El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-11-16
MASONs CLOSE OBLIGATORY Ceremonies WITH BANQUET
Visiting and Home Crafts
men Fill Hall Of New
Temple.
Ritualistic Rites and Grand
Officers Addresses Heard
by Big Audience.
BANQUET which fully 500 Ma

a BANQUET which fully 500 Ma
n sons of FL Paso and vicinity
n attended, featured by a number
Of brief addresses by leading members
Of the various lodges, brought to
close Saturday night the ceremonies at
tending the dedication Of FL Paso's new
100000 Masonic temple.
The great banquet nall in the base
ment Of the new temple had been oeo-
GRATED with American EagS, and with
long streamers and feStOOns in blue.
The large number who sat at the tables
filled the banquet room comfortably
but without crowd1ng. Inc prlnclpal
event Of the evening was the series OF
brief afterdinner speeches, each lauda-
tory Of the enterprise Of FL P3so's Ma
sonic lodge as evidenced by the big
new temple ". ". Evans acted as
POSTMASTER.
The speakers OF the banquet were:
Il Paso, Tom c. Lea, R Z. Thomson,
z. b Whitaker and N. ZielOnka; visi-
tors. J. J. Mansfield, A W Houston,
Benjamin Titus, A W Hare and W. h
Seamon. All addresses were brief, five
minutes being the rule.
Dedicated in Afternoon
The dedication exercises proper took
place at o'clock in the assembly hall
Of the temple, with hundreds OF FL
PasOans and visitors attending Punch
was served in the library and an or
the ceremony. It followed a formal
meeting CT the grand lodge Of Texas.
The officers who took part in the
dedicatOry exercises We're: j J. Mans
field grand master; A " Houston,
deputy grand master; W ". Evans
acting grand senior warden; V. 2. Ware.
acting grand junior warden; e. W. Kay
ser, acting grand reasurer; George F.
Morgan, acting grand secretary ". W
Click deacon; Horace B. Hayes, acting
grand senior steward; Robert M Cousars
acting grand junior steward; Martin
ZielOnka, acting grand chaplain; James
/ Hewitt, acting grand architect; John
D. Mason. acting grand marshal and
John Hughes, acting grand tller
Ceremony Was RituaIistic.
The ceremony proper consisted OF
rituaIistic addresses by the grand mas
ter the grand junior warden, the grand
senior warden and the grand architect,
q prayer by the grand chaplain, the
applying Of the square, level and plumb
TO the building, and its conservation
with corn, wine and oil poured upon
the floor
A quartet consisting of Parvin Witte,
Mrs W. ". Evans N. H. Lsemen and
Mrs. Parvin- Witte sang Dudley Bucks
Festival Te Deum,' and Mrs W w
Evans sang Allitsen's The Lord IS My
Light" Near the conclusion Of the
ceremony the quartet sang MOZartS
''The Gloria" and the entire assemblage
a little later sang America The
grand chaplain, grand marshal and
grand master proclaimed the temple
dedicated
Addresses Follow Ceremony.
Tom Lea, district deputy grand mas
ter, presided during the period Of ad-
dresses, which were an accompaniment |
OF the dedication proper Capt T. J. {
BeaII delivered the address Of welcome /
TO the officers Of the grand lodge and {
to the visiting MasOns generally on be- /
half Of the FL PasO lodge, No 100 In /
a pleasing speech, grand master J. J. !,
RESPONSE
Of the grand lodge Of Texas
Deputy Grand Masters Address.
Deputy grand master A W Houston, 1
orator of the day, said in part;
You will pardon me If, before en- ]
tering upon the theme Of my address, /
I make some reference to my early |
acquaintance and association with the
good people Of FL PasO. More than |
80 years ago it was my good fortune /
and my pleasure to visit this city then !
comparatively a mere village, and dur !
ing all the years since then I have
been more or less in touch with the
people of FL Paso and its vicinity in
a business and personal way Some Of
nv dearest attachments and friend
ships have been with the pioneers of !
your community, who hOnOred this !
section by their sterling and upright (
citizenship.
'T shall not undertake to state that
the pioneers who have fought the bat
ties of civilization with the hardships
and the sava ges of the frontier were
all good CHRISTIAN men ana women
or that they were all examples Of vir-
tue and peace, but I do assert that
their courage, perseverance, endUr-
ance and indomitable viii have never
been surpassed, and the civilizing in
flUence of their rugged character and
disposition made this, your magnin-
cent border city, a possibility.
Evolution of n Community.
~As 4 community advances from a
frontier village to a modern city, as
has this, many noteworthy landmarks
indicate the different stages of its
progress: First. the effort is directed
to making a home, however humble it
may be; a matched cottage, an adobe
iacal, or a log cabin, where the family
is reared and protected, is no less the
home Of the pioneer than the princely
mansions which now adorn your land
scape, are the homes of your people
today
where the loved ones are, there is
home. Next comes the school house,