The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1902-04-10
BANQUET WILL
CLOSE REUNION
Members of Scottish Rite Will
Listen to 0ratory.
ELABORATE DEGREE WORK
Music Was a Feature of Yes
terday's Program.

The semi-annual reunion Of the An
eient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Free
masonry will close tonight with brill
liant banquet in the temple, at the
corner of Topeka avenue and First street.
Tables will be spread for 400 members Of
the Rite. The banquet viii be served
by the ladies of the wichita Hospital
association.
The decorations of the banquet hall
will be almost indescribable in their
beauty, for nothing that the decorators
art can do will be left undone.
Outing the banquet music will be
rendered by Blumes orchestra and be-
tween the toasts a male quartette VIII
render several beautiful selections and
S ". Cooper Will sing a solo.
The POSTMASTER will be o. H Bent
lev The toasts are as follows:
Address>of NVelcome-The Toastmaster.
Response for Visiting Brethren-Fred
Washburn of Anthony.
Response for the CASA Member Of
the Class.
Freemasons OF Kansas-Thomas z.
Dewey.
Ancient and Modern Masonry-Bestor
C. Brown OF Chicago.
Masonry, Morals and Society-Aibert
Watkins of Ellsworth.
The degree work yesterday was at
tended by a larger number OF specta-
tors than on the day previous. Especially
was this true of the work last night,
when 300 members of the Rite witnessed
the beautiful rites and listened to the
solemn music.
The work began yesterday morning
with the comforting of the seventeenth
degree or Knight of the East and West.
r~n- 1-far
rate and occupied the entire morning.
At o'clock yesterday afternoon the
degree of Knight of Rose Croix was con-
ferred under the direction of j. D.
Ritchey. most wise master; w. S. Woolf.
most excellent senior warden; T. c. VIII
son. most excellent Junior warden; Jacob
Wallenstein, most eloquent orator; r. E.
Bird. most worshipful master of cere-
monies.
Most excellent music was furnished, IN
der the direction of Henry Huffman,
by Miss Jetta Campbell, Mrs. Wilson, B.
3. Hull J. B. Shields and II. c. NIcClung.
The program was as follows:
Faith ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. Hull
Hone ......................... Mr. Hull
Charity .....................M Mr. Shields
Sacred Solo .........--.--..A1iss Campbeil
Long Kyrie ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS.
| TIE Deum new Mletzke
Introducing beautiful soprano solo.
and the original Gregorian chants.
Jubilate Dec .................. Dudley Buck
Gloria in EXcelsiS Dudley Buck
At 4 o'clock the first degree in the Coun-
ell of Knights Kodosh, or the nineteenth
degree, was conferred. The work in this
degree was most elaborate. as thirteen
people besides the spirits of good and
evil. the acolytes and oracles, took part
in the dramatic work. The music was
exceptionally fine.
At s o'clock last night brief musical
program was rendered. introducing all
the singers who are taking part In the
degree work, and Mrs. Young Of Abilene,
who sang a most beautiful solo. accom-
panied by Miss Augusta Dewey. The
program was. In part. as follows:
Spinning Wheel Song. from Martha.
The Sextette, from Lucia de Lammer-
NOR
Good Night Quartette, from the opera
Martha.
Miss Jetta Campbell also sang Divine
Redeemer' by Gounod.
Last night the twenty-frst degree was
conferred and the rest of the degrees up
to the thirtieth We're communicated. To-
day the thirtieth. thirty-first and thirty
/ second degrees will be conferred with
/ elaborate ceremonies.