The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-01-19
CHAPMAN HEAD OF MASONS IN
 CONNECTICUT
State Lodge in Annual Com munication Chooses Mad ison Man for Grand Mas ter.

The election of officers YVES the principal feature of the annual session of the Grand lodge. A. F. & A. M.. of Connecticut which was held at New Haven Masonic Temple. yester- day. The balloting was taken up at the afternoon meeting and resulted as follows:
 Grand Master-Randolph B Chap man, Madison.
 Deputy Grand Master-oustin Hoi- den, Norwich.
 Grand Senior Warden--Wilbur $. Comstock. East Haddam.
 Grand Junior Warden-Edgar H. Parkman. Thompsonville.
 Grand Treasurer-Stanley B. Bos- worth. Hartford.
 Grand Secretary-Frank W. Ravens. Hartford.
 Grand Senior Deacon-Clarence F.. Austin. Danbury
 Grand Junior Deacon-Thomas Me Kenzie Pawcatuck.
 Grand Trustees-Willis L. Mix. New Haven: Charles Billings Chapman, Norwich; Isaiah Baker. IT., Hartford.
 New Grand Master.
 Grand Master-elect Randolph E. Chapman was made a Mason in Gov ert lodge, No il. r. & A. M.. of Oma- Ina. Neb.. November Is. 1887. He af- filiated with Harmony lodge. No. AZ, of Waterbury, October 6 1898. He was marshal of Harmony lodge in 1888; senior warden in 1900 and worshipful master in 1901. He was district dep uty for New Haven county in 1902. grand junior steward, 1903; grand sen- for steward. 1904; grand marshal. 1905; grand junior deacon. 1906; grand sen for deacon. 1907. grand junior warden; 1908; grand senior warden. 1909. and deputy grand master. 1s10 He is a thirty-second degree Mason.
 He. was born in Ellington this State). November 16 1S4s. a son of Chester and Elizabeth (BulD Chap man. and is a descendant of Edward Chapman, who came from England in 1860 and settled in Windsor. He has been a bookkeeper and travelling sales man in this State and in the West, where he lived for about twelve years. and then returned to the East. locat- ing in Waterbury. where he remained with the exception of a year and he removed to Madison. He has been twice married.
 Grand Master Fred A. Verplanck in his review of the year spoke of the deaths of four grand lodge members, Fred H. Waldron. John Mccarthy. John G. Root and Beverly Warner.
 Largest Lodges.
 IHe IIdHQ SocreCdTV,S report con- tained this information: Returns have been received from 105 of the 510 lodges. The returns so far made give the number initiated as 1,OS6: passed, 1,066; raised, 1,OS7; number affiliated, 6H demitted, 99; died. 462; three lodges doing the most work in the year were Hartford, No. 8S, 49 raised; Hiram, No. 1, New Haven, 46 raised; St. Johns, No. 4, Hartford, If raised. The five largest lodges are Hartford, No. S8. S94 members; Hi John's, No. 4, Hartford sos; Wooster. No. 79, New Haven 750; St Johns, No. 3, Bridgeport, 607.
 Want Home Restricted.
 At the evening session the annual meeting of the Masonic Charity Foun- datiOn, which has to do with the maintenance of the Masonic home at' Wallingford, was held. and the report of President Wallace s. MOyle for the year 1910 was read. There was a long discussion on the conditions for admission to the home, on a sugges. ton for amending the charter that now lets in the mother, sisters and daughters of a beneficiary. MT. Moyle favored the amendment to restrict the admission of applicants.
 H. Wales Lines, of Meriden, did not favor MT. Moyle's idea, and after con- siderable discussion the matter was left unchanged.
 President Moyle's report showed that the home is now caring for 97 persons, including 12 outside of the home; that 25 have been added dur ing the past year and 21 lost by death.
 In the report of the secretary, Frank W. Havens of Hartford, it was shown that the receipts from the en- dowment fund werel s7.14; from fund $165; from Lock wood Memorial Fund $95; from gen. eral fund $4,375.35. Total. $5.142.49.
 The losses from life membership since the last report were John H. of Naugatuck; w. H. Ely of New Haven; George N. Moses of New Haven; Henry Reynolds of New Haven, and Fred H. Waldron of New Haven. One honorary member, H. D. Garfield of Bridgeport, also died
 Officials Reelected
 In the list of officers elected for the management of the foundation, George A. Ikies of Norwich, was eIec- ted a member of the board of man. agers for three years. Andrew J. Hal lock of Derby was reelected for three years by the life members of the corporation.
 The board of managers reelected the following officers for 1911:
 Wallace S. Moyle, New Haven, president; Arthur F. Lewis, North Haven, vice president; Frank w. Ha- vens, Masonic Temple, Hartford, sec retary; Stanley B. Bosworth, Hart- ford treasurer