The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1902-01-24

5g AWAIIAN LODGE No 81, F.
/ 4 & A NJ, gladdered the heart
of Franklin II. Day. the venera-
BILE secretary of the California Chapter
in San Francisco, by presenting him
with a silver loving cup. and sending
him a letter filled with expressions of
good will The cup was exhibited and
the letter read at the installation OF
the new officers of California Chapter
No. ). r. A. NJ, on January 9, in the
presence of about 800 members of the
Royal Arch degree. The account of the
installation, together With the banquet
which followed. is taken from a. San
Francisco exchange, as follows:
sumptuous supper was then serv-
ed in the banquet hall, where covers
were laid for three hundred. There
We're no set toasts. but the high priest
John Bennett, who presided. called on
many of those present for remarks APP
propriate to the occasion. After the
cafe noir Franklin Fl. Day presented
10 the gaze of those present a large
silver loving cup. with handles of
deer's prongs. The cup was sent to
him with the following letter on his
seventy-fifth birthday;
Honolulu, Territory of Hawaii
Franklin H. Day, San Francisco, Cal.
Dear Sir and Brother-Tha under
signed members of Hawaiian Lodge
No. 81. F. & A. M, duly appreciating
your generous devotion to the best in
terests of the lodge as it's honored rep
reSentatiye near the most worShipful
Grand Lodge of California, and your
untiring efforts to practically illustrate
to it's individual members when visit
ing San Francisco the true import OF
Masonic fraternal regard, now ask YOU
to accept from them as a token of sucn
appreciation this loving cup, which
they have selected as, in their judg
ment the most fitting symbol to con-
vey to you the sentiments they wou,d
express. And they trust you may long
retain this token as an evidence of
their unfailing regard. The cup SYM
bolizes the genial good fellowship
which should ever attend the brethren
in their hours of refreshment and of
which good-fellowship you have eyer
been an earnest and willing contriDu-
tor: the pure silver from which 1t is
fashioned is typical of pure and disin-
friendship for which you have
made US deeply your debtor: its gem
erous measure betokens that generous
heart from which flows so often I'M
stinted measure of the milk. yea, the
very wine of human kindness, and its
that we are bound to you by
the three fold tie of genial companion
ship. high esteem and brotherly love.
We approach with some diffidence
reference to the material from which
these handles are composed. We know
that for you they will never suggest
the horns of a dilemma, but we have
faith to believe that they Will repre-
sent TO you something more 'endeering.
and we trust that you will find them
firm supporters when from the cup it
self you and those you love best would
Juaff the horn of joy.
The letter is signed by the officers
and eighteen members of the lodge.
Day stated after the cup had been
admired. that he proposed to break
through the time honored Masonic law
that prohibits initiation, passing and |
,aising at one session, for he filed the |
up with wine, thus Initiating the !
goblet that never had anything in it !
before, had it passed from one com !
oanion to the other with the request |
hat he raise it 10 his lips. This ,
play on ceremony of the fraternity |
vas we'll received and loudly applaud /,