Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-08-29

Chancellor Commander, Franklin Lodge, No. 2,
His efforts thus far, with the hearty CO.
operation of the other officers and mem
bers have already shown results in an in
creased membership of forty in the lodge.
The financial condition of the lodge is also
greatly improved
Franklin Lodge was instituted April IL,
1864, being the second lodge of the order
instituted and now the oldest one in ex
istence, Washington Lodge, No. 1, having
become defunct and it's members uniting
with Franklin. This lodge has had on
It's rolls many notable members, among
them Justice H. Rathbone, the founder
of the order.
On Thursday night Franklin Lodge con-
ferred the third rank in amplified form.
Grand Marshal ]. B. Cockrum, who will
have charge of the Odd Fellows grand
parade at the session of the Sovereign
Grand Lodge, is an Indianian. He was
born September u. 1857. at Oakland City,
Gibson county. At the age Of twenty-one
he graduated from the Cincinnati Law
School and located at Boonville, Ind, in the
practice of the law. At that place he was
Initiated into Hebron Lodge, No. IA. 1. o.
o. F., at the age of twenty-three. and ia
still member of his parent lodge In 1889
he was appointed assistant to the United
States district attorney for the district of
Indiana, and removed to Indianapolis,
where he has since resided He served four
years in the United States attorneys Office,
and afterWard became assistant general
counsel of the Lake Erie and Western Rail-
road Company, and subsequently was ap-
pointed general counsel of the company,
which position he now holds. He was ap-
pointed grand marshal of the Sovereign
Grand Lodge by Grand Sire Pinkerton In
1893 and reappointed by Grand Sire Cable
in 1900, and also reappointed by Grand Sire
Goodwin in 1902 His term of Office will
expire at the session of 1904. In addition to
being an Odd Fellow he has received all the
degrees Of Masonry, is a member of the
Mystic Shrine, and also member of the
knights of Pythias and the Elks.
1t is believed by the Baltimore executive
committee of the Odd Fellows that the at
tendance of people from the counties of
Maryland and Virginia and the District of
Columbia will be vastly greater than at the
Elks' convention, owing to the larger dis
tributon of the Odd Fellows throughout
the country districts, and also to the sea-
son of the year when country people are
likely to combine business and pleasure I'm
the city. There are in Maryland 1874 subor-
dinate lodges and 16 Rebekah lodges, of
the state.
Past Grand Sire Alfred S. Pinkerton of
Massachusetts is to deliver an address at
September 20. He will come to Baltimore
by special train f.
L. D. Carman writes The Evening Star
that he read with interest the account of
''Hon. Mrs. Aldworth'' in this department
last Saturday. He adds: Hon. Mrs. Aid
worth was, however not the only woman
Mason. Another was a Mrs Beaton of
Norfolk England. She was commonly
called the Freemason,' having acqu red the
secrets OF the order by concealing herself
one evening in the Wainscoting of a lodge
room. She was very Singular character
never divulged the secrets of the order
and died in July, 1902. aged eighty-fiye
While recognized as Mason, there Is no
evidence that she ever had a degree for
mally con erred upon her. This honor WIS
reserved for Madame de Xaintra lies. a
lady who was initiated into Masonry by
the lodge of Freres-Artstes at Paris about
the close of the eighteenth century. Cuve-
Her de-Trie was the master of this lodge
and was about to open fete of adoption
"a lodge for female Masonry and initiate
candidates. Previous to this, however a
regular lodge of Ancient Masonry was
opened in the first degree. Among the Wis
itors who waited in the ante-chamber for
admission was a youthful officer in the uni
form of a captain Of cavalry. His diploma
was requested of him that it might be in
spected before he visited the lodge, when,
after some hesitation, he produced q folded
paper, which turned out to be the commits
sion of an aid-de-camp granted by the
directory to the wife Of Gen. de Xaintrail-