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18 THE BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE. NEW YORK. SATURDAY. DECEMBER 13. 1902.

INSTRUCTION. ANCIENT ORDER UNITED WOBK William K. Jones: lecturer, William F. Mur nalia, electric lights and the fires coming down from above, the burnt offerings and musical selections presented a scene of unusual grandeur, seldom seen in a tabernacle and which it would be hard to surpass. Ex.

T. W. Franklin has no superior in the conferring of the most excellent degree. The Third is Sanctorum. MAY NEVER GOME TO PASS of them being donated by prominent officers in the Fourteenth Regiment and the A.

Kline Command No. 81. S. W. will be awarded.

Tickets for the affair, including refreshments, win be 50 cents each. Moltke Lodge's New Officers. The following officers were elected at the annual meeting of the Moltke Lodge No. 1,641. K.

O. H. T. Sengstake, ex dictator; L. Panzer, dictator; C.

Achenbach, vice dic DIRECTORY Of Fraternal Organizations. MASONIC. JOl'l'A, 201. every Wednesday, corner Court nd Joraiemun sts. Brooklyn.

JOHN C. THOMAS. Master. EENJ. P.WHEELER.

S.W.: ED. A. QUICK. J.W. CHAS.

H. BOYER. Treasure) M. H. RILEY.

Sec. 393 Adelphl St. Brooklyn. tator; H. Wilkenloh, assistant vice dicta tor; C.

v. Benles reporter: A. Bruenies. financial reporter; H. 0.

Mueller, treasurer; 3 Welbck.ctap ivd.teimtcK, inner guaru; men, outer guard; G. Graf, organist; L. F. Herold, lJt, aPPelman' others had to be pressed into service Moltke IHVI.VG, HOT. meets second and fourth Wednesdays, at Arlington Hall, corner Gates and Nos trand a vs.

THEO. PETTIT. M. 1ST Remsen St. A.

H. WAOF.NSEIL. Financier. 103 Richmond st. WARD B.

YEOMAN'S. Recorder. 102 Richmond at. MIZI'AH. aiJJ.

meets first anil third Thursdays at Bedford l.odite Rooms. 1,253 Bedford av. ROBERT J. FORMAN'. M.

127 Court St. WILLIAM DAVIS. Financier. 40 Pulaski st. O.

r)K 11. PTOlllV.rtn. Recorder. 35fM3ntes av. CATHOLIC KNIGHTS OF AMERICA.

THIS I'lOINISKK Fraternal Assessment Insurance Organization for Catholic Men and Women. Reserve fund. $560,000. For full Information address C. W.

CONKLIN. State Secretary. 224 Fifty fourth st, or OSWALD MAUNE. Suite '2fi'. Vernon av.

KNIGHTS OF ST. JOHN AND MALTA. PALESTINE. UM, G. It.

meets at 31a Washington st, on first, third and fifth Thursday evenings of etu'h mouth. LOUIS BEST. 470 Myrtle av. AXEL ANDERSON. 192 McDouaal at, N.

H. MURPHY. 65 Court st. BENEVOLENT PROTECTIVE OBDEB OF ELKS. ltKOOlvLY.V 22.

U. P. O. Klks, 123 Schermerhorn st. Meetings, Friday evenings.

AU Elks are. cordially welcome. Club House open every day. WILLIAM J. BUTTLING, Exalted Ruler.

MILO J. KNILL. Secretary. AMERICAN LEGION OF HOIUOB. SttUA, 400, first and third Mondays, at Johnston Building.

Nevins st. near Fulton. SELDEN S. GORDON. Hotel St.

George, Brooklyn FRED. KOENIG, Collector, 104 Nevins st. SKIDMORE PETTIT. Sec. 3,308 Fulton st, near Jefferson av, Richmond Hill.

OOOOQ CfOOOO OOOOO OOOOOOuuuOOt Fraternal Societies, ooooooooooooooocjoooooooo ooc The Eagle's Fraternal News; a Letter and an Answer. To the Editor of the Brooklyn Eagle: Some time ago you invited remarks on the negative side of the fraternal news, as that department is now conducted. In answer to your invitation I feel it my duty to submit the following in favor of the fraternal page that has been discontinued: De Long Council No. 725, R. has a membership to date of 1,164, and it has been my custom in the past, to read the council notice, as published in the Eagle, at each meeting of the council.

Not only for the entertainment of the members, but as a slight return of the courtesy of the Eagle in printing our notices. Since the change In method I have been questioned by various members as to the cause of the change, to which I could only reply mat I did not understand it myself. The opinions, as I gather them, are very much in favor of the former system, for the following reasons: First That every member of De Long Council knew that by reading the Saturday evening fraternal page of the Eagle he could find everything of interest, not only to De Long Conucii, but to the entire Brooklyn Hoyal Arcanum in general, with its local membership at present of nearly 20,000. Second Very many have complained of loss time in looking through the paper every night for something, the finding which is an uncertainty at best. Third At our meeting last Friday I informed the members that they might look for a De Long Council notice in the Eagle of Tuesday evening, December 9.

This notice was mailed Sunday night with a request tLat it be printed Tuesday evening. At the time of writing this I hav heen nnahln to find if in any part of Tuesday's Eagle. If it has been printed in some obscure part of the paper that will add another argument in favor of a return to the old system. In conclusion allow me to suggest that as this is the age of concentration, why not adopt one day for the fraternal news as formerly, that we may know where and when to look for items of interest. ELMER H.

VAN NAME, Chairman of Press Committee, De Long Council No. 725, R. A. The Eagle is pleased to receive and print this letter from Mr. Van Name.

His courteous expression of very sensible reasons entitles it to an answer which at the same time will be a reply to other respected correspondents. We will take Mr. Van Name's reasons for desiring a return to the Eagle's former plan of printing a page of fraternal society news each Saturdav erintnm Tftr ef It is true that members of De Long Council of the Royal Arcanum and of every other secret and benevolent society could find news which would interest them in Saturday's page under the old arrangement. It is just as true that the same readers can find news to interest them in the daily department of Fraternal Society News. It is to the benefit of its readers and of the Eagle that they should Una news to interest them in seven issues a week rather than one.

Second We submit that no time is lost which is so pleasantly and instructively occupied as in looking through the pages of the Eagle. It may take some time to find one particular Item, but this time Mr Van Name must agree, is well spent in gathering information or amusement from the' news or special articles encountered in the search. Third The reason the report of De Long Council's interesting meeting was not printed on Tuesday was that some lack of clearness in the penmanship of the note received made "Tuesday" look like "Thursday. The Eagle would rather have printed the news on Monday, but deferred it until Thursday because of the supposed wish of our correspondent. In addition the Eagle would like to submit the following to the thousands of its readers who are interested in fraternal organizations: Does the doings A muC0Iinclls and lodes make news or not? The Eagle believes that such activities make news.

That being so, what is the Eagle's duty? Plainly, it is to print accounts of such occurrences at the earliest possible moment. That is what this paper is trying to do. Instead of withholding interesting matter for several days it is printed as soon as is convenient. Would we be justified in holding tack police news court news or municipal news until a special day? If the fraternal organizations provide real news, why should publicity be de miiii in tne other kinds of ZflrLV.r 11,6 Eagle "ve 1Z, I of these societies make new tne present method of presenting their reports to its readers Furthermore, this paper is, by printing a daily column, enabled to devote more space and to t0 more organizations under the new than under the old. If however, u.r it terested readers preference for the weekly PaK rat'1 tne vii iiki.

oi course, accede wishes. Ed. their Crescent Chapter Election. Crescent Chapter. O.

E. will meet in the Amphion Building. Tuesday, December 16 ior tne election ol officers. Masons and members of other chapters cordially wel dobepn snort's Joseph Short, whose funeral services took cuueauu.v evening, was a member or Council No. 3, National Provident Union, and his beneficiary receives $2,000, the amount repre sented.on his bond.

To Exemplify Third Degree. The third degree will be exemplified hv phy; Arthur Diamond; warden, James J. Corcoran; Inside guard, John Carroll: outside guard. B. F.

Connolly; dele gate to chapter, Christopher N. Bellew; delegate to Labor Bureau, John H. Galla gher; board of Hugh Hart, Eugene V. Diamond and James L. costeiio.

Central Council No. 37, C. B. L. The following is a list of the officers elect ed for the year 1903 by Central Council No.

37, C. B. L. President, J. J.

Kelly, vice Hugh A' MTernan; treasurer, John Walsh; recording secretary. nomas r. urcurau, buu, orator, VI. V. O'Malley; marshal "no ti.

uonamson; guara, r. wuinn; irus tees, John J. Dixon, F. Miller, John Me Kinney; delegate to the state convention, J. F.

Miller; alternate, M. J. McCarty; dele gate to the Hospital Guild, M. J. McCarty.

Suffolk County Council, B. A. Following is the list oi newly elected offi cers for Suffolk County Council, No. 571, R. Bay Shore, for 1903: Representative to Grand Council, Dr.

E. Moore; alternate to Grand Council, S. W. Young; regent. S.

T. Cioch; vice regent, A. W. Barto; past regent; S. W.

Younc: orator. C. E. Brewster; secre tary, E. S.

Moore; collector, W. W. Shult; treasurer. Joseph Robbin; chaplain, R. S.

Crellis; guide, W. S. Downs; warden, w. A. Stumne; sentry, J.

M. Oakley; trustees. E. P. Strong.

G. R. Garrett and J. J. Reybert.

Valiant Council, B. A. At a regular meeting of Valiant Council No. 1,559, R. held in the lodge room, Dedworth Hall.

1.089 Broadway, Monday evening, December 8, the election of officers tor the ensuing year took place, resulting as follows: Representative to the urana Council, Thomas B. Comstock; alternate, George A. Taft: regent. Warren E. Smith; vice regent, William Schwenn; orator, John G.

Green way; past regent, is. it. nuaaers; secretary, Charles Behrman; collector, Charles E. Havens; treasurer, F. C.

Schulze, chaplain, Harry E. Richardson; guide, George W. Schulze; warden, William A. Moonan; sentry, G. A.

Grimmill; trustees, F. D. Nelson, F. Zirkel, J. A.

High Ground Council. High Ground Council No. 1,936, R. held its regular meeting on Thursday at the lodge rooms, Zamgle's Hall. Irving avenue and Bleecker street, Brooklyn.

Under Duty 16 election of officers was held. The officers for the ensuing year are: Regent, C. J. Darcy; vice regent, J. J.

Crosier; orator, W. J. Di neen; past regent, G. P. Clauss; secretary, T.

A. Crichton: collector, L. Hollenbeck; treasurer, A. Hoeffling; chaplain, H. L.

Martin; guide, H. F. Hoepfner; warden, E. Dauernheim; sentry, C. E.

Miller; trustee, P. E. Denzin; hospital bed fund, Dr. H. W.

Casey and Dr. D. G. Bodkin; employment bureau, J. C.

Moran and W. Lynch; Royal Arcanum day celebration, C. P. Hamilton and J. Darcv.

The next meeting of the council will be heid on December 27. Visiting brothers welcome. Royal Arcanum Election. A regular meeting of Fort Greene No. 1,048, R.

was held on Thursday evening, at its new lodge rooms, In the Oster man Building. As this was the first meeting in the new lodge rooms, a large attendance was present. Two new members were elected and initiated, and two were admitted by Supreme Representative Jones and Past Regent Lawrence of Flushing Council were present. Supreme RepresentaT tlve Jones addressed the council. The council was entertained with a number of mu7 sical selections, and twenty brothers were the lucky recipients of attendance prizes.

Bro. Sherk was presented with a' heautiful gold Royal Arcanum charm, in recognition of his services in obtaining new members for the council. The council then proceeded to the election of officers for the year 1903, and the following were elected: Representatives to the Grand Council, A. L. Kline, W.

E. Dormitzer, William Stoothoff, Edward Johnson; alternate representatives, E. B. Esterbrook, John A. Bennet, John W.

Eason, Charles H. Milliken; regent, Fred L. Smith; vice regent, William G. Sprott; orator, Emmanuel Newman; secretary, William H. Lynch; collector, William Stoothoff; treasurer, E.

B. Esterbrook; chaplain, Bertram N. Manne guide, John Van Zuilen warden, John H. Porter; sentry. John A.

Murphy; organist, James F. Welch; trustee, Arthur TV Lynch. After the election. Supreme Representative Jones invited the newly elected officers to attend a stag reception, to be held" at the Royal Arcanum Club to night. The next meeting of the council will take place on FridayDecember 26.

FOR "ADVISORY" ALDERMEN. Critic Thinks Power to Hurt City Should Be Taken From the Board. To the Editor of the Brooklyn Eagle: I am moved, as many have been before me, to deplore the power that is vested in the Board of Aldermen, which allows them to stand in the way of public good and the wishes of the people. The obstructions placed in the way of the Pennsylvania Railroad" franchise are a crying shame upon our present method of city government. The writer well knows and appreciates the fact that there are honest men on the Aldermanic Board, whose chief interest is the city's welfare, but these men are in a minority and we have to be contented to see them shine out of the blackness and corruption "like a good deed in a naughty world." It would be a long step in the direction of honest municipal government if the Board of Aldermen could be changed into an advisory board.

Shorn of its power to obstruct and interfere, it could meet at stated times and recommend such measures as might be deemed well, for the city's welfare. Such recommendations could then be presented to the Mayor and his cabinet, whn would be vested with the power to accept or reject them. This cabinet is made up of the city's business managers, and should pass upon all questions that affect the city's needs. It would be by no means difficult to get honest men from the various wards to serve on the advisory board at an honorarium of say $100 per year to defray traveling expenses, and thus do away with the heelers and peanut politicians whose only God Is their own pocketbook and whose civic pride consists solely of their own greed. Honorable men of good standing, who would be satisfied to serve the city for its good and not for cash, could be found without trouble.

The office would bring with it much local honor and recommend itself to men of this class, who would realize that in serving the city's best interests they would be serving their own, for, being broad minded, they would endeavor to promulgate the doctrine of the greatest good to the greatest number. VINCENT LeROY. Brooklyn. December 1902. INDIAN MISSIONABY WOBK.

Wherein the Bace Is Working Out Its Own Salvation. (From the Southern Workman.) In the working out of the Indian problem of to day perhaps no influence is more potent than that of the native missionary. The transition period of thi3 race is the most critical in Indian history, but it is in this period that the most effective work for the salvation of this neoulo has been plished, through the co operation of the government school pupil and the native missionary. But the latter Is tho factor by ich the is working out its own salvation. And this is worth noting because it Is claimed that no race which has not worked out its own salvation has ever amounted to anything.

We think we are justified in say that without the missionary's aid the government would still have to maintain in tne Indian couutry, at great expense, large military forces for the control of the red man. The most visible results of missionary work among these people are in their relations to one another. The Winchester rifle, once the arbitrator of disputes, is laid aside that justice may be rendered in a civilized manner. The relations of the whites and Indians near the reservation borders, too, are. more friendly.

Thefts and drunkenness are lesR frequent. In domestic life the marriage vow is held more sacred, and grandparents are treated with more respect. Cleanliness and cheerfulness are now characteristic of many homes. These results have been brought about by the schools, and not only the children, but the parents as well, take pride In furnishing comfortably their humble cabins and in adorning the walls with bright The Baffle arena. Full particuioii.

lutuicr huj cumlORues, circulars, of universities, colleges, private schools and private teaehera advertised In these columns may be bad free of eharse by caDing at the EAGLE FREE INFORMATION BUREAU, fourth floor. Eagle BulldiriK. For Both Sexes. WO0DT BROOKLYN SCHOOL. BUSINESS AND SHORTHAND.

BROADWAY AND BEDFORD AV. Success briphteno and cheers. In one month Brooklynites have acquired the saylnff. Wood la tho bes COME AND SEE. The beautifully decorated rooms, the handsome new rurniture.

the sunshine pouring li from all Ices form an Ideal environment. Attractive rates ct tuition in the day and night sessions. Call write or telephone 1.978 Willlnmsburph. F. E.

WOOD SON. SUPPLIED WITH POSITIONS EVERY PUPIL, STUDYING SHORTHAND With me, In ten weeks to three months. Averaga uiary to stprt js individual instruction. ESTABLISHED im. CHAS.

F. YOUNG, 148 Montague St. HEFFLEY SCHOOL A UNIVERSITY IX SCOPE. Law, journalism, business, stenog raphy, tynewrltinc. Iancuatres Retrents.

nrpimra tory. high school and college courses. Day and "venmB. liegin now. taii.

write or telephone. AuiijiAA i iju.tt., "J4" Ryrscn street. New York Preparatory School, BROOKLYN RRAtCPH T(1T? A I.CMPV CP Day and evening divisions, prepares for College Regents" examinations. Special attention to back word boys. BEGIN NOW.

Catalogues, jal tf STENOGRAPHY. TYPEWRITING. Bookkeeping. MuMc. Elocution, Civil Service; day or evening; stenographers' speed classes.

$1 month ly, waltz and two ste. guaranteed, $4 (private t. HTis hku 140 Kort Greene place. LANGUAGES. ME BERLITZ SCHOOL OP LANGUAGES 73 Court St, Brooklyn.

wow terms begin now. Trial lesson free. Bryant St rut ton Bnsine.sM College And School of Stenography. DAY AND EVENING SESSIONS. C.

CLAGHOHM. Principal. Fulton st. corner Bedford av. MUSICAL A PRACTICAL AND EXPERIENCED TEACH for piano or voice culture.

beginners or advanced. Rapid progress for young or old. Arrangements can be made for pupils at their home. Address Mrs. L.

RAE BO WEN. 163 Madison st. DANCING. WM. PITT RIVERS.

KNAPP MANSION. 554 Bedford avenue, corner of Ross street. Class and I't ivau Instruction In DANCING AND PHYSICAL. CULTURE. Branch Schools: SI New York avenue, noar Pacific street, Brooklyn.

"Hotel Majestic." Central Park West, 72d st. New York. Knapp Mansion open for engagements. PROPOSALS. STATE OF NEW YORK STATE COMMISSION IN LUNACY.

NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS. Sealed propoxate fur plumbing improvements. Alale Department, liasvnient Toilets. Wards 14. nnd 22; Female Wards A.

and East Boiler House, at the Manhattan State Hospital. East, Ward's Islnd. New York, may be sent by mail, or delivered in person, up to ten o'clock A. on Saturday, the 20th day of December, 1902, to the State Commission In Lunacy, in the Capitol, at Albany. N.

Y. Drawings and specifications may be consulted and blank forms of proposal obtained at the Office of F. A. Wheeler. Purchasing Steward.

No. 305 Broadway, New York City, and at the office of L. Heins. State Architect. Capitol.

Albany. N. Y. Contract will be awarded to the lowest responsible and reliable bidder, unless the bids exceed th amount of funds available therefor, in which case the State Commission In Lunacy reserves the right to reject all bids. T.

E. McGARR. Secretary. State Commission In Lunacy. Albany.

December 4. 1P02. dlO 13 17 3t ILLNESS FROM INSULATION. Critic Says Man and Beast Suffer From Asphalt Pavement and Rubber Shoes. To the Editor of the Brooklyn Eagle: The following paragraph from a quoted article in the Eagle of December 1 suggests mournful reflections.

It reads: "The humane method of handling horses" mouths and operating on diseased teeth has been confined to the last few years. While it is still In its infancy, yet nearly all the operations that are practiced on human teeth are now practiced on the horse." So the horse can now claim to be. like man himself, one of the family of highly civilized animals in this twentieth century! Even cows, on the strength of their degeneracy from perfect health, so far as to suffer from true pulmonary consumption, may also fairly lay claim to a like distinction. What is the cause of the fall of these arjimals' to the low level of human health frailties? Why is it so difficult for the truth about it to find To the first the answer is: Increased insulation of the animals' feet from the ground does it. Rubber pads are being extensively used on horses' loci; they have to travel more and more on insulated asphalt pavements and they are stalled on dry board floors, frequently having to climb up one or more pairs of stairs to their beds, like instead of the rational and absolutely necessary, but old fashioned, method of letting them stand and lie on stone pavement, or the earth.

Cows stalled on board floors through the cold winter months, with litter as dry as tinder, often develop consumption, foot and mouth 'disease or other troubles, on account of the artificial and quite unnatural conditions to which they arc subjected. Why do maie bovines never have consumption? As to why this is not recognized and acted upon, perhaps the old, wearisome question of ethics, phis proiits. troubles the veterinary school, as that time honored fetich has long done the doctors. It is more or less profitable, no doubt to tinker with horses' teeth and to superintend the compulsory slaughter of diseased herds, as it certainly is to stuff humanity wi ll potions and pills. Why should either profession drop their ethics and starve? In the Medical Examiner and Practitioner of New York of December.

lfiOl, a medical authority says (page fiS'i): "The necro in America is oxtrcmciy subject to consumption. This seems to date largely from his coming to freedom. The death rate of the negro in Charleston, h. C. in IStiO was 12 per while in 1 it had increased to 29.1 per 1.000": which high rate continues.

In 1S60 the blacks were slaves and healthy, because they all went on their bare feet. Freedom meant an immediate adoption of our shoes and insulation from ihe earth, with, of course, destruction of their health. While it may be temerity to do so, I think It is reasonable to blame the press for its lack of proper interest in bringing this subject prominently before the public as it ought to be brought, so that people might derive the many benefits that would certainly accrue from its serious consideration, not only to themselves, but to the animals In their charge as well. It is needless to mention that thousands of horse and other stock keepers would be glad to have these hints and In many cases would act upon them. The insulation of ourselves by our shoes is preventable, even while we continue to wear there, bv simple and practical means.

We se frequent re'e ence to thousands of school children suffering from eye troubles. I am prepared to make a public demonstration of the fact that, with proper electrical or nerve connection of these children's feet, through their shoe soles, with the ground, tbpy will not be so afflicted. If any one will wear common rubbers regularly for several days he will have weak and probably sore eyes. Rubber is more insulating than leather is. But Ihe continual partial insulation of shoes Is injurious to every one, which injury, in the case of school children, shows itself in the organs subjected to unwonted strain, their eyes.

My discovery is that we suffer in health because we do not hava the natural nerve or electrical contact with ihe enrth, our zero; that our shoes and asphalt pavements, disconnect and deny us that contact and thus keeps our bodies at a high and damaging electric or nervous tension. If this is true, then the surcharging of the atmosphere all around its in cities with more and more free electricity, from telceraph. telephone, folley and electric light wires, ought to surcharge and damage ou' bodies more and more. That such Is the fact is seen plainly, not onlv in the case of the school children, but in a parallel increase of nervous diseases everywhere. GEORGE QUARRIE.

019 Belmont avenue, Brooklyn, December 4, 1902. LO.N'U ISLAXD, 382. meets llrst and third Thursdays, at 153 Pierrepont st. GEORGE G. POOK.

Master. LOUIS ARNOLD. S. W. JAP.

S. LAWSON. J. W. O.

L. CLARK. Secretary. 566 Tenth St. H.

BLACKMORE. Treasurer. COMMON WEALTH, 405). every Tuesday. 153 Pierrepont st.

ALFRED L. MADISON. Master. ED. W.

WRIGHT. S. A. L. WRIGHT, J.

W. THEO. A. TAYLOR. Treas.

J. CAMPRELL. Sec. P. O.

Box 161. Brooklyn. BfcLTA, 431, tirst. third anil tirth Tuesdays, 46 Court st. corner of Joralemun.

CHARLES J. FISHER. Master. GEO. MAURER.

S.W.; CHAS. F. H. PAGAN, J.W. SETH M.

COFFIN. Treasurer. EDWIN SCHOFIELD Secretary, 1.54S Paclflc st. ZjKKliDATHA, 4S3, every Monday at Court and Schermerhorn sts. PETER P.

NETLAND, Master. EDWARD A. SYTZ. Senior Warden. ALBERT A.

LEYPOLDT. Junior Warden. WM. D. MeCLT'RE.

Sec. 266 Dean at. lilttiu VV (too. COS). Seventh av and Ninth t.

Brooklyn (Acme Hull), meets first unt third Thursdays. AUGUSTUS WOLFF. Master. WM. J.

ALLEN, Senior Warden. JULIUS WOLFF. Junior Warden. JOHN MILLER Secretary. SSO Tenth at.

CRiMAL WAVE, Utfte, meets second and fourth Wednesday at Johnston Building. No. 14 Nevins st. FRANKLIN J. SPAULDING, Master.

FRED. M. GODDARD. Senior Warden. J.

HARRY RUWE, Junior Warden. HENRY EDEROHLS. Secretary. 190 Garfield pi. CAMBK1DUK, meets second, fourth and fifth Mondays of each month, corner Court and Joralemon sts.

Brooklyn. Master's address. Fifth and Ovlngton ava, Brooklyn. Secretary's address. 64 Herkimer place, Brooklyn.

ALLEMAMA, T40. meets lirst and third Mondays at Commonwealth Hall. 153 Pierrepont st. HENRY PAULSEN. Master, II APEL, S.

HERMAN LUEDEMAN, J. A. W. HOHN. Treasurer.

CHRIS. SIEVERS, Secretary, 50 Willow place. AXTHO.V 7l, first, third and filth Mondays at Clinton Hall, S97 Gates ov. r.ear Reid. GEORGE A.

LOWES. Master. IRVING R. STARRETT, S. GEO.

PEARSE. J. W. W. JAMES A.

PRESS, Treasurer; WILLIAM B. MAAS. Secretary, 974 Bedford av. MINERVA. first and third Wednesdays, Acme Hall, corner Ninth st and Seventh 9.V.

FRaNK W. ROBBINS. Wor. Master, DAN'L H. STARR.

S. W. S. J. BRIDF.N, J.

W. CHAS. w. TANDY, Treasurer. J.

HARRY CONLIN. Pec. 36S Sixth st. Brooklyn. KEDRO.V, SOS, Boy 18th st and Rutherford pi, Bath Bench.

Meets first, third and fifth Tuesdays. GEO. L. DINGMAN. W.M.

C. D. BACHMAN. S.W. J.

B. WASHBURN. J. W. W.

R. YOSBURGH. Secretary, 57 BAY' 17th st. Brooklyn. K.ILWIAIVI1VG.

second and fourth Thursdays at Arcanum Hall. 1.250 Bedford av. WM. R. YOUNG.

Master. THOS. R. FLEMING. S.

JAMES HAT. J. W. DAVID B. FLEMING.

Treasurer. THOS. J. SCOTT. Sec.

S65 Warren st. ACANTHUS. meets first and third Mondays at Aurora Grata Cathedral, Bedford av. atid Madison st. EDMUND T.

WILLETS. M. Master. CLARENCE W. WILLETS, S.

W. HOMER L. SARTLETT. J. W.

WILLIAM BOWER, Si cretary. 1.2S0 Bushwlck av. BOYAL ABCH CHAPTER. BROOKLYN, 14S, first and third Mondays, Fulton Building, cor. Bedford av and Fulton st.

E. W. VAN' VRANKEN. HiKh Priest. WM.H.WOODCOCK, King: G.

E. PEARCE, Scribe. jttH ti. i rreasurer. G.

H. KBNECKE. Secretary. 21 Van Buren st. MYSTIC SHRINE.

KISMET. Aurora Grata Cathedral 'mont. monthly on call, except July, August and Sept. iu.sutt, illustrious Potentate. JAMES H.

ROLLINS. Chief Rabban. J. W. RICHARDSON.

High Priest and Pronhet. JOHN D. ACKER. Recorder. County Court House.

BROOKLYN MASONIC VETERANS. BROOKLYN MASONIC VETERANS. In Saturday of each month, at Aurora Grata Cathedral. W. IRVING COMIiS, FRED.

L. JEN KIN'S. Vice CHAS. W. COVVTAN.

Treas JOS. W. STOPFOHD, Cor. Sec. WM.

L. GARDNER. Rec. Sec. 1.007 Hancock st.

ANCIENT AND ACCEPTED SCOTTISH RITE. BROOKLYN CONSISTORY NO. 24, 1 R. 32d degree, meets 2d and 4th Mondays in Johnston Building, Nevins st, near Flatbush av ISAAC W. JACOBSON, Com.

in Chief P. HERBST. 1st L. C. A.

J. PIDDIAN, 2d L. A. WILLIAMS, Sec. 209 Bay 22d st.

Brooklyn. J. F. WALLBERG. Treas EASTERN STAR.

STELLA, liivilist and third Saturdays at Com ccunwealth Hall, 153 Pierrepont st. Mrs. NELLIE FINLAY. Matron JOHN L. JUDGE, Patron.

Mrs. KATE M. HILTON. Associate Matron AI.ONZO J. BURTON.

Sec. 107 Broadway. Man. BAIi STAR, 81. meets first and third Tuss days.

Day's Hall, Third av and Fifty fourth st Brooklyn. Mrs. EELINA BECK. W. M.

EDWARD PURVIS. W. P. Mrs. ANGIE M.

VOFREI. A.M 51r EMMA A. SMITH. Sec. 229 Fifty second 'st HOME CIRCLE.

BROOKLYN, Mi, meets second and fourth Fridays at Wilbur Hall. 6 Brooklyn av. Brooklyn at I H. Leader. THOMAS HALL WYATT, 214 Hancock st Secretary.

DANIEL E. CHRISTIE. S30 Jefferson av Financier. A. B.

COMBS. 346 Decatur st FORESTERS OF AMERICA. t'Ol'BT RIIMJKWOOD. 04. meets and 4th Fridays, Co operative Hall, Howard av and Madison st.

AMOS M. R1TCH. M. Chief Ramter Physician, ill Putnam av JOS. W.

WELCH. Fin. Sec. 212 Greene nv. INDEPENDENT ORDER FORESTERS.

INDEPENDENT ORDER OK FORESTERS Has a membership of 185.000 and a surplus fund of S4.S59.000.no on May 1, l9w. Admits either but in sepiinue courty. and pays old age total disability and death benefits. FRANK HAND. D.

S. C. Superintendent Organizers! 100 Pineapple at. Brooklyn. NATIONAL PROVIDENT UNION.

SOI TH BROOKLYN CONCLAVE OF Al. LIED COUNCILS OF NATIONAL PROVIDENT I MON. Ol'jeet: To promote a fraternul f. Uns anions the several ouiicIIs, to promote social inttTn'Uie and a stt tuly growth of the ordtr at lai' OHlecrs: DAVID M. EVANS Pres HARMON T1IATFORD.

Vic STEPHFV TVeTA hull man Entertainment Committee: w. I. hKE, i i M'irniim writnn izaiion inoarn: HARMON THT Fi.iRD. Chairman Investigating Committee. WOODMEN OF THE WORLD.

AXAWA.VUA CAMP, 2 meets first, third and tlfth WVunesday evenings at Decorior Hall Total membership. May 1. 1902, 232,600. SSOO to I uiMK. ius at ueain.

raueu assessment rates A J100 monument placed at the grave of every deceased member. Total disability benefits at 70 years of age. A. BATY. Clerk.

S61 Greene av. KNIGHTS OF THE MACCABEES. it, lirai and third Mondays at Acme st. corner Seventh av. JOHN SORENsON, Commander.

WALTER RAARUP, Record Keeper. 463 Shepherd avenue. OSCAR OLSSON, Finance Keeper. HENRY ERICICSEN. Past Commander.

ROYAL ARCANUM. LONG ISLAND, 1 7, business, set end and fourth Fridays: social, first, third and fifth Fridays. Commonwealth Hall. 153 Pierrepont st. FREDERICK C.

WERNER. RoKont. WILLARD A. MFRRITT. Pec.

153 Madison St. JAM17' uynnoiry rii.nr P. Box 775 1 RA'I EH.MTY. fil4. meets Mrst, third and fifth Mondays.

16 Graham av, Brooklyn. All brothers welcome. WM. E. BRILL.

Collector. 175 Covert at. A. HARRISON. Secretary.

542 Hancock st. jiA.v. rcs e. UAY.VE. Regent.

PMILADELPHOS. 502, second and fourth Mondays, at Arlington Hall. Gates and Nostrand avenues, HORATIO C. BERRY. Regent.

OLIER Secretary. S.730 Seventeenth av: P. .1. BARTHEU Collector. 504 Gates av.

DE LONG, Tar, first, third and fifth Fridays al Post Office 16 Graham av Visitors welcome. GEO. W. KING. Regent.

M. E. DOYLE, Sec 613 Bedford av. E. RAYMOND.

Urouuwny. FORT GREENE. l.OIS, second and fourth Thursdays ut Johnston Building. Fulton and Nevins sts Col. ARDOLPH L.

KLINE, Regent. W.M. H. LYNCH, Secrctarv. 353 Dean st.

W.M. STOOTHOFF. Collector. 417 Fulton st. VI'IERITY, meets tlrat.

third, tiftti Tuesdays. Hurt's Hall. 1. 030 Gates uv. Sanctorum Lodge held a regular meeting on Friday evening last.

Although the weather 1 a. usual amount wa i ranged for a past masters' night, but owing to the unavoidable absence of several of Wor. Bro. Hnrvfiv occunied the east in the first section and R. Wor.

AVilliam H. Sutton in the second section. Wor. Bros. Marshall Thielcr, Gabel.

Reiter. Morris. Wrigley Burnham, Schroeder and Lange took part in the work and rendered efficient service during the ceremonies. Wor. Bro.

Glasing marshaled the twelve fellowcrafts and pertormed the firing ntr lH nllahla mnnn A notable incident of the evening was h'e presence in the lodge room of Uro. Fiorlan, the hero of a shipwreck, who related his marvelous experience and received the congratulations of his associates on his remarkable escape from a watery grave. Catholic Benevolent Legion. The grand inaugural of Triune Council was the scene of a brilliant gathering of dis tinguished legionites Wednesday evening. ine new council represents the consolidated membership of St.

Ambrose, Laiay ette and Fleur de Lis councils. The occa I sion can truly be classified among the big events in legion history. Comrade John E. Dunn, representative to the Supreme Council from New Jersey, brought congratulations from his state and enthused his hearers with an eloquent appeal. State President John A.

Henneberry was the recipient of a demonstration of confidence. Past District Deputies John W. Devoy and Martin Judge and District Deputy Edmund A. Whalen briefly addressed and congratulated the new council and its officers. Comrades Kehoe, Fitzpatrick, Taylor, Gilbert, Lloyd, A.

G. Mitchell and others entertained with tmusic. St. John's Chapel Council No. 1 elected the following President, William J.

Cunningham; vice president, Gilbert Lloyd; orator, Thomas F. Donohue; chancellor, Ed ward Li. Shea; secretary, Edward A. King; collector, Alex. G.

Mitchell; treasurer, Jo seph Russ; marshal, James McCarthy; guard John McCormick; trustees, James McCarthy, Thomas F. Donohue and John McCormick; chaplain, the Rev. John J. Mallen; representative to the state convention, Joseph Russ; alternate, Edward A. King; delegate to Hospital Guild, Nicholas Doyle; organist.

Gilbert Lloyd. After adjournment the officers attended the institution of Triune Council. Comrade John E. Dunn, the eloquent representative to the Supreme Council from New Jersey, will be the orator at the meeting of District No. 1, Sunday.

December 28. Elected Officers. At the annual meeting of Morning Star Council No. 680. R.

A held in its rooms, Johnston Building, 10 Nevins street, on Wednesday evening, the following officers were elected for the ensuing year: Representatives to Grand Council, Miles F. Mc Partland and William F. Holmes; alternates, Edwin Bayha and Sylvester H. Downey; regent, Thomas Hill; vice regent, Milton Greenwood; orator, William F. Spanlove; past regent, M.

F. McPartland; secretary, William R. Kerr; collector. Joseph M. Palmer; treasurer, William McChesney; chaplain, John C.

Brooks; guide. William H. Haywood; warden, John J. Walsh; sentry, John Wilson; trustees, George W. Lambertson, Louis A.

Schroeder, Washington T. De Traine; organist, Arthur M. Williamson. In Lefferts Council No. 1,452 these officers have been elected: Representative to Grand Council, Bertram M.

Downs; alternate. Dr. W. S. Treadwell; regent, W.

W. Smith; vice regent, William H. Brandt; orator, H. Watts; past regent, Bertram Downs; secretary, E. J.

Adams; treasurer, Thomas Marsh; collector, George Shearman; chaplain, H. Martin; guide, B. P. Renzone; warden. H.

May land; sentry, W. A. Snow; trustees, Charles Adams, F. A. Waterman, H.

V. Raymond. The election of officers for Ridgewood Council No. 678, Royal Arcanum, for 1903 on Wednesday evening, resulted as follows: Representatives to Grand Council, Past Regents George H. Warwick.

J. F. Fink and A. L. Tuttle; alternates, Past Regents E.

F. Dickieson, S. O. Barnett and W. L.

Pangborn; regent, Robert H. Burchell, from vice regent; vice regent, John T. Bladen, from orator; orator, Edmund Luther, from floor; past regent, George H. Warwick, from regent; secretary, W. L.

Kneeland, re elected; collector, George L. White, re elected; treasurer, James Williamson, re elected; chaplain, F. R. Baxter, from guide; guide. O.

Kune mund, from floor; warden, J. W. Collins, from floor; sentry, F. Sprague, re elected; organist, R. Pfeiffer, re elected.

Trustees, F. Van Wyck, one year; W. M. Mayo, two years; R. Mills, three years.

Delegates: Royal Arcanum Hospital Association, Past Regents W. S. Pangborn and J. F. Fink; Royal Arcanum Employment Bureau, J.

Williamson and F. R. Evans; Royal Arcanum outing day, J. W. Collins, alternate.

F. E. White; Royal Arcanum Building, J. Williamson. Owing to the fourth Wednesday in December falling on Christmas eve, the 35th annual communication of Crystal Wave Lodge No.

368. F. and A. was held last Wednesday evening. After the reports of the treasurer and secretary had been read, Wor.

Bro. Spaulding placed the gavel in the hands of Wor. Henry Rogers, who presided during the election and installed the officers, assisted by Wor. W. J.

Allen as grand marshal. The election, which was very harmonious, resulted in the choice of F. M. Goddard, master; J. H.

Rune, S. L. A. Disbrow, J. W.

C. F. Graves, treasurer; Henry Ede bohls. secretary, and H. L.

Birdsall, trustee for three years, with the following staff of appointed officers: F. J. Spaulding, marshal; W. J. Athertnn, chaplain; W.

J. Bloomingdale. S. D. W.

F. Revoire, J. D. F. G.

Ortt, S. M. Charles C. Severance, J. M.

C. R. L. German, S. J.

R. Fen niman. J. Herbert Allison, organist; J. A.

Haven, tiler; W. J. Allen, historian. Among those present were Wor. Bros.

Judge or jazel and need, Rogers, Graves, Allen, Edebohls, Gage and Haven of Crystal Wave Lodge. Kings County Lodge No. 1016. On Dec. 11 Kings County Lodge No.

1.016, K. and L. of held its quarterly meeting auu election oi omcers. 1 no lonowing were elected: Fred Athing, past protector; Mar garetho Deininger, protector; Elizabeth Maneher. vice protector'; Louise Athing.

recording secretary; Thekla Phillips, finan cial secretary; James Phillips, treasurer; Sophie Shulthels, chaplain; Kittie Dielker. guide; Madge Rabung, guardian; Paul Rabune. sentinel: Bernard Thini nrnniuf delegates for the hospital bed fund, Brother Athing. James Phillips and Louise Athing; trustees, Brother Athing, Brother Shultheis and Brother Fort. Elected Officers in Ezel.

Ezel Lodge held its annual communication on Thursday, December 11. Everything was harmonious. The election of officers for ensuing year took place, with the following result: Master, John L. Judge; senior warden, Theo P. Wiisnack: junior warden.

an; secretary, josephWilliar Howard B. Small; secretary, Joseph ig all re elected; treas Nichol; senior deacon, John H. Bell, Wllliaei V. Doty. The installing officers were R.

Wor. Moses S. Silveira and Wor. J. F.

Golding. brothers of Ezel. Their popular ortpnist, Henry Eyre Browne will in the future continue to add nleasnre I to the work. A ger.d start is made for a busv eeason. there being four candidates for the 1 entered apprentice degree, and several i brothers waiting for advancement.

Election in Covenant Lodge. At the annual meeting of Covenant Lodge No. 758, F. and A. the following officers were elected and installed: Harry L.

Traub, master; Charles E. Brown, senior warden; Edwin W. Hartough, junior warden; Thomas' W. Franklin, treasurer: Edgar D. Davis, ecretary; Lester W.

Beasley, William Purdy and Edward W. Cooper, trustees. The next communication will be held January 14. Leo Council No. 422, K.

of C. The following officers of Leo Council No. 422. K. were elected for the year 1903 Grand knlgnt, George K.

Duffy; deputy grand knight, Hugh McAfee; treasurer, John J. Morrow: financial secretary, William J. Leonard; recorder, Michael F. Murphy; chaplain, the Rev. W.

L. Blake; chancellor, Failure of the Mayor to Act Under the Morgan Law May Kill Merger Scheme. DELAY CAUSES DISSATISFACTION The Brooklyn Library 'Association May Withdraw From Its Agreement to Consolidate. The consolidation of the Brooklyn Library with the Brooklyn Public Library system, for which many public spirited citizens of Brooklyn have toiled and perspired, appears to be in danger of falling through, when ft has been regarded almost as achieved. When Assemblyman John Hill Morgan succeeded at the last session of the Legislature In having passed a bill authorizing the consolidation the friends" of the movement believed the critical part of the work had been accomplished.

The terms of the act Were approved by the authorities of both institutions and the Mayor was delegated to bring about the merger. The friends of the movement are now asking each other what has become of the Morgan library act. When an Eagle reporter asked W. A. White, president of the Brooklyn Library Association, to day this question his only reply was that it was still in the hands of the Mayor.

It is known, however, that many of the members of the Brooklyn Li brary Association are dissatisfied with what they regard as a needless delay and have hinted at an intention of withdrawing their consent to the consolidation, unless the Mayor takes action at once. The inside history of the attempted merger of the two institutions, with the reasons for the delay on the part of Mayor Low, form an interesting chapter in library affairs in Brooklyn. It has been whispered for a long time that the more ocdve members of the so called Committee of Fifty do not approve the provisions of the Morgan act and that the Mayor has been largely influenced in the course of inaction which he has adopted by these men The Committee of Fifty are the vigilantes of Brooklyn and for several years have been active in ail public matters in the city ami borough. The committee comprises such men as ex Mayor. Charles A.

Sc.hieion, Ludwig Nissen, Herman A. Metz and Fred V. Uiurichs. Certain members of the Committee of it is said, persuaded the Mayor that the clause of the Morgan act. providing for a self perpetuating board of directors for the new consolidated library, was unwise.

The Mayor has expressed this opinion and has proposed an amendment to the act which would provide for the appointment bv the Mayor of one half the boardthe half which will represent the Brooklyn Public Library under the terms agreed upon lor the merger. When this amendment was submitted to the authorities of both libraries it met no very strong opposition, the Brooklyn Li brary insisting only that the Dower of tier petuating the half of the board allotted to tnem be conserved, The Mayor's idea. wa approved, with the understanding that the consolidation should be effected as speedily as possible and the amendment submitted to ine Legislature later. This was several months hut Atavip Low has done nothing yet and a member of the Committee of Fiftv not ennneetnrt with either of the institutions involved in the consolidation stated recently in positive terms that nothing would be done toward the consolidation until after the Legislature) uau passed certain amendments which would submitted at the coming session. It is the confidence with which thisVasser tion has been made, with the implied influence of the Committee of Fifty with the mayor, auc ine apparent verification nt thn prediction, that has nettled the authorities of the Brooklyn Library.

They feel naturally enough, that the advice of those however great their public spirit and however pure their motives, are nevertheless outsiders In a sense, should not block a transaction in which they are directly interested. iv ueu me aiayor nas oeen questioned about the merger he has' invariably replied that he was waiting for a proper form of contract to be drawn by the corooration coun sel. The. man who has charge of the drawing of this contract is James McKeen, assistant corporation counsel, in charge of the Brooklyn office, who is at the same time one of the most influential members of the Brooklyn Library Association. It is further stated that he is one of the men who is becoming impatient at the delay.

It would cause no very great surprise if the Brooklyn Library should take radical action in the near future. GILT FRAME BUNCO GAME. How It Is Being Worked in the Hill Section on Women Who Should Know Better. To the Editor of the Brooklyn Eagle: I wish most heartily to warn, through your columns, the residents of the Hilt section against a genuine bunco game which is now in progress. A smooth tongued and audacious man gains admittance to house after house, desires to see "Mrs.

So and So," representing to be from an art studio on Fifth avenue, New York. He tells a plausible tale of the wonderful opportunity the patron is about to be given. She (for it is never a man he wishes to encounter) will be allowed to have copied two photographs of members of her family. He will make from them the most marvelous paintings water color on silk canvas, or oil onmetaI. The whole proceeding is to cost absolutely nothing.

"It is done for advertising purposes only." A tew days later he brings the so called proofs with samples of frames, for these marvelous works of art must be suitably framed. The fair victim thinks so, too, and is induced to select expensive gilt frames, which, she is rather surprised to learn, must be paid for at the time of selection. So with a doubting, yet hopeful, mind she parts with fifteen or twenty or even forty dollars, according to the impressiveness of the man's story. A week later the finished paintings are returned. They prove to be colored enlarga ments crayon work of the crudest type very badly framed with Inferior gilt frames.

The "art studio" has reaped a harvest on the Heights. The Hill section is now ths center of activity and unless some shining mark ventures prosecution they will con tinue to play their little game until the last Brooklynlte wakes up with a start and says vvn i ve Deen iooiea. A HEIGHTS VICTIM. Brooklyn, December 5, 1902. WIT FROM BOOKS.

Love Is never found it comes. Graystona. It is less futile to consider our past than to predict our future. Philip Longstreth. If a man admires a girl at all, he will want to marry her as long as she treats him badly.

Myra of the Pines. To ask a question that can't be answered is merely feminine. Chimmie Fadden and Mr. Paul. People are seldom man and wife half their lives without wishing to impart their sufferings as well as their pleasures to each other.

The Kentons. Many little services will count as much as the big one, when the time of reckoning cemes. The Thrall of Leif the Lucky. HIS PBEOCCUPIED MANNER. "I suppose you feel that the mantle ol Booth has fallen on your shoulders," said the admiring friend.

"I wasn't thinking so much about Booth' mantle," rejoined Mr. Stormington Barnes, "as about my own winter overcoat." Washington Btar. Lodge is the largest German lodge of the order in Brooklyn, having enrolled 144 members. Stuyvesant Council No. 690, R.

A. The annual election of officers of Stuyvesant Council No. 690. Royal Arcanum, was held on Tuesday evening and the following elected for 1903: Regent, James A. Kirk wood; vice regent, Charles R.

Peck; orator, William J. Kennedy; past regent, George C. Rothsteln; secretary, Edward C. Ward; collector, Thomas Varin; Robert W. Kirkwood; chaplain, Purnell Wood; guide, Frank Snug; warden, A.

J. Bachtler; sentry, W. H. Arbuthnot; organist. C.

B. lliff; trustee, J. B. Williams; representative to grand council, George C. Rothsteln; alternate representative to grand council, George W.

Hay man. Improved Order of Red Men. Montauk Tribe held its annual hall last Saturday night. The affair was a great suc cess, there being more than two thousand persons present. The walls of the hall were completely covered by the Stars and Stripes and the colors of the Improved Order of Red Men.

Great Sachem Adolph P. Corbin and staff were present as well as visiting brothers from all the tribes of Brooklyn and Manhattan. Yuma Tribe No. 388 will hold its regular election of chiefs for the coming term next Friday evening. The term just closing has been one of great success to the tribe, both in membershrp and wampum.

Coral 'Hive Election. Coral Hive, Ladies of the Maccabees, at its meeting in Clymer street Tuesday evening, elected the following officers: Past commander, Mrs. Julia Korrow; commander, Mrs. Augusta Koerner; lieutenant commander. Miss Maggie McArdle; record keeper, Mrs.

Jennie Newton; finance keeper, Miss Nellie Newton; chaplain, Mrs. Isabelle Richardson; sergeant, Mrs. Sara McKenna; mistress at arms, Miss Nellie Shea; sentinel, Mrs. Annie Applebee; secretary. Miss May Buckley; organist.

Miss Loretta Haffy; physician, Dr. Laura Riegelman; color bearers. Miss Jennie Johnson, Miss Mamie Hanan; banner bearers, Miss Lizzie Monds, Mrs. Carrie Montenes, Mrs. Eliza Fowler; trustees.

Mrs. Julia Korrow, Dr. May Owen, Dr. Rose Owen. Dinner to the Grand Master.

The annual reception and dinner of the Aurora Grata Masonic Club to the grand master of Masons in the State of New York, Most Wor. Elbert Crandall, in the club house, 1,160 Bedford avenue, will take place on the evening of Wednesday, December 17, at 6:30 o'clock. The reception committee consists of James H. Snyder, chairman; Henry A. Powell, James H.

Rollins, M. S. Cilveira, R. J. Kenworthy, G.

F. Maddock, M. Josiah Smith, Charles L. Phipps, Samuel Crook, George G. Brown, George Freifeld, Joseph Aspinall, William B.

Hurd, Frederick E. Crane, E. E. Blohm, A. B.

Martin, F. G. Lemmermann, W. O. Campbell, R.

L. Scott, Charles T. Dunweli, J. W. Richardson and A.

C. Bacon. Fort Greene Council, K. of C. Fort Greene Council, Knights of Columbus, at its meeting held on Wednesday, elected the following officers for the ensuing year: Edward K.

Lynch, grand knight; Edwin F. McCormick, deputy grand knight; Dr. Edwin H. Fiske, chancellor; Thomas H. Woods, warden; Peter F.

Harrington, financial secretary; James J. Savage, recorder; M. J. Ansbro, treasurer; John B. Morau, inside guard: Joseph B.

Dwyer, outside guard; Rev. Richard S. Foley, chaplain; William Hughes, advocate; Eugene A. Daly, lecturer; P. F.

Fox, trustee; James F. McShane, delegate to chapter; Thomas H. Woods, delegate to labor bureau; Edward K. Lynch and William B. Van Wagner, delegates to state convention, with William J.

Larkin and Charles E. Fiske as alternates. The council subscribed the sum of $100 toward the fund now being raised by the Knights of Columbus for the establishment of a chair of secular history at the Catholic University at Washington. Brother J. C.

Mc Guinness gave the council an interesting account of his recent trip through South America, and the members were also entertained with addresses by Brothers "Sam Cronin, lecturer, and M. Grady, financial secretary of Brooklyn Council. Royal Arch. Chaldean Chapter met Thursday night with a good attendance, notwithstanding the inclement weather. The degrees of mark, past and most excellent master were conferred.

Ex Companion 'Franklin of Orient Chapter conferrerd the mark and most excellent degrees and ex Companion Ludlum of Ancient Chapter conferred the past master's degree, after which the election of officers for the ensuing year took place. Ex Companion Ludlum presided during the election and R. Ex. W. H.

Sutton installed the officers. The election was very harmonious, all the officers being unanimously elected. The following is the result: High priest, Henry Lange; king, George W. Duryea; scribe. William Patterson; treasurer, H.

Scheely; secretary, C. C. Light; trustee (three years), Ex. Francis Raymond, in place of John Lang, retired; captain of host, Charles Galloway; principal sojourner, John H. Pruett; Royal Arch captain, George H.

Varney; master" of the third veil, George Reiger; second veil, Claes N. Thon; first veil, George E. Nutter; sentinel, George Hedden; finance committee, ex Companion T. R. Maxfield, ex Companion John Miller, William Z.

Bull. Brooklyn Chapter will meet on Monday evening and finish the work of the season. This has been a most prosperous year for the chapter and is largely due to the hustling qualities of the high priest, Ex. Edward Van Vranken, by whose extraordinary efforts the chapter has been built up and placed upon a substantial basis. The degree of Royal Arch will be conferred.

De Witt Clinton Council, R. A. De Witt Clinton Council No. .419, R. at its meeting on Thursday evening recei ved six applications and initiated Robert J.

Bnone, W. H. Spurge. Harry R. May.

L. H. Garrison. Frank W. Peek.

Joseph Reistercr, R. Emmet Doherty and Henry Bradley. The following were admitted to membership by card: G. L. Kramer, A.

Putney, H. W. Branson, W. A. Allaire and Daniel Stewart.

Ten dojlars was voted for the Hospital Saturday and Sunday Association and an invitation to exemplify the Kemntnn ritunl fnr clnss inltintimi nt Liberty Bell Council January 6 was accepted. 1 The annual election of officers resulted as follows: Regent. I. D. Blauvelt; vice regent, uilliam A.

Orden; orator. George F. Mitchell; past regent, S. E. Klrkham; secre tary.

J. F. Chumnsero; collector, George F. Churchill; treasurer. James Simpson; chaplain.

Albert C. Leggett: guide. O. B. Wilron: warden.

John E. Allen; sentry. Gecrge L. Clark: representatives to the grand council, W. Maddox.

J. F. Chum asero. D. II.

Miincer. F. N. Penn. R.

Sul "van 3 Kirk am, Ciaience Fonte: alter Bloom; Afiitntm Dav Celebration Assoein lowing nrtists Mrs. Hayden. piano; Mrs. E. Winchester, fancy dancing; Miss Lauretta Small, conn songs; Miss Harris and Mr.

Morris, recitations; the Misses Nelson and Curry, whistling solos; Messrs. Han ver, Veritzan and Mowan, Musical special ties, and other Edward A. Doan and Dr. H. Beatty Brown made addresses.

The Work in Orient. Ex. T. W. Franklin convened Orient Chap ter at 6:45 last evening and conferred the mark and nast master's degrees on a number of otin.i Mates.

A lodge of most ex cellent masters was also opened, when a large class was received and acknowieogeu among the workmen. The degree was conferred in fufl form, in costume and with the parapheY 1 KS "i8.0"' Jo.n?s; A.mlJ? udiuiuvuiiui iiuii iiu JUI111 Jra. v.iil 1 Trou'l rirSi tS chaplain, George E. Henderson: stewards D. D.

S. R. Edward J. Sweeney for the coun tion. R.

J. Morrison. Edward A. Monger, oils of the Fourth and Fifth Lone Island rr j. mr.

at neKiiib assembly roonis, corner DeKaib and Bedford avenues, on 1 ttrs iay, The friends of Washington Camp No. 21, December 16. Doors will close at sharp! 01 A were entertained last Tues oi. flay evening at Masonic Temple on Grand Morning Star Lodge New Officers. street, by the Camp No.

10 Illustrated Song At a meeting held by Mo. ning Star Lodge Troupe of Ynniurs. Miss Florence Peterson, No. 2, 0. of on Wednes 'av the following accompnnist.

Thev were assisted by the fol offieers were elected: G. Gebhardt. president'; Herman Koerner, vice peeident: Eliso Klcen, ex president; A. Kasparest, Johanna Volkers, financial sec.etarv; Louis Rauchftiss, treasurer; Morse chaplain; Emma Alt, conductor; Louise Gophi inger, inner guat Sophie Zapi'e, outer i i.ouramnc ioitoiolski, orsanlst. Alice Roosevelt Auxiliary.

The Alice Roosevelt Auxiliary N'o. in A. L. Kline Command N'o. SI, S.

W. will i hold its first annual entertainment, at the Fourteenth Regiment Armory, Fifteenth I street and Eighth GKORGIi VON HARRACH. Regent. 7S Ryetson IT st: WILLIAM A. RUDD.

Secretary. 473 Macon st: 010 There will be a SAMUEL L. PETTIT. Collector. 1,033 Lafayette eucii re, followed by dancing and refresh avenue, rucnts.

A handsome array of prizes, many avenue, on Wednesday.