Edmund Armand, Duc d'Audiffret- Pasquier Born. Paris, 1807 3 1874. 4 1876.. 5 1877.. 6 1878.. Paris, 1823. 7 1880.. Paris, 1817. 8 1881. 9 1882. 10 1884. Rene Francois Armand Sully-Prudhomme.. Paris, 1839. Lyons, 1828. Paris, 1842. 11 1884.. 12 1886. 13 1886.. 14 1888. 15 1888. 16 1890. 17 1891. 18 1892. Vallery Clément Octave Gréard Othénín P. de Cléron Comte d' Haussonville. Eugène Marie Melchior, Vicomte de Vogué. Paul Louis Thureau- Dangin. Marie Ferdinand Brunetiere Albert Sorel. Henri Houssaye.. 19 1893.. 20 1893. 21 1894. 22 1894. 23 1894. Paul Bourget. 24 1894. 25 1895. Jules Lemaitre. 26 1896. 27 1896 28 1896. 29 1896. 30 1896. 31 1897. 32 1897. 33 1898.. 34 1899.. 35 1899. Paul Deschanel....... Paris, 1834. Santiago, Cuba, 1842 Honfleur, 1842. Predecessor. Ancelot. De Lamartine. St. Marc-Girardin. Autran. Dupanloup (Bishop). Duvergier de Hauranne Comte d' Haussonville. Cuvillier-Fleury. Octave Feuillet. Jurien de la Gravière. Maxime Du Camp. Bertrand. Duc de Broglie. The French Academy is one of five academies, and the most eminent, constituting the Institute of France. It was founded in 1635 by the Cardinal Richelieu, and reorganized in 1816. It is composed of 40 members, elected for life, after personal application and the submission of their nomination to the head of the State. It meets twice weekly, at the Palace Mazarin, 23 Quai Conti, Paris, and is the highest authority on everything appertaining to the niceties of the French language, to grammar, rhetoric, and poetry, and the publication of the French classics." The chief officer is the secretary, who has a life tenure of his position. The present permanent secretary is Marie L. A. G. Boissier, who was elected an Academician in 1876. A chair in the Academy is the highest ambition of most literary Frenchmen. The other academies of the Institute of France are: The Academy of Inscriptions and BellesLettres, with 40 members; Academy of Sciences, with 68 members; Academy of Fine Arts, with 40 members (as follows: Painting, 14, sculpture, 8; architecture, 8; engraving, 4; musical composition, 6), and Academy of Moral and Political Science, with 40 members. All members are elected for life. University Registration, Term of 1901-02. (Compiled from the Harvard Graduates' Magazine.) MASONIC GRAND LODGES IN THE UNITED STATES AND BRITISH AMERICA. Alabama. Arizona Arkansas. Brit. Columb. Canada.. Colorado. Connecticut... Idaho. Grand Secretaries. 12,110 Geo. A. Beauchamp, Montg. 735 G. J. Roskruge, Tucson. 13,305 F. Hempstead, Little Rock. 1,699 W. J. Quinlan, Nelson. 21,579 G. Johnson, San Francisco. 25,922 J. J. Mason, Hamilton. 8,392 Wm. D. Todd, Denver. 17,446 John H. Barlow, Hartford. 2,320 B. F. Bartram, Wilmi'gton 5,579 Wm. A. Gatley, Wash. 4,321 W.P. Webster, Jacksonville. 19,332 W. A. Wolihin, Macon. 1,300 Theop. W. Randall, Boisé. 57,325 J. H. C. Dill, Bloomington. 32, 122 C. W. Prather, Anderson. 3.780 J. S. Murrow, Atoka. 29,328 T. S. Parvin, Cedar Rapids. 20.740 Albert K. Wilson, Topeka, 19,870 H. B. Grant, Louisville. 5.962 R. Lambert, New Orleans. 22,277 Stephen Berry, Portland. 3,091 James A. Ovas, Winnipeg. 8,283 J. H. Medairy, Baltimore. Massach'setts 39,871 S. D. Nickerson, Boston. 41,917 J. S. Conover, Coldwater. 16, 401 T. Montgomery, St. Paul. 9,725 J. L. Power, Jackson. 33,366 J. D. Vincil, St. Louis. 3,144 Cornelius Hedges, Helena. 12,361 Francis E. White, Omaha. Kansas Maine Manitoba. Maryland Michigan. Mississippi. Montana Nebraska.... Nevada N. Brunswick Rhode Island Total....... Grand Secretaries. 858 C. N. Noteware, Carson. 1,817 J. Twining Hartt, St. John. 9,369 F. D. Woodbury, Concord. 17,386 T. H. R. Redway, Trenton. 922 A. A. Keen, Albuquerque. 106, 235 E. M. L. Ehlers, N. Y. City. 11,360 John C. Drewry, Raleigh. 3.492 F. J. Thompson, Fargo. 3,512 Thomas Mowbray, Halifax. 46,348 J. H. Bromwell, Cincin' ti. 2,140 J. S. Hunt, Stillwater. 5,344 Jas. F. Robinson, Eugene. 53,446 Wm.A. Sinn, Philadelphia. 535 N. MacKelvie,Summerside 3,668 J. H. Isaacson, Montreal. 5,220 S. P. Williams, Providence. 6,056 C. Inglesby, Charleston. 4,677 G. A. Pettigrew, Flandreau. 17,221 John B. Garrett, Nashville. 29,021 John Watson, Houston. 867 C. Diehl, Salt Lake City. 10,193 W. G. Reynolds, Burl'gton 13,276 G.W. Carrington, Richm'd. 5,399 T. M. Reed, Olympia. 6,990 G. W. Atkinson, Wheeling. 17,709 Wm. W. Perry, Milwaukee. 1,098 W.L. Kuykendall, Saratoga 877,762 The returns of the Grand Lodges of the United States and British America for 1900-1901 were as follows: Whole number of members, 877,762; raised, 51, 496; admissions and restorations, 23,534; withdrawals, 17.789; expulsions and suspensions, 689; suspensions for non-payment of dues, 15,591; deaths, 13,557. Gain in membership over preceding year, 20, 185. These Grand Lodges are in full affiliation with the English Grand Lodge, of which the Duke of Connaught is Grand Master, and the Grand Lodges of Ireland, Scotland, Cuba, Peru, South Australia, New South Wales, Victoria, and also with the Masons of Germany and Austria. They are not in affiliation and do not correspond with the Masons under the jurisdiction of the Grand Orient of France; they, however, affiliate with and recognize Masons under the jurisdiction of the Supreme Council. Freemasonry is under the ban of the Church in Spain, Italy, and other Catholic countries, and the membership is small and scattered. FREEMASONRY-Continued. ROYAL ARCH MASONS. OFFICERS OF THE GENERAL GRAND CHAPTER, 1900-1903. General Grand High Priest-James W. Taylor, Dep. Gen. Grand High Priest-Arthur G. Pollard, Gen. Grand King-Joseph E. Dyas, Paris, Ill. Gen. Grand Secretary-Christopher G. Fox, Buffalo. Gen. Grand Principal Sojourner-Bernard G. Witt, Gen. Grand Royal Arch Captain-George E. Corson, Gen. Grand Master 3d Vail-Frederick W. Craig, Gen. Grand Master 2d Vail-William F. Kuhn, Gen. Grand Master 1st Vail-Bestor G. Brown, The office of the General Grand Secretary is at Buffalo, N. Y. The number of grand chapters, each representing a State or Territory (except Pennsylvania and Virginia), is 44, and the number of enrolled subordinate chapters is 2,426, exclusive of 21 subordinate chapters in the Territories of the United States, the Sandwich Islands, Chile, and the Chinese Empire, which are under the immediate jurisdiction of the General Grand Chapter. The total membership of the enrolled subordinate chapters is 194,430. The degrees conferred in Chapters are Mark Master, Past Master, Most Excellent Master, and Royal Arch Mason. The next triennial meeting will be held in 1903, at a place to be selected by the Council of General Grand Officers. KNIGHTS TEMPLARS. OFFICERS OF THE GRAND ENCAMPMENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. Grand Master-Henry B. Stoddart, Tex. Grand Senior Warden-Joseph A. Locke, O. Grand Junior Warden-Frank H. Thomas, D. C. Grand Treasurer-H. Wales Lines, Ct. Grand Recorder-John A. Gerow, Detroit, Mich. The office of the Grand Master is at and of the Grand Recorder at St. Louis, Mo. The number of grand commanderies in the United States and Territories, each representing individual States and Territories (except that Massachusetts and Rhode Island are combined), is 43. The number of commanderies under the jurisdiction of the Grand Encampment is 1,059; membership, 126,048. These are exclusive of subordinate commanderies in Delaware, Idaho, Nevada, New Mexico, Sandwich Islands, South Carolina, and Utah, with a membership of 1,412. Total membership, 127, 460. The orders conferred in a commandery of Knights Templar are Red Cross, Knight Templar, and Knight of Malta. A Mason to obtain these orders must be a Master Mason and Royal Arch Mason in good standing, and a member of both lodge and chapter. ANCIENT ACCEPTED SCOTTISH RITE MASONS. SUPREME COUNCIL OF SOVEREIGN GRAND INSPECTORS-GENERAL OF THE THIRTY-THIRD AND LAST DEGREE. OFFICERS OF THE NORTHERN MASONIC JURISDICTION. M. P. Sovereign Grand Commander.. Gr. Min. State-John C. Smith, Ill. Henry L. Palmer, Wis. I Gr. Secretary-Gen. --Clinton F. Paige, N. Y. The personal address of the Grand Secretary-General is Binghamton, N. Y., and the official address is 133 Stewart Building, New York City. OFFICERS OF THE SOUTHERN MASONIC JURISDICTION. James D. Richardson, Tenn. The addresses of both of these officers are No. 433 Third Street, N. W., Washington, D. C. These grand bodies are in relations of amity with the Supreme Councils for France, England, Scotland, Ireland, Belgium, Brazil, the Argentine Republic, Uruguay, Paraguay, Peru, Portugal, Italy, Mexico, Colombia, Chile, Central America, Greece, Canada, Cuba, Switzerland, Egypt, Tunis, and Spain. SUPREME COUNCIL OF SOVEREIGN GRAND INSPECTORS-GENERAL OF THE THIRTY-THIRD AND LAST DEGREE OF THE ANCIENT AND ACCEPTED SCOTTISH RITE, AS ORGANIZED BY JOSEPH CERNEAU, THIRTY-THIRD DEGREE, IN THE YEAR 1807. M. P. Sovereign Grand Commander. Max Scheuer, N. Y. .....Judah Moses, N. Y. The Sovereign Grand Consistory has had a continuous existence of ninety-four years, with its Grand Orient at New York, where, under the ægis of the Grand Orient of France, it was organized by M. I.. Joseph Cerneau, thirty-third degree. The Supreme Council has fraternal relations with the Supreme Councils of Great Britain and Ireland, Canada, Italy, Egypt, Cuba, and other Grand Orients. It has jurisdiction over seventy subordinate Consistories of Sublime Princes of the Royal Secret, which are subdivided into Lodges of Perfection, Councils of Princes of Jerusalem, Chapters of Rose Croix, and Consistories, with a membership of many thousands. The two Consistories In the Borough of Manhattan are Cerneau, No. 1, with over a thousand Sublime Princes, and Giordano Bruno, No. 66, working in the Italian language. The official address of the Supreme Council is No. 320 Temple Court, Beekman Street, New York City. FREEMASONRY-Continued. Prov. Grand Chaplain-Rev. H. Carmichael, Va. แ 66 ROYAL ORDER OF SCOTLAND. OFFICERS OF THE PROVINCIAL GRAND LODGE FOR THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. Prov. Grand Master-Josiah H. Drummond, Me. Prov. Dep. Grand Master-Thos. H. Caswell, Cal. Prov. Senior Grand Warden-Geo. M. Moulton, Ill. Prov. Junior Grand Warden-Charles H. Fisk, Ky. Prov. Grand Secretary-W. Oscar Roome, D. C. Prov. Grand Treasurer-Thos. J. Shyrock, Md. Prov. Grand Sword Bearer-F. M. Highley, Pa. Prov. Grand Banner Bearer-Nich. Coulson, Mich. This Provincial Grand Lodge has jurisdiction over the whole United States, and was instituted in 1878 with the late Bro. Albert Pike as Provincial Grand Master. It has no subordinate bodies, and the membership is 271. It holds its charter from the Grand Lodge of the Royal Order of Scotland, at Edinburgh. The office of the Provincial Grand Master is at Portland, Me.; of the Provincial Grand Secretary at Washington, D. C. SOVEREIGN COLLEGE OF ALLIED MASONIC DECREES FOR THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. Grand Sovereign Grand Master-Alfred S. Kimball. Deputy Grand Master-Charles H. Nesbitt. Abbot-Right Rev. A. M. Randolph, D. D. Grand Senior Warden-Frederick Webber. Grand Junior Warden-A. R. Courtney. Grand Almoner-Josiah H. Drummond, Grand Recorder-General-Howard D. Smith. Grand Bursar-John Frederick Mayer. Grand Representative in EnglandThe Earl of Euston. The address of the Grand Recorder-General is Norway, Me. The Sovereign College governs the degrees of Ark Mariner, Secret Monitor, Tylers of Solomon, St. Lawrence the Martyr, Knight of Constantinople, Holy and Blessed Order of Wisdom, and Trinitarian Knight of St. John of Patmos, and is in communion with the Grand Council of Allied Masonic Degrees of England and Grand Ark Mariners' Council of England. It is the only Masonic body in the world that confers, in addition to ritual degrees, academic degrees, which it gives honoris causa. Its highest honor of this kind is "Doctor of Universal Masonry. Only the following Masons possess it: Prince Demetrius Rhodocanakis. of Greece; the Earl of Euston and William James Hughan, of England; D. Murray Lyon, of Scotland, and Josiah H. Drummond, of Maine. SOVEREIGN SANCTUARY OF ANCIENT AND PRIMITIVE FREEMASONRY. RITE OF MEMPHIS-IN AND FOR THE CONTINENT OF AMERICA. M. I. Grand Master-General...H. G. Goodale, 960 V. I. Grand Chancellor-General..J. S. Phillips, 950 V. I. Grand Administrator-General. W. F. Ford, 950 V. I. Grand Secretary-General. .E. T. Stewart, 950 J. Adelphi Gottlieb, M.A., M.D., LL. D., Legate of the M. I. Grand Master-General and Sovereign Sanctuary to Foreign Countries. M. A. Gottlieb, 950, Deputy Grand Representative and Assistant Grand Examiner Mystic Temple. Office of Deputy Grand Secretary-General and Grand Examiner of the Mystic Temple, State of New York, 304 West One Hundred and Fourth Street, New York City. The Sovereign Sanctuary is composed of Masons who have received the 95th degree of Patriarch Grand Conservator of the Rite; and has jurisdiction over the continent of America, It was formally instituted in the United States in the year 1856. The American body is in affiliation with the various Masonic powers of the world and has a regular exchange of Representatives with England, Ireland, New Zealand, Italy, Spain, Roumania, Egypt, etc. The Degrees of the Rite, which are ninety of instruction and seven official, are conferred in the subordinate bodies of the Rite thus: Fourth to 18th degree in a Chapter Rose Croix; 19th to 42d degree in a Senate of Hermetic Philosophers; 43d to 90th degree in a Council of Sublime Masters of the Great Work. The A. and P. Rite of Memphis acknowledges the Blue Lodge as the fundamental basis of the institution, to which the Masonic allegiance of all its members is due, and from which there can be no deviation; therefore no Mason can be allowed to join the Masonic Order of Memphis unless he is a Master Mason of a lodge in good standing, working under a Grand Lodge of Free and Accepted Masons. Nobles of the Mystic Shrine. THE Ancient Arabic Order of the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine is not a regular Masonic body, but its membership is composed strictly of Masons who have reached the 32d degree, A. A. S. Rite (18th degree in England), or Knights Templars in good standing. There are 83 temples in the United States, and a total membership of about 65,000. The following are the imperial officers for the United States for 1901-02: Imperial Potentate, Philip C. Shaffer, Philadelphia, Pa.; Imperial Deputy Potentate, Henry C. Akin, Omaha, Neb., Imperial Chief Rabban, George H. Green, Dallas, Tex.; Imperial Assistant Rabban, Geo. L. Brown, Buffalo, N. Y.; Imperial High Priest and Prophet, Henry A. Collins, Toronto, Canada; Imperial Oriental Guide, Alvah P. Clayton, St. Joseph, Mo.; Imperial Treasurer, William S. Brown, 520 Wood Street, Pittsburgh, Pa.; Imperial Recorder, Benjamin W. Rowell, 28 School Street, Boston, Mass.; Imperial First Ceremonial Master, Rial S. Peck, Hartford, Ct.; Imperial Second Ceremonial Master, Edwin I. Alderman, Marion, Ia.; Imperial Marshal, George L. Street, Richmond, Va.; Imperial Captain of Guard, Charles F. Beck, Detroit, Mich.; Imperial Outer Guard, Frank C. Roundy, Chicago, Ill. The Order of the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine was instituted by the Mohammedan Kalif Alee, the cousin-german and son-in-law of the Prophet Mohammed, in the year of the Hegira 25 (A. p. 656), at Mekkah, in Arabia, as an Inquisition, or Vigilance Committee, to dispense justice and execute punishment upon criminals who escape their just deserts through the tardiness of the courts, and also to promote religious toleration among cultured men of all nations. Sheikhs of the Kaaba, Defenders of the Mystic Shrine. GRAND COUNCIL for the Western Hemisphere: Grand Sheikh ul Allah, Max Scheuer; Grand Sheikh Khasat, John H. Russell; Grand Sheikh Mambar, J. W. Riglander; Grand Sheikh Baresh, William H. Peckham; Grand Sheikh Fakir (Grand Secretary), Charles Sotheran, 330, 26 West Ninety-ninth Street, New York City. The Order was founded for the purposes of social intercourse and intellectual culture, but more particularly for the study of the traditions and literature of the Orient. Odd Fellowship. SOVEREIGN GRAND LODGE OF THE INDEPENDENT ORDER OF ODD FELLOWS. OFFICERS. Grand Sire-A. C. Cable. Covington, Ohio. Grand Secretary-J. Frank Grant, Baltimore, Md. Grand Chaplain-Rev. J. W. Venable, Hopkins- Grand Marshal-J. B. Cockrum, Indianapolis, Ind. Grand Messenger-C. H. Lyman, Columbus, Ohio. GRAND LODGES AND MEMBERSHIP. JURISDICTION. No. of Members JURISDICTION. Members JURISDICTION. The membership of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, which includes the Grand Lodges of Australasia, Germany, Denmark, Sweden, Switzerland, and the Netherlands, is 944,372, female members not included. The American organization is not in affiliation with an English order entitled the Manchester Unity of Odd Fellows, who number 900,668. The Encampment branch of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows numbers 135,209 members; Rebekah lodges, sisters, 217,944; brothers, 132, 489; Chevaliers of the Patriarchs Militant, 15,573. The next meeting of the Sovereign Grand Lodge will be at Des Moines, Iowa, September 15-20, 1902. The total relief paid by the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, year ending December 31, 1900, was $3,876,927.75; brothers relieved, 112,764; widowed families relieved, 5,674, paid for relief of brothers, $2,928,028. 34: for widowed families, $143,840.67; education of orphans, $83, 205.56; burying the dead, $721,853. 18. GRAND UNITED ORDER OF ODD FELLOWS OF AMERICA. Assistant Grand Secretary-E. B. Van Dyke, Phil- Grand Master-E. H. Morris, Chicago, Ill. Endependent Order of Good Templars. THE INTERNATIONAL SUPREME LODCE. R. W. G. Templar-Jos. Malins, Birmingham, Eng. R. W.G. S. J. Templars-Miss Jessie Forsyth, Boston, R. W. G. Secretary-B. F. Parker, Milwaukee, Wis. P.R.W.G. Templar-Dr. D. H. Mann, Brooklyn, N. Y. R. W. G. Marshal-John Fox Smith, Port Eliza- R. W. G. D. Marshal-Miss Charlotte A. Gray, R. W. G. Guard-Peder Svendsen, Trondhem, R. W. G. Sentinel-Geo. Irving, Vernon River R. W. G. Messenger-Miss Emilie Lindquist, Estof, The last report of the R. W. G. Secretary returned the number of grand lodges in the world as 100, and the membership as 403,287. The membership of the juvenile branch was 172,839. The Good Templars, which is a beneficial order, based on total abstinence, are organized in nearly every State of the Union, England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales, Germany, Denmark, Sweden and Norway, Canada, West Indies, East, West, and South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, British India, Iceland, and other countries. All persons becoming members of the Order are required to subscribe to the following pledge: "That they will never make, buy, sell, use, furnish, nor cause to be furnished to others, as a beverage, any spirituous or malt liquors, wine, or cider, and will discountenance the manufacture and sale thereof in all proper ways." The International Supreme Lodge will hold its next biennial meeting at Stockholm, Sweden, second Tuesday in July, 1902. |