The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1902-04-30
A Masonic JUBLEETTHE CASE OF OSANMONEY IN OK0LFHA0
LODGE TO HOLD A
CELEBRATION.
Musical Program and Addresses win
Fill Out the Evening Of May 8 at
the Temple

The jubilee celebration of the Ha-
Waiian Lodge, No. p, of Free and Ac-
cepted MasOns will be held on Monday.
May o, in the lodge room at the Mason
ic Temple at 8 o'clock. The program
has not been entirely arranged, but an
attempt is being made to get a musi-
cal program with which to intersperse
the speech making. The opening
speech will be made by w. f. Allen
aud after some musical numbers an
historical address will be given by
John A. Hassinger
The address by Mr.. Hassinger is be-
ing looked forward to with a great deal
of interest and will be preserved among
the archives of the lodge as a record
OF the progress Of Masonry on these ISL
ands since its incipiency in 1S43, to the
present time. After this address and
the remainder of the musical program
refreshments will be served to those
present, consisting of Masons and
their families
The address of Mr.. Hassinger, while
IL will take only forty minutes to de-
hVer has taken a great deal of re-
search in it's preparation Much has
been left out perforCe that might prove
interesting. In the early days of mas
Onry, according to the data unearthed
by Mr.. Hassinger, the initiative in the
ands was taken by the captain of a
French whaling vessel, the Ajax, ten
months out from France. The captain
was named Letellier and bore with him
dispensatiOn to create lodges granted
him in 1912. The Whaler came to Ho-
nOlulu in March 1S43. The name of the
ship was obtained through David Day
ton who furnished a copy of the TEN
peranCe Advocate and Heaman's
Friend" afterwards merged into the
Friend" of that year. Lettellier, with
H. Sea, once Hawaiian marshal, Cap
tain Meek and others formed a lodge
according to the Scottish Rites, the
original lodge of LIE Progress. Trouble
was experienced in getting the charter
from Europe, the original and even the
second one being lost en- route. When
the gold fever struck California the
members of the lodge, who had been
holding meetings in an informal and
desultory sort of a way, scattered and
not enough members were left to form
a lodge which dropped into desuCtude.
In 1851 the desire for masonry being
active in the original members and
others, a dispensation was gained from
the Grand Lodge of California, then
just started, and a second and this
timG permanent attempt to found the
order made in Hawaii. In 1852, fifty
years ago, the first celebration was
held on the hundredth anniversary, Gu
riOusly enough, of the initiation of
George Washington into the order A
procession was formed with a brass
band and paraded the then few streets
OF the town, finally stopping on the
corner Of Bethel and King streets
where the Rev. LOrrin Andrews deliv-
cred an inaugural address.
Some four years later, the LIE Pro-
gres lodge finally received their char
ter and were recognized as a masonic
order by the Hawaiian Lodge. Many
OF the original members who had be-
come affiliated with the Hawaiian
Lodge Identified and returned to the
lodge which they had helped to form
These with many interesting features
of names, dates and episodes of the
half cycle surrounding Hawaiian mas
onry viii be brought out in Mr. Hassin-
gers address. Banquets and speeches
OF by-gOne celebrations through days
of royalty, republicanism and territor-
ial progress will be brought to light
refreshing dormant memories of the
older masons and enHghtening the
younger members.