The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-12-02
TO INDORSE STATUE
SPECIAL COMMITTEE OF SCOTTISH
RITES MAsONS MAKE REPORT.
PANELS OF STATUE PRESENT
WASHINGTON AS A MASON. FIRE
MAN, FARMER AND SURVEYOR.

| Request for Endorsement Made to
Southern Jurisdiction of 3Srd De-
gree Scottish Rite MasOns and by
Them Referred to Special Commit
tee-Dr. II. j. Num- Chairman of
the mmittee-Substance of Re-
port IndOrsing the Request of
City of Alexandria.
The special committee appointed from
the Supreme Council of the Ancient
| and Accepted Scottish Rite Masons of
the Thirty-third Degree for the South
ern jurisdiction, has indorsed the re-
quest of the citizens of Alexandria,
Va, to erect a statue to Gen. George
Washington. The matter has been
pending for some time. and the news
of the action of the special committee
will be eagerly received by all Masons,
Scottish Rite and otherwise.
The request of the Alexandrians was
to erect u statue to Washington as a
citizen, with panels on the four sides
representing him as a Mason, a fire.
Supreme Council of the Thirty third
degree, Ancient and Accepted Scottish
Rite Masons, was asked to indorse the
project. The matter was presented to
a consstorial session of the Southern
jurisdiction. and on motion, was re-
ferred to a special committee, of which
DR.. R. j. Mum of this city was made
chairman.
The following from the report of the
special committee to the Southern jul
risdlction will be read with interest by
all Masons in Georgia:
'The Special Committee to which was
referred the communication of Alex
j. Wedderburn, secretary of the Wash
ington Monument Association of Alex
andria Va. an association having for
its object the erection in the city of
Alexandria Of "a monument to Wash
ington as a citizen with panels on the
four sides, commemorating him as a
Mason, a fireman, a farmer and a
surveyor begs leave to report as fol-
lows:
Art creations without number per-
petuate the memory of Washington,
the soldier, and of Washington the
statesman; the glamor of war and the
witchery of statecraft have overshad-
owed his more homely but no less val
liable qualities, and citizen Washington
has received but scant attention at the
hands of the designer and the artist.
Tribute to Alexandria.
There is a peculiar charm in the
TACT that from Alexandria comes the
first proposition to commemorate the
civic virtues of Washington; from
Alexandria so intimately connected
with his daily life: from Alexandria
which has suffered most from the ster-
ling honesty, the high sense of honor,
which prompted every action of Wash
ington, from Alexandria which would
to-day contain the Capitol of the ma
ton except for the innate modesty''
and honesty "of Washington, who eX-
pressly stipulates that none of the pub
lie buildings should be erected on the
Virginia side of the Potomac, for the
reason that if they Were it might en-
nance the value of his own estate and
that of his wifes children and grand
children" from Alexandria, where
every blade of grass growing in her
streets is a living witness of Washing
toms incorruptible integrity, and every
crumbling house a monument of his
sterling honesty: yet Alexandria, the
martyr city of America, the patient un-
complaining sufferer. Alexandria, ex-
hibits in her misfortune the same gran
dur of character which has been so
marked a feature in Virginias many
famous sons, and shows her apprecia-
ton of the purity of motive which ever
actuated Washington, when turning to
him. to, Washington the author of all
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Resolutions of Committee.
with Washington, the soldier, Free
Masonry has nothing to do. With
Washington the statesman. Free-ma-
sorry has little in common; but upon
Washington, as man, an honest, hon.
orable, heightened man, a gentleman, a
Mason; Free-n1asonry would lavish
every honor in her power to bestow
and freely and willingly lays them at
his feet. therefore, be it resolved:
THAT this Supreme Council receives
with great satisfaction the intelligence
that the people of Alexandria are about
to erect "A monument to Washington
as a citizen" and accord to that pro-
ject it's warmest and heartiest indorse-
ment.
Resolved, That a monument to
Washington as a Free Mason should
enlist the warmest sympathy and the
heartiest Endorsement of the craft: for
which reason this Supreme Council es-
pecially commends this enterprise. and
would engage for it the active support
of the Masonic fraternity everywhere.
Resolved, That a copy of this pre-
amble and these resolutions be trans
mitted to Alexander J. Wedderburn,
secretary Of the Washington Monu-
ment Association of Alexandra, Va"