AMERICAN TYLEH 
'ME birth of faith-.- 
war broke out in Florida. The Doctor was then a 
very active and strong young man of seventeen. 
He offered his services to the government and was 
prominent in organizing a battalion known as the 
“True-blues.” With these he went to Florida, where 
he experienced all the vicissitudes of the soldier 
life of the period. While in Florida he saw much 
of the sickness of camp life, and it impressed him 
with the genei’al inability of man to care for him- 
self. This evidently was what caused him to turn 
his attention to medicine. The honor and emolu- 
ments of the office were a secondary consideration 
with him. No doctor ever took a more knightly 
view of his profession than he; and no knight er- 
rant ever went forth with moi’e zeal to right 
wrongs than did he enter the field of medicine for 
the purpose of doing good—-for making this high 
profession a grand factor for the welfare and bet- 
terment of his fellowmen. Up to the age of mid- 
dle manhood he was in good condition to fight the 
battle of life vigorously. He was active and strong 
in mind and body. Being a Southern man and a 
man of much spirit, it was natural that he should, 
in 1861, go to the war, and that, too, on the side 
of his surroundings. He organized, and was cap- 
tain, as well as surgeon, of the “Scrivman Guards,” 
a company made up of boat and river men who 
wTere on duty almost, if not wholly, within the 
swamp lands of Louisiana. To contract rheuma- 
tism in such a place was quite natural, so it is 
not surprising to leam that about this time he was 
afflicted with this disease, which has its many vic- 
tims, and that, too, under circumstances less prone 
to produce it. 
In 1846 he was made a Master Mason in “Eureka 
Lodge,” Ala. His desire to enter a larger field took 
him to New Orleans. 
In 1859 we learn of his advancing to the Royal 
Arch Degree, in the “Polar Star Royal Arch Chap- 
ter,” and in 1861 as being “High Priest.” 
In 1860 he received the Templar degree in the 
DeMolay Commandery. 
About the year 1856 he had taken his first step in 
that branch of Masonry known as the Scottish 
Rite. 
In the person of Dr. Batchelor, the twro, the York 
and the Scottish Rite, as with many other promi- 
nent Brothers in Masonry, were united in harmony; 
and in his case it seemed quite emblematic. As 
in his person he united the English and Scotch 
blood, so in his official capacity he united the two 
divisions of the Grand Order of Masonry. 
The latter part of March, 1891, Gen. Albert Pike 
was on his deathbed, and it being evident that he 
could not live a great while longer, Dr. Batchelor, 
then Lieut. Grand Commander of the Rite, was re- 
quested to come to Washington. Fortunately the 
General’s sickness was of such a nature that his 
mental faculties were in good condition, so the two 
old friends and ranking officers of the Rite were 
able to see each other and to speak of things of 
special interest to the Order. On the death of Gen. 
Pike the Lieut. Grand Commander assumed com- 
mand, and until advanced by the Supreme Council 
to the office of Grand Commander, was the Act- 
ing Grand Commander and official head of the Rite. 
This was early in April, 1891. For years the Doc- 
tor was not a robust looking man, and at this time 
lie did not promise many more years of life. He 
had already passed the three score and ten line. 
Tiie left leg, on account of rheumatism, contracted 
in the swamps of Louisiana during the war, 1861- 
65, was so bent at the knee as to form an angle of 
about one hundred and twenty degrees. This 
necessitated his using crutches. Shortly after 
the death of General Pike the Doctor was, 
on account of erysipelas in this left leg, 
obliged to take to his bed. He occupied the 
same room that had been occupied by Gen. Pike, 
though the furniture therein was so different that 
it seemed quite like another room. The General 
lay on a small three-quarter bed, with his head to 
the north, while the Doctor used a bed of the typ- 
ical order, with Ins head towards the east, as the 
eastern wall of the room was the only wall against 
which a bed of that class could be placed; and it 
could not well be placed in the position that the 
General preferred. The General seemed to have a 
notion that it was better for a man to lie in line of 
the poles rather than with the line of the equator. 
But the two men actually covered the same ground, 
though one lay north and south, while the other 
lay east and west. 
For nearly a year the Doctor lay on this bed, with 
erysipelas in this maimed leg. The man was in 
feeble health, with very poor respiration and cir- 
culation. There was little evidence of vitality in 
tills man as he lay so many months on that bed of 
sickness. He could not bear even a sheet to touch 
his sensitive limb. For months he lay there, im- 
proving so slowly that from week to week one 
could not realize any change. Fortunately for him 
he had the same faithful nurse that had been so 
long with the General. Edward Kenney, the col- 
ored nurse, well deserves to be kindly remembered 
by the Brethren of the Rite as a most faithful 
nurse to two Grand Commanders, through their 
long months of very trying sickness. By August or 
September, 1892, the Doctor was able to get up 
and to take a short trip to the mountains and to 
Atlantic City. He was very weak and was not able 
to get about without help. Still these little trips 
were an agreeable change to a man who had lain 
on a bed for nearly twelve months. By October, 
when the Supreme Council met, he was able to 
preside at its meetings, and on the first day of the 
session he was elected to succeed Gen. Pike. He 
was not at the time in very good physical condi- 
tion; still an indomitable will-power will some- 
times carry a man over very trying places; and 
this the Doctor was abundantly supplied with. 
There were a few brethren who thought that a 
man in such a physical condition should not be ad- 
vanced to the highest ottice of the Rite; still there 
was no very serious opposition to him on this ac- 
count; while the majority believed in compliment- 
ing the man’s past services in the Rite. And this 
would seem to be the correct stand to take in such 
cases. The younger men can well afford to wait 
when honors are to be conferred upon the veterans 
who have served many faithful years. What 
though the venerable brother is not as active as 
he was once; what though many younger men 
stand ready, and are able to assume the duties of 
the office. Not one of them, do we believe, would 
like to be indifferently set aside when they shall 
have become old. With mental facilities still unim- 
paired, we doubt if they would like to be deprived 
of an honor that they had won by using the labor- 
ing oar long years before some of the younger as- 
pirants were in the field. With the selfish and the 
thoughtless, his infirmities were against him; but 
with the true and better element, these infirmities 
stood not in the way of the highest honors the 
Order could confer upon a worthy brother. 
While the Doctor was not the giant and genius as 
was Albert Tike, no man in the Order had a higher 
appreciation, and even veneration, for the General 
than he. And it was his highest ambition to carry 
out the known wishes of his distinguished prede- 
cessor. He even disturbed the order and condi- 
tion of things about the House of the Temple as 
little as possible. He was especially interested in 
having everything practically to remain as the 
General had left it. Of course some things had to 
be changed, but so far as it was practical Dr. 
Batchelor paid the utmost respect to all the little 
details about the place where Albert Pike had 
lived—and the name “Albert Pike” was always 
affectionately upon his lips. 
While it would not be just, there is no need of 
undertaking to make a comparison between the 
“Doctor” and the “General.” In the Order, as in 
the world, there was room enough for them both. 
The Doctor never made the least effort to have 
himself spoken of in the same breath with the Gen- 
eral. The General to him was what he was to all 
the brethren who knew him—the great and incom- 
parable Albert Pike, one of the few great minds of 
the world. The Doctor was too much occupied in 
sounding the praises of his Illustrious Brother to at 
once think of attempting to any more than fill the 
office that the brethren lovingly conferred upon 
him. And yet Dr. Batchelor was a strong man, 
and as an executive he was at least the peer of 
the General. The General was a great scholar, 
philosopher and law giver; in these he excelled, 
while it remained for our illustrious Brother 
Batchelor to be exceedingly well versed in the 
statutes and all the affairs of State, which comes 
under the grand head of executive ability. In this 
line he held a superior rank. And yet some of the 
brethren may not concur in this. Indeed he was 
accused, during his life, of not being familiar with 
such laws as govern parliamentary bodies. Yet 
when you come to hear his side of the case they, 
and not he, were the ones who were ignorant of 
the laws that should govern a Masonic body. This 
was his quiet defense. He was not ignorant of 
parliamentary law, but he claimed that such law, 
or ruling, had no right in a Masonic body. There 
were good law's and usages by which to conduct 
the work of a Masonic body. The ancient bi’ethren 
had not been ignorant in these matters; they had 
left good forms to govern the Lodge, and these 
forms the late Grand Commander believed in and 
maintained wherever and whenever he presided 
over a Masonic body. 
His physical condition naturally made him at 
times irritable; still he was too much of a gentle- 
man to harbor any ill will, or to exhibit any re- 
sentful traits. There was nothing of the policy 
or double-dealing in his composition. He was an 
exceedingly fair and fearless man. Like the Gen- 
eral, he w'as full of old-time reminiscences, and it 
was very pleasant of an evening to meet him 
quietly at the House of the Temple and hear him 
relate the incidents of his earlier life; incidents 
of the pioneer days with which he was so familiar; 
incidents of the Florida war, and of our late war; 
The following beautiful lines are from the pen of 
Sir Knight Col. D. S. Wagstaff, Damascus Com- 
mandery, Detroit, and general passenger agent of 
the Grand Trunk Railway, who was in charge of 
the large excursion party to the Shrine of Ste. Anne 
de Beaupre. They were written on the inspiration 
of the moment, after witnessing the visit of the 
pilgrims: 
A beam of light crept thro’ the clouds, 
Adrift from sphere to sphere, 
As curtained in their mazy depths, 
Hope found its birth-place there. 
The sky has shewn its azure blue 
As hope abandons fear, 
The clouds are parting one by one, 
Nor stop to drop a tear. 
The Sun of Life victorious 
Is born the world to save; 
The blessed day has dawned at last! 
Faith floats upon the wave. 
.JAMES CUNNINGHAM BATCHELOR, 33d Deg., 
Grand Commander, A.:A.:S.:R.: for the Southern 
Jurisdiction of the United States—Mother Coun- 
cil of the World. 
The Supreme Council, A.:.A.*.S.\It.\, for the 
Southern jurisdiction of the United States, has, 
within the period of twenty-seven months, lost, by 
death, two Grand Commanders. 
This statement, without further explanation, 
might seem to convey the impression that the angel 
of death had a fondness for the Head of the Order. 
But when we come to consider that they were 
both old men; that the first, General Albert Pike, 
died at eighty-one; and that the second, illustrious 
Brother Dr. Batchelor, had been in feeble health 
for more than a quarter of a century; that in a 
crippled condition he remained at his post, doing 
the work of an active man; when we consider this 
it does not seem as though there was any special 
fatality in regard to the death of these Illustrious 
Heads of the Order. Most heroically did Dr. Batch- 
elor hold his ground, and like a true Knight of St. 
Andrew did he maintain it against such odds as 
would have sent many a younger man to the grave 
before even reaching his prime. 
To those not familiar with the subject of our 
sketch it may seem queer to speak of him as 
"Doctor.” But a little explanation will clear up 
that point. As Grand Commander he would have 
had as much light to the title of “General” as his 
grand predecessor. He was a practicing physician; 
and years ago lie had won distinction as a medical 
man. So it was very natural to speak of him as 
“Doctor.” Thus the title of the profession, in 
which he had also won honors, remained with him; 
and indeed will always be associated with his name. 
Honors thus won by years of faithful service do 
not readily depart from a man. As the peculiar 
characteristics of many of the old Kings individu- 
alized them by giving them some peculiar sub- 
title or name, so the name of “Doctor” will be as- 
sociated with the late Grand Commander, James 
Cunningham Batchelor. 
The father of Doctor Batchelor was bom in Lon- 
don, while his mother was born in Edinburgh, so 
on the maternal side he was Scotch by actual b’ood; 
and this blood of old Scotland often showed itself 
in the man. Indeed he had a good share of the 
tenacious elements of both of these hardy and en- 
lightened races which have done so much for the 
grand advancement of the new world. The father 
and mother came to this country before they were 
married; though the mother, then the maiden 
Margaret Scott, came first. They were married in 
Nova Scotia, and shortly removed to Quebec, where 
the “Doctor” was bom, July 10th, 1818. When he 
was about a year old the family removed to the 
United States, and for some years lived at Geneva, 
N. Y. The father had become a lumber mill owner; 
indeed we might speak of him as a founder of 
lumber mills, for he was a man of roving disposi- 
tion, who would establish a mill in one locality, 
run it for a while, then sell out and move on to 
some other place. So the elder Mr. Batchelor 
moved about from place to place. For awhile he 
lived at Cleveland, O.; then moved out to St. 
Louis, which was pretty well west for the 
“twenties.” But lie does not seem to have remained 
long in St. Louis. He had gone west about as far 
as the civilization of that day would permit, so he 
then turned his eyes towards the South, and settled 
in Alabama. An opportunity now presented itself 
for the elder Batchelor to become a hotel man; and 
the proposition was strongly approved and desired 
by Mrs. Batchelor, for she had become tired of the 
roving life of a mill owner, who had such a pioneer 
spirit within him. In the meanwhile the Indian AMERICAN TYLER 
anecdotes of the Masons whom he had met in his 
earlier days, and his experience with the many 
Masonic bodies of the southwest. On these oc- 
casions he was very entertaining and instructive. 
He would have taken great pleasure in visiting 
the Masonic bodies over which, as Grand Com- 
mander, he presided, and he often regretted that 
he was not physically able to do so, but his infirm- 
ities prevented. It undoubtedly would have been 
beneficial to the Hite could he have done so; still, 
it seems most charitable and reasonable to honor a 
man who has been a faithful and earnest Mason 
for nearly half a century; and it would seem that 
physical infirmities, such as he was afflicted with, 
should not stand in his way of promotion, nor be- 
tween him and the kind and brotherly sympathy 
of the gentlemen of the Order, renowned for its 
teachings of good will towards all men. 
In the fall of 185)2 he took a trip south. As we 
all know, the winter of 18512-93 was very severe, 
so he remained south longer than In* had intended. 
As it was, he came north too soon. On tin* way he 
took a severe cold. The winter sojourn at the 
south had built him up, and on his return he was 
looking comparatively well. But that cold, to a 
man of his physical condition, was too much for 
him. May 15th In* went to bed. 
A most patient sufferer lie was. His sister, Miss 
Hutchings, came from Alabama to take* care of 
him, but the best of care availed not. Physically, 
he had for many years been a very weak man. 
All that could have been done for his comfort was 
(lone. His friends realized that there was no hope 
for recovery because the vitality of the man was 
fast being undermined by the dread disease. 
“Phthisis,” with which he was afflicted. He died 
at half past three o'clock on the morning of July 
28th, 185)3, having on the loth of July reached his 
75th birthday. 
The body was embalmed on the evening of the 
-M.Mh; a short and impressive service, an abridge- 
ment of the Rose Croix service, was held by a few 
of the brethren at the House of the Temple at 
Washington. That night the remains of our Il- 
lustrious Brother were sent to New Orleans, where 
he had in life labored so many years as Grand 
' ec ret ary of the Grand Lodge of Louisiana, as 
"’ell as for the Hite in general. 
There at midnight, August 1-2, the Supreme 
Council met and performed the last sad rites of the 
Order. The next day he was buried by the Blue 
Lodge. Thus the last honors were paid to him 
!>y the two Rites in which he had held such high 
positions. The man and Brother has left us. He 
was a man of sterling qualities and a Brother of 
whom we may all well be proud, for he was an 
able man and a kind and true Brother; a good 
Mason and a good citizen; and lie was well wor- 
my of the Masonic honors that he received, in life 
and in death. In life he wore them with modesty 
''rice":lt l 1U> ln*tl Tlleni down with dignity and 
As Grand Commander of the Mother Council of 
the uorld, he died the ranking Scotch Hite Mason 
of the world. As a man and as a Brother we 
revere Ins memory. 
A ISAAC P. NOYES. 
\\ aslnngton. I). C., August 5tli, 1893. 
Veteran Association of the Pacific coast, to take 
the necessary steps in procuring a proper place 
where the monument shall be erected, and for its 
erection. 
A suitable location was generously offered by the 
Masonic Cemetery Association of San Francisco 
for that purpose, which is gratefully appreciated. 
But deeming it better to have the monument 
erected, if possible, within the immediate jurisdic- 
tion of Gethsemane Chapter of Rose Croix, appli- 
cation was made to the Board of Directors of the 
Mountain View Cemetery Association, of Oakland, 
and largely composed of Masonic Brethren, which 
was graciously accorded, as will be seen by the 
following letter: 
Mountain View Cemetery Association, 
Oakland. Cal., July 13th, 1893. 
Edwin A. Sherman, Esq., Wise Master of Gethse- 
mane Chapter No. 5, of Knights of Rose Croix, 
Oakland, California. 
Dear Sir: Your communication of June 5th. 1893, 
asking for a donation of cemetery lot to Gethse- 
mane Chapter No. 5, of Knights Rose Croix of the 
Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Free- 
masonry, of Oakland, Cal., was read at the meld- 
ing of t he Board of Trustees held July 13tli, 1893. 
On motion it was unanimously carried, donating 
to Gethsemane Chapter No. 5. of Knights Rose 
Croix of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of 
Freemasonry, of Oakland, California, the following 
described cemetery lot, viz.: Lot Number Fifty- 
three, riot Twenty-seven as per map tiled by the 
Association in the County Recorder’s Office. 
The deed of conveyance for same will be exe- 
cuted at once and forwarded to you without de- 
lay. Yours very respectfully, 
EDWARD I’. OUTRAM. 
Secretary Mountain View Cemetery Association. 
Thus it will be observed that the location for the 
monument has been secured, which is a very fine 
one, and rrpon which we desire to erect a monu- 
ment. surrounded by a bronze statue of our Mar- 
tyred Brother, if possible, which shall be a full 
tribute of worth to his memory and an honor and 
credit to the entire Masonic Fraternity; the foun- 
dation stone of which shall be laid with imposing 
ceremonies by the M. W. Grand Lodge of Masons 
of California, and the monument when completed 
and the statue unveiled with proper ceremonies by 
the same supreme authority of Ancient Craft Ma- 
sonry of this State, which commands our fraternal 
esteem and affection, and our unqualified para 
mount allegiance. 
\Ve therefore fraternally desire that every Mas- 
ter Mason may have an opportunity of contrib- 
uting his mite, no matter how small it may be, and 
have his representation in the proposed monument 
and statue, and to that end contributions are earn- 
estly solicited, which may be sent to the under- 
signed at his office, or to Bro. Jas. B. Merritt, 33 
deg.. Grand Master of the Grand Consistory of 
California, at No. 220 California street, San Fran- 
cisco; or to Bro. Jas. L. Cogswell, Past President of 
the Masonic Veteran Association of the Pacific 
Coast, Room 5, Evening Post Building, comer of 
Bush and Kearny streets, San Francisco; or to 
Bro. Charles E. Gillett, 33d deg., Secretary of 
Gethsemane Chapter No. 5, Rose Croix, Masonic 
Temple, Oakland, who will make due acknowledg- 
ment of receipts, and Bro. John II. Brownell, pub- 
lisher American Tyler. 
Our brother’s blood still cries to heaven from 
the ground, while his enemies and ours continue to 
flourish, and whose menancing hands, still moist 
with his blood, are raised in every direction against 
our ancient and honored institution of Freemasonry 
which we love so much, and for which our Mar- 
tyred Brother, ex-Gov. Ygnacio Herrera y Cairo, 
poured out his life's blood, and committed the 
sacred chalice to our fraternal keeping and care. 
Trusting that our appeal to you will not have 
been made in vain, 
I am most sincerely and fraternally yours, 
EDWIN A. SHERMAN, 33d Deg., 
Wise Master of Gethsemane Chapter No. 5, of 
Knights Rose Croix, National President of ’ the 
Masonic Veteran Association of the United States. 
Secretary of the Masonic Veteran Association of 
the Pacific Coast. 
minished his enthusiasm or lessened the hearty ahd 
sincere interest which he has always manifested 
in promoting the welfare and glory of the honored 
fraternity. Highly versed in the literature of the 
craft, skilled in the arts and sciences,, a practical 
exemplar of its teachings, foremost in the practice 
of its greatest tenet—charity—an honored man, a 
public-spirited citizen, and an eminent Mason, he 
is ever the same genial—nature’s nobleman—James 
Ten Eyck. We append the following beautiful 
words, spoken upon his declining the very distin- 
guished honor of a unanimous re-election as Grand 
Master: “One year ago you conferred me the honor 
of uuamimously electing me Grand Master. Then I 
accepted the office, promising a faithful perform- 
ance of the duties appertaining to it. To-day you 
intensify the honor by again selecting me. If, dur- 
ing the year that has passed, I have so discharged 
my duties as to merit approval, I am content. Your 
generous kindness and loyal support have made my 
path a path of roses, .and a way of ueace. The 
words of the Grand Chaplain have been ever with 
me, when he asked God. in whom we all believe, 
to give me wisdom, to give me strength, to give 
me love; and indeed if. as it. seems, you are satis- 
fied, it is because that prayer has been granted. 
Some years ago, with others, I promised that if I 
ever should be elected Grand Master I would serve 
one year only. Those living, and who are directly 
interested, generously offered to release me from 
this pledge, but some have passed from earth, and 
from them there can lie no release. Although I 
am not blessed with children to bear my name, as 
many of you are, my desire has always been to 
leave a spotless record and an untarnished name. 
The weakness of the seal of a letter constitutes its 
strength, and so the word of a man, which can so 
easily be broken when given, should always be 
sacred. Therefore, brethren, grateful as ever any 
grateful heart lias been, thankful far beyond the 
words 1o express, I do most res eetfully decl ne this 
great honor. 
It is proposed that the installation ceremony of 
the (Irand Lodge of Scotland be held alternately 
in Edinburgh and Glasgow. 
In Holland the Worshipful Master, once elected, 
generally retains office till his death. The officers 
of the Lodge are elected for periods of from one 
to three years, its the by-laws determine, and then 
may be re-elected. The Master Mason’s degree is 
not conferred earlier than a year after taking the 
degree of Fellow Craft, except by dispensation, 
and the Fellow Craft caimot apply for the degree, 
which is only given after a resolution of the Mas- 
ter Masons of his Lodge at such times as they con- 
sider him worthy to receive it. No fees are 
charged for this degree. 
An All-Ireland Masonic perseutation is to be made 
to Bro. Lord Justice Fitzgibbon, in acknowledg- 
ment of his eminent services on the Occasion of the 
Dublin Centenary Bazaar. 
The Board of General purposes of the Grand 
Lodge of England recommend that the annual 
grant towards the expenses of the Library be in- 
creased from £25 to £50, the former sum being 
found insufficient for the purpose. 
Lodge Glasgow, St. John, No. 3, of Glasgow, 
Scotland, claims an antiquity reaching back to 
1057, and professes to have a charter from Mal- 
colm III., King of Scotland. The 834tli anniver- 
sary was celebrated with great pomp and cere- 
mony. 
Bro. Lord Brassey has given £5,000 towards the 
provision of a block of buildings, to consist of a 
mission to seamen, church, an institute, a gymna- 
sium, an adult school-room, class-nxyns, and a 
coffee bar. etc., for the free use id' sailors and 
fishermen of all nationalities frequenting the port 
of London, which, with four other seamen’s insti 
tutes, is to cost £30,000. 
The Lodge of the Drei Balken. at Munster, Ger- 
many, which was at one time presided over by 
the great Field Marshal von Bluclier, recently cel- 
ebrated its 115th anniversary, and the 60th Ma- 
sonic Jubilee of its Past Master Werlitz, who oc- 
cupied the Oriental Chair from 1862 to 1887 
Worshipful Bro. Werlitz is ex-Chief Surgeon-Gen- 
eral of the Prussian army, and is 87 years old. 
Twenty-eight thousand people are said to have 
visited during the past year the cottage in Ayr 
where the poet Bums was born, and thirty-eight 
thousand visit«h1 his monument. This is indeed 
honor to his memory and homage to his genius! 
As showing the irony of fate, we are told that 
the old Inquisition Building in Mexico now forms 
the headquarters of the Masonic Orders there, and 
that Masonry is making rapid strides and is be- 
coming a recognized and honored Institution in 
that republic. 
CALIFORNIA. 
Om-m of Uettiseniano Chapter No. 5, Itose Croix 
• , A ‘; s-‘- Klte of Freemasonry, Masonic 
ieIUSte Aorthwest Corner Washington and 
I welttli Streets, Oakland. Cal. Office of Edwin 
,i! Deg“ Wiso Mastor. No. 568 
Eighteenth Street. 
Oakland, Cal., July 14th, 1893 
'?ho receive 'this pamphlet, 
1'internal Greetings: 
Ihe first edition of the “Account of the Recen- 
Yof the Heart of Our Martyred Brother 
I gnacio Herrera y Cairo, by Getliesemane Chap- 
..nf,-l{<)T,r0‘X °’ ’ llavinS become exhausted, 
the uigent demand tor more has caused tliis Chap- 
ter to issue this second edition; though the con- 
tributions received for the first edition were not 
sufficient to meet the expenses, by a considerable 
amount, yet, for the good of the cause of Free- 
masonry in the circulation of the information con- 
tained therein, this Chapter assumed all the re- 
sponsibility and met the deficiency in the most 
cheerful spirit, besides all the* other expenses con- 
nected with the imposing and solemn occasion of 
assuming the responsibility of the acceptance of so 
sacred a trust, the importance of which and the 
influence to go forth around the globe among the 
< raftsmen of the world, cannot be estimated. 
Ihe many letters received from our Brethren in 
eveyy direction, and the general expressed desire 
to have a proper monument erected to the mem- 
ory of our Martyred Brother, has caused this Chap- 
ter of Hose Croix in connection with tbe Masonic 
TAST GRAND MASTER TEN EYCK. 
Man $ noble deeds live on. No name i.s more il- 
lustrious on the roll of illustrious craftsmen, who 
have been chosen to till the most exalted position 
witliiii rh«‘ gift of America's greatest jurisdiction— 
the Hi li pi re state—than that of M. \\\ Janies Ten 
K.vck. He discharged his arduous duties with sig- 
nal ability and characteristic lidelity. Hi* has laid 
aside the purple of the fraternity which he has so 
worthily worn. His name will forever be indeli- 
bly impressed on bright pages of Masonic historv 
His retirement from official lift* has in no way di’