Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-03-19
AMONG THE
FRATERNITIES.

Grand Commander James D. Richardson
of the Supreme Council of the southern
jurisdiction, A A S. R., has arranged for
an official visitation of Scottish Rite Ma
sonic officers of high degree to four i'm
portant jurisdictions in the west. He viii
take as his guests eighteen prominent Scot
fish Rite workers of Washington, including
Secretary General Fred Weber, Admiral
w. S. Schley and Francis J. Woodman
The party will leave Washington May IA
1t will spend three days each with the Scot
fish Rite Masons of the following cities:
Little Rock, Ark; Guthrie. Okla. Wichita
Kan, and ST. Louis. Mo. The visit will be
one of the most important ever made by
any Scottish Rite sojourners from the cap
ital Work will be done on an elaborate
scale in each of the places visited. In one
city a class of 100 wal be initiated. The
trip is to be distinctly educational in char
acter. The work here has not been all
that the grand commander desires, and ne
hopes that it may be greatly improved by
the contact of Washington Scottish Rite
workers with the splendid degree teams OF
the Jurisdictions of the south and west.
Columbia Commandery, No :, knights
Templar, conferred the Red Cross last
evening. The conclave next Tuesday night
will bring the work of the Templar year to
an end. The records will then be turned
over to the finance committee for examina-
ton and report.
The general committee in charge of the
proposed summer Excursion and tournof
at Marshall Hall by Columbia Commandery
is doing good work. Plans have been pre-
pared to carry the project to success and
at the same time to make 1t one OF the
best affairs in the history of the command
cry. The date selected is Monday. June ~.
The following committee chairmen have
been named: Executive, ]. Harry Cunning
ham; reception, David H. Fenton; enter
tainment and prizes. Charles Long; athletic
contests, Samuel w. Stinemetz; printing
and tickets, Frank E. Gibson.
Former Representative Ferdinand BrickeI
of Saginaw, Mich, was buried in that
city with the honors of several of the
leading fraternal organizations. The re-
mains were borne to the church by mem
bers from st. Bernard Commandery, No
16, K. T., which was in charge of the obse-
quies. Salina Lodge. No. 1875, F. A. A. NJ.
was also present in body. A beautiful
tribute of respect was spoken by Rev. j.
Humphrey Fleming, pastor of the church
He pictured the boy and man from school
days to Congress, and his answering faith
and honesty of purpose. The commandery
conducted it's exercises at the grave with
the commitment services and the hymn.
Among the active bearers from the COM
randery was w. S. Linton, ex-represent-
ative in Congress. About the casket and
altar there was mdgnlNcenC O1Ier1nS Oi
flowers. The societies represented We're:
Lincoln Tent No 49, X. o. t. NJ. East
Saginaw Lodge, No. "a, A. o. L. w. For
esters; Salina Lodge, No. 1856, F. A. A. NJ.
and St. Bernard Conlmandery, No 49, X. I.
William Penn Westwood was initiated in
Liberty Lodge, No. g. K of p, of this city
July YJ, 1866, and was grand chancellor OF
the District of Columbia 1S67-1S6S. 1t was
during his term that the plan for organizing
a Supreme Lodge was conceived, and on May
Is, 1868, he called to order the convention
that met that day in Philadelphia, Pa,
for the purpose of taking up and con-
sidering the project Afterward. in recog-
milton of his services the Supreme Lodge
conferred upon him the title of past SUI
preme chancellor. He is still living and
ranks next to Edward Dunn, still of this
city, as the senior past supreme chancellor
of the world.
All the friends and acuuantaHces OF
that veteran Pythian. James Whitehouse
who since 1870 has been grand keeper OF
records and seal of Maryland will be
pleased to hear that the Pythian Castle
the purchase of and paying for which
has been his almost life work, was saved
from destruction in the terrible fire that
recently swept the business portion OF
Baltimore. 1t came up to the next block
but halted there.
The promoters of the proposed new com
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active. While the majority of the signers
to the petition come from one of the exist
ing communicates, all of them are repre-
scented in the list. 1t has been jocularIy
proposed to call the commandery
Carrie Nation, No. g., but "Carnation'
may be its name.
Petitions are being secured for a so-calIed
daylight" lodge of Masons for the benefit
of artists. actors and others, similar to q
celebrated constituent lodge in New Yorl
city.
mandery, No. L. X. r., conferred the
Order OF the Temple. The work was done
by the grand junior warden of the Grand
Encampment of the United States, Frank
H. Thomas, assisted by the past comman.
ders of Washington Commandery The Or.
der of Malta was also conferred in shoT,
form by Harrison Dingnan, past grand
commander. There was a large attend
ance of members of the fraternity. On the
same occasion Inspector General William
T. Galliher held the annual fuil-dress in
Spection and review.
Deputy Supreme Chancellor Shella-
berger of the knights of Pythias for the
Philippine Islands says: William Me-
Kinley Lodge continues to prosper and is
doing nicely. We have just had our cleo
ton of officers for the ensuing year, and
while i must say that the election was
spirited, II was conducted IN good humOf
and resulted in the selection of good men
Not popularity, but fitness, was what we
wanted and what we got
In addition to this Philippine deputy
there are four other deputy supreme
chancellors in distant or foreign lands. as
follows: % w. B. Fair, district deputy
supreme chancellor. X. p Obrapia 35
Havana, Cuba; CD III. T.. West, district
deputy supreme chancellor, X. p. Juneau
Alaska; go DR.. A. N. Sinclair, district
deputy supreme chancellor. Honolulu, H
L.. ca j. A. Mclean, district deputy SUI
preIne chancellor. Montreal Canada
The Pythian Tribune of Chicago. the law
journal of the fraternity. prints biography
oe the late Past Supreme Representative
George w. Heisley of this city. 1t is writ
ten by Past Supreme Representative Will
liam d. Kennedy. who. among other things
says. He was very faithful Pythian
and gave much of his time and effort fol
the benefit of the order He was a plain
man and transformations. but was constant