The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-12-19
TOPICS OF THE STATE.
RECORD OF MARSHAL EDISON &.
 BISHOP.

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 Graves of Grand Masonic Lodge
 GovernOr-EIect Woodruff Will Have
 Inaugural Day Headquarters at
 Garde Hotel Instead of Allyn House.
 Hartford, Dec. 16--The reappoint- ment of United States marshal Edson s. Bishop of Connecticut for a term or four years is recognition far and wide of that officials competence and fitness for the office. Marshal Bishop has been in the office eight years and four months. He was originally the selection of United States senator Hawley, and his reappointment was championed by Congressman Charles A. Russell of the Third distroct. uni- ted States Senator Frank B. Brande- gee has stood sponsor for the second reappointment. Marshall Bishop be- longs in Norwich and has made that city his home most of the time since the civil war. He was living in Iowa, when the war began and enlisted ln the Twenty regiment from that state. His service in the field was one of ability and honor. At the con- clusion of the war he returned to his old home in Connecticut and has de- served all the honors that have fallen 10 his lot He is a member of the Army and Navy club of Connecticut and Is a popular veteran of the war in an 1oYrnotiot1f ic thA second veteran in the state who has held the United States marshalship, Major John c. Kinney having preceded him. The old soldiers without excep- tion are rejoicing in the reappointment of Marsha Bishop. As in the case of Major Kinney, he has given the gov- ernment services of high order.
 The death of Grand Treasurer Miles w. Graves of the Grand Masonic Lodge of Connecticut, reminds one of the fact that only two other Grand lodge off cers have died in office since 1870. Grand Secretary Joseph K. Wheeler, of Hartford, died September 10, 1894, and Grand Senior Warden Mark Leaven- worth, of Bridgeport, died i'll 1894. The present grand secretary, John H, Barlow, was appointed the successor of Grand Secretary Wheeler by Grand Master Henry o. Warner, and has been elected at each communication of the Grand lodge since his original appoint ment The grand treasurship, which has been made vacant by the death of MT. Graves, has been held by Hartford since 1869. George Lee of Hartford was elected that year and held the of flee continuously until 1882 when May or John G. Root assumed the position. Mayor Root retaintd the office until 1896, when Miles w. Graves was made his successor. Ex-Mayor Root is the survivor of the three and holds one of the most honorable positions in the Masonic life of the state. He has been honored with the Thirty-thr degree, which is so eagerly coveted by distin- guished Masons in all states During the thirty-five years in which the grand treasurship of the Grand lodge has been held in Hartford only twice has the grand mastership been held here. F. w. Havens was grand master in 1898 and Asa P. Fitch in 1905. There Is not a Hartford man in line for the position of grand master. In the grand encampment of Knights Templar how ever, Hartford Knights Templarism has been brilliantly represented. The Hartford grand commanders include men widely known in business and financial life. The list takes in the names of s. M. Bronson, President John G. Root of the Farmers and Me- chanics National bank, President Charles D. Billings of the Billings & Spencer company, and Normand F. Allen, a man of large business control in the city The Thirty-third degree has been awarded to each of them, This record illustrates the fact that Knights Templarism is the field in which high Masonic ambitions can be realized The Knights Templar career of H. Wales Lines of Meriden is a con crete example of this point MT. Lines has not been an office-holder in the Grand Masonic lodge, but he has risen to eminence in the Grand encampment of United States Knights Templar, be- ing the grand treasurer in that body Grand Secretary John H. Barlow, of the Grand lodge who has been Q Knights Templar snce 1863, has never taken office in the Connecticut Grand encampment. Blue lodge interests have reeesived his main attention. The same was true of the last Past Master Frederic s. Stevens of Bridgeport But the bulk of Masonic leaders gravi- 4a A. les.
 The fact that Governor Rollin S. Woodruff will have his headquarters at the Garde Hotel instead of the Allyn House Inaugural day is regarded with more or less regret by the old-timers who have attended this function at Hartford's famous hostelry since the days of "the twin capitals" Only twice since the last election day parade in New Haven has the Allyn House been outrivalled in arranging for the inaugural. Governor Luzon B. Morris on the day of his inaugural, in 1893, had his headquarters at the Heublein, and Governor o. Vincent Coffin followed in Governor Morris wake in 1895, These are the Only two cases III recent lndu- gurals when the mandate of state custom has not been followed. The AL lyn House has been identified with the Inauguration of governors for so long a period that it will seem unnatural to find the governor headquartered in any other place. The Garde is new hotel in Hartford and has made itself popu- Ia f,a Ia Vy1nnthG (TOE- ernor Woodruff is a friend of the New