The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-11-16
ANNUAL MASONIC
REUNION OPENS
With Thirty-SecOnd Degree Ma
sons Present From All
Parts of Utah.
SCORE OF VISITORS FROM
ALL OVER THE COUNTRY
Feature of Affair Is Degree
Work Being Given Twenty
Two NeOphytes.

With elaborate ceremony the four
teeuth annual reunion of the Ancient
and Accepted Scottish Rite Of Free
Masonry opened Monday at The Ma
sonic temple in Salt Lake. In attcn.
dance nj the reunion were thirty.sccoud
degree Masons from every part Of
Utah. There was also a score Of Wis.
itors from all over the United States,
The feature of the semi annual re.
union is the degree work being gwen
TO a class of twenty-five neophYtcs
from different parts Of the state Each
day during tho reunion there is work
in the different degrees, The cXempIi-
fication of the degrees began Monday
with the fourth degree and ended with
the communication OF the thirteenth
that night at 10 clock.
To the accompaniment of sweet
music and tho mystic Pomp and ccrc'
mony attendant on the beautiful work
of Masonry, The ritual was carried ont
by the members of thc Scottish rite Of
Masonry and the candidates were IN
structcd in tho obligations OF each de-
gree, The climax viii come Thurs.
day with the cXcmphfication Of the
thirty second degree. which viii bc fol.
lowed by an elaborate banquet.
The Candidates.
The candidates for tho different de-
grees are:
Fourth TO thjrty-sccond-Dr. Robert
Seaman Allison Of Clear Creek. Louis
Leroy Baker of Dooclc, Charles Will
liam Kaiser of Midvalc. Joseph Frank
klaucr Of Bingham, Dr. Edwin Man
son Nchcr Of Castle Gate, Clyde Leslie
Huff Of Moore Ida; Thomas Lowell
Jr., of Provo; Dir. Samuel Lester Brick
George Anderson Willis. Chauuccy Xii
Winans, of Ogden; Zcpo Barnes, Fred
erick Harvey Cragcr, Nathaniel Mont
gomcry Hamilton, John William Hard
csty. James Samuel HILBERT, Charlel
Kaufman. William Baird Tanner, Ger
aid Ross Yearsley, of Salt Lake.
Fourth 10 fourtccnth-Frank Crof
ford Locl5noor of Garfield, john Ed
ward Bott and George Weston Craig
of Provo.
Fourth 10 ciehtcenth-Dr Archibald
| Angus Kerr Of Salt Lake.
Nineteenth TO thirty y-second--Franb
| Edgar Whitworth Of Salt Lake.
The work is under the direction oi
| Frank Mills Footc. sovereign grand in
spector general for Wyoming, Utal
and Idaho. and Fred Clement Schramm
deputy sovereign grand Inspector gen
eral for Utah
Beautiful souvenir programmes fol
The work of the reunions have beer
prepared under the direction Of Chris
iophcr Diehl, grand secretary. From
lall over the United States letters oi
commentator have been showcrcd or
| Mr. Diehl complimcnting him on tbs
excellent appearance of the programme
\ Simon Homan. n prominent Scottish
| Rite Mason of New York City, Frcder
ick Speed grand secretary Of the grand
lodge Of Mississippi, and G. 5. Walton
of Los Angeles. Of the Southern Cali
fornia grand lodge, have written that
! the programme is the prettiest and best
that has ever been issued for similar
| event.
opens With Reception.
The reunion opened Monday with q
reception for the visitors aud candi
dates at clock Az 2:l5 o'clock 2
special meeting Of Jordan Lodge o1
| Perfection No. 2, which administered
the degrees from the fourth 10 the
| fourteenth, was held and at $50 the
degree work was commenced.
The fourth degree. that of Secret
Master, was conferred by the Ogden
members of the Lodge of Perfection
under the direction of Robert Stephen
Joyce. The fifth degree, the degree
Of Perfect Master, was exemplified uu
der the direction Of Charles Bruerton
Jack. The sixth degree, Intimate See
rotary; seventh degree. Provost and
Judge. and the eighth degree, lntcndant
OF the Building, wero communicated
In the evening the ninth degree OF
! Knight Flu of the Nine. under tho di
rection OF Henry Simon and the tenth
degree of Knight of Flu of the Flf-
teen. under the direction of DR.
Harry Nathaniel MAYO. were exempt.
fled. The eleventh degree Of Knight
Flu of the Twelve, twelfth degree Of
Master Architect aud thc thirteenth de
gree Of the ROYAL Arch of Solomon
were communicated.
The work III the Lodge of Perfection
will conclude This Tuesday forenoon
with the eXcmplification Of the thir-
tcenth degree of Perfect Elm, under
thc direction Of William John Lynch.
In the afternoon the work in the
Chapter OF Rose Croix. the Fifteenth
to eighteenth degrees. VIII begin.
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