The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1898-05-11
is GIVEN PRAISE
Hawaiian Lodge No. q FIGURES
in History.
HALF A CENTURY OF MASONRY
Organization Here Under CaIifor-
MAS Grand Lodge-First Meet
ing-TempIe Pictures.
HALF A CENTURY OF MASONRY

Parts 4, ;, 6,'7 and of that superb
publication Fifty Years of Masonry
in California; are being distributed
by the Hawaiian News Company. This
to members of the craft in the Islands
is a most interesting and valuable
subscription publication. 1t is. on the
art order, being illustrated with the
| finest steel engravings and half tones
and having initial letters of original
! designs embellished in coIors The
| edition would prove an ornament to
any library 1t is presumed that quite
number of the Masons of this place
are securing the work.
Part 6 of Fifty Years of Masonry
in California" is of especial interest
to the local Mystic Tie men. 1t tells
of Hawaiian Lodge No. 21, which is
under the Grand Jurisdiction of Cali
fornia. The other lodges here are re-
spectively attached to France and Aus
tralia. In this official record Hawai-
ian Lodge No. 81 is set down as hav-
ing held it's first regular meeting on
Thursday evening, February 19, 1852.
There were present S. Lyon, John
Meek, Chas. w. Vincent, A c. Mott
J. Brown, d. P. Penhallow, VIM. Wond,
J. Irwin, J. G. Sawkins, F. w. Thomp-
son and A. J. Cartwright. Petitions
were received from M. r. Harvey,
Henry Macfarlane, r. COady, James
Dean and James Montgomery. = The
first real business transacted was ar
rangement for purchase of a lot in
Nuuanu cemetery. Of the present
days the history says:
Hawaiian Lodge No. 81 now num-
bers 146 Master Masons on it's roll and
is in a flOurishing condition. We hope
that Masonry will soon be so flourish
ing in the Hawaiian Islands under the
flag of the United States that our
brethren there may have grand
lodge of their own. In all of these |
forty-five long years, Hawaiian No. 21
has been bright star and lighthouse
of brotherly love, relief and truth in
The wandering brother on
the high seas has been guided to a |
port and haven of refuge and well |
coined to the warm fraternal en- |
braces of his faithful and loving breth- |
earnest and true aloha and to furnish |
him poi either with or without a |
spoon, and if cold would conduct him |
to the largest and warmest kitchen
in the world, Kilauea, where the fires |
are always aglow and the range con-
sumes it's own ashes after the yams |
have been cooked.
''The lodge has had upon its roll of
members grand, big-hearted men who
have been an honor and pride to the !
craft 1t has maintained it's existence
under peculiar difficulties and under
an unstable government. Under these
and lack of permanent |
government our Hawaiian brethren
have gone ahead in laying the fOunda-
tions of Masonry well, and have built |
a temple of which they have a right |
to feel proud"
Special mention is given the char
acters and services of the late Theo.
c. Porter and the late Alex. J. Cart |
wright. Mr. Cartwright was a life !
member of the California Society OF !
Pioneers.
1t was 1887 before the Grand Lodge |
of California sent an official to visit |
No. 81. The banquet on the occasion !
was honored by the presnce of the |
late King Kalakaua, he having been |
a Mason. The inspector said that for |
81 years Hawaiian Lodge had been |
completely left to itself, life waif in |
mid-ocean, to sink or swim, survive or !
perish-a lone light-ship of Free Ma !
sonry. l was pleased to find the Lodge |
out of debt From its location it has /
frequent calls for charity and L learn |
that a needy brother has never gone |
from its doors.
In this part of the series are pic !
lures of the Masonic Temple at the |
corner of Hotel and Alakea, showing |
both exterior and interior.