The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-04-12
MEETING IS ENDED
SUCCESSFUL REUNION CLOSED WITH
A FINE BANQUET.
Over Three Hundred Masons Sit Down to a
Royal Feast Of Dainty Edibles and
Roman Punch--Easter Lilies and Sweet
ViOlets Adorn the Tables and the Ma
tional Colors Float Over AIl--Many Wis
itors Attend From Acknowledgements
and Wit Served as Spice for the DC
casiOn.

Three hundred representative Ma
sons OF Kansas assembled at the Scot
fish Rite banquet last night at the
close of the reunion of the bodies OF
that Rite in this city.
The melting was concluded with the
degree Of Sublime Prince of the Royal
Secret, the thirty-second of the sys-
TEN and the most successful reunion in
the history of Wichita consistory was
closed. The degrees throughout were
conferred in the most impressive man
ner with full choir and orchestra and
beautiful and appropriate costumes.
An unusually attentive and apprecia-
tive class move every officer and work
er to a thorough and dramatically per-
feet rendering of the word of the Rite
Universal of Masonry.
The banquet was spread in the hall
of the blue lodge. Two tables reaching
the full length of the hall were tasteful
" decorated with banks of roses, vio
lets, margurites and lilies. while at the
head Of each was a floral cross of the
eighteenth degree, and on a dais at
the head of and between the tables,
near the station of the toast master,
was large floral emblem of the Rose
steps built in moss.
The banquet had been prepared by
the ladies of st. Paul's NJ. +. church.
and was symphony Of delicacies en-
lowered in a vision of floral loneliness
fashioned by their fair hands.
Charley Jones presided as master of
ceremonies. His command was law
and the legal lightning struck the Hon.
Thomas CT Fitch the first go, but in
N nd
esque postmaster acquitted himself in
a happy speech of welcome to the Wis
itorS and the class.
Ed Greer of WineId caught it next,
and responded in pleasing tribute to
Wichita consistory.
o. Fl. Bentley who. had he lived i'm
the time of Elijah. might have re-
quired, as did that famouse parsonage.
the assistance of protection of the same
animals who took up Lijah'S fight
against the bad boys, grew really pa
thetic, grave. Iithsome and humorous
in the testimony he bore as to his APP
probation of the doctrines of the Rite
and the beauty Of the degrees.
Harper s. Cunningham, thirty-third
degree, honorary inspector general and
deputy for Oklahoma, made one of the
neatest talks of the evening in ex-
pressing his gratitude for the many
pleasures afforded him by his visit.
He visited Wichita consistory in its in
fancy. when they worked in small
rooms and with few members, and his
reminiscent and commendatory re-
marks were peculiarly happy.
Greece had its philosophers. Wich-
tia consistory has but one. His name
is Henry c. Sluss. and when introduced
last night as the philosopher" he
rapidly demonstrated the fact that he
was such, and his epigramatic remarks
so happily expressed were highly graf
flying and instructive TO all present
His philosophiZiSg rounded into one of
the most beautiful tributes to the high
character and worth of Colonel II. c.
Loomis, thirty-third degree, of Win
field. and ended by presenting Colonel
Loomis on behalf of Wichita consistory
with an elegant tbirty-third degree
chain, solid sold, which cost 500.