Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-08-31

dervort was in charge Of that office, and
at the last convention Of Rathbone SUI
perior Lodge, No. %, he installed w. c.
Deane as keeper of records and seal, L.
H. Troutman as master of work and II.
L. Thompson as inner guard He was
assisted in the installation services by
Past Chancellors Warren Coffin, acting
as grand vice chancellor; Isaac Ellis. as
grand prelate; S. NJ. Pearson. as grand
master-at-arms, and S. w. Wolfsheimer,
as grand inner guard.
Rathbone-Superior Lodge conferred the
rank of esquire at it's last convention and
also set aside the convention of the last
meeting in September as an evening on
which Past Chancellors s. F. Harrah and
E. c. Snyder will deliver eulogles to the
memory of r. G. Glasscock. The lodge
also designated the last meeting night in
October as roll call rally day.
Past Grand Chancellor G. Frank Day
is spending his vacation at his old home.
in Bellaire, Ohio.
The series of fall visitations to the sub
ordinate lodges will soon begin, and &C
tive preparations for the fitting observa-
ton of the celebration of the hft1eth an
niversary Of the order in February, 1914,
will be taken up.
In a recent copy OF will known fra
ternal paper emphasis is laid on this
paragraph: Make your lodge social as
we'll as fraternal That is what it is in
tended to be. The more frequently social
gatherings are held the better.
1t is extremely doubtful if many Of the
members of the order of knights of
Pythias and the Independent Order Of
Odd Fellows ever realized the remarkable
coincidence existing in the beginning or
these two great benevolent orders. The
first lodges instituted were:
Washington Lodge, No. l, /. 0. o. +.
Washington Lodge, No. I, Il. Of p.
April 26. 1919, Washington Lodge, No. l.
of American Odd Fellows was organized
in Baltimore, Md, by Wildey and his
companions.
February 10. 1854, Washington Lodge,
No. 1, knights of Pythias. was organ
lied by Rathbone and his friends in the
District of Columbia.
Both orders were organized ito meet
emergencies existing in the fraternal
world
At the time Wildey and his brethren met
the bitterness of the war between Amer
lea and England, caused by the second
war with that country, was still intense,
the great means by which that enmity
and bitterness was assuaged and blotted
out.
When Rathbone and his friends assem-
bled to place before the world the frater-
nifty of Pythianism the war of the rebel
lion had destroyed and obliterated, frater-
nal and family ties and wars calamities
covered large part of the American soil
Today the chivalric sons of Pythianism
in all sections are united in the silken
bonds of friendship, charity and benevo-
lence
Both orders first saw light in nearly the
same spot on the continent, Baltimore
and Washington being separated by but q
few miles. Neither founder dreamed Of
personal aggrandizement when moving in
the preliminary stages, nor dreamed of
the fact that their work was to be fol-
lowed by such magnificent results. Each
attained to the highest distinction in his
order, and each lived to see it increase in
numbers to many thousands of lodges and
members and take high rank among the
benevolent enterprises of the age.