Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-04-16
THE MASONIC FAIR
Another Big Crowd in At
tendance Last Night.
GRAND OFFICERS VISIT
THEY GO ESCORTED BY SEVERAL
BLUE LODGES.
Big Business Done at All the Booths
More Donations From President
and Mrs. Roosevelt.
OFFICERS VISIT

Equal in size and enthusiasm to that of
the opening night was the crowd that at
tended the big Masonic fair in Convention
Hall last evening. The booths, the dancing
palace and other places of amusement about
the auditorium and annex were well pa
tronized, and a goodly amount of sheckels
was added to the fund for the new temple
Yesterday was pay day among the employees
of the government, and many crisp, new
treasury notes found their way into the ex-
chequer of the fair association.
A pleasing feature Of the evening was the
visitation Of the officers of the Grand Lodge
of the District of Columbia and members of
half of the blue lodges of the District. The
latter escorted the officers of the Grand
Lodge. A procession was formed at 10th
and G streets and the line of march was to
Pennsylvania avenue, to 9Th street. to h
street and to the south entrance Of Con-
Vention Hall.
Headed by the Old Guard Band the pro-
cession moved within the hall. The lodges
that participated were Federal, No. 1; Co
lumbia, No. 3; Naval, No a; Potomac, No.
10; ST. Johns, No. IL: Washington Centen-
NAL, No. Ia; Benjamin B. French, No. 10;
| George c. Whiting, No %, and Osiris, No.
| 26.
Visitors Welcomed.
When the balcony was reached Chairman
| Samuel c. Palmer Of the visitors committee
| made a brief speech Of welcome to the Wis
! iting lodges and Mr.. George H. Walker.
| deputy grand master, made a feeling re-
| Spouse. The crowd below was too busy
| having good time to give earnest atten-
| ton to what was going on, and the visitors
| themselves were too anxious to ming1e with
| the crowd to enjoy formalities Of any
| length.
When Mr.. Walker completed his remarks
| there was an exodus for the places of
! amusement. The visitors brought with
| them liberal supply of the needful, and
| they were not slow in transferring it to
| the Golfers of the places conducted by ,.ieir
| respective lodges.
| The crowd throughout orderly one
and the hundred or more raw recruits who
have been made special policemen by Major
Sylvester had little to do other than to look
on and enjoy themselves.
President Roosevelt, who is a member of
the Masonic fraternity, has displayed more
than ordinary interest in the success of the
fair, although press Of business at the
White House has thus far prevented his
attendance. Late yesterday afternoon Di-
rector General Stamford received pack
age from the White House containing a
complete set of President Roosevelts liter
airy works, and each volume containing the
autograph of the distinguished author.
A letter congratulating the officers Of the
tending the wish that the fair may be q
success accompanied the package. Mrs.
Roosevelt also further evidenced her inter-
est in the big show by sending last evening
to Esther Chapter, Order of the Eastern
Star, large box of cut flowers from the
White House conservatory. Among the
flowers We're hyacinths, carnations and
many other blooms that are rare at this
time of the year.-The demand soon eX-
hausted the supply and melted a handsome
revenue.
The pillow donated by Mrs. Roosevelt on
the opening night of the fair has been
placed on exhibition in the director gen.
erals booth. The pillow and the books do
mated by the President inc1osed in a
glass case. Tickets are to be sold at a
comparatively low price, and the person
who gets the ticket bearing the lucky num-
Der will become the possessor of these
handsome prizes.
The Mystic Table.
A feature that is attracting more than
binary interest and patronage at the fair
is the mystic table, operated by members of
King Davids Lodge, No. %. They have
taken this manner of disposing of tickets
for the building lot, which will go to the
holder of the lucky number at the close Of
the show. The lot is valued at $500, and It
is understood that the donor has offered to
redeem it at that figure if the winner pre-
fers the money.
The table is of green baize covering and
is suggestive of the real thing in typical
western gambling resort golden ball and
five paddles complete the outfit. When the
paddles disposed of the ball begins roll
ing about the table in lively manner and
finally settles down in one of the five
tons numbered correspondingly with the
paddles. One of the five holders receives
for 10 cents a ticket which gives him a
chance Of being made the owner Of the
building lot. From the time the doors were
opened until midnight the mystic table was
kept busy.
tIa tfront tive hnn he ft,a
fair is that of National Lodge, No. II. The
collection of merchandise that is offered
for sale here includes silverware, laces, table
napery, embroiderieS candy and thousand
and one other things. The cash register is
in charge of Harry Kronheimer, and among
the helpers at the booth Mrs. J. F. Glib
Mrs e. w. Kessler Mrs. w. NJ Cleland,
Mrs. G. Taylor Wade, Mrs. Ada q.
Payne, Mrs. R. C. Lewis, Mrs. Eggleston,
Mrs. F. L. Thompson. Mrs. F. E. Ghiselli
Vaughan. Mrs. F: Reiner, Mrs: A. F: Fer
guson Mrs U. w. Smith. Mrs. Charles
Brown, Mrs. Minnie James, Mrs D. Sands
Smith, Mrs. P. W. Buddecke, Mrs; T. H
ter, Mrs. James T. Higgins, Mrs. Hatley,
Mrs. Huston, Mrs. j. l.. Harper, Miss Jen-
ME V. Kerr, Miss Ella Thompson, Miss Ella
Koontz Miss M. E. Beard Miss L. Reiner,
Miss Flora Ballard, Miss Love Ferguson,
Miss Annie Mattern Miss Mary Zeiler, Miss
Day. Miss E. Cohn. Miss Laura Paxton,
Miss NJ. Carpenter, MISS Il. carpenter, Miss
Ethel Saffold, Miss NJ Reeves, Miss Budd
and Miss A. Kines.
Columbia Commandery, among the null
titudinous other things that offered for
sale at it's booth. will give away an auto
mobile to the person who buys a ticket
holding the lucky number. Already large
number of tickets have been disposed Of.
A piano, gold watch. bicycle, piano and
piano player aresalso Included in the large
assortment to be dispensed by chance, as
are also two fine libraries of 800 volumes
each, the latter Of which will go to the
most popular police precinct and fire COM
pany, respectively.
The ladies of New Jerusalem Lodge are