The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-04-14
WITH APRON AND TROWEL,
Grand Masonic Bodies to Hold
Annual Sessions This
Week.
FINISHING THE YEARS WORK.
They Are the Grand Council, Grand
Chapter and Grand Conn
mandery.

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of particular interest from the fact that
three grand bodies convene at Masonic
Temple, corner of Montgomery and Post
streets. These gatherings will bring to the
city many prominent men from all parts
of the State. The Grand Council of Royal
and Select Masters will hold its thirty-ffth
annual assembly on Monday; the Grand
Chapter of Royal Arch Masons will devote
Tuesday and Wednesday to its forty-first
annual convocation, and the Grand Com
mandery, Knights Templar, will COM
mence It's thirty seventh annual conclave
on Thursday, to continue until Friday
afternoon.
The Grand Chapter represents 5132
Royal Arch Masons of this State; the
Grand Commandery 1887 Knights Temp
lar and the Grand Council 1889 Select Mas
tiers. By uniform system OF masonry the
grand body is composed Of the three princi-
pal officers and all the past highest officers
living of each subordinate body. Thus the
Grand Chapter consists of the high priest,
king and scribe, and all past high priests
of each chapter, and the Grand Com
| mandery is similarly composed OF the COM
mander, generalissimo, captain-ge general and
| the past commanders of each commandery.
Nine subordinate councils are repre-
sented in the Grand Council of Royal and
Select Masters. They are located accord
| ing to their numeral order in the following
places: Sacramento, San Francisco,
Marysville, Sonora, Shasta, Helena, Mont,
Stockton, Los Angeles and Oakland. The
grand officers under whom the work will
| be conducted are: George Pennington of
San Francisco grand master; Charles E.
| Gillett of Oakland deputy grand master;
| William H. Davis of Sacramento, grand
principal conductor of the works; Frank
| lin H. Day of San Francisco, grand treas
| urer; Thomas III. Caswell of SAP Fran
cisco, grand recorder; Thomas Kyle of
Ashcroft of San Francisco, grand captain
of the guards; Robert Ash OF San Fran
cisco, grand conductor of the council;
Charles l.. Field of San Francisco, grand
lecturer; Aug. Wackerbarth of Los An
geles, grand steward; Samuel d. Mayer of
San Francisco, grand organlst, and James
Oglesby OF San Francisco, grand sentinel.
The number of subordinate chapters to
be represented by the Grand Chapter on
Tuesday is sixty-eight. The grand officers
are: Ellison l.. Crawford of Georgetown.
grand high priest; Adolphus Hewell of
Modesto, deputy grand high priest;
Thomas Flint of San Juan, grand king;
scribe; Franklin II. Day of San Francisco,
grand treasurer; Thomas H. Caswell OF
San Francisco, grand secretary; Charles
E. Stone of Marysville, grand chaplain;
Thomas II. Creswell, grand lecturer; Eli
7. Blackmer of San Diego, grand captain
OF the host; Florin L. Jones of Pasadena,
grand royal arch captain; Samuel D. Mayer
of San Francisco, grand organist; and
| James Oglesby of San Francisco, grand
guard.
In the Grand Commandery on Thursday
| thirty-four subordinate communicates, To-
Gated as follows, will be represented:
| Two in San Francisco and one each in sacra-
| mento, Sonora, Placerville, Oroville, Nevada
| City, Marysville, Stockton, Los Angeles San
| Jose Oakland, Chico Susanville Santa Rosa
| Red Bluff, Ventura, Vallejo, Petaluma, Wood
land, watsonville,. San Bernardino, Colusa,
| San Diego, Visalia, San Luis Obispo, Riverside,
| Fresno, Santa Barbara, Pasadena, Yreka,
| Ukiah Napa and Eureka, the last one being
| under dispensation.
| The grand officers are:
| Sir Frank w. Sumner of San Francisco, grand
commander; Sir Ed s. Lippitt of Pctaluma,
/ deputy grand commander; Sir Trowbridge H.
| Ward of Los Angeles, grand generalssimo; Sir
George D. Metcalf of Oakland, grand captain
| general; Sir Charles E. Stone of Marysville,
! grand prelate; Sir Robert NJ. Powers of San
| Blossom of Red Bluff, grand junior warden;
| Sir John I. Merrill of San Francisco, grand
treasurer; Sir Thomas H. Caswell OF San Fran:
CISCO grand recorder; Sir R. Beverley Cole of
! San Francisco, grand standard-bearer; Sir John
Garwood of Stockton, grand ord-bearer; Sir
Frederick M. Miller of Fresno, grand warder;
| Sir Samuel d. Mayer, grand organist, and Sir
James Oglesby, grand captain OF the guards.
Mr.. Caswell has been the recording off,
Ger of these three grand bodies for great
many years. The Grand Chapter and
Grand Commandery elected him to his
present position in 1878, and the Grand
Council chose him in 1880. 1t is the Gus
tomary thing to re-elect the incumbent of
this position from year to year until death.
The work of the grand bodies usually con-
sists of the receiving of grand officers re-
reference to committees, the last thing
done being the election of grand officers
for the ensuing year. Time-honored GUS
tom has added social feature to the an
nual gathering in the way of banquet,
which invariably follows the conclusion
of business.
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