The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1898-05-13
Hawaiian LODGE No. q Figures
in History.
HALF A CENTURY OF MASONRY
Organization Here Under Califor-
Mas Grand Lodge-First Meet
ing-TempIe Pictures.

Parts 4, 5, 6, Z 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 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 colors. The
edition would prove an ornament to
any library. 1t is presumed that quite
a number of the Masons of this place
are securing the work.
Part 6 of Fifty Years of Masonry
in California" is of especial interest
10 the local Mystic Tie men. 1t tells
of Hawaiian Lodge No. q, 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. q is set down as hav-
ing held its first regular meeting on
Thursday evening, February 10, 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. ]. Cartwright. Petitions
were received from NJ 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. q now num-
bers 146 Master Masons on its 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 a grand
lodge Of their own. In all of these
forty-fiYe long years, Hawaiian No. q
has been bright star and lighthouse
of brotherly love, relief and truth in
mid-ocean. 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-
rem, awaiting to receive him with an
earnest and true aloha and to furnish
him poi either with or without
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 its own ashes after the vans
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 its existence
under peculiar difficulties and under
an unstable government. Under these
uncertainties and lack of permanent
government our Hawaiian brethren
have gone ahead in laying the founda-
lions of Masonry well, and have built
a temple of which they have 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. q. 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
"a years Hawaiian Lodge had been
completely left to itself, life waif in
mid-ocean, to sink or swim, survive or
PERSIA 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 | learn
that a needy brother has never gone
empty-handed 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.