Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1905-07-18
Scottish Rite
Free Masonry
Promising Class Initial
ed by G. T. Brown of
Socorro in Santa Fe
Saturday.

Last Saturday was an important
day In the history Of Scottish Rite
Freemasonary In New Mexico. says
the New Mexican, All day G. T.,
Brown. mining engineer and mines
maager Of Socorro. who Is an honor
able inspector general Of the Thirty.
third degree In that rite. was busy
communicating the degrees from the
fourth to the fourteeth. inclusive. up.
on seven aspirants. who, by this work.
lecame mmebers OF the Santa Fe
lodge Of Perfection. No. /, fourteenth
degree, located In this city. He was
assisted by J. w. Sullivan, thirty-sec.
ond. who Is superintendent of the
coal fields of the New Mexico Fuel
and Iron company at Hagan. The
seven aspirants who received the de.
grees are: Richard Henry Hanna.
Arthur Seligman, Charles Arvin
Wheelon, Henry Fairfax Stevens.
Percy Francis Knight and Samuel
Wesley Marshall. all of Santa Fe, and
John Wesley Mays of Torrance, n.
VI.
IN the evening regular commuica-
ton OF Santa Fe lodge of Perfection,
No. l, fourteenth degree, AA. S. r.,
was held in the Masonic temple. and
under a dispensation and authority
granted by Col Max Frost, thirty.sec.
ond, deputy of the supreme council
OF the rite for New Mexico. officers
for the ensuing Masonic term were
elected and installed by Hon. Inspector
General c. r. Brown. thirty-second. as
follows: Venerable master, Charles
Franklin Easley, thirty.second, Santa
Fe; senior warden, James Gurdon
Fitch, thirty-second, Socorro; junior
warden, Henry Fairfax Stevens, four
teenth, Santa Fe: secretary. Percy
Francis knight, fourteenth. Santa Fe;
treasurer, Maximillian Frost, thirty.
second. Santa Fe; orator. John VIII
liam Sullivan, thirty-seeond. Hagan;
almoner, Abraham Fillmore Spiegel-
berg, thirty-second, Santa Fe; senior
expert, Richard Henry Hanna, four
teenth. Santa Fe; junior expert,
Thomas Paul Martin, thirty-second..
Taos captain of host. George Alfred
Riddel, thirty-second, Santa Fe; tiler,
Washington Russell Price. thirty-sec-
ond. Santa Fe.
A large amount Of routine business
was then brought before the lodge
:s.tg disposed Of. After disposing Of
all ihe business before IT. the lodges
was called to refreshments In the
banquet hall and for an hour the
memehrs and visiting Masons partook
of the refreshments and enjoyed very
cordial and social intercourse.
The lodge now has upon its regis
ter one hundred and thirty-one mem
bers, and is the largest in this part
of the country. There is lodge of
Perfection In Phoenix. but this con-
tains but little more thin one-third of
the members of the Santa Fe lodge
The prospects for Scottish Rite Of
Freemasonary in New Mexico are
very bright, and 1t Is anticipated
that there will be very large in
crease in membership during the COM
ing year. The Santa Fe lodge Of Per-
lection is now in good working order
and the order has been given for all
necessary paraphernalia to permit 1t
to work the beautiful degrees of the
Scottish rite in full form upon. candi.
dates. The corps of officers elected
and installed Saturday night consist
of well-known citizens and of Masons
who have the interest Of the rite at
heart. and who will do all in their
power to advance 1t in every way so
that it may do the good to humanity
which Is Its purpose. and which its
members are endeavoring to bring
about in the United States and in all
quarters of the globe whersoever dis.
persed.