Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-09-09

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| large delegation OF members Of the order
Will accompany the Canton.
| The Representatives of the District Grand
| Lodge at Philadelphia will be Fred A. Sitter
and John l. Brown. The Grand Encamp-
ment will be represented by d. w. keck-
| The initiatory degree was conferred In
| Covenant Lodge. No. 13. I. o. o. f.. Thurs
| day evening upon two candidates. The de-
| gree team is endeavoring to perfect the
| work of the team. The administration OF
| the noble grand William G. Barr, is mark
! ed by ability and forecasts a successful
| term. and he is receiving the hearty sup
| port of all the officers and members of the
| lodge.
| Sioux Tribe. No. IS. Improved Order of
| Red Men. resumed the burning of its coun-
| Gil lire last Tuesdays sleep at its wigwdm,
| $40 Pennsylvania avenue northwest. the
burning of the council fire on the sleep of
the Tuesday previous being omitted on &C
| count of the lat home held that date,
| which was decided success.
After the transaction of routine business.
| including the adoption of the report of the
| committee to arrange for series OF dances
| at National Rifles Armory during the fall
| and winter. the suggestion that the order in
| this reservation hold a joint Red Mems
| fair In the near future was favorably dis
| cussed and the initiative will soon be taken.
/ The report of the committee foreign
| correspondence of the Grand Commandery
| of knights Templar Is this year again the
| work of Past Grand Master George III.
| Walker and gives evidence of the same
| painstaking care that has characterized his
| reports in recent years. Forty-three jour
| nails are renewed One of the most inter
| esting, although brief ones. is that covering
| the meeting of the Great Priory of England
| and Wales. A concordat was entered into
| between the Great Priory and the United
| Orders of the Temple and Hospital in Eng
| land and Wales and the dependencies or the
/ British crown, the Chapter-General OF the
Religious and Military Orders of the Tenn
| Pile in Scotland and the Great Priory or the
Order of the Temple in Ireland, with view
| of regulating and assimilatfng the rights OF
| the parties in their respective countries ana
| for the purpose of mutually supporting and
unfolding each other.
| Invitations having been received for the
supreme grand master to visit the grand
| encampment of the United States in trien-
| NAL conclave at San Francisco, favorable
| action was adopted on a resolution request
! ing not only the supreme grand master,
| but also the great vice chancellor to go TO
| San Francisco and allow the Great Priory
( to pay the expenses of the trip. To this the
| supreme master made response: Il thank
| you very much for the cordial way in which
you have received this notion snail De
| only too happy and proud to represent you
| among one of the greatest English-speaklng
| nations. | feel certain that in going over
| there l shall be able to cement the ALREADY
| existing good feeling, and | hope that when
| L return to Great Priory in December l
! shall be able to tell you what good have
| done for the order, and l hope the same
|
| concordat which has been ratified by Eng
| land, ireland and Scotland will also be rat
| flied there" The Earl of Euston was
| chosen supreme grand master and Z. +.
| Matter great vice chancellor tboth re-
| elected
| Mr.. Walker did much of the work of the
| committee while absent in another city on
| official business to which circumstance he
| alludes pleasantly thus: Engagements
| that have kept US from home much of the
time interfered with the preparation OF the
| report. The influence of the average hotei
cook is not promotive of the best results
| of the pen and the lack of opportunity to
| indulge in purer air is felt the more as we
| write within the narrow confines of a room
| in modern hotel. through the windows OF
| which come zephyrs well seasoned with the
| smoke and dust of the city; and the only
| sounds are the roar of car after car or
| the noisy trolley lines that pass along three
| sides of the large building, the rattle OF
heavy trucks over cobblestone pavements,
| the monotony being varied now and then
| by the bang of neighbors door as ne
| hastily leaves his domiciie ana mans
| through the grating of the shaft across
| from our room a descending elevator with
| the cry Down!
| In commenting on a decision of the grand
| commander of New York that "a brother s
| Masonic residence is where his legal resi-
| dence is" EN- nent Sir Walker makes the
following statement, which Is Of particular
concern to many District fraters:
This is not good law. A man may nave
| a legal residence IN a place without even
going there for years. He may soJourn IN
| a particular city on business or otherwise
for many years, and may, In fact. never
leave the place where he is sojourning. as,
| for example, man in the government serv-
ice in Washington or elsewhere; but the
lapse of any number OF years makes no
| difference with his legal residence II he has
the intention of ever returning there ana
| still regards it as his home. He may be so
long away from his legal residence that all
| the residents thereof have forgotten him.
! he tod n
| kniphthood he would, under the ruling
above quoted, be obliged to apply where he
was totally unknown Many man In the
| government service is almost wholiy I'M
| known at the place of his legal residence
He may have with him in Washington ms
entire family. and have no acquaintance
elsewhere. Restrictions WHEREBY man
could apply only at his place OF residence
| were doubtless introduced because 1t was
felt he should be limited to the place where
| he was best known and thus his character
of the word legal as a limitation upon the
| word residence destroys the purpose Tor
| which any or all restrictions on this SUP
| tect were ever introduced. We prefer the
oId-time custom or usage that man should
annly where he had last sojourned, pro-
| yided it were the required length or time,
| for in that way would 1t be best known as
to who are worthy or unworthy TO enter
| our portals.
The grand commander of Pennsylvania
] recommends a Masonic monument at Get
| tysburg to the memory OF Gen Lewis A.
| krmistead c. s. A, and makes some very
eloquent remarks in that connection. on
| the afternoon of the third day of the bat
tie, he says, there was being forged such
| a bolt of war as never before on this earth
| had been launched 1t was the flower of
| the army of the cavalier-lI,oOO strong
| with such dauntIess men as George Pickett
and Lewis Armstead as the chieftains; a
living thunderbolt, that moved forward
with two hundred cannon on each side
| nlaying in sublime diapason the battle
| march. 1t reached the flaming line of the
| northern blue 1t pierced the line, the
| Bayard of the southern confederacy, our
brother, Lewis Armistead, at its head with
hat held aloft on his saber-point as he
| crossed the stone wall. For one brief mo-
ment in the agony of mortal strife II held
it's own. But the cavalier had met in a
death struggle the Masonry of blended
| blood called the north. With the cry, /
| am a widows son. the southern leader
| pierced with many wounds, sank into the
| arms of those who in the hell of battle
| needed his call of distress, and Gettysburg
| was won.
TT might not be appropriate for the
| United States government to erect d spe-
| ctfic memorial there; it would be emil
o. hot