The Washington times., 1923-06-05
ORIENTAL TEMPLE
HAS LONG HISTORY
AND NOTED PATROL
First Session Held I'm
1877 and Organiza=
tiOn Has Had GRAFT
:. flying Growth
Brig. Gen. Lloyd's
Part i'm Temples
Career.

0N February 81, 1877, the
first session Of Oriental
~ Temple was held in the
Masonic Temple. in Troy, N. Y,
q dispensation having been
granted on February Z, 1877.
Tllustrious Noble Jesse B. An
thony, who at that time and for
years after was a very prominent
figure in New York Masonic cir
cles, had journeyed to Cyprus, at
Albany, N. Y, and had been in
Quoted into the mysteries Of the
Mystic Shrine.
The first officers Of the temple
were: Jesse B. Anthony, illustrious
potentate; Lee Chamberlain, chief
rabban; William n. Hyde, high
priest and prophet: Theodore e.
Haslehurst, oriental guide; Gorton
p. Cozzens, treasurer; Edward B.
Cox. recorder; Alexander B. King,
first ceremonial master; George f.
Greene, second ceremonial master;
William F. Robertson, marshal;
Joseph w. Smart, captain of
guard; Charles Teson, outer
guard.
The next session was held in
December. 1873, when the temple
numbered sixteen mobiles. Not u
session was then held until Octo-
Der 10, 1885, when ten novices
were proposed, elected and crossed
the desert in short form. On Oc-
tober "a, 1885, six more novices
were admitted, and May 81, 1885,
four more.
In the early part of 1887 sew.
eral business sessions were held
and all told ninety novices were
elected preliminary to a proposed
''big ceremonial session"
FLEMING'S VISIT.
On April %, 1887, Illustrious
Noble Walter M. Fleming, past
imperial potentate, and then po-
tentate of the Mecca Temple, of
New York city, accompanied by
other officers and mobiles of Mecca
TO the number of 215, visited ORR
entail, assumed the stations and
created big clas4 of novices into
Mobiles of the Mystic Shrine.
This session was really the &C.
tual beginning Of the growth of
Oriental. The temple reported
to the imperial. council in Feb
ruary. 1883, a membership Of 12S
mobiles.
At the annual session, on De-
cember IS, 1887, the following OF.
ficers were installed into office:
Henry Stowell, illustrious poten-
tate; J. Seymour Toner, chief rab-
ban; William A. Lent, assistant
rabban; William Finder, jr., high
priest and prophet; Isaac F.
Handy, oriental guide; Oliver Dex-
ter, jr., treasurer; Edward B. Cox,
recorder; James H. Lloyd, first
ceremonial master; Robert Seitz,
second ceremonial master; Stephen
v. Sturtevant, marshall; John H.
Tappin, captain of guard; Charles
Teson. outer guard; George F.
Greene, music director.
At the 1888 annual session the
temple had a membership Of 1857.
From 1888 on the temple has
had a strong and healthy growth,
reporting to the imperial council
a membership on December 30,
1915, of 1887 mobiles.
FAMOUS PATROL.
Oriental Temple was extreme
ly fortunate in its early days in
numbering among its member
ship Brig. Gen. James H. Lloyd.
Noble Lloyd had a hobby-drill-
ing. Under his instruction the
Arab Patrol became a finely drill
ed body, capturing first prize at
Buffalo in 1899 and giving a
splendid exhibition drill at Wash.
ington in 1900. The patrol was in
evidence at Atlantic City in 1904
and in Rochester in 1871. On the
death Of Noble Lloyd, Major
Thomas w. Hislop took up this
task and the patrol still enjoys
its enWable reputation for It's eft.
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