The Washington times., 1901-10-23
HIGH MASOHS AT BANQUET
Members of the Royal Order of
Scotland Dine at the Willard.

The Presence of Flowers, Music, and
Fair Women Add to n Nemorabte
Occasion-Reprcsen Richard
son Elected Grand Comm, nder.
The Royal Order of Scotland b. nquet
held at the new Willard Hotel last night.
was an occasion to be remembered, not
alone as an assemblage of so many dis
tinguished men, but on account of the
surprising culinary excellence OF the
feast ITSELF which, together with the har
mony of the surroundings, proved graft
Tying in the extreme to all OF the senses.
The banquet began few minutes past
o'clock When. to the strains of a
stringed orchestra. the members OF the
Royal Order of Scotland. with wives and
daughters, numbering about 2e0 all in
evening dress, marched from the ball
room of the new Willard Hotel into the
banquet hal. The tables, brilliant under
three immense electric light chandeliers
with cut-glass and bright new silver
were arranged crossways, with the ex-
ception of one at right angles to these,
that extended the entire length of the
hall. The decorations were red. white.
and yellow-American Beauty roses and
white and yellow chrysanthemums. The
walls and carpet were of pale shade of
green. and huge palms. with a profusion
Of old-fashioned red-oak leaves banked
about their trunks. occupied several re-
cesses in the walls.
The han, designed especially for ban
quoting occasions, is on the tenth floor
OF the new hotel. and extends along the
entire Fourteenth Street side of the build
ing. The highest point Of the dome
shaped ceiling is thirty five fec; above the
floor. The ventilating arrangements are
of the most approved order, and the view
Of the lighted city through the colonial
squared windowpaHes is magnificent.
Adjoining the banquet hall is the ball
room, built after the exact pattern af
the banquet hall. and extending along the
entire Pennsylvania Avenue side OF the
building. The two rooms are connected
by large folding doors. The orchestra
room above overlooks both the ballroom
and banquet hall.
Last night was the first time the ban
quet hall has been used. The arrange
ments of the evening were under the di-
rect management of f. s Hight, manager
Of the new Willard Hotel, and who, for
the past four years, has been with the
WaldOrf-Astoria. The eight-course menu.
which included specialties in season and
out was as follows:
Chateau La Tour Blanche Huitres
Amontiado Pasado Tortue verte Claire
JOhannisbers Cabinet Fiet de King Fish
Sauce CTabes dhuitres salade
ConcombTes
Chateau La Rose Ris de veau. MoatebelIo
Aignons de Bouef ChampiSnOns FTais
Pommes Palestine Haricots Verts Panachees
Moet and Chandon white SeaD Asperges
Franchise, Holandaise
SOrbet Thistle
Pncoa siura RotiS f,sna,o slid -,s-.-
Paniers des Glaees Fantasies
White Rock Bon Bons Petits Fours
Liqueurs Fronage
Cigars Cafe
The menu card, most beautifully exc
cuted, contained on the exterior in silver
a representation of the star shaped en- ;
blem of the order set on an artisticalIy
arranged design of Scottish thistle. In /
side was printed the banquet menu and
list OF the officers of the order as follows:
Sir Josiah Hayden Drummone Pro- /
vincial Grand Master; Sir James Daniel
Richardson, Provincial Deputy Grand
Master; Sir William Oscar Rooine. Pro-
vincfal Grand Secretary; Sir Thomas ia
cob Shryock, Provincial Grand Treasurer:
Sir George Mayhem Moulton, Provincial
Senior Grand Warden; Sir Charles Henry
Fiske, Provincial Junior Grand Warden:
Sir Thomas Robert Morrow, Provincial
Grand Sword Bearer; Sir Freeman Clarke
Hersey. Provincial Grand Banner Bearer;
Sir David Burnham Tracy, Provincial
Grand Chaplain; Sir George Edgar Cor
son, Provincial First Grand MarischaI;
Sir John Hezekiah Olcott. Provincial Sec
ond Grand MarischaI; Sir Allison NaiIor,
jr., First Provincial Grand Steward; Sir
Walter Scott Hershman, Second Provin-
cial Grand Steward; Sir Charles CoItman
Duncanson. Third Provincial Grand Stew
ard; Sir Samuel Ellsworth OIer, Fourth
Provincial Grand Steward; Sir James
Hays Trinble, Provincial Grand Guarder.
AT the executive session of the Supreme
Council of the Southern Jurisdiction OF the
Scottish Rite Masons. held yesterday at
the House of the Temple, Third and E
Streets, the following officers were ap
pointed:
Grand Commander. Acting Grand Com
mander James Daniel Richardson. Of Ten
nessee; Lieutenant Grand Commander
Samuel E Adams. of Minnesota; Grand
chancellor Martin Collins, of st. Louis:
Grand Minister OF State, Rufus E. FIem-
Ing, of North Dakota.
The election of officers was followed by
the election of nearly 20 members of the
Court Of Honor. After this the council
took a recess for luncheon.
Representative Richardson has been
Acting Grand Commander since the death
of Ih.rlaS II. CarsWel of San Fra nciScO.
His election makes him the ranking
Mason of the world. taking precedence
over such noted MasCns as Edward VII of
England and President Diaz of Mexico.
I he position he has attained he will
hold for life. He will nave at his dispo-
sal alatialiy appointed dwelling, the I
House of the Temple, at Third and L
Streets northwest in which he may in
stall himself and his family for the re
mainder of his days. He falls htir to i (
generous salary; Wnen he travels far and
wide upon the many official missions pre-
i'm Erfll will vsHsI
without stipulation or limitation At the /
same time he viii be permitted To retain
his seat in Congress and draw the salary
aCcruing thcrefrOm.
Mr.. Richardson becomes the ranking
Mason of the world by virtue OF two facts
first that the Scottish Rite cInfers the
second, that he will preside over the
worlds oldest or mother Supreme Cuuu-
Ill OF that order. Thus he can claim Ma
sonic superiority over Edward VII. King |
If England, and President Diaz of Mex
co. respective Grand Patron and Grand !
Commander OF Scottish Rite Masons of
heir countries. As Sovereign Grand Com /
nauder, Representative Richardson viii |
draw "a Masonic salary of $1,000 "a year for
ife
Grand Commander Richardson was :
born in Rutherford county. Tenn. March :
70. 1873, received his early education in the
country schools and entered Franklin !
College, near Nashville. just prior to tie
civil war. Before graduation he entered |
he Confederate army in which ne served
our years, finally rising to the rank of
idjutant of the Forty-hfth Tennessee In
Tantry. At the close of the war he be- {
,an the study of law and after having s
been admitted to the bar. entered the po- e
itical arena. At the age OF twenty-eignt l
ears he was elected 10 the SpeakerShip / q
If the lower house of the Tennessee Leg
stature, and was elected TO the State
Senate the following year. 1875 "A
He was a delegate TO The St Louis
Convention in 1876, to the Chi
ago Democratic Convention in 1896, and