The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1910-02-23

mortal. The institution will be unique
among the memorials of the world
and will permit every grand iurisdic-
ton to honor every mason 1t esteems
% be deserving with a leaf in it's hall
of fame, photograph and a
biography.
The gathering of such men OF
prominence in the old lodge was i'm
pressive. Alexandria Washington
Lodge No. % made Washington its
worshipful grand master in 1888. Al
his equest in 1871 it laid the corner
stone of the District of Columbia ana
two years later assisted in laying the
corner stone of the national capitol.
In 1899 it performed the masonic
ceremonies at his funeral
nj its halls. crowded with precious
mementoes, his memorial was or
ganized today. There hangs the old
charter granted by Edmund Rand
llph, e and master of Masons in Vir-
sinia, in 1888. Close by, it's pendulum
cord out and it's hands pointing TO
twenty minutes after ten in the even
ing-the hour and the minute Of his
leath-stands the old bed chambcr
clock. No money could buy this silent
old tale hea~er. Nearby in case
is the little trowel he used at laying
the capitol corner stone. In another
are his wedding gloves, his pocket
compasses, farm spurs, a piece of his
cent used at Yorktown. his old
fashioned medicine scales and an elo-
quent token Of his reverence for his
mother--a little knife she gave to him
rs a reward for his obedience and
which he treasured for Sc years.
The Williams picture, painted from
life in 1894, hangs on another wall.
1t cannot escape the eye. for it -
much unlike the accepted likenesscs
Of Washington. 1t shows the man in
his extreme old age and is the only
original life picture extant. in masonic
regalia. His masonic apron embroi-
'lcred in gold with French and Am
arican flags entiwined, presented TO
the lodge in 1912 by his nephew
Lawrence Lewis, hangs nearby. The
only original painting of Lord Fair
fax, Washington's early patron ana
friend, is also there.
The masters chair. occupied bv
General Washington in presiding over
the lodge, stands in glass case, from
ordinary occasions. 1t is 1872 years
old and was in constant use for 1T
years Scores of other things of his
day. the old chairs and benches of
the lodge still IN use, the front door
key of the Bastile, presented in 1925
by Lafayette, which have come from
relatives and frienus. are valued be-
You'd estimate.
There had been a sentiment against
choosing a new site for the memorial
but for great many reasons the one
proposed on Washington street IS bet
re-" fitted to the purposes of ma
tional undertaking and the necessities
have outwelghed the patriotic senti-
ment and have won graceful consent
to the new site.
Today's first meeting, held in the
! lodge room, adjourned at noon and
all went to Mount Vernon by a special
train. The party of distinguished
men walked along the bluff that over
looks the majestic river and laid a
wreath upon the tomb. They then
returned to the lodge at Alexandria
for comforting of degrees
To night at the annual banquet of
the old lodge, Secretary Of War Dick
inson, James d. Richardson. sovereign
grand commander, Scottish Rite
Masons Representatives Charles c..
Darling and Champ Clark, and the
Reverend John Wesley Hill, D. D., Of
New York will speak.