Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-08-29
Among the Fraternities

/ Gently surprised Past Master J. B.
| Stringfellow in the celebration of
| the tenth anniversary of his wedding
| by making it an aluminium shower
/ instead of a "tin wedding"
| NJ NJ. Parker Lodge is busy with
| preparations for its annua! outing
| on THY steamer Northumberland from
Baltimore to Washington by way of
! Chesapeake bay and the Potomac.
| Saturday September IL. a special
| car leaving at pm. by way OF the
| Baltimore and Ohio railroad VIII con-
vey the party to Baltimore, where the
| boat will be taken at pm.
! Honorably discharged veterans of
| the world war who are members of
| the Masonic fraternity have been
| asked to meet in the banquet hall of
| Masonic Temple at o'clock Thurs
| day evening for purpose which is
| said to have the approval of the
grand master of the District, and
which will be explained at the meet
ing.
DR.. Frank +. Gibson. once famous
as commander of the Arab Patrol of
AImas Temple of the Mystic Shrine
and long in command of the drill
corps of Columbia Commandery
knights Templar writing from Bill
Frarley's Camps and Cabins, near Gull
but he is going to leave 1t for trip
which will take in Bar Harbor Craw-
ford's. in the White mountains, New
port. New York, Atlantic City and
then Home, Sweet Home" after La
Dor day.
The MaSons of Little Rock. Ark, are
busy with a project for the erection
of ''one of the largest. and most beau
tiful temples exclusively for Mason
ry in the world" The plan calls for
structure 800 feet in length, present
ing a majestic frontage of Ionic col
umns about thirtysix feet high, the
colonnade being reached by Il series
of steps. three and five at one end
seven in the middle and nine at the
other end. The temple viii be 100
feet in depth and. according to present
plans. consist of two stories. the first
being devoted exclusively to the use
of the Grand Lodge OF MaSonS Tor Ar
kansas and the second story tor all
the other bodies of f'reemaSonry. Be
tween this structure and that of the
new or enlarged Consistory Temple
will be court which will give both
structures the appearance from the
front of being one mammoth building.
The part of the structure TO be occu,
pied by the Scottish Rite bodies VIII
have a frontage of 100 feet and a
depth of 140 feet. The property on
which the proposed structure is to be
erected belongs to the scottish Kite
bodies. il is said, and the erection of
the new temple will depend largely
upon the mem bership of those bodies.
The board of trustees of the Scottish |
Rite is composed of seven men. OF
which Charles +. EoSenbaum. lieu
tenant grand commander of the Su-
preme Council for the Southern Jurls-
diction, is the president. space pre-
vents detailed description of the IN
terror of the proposed temple, nut
the architects drawing of the front
makes it a very beautiful building: |
and the floor plans disclose equal
beauty and admirable and spacious
arrangement of auditoriums. halls,
lodgerooms. banquet halls, dining
rooms and other necessary ana orna-
mental features
William Burton Green. the well
known secretary of Mount Pleasant
Lodge, No. SO, who has been fifty
years a Mason and is past patron
of Columbia Chapter. No. 10. .. +. s, |
was retired from the United States |
weather bureau after more than thirty !