot be regarded to interrupt the
continuity OF the claimants residence, but
that sickness will excuse for absence only
where good faith exists-in short, residence
is largely question OF intent, though inten-
tons are not by any means the equivalent
OF actual residence and improvements.
FRATERNAL SoCIETIEs-J. +. L., City.
Your question, what are the four largest
fraternal societies, the membership and
financial standing of each" is much easier
asked than answered. The Q. C.'s best iu-
formation is as follows: Masons (Decem-
Der, 1S9O)-in United States and Canada,
660,172; in the world, about $50, eco; can
not estimate assets. Ancient Order Forest
ers' Friendly Society-795. 600 adults, $1,000
Juveniles, total 100000 members; total
o. +. (January, 1S91)-About T0S,473 men,
berS; estimated funds, over S35,000,000.
Manchester Unity Odd Fellows. $4,000 men,
berS; about S40,000,000 funds. G. A. r.
Dune 80, 1S90)-45S, 230 members; cannot
give funds. Knights of Pythias-30O, 900
members; cannot give funds. A. o. U. w.
January 81, 1S9D-25l, 476 members. All the
funds above quoted are estimated, it being
impossible TO arrive at anything like cor
rect amount. 1t would take days and days
to figure and average the funds to obtain
total sum.
NOTHING IN THE TAcTIcs-W. l. s..
City. There is nothing in the United States
A rmy Tactics allowing fuheral escorts to
one who is not or has not been in the army
in some capacity, nor under the rules and
regulations for the National Guard Of Cali
fornia is a United States Senator entitled to
military honors at funeral, because not
civil functionary entitled when living to
salute. Upon the occasion of Senator
Hearst's funeral the services of the Second