The San Francisco call., 1897-01-12
THE CHAPTER
NEW HIGH PRIEST
An Installation of Officers
of the Royal Arch
Masons.
The Ceremony Witnessed by a
Large Membership and
Many Visitors.
Presentation of Handsome Silver Set
to a Retiring Officer-The Sec
retary's Reelection.

The hall of San Francisco Chapter No. l.,
ROYAL Arch Masons, was crowded last
night by mem bers and visitors assembled
to witness the beautiful, impressive and
in teresting ceremony of the installation of
the recently elected officers of the chapter.
The following named were the officers
installed by the retiring high priest, L. NJ.
Hoefier; P. d. Code, high priest; ]. f.
Logan, king; G. II. Um mbsen, scribe; Ben
jamin Harris, treasurer; Ii. G. Prince,
secretary d. l.. HesseItine, captain of the
host; J. NJ. Trout, principal sojourner;
q. w. Tabor, royal arch captain; Sol
Bloom, master Sd "; w. II. Thomas,
master % ". B. N. Rowley master 1st v. !;
E. Gilbert, guard; Theodore E. Smith,
organist.
There were present during the ceremony
the following past high priests: c. j.
King, d. C. Smith, Charles Warren, w.
L. Price, S. Sternheim, j. P. Kin caid,
Moubray R. Dundas and l.. M. Hoefier.
At the close of the meeting all present
retired to the banquet hall, where "a
Royal Arch spread" awaited them. After
the repast High Priest P. d. Code, on be-
half of the chapter. in q few words full of
kindly and brotherly feeling presented to
L. Nj. Hoefer, the retiring high priest. a
magnificent and costly set of silver, ap-
propristely inscribed, as token of appre-
citation of that officials services while in
the chair.
Then followed number OF short ad-
dresses, some of the speakers being Rev.
George E. Walk, DR.. Beverly Cole and c.
]. King.
L. NJ. Hoefer, the retiring high priest, is
young attorney of this City, a member
of the law firm of Bishop & Wheeler.
His Masonic career commenced in 1888,
when be was initiated into Doric Lodge
No. 216 He was soon thereafter CHOSEN
to fill one of the subordinate stations in
that lodge, and in 1894 he was elected
worshipful master.
Four years previous he joined San
Francisco Chapter ana in, 1889 he was
elected high priest of the chapter. In ad-
dition to filling that office he had steadily
advanced in the Scottish Rite and COM
mandery.
Philip D. Code, who succeeded the re-
firing high priest, is the senior member of
the firm of Code, Elicit & Co. His Ma
sonic record dates back to 1878, when he
was admitted to embership in Pacific
Lodge No. 1876. Having filed several
offices in his lodge, he was elected wor-
shipful master in 1882 and served two
terms, retiring in 1884. He joined San
Francisco Chapter in 1881, was elected
high priest in 1896 and installed in office
last night. He IS an active mem Der of
Golden Gate Commandery and the Cali
fornia Council of Royal and Select Master
Masons.
Secretary H. l.. Prince, who has held the
Office of secretary of San Francisco Chap
ter during the past sixteen years, is known
to every Royal Arch man in the State of
California as being one of the most genial
men and has the fortune of making and
retaining friends
The mem bers present at the installation
we're:
B. Reinhart, Charles Fields, Henry NJ. Fir
Meyerson, Joseph Levy, Charles Webber,
Adolph Harris, Sol. Getz. F. A. Hornblower.
L. Solomon, S. Bloom, ]. P. Fraser Jo-
ssa, sssph R. Rsaystsf sebonaid Ms1R 5GansoR Hal
ris. II. H. Gorter, G. W. H. Patterson, B.
N. Rowiey, H. Dow, C. w. Wolfe, Dana SIM tn
H. +. Rohiman, W. J. B. McCarren, P. Cahill,
Wulzen, Thomas c. Duff, ]. H. Gilmore, Marcus
Marx, l.. E. Noonan, H. M. Furman, William
Still, j. p: Kincaid. L. Dusenbery, H. D. Love-
Martin Jones, J. C. Terry, l.. G. Sresovich, j.
II. Buttmann, s. sternheim, S. 1ckelheimer,
George Hatton, A. A. Gilmonr d. A. William,
Simon A. cressy. c. A. Warren, ~ George A. Ben n.
nett, w. Elliott, F. N. Nicolaysen, M. j. Fisher,
J. D. Code, G. II. Dyer. C. C. Bryan, Moubray
r. Dundas, NJ. j. II. Woolf, J. q. spaulding,
S. cohen, A. Adams, ]. c. Peterson, William
Farrell, j. NJ. Ellis, NJ. S. Borns tein, d. P.
Brown, S. p Blumenberg.
Among the visitors were:
Charles Edelman, J. Goodman. Alex Mckay,
r. P. Allen, Charles Simon, J. I. Gray, James
Simon. G. ]. Perian, H. j. Owen, II. N. Hof.
man. S. d. Metcalf Sam d. Mayer, H. c. Hub
bard, Isaac Lipslri, w. C.. Campbell, L. K.
Bailey. George E. Walk, Charles Bliss John H.
Gray, Andrew Mckay, John Lockwood. C. NJ.
J. Abell. S. Warburton, d. D. Shatluck, R. w.
Dyer, W: s. Walkerson, John ellison, Theo
Frolich, ]. McCrosson.
Par or Reception.
At the meeting of the Presbyterian Orphan