The age-herald., 1900-12-27
Notable Event Begins Under Fa-
 vOrabIe Auspices
BEAUTIFUL WORK OF ORDER
Degrees Communicated to Large Classes With Impressive Ritualis- tic Ceremonies-WiII Continue
 Today and Tomorrow.

Masons under the auspices of the Birming- ham bodies began in Masonic Hall yes- terday, and it promises to be notable in many respects. Many visiting members of the order reached the city by early trains and others arrived in the evening. George Fleming Moore of Montgomery, sovereign grand inspector general for Alabama, came up the accommodation train, reaching here about quarter to D. m.
 Birmingham Lodge of Perfection No. 2 was opened at 10 a. m., Venerable Master H. B. Wheelock in the east. After the ballots were taken the degrees from the fourth to the thirteenth inclusive were communicated on class of ten candidates. At noon the lodge was called off for lunch and at o'clock it was called on again for work in the fourteenth degree, styled Per feet Flu and in the old ritual Sublime Ma son. With Dr. J. H. Phillips. deputy in- spector general for Northern Alabama, in the east, Bertram Jacobs in the west and the venerable master acting as master of ceremonies. the impressive rites were ad- ministered in splendid style. Masons who had witnessed the Lodge of Perfection ceremonial in Cincinnati, Chicago and other large cities said that they had never seen finer work than that performed by Dr. Phillips.
 The Fourteenth Degree.
 The fourteenth degree ceremonies are sometimes shortened to an hour and thfee- quarters to two hours, but Dr. Phillips gave the work in It's full form, and 1t was o'clock when the candidates were invest ed with the concluding mysteries.
 All the degrees Of the lodge are peculiarly religious, but the fourteenth is considered as more profoundly religious than any pre- ceding it, and the significance of the name 'Ineffable" is readily apprehended by the adopts.
 The list of candidates who were advanced to the dignity of Perfect Elus follows Culpepper Exum. s. B. Claypool, T. H. Thomas, G. Chisholm, G. w Morgan and Henry Hidden of Birmingham. J. H. Cook of Montgomery and Vim. H. Monk, Max Michaels and J. L. Honeycutt of Mobile
 The Eighteenth Degree.
 A few minutes after the lodge had closed Birmingham Chapter No. 2, Knights Rose Croix, eighteenth degree, was assembled and the degrees from the fifteenth to the seventeenth inclusive were communicated to a class of twelve aspirants composed of the ten who were invested with the lodge degrees yesterday, and George A. Blinn and Louis Saks, who had previously at tained the fourteenth degree. And last night ats o'clock Dr. Morris Newfeld conferred in full form and in a most sol- emn and beautiful manner the eighteenth degree. His work was perhaps never sur- passed in any Southern State. There was fitting music during the afternoon and ev- ening under the direction of MT. Gucken- berger.
 The officers of the chapter are: M New field, wise master; Ben M. Jacobs, sen- for warden; Newton N. Polk, junier warden; H. M. Austin, secretary; A. B. Loveman, almoner; Leo. Loeb, assistant ex- pert; H. w. Westcott. orator; H. B. Vince lock, treasurer; H. G. Farrar, expert; Wal ter Howard, master of ceremonies; R. Mall lory, guardian of the temple; Paul Calame, tyler.