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PRIVATE OFFICE OF THE GRAND COMMANDER- THE SENATE CHAMBER It Is Furnished Entirely in Mahogany and From the Walls Hang Valuable Paintings A Marbic Bust of the Pres The Photograph Shows the Grand Dais Approached by Three Steps on Which Is the Throne of the Grandt Commander ent Commander Stands at the Right and the Subthrones of the Grand Chancellor and Grand Minister of State

I + Close by the Capitol Is This Building To It Belongs by Right the Distinctive and I I Hedged About in the Popular Mind Honorable Title of Mother Supreme I j With Fascinating Mystery Council of the World

Here Is the Center of the Jurisdiction That The Library Rich in Volumes of Masonic E > Readies Out Over ThreeQuarters- Literature and History One of Its of the Countrys Area I Most Valuable Features

I adjoining In use only form and ornamentation wluly By WLDON FAWCETT way of the ten characters chiseled and bath which are I the an of ten days every alter ¬ in gold leaf to most gorgeous I tinted ta gold which translated mean for Interval t Holy House of the Temple nate year during the sessions of the The center of the design is made un wUMn the shadow of the What might be termed the nucleus of Supreme Council of the insignia of the grand commander ALMOST States Capitol in this the present Scottish Rite Temple was The senate chambers occupy a goodly The triple erase aad the runs of light portion coun ¬ emanating from have been esctendod there stands a building formerly the private residence of Col of the third floor The old this Wright Reeves of the United Stags cil hall has been transformed into a to cover the entire semicircular way fraught with the deepest Interest not Army It was purchased by Genrral meeting place for the knight command- ¬ forming a burst of splendor which is only tor Masons hi Ameriea but for Pike in 1383 for the uses of the Supreme ers of the court of honor Intermediary particularly brilliant when the whole j thirty njoiatter of the order throughout the Council the money forming the pur- ¬ between the thirtysecond and great niche is flooded with light treat ¬ third degrees and In both furnishings row of Invisible incandescent lamps world The Holy House of the Temple I chase fund having been ollected by Gen a his visits Masonic and decorations is unpretentious The around its border special signftcanc In the fact eral Pike in t bodies fllids its throughout the jurisdiction The build- ¬ new senate chamber of the Supreme At the apex of the arch over the dais ¬ that it te the executive and administra- ing was dedicated with elaborate cere- ¬ Council to provide for which was one is the emblem of the order the double tive home of the Supreme Council monies in 1AJ and an interesting coinci- of the main objects In the enlargement headed eagle surmounted by a crown TMrty hrd Degree Southern Jurisdic- dence was found In the fact that during of the temple Is assuredly one of the The banner of the Supreme Counoll and r dedicatory most meeting places within large American flag occupy prominent tion of United States of the Ancient the exercises which Were attractive a the helD in the evening a night blooming the realm of Masonry places at the sides of the council cham- ¬ iiMl Accepted Scottish Rite of Freema- ¬ cereus suddenly flamed Into color The senate chamber Is entered from ber and at the opposite end of the sonry and it is the official home of the twelve or thirteen flowers opening dur¬ the corridor through two anterooms and chamber facing the dais occupied by grand commander ing the interval the effect of its spacious proportions- the grand commander are three smaller by ceiling ¬ The Scottish Rite membership in this Fire and Burglar Proof Is emphasized a domed The thrones for the lieutenant grand com- walls are ornamented In oil and water mander the grand prior and the grand irMintry and its new poasesoloiw h m Two houses adjoining the original predomi- ¬ color tan and gold being the standardbearer of the order Above two supreme temple were purchased by the Supreme ¬ der the authority of oodles nating colors in the decoration and har these three subthrones rises a choirloft control of territorial spheres Council several years ago These houses monizing effectively with the red carpet anti fxcrtcins wore torn down and upon the site was extending over the width of the ball known respectively as the Northern aud and upholstery The ceiling and walls containing a large pipe organ This designation erected an addition to the initial build ¬ bear representations In color of the in- ¬ organ was a present from General Pike Southern Jurisdictions The ing which conforms so closely to It In ¬ signia of the various Masonic degrees Southern Jurisdiction is however dis- every respect as to present structure The Banquet Hall since the body a The chairs and desks provided for the tinctly a misnomer fully harmonious in the whole are of Is identical in which has its headquarters at the Na- members of the Supreme Council A banquet hall which The property is now estimated to be oak and so likewise are the seats re¬ size with the council chamber is located- tional Capital is invested with responsi- ¬ worth fully 150000 and will prove ample served for visiting thirtythird degree room bility policies of the order not in the basement This affords for the for the needs of the Supreme Council members seating accommodations for more than only in the domain south of Pennsyl- ¬ many 0 > Cr > H q for years to come As is befitting c Commanders Throne Room 300 persons and adjoining it is a spacioUs vania but in the States and Territories In a structure which shelters so many I pantry basement of of Mississippi River in Alaska MASONIC HEADQUARTERS OF THE UNITED STATES The grand dais which is approached- kitchen and The J west the priceless treasures the building is well hall temple also contains the furnace Hawaii Porto RIM the army and navy provided protection The Holy House of Temple Close by Nations Capitol Is One of Washingtons Most Interesting Buildings by three steps is at the end of the the with against fire the the sheltered by a rooms and the Janitors quarters the Philippines China and Japan and burglary The temple is of Mounted on this dais itself + heavy canopy of and silk border ¬ All visiting Masons and their families Masonry what Is known as slowburning con ¬ velvet Center of ed with gold fringe and gold tassels are and friends whether the latter be HfllH struction layers of concrete having I universal interest mani- ¬ candlestick and are always However the been introduced between the floors General Pike by the sculptor Vlnnie Is comparatively little in the collection row Near at hand is the the throne of the grand commander ated with the order or not fested m the stately structure at the In midnight funeral grand chancellor welcome at the House of the Temple A broad corridor bisects the building- R Hoxie who was one of his personal that is distinctly Masonc character and candle used at the the subthrones of the find even In of government is by no ¬ Before and assuredly tourists can American seat on On ¬ friends The varous objects have however al service over General Pike and the grand minister of state Inter- ¬ upon it each floor the right of this cor Is the city of many sights no more means dependent the fact that ridor on the first floor is the library Takes Up Mu h Room most without exception been donated by Equally Interesting as a memento of the throne of the grand commander esting and Instructive pie e to spend a constitutes the center of Masonic ac- ¬ Masons or members of their families perhaps most striking personality in gold pedestal with triangu ¬ great Masonic mecca office a handsomely furnished apart- ¬ the a white and day than the ¬ tivity for a jurisdiction that embraces The library with Its office occupies who considered the House of the Tem- ¬ Masonic history Is General Pikes col- ¬ top supporting a gavel At the back street number Is 48S Third Street north ment with racks containing a large lar west geographically speaking threefourths representation of the leading periodicals practically onehalf of the entire first ple the most fitting repository for the lection of pipes The general was a of the dais the wall Is shelllike in building On opposite ¬ of Uncle Sams domain of the day Opening from this office floor of the the treasures The museum is particularly great smoker and tad an especial weak- more potent is the affection side of hall Is the office of the rich in minerals and in specimens of In- In Even are library galleries and the main li-¬ 1 the ness for fine pipes One of those J hwplres longtime home secretary general Although most ¬ ¬ which it as the brary which contains me great collec ¬ at dian handiwork- the collection Is of meerschaum and am and office of Gen Albert Pike and the tion of books which tractively appointed this Is plainly a A bird cage which was the property- ber goldmounted and handcarved and STRANGE SAVAGE TRIBES constitutes one of Is in even a SOME reverence which attaches to it by reason the chief treasures of the House of workroom and this true of General Pike constitutes one of the cost 00 o I greater degree of the file room which once pulled six hairs II of its wellmerited distinction the Temple most interesting objects in the museum Is small Japanese pipe Is generally known about Dr Carl Lumholtz ¬ Another a opens from at the rear In this spa to ¬ the head of a sleeping Mother Supreme Council of the World This library It may be explained Is it The famous Mason was accustomed given to General Pike In I860 by Wil- the natives of cw at a time from head in the city designed cious apartment preserved in duBtqroof have fully 200 birds as constant com- ¬ LITTLE child and it had no effect upon it at all for from this fountain for the use of all Masons and liam T Porter editor of the Spirit of posses- ¬ cases In accordance with a most perfect wrote ¬ Although in the more but without on the Potomac have sprung directly or their families HS well as for students panions in the room where he the Times In the generals handwrit Then he asked for other legitimate for system of filing is the whole volume of and the cage which has been preserved for centuries the effect At last when tweirtythrae hairs Indirectly all of the and the reference purposes of the Supreme Council ing in a note to the effect that the same sion of Great Britain child supreme bodies whose jurisdictions now Supreme Council and any correspondence of the Is a large one which housed several of was in the pipe when he never been thoroughly ex-¬ were pulled out at one stroke th member of reports of the bodies pets tobacco which island has little and slept on encircle the globe the order may have any desired volume its records and his favorite feathered The museum received It is yet in the bowl Other plored In one portion of the Island is a scratched Its head a unpre- ¬ under Its jurisdiction a number of specimens- Owing The poor among some of the Chinese The House of the Temple the sent to him no matter where his resi ¬ also contains objects In the room include a miniature tribe of marshland dwellers to ¬ is the card system which including Washington custom of giving theIr tentious but dignified home of the Su dence may he If he Is willing to pay Here also of Masonic china facsimile of the Pike Memorial statue the peculiar character of the country have a peculiar ¬ individual memoranda covering containing to their creditors preme Council of the Southern Jurisdic- the transportation charges thereon both affords and Pike plates an album one wall Is a triangular they inhabit pedestrian locomotion ia children in pledge membership of the order The programs ¬ and set into parents go before a te most advantageously situated ways the whole thousands of souvenir of Ma of the impracticable As is usual in First of all the tion secretary general an executive staff ¬ brass plate commemorative three almost statement of the case most beautiful city Lo ¬ Gave Personal Library has sonic reunions a collection of photo In tropical countries there Is a very tan ¬ judge and make a In the worlds they grand commanders who have died the up 1 squares of live persons and that have few graphs of a eleven thirtythird degree the land Is too after witch the scrivener draws a cated but a few distant from General Pike founded may Imagined from House of the Temple Albert Pike on gled undergrowth while is signed cen ¬ the library by idle moments be members and an interesting display of upon Even deed of Th the deed the United States Capitol and that donating his personal work in April 2 loot James Cunningham Batche swampy to be walked in the ale which the Library Congress library of about the fact that aside from their souvenir medals of meetings of Masonic water canoe ¬ by the scrivener following ter of learning the of iOOO volumes Since and files they lor on July 28 1S93 and Philip Crosby wide stretches of shallow palm of then it has been the division of records grand bodies the 1 it Is set down In the heart of a section 1884 ing Is almost Impossible owing to the fat Irs enlarged by donations by have responsibilities for the various Tucker on July 9 > r a Ink and places of t e city famous in the early annals and regular The Pike Memorial vegetable growth The result of his annual appropriations for the purchase- publications issued by the office rank r sl Ink much the Republic amid the former Grand Office most pecu ¬ It is of the and of new books Is estimated Handsome portraits In oil of the ac ¬ The apartment In which General Pike Commanders these conditions is that this t Is used homes of many men who in days gone It that the practically lost the vs sal mk that whole collection of 00000 repre ¬ Inspectors general of the order in died known as the Pike Memorial Room office sovereign liar tribe have has by were instrumental in molding the volumes tive The private of the limbs dwellings by A of the head an outlay on ¬ look down Here grouped of their lower Their destiny sents the part of the Su the Southern Jurisdiction adjoins the museum are grand commander is just across the hall bee n deed the father nations ¬ I built In the trees above water level preme Council of fully 86000 indepen ¬ from the walls of these business offices the desk chair and other personal ef- from the Pike memorial room This are i treatment with have developed in such a pe-¬ gee Is Well Located- dent of the bequests of books The In the large safe in the file room reposes fects of the founder of the Scottish Rite room which is in the corner of the Their bodies the t toot ThOR the- large way that they have most enorm h ceremony at- A short block distant is the beautiful library is remarkable in many respects perhaps the greatest treasure in the Temple Included in the collection are building and Is lighted by three culiar me reeeive ¬ ous but the thighs legs and r memorial staute of Gen Albert Pike For one thing It contains the best col- ¬ temple General Pikes manuscript many old and rare portraits of General windows is most attractive It Is fur- trunks C Qt ever the child are so small as to be useless al¬ r and Anally to take into consideration lection of Masonic literature extant translation of Sanscrit literature This Pike his sword the compass with the nished entirely in mahogany and the feet l e t Mexico have most In figure and carriage T f Gin convenience of visitors of the comprising alono more than 10000 vol ¬ colossal work comprises twenty volumes In West walls are hung with valuable paintings In fact c t i their the the aid of which he traveled the Quite apelike a hascourt It may be noted that this Masonic umes and Including many unique and each containing more than 700 closely ¬ purchased by General Pike A marble they are inn t future before the days of railroads his ink are very curious races of men t by the women mecca is most advantageously located Invaluable documents such as the pro- ¬ penned pages and most remarkable of honorary ¬ bust of the present grand commander There the e stands certificates of member ¬ Mexi- ¬ WI meet at feasts with reference to the new Union Sta ceedings of the older grand lodges all is the fact that in this entire 14000 James D Richardson occupies one cor in the more inaccessible portions of t upon a cr1- ship In Grand Masonic bodies ¬ a e rigs ¬ 1SOO ¬ other co of people cavedwell- the ttan the most magnificent railway sta- bearing dates prior to etc pages there cannot he found a single mis by foreign ner Adjoining the office is a handsome Most the are 1 u H sx and medals bestowed Masonic ¬ Is more one tal i < by chafing tion in the world which is now in General Pike was famous as a col ¬ spelled word an error in punctuation tiled bath Grand Commander Richard- ers but there rarely than tlo his Kadosh boots and Masonic ¬ the I she Washington lector of rare books and his gift to a blot a mistake on an erasure bodies son does not elect to reside at the tem family in the cave The curious thing bet i to dos tMs course of erection at at the collars his scrapbooks of poetry and per back toward him an expense of approximately 14 ttM4 library has made it especially rich In ple as did some of his predecessors about them according to Dr Carl Lum him to A Rich Museum albums of photographs of prominent In Th j tfi he wishes The building is a threestory and base ¬ rare publications upon folklore religion including General Pike but should he holtz Is that they do not feel pain few Afttr a time men of his day do bowfc mont house of red brick located on a occult works history travel fine arts Occupying space on second floor vrlsh to do so ample accommodations the same degree as we They have- M- art r ass proceeded a the prized original pen ¬ corner with almost equal frontage on etc The library is administered on the of the temple corresponding to that Especially is the would be at his disposal Indeed the a delightful habit of pulling hairs out nt4 r t down near manuscript and the pencil with 11 Is Bfe cot awyS- two streets and the severe sim- ¬ most modern approved systems of cata- ¬ devoted to the on the Hut floor ciled scale upon which provision has been of one anothers heads but this gives an a- rather library ¬ ¬ Mi to Wm hi at- ¬ which General Pike wrote on his death all exigencies may be appre scarcely any pain They frc > B plicity of rte exterior gives no hint of loguing and indexing and no little Is the museum This museum is rich in made for them at all go r K UWt UM IMK- r is distinguish- ¬ tention is given to periodical literature of kinds its scope bed the famous sentiment Shalom ciated from the fact that there are on tear out the hairs exactly as we should tl z foi th Rid ttsh g- the attractive interior It treasures various ¬ Is on not UH Peace that comes with blessing to care the second and third floors of the build tutu out the tall of a horse These In- ¬ sn ii I + aFk for H h throws ed from the residences in the neighbor- of which there are the shelves being almost as brood that of the a 4000 any weary men when dream ¬ ing eight large and attractivelyfurnish- ¬ ferior races feel pain to a far less ex ¬ thfo a S tai a sign that they hood only by its unusual size and by less than bound volumes In the United States National Museum or fretted deaths a the appearance above the arched door main library stands the bronze bust of other similar Institution and yet there less sleep ends all suffering and sor¬ ed committee rooms each with tiled tent than In the case of a civilized man art I 4 r I t i>

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