Arizona republican., 1897-11-14

 Vickers, Territorial Secretary Char es Akers, District Judges Sloan and Doan, Masonic representatives from Mexico, Central America, Scotland, and Nova Scotia, were special guests of the grand lodge in the cavern. Tie verdict of all was that words cannot describe a tithe of what they saw and felt of natures glories in the heart of that limestone mountain.
 Thursday was particularly visitors day, and all afternoon a long line of men and women stood by the main shaft of the Copper Queen waiting their turn to be shot down out of day light into scene of subterranean grandeur The half mile of drifting that leads ito the wonderful cavern was we'll lighted with hundreds of candles placed at regular intervals of the entire distance, and this walk through the rock-hewn drifts that led to nhe palace of the genii was it. self a delight to these accustomed only to surface walks of life. Again, on Friday afternoon, hundreds more Yesterday the electric current was turned off from the cave and it be- came again merely an awful, ghostly chasm, tenanted only by the gnomes and nature spirits of the underworld.
 The grand lodge will assemble at Globe, where there, are copper mines ana gold mines even as famous as this wonderful money producer known as the Copper Queen. It is possible that subterranean surprise and de- light may be in store for the fratern- ity at Globe next year. But Globe will give the members no heartier welcome than did BisbeeL There has been a ad-gauge liberality mani tested here on every hand and Ben jamin and Lewis Williams, the man agers and chief owners of the mine, the railroad, and most of the other big institutions of Bisbee, have gone to endless expense and trouble to make every visitor to the city glad of the good fortune that waited them hither
 WORK OF THE LODGE.
 As for the grand lodge session it. self, that was most successful. Re- ports of all the gra-d lodge officers show the Masonic fraternity in the territory in very flatfering light. There has been a material increase in membership and a substantial addi- tion to the coffers of both the individ- ual lodges and the grand bodies. The order of their assemblage was as fol- lows:
 Morning of the eth-Meeting of grand lodge, 10 a. m. and 2 D. m.
 Eve1ing of the h-Exemplificatio of lIhird degree.
 Wednesday, 10 a. m.-Meeting of grand chapter.
 Wednesday afternoOn-Meeting of grand lodge and grand commandery in conc.ave, at Copper Queen mine.
 "Wednesday evening-Meeting ot grand commandery.
 Thursday morning and evening Meeting of grand lodge officers. Ad- mission by card only.
 Thursday evening at 10:30-Banquet for Free Masons only. IA very appro- priate arrangement was made by se- lecting the table walters from the sons and brothers of Free Masons. Everybody who went to Bisbee last week was looked upon and treated as the particular guest of Perfect Ash Der of that lodge made it his particu- lar business to make every visiting Mason or layman realize what a for tunate thing the mere fact of living can sometimes be made. The spirit of fraternity and brotherhood was in the air, and no o-e escaped its in flIence The entire membership oi Perfect Ashlar lodge was committee on good cheer and good feeling, the personnel of that committee being as follows:
 c. c. Warner, F. A Sweet, J. J . Lewis Williams. c. w. Moon. J. G Pritchard, T. w. Clawson, Richard 1 Ham, c. l.. Beckwith, Richard Run dies, D. Macphun, c. c. Finlayson, J H. Anguis, Fred Sandstrom, James Wood, V. R. Stiles, J. D. Blair, Den his Corran, Alfred Tellam, Will Pritchard, E. B. Mason, T. J. Graf John Mobery, Sam Bowas, A. F l Grant, C. A. Overlook, F. M. Mckay IA. Buckman, B. J. Stallam, Fred Wiemers. A. Kunz. H. M. Woods. J H. Williams.
 Most of the business meetings of the l grand bodies were held in the Ma sonic temple. This is handsome building, containing a model lodge room second to none on the coast. On the visitors register at the temple the following names were inscribed during the assemblage: J. D. Abrams
 San Francisco: J. Guthrie Savage T-yl- T M -Jo,r