The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1893-06-26

which in itself was sufficient guaran-
tee that 1t would be we'll handled.
Shortly after nine o'clock the Masons
began assembling at Masonic hall, cor.
ner Main and Twelfth, and tho Knights
Templar formed at G. A. r. hall on the
same street The line Of march was
formed at ten o'clock in the following
order,
Eseort OF Police, Lieutenant Gaus
Opera House Band.
Gyrene Commandory, No. z, K. T.
wheeling CpmnandGry, No. !, K. 7.
Mayors BRASS Band.
e sF Ohio Lodge No L
Wheeling Lodge. No. B
y BateE Lodge, No 81.
Nelson Lodge, No. 80.
MeIster's Brass band.
bridgeport Lodge.
Masters and Past Masters OF Wheeling Lodge.
The Grand Lodge OF West Virginia.
There were several hundred men in
line, making q very fine appearance
Twenty-fourth, and the return up Chap
. line and Market to the site Of the new
. Masonic temple below the corner Of
Market and Fourteenth streets. A tenn
porary floor had been laid over the
foundation, and on this the various
lodges OF Masons were stationed during
the ceremony OF laying the corner
stone, which was in charge OF the Grand
Lodge Of West Virginia.
The following were the Grand Lodge
officers present: Past grand master,
Robert White; grand marshal, J.. A.
Miller; grand tyler. T. W. Bliss; grand
stewards, II. L. Loos. NJ. Emsheimer;
r O. Darrah and James A. Maxwell;
grand orator, o. S. Long; grand chap
lain, Rev. DR.. R. Il Swope; grand secre-
tary, 6. W. Atkinson; grand treasurer,
Hugh Sterling; principal architect,
Willard F. Giesey; grand junior warden,
4 James McCahon; grand senior warden,
Joseph Hall; grand pursuivant, J. E.
Hughes; master OF oldest lodge, Theo-
dore Snyder; grand junior deacon,
Victor Rosenberg; grand senior deacon,
w. II. Travis; deputy grand marshal,
7. O. Stephenson.
GRAND MASTERS ADDRESS.
The impressive exercises were started
blythe grand master, Col Robert White,
who said:
"When the temple was about to be
erected at Jesusalem by King Solomon,
the timber OF Tyre was needed in its
construction, and Hiram, King OF
Tyre, being a friend and ally OF Solo
mon, arranged to send by sea, upon
floats, to Joppa, the wanted timber.
Materials, men and money were ready,
but there must be an architect to plan,
master workman TO superintend, the
erection Of this most magnificent odi-
flee, and from Tyre, too, came the
widows son, OF the tribe Of Napthali,
Hiram Abitf, to take charge Of the work,
and then the cornerstone was laid by
our first grand master, upon Mount
Moriah's top.
"That great temple has passed away,
but:-
THAT sacred hill that owned the might
And skill OF lllrnm's men,
Bears up It's summit, gray and bold,
And grand to-day, as then"
"Tacitus, in the history OF the re.
building Of the capitol at Rome, says
Z that, after solemn prayer, Helvldius, to
whom the care OF the building had been
Committed, laid his hand upon the
6 fillits that adorned the fountain stone,
and also upon the cords by which il
was to be drawn to its place that in.
slant magistrates, priests, senators and
citizens, with one accord, as their shout
of joyb burst upon the air, laid hold upon
the ropes and dragged the ponderous
load to its designed place, and then the
ingots Of gold, OF silver, and of other
metals.
"Sipce those ancient days grand mas
ter after grand master has, time and
again, performed tho like duty. On
this anniversary day OF our patron
prophet we'have come to lay, with due
masonic rites, in the northeast corner,
I the corner stone OF new temple, to be
erected to God and to be dedicated to
the Holy Saint John"
At this iuncture the ritual was taken
up, and the ceremony OF placing the
stone then went on, the following otti'
GERS taking part:
Grand Maste: White, Grand Marshal
Miller, Grand Chaplain Swope, Grand
Treasurer Sterling, Grand Secretary At
kinson, and Principal Architect Giesey,
The grand master then concluded his
) address, as follows:
1.-THE work OF laying the corner stone
oithis temple, monument to the zeal
and energy OF your committee, and to
the fellowship OF the craft, is now per-
formed. That stone has been tried by
the square, the level and the plumb
and Is found to be we'll formed, true
and trusty. 1t lies in the corner there,
half way between the place OF dark
ness-the north-and the place Of
: light-the east-ever reminding US oil
that progress from darkness into light
which every true Mason makes. Its
suriaeeis square, teaching the purest
lessonsiof moral life Its form is cub
ical, emblematic Of truth, OF strength Of
character and firmness Of purpose. II
il cemented to the foundation by the
finest Of mortar-reminding US OF that
true affection which should knit and
unite all true Masons into one common
brotherhood. Upon it will stand as its
Z corner Masonic structure, which will
crumble and fall long before it will
Weld to the onward tread OF time-tell.
ing rs, my brethren, that although the
earthly house OF our tabernacle may
dissolve, there Is q building Of God, the
Cornerstone Of which Is blessed i'm.
mortality"
'.Menask:-"Why erect such temples
10 Masonry? Masonry! Before that
mystic name passions are silenced and
fueds are hushad. Il whispers among
the storm-clouds Of life, saying: Peace,