The daily morning journal and courier., 1894-07-20
ROYAL 4RCH MasONs.
Centennial of the order May bs Held fl
 Hartford.

Hartford.
 Isaiah Baker. jr.. or Hartford. A. l.. Barnes Of this city. Samuel F. Lamb Of Thomaston and John Barlow of bir- mingham will be the delegates of the Grand chapter. Royal Arch Masons Of Connecticut. to the triennial eonyoca- ton of the General Grand chapter of the United States. to be held in Topeka. Kansas. beginning Wednesday, August 22. It was expected that the convoca- ton would have assembled Wednesday. but the railroad strikes and tie-ups in the west caused It's postponement, the new date having been fixed by George l.. McCahan of Baltimore. who Is the head of the order. The convocation VIII have delegates from forty-three states and territories. four being allotted from each grand Jurisdiction.
 This Masonic organization has a pe- culiar interest to Hartford. having been organized there January 24. l797. It has held triennial conversations with two exceptions since that time. The exceptions were when interrupted by the war of 1sl2-l4. there being no convo- cation between 1908 and 1916. and In 1862. when the convocation that was ap- pointed to be held In Memphis. Tenn, was passed by on account of the civil war. The convocation of 1882 was set for September of that year. but Balti- uFhn to ha hall n f- ficted with cholera, and the meeting was postponed to November 2S of that year. Since 1926 the meetings have been triennial, but in order that the meeting might fall upon the centennial year, 1897. the convocation of 1889. held at Augusta, Ga., was adjourned to meet in two years-in 189l-at Minneapolis.
 The General Grand chapter Is com posed of four representatives from each of the Grand chapters and permanent members, which latter include past off, cers, making about nine hundred in all The general attendance Is about three hundred, as many of the past officers do not attend. Besides the United States the jurisdiction extends over subordinate chapters in Honolulu, in Shanghai, Valparaiso and the City of Mexico.
 The Connecticut delegation will en- deavor to induce the general grand chapter to hold It's next triennial in Hartford, the place of It's birth, and will take to Topeka the formal invita- tion of the grand chapter of this state. The Royal Arch Masons of Connecticut have had this continually in view for the past two years and have laid a per capita tax annually for the purpose of creating a fund for the proper enter tainment of so august Masonic body. It would be a fortunate meeting place for the grand chapter, as the Masonic fraternity in this city will have the new Masonic Temple completed and the proverbial hospitality of Hartford Ma sons would be extended without stint. It will take some effort on the part of the Connecticut delegation to induce the general grand chapter to come here. as both Washington and Baltimore are striving for the meeting. Sentimental ty, however, the centennial convocation would seem to be due in Hartford where the organization was formed.
 The officers of the general grand chapter at present are: George L. Nc Cahan of Baltimore, deputy grand high priest, acting grand high priest; Reu. ben c. Lennon of Toledo, O., general grand king; James W. Taylor of Lut- nersville, Ga., general grand scribe Daniel Striker of Hastings, Mich., gen. eral grand treasurer; Christopher G. Fox of Buffalo, N. r., general grand secretary; Arthur G. Pollard of Lowell, Mass, general grand captain of the host; Joseph B. Dyas of Paris, H., general grand principal sojourner; Wll- liam c. Swain Of Milwaukee, Wis.,, gen. eral grand royal arch captain; Nathan Kingsley of Austin, Mtnn., general grand master third veil; Bernard G. Witt of Henderson, Ky., general grand master second veil, and George E. Cor son of Washington, D. C., general grand master first veil. The general grand high priest. Joseph P. Horner, died in January, 1893, when the duties and pre- negatives of the office fell upon the dep- uty grand high priest, George L, Mo- Cahan, who has since been acting as the head of the order.
 Another distinguished body of Ma- sons meets at the same time and place. or, rather, one day earlier. It is the gen. eral grand council of Royal and &c., lect Masters of the United States, oom- posed of royal and select masters from the various grand councils of each state and territory, and is of comparative recent date, The body numbers about one hundred.
 This body will not have any repre- sentative from the Grand Council of Royal and Select Masters of Conneoti- out, the grand council of this state hav- ing the right to call itself the oldest or ganization of cryptic Masonry in the world, and prefering to retain that dis- tinot1on rather than to lose itself in the greater organization,
 NEW TAX ON SPIRITS,