Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-07-05
REMARKABLE
GEN. PIKE EXPLORER, TEACHER
SOLDIER, POET, LAWYER.
His Monument VIII Occupy q Promi-
/nent Place in the National
Capital.

Wherever the rites of Masonry are hon.
ored and observed the memory of Albert
Pike is cherished and revered. And no less
deeply and sincerely are these sentiments
entertained by those other than Masons
who knew him as a man and as a friend
whose mind and charity were alike broad
and tolerant. Great interest is being natu-
rally taken, therefore, in the statue of the
soldier, explorer, poet, editor and lawyer
which is in course of erection in the reser-
walton at the conjunction of Sd and D
streets and Indiana avenue northwest. The
corner stone, which was laid yesterday with
simple ceremonies, conducted by the An
Client and Accepted Order of Scottish Rite
Masons, was made the receptacle Of a
parchment which read and was signed as
follows:
WASHINGTON, D. c., July 4, 1900.
1--WE have this day placed the corner stone
of the monument to Gen. Albert Pike, late
grand commander of the Supreme Council
of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite
of Free Masons for the Southern Masonic
Jurisdiction of the United States of Amer
lea.
1.-The monument is erected by the SUI
preme Council of the said rite after the de-
signs prepared by Sculptor G. Trentanove.
"tSigned): George w. Baloch, ]. L.
Goldschmidt, Aaron Baldwin, Halvor Nell
son, Frederick Stabler, J. c. Taylor, Alfred
M. Lambeth, Martin o'Connor, James H.
Trlmble, William o. Roome. Mrs. Lillian
Pike Roome, a daughter of Gen Pike;
Isaac P. Noyes, William R. Singleton, Col.
Thomas A: Bingham, Col. R. l. Fleming,
:: n. Walker James Lansburgh, T. W.
Corder, Z. c. Duncanson, George H.
Walker, w. L. Bogden w. H. Stearnes.
Henry F. Blount, Stilson Hutchins, Henry
Franc Frank II. Hosford w. L. Crounse
and j. Roy Adams.
Description of the Monument,
The monument, which will be most i'm
posing and which is the work of Trenta-
move, the sculptor. has already arrived
In about six weeks, and the unwilling,
which will be conducted with great cere.
mony, will most likely occur next May.
Inc pedestal is of red granite from Lake
graceful female figure representing Mason
ry, with the star on her forehead symbolic
OF the spread of the light of Masonry
throughout the world. She holds aloft the
banner of the Scottish Rite. The figure of
Gen. Pike is of bronze, cast in one piece at
Florence, Italy.
A Busy and EventfuI Life.
The career of Gen. Albert Pike was a re-
markable one. Born in Boston in 1909, he
became principal of the Newburyport gram
mar school after taking partial course at
Harvard.
In March, 1881, he set out for the par
tally explored regions of the west, going
by stage to Cincinnati, by river to Nashville
and thence on foot to Paducah. He reached
the Mississippi by floating in a keel boat
down the Ohio, and in August accompanied
a caravan of ten wagons and forty men
from St. Louis to Sante Fe, being compelled
to make 800 miles Of the way on foot by
reason OF his horse running off in storm.
After spending couple of years exploring
the far western wilds he went to Fort
Smith. Ark, and in 1888 began his former
vocation Of teaching, and became associate
editor of the Arkansas Advocate, which he
purchased in 1884.
Two years later he disposed of the Ad-
vocate to begin the practice Of law, which
he had studied during his editorial career
In 1889 he contributed to Blackwood's
Magazine the unique productions entitled
Hymns of the Gods which he had writ
ten in New England several years before,
and at once was given high place among
American poets. As a lawyer he attained
high reputation in the southwest, but still
paid much attention to literature.
He commanded a squadron in an Arkan-
sas regiment during the Mexican war, and
was in many engagements, including Buena
Vista. When the civil war broke out he
became confederate commissioner to
treat with the Indians, and being made a
brigadier general organized bodies of In
dams and led them in the battles of Pea
Ridge and Elkhorn.
He resumed his law practice in 1866 at
Memphis. and a year later became editor
of the Memphis Appeal Disposing Of his
interests there in 1868 he removed to this
city, where he practiced his profession in
the Supreme and District courts until he
retired in 1889 to devote his sole attention
to literature and Freemasonry. His works
include Prose Sketches and POEMS"
'Nugal.'' a collection of poems. including
Hymns to the Gods" two other similar
collections, Reports of Cases in the Su-
preme Court of Arkansas in five volumes,
y1yb ha mod for his aor11y a
hundred volumes Of ritualistic and other
works. 10