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Show KEYSTONE IS PLACED IN POSITION With Masonic ceremony, tho keystone key-stone of tho arch in the facade of tho new Commercial National bdnk on Twenty-fourth street, near the corner cor-ner of Washington avenue, was placed in position at 0:30 o'clock this morning morn-ing A. R. Koywood, Mayor Foil, Patrick Hcaly, Dennis Smvth, John S. Houtz, Robert Moyes and others connected with the bank gathered in front of the new building to witness this important im-portant act in the construction of tho beautiful structure which is to become tho new homo of tho institution. institu-tion. President Heywood was handed a square by one of tho workmen and he proceeded to test a block of Pnyune stone. He surprised Patrick Hcaly, tho newspaper representative and one or two others who did not quickly quick-ly grasp the meaning of the core-mony, core-mony, by rejecting tho keystone and ordering it thrown a3idc bpcauso the work was not square. Before Director Di-rector Healy's mollifying words could reach the man with the square, the order was given to raieo the stone to determine -whether' there was not some place where it would fit in, and. much to the relief of the uninitiated, unini-tiated, the block exactly fitted in to a Bap in the arch far above. When the stone masons came down fropi the ladders, they wore reprimanded. The whole ceremonv was tho enacting enact-ing of a passage In the Bible and when over with, the directors proceeded pro-ceeded to tho present quarters of tho bank, there to further signify their approval of the carrying out of their orders to build a now home Tor tho Commercial National. Thomas D. Ryan, president of the Amalgamated! Copper oornpa'. and his party of eastern bankers and capitalists cap-italists went cast over the Union Pacific Pa-cific to Omaha Thursday evening The I five-car special left this city at 7 ' P m.. |