The evening times., 1899-10-11

The officers of the Supreme Council, A.
A. S. r. Masons. for the southern juris-
dicticn of the United States of America,
are beginning to arrive in this city to
attend the biennial session of the council.
which viii commence next Monday at II
o'clock The session will be held in the
renovated Supreme Council building at
Third and z streets northwest This build
ing Is now one OF the handsomest of its
kind in the country. The additions that
have been made TO it have increased it in
size TO sixty-eight feet on Street and liz
feet on Third Street. Its appointments are
excellent. being thoroughly equipped with
steam heat. electric light, and improved
ventilation.
The basement of the building provides
an enormous banquet room, serving
room and a kitchen, and a bank vault for
the safe keeping of books and papers. The
furnace is also located there. On the flrst
floor are the secretary generals office and
the library room, In which there are up
wards of rocco volumes, some OF which
are very rare. The second floor Is used for
a museum and committee rooms. These
are richly furnished, and each one has
bath room attached which is eompiete in
its appointments.
The furnishings are antique oak. The
floors are covered with rich rugs. The
memorial room is also on this floor. This
apartment derives its name from the fact
that two sovereign commanders. Pike and
Bachelor, died in it. A third, Mr.. Tucker.
died in room on the third floor, and all
expired within three years.
On the third floor is the old concert
chamber, now used as a committee room,
and the new one. This new council cham
bsr is beautiful. 1t is forty by seventy
feet in dimensions, has spacious organ
loft elegantly arranged over the entrance.
and directly opposite raised dais for the
presiding official. Splendid stained glass
windows light the room from the roof in
the day and at night hundreds of electric
lights artisticaIly arranged about the cell
ing and the walls illuminate it. The car
pet and furnishings are of heavy, rich red
material The room is said to be the finest
Of its kind in the country. Its beauty Will
| be greatly enhanced when the frescoeing
| is finished and all of the decorations are
completed.
The Supreme Council is composed Of the
active" members and its officers OF the
Living" members, OF which there are
twenty-five. all OF whom will be present
next Monday. They are:
Thomas II. Caswell. of California, grand
sovereign commander; Hon James ID.
Richardson, of Tennessee, lieutenant grand
commander; Erasmus I. Carr, OF Montana,
grand prior; Samuel E Adams, of Mime
sofa, grand chancellor; Martin Collins, OF
! Missouri, grand minister OF state; Fred
erick Webber, of Kentucky, grand secre-
| tary general; Gilmor Meredith, of Mary
land, grand treasurer general; R, J. Mum,
of Georgia, grand almoner: Samuel NJ.
Todd, of Louisiana, grand auditor; Rufus
E. Fleming, OF North Dakota, grand con-
| stable; b. r. Sherman. of Iowa, grand
chamberlain; James r. Hayden. OF Wash
| ington State, second grand equerry; A. l..
Fitzgerald of Nevada, grand standard
bearer: w Frank Pierce, grand sword
bearer; Hon. Henry NJ. Teller, of Colo
rado, grand herald.
| The sovereign grand inspectors general
| are as follows: 7. S. Parvin, of Iowa:
John T. Mayer, of Virginia; George F..
| Moore. of Alabama; Frank NJ. Foote, of
| Wyoming; l. w. Pratt, of Oregon; A. b.
| Chamberlain, of Texas; J. w. Cortland, Of
| North Carolina.
| So far as is at present known nothing
! but routine business will be transacted by
the Supreme Council. Those members who
have already arrived are now engaged in
preparing reports Of committees, so that
| they will be ready next Monday for ac-
tion. One of the reports will state that
| the monument TO be erected TO the MEM
| ory of Albert Pike, at Third Street and
Indianan Avenue, is rapidly nearing CON-
pietion. The foundation has been laid, and
| the statue will at an early date be sent
| from Italy. The statue will have a bronze
figure twelve feet high Of Pike in bronze,
and an aIlegorical fgue, also in bronze.
| that will represent the order. Together
with the pedestal. the whole will be thirty
| feet high. 7'I"
Other reports that are ready to be sub
mitted show satisfactory condition of the
order 1t has no debts, and has cash
balance in bank, and owns the property
il occupies.