Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-10-16
SCOTTISH RITE MEETS
Supreme Council Of Southern
Jurisdiction A. A. s. R.
ROYAL ORDER BANQUET
GRAND COURT OF HONOR AND
MITHRAs LODGE
Busy Season for Scottish Masonry
During the Ensuing Week
in Washington.
ROYAL ORDER BANQUET

| ScottlSn Kite masonry Will nave the moor
| during the present week, as York Rite Ma
sonry has had it during the week just
closed Succeeding the splendidly success
] full Knights Templar Field day Is to
come a series of important events in the
| Scottish Rite
The Supreme Council of the Southern
| Jurisdiction of the Scottish Rite of Masonry
| met today at the House of the Tenn
pie. The Provincial Grand Lodge and
Grand Chapter of the Royal Order of Scot
| land will assemble this evening at the
same place. The annual banquet OF the
Royal Order will occur tomorrow evening
at the New Willard Wednesday even
ing Mithras Lodge Of Perfection. A A.
g. R., will confer the fourteenth or perfect
Flu degree In ample form at the Scottish
Rite Cathedral, No LOOT G street north
west. The officers and members OF the Su-
preme Council will be guests OF honor upon
the occasion. During the meeting or the
Supreme Council the Grand Court OF Honor.
A. A. g. r.. will also be in session at the
House Of the Temple.
Active and Honorary.
There are a great many notabies in the
lists OF active and honorary inspectors gen.
eral and knights commanders Of the Court
OF Honor of the Southern Jurisdiction
Among the best known Of the active mem-
bers Of the Supreme Council are James D.
Richardson, for twenty years member of
the House Of Representatives. and Henry
M. Teller, for twentyse years United
States senator, and for four years a men,
Der of President Arthur's cabinet. Among
the honorary inspectors general. 33d degree,
may be mentioned Senator Clarence u.
Clark OF Wyoming, Representative William
Pete" Hepburn. Governors Pardee of Cali
fornia and Peabody of Colorado and ex-
Congressman Craddock of Kansas among
public men. Among Templars of distinction
can be enumerated Past Grand Masters w.
La Rue Thomas and Reuben H. Lloyd, and
among Shriners of mark are Past Imperial
Potentates A. B. Mccartney, Ethelbert F.
Allen, Henry c. Akin. Harrison Dingman
and Alvah P. Clayton, who will be imperial
potentate IL he lives until next year. Edgar
Calender Snyder. Washington correspond
ent of the Omaha Bee, Is an honorary In
spector general for Nebraska. Among the
knights commanders of the Court Of Honor
32d degree, there will naturally be men
toned Thomas F. Walsh. United States
Senators Nathan B. Scott, Francis E. War
rem and Levi Ankeny. Durham White Ste
vens, counselor to the victorious Mikado;
Sadler OF Nevada. and ex-Congressmen Da-
vid H Mercer Of Nebraska. Joseph Il.
Washington Of Tennessee. and Oscar ..
The following are the honorary inspect
ors general of the thirty-third and last de-
gree for the District of Columbia: Samuel
Ellsworth Aler. George Washington Baird.
George Williamson Banoch. William
Llewellyn Boyden. Allen Bussus. Augustus
Burt Coolidge. George Edgar Corson, Harri-
son Dingman, Robert Bruce Donaldson
Robert Isaac Fleming, Louis Goldsmith
Walter Scott Harshman. John Frazier
Head. Alexander Hollenbeck Holt. Frank
Warren Johnson, Andrew William Kelley
John Alexander Lacy, James Lansburgh.
Thomas George Loockerman, Alexander
McKerichar, Allison Nailor, tr., Richard
Benjamin Nixon Isaac Pitman Moves, Will
liam Oscar Roome John Henry Small JAS
uel Hamilton Walker, Landon Cabell Will
Hanson. Edward Mott Willis Simon Wolf
and Francis Joseph Woodman.
Grand Cross Decoration.
Two of these have received the added
Of honor from the Supreme Council, A. A.
8. r. These are William Oscar Roome and
Alexander H. Holt. This decoration is
only conferred for conspicuous services to
Scottish Rite Masonry. There are but nine
other wearers of the grand cross in the
southern Jurisdiction.
DR.. Francis ]. Woodman, 33d degree, has
been the deputy of the Supreme Council
for the past twelve years. He Is chief
Of division in the medical department of
the pension bureau. Dr. Woodman was
born in Somersworth, N. H., and passed
through the public schools of that city.
graduated from Phillips-Exeter Academy
and Yale University. of which he is an
A. B., and George Washington University
medical school. Prior to accepting his
present position In the pension bureau he
edited and published weekly newspaper,
man in Masonry is past master of Ia