Evening star., 1911-01-22

MISCELLANEOUS.
| Jan. 22-Masonic and Eastern Star Home.
| religious services, pm.
| Jan. 23-Banquet Of the Masonic Veterans
Association Hotel Gordon.
Royal arch chapter elections begin
tomorrow evening and continue until
every royal arch chapter in the Dis
trict has elected officers for the new
capitular year. The Grand Royal Arch
Chapter will hold its annual convoca-
ton for the annual reports and elec-
ton Of officers Wednesday evening,
February s. But one grand visitation
to royal arch chapter remains to be
made by the Grand Royal Arch Chapter.
and that at q special convocation Monday
Chapter.
The religious services at the Masonic
and Eastern Star Home this afternoon at
; o'clock will be held under the auspices
Of Acacia Lodge, No. IS. AS usual,
Park to take the visitors to the home.
No announcement has yet been made as
to who will conduct the services. Ihe
arrangements are in the hands OF the
lodge chaplain. Past Master Francis A.
Springer. This announcement is made
upon the authority Of Secretary II. H.
Burroughs.
Kallipolis Grotto Yelled Prophets of
the Enchanted Realm, will hold session
Monday evening, January 80, at National
Rifles Armory, the last before the change
in bylaws respecting the membership
takes effect.
& Adams indoor circus, which has been
giving daily exhibitions at Convention
Hall during the past week under the aus
pices of Almas Temple of the Mystic
Shrine, was an amateur affair gotten up
by the Shriners, were greatly surprised on
visiting the entertainment to find 1t one
of the best exhibitions of its kind ever
seen in Washington. The exhibitions are
pie for the benefit of it's charity fund and
to reuniform it's Arab Patrol, but the
performances are given by some of the
best circus talent to be seen in the big
white tent aggregations of the summer
The Hotel Gordon will be the place of
the annual banquet of the Masonic Vet
erans' Association tomorrow evening
Rear Admiral George W. Baird, U. 5: N,
retired, who is a past grand master or the
Grand Lodge of the District and presi-
dent of the association, will preside. 1t
is expected that nearly all the prominent
Masons Of Washington Will be among the
guests and that many will deliver ad-
dresses. Qualifications for membership
require that applicants must be master
| Masons who have been entered appren-
tices for at least twenty-one years
| A fact not generally known in the jurs-
diction is that Past Grand Master George
| w. Baird, president of the Masonic Vet
erans' Association. was initiated and
raised in a Masonic lodge In Portugal
/ that he received the fourteenth degree or
| the Scottish Rite in Lisbon.
| Tolerancia Lodge, which was a French
lodge, went out of existence shortly after
| Admiral Baird later affiliated with Naval
Lodge, In California. In 1870. and with
Hope Lodge. No. 20. of this city, In 1873,
and became its master in 1888. He was
exalted in Washington Chapter; No. 2;
and became its high priest in 1890. All
the Scottish Rite degrees beyond the
| fourteenth were conferred on him by the
local bodies of this city and he was
| crowned an honorary thirty-thtrd degree
Mason in Albert Pike Consistory October
26 1901.
| It is said Of Admiral Baird that he has
come as far as 500 miles to attend COM
munications Of the Grand Lodge when ne
was in its official line. and that frequently
he came from. Wilmington, Del, to at
tend the meetings Of his own lodge when
he was it's master. He was grand master
of Masons for the District In 1886.
No. %, to be held Tuesday evening Past
Master William H. Singleton of King
Solomon Lodge, No. 81, will deliver
lecture on The Genesis of Speculative
Masonry" Prior to the lecture the fel-
lowcrafts' degree will be exemplif1ed by
the recently elected line of officers for the
first time.
At the grand visitation to La Fayette
Royal Arch Chapter, No. 5, Tuesday
evening no special program was present
ed, but the most excellent masters DE-
gree was exemplified.
Orchestral, instrumental and vocal Sc
lections, illustrated views and moving
lpictures by Ezra b. Thompson and the
presentation Of testimonial to Crane
Lecturer Orville Drown were features Oh
the grand visitation to Columbia Chapter
i No. 1, Wednesday evening. d. b. Mac
I,eod directed the orchestra and Messrs
Humphrey, Rodrick, Myers and Mosher
sang. while S. c. WOodin and II. G. Grove
J presented instrumental selections.
4 A Joint meeting Of the board of di-
rectors of lodgerooms Nos. l and was
held at Masonic Temple last evening to
consider the subject of furnishing the
lobby outside the lodgerooms In style
4 appropriate to the temple. 1t is under
4 stood that the improvements are to be
ouite pretentiOus, although nothing def
mite upon the subject has yet been made
public.
Potomac Commandery. No. 3, in its
regular bulletin announces fraternal
visit to Washington Commandery3 No. l.
the evening of January %. and meet
ling of it's ladies' auxiliary January 81,
when q special program will be present
ed, followed by light refreshments.
Representative Thomas Upton Sisson OF
I Mississippi past grand master of Masons
4 in that state, has accepted an invitation
i to deliver an address on Masonry and
i It's Teachings at the stated communica-
tion Of Washington Centennial Lodge,
No. IA, Wednesday evening, February 1,
in lodgeroom No. 1, New Masonic Tenn
Representative Sisson holds the record
Of being the youngest grand master ever
chosen in any jurisdiction in this coun-
try, having been elected to that high
office at the age of thirty-five years.
He is we'll known in Masonic circles
throughout the United States, and is re-
puted to be one of the best informed
members Of the craft on Masonic SUBJ
jects. He is also known as an orator,
and the members Of Washington Cen
tennial Lodge anticipate q large attend
ance on the occasion Of his address.
| Knights of Pythias.
| rL> ooI.A,o+ Of tho forfx,eo,,ootL 4.