The herald., 1897-09-17
MASONIC

Preparations for the departmental
conclave of the knights Templar in this
city Oct. 7th. Sth ard 9th are in activ'
progress. The several committees Will
hold joint meeting tonight in the par
lors of the Jonathan club at o'clock
An outline of the program has hereto
fore been published in The Herald.
The annual grand lodge session Will
open in San Francisco Oct. 18th
AL Malaikah Temple. Ancient Arabic
Order Mobiles of the Mystic Shrine, VIII
conduct a large class of novices across
the burning sands on, the evening OF Oct.
sth, to be followed by the usual BAN
quet
Los Angeles commandery 8. X. T.. con-
ferred the Order of the Temple last even
ing.
Signet chapter 81 r. A. NJ. Will confer
the Mark and Past Masters degrees
next Monday evening.
Los Angeles chapter SO, r. a. NJ. con-
ferrsd the Royal Arc: degree on three
candidates Wednesday evening in good
style. The attendance was Large.
Deputy District Attorney Wills will
take the f. M. degree in SigEet chapter
next Monday evening
Los Angeles oommandery 8, X. T., had
q good drill Wednesday evening.
Pentalpha lodge POP. had the first de-
gree Tuesday evening last and will con-
fer the second next Tuesday.
Hollenbeck lodge conferred the first
degree on candidate last week and ex-
poets a candidate for the second next
Tuesday.
Southern California lodge had "a rails
ing" Wednesday night and il was good
one.
vallee de France lodge. U. D., will have
work in the third degree tonight. The
number Of visiting brethren will be large.
The social given last evening by South
Gate chapter, o. E. s., was voted high
" enjoyable affair by the large num-
ber of visitors. An excellent musicale
and literary program was followed by
dancing.
The Eastern Star ladies contemplate
organizing a chapter of the Degree of
Amaranth, which Is an ornamental or
"side" degree.
The General Grand council of Cryptic
Masonry of the United States will meet
at Baltimore Oct 11th
The Mason.s of Atlanta. Ga, will erect
a temple ten stories in height, to cost
5000, goo
There are Ais Masonic lodges in Ger
many with membership of 1860. There
are eight grand lodges and five independ-
ent lodges
The annual grand session of the Sow
ereign Grand council of the United
States of Knights of the Red Cross Of
Constantine and Appendant Orders, was
recently held in Rochester. N Y. The quail
1fications for membership in the order
were changed so as to admit Master
Masons Heretofore a man was required
to be Royal Arch Mason. The order
Is the oldest Masonic and military order
in the world, having been instituted in
312 a. Rome by Emperor Constantine.
and has had continuous existence from
that period to the present time. All his
torians admit that the Order of knights
OF Constantine and that Of Free Ma
sonry has been closely allied for over
five centuries. Its membership repre-
sents the highest type of character and
intelligence, as we'll as Masonic attain
ments. 1t is essentially Christian, as
vel! as military order.
The name Free Mason" appears for
the first time in Statute 25 of Edward
OF England, A. D., 1850 The term sig
nified "Freestone Mason" one who
works in free-stone as distinguished
from the rough mason. who merely built
walls of rough stones. II was not untl
the beginning of the seventeenth century
that persons who were not operative
masons began to unite with the Fres
Masons and were distinguished from
the regular working masons by the de.
nomination of accepted" By the veal
1902 the speculative lodges in England
began to decay and became so degen.
crate as to be applied to the purposes O.
gain and self-interest. "Masons mad
here for 12s." was then a frequent an
nouncement in the riverside streets O
London and Liverpool, but I'LL saw
complete change, when the so-called re
vival was effected.
ODD FELLOWS