The evening world., 1894-06-06
HODGE IS ELECTED.
Proclaimed Grand Master of New
York Masons by A~cclamation.
Lively Contest Between Stewart and
PownaII for Deputy Grand.
The Winner VIII Ultimately Sue
coed to the Highest Once.

The second days session of the 18th
Grand Lodge of Free and Accepted
Masons Of theState of New York was
called to order shortly after 8 o'clock this
morning.
h first order of business was the
election of officers. and for two hours
prior to the voting, at 10 o'clock, there
was a lot of hustling by the friends of
Wright ID. Pownall and John Stewart,
the opposing candidates for Deputy
Grand Master, with promotion to Grand
Master a sure thing next year to the
winner.
The election Of Deputy Grand Master
produced the only contest, and the strug-
gle was IA hard one. but without acri-
mony, both candidates being very popu-
lar.
Tho ~peremptory refusal Of Grand Mas
ter Frederick A. Burnham to allow his
name to be used as Il candidate for re-
election rendered the election of John
Hodge. the famous L%ockport millionaire
ana leading citizen, u sure thing. 1t
was a mere formality to nominate him
and he was elected by reclamation.
John Hodge WAS born up the State
In 1887. He is II handsome man, with
a distinguished presence. His hair is
streaked with gray, as is his m%ustache,
glasses and a black frock suit.
He is State Commissioner of the
Niagara Falls Reservation, owner of
Hodge Opera-House, Lockport, N. Y.
one of the finest in the interior of the
State; President of the Lockport Board
OF Education, n m of the Protest
ant Episcopal Church., an Odd Fellow
and a member of the Ancient Order of
Unietd Workman.
He made his million in patent medicine.
being President of the Merchants Garg-
ling Oil Company. AS n Mason he has
held nearly, every office in the Blue
fifteen years in the line of promotion.
The speech nominating Deputy Grand
Master Hodge t. be Grand Master was
and seconded by Ebert craadali. Of
Brooklyn, and Judge Sawyer, Of Palmyra.
,The next in order was the election Of a
Deputy Grand Master. Frederick b.
mated John Stewart for the place in an
impassioned speech, in which he drew
attention to Stewards twenty-one years
Of service to the craft.
John Stewart is about forty-fve years
old. He is in the dry-goods business
in Church street. is wealthy and lives in
Albion Lodge in 1883, 'S4. is, Sc, SO and
$50: Assistant Grand Lecturer for three
years and Is a perfect ritualist: He
was FOurtn District Deputy under
Grand Master Brodie, and for three
years Treasurer of the Building Asylum
Fund.
He is the manager Of the Masonic
Temple. and is credited with a splendid
administration of the building, getting
about 5000 a year more rent out of 1t
than did his predecessors. Albion
Lodge gave the first 81 900 in response to
Grand Master L~awrence's appeal for
funds to raise the debt on the Temple,
and Mr.. Stewart personally raised an
other $1,000. He is a trustee of the
Scotch Presbyterian Church.
Wright ID. Pownall. who is n of the
Commissioners of Appeals, was nomi-
mated by Lawyer Henry A. Powell, of
Brooklyn, who nominated Judge Bart
lett for the Court of Appeals at the
Republican State Convention last Fall.
Mr.. Powell was Master of Chancellor
Walworth Lodge, In 1886 1887; Fifth Dis
trict Deputy Grand Master in 1SS7-8:
Grand Marshal to the Grand Masters in
1883, and has been a COMMISSIONS Of
Appeals since. He is a emb of the
great Hall-Herring-Marvin Safe Com
pany, a sterling business man. He en-
tered the service OF the Marvin Safe
Company when he was twenty-one years
old as Secretary.
When the great safe concerns %consoli-
the new concern. He Is now nearly forty
years old and has been a Mason more
thar eighteen years. He has a fine pres
ence, and would make a fine presiding
officer or Grand Master a year hence,
He lives at the Florence. Eighteenth
street and Fourth avenue, and his office
Is at 365 Broadway.