Evening star., 1927-10-01
TALL CEDARS HOLD
CEREMONIAL HERE
Several Thousand Parade
Up Avenue Prior to Initia-
ton at Willard.

To the tunes rendered by one
hundred piece band, drum and fife
corps. several thousand members of
the Tall Cedars of Lebanon, attired in
civilian clothes or gayly colored uni
forms. paraded up Pennsylvania ave-
nue. and a ceremonial in the Willard
Hotel last night, incident to the first
annual gathering of the seventeenth
district, Tall Cedars. The district IN
cludes Maryland, West Virginia anu
the District of Columbia.
The affair was under the auspices
of Capitol Forest, No. 104, OF this city,
and more than fifty new members
were initiated at the ceremony In the
Willard Hotel following the parade.
Starting at the Peace Monument at
2 o'clock, the parade, headed by su-
preme officers and district repre-
sentatives. swung up PennsylVanla
avenue to Fifteenth street, nortn 10
F street and east to the r street en-
: trance of the Willard Hotel. win
traffic halted on between Four
teenth and Fifteenth streets, the
Roval Ranger Drill Team from Har-
rishurg Pa. went through series
of intricate drills before cheering
throng.
Reeves Makes Address.
Capitol Forest, No. 1O4, the local
body. headed by Grand Tall Cedar
Alvah w. Patterson, officers ana mem
bers of the executive committee, Ioi-
lowed the supreme officers ana LIS.
trict representatives in the line OF
noarch. Next came Baltimore Forest,
No. As, led by officers, past presidents.
and including a band, rangers, fife ana
drum corps, together with more than
400 members. Hagerstown Forest,
No. 95, with it's officers, drum ana
bugle corps, followed. Last were the
officers Of Harrisburg, Pa. followed
by their drill team.
In the ceremony in the Wliiard
Hotel following the parade and drill,
Snnreme Tall Cedar Edmund H.
Reeves and Past Supreme Tall Cedars
were made honorary members OF the
local Forest. Mr.. Reeves responded
with brief address.
Grand Master of Masons Gratz E.
Dunkum, member of the Tall Cedars,
presented Alvah w. Patterson, Grand
Tall Cedar of Washington. with a gift
in token of appreciation for his work
in connection with the order In this
city.
Besides Mr.. Reeves. others high in
the organization attending the cere-
mony were:
Junior Deputy Supreme Tall Cedar
m. Franklin Brossman, Reading, Pa;
Supreme Scribe John M. Wright. |
Trenton, N. j.; Supreme Treasurer Au. !
gust Roemmele, Newark, N. j.; Su.
prenne Preceptor Louis G. Groh, Phila- |
delphia; Past Supreme Tall Cedar
Archey c. New, Baltimore; Past Su-
preme Tall Cedar j. Edgar Crater, |
Royersford, Pa; Supreme Representa-.
tives Ralph e. Merrell, Bridgeton, N.
T.; Samuel A. Schreckengaust, Harris |
burg, and George H. Hensler, Balti- |
more; Grand Tall Cedars j. Ralph
Fiery, Hagerstown; Preston Wright,
Baltimore, and Oscar j. Bogen, Har.
risburg, and Past Grand Tall Cedar
Charles A. Jaquette Of Capitol Forest,
No. 104, Washington.
Many Are Initiated.
Those initiated at the ceremony in
William Patterson Ames, Elmer II. |
Bailey, Robert S. Boyd, William H. |
Briscoe, Clarence Leroy Bullion, A. |
Thomas Burriss, Clarence e. Bush, |
Roy Hubert Dale, Arba M. carp. |
Frank w. Evans, Frank Richard |
Elliott, William A. Folger, George |
Mortimer Fox, Walter B. Fry. Paul |
s.. Gault, Julius B. Gay, Arthur r. |
Gilchrist, Lynn L. Gilchrist. Ernest |
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rett G. Huddleston, r. E. Johanson,
John George Gleun, Theodon c.
Lewis, Willard S. Lines. George w.
Madert, Ernest II. Miller. Herndon
Morsell. Joseph Paravati, Ernest o.
-Paland, John Westley Peters, Ed
ward ]. Peoples, Arthur G. Peterson.
Charles Henry Phillips, James Rob-
ertson. Joseph N. Romm, George
ANNA Rucker, John K. Russell, Win
field Scott, the commissioner Of pen
sions; James Clinton Shanholtzer,
Ernest M. Seaman. Sydney A. Ship
man, Almus Reed Speare, Percy P.
Sutton, Frank P Tscharrer, William
Franklin Warner, William Weis.
hacker, George Calvin Wells. Robert
Snead William, Joseph M. Wose,
Jacob Fl. White, ROLAND C. Young and
&. NJ. Zepp.
Earlier in the day the supreme off.
GERS were received by President Cool
idge at the White House, after which
they visited the tomb Of the Unknown
Soldier. where a wreath was placed
by Supreme Tall Cedar Reeves. The
Lee Mansion and other places Of in
1erest were included in tour yester
day afternoon.