The Worcester of eighteen hundred and ninety-eightFifty years a city . building, where it layburied in obscurity for more than seventy years, but upon the completedemolition of the building in 1898, it was discovered and brought tolight. Its contents, a beautifully engraved silver disk and some coins,are now in the custody of the major. The corner-stone of the newCity Hall was laid by the Grand Lodge of I^Iasons of Massachusetts inSeptember, 1896. In 1893 Morning Star Lodge celebrated its centennial anniversary andpublished a history of its hundred years. During that time more than1,000 names
The Worcester of eighteen hundred and ninety-eightFifty years a city . building, where it layburied in obscurity for more than seventy years, but upon the completedemolition of the building in 1898, it was discovered and brought tolight. Its contents, a beautifully engraved silver disk and some coins,are now in the custody of the major. The corner-stone of the newCity Hall was laid by the Grand Lodge of I^Iasons of Massachusetts inSeptember, 1896. In 1893 Morning Star Lodge celebrated its centennial anniversary andpublished a history of its hundred years. During that time more than1,000 names were added to its rolls, many of which are household wordsin the social, professional, civic and business life of the town and citjof Worcester. In 1859 Montacute Lodge was instituted. Athelstan followed in1867, and Quinsigamond in 1871. These are all large and flourish-ing bodies, having an aggregate membership of more than 1,200. In 1824 Worcester Chapter of Royal Arch was instituted, theceremony being held in the Old South Church, and included an The Worcester of 1898. 271 bv the Reverend i\Ir. Fuller. Eureka Chapter was chartered in1870. Worcester County Commandery, Knights Templars, was instituted in1824, and is now one of the largest and most flourishing commanderiesin the United States, while Hiram Council, R. & S. Masters, charteredin , is said to be the largest body of its denomination in the world. The Lodge of Perfection, Goddard Cotmcil and Lawrence Chapter,Rose Croix, were all chartered between the years i860 and 1870, andbelong to what is called the vScottish Rite, which, starting with thelodge, works out the Masonic ideas along a different line of developmentand ritual from that followed b}- the Royal Arch and Templar Orders. In addition to these bodies we must not forget to mention the Orderof the Eastern Star, an adjunct but independent organization, composedof Masons and their wives and daughters. The Grand Chapter of thisorder for Massa
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