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1910

DANA JUDSON FLANDERS, Grand Master

William H. Rider, Deputy Grand Master
Clarence A. Brodeur, Senior Grand Warden
Walter F. Medding, Junior Grand Warden

QUARTERLY COMMUNICATIONS

(held at Masonic Temple, Boston)

• 03/09: 1910-12;
• 06/08: 1910-73;
• 09/14: 1910-129;
• 12/14: 1910-163; (Annual Communication)

03/09 Agenda

• 1910-43: Grand Lodge Valle de Mexico, Mexico Federal District, recognized.

• 1910-57: Request for recognition by the Grand Orient of Italy; referred.

06/08 Agenda

• 1910-86: Will of Bro. William J. Tilley, and bequest to the Masonic Home as his residuary legatee.
• 1910-89: Presentation of a bust of George Washington, given by Past Grand Master Lawrence.
• 1910-94: Rt. Wor. Solon Thornton returned to the list of Past Junior Grand Wardens. (Bro. Thornton was removed following a Masonic trial some years earlier.)

09/14 Agenda

• 1910-143: Report of the Board of Masonic Relief.
• 1910-146: Invitation by Grand Master to Masters of Lodges to "call upon him in his office in the Masonic Temple and confer with him freely upon the matter of raising funds for the Home."

12/14 Agenda

• Recorded in Grand Master Flanders' address, beginning on page 1910-175:
  • Anniversaries:
    • Hammatt, Boston (12/23/1909; 50th Anniversary)
    • Caleb Butler, Ayer (03/14; 50th Anniversary; Special Communication)
    • Philanthropic, Marblehead (03/24; 150th Anniversary)
    • Dalhousie, Newtonville (06/01; 50th Anniversary; Special Communication)
    • Mystic, Pittsfield (06/10; Centennial)
    • Wilder, Leominster (06/14; 50th Anniversary; Special Communication)
    • John Warren, Hopkinton (09/12; 50th Anniversary; Special Communication)
    • John Hancock, Methuen (10/14; 50th Anniversary; Special Communication)
  • Corner Stone Layings and Hall Dedications:
    • Cambridge; Corner-stone of a new Temple (06/30)
    • Everett; Corner-stone of a new Temple (10/08)
    • Woburn; Corner-stone of a new post office building (11/19)
  • Funerals:
  • Lodges Constituted:
    • William Whiting, Holyoke (01/12; Special Communication)
    • Esoteric, Springfield (01/13)
  • Visits:
    • Zetland, Boston (12/08/1909)
    • Monitor, Waltham (12/13/1909; installation, by Rt. Wor. Melvin M. Johnson)
    • Mount Vernon, Malden (01/06; reception for Junior Grand Warden)
    • Hiram, Arlington (01/25; Ladies' Night)
    • Wyoming, Melrose (01/26)
    • Saggahew, Haverhill (02/14; "Masonic Lecture by Professor Cross")
    • Mount Tabor, East Boston (02/17; Ladies' Night)
    • Liberty, Beverly (02/22; Washington's Birthday)
    • Pequossette, Watertown (02/24)
    • The Tyrian, Gloucester (03/01; reception for Deputy Grand Master)
    • Union (Dorchester) (03/02)
    • Union (Dorchester) (03/08)
    • Adelphi, South Boston (03/15)
    • Joseph Webb, Boston (03/23; Williams Night)
    • Solomon's Temple, Uxbridge (03/31; presentation of Past Masters' jewels)
    • Bellows Falls, Vermont; visit to the Grand Lodge of Vermont (04/05)
    • Henry Price, Charlestown (04/06)
    • Prospect, Roslindale (04/11)
    • Aberdour, Boston (04/12)
    • Washington, Roxbury (04/14)
    • King Cyrus, Stoneham (04/19)
    • Merrimack, Haverhill (04/20)
    • Mount Olivet and Amicable, Cambridge (04/22)
    • Star, Athol (05/02)
    • Lafayette (Roxbury) (05/09)
    • King Solomon's, Somerville (05/13)
    • The Massachusetts, Boston (05/16)
    • Concord, New Hampshire; visit to the Grand Lodge of New Hampshire (05/18)
    • Converse, Malden (05/20)
    • Converse, Malden (05/24; "musicale given by the ladies . . . in aid of the Masonic Home.")
    • Eliot, Jamaica Plain (05/25)
    • Zetland, Boston (06/08)
    • Winthrop, Winthrop (06/21)
    • Henry Price, Charlestown (10/05)
    • Mosaic, Danvers (10/06)
    • Satuit, Scituate (10/12)
    • Republican, Greenfield (10/30)
    • Lodge of St. Andrew, Boston (11/10, installation)
    • St. Mark's, Newburyport (11/14)
    • Falmouth (11/17; exemplification)
    • Mount Horeb (Woburn) (11/19)
    • Trinity, Clinton (11/22; Ladies' Night)
    • Kilwinning, Lowell (11/30; Feast of St. Andrew)
• 1910-202: Report of the Auditing Committee.
• 1910-203: Re-election of Dana J. Flanders as Grand Master; election of other Grand Officers.
• 1910-205: Report of the Board of Masonic Relief.
• 1910-211: Resolutions on the powers of the Board of Masonic Relief and the Masonic Education and Charity Trust.
• 1910-224: Report and Correspondence on the Alexandria Washington Memorial.
• 1910-228: Report and Correspondence on the Bureau of Masonic Affairs.

Grand Constitutions Amendment Proposals

• 03/09: 1910-45ff; The following amendments proposed in 1909, were approved except where noted:
  • Part 1, Article 1, Section 1 (add "A.F. & A.M." to Grand Lodge title)
  • Part 1, Article 2, Section 1 (correct titles of Grand Organist and Grand Tyler)
  • Part 1, Article 3, Section 1 (date of Feast of St. John, if December 27 is a Sunday)
  • Part 1, Article 3, Section 2 (notifications of Regular Communications)
  • Part 1, Article 5, Section 1 (omit restriction on Grand Lodge office requirements)
  • Part 1, Article 7, Section 1 (date of Feast of St. John, if December 27 is a Sunday)
  • Part 1, Article 8, Section 7 (duties of DDGMs)
  • Part 1, Article 8, Section 8 (duties of DDGMs)
  • Part 1, Article 8, Section 10 (dates of reporting)
  • Part 1, Article 8, Section 14 (duties of Grand Stewards)
  • Part 1, Article 8, Section 16 (minor change)
  • Part 1, Article 8, Section 17 (Grand Lecturers); This amendment was not approved.
  • Part 2, Article 1, Section 4 (Sigourney Fund)
  • Part 3, Article 1, Section 1 (minor change)
  • Part 3, Article 2, Section 3 (minor change); This amendment was not approved.
  • Part 3, Article 4, Section 1 (members of Board of Commissioners of Trials)
  • Part 3, Article 4, Section 1 (appeals)
  • Part 3, Article 4, Section 6 (rights of suspended Brothers)
  • Part 4, Article 1, Section 3 (minor change)
  • Part 4, Article 3, Section 5 (minor change)
  • Part 4, Article 3, Section 9 (minor change)
  • Part 4, Article 3, Section 10 (procedure)
  • Part 4, Article 3, Section 13 (exception for funerals)
  • Part 5, Section 6 (removal of DDGM approval for new lodge)
  • Change Past Grand Master title to "M.W." as per change in the Grand Constitutions.
  • Change Grand Chaplain stations in Grand Lodge.

• 03/09: 1910-56; Proposed amendment to create a Committee on Jurisprudence withdrawn.

• 06/08: 1910-90; Proposal to amend Part 2 of the Grand Constitutions by adding an Article 2, regarding a Board of Masonic Relief.
  • 09/14: 1910-139ff: Report by committee; revisions considered and referred.
  • 12/14: 1910-216; approved with certain alterations.

• 06/08: 1910-103; Proposal to amend the Grand Constitutions in the following areas, all referred:
  • Part 3, Article 2, Section 3 (change in title and wording)
    • 12/14: 1910-237; approved.
  • Part 1, Article 8, Section 17 (Grand Lecturers)
    • 12/14: 1910-213; approved.
  • Part 3, Article 4, Section 6 (rights of suspended Brothers)
    • 12/14: 1910-212; approved.

• 06/08: 1910-105; Proposal by Bro. J. Edwin Fairbairn, Senior Warden of Putnam Lodge, regarding the issuing of dues cards. Referred.
  • 12/14: 1910-214; After consideration, the proposed section was not adopted, as the visitation requirements were adequately covered, and Masters were to see to it that the Tyler could adequately examine visitors.

• 12/14: 1910-240: Proposals to further amend the Grand Constitutions in the following areas, all referred:
  • Part 3, Article 2, Section 1
  • Part 4, Article 3
  • Part 2, Article 2

Grand Master's Address

• 12/14: 1910-175; Opening remarks; deaths of Spalding, Thayer, Hazzard, Van Riper, Newhall, Sawyer; visitations; Washington Memorial invitation; Bureau of Masonic Affairs correspondence; Grand Lodge of Italy; jurisdictional disputes; balloting; petition for new lodge; Grand Lecturers' reports; Charity; Grand Treasurer's report; report of Board of Directors; reports of lodges (241; 3,271 initiates in 1910); Masonic Home; conclusion.

Lodge By-Law Changes

• 03/09: 1910-42;
  • Full Codes : Mount Tom, Orphan's Hope; approved.
  • Amendments: Amicable, Aurora, Brigham, Charles River, Constellation, Eliot, Eureka, Lafayette (Roxbury), St. Alban's, Union (Dorchester); approved.

• 06/08: 1910-42;
  • Full Codes : Simon W. Robinson; approved.
  • Amendments: Doric, Friendship, George H. Taber, Konohassett, Mount Vernon, Mount Zion (with necessary change), William Parkman; approved.

• 09/14: 1910-145;
  • Full Codes : Montgomery; approved.
  • Amendments: John T. Heard, Joseph Webb, Oriental, Pacific (necessary changes), Pioneer (necessary changes); approved.

• 12/14: 1910-240;
  • Full Codes : Charles A. Welch, St. Martin's; approved with changes.
  • Amendments: Adelphi, Bethel, Bethesda (Valparaiso), John Abbot, Konohassett, Middlesex, Mount Carmel, Pacific, Philanthropic, Pioneer, Republican, St. John's (Newburyport); approved.

Masonic Home Committee Reports

• 03/09: 1910-48; Report on contributions of lodges to Masonic Home Fund, and report by the Women's Auxiliary.

• 06/08: 1910-90; Report, including proposal to amend the Grand Constitutions. A resolution to appoint a temporary Board of Masonic Relief was approved.

Necrologies and Memorials

• 03/09: 1910-24; Memorial for Most Wor. Baalis Sanford, Past Grand Master. Presented by Past Grand Master Blake for the committee.

• 03/09: 1910-29; Memorial for Rt. Wor. Irving B. Sayles, Past Junior Grand Warden; presented by Rt. Wor. Forrest E. Barker, for the committee.

• 03/09: 1910-32; Necrology for Rt. Wor. Frank T. Dwinell, Past Deputy Grand Master; presented by the Grand Master.
  • 03/09: 1910-35; Memorial presented by Rt. Wor. Henry G. Jordan, for the committee.

• 03/09: 1910-32: Necrology for Rt. Wor. George Warren Storer, Past Junior Grand Warden; presented by the Grand Master.
  • 03/09: 1910-38; Memorial presented by Rt. Wor. James M. Gleason, for the committee.

• 03/09: 1910-33; Necrology for Rt. Wor. Samuel L. Sawyer, Past District Deputy Grand Master; presented by the Grand Master.

• 03/09: 1910-33; Necrology for Wor. William C. Lovering, Past Master of Ionic Lodge, and former member of Congress; presented by the Grand Master.

• 06/08: 1910-81; Necrology for Rt. Wor. and Dr. Herbert Leslie Burrell, Past District Deputy Grand Master, "one of the leading members of the medical profession in New England," presented by the Grand Master.

• 06/08: 1910-82; Necrology for H.R.H. Edward VII, King of Great Britain, and Grand Master of the United Grand Lodge of England, 1874-1900, presented by the Grand Master. Correspondence follows.

• 09/14: 1910-137; Necrology for Hon. and Rt. Wor. William Arthur Butler, Past District Deputy Grand Master, and State legislator, presented by the Grand Master.

• 12/14: 1910-176; Necrology for Bro. Thorndike Spalding, Senior Warden of Mount Olivet Lodge (at age 39); mentioned in Grand Master's Address.

• 12/14: 1910-177; Necrology for Wor. Edward W. Thayer, Master of Old Colony Lodge; mentioned in Grand Master's Address.

• 12/14: 1910-178; Necrology for Wor. Theodore B. Hazzard, Past Master of Bristol Lodge; mentioned in Grand Master's Address.

• 12/14: 1910-178; Necrology for Bro. Thomas Van Riper, Secretary of Mount Holyoke Lodge; mentioned in Grand Master's Address.

• 12/14: 1910-178; Necrology for Wor. A. Clarke Newhall, Secretary of William Sutton Lodge; mentioned in Grand Master's Address.

• 12/14: 1910-179; Necrology for Wor. Frank H. Sawyer, Master of Merrimack Lodge ("thrown out of his carriage and killed"); mentioned in Grand Master's Address.

Petitions for Dispensation for Lodges

• 12/14: 1910-194; The Lodge of Stirling, Malden; mentioned in the Grand Master's Address.

SPECIAL COMMUNICATIONS

Hotel Hamilton, Holyoke

• 01/12: 1910-1. Holyoke. Constitution of William Whiting Lodge.
  • 1910-2: Opening of Grand Lodge and entrance into hall. "Brethren of the new Lodge and visiting Master Masons, numbering upwards of three hundred in all, had gathered."
  • 1910-3: Constitution of William Whiting Lodge; installation of officers. Address by Grand Master.
  • 1910-4: Supper at the Hotel Hamilton.
  • 1910-5: Charter members of the Lodge and organization for 1910.

• 01/13: 1910-7. Springfield. Constitution of Esoteric Lodge.
  • 1910-8: Opening of Grand Lodge and entrance into hall. Reception by brethren and more than 100 visitors.
  • 1910-8: Constitution of Esoteric Lodge; installation of officers. Address by Grand Master.
  • 1910-8: Luncheon at the Nayasset Club.
  • 1910-8: Charter members of the Lodge and organization for 1910.

• 03/14: 1910-58. Ayer. 50th Anniversary of Caleb Butler Lodge.
  • 1910-59: Opening of Grand Lodge; reception by Wor. Oliver Nye Wing of Caleb Butler Lodge.
  • 1910-59: Order of Exercises.

• 03/20: 1910-61. Marblehead. 150th Anniversary of Philanthropic Lodge.
  • 1910-62: Opening of Grand Lodge; Grand Master "appropriately received". Procession to the First Congreagational Church.
  • 1910-62: Order of Exercises.
  • 1910-65: Banquet in Abbot Hall; remarks by various Brothers, "the festivities being in active progress when the Grand Lodge officers withdrew to take the last train of the evening for Boston."

• 06/01: 1910-66. Newtonville. 50th Anniversary of Dalhousie Lodge.
  • 1910-67: Opening of Grand Lodge; reception of Grand Master.
  • 1910-68: Order of Exercises.
  • 1910-69: In the banquet-hall "two or three hours were enjoyably spent in partaking of the good things which were upon the tables and listening to the good things discoursed by the orchestra and the words of wisdom and wit which fell from the lips of many of the speakers." Remarks by the Grand Master and other brothers; historical Address by Bro. Lewis E. Binney.

• 06/06: 1910-70. Ipswich. Dedication of Masonic Temple for John T. Heard Lodge.
  • 1910-71: Opening of Grand Lodge in the new Hall. Welcome by Wor. Chester P. Woodbury, Master of John T. Heard Lodge.
  • 1910-71: Order of Exercises.
  • 1910-71: Dedication of hall; addresses by Grand Master and Deputy Grand Master and other Brothers.
  • 1910-72: Social hour. "This Lodge bears an honored name, and its members are alive to the responsibilities resting upon them to maintain the principles of which their namesake was so distinguished an exemplar."

• 06/14: 1910-111. Leominster. 50th Anniversary of Wilder Lodge.
  • 1910-112: Opening of Grand Lodge; reception by Wor. Calvin J. Carter of Wilder Lodge.
  • 1910-112: Order of Exercises.
  • 1910-113: "In spite of the lateness of the hour the members of the Lodge and their guests partook of an excellent supper . . . the hour being low twelve when the company dispersed."

Trowel used at cornerstone laying. From the Cambridge Masonic Temple collection.

• 06/30: 1910-114. Cambridge. Laying of the Corner-stone of Masonic Hall.
  • 1910-115; Grand Lodge opened at the residence of Bro. John C. Dow on Sacramento Street.
  • 1910-116: Procession details, including York Rite bodies and Amicable, Charity, Mizpah, Mount Olivet and Putnam Lodges.
  • 1910-116: Order of exercises.
  • 1910-118: Address by Wor. and Rev. Frederick W. Hamilton.
  • 1910-123: Contents of corner-stone box.
  • Brief description of the event, from New England Craftsman.

• 09/12: 1910-126. Hopkinton. 50th Anniversary of John Warren Lodge.
  • 1910-127: Opening of Grand Lodge; reception by Master of John Warren Lodge.
  • 1910-127: Addresses by Grand Master and Deputy Grand Master; historical Address by Wor. Fred Albert Wood.
  • 1910-128: Collation at the Congregational Church.

Music Hall Organ at Searles Factory, Methuen.

• 10/14: 1910-147. Methuen. 50th Anniversary of John Hancock Lodge.
  • 1910-147: Grand Officers "met at the railroad station in South Lawrence and conveyed in automobiles to Methuen."
  • 1910-148: Opening of Grand Lodge; reception by Wor. William H. Buswell of John Hancock Lodge.
  • 1910-148: Order of Exercises.
  • 1909-149: "Although not strictly a part of the proceedings, the record of the day would not be complete without reference to the ride about the town of Methuen . . . and the visit to the Searles organ factory, where the Great Organ formerly in Music Hall, Boston, has been set up and fitted with modern appliances and has been set up and fitted with modern appliances and has become vocal after a silence of more than fifteen years."

• 11/19: 1910-150. Woburn. Corner-stone laying of post office building. Rt. Wor. and Rev. William H. Rider, Deputy Grand Master, officiating.
  • 1910-151; Grand Lodge met at the train station by a committee from Mount Horeb Lodge. Procession to the site of the new building on Federal Street.
  • 1910-152: Order of Exercises.
  • 1910-152: "The weather being unfavorable for further continuation of the exercises in the open air, the procession was reformed and returned to the Masonic Hall."
  • 1910-153: Address by Deputy Grand Master Rider.
  • 1910-158: Contents of corner-stone box.

FEAST OF ST. JOHN THE EVANGELIST

(held at Masonic Temple, Boston, 12/27/1910)

• 1910-242: Opening and roll call.
• 1910-244: Installation of Grand Master Dana Judson Flanders. Installation of other Grand Officers.
• 1910-249: Report of Recording Grand Secretary: 3,203 Master Mason diplomas issued in 1910.
• 1910-251: List of lodges not represented in Grand Lodge in 1906, as well as the past 2-3 years.
• 1910-252: Feast of St. John, listing toasts and names of speakers:
  • 1910-252: Grand Master Flanders.
  • 1910-255: Recording Grand Secretary Thomas W. Davis, including an address given at Germania Lodge.
  • 1910-261: Rt. Wor. Samuel Hauser.
  • 1910-264: Bro. Charles Dana Burrage, Grand High Priest.
  • 1910-268: Letter from Most Wor. Joseph W. Eggleston, Past Grand Master of Virginia.
  • 1910-269: Rev. Bro. W. Ashby Jones, of Georgia.
  • 1910-278: Rt. Wor. Melvin M. Johnson.
  • 1910-284: Letter from Grand Chaplain Edward O. Horton.

LIST OF LODGES IN MASSACHUSETTS BY DISTRICT: 1910

There were 28 districts in Massachusetts in 1910, as well as districts for Chile and China. At the end of 1910, the Grand Master announced a redistricting for 1910, creating 32 districts.

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