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Show i'iGE ion. ,tie Men of Mystery and flight leys Siloing and What They Are Going to Da. STlNfl NEWS AND NOTES. Recently Benovated Throne Boom f0r the Mark Degree of Master Jfasons of England. ' -rat ball, or throne room, for the k See of Master Masons ol England Wales adjacent to Freemasons' tav-1 tav-1 Queen street, London, was re-' re-' Ljw a meeting of the grand lodge re-'k re-'k This stately apartment has been '"L,ti with much skill and taste by .n.hlt!tiL Bro. Robert Ber- THE THRONJB ROOM. . associate member of the Institute of Engineers, and Bro.Charles H. Driver, j of the Royal Institution of British thitects, who are past grand masters of order. Besides the great hall there are lodge rooms, with accommodations for ionic lodges, chapters, conclaves and nrilsof every degree. The meetings of jrarirl lodge are henceforth to be quar-,j quar-,j instead of half yearly. Note. 'he Masonic relief fund for the Johns-rn Johns-rn sufferers reached the sum of $44,-15 $44,-15 Psansylvauia contributed $18,785.60; ir York, $0,941.40; Illinois', 14,7-18.80; Inns, In-ns, 2,5.18.45; Louisiana, $1,500; Massa-isttts, Massa-isttts, 11,475; New Jersey, $1,203,50, and jo, 11,202.25. ; ; . : . ' he New York state grand lodge Bible in the following inscription, "Presented P. M. Sewall Kisk to the grand lodge of re and Accepted Masons of the state of w York, June, 1855." The holy book is good condition, with the exception of bucks being Blightly scratched, and the ps are missing. For thirty-five years . this Great Light been spread at every nmunicution of the grand lodge. harles E.Meyer, in his recent historical f.ch relating to Royal Arch Masonry, inns that Jerusalem chapter, No. 3, of iadelphia, is the oldest chapter of Royal ch Masons in the world. Its minutes complete from 1767 to the present time. ). Meyer also claims that the Royal ch chapter of Pennsylvania is the oldest America. It was organized in 1795 by grand lodge of that jurisdiction, and itinued to hold this subordinate posie a until 1824, when it assumed the probative pro-bative of an independent and sovereign he Masonic assemblies fell into disre-te, disre-te, luws were passed against them and eir legality finally abolished in 1547. aonry took refuge in small independent ra coteries, of which we have many on otd, Anderson found an old tradition at an assembly was held in York about e year 15(i0, and au armed force was seut disperse it, but friends were made of its slers and the assembly was allowed to utinue its deliberations, rhe Duke of Connaught, the third son of :een Victoria, is not only a most enthu-i-tic Mason, but a prominent member of e craft, being a past grand warden of the mi lodgo of England, a grand officer of e grand lodge of Ireland, provincial and master of Sussex, England, and mbay, in the East Indies. n Masonic temple at Minneapolis, Is completed. It cost $338,183. The nnanent loan is $125,000. |