Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-09-24

%. Harry X. Pimper, worshipful master:
Isaac 3. Nordlinger, senior warden, and
Ernest H. Fowler. Junior warden; Pen
| talpha. No. %, Castleman P. Boss, wor-
shipful master: Horace S. Naylor, senior
warden, and D. Fulton Harris. Junior
warden; Stansbury, No. "a, Anthony
den, senior warden, and William II.
Fugett. junior warden; Arminius, No. %.
John N. StertZer, worshipful master:
Henry Sunwold, senior warden. and John
Baesgen, junior warden; Osiris, No. %,
Julius Refs. worshipful master; George
w Ingham, senior warden, and Philip, NJ.
Ashford, Junior warden: Myron NJ. Par
ker, No. q, William H. Gibson, worship
full master; Arthur Carr, senior warden.
and Lucian T. Williams. junior warden:
worshipful master; I. s. Pennybacker,
senior warden. and William c. Parry,
junior warden: Takoma, No. %, Hervey
S. knight. worshipful master; William
E. Dyre, senior warden. and Joseph B.
Simpson. junior warden; William X.
Singleton, No. 20, Frederick w. Parks.
worshipful master; Edward ~ Riley,
senior warden, and George Welker, junior
warden; King Solomon, No. 81, John
Lane Johns, worshipful master; Martin
l.. Statler senior warden, and Delos w.
Thayer, Junior warden; Temple, No. 81.
Louis c. Wilson, senior warden, and
| Carter B. Keene, junior warden.
Knights Templar Escort.
The Communicates of knights Templar
| which will form the escort to the Grand
Lodge and the constituent lodges are as
follows: Washington. No. ], Gabriel F.
Johnston, eminent commander; A. r.
Server, generalissimO and Joseph P.
Stephenson. captain general; Columbia
No. 2. Charles A. Stewart, eminent COM
| mander; ]. Frank Trazzare. generalissimo
| and Frank r. Underwood, captain gen.
eral; Potomac, No. 3, W. II. Harrison
eminent commander; Montgomery Hunter
generalissimo. and Rev. Charles L. Pate
captain general; De Molay mounted), No
mander: Carl E. Burgdorf. generalissimo
and Eugene E. Thompson, captain gen
| eral; Orient, No. ), Kenton n. Harper
| eminent commander Dan w. Beach, jr.
generalissimo, and Joseph G. STEELE, cap
tain general.
Invitation to Masons.
The following is the invitation sent the
Masonic Grand Lodge by the Bishop of
Washington:
An examination of the history of those
| great Masonic corporations, which -four
| ished during the middle ages, from which
Free and Accepted Masonry is so justly
! proud to reckon it's descent, discloses a
! very close relationship between the build
| ing of those great monumental works. the
| cathedrals and the guilds of operative
masonS whose skill and ingenuity they
SO fittingly commemorate
ITO so great an extent is this SO that
| 1t has been said that there is hardly any
cathedral, either on the continent or in
England, that has not been built, wholly
| OF in part, by these societies, while it has
| been conjectured that the distinctive style
| of architecture, called Gothic. may have
been conceived, as Rebold alleges, from
! the Bauhutten or wooden boothes built
] around the cathedrals, in which Masonic
their form as deiiberative assemblies. and
| in which the philosophy of the craft re-
! ceived its development.
SO close, indeed. was this association
! between these Masonic bodies and the
building of cathedrals that Brentano (''His
| tory and Developmentof Guilds" London
| 1870, p. 800 bases the growth and FORTUNE
| of Masonry to the strength or weakness
! of the incentive toward cathedral build
ing.
! such Masonic authorities as Rebold
Brewster, Finley, Fort and Oliver in their
respective histories testify to the same
| close association of interest. while such
authorities on the history Of architecture
| as Gum ("Gothic Architecture) and Wy
| att Papworth c'Notes on the Superin-
| tendents of English Buildings in the Mid
die Ages'O comment to the same effect.
| Asks Sanction for Service.
Feeling, therefore. that the associa
| lions whose skill and ingenuity erected
| such beautiful structures as the cathe
drals of Rheims, Bourges, Amiens, Co
logne, Strassburg, on the continent, AND
Canterbury, York. Winchester, Well.
and st. Paul's, London. in England. ough
not to be forgotten. nor it's historical
| continuance. Free and Accepted Masonry
disassociated with the project of building
| a great cathedral here in the Capital city
the bishop, chapter and councils of the
Cathedral of st. Peter and St. Paul ar,
DESTROYS of holding great Masonic serv
ice on the cathedral site some time in the
early autumn.
ITO this end we have addressed thi.
communication to the Grand Lodge of the
| District of Columbia for it's sanction ant
| approval of such a service as contem
plated before extending the invitation t.
the individual lodges under your jurisdic
ton.
Should your sanction and cooperation
! be secured, we feel that such a service
as we contemplate would do much toward
uniting in the bonds of fraternal regart
and esteem the individual members of tn,
church and Masonry in this, the Capita
city of the nation"