The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-11-17
MAS0NS At WORK
Yesterday Gives New Ritual
iStic Effects.
KNIGHTS CT KODOSH WORK
General Interest Shown by In
creased Attendance.

The bodies of the Scottish Rite resumed
work yesterday morning with large and
| interested attendance and all officers pres
ent in their positions. At 9 o'clock the
Iabors were commenced in the balance OF
the work of the Chapter of Roix Croix.
The seventeenth. knight Of the East and
West, and the eighteenth, or Prince Of
Roix Croix. took up the foreH5o the
work closing al noon. All through this
work an elaborate program Of music was
| introduced adding majestic effect TO the
| beauty and idyluc charm OF these his
| trionic and philosophical degrees. The
title of all the subdivisions, known as
| Rosy Cross degrees is historical and relig-
| ious, 70 distinguish them from the in
effable degrees which precede and the
other two bodies which follow. In the
eighteenth degree James H Mccall, 80,
had full charge. as deputized Wise Mas
ter. and was ably assisted by the follow
ing: Charles NJ Jones. 80; Uranus H.
Bentley, 30, and Fred Stuckev, X c. c.
H. The music in This degree was IN part
by the regular consistory male quartet
and solos by Mr.. Jack Shields, the latter
making a decided hit by his finely rem
dered solo. and was obliged TO respond to
a hearty encore.
At O'Clock yesterday afternoon there
emanated from the cloisters of the pre-
ceptory Of Wichita Council of Knights
Kadosh No. s, the following official sum
mons: Attention, knights Kadosh-You
are requested to rendezvous promptly at
the preceptory at o'clock on Wednesday
the presentation of the following degrees:
Nineteenth, Pontiff; twentieth. Grand
Master Of Symbolic Lodges; twenty-hrst
Noachite. or Prussian knight; twenty
second, Knight of the Royal Axe, or
Prince Of Libanus; twenty-third, Chief of
the Tabernacle; twenty-fourth, Prince of
the Tabernacle; twenty-fifth, knight of
the Brazen Serpent; twenty-sixth, Prince
of Mercy; twenty-seventh, knight Com
mander of the Temple; twenty-eighth,
Knight of the Sun, or Prince Adept;
twenty-ninth, Grand Scottish knight of
st. Andrew. The thirtieth degree, or
knight of Kadosh, will not be finished
until this morning. Up TO the first sec
ton of the thirtieth degree, the degrees,
with the exception OF the twenty-first,
were presented by Charles NJ. Jones, 80,
deputized for the occasion, with full au-
thority and powers as Sir Preceptor.
At the evening session, the twenty-first
degree, one of the most beautiful and sig
nifcant of this department of Scotch Ma
sorry, was conferred with full form and
ceremony under the personal supervision
of Past Grand Master William NJ. Shaver
of Topeka, for many years a resident of
obi
sonic Mutual Benefit Insurance company
of Topeka Mr.. Shaver is one of the &C
knowledged finest schooled Masons in the
land in all departments of both Scottish
and York rites, having filed the highest
offices Of nearly all the grand bodies and
a scholarly and learned student and au-
thor of several standard works on ritual
ism and official accepted monitoriaI work
This twenty-first degree is his favorite
and to which he has bent the energies and
best thought of life time and to him is
always extended the powers TO confer 1t.
with always the result of splendid en-
coniums both from the class of candidates
and the highest dignitaries of the con-
sistory. Assisting Mr.. Shaver were the
following members of the Council of Ka-
dosh, specially appointed for the \occa-
sion: James H. Mccall. 80; George I.
Pratt, 80; Henry Wallenstein, SO; Charles
NJ. Jones. SO; Ed. Goldberg. 80; A. B. Gold |
standt. %; Fred H. Stuckey, K. c. c. H.
and full chorus and attendants, knights.
ETC.
This morning at 9 o'clock work in the |
Kadosh will resume, the work being con- |
ferred with full form. the ceremonies be- |
ing finished in this body at $50 Elmer |
E -Bleckley X. c. c. H, in full charge |
as Sir Precentnr