Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-10-22
ORDER OF SCOTLAND
Grand Lodge and Grand
Chapter in Session.
AT HOUSE OF THE TEMPLE
Degrees Conferred on List of Forty.
Six Candidates.
BIG BANQUET THIS EVENING
Election Of Oficers-Surviving
Charter Members-Loss by Death.
Names on Roster.
AT HOUSE OF THE TEMPLE
BIG BANQUET THIS EVENING

among subordinate bodies 10000 copies
of the allocution of Sovereign Grand
Commander Richardson. The report of
Secretary General Frederick Weber
was presented.
The rema inder of the session was de-
voted to general business, after which the
Supreme Council voted to attend the in
itiatory exercises at the Scottish Rite Ca
thedral on Thursday evening thus max
ing that a Grand Lodge night. The fif-
teenth degree will on that evening be con-
ferred in ample form by the officers of
the Supreme Lodge. The degree is known
as knight of the Rose Croix.
This evening the Supreme Council will
attend the Royal Order of Scotland ban
quet
The Provincial Grand Lodge and Pro-
vincial Grand Chapter of the Royal Order
of Scotland assembled at the House of
the Temple last evening at 100 o'clock,
at which time the provincial grand mas
ter delivered his annual allocution, and
| then the degrees were conferred on a
| list of forty-six candidates, who wanted
| to get through in time to participate in
| the annual banquet at the New Willard
| this evening.
| The officers of the joint Grand Chapter
and Grand Lodge elected last night are
| nearly all prominent members of one or
| the other of the Scottish Rite jurisdic-
tons
| The list follows: Provincial grand mas
| ter, James Daniel richardson; deputy
| provincial grand master. Henry L..
Palmer; provincial senior grand warden,
George Mayhem Moulton: provincial jun
| Tor grand warden. James Isaac Buchanan;
| provincial grand secretary, William Os-
car Roome: provincial grand treasurer.
Allison Nailor, jr.; provincial grand sword
| cial grand banner bearer, William Brom-
well Melish; provincial grand chaplain.
Howard Fremont Hill; provincial first
grand marischal. George Edgar Corson
provincial second grand marischal. John
Hezekiah Olcott; provincial first grand
steward. Allison Nailor, jr.; provincial
second grand steward, A. w. Kelley;
provincial third grand steward, Sterling
Kerr; provincial fourth grand steward.
Elmer E. Simpson; provincial grand
Harold Postle Carl Spencer Stewart
Lodge at Edinburgh.
The following are the surviving char
ter members Of the Royal Order who also
are members Of the Grand Lodge at Edin-
burgh:
Samuel Croker Lawrence, Massachu-
| sets: Henry L. Palmer, Wisconsin !: Henry
Moore Teller, Colorado: Frederick Web
Der. District of Columbia; Charles King
Francis. Pennsylvania; Hugh McCurdy,
Michigan; William Oscar Roome, District
Of Columbia; Thomas Jacob Shryock
Maryland: John Corson Smith, Illinois
George Mayhem Moulton. Illinois; Alli-
son Nailor. jr.. District of Columbia, and
James Daniel richardson. Tennessee. have
been elected members Of the Edinburgh
Grand Lodge at various times.
The Royal Order lost heavily by death
during the past year, the following mem
loch. Washington: George Beecher Buck
ingham, Worcester. Mass: John Martin
Clapp. jr.. Washington; Walter Cutting,
Pittsfield, Mass: James p. Fairfield, Penn
syivania: silas W. Garner. Clinton. Iowa;
Thomas R. Patton. Philadelphia Pa, !:
Willis r. Speare. Washington; Christian
G. Steffe, Reading. Pa; William B. Thay-
or, Kansas City: Frank II. Thomas, Wash
ington. There were 800 members of the
Royal Order. but the number was decid-
eddy increased by last nights Invitations
and those of this afternoon. Among the
Washingtonians who have received II are
Gustav Ayres, Henry w. Scherger John
II. Ladd. Frank and John r. Wright.
william Mehn. Robert F. Mentzel and
William F. Brice.
Names on Roster.
The following was the entire roster of
the Royal Order of Scotland before last
| nights limitations:
Leon Martin Abbott. Boston, Mass.
| Grafton Molen Acklin, Toledo, Ohio;
Franklin Bache Adkins, Easton, Md;
sobert Alton, Detroit, Mich; Willis
henry Albro. Medina, Ohio; Charles
frederick Alden. Clinton, Iowa; Samuel
| ellsworth Aler. Washington, d. c.; Eth
ebert Forester Allen. Kansas City, Mo ;
gorge Harrison Allen, Lynn, Mass; Nor
-nand Francis Allen. Hartford. Conn. ;
| henry Clark Alverson, Des Moines, Iowa;
iustave Anderson, Omaha, Neb: William
t3elville Anderson. Dayton. Ohio; William
Ezekiel Andrews, Washington, y. C.;
| George Arnold. Cleveland, Ohio; Newton
1a Il, g. Arnold Ar 70 Providence; r. l.; Smith
John Banks. Huron, s. D.; William
Hall Barnet, Newark. N. j.: William
Henry Barton. Cambridge, Nd; Ira Bax-
ter Basset. Cleveland. Ohio; Samuel Fes-
| Talmon Beards.ey. Iloilo. p. l.. Nicholas
Montgomery Bell. st. Louis, Mo-: Everett
chamberlin Benton, Boston, Mass; Will
lam Beuchert. Washington, D. c.; Charles
Ethan Billings. Hartford, Conn: John
Francis Birmingham. New York city, n
Y; Alfred Sutton Bishop, Pittsburg, Pa
James Stone Blake, Boston, Mass; Or
lando Powers Bloss. Kansas City, Mo-
aired Edwin Booth. Baltimore, Md;
Homer Caleb Bowman. Topeka, Kan.
Frank Erwin Bernadotte Brandt. Har-
ward. ILL.,; Judson Bremen, De Kalb Ill :.
Jacob Henry Cromwell. Cincinnati, Ohio:
Samuel Marshall Bronson, Hartford
Conn: Cory Thomas Brown, Socorro.
New Mexico; Joseph Thomas Brown, New
York city, N. Y; William Harrison
Brown, Kansas City. Mo-; Edward Clin-
ton Bryan, Washington, D. c.; James
Isaac Buchanan. Pittsburg Pa; Samuel
Stevens BUST. Charleston, s. c.; William
.us6v. South McAlester l. T.: John
Standish Foster Bush, Boston, Mass:
NJ! Bussius. Washington
Scion Staples Cahill. Brunswick. Me:
| Manning Skinner Campbell, Augusta Me;
Henry Ogden Canfield Bridgeport Conn.
George Franklin Carson Philadelphia, Pa.
Jehiel Weston Chamberln, st. Paul, MINI.
Walter Elizabeth Chandler, New Jersey:
Silas Chapman, jr., Hartford, Conn;
Clarence Don Clark, Evanston, Wyo.;
Samuel Poyntz Cochran, Dallas, Tex:
James Hodge Codding, Towanda. Pa.
William Gilbert Colburn Waltham, Mass
James Alpheus Collins. Cincinnati. Ohio:
Martin Collins. ST. Loxis. Mo-; Simon
Conrad. Los Angeles, Cal; Robert Cook,
Washington. ID. c.; Augustus Burt Cool
idge. Washington. ID. c.; William Thomas
Core. Norfolk Va; George Edgar Corson.
Washington, D. c.; Nicholas Coulson. De,
troit, Mich; Henry Somerfield GOWNS,
South Bound Brook, N. j.; Samuel Ide
Coy. Boston. Mass; Joseph Davis Craig
Albany. N. Y. Silas William Cummings.
Providence, r. l.; Harper Samuel Cum
bingham, Guthrie. Okla.