Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-02-28
MASONS PLAN FOR
VERY ACTIVE YEAR
Two Big Building Projects, Here
and at Elizabethtown, Are
Under Consideration

The year of 1914 will mark num-
Der of important undertakings in the
Masonic circles of Harrisburg-the
purchase of ground for a handsome
new Scottish Rite cathedral to take
the place of the old building in North
street and the completion of plans for
the building of Dauphin county me-
mortal cottage at the great Masonic
home at Elizabethtown.
Plans for the new cathedral have
not as yet been made. The titles to
the site adjoining the present struc-
ture have been transferred and COM
mittees will be named at once to take
up the subject of new building. The
Scottish Rite body of the Valley of
Harrisburg is growing by leads and
bounds in numbers. 1t is rich and
powerful. The old church building in
North street is no longer large enough
to accommodate the membership and
the building project has been under
discussion for number of years. The
new cathedral will be the most elab
crate of its kind in the whole State
ana thousands or dollars will be Law
ished upon it.
The Dauphin County Memorial
committee has been at work collecting
FUNDS ever since the EliZabethtown
nome was assured. 1t now has more
than $4,000 in cash and more pledged.
1t has set $4,000 as its goal and ex-
poets to have the money in hand by
next year. The fund will be used for
the erection of a Dauphin county
building at the home, the architec-
| ture and general design of which will
be in harmony with the general de-
sign of the main buildings at Eliza
bethtown.
All OF these large buildings have
been completed and nearly 1870 guests
are being entertained constantly at
/ the home. In Il short time. it is un-
derstood, the aged Masons now resid-
ing at the Masonic home in Philadel-
phia will be transferred to Elizabeth
town and the work will be carried on
under one general head.
The Elizabethtown home is being
built and Is kept up by the Grand
Lodge of Pennsylvania. 1t is for in
digent and aged members of the fra
ternity and their wives. The place
is ideally located and is a model of
its kind.
Not once is the guest treated as
an inmate. Inere is not the ghost of
sign of charity The guests" are
Masons and entitled to the full limit
of the good things the Grand Lodge
and their brothers of the Grand
Lodge have provided. The air of the
home is like that of a resort, hotel
or club. There is no restraint Guests
go and come when they please and
good fellowship reigns everywhere.
When the cottages that are planned
S part Of the scheme of building
re all erected in groups around the
;entral building, which were the first
to go up and are now occupied. apart
ments will be provided where man
| nd wife may live as they would at
htn-. Light housekeeping will be
- outraged and the privacy of their
III chambers will be accorded to
-, This will remove, 1t is believed
= last vestige of home" life and
iaEe aged couples more content with
r',eii lot.
While the building is going forward
-iierks county having announced that
@ill erect a cottage during 1914
20 Identification of the admirably
Ithated grounds goes on and when
:. aplete the home will stand as
jewel in beautiful setting.