room. The Grand Lodge was opened in AMPLE FORM at 7.45 o'clock P.M. in an ante-room of the LodgeThe Grand Master was waited upon by the Brethren designated as Master and Wardens of the new Lodge, who informed him that the petitioners to whom a Charter had been granted under the name of Wayfarers Lodge were assembled and desired that the Lodge might be duly constituted. The Grand Master responded that he would immediately proceed with the ceremony. A procession of the Grand Lodge was formed and conducted into the Lodge-room. Thereupon the M.W. Grand Master constituted Wayfarers Lodge with the forms and ceremonies prescribed by the ritual, the music being rendered by the Weber Quartet. The Grand Marshal was then directed to proclaim that the Lodge had been regularly constituted and duly registered in the Grand Lodge of Massachusetts. A Committee now reported that the Master elect was qualified to preside and the ceremony of installation followed. The M.W. Grand Master installed the Master. The Senior Warden was installed by the Acting Senior Grand Warden; the Junior Warden was installed by the Junior Grand Warden, the Treasurer by the Grand Treasurer, and the Recording Grand Secretary installed the Secretary. The appointments were then announced, and the remaining officers were installed by the Deputy Grand Master. The Grand Marshal made his proclamation that the officers of Wayfarers Lodge were now regularly installed and the Lodge prepared to act upon any business that may legally come before it. A brief, inspiring address was made by the Grand Master, which was enthusiastically applauded, after which the Grand Lodge returned to the place of assembling and was closed in AMPLE FORM at 9.35 o'clock P.M. A true abstract of the Record. ATTEST: FRANK VOGEL, Recording Grand Secretary, pro tempore. The Grand Lodge was received at the railroad station by a committee and conveyed in automobiles to the place of meeting. A large attendance from neighboring Lodges was present. After the exercises a sumptuous collation was served in the lower hall, and before the Grand Lodge was escorted to the train a flashlight photograph of the whole assembly was taken in the Lodge-room. The first organization of the Lodge under the Charter is as follows: Daniel F. Knowlton. Bertram C. Melzard. Clarence E. Cahill. Herbert A. Woofter. Clarence H. Conner. Frank A. Bucknam. Fred L. Tarr. Nathaniel R. Martin. Harold W. Loker. Edward G. Brown. John L. H. Greeley. Wilbur L. Woodbury. Amos H. Humphrey. Addison P. Parker. Gilbert L. Pitman. A. J. Johnson. Arthur W. Lonoal. Walter A. Davis. John R. Honors. Charles E. Rolfe. Frank E. Falkins. George T. Till. Ralph E. Bicknell. Frank H. Gage. Lyman R. Stanley. C. Edward Newhall. George E. Smith. A SPECIAL COMMUNICATION AT CHESTER. FEBRUARY 17, A.L. 5915. CONSTITUTION OF FEDERAL LODGE. SPECIAL COMMUNICATION OF THE MOST WORSHIPFUL GRAND LODGE OF ANCIENT FREE AND ACCEPTED MASONS OF THE COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS was held in the Town of Chester on Wednesday, the seventeenth day of February, A.L. 5915, A.D. 1915, for the purpose of constituting Federal Lodge. |