Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-05-15
PAID
Ne ARk TRIBUTE
At LODGE FEAST
In Speech at St. Johns Banquet
Lauded City's Hos
pitality.

ST. Johns Lodge, F. and A. NJ, ended
the notable celebration of its one hun
dred and fiftieth anniversary Saturday
evening with a banquet at Kruger
Auditorium, at which the principal
speaker was President Taft.
The celebration, marking as it did
the passing of the first century and a
half of New Jerseys Oldest Masonic
organization, was participated in by
grand masters representing many
States of the Union, by Congressman
and by many distinguished Masons.
The President arrived on the 5:S2
train and was taken in an automobile
to the home of Ex-Governor Murphy,
accompanied by the First Troop, N. G.
N. j., in command of Captain william
A. Bryant, as a guard of honor. At
6:45 with Major Archibald w. Butt and
the former Governor, he left for the
auditorium. His passage through the
streets was greeted by cheers from the
thousands who thronged beneath the
bunting and flags and streamers along
Broad and Market streets.
John r. Hardin, the ~toastmaster,
introduced the President, remarking
that the guest of honor was a man
who had beckoned his country along
the paths of universal peace. The
President said in part:
President Taft's Speech.
81 am delighted to be here tonight,
and thank you from the bottom of my
heart for this cordial reception. l al
ways feel at home in Newark. 1t
doesn't make any difference whether
you have a Democratic majority or a
Republican majority in the town, l al
ways find the same welcome here to
the President of the United States.
l am delighted to be here under the
auspices of your distinguished fellow
citizen, Governor Murphy, and to know
that he Is a loyal Mason. Sitting up
here at the head of the table with all
these past grand masters about me,
feel as if l were in the very peerage
of Masonry. But, my fellow citizens,
l am here not only as a Mason, but
am as the official successor of a Mason
who had much to do, or something to
do, with your st. John Lodge. take
it as a great source of pride to occupy
for a short time the seat of George
WASHINGTON, the first American.
Masonry aims at the promotion OF
morality and higher living by the cult
walton of the social side of man, the
rousing in him of the instincts OF
charity and the love of his kind. II
rests surely on the foundation of the
brotherhood of man and the Father
hood of God.
1.-THE establishment of a lodge OF
Free Masons one hundred and fifty
years ago near this spot, in a village
numbering then but two thousand
souls. was an event of the highest
social and moral Importance to thai
community; and its continuance for q
century and a half, its maintenance IS
a living force in the growth of tina
village to this magnificent city, are
proper subjects of congratulation anc
commemoration.
Tribute to venerable Age.
1--WE are a comparatively new oun
try. Few of the things we cherish
antedate the constitution of the United
States. When we find associations OF
institutions OF a beneficent character
that have proved their usefulness so as
to live longer than that. and to be g
century and a half old, it is proper
that all of us should pay tribute and
join in a centennial birthday celebra-
ton and confirm the evidence of a lift
of usefulness that a prosperous exist
ence after so long a period assures"
Congressman Samuel w. Mccall. OF
Massachusetts, made a bitter attach
upon the principles of the referendum
and recall in responding to the toast
"Our National Government" Mayor
Haussling welcomed the visiting
Masons and outlined the progress
Newark had made in the past ans
would be likely to make in the future
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