The Washington bee., 1901-11-23
MONUMENT TO A MASON.
Achievement in Mem ory Of the Late
w. R. SINGLETON.

A movement has been set on foot
by the Masonic fraternity of this city
TO erect a monument at Oak Hill
Cemetery IN memory of the late
Grand Secretary of the Grand Lodge,
William R. Singleton.
A committee consisting of the follow
ing members of the Grand Lodge F.
A. A. NJ. of this city, has been ap-
pointed to collect funds for the exeCu-
| ton and erection of the monument:
Most Worshipful Master Harry Stand
ford, Grand Master; Past Grand
Masters George w. Baird, Matthew
TTimble, ana William @. Henderson,
and Past Grand Secretary {. w.
Hancock.
A plaster cast model Of the proposed
monument is on exhibitor at the Ma
sonic Temple, corner of Ninth ald F
streets northwest.
One OF the most prominent Free
MasonS in the world IS the IIlustrious
+. Webber 80 SeC'ty GenI for the
Southern Jurisdiction. I he Ill. Web
| Der has fine office al the House of
the Temple Z and 3rd. SITS. n. W, he
/ Is a courteous and magnanImOus Sir
Knight. The Southern Jurisdiction
of the II. II. ). Il. is the mother Su-
preme Council of the world, and the
most powerful of the Supreme COun-
/ ellis. After the enactment of the Con-
/ StitutiOn of 1886, the Supreme Coun-
/ Gil of which the III. Weber is the
present G.. 5. O. IL. Z. was formed in
! 1901, at Charlestown, S. c. the Grand
| Orient )fOr reasons of convenience.
The office is located at Wash. u. c.
The late Albert Pike 80, was the
/ Grand Commander; he was noted and
/ the most eminent Mason in the world.
| The A. A. S. X. for some reasons,
| has always been in state of Confu-
/ SlOn from the start 10 the present
! o day in this country there are at
least about Ave factions among the
whites, among the COlored seven, all
| claiming TO be the Senior pure article,
from a Masonic Historical standpoint,
the Pike Faction of which Ill. Web
| Der 80 is the Sec'ty Gen'l. is the legal
| and bORiJide faction. AS we have said
! from time TO time the Bee is well
! equipped in information appeTtaining
/ 10 all subjects, as we have said, we
/ should all be careful in throwing
/ stones when we are living IN glass
! houses. n. B. we mean to cut out the
word Bogus when we are talking aboL t
the various factions. A heap sees and
few knows, a heap hear and few COM
prehehd; in our travels we hear the
words bogus, spurious, illegal etc.
Relative to the article in the
Times last week about the colored
/ Masons in a parade and having
trouble with the police, we are sur
| prised TO know that Freemason' 8
wear green aprons, yet owing to the
numerous factions of ColOTed Masons
it is not to be wondered that the
white folks, class all organizations as
Free Masons, guess that the Cores
pondent of the Wash. Times who
prepared the article, must have been
color blind; for his information,
Masons wear white aprons; plain,
sometimes they have blue, purple and
red borders, we state this ia order
that there will be no furthur mistakes,
we presume from the description
that the organization was the Knights
Of Jerusalem or Good Samaritans or
! Fisherman, but we are satisfied that
| they were not Free MasonS. We
have the origin of the various factions
not only in this country, but the Old
world, and we know what we are
talking about whenever We print.