a number of months, and was prevented by sickness from attending the session of the Grand Lodge in June last. He was raised in Lotus Lodge, No. 31, the 5th of December, 1889, and served as its Secretary in 1890 and 1891. In 1894 he was elected Senior Warden, and the following year he was elected Master, serving as such three terms. During the Mastership of BROTHER JOHNSON, Lotus Lodge enjoyed a season of unusual prosperity. In June, 1898, he was appointed one of the Stewards of the Grand Lodge.

BROTHER JOHNSON was the moving spirit in the establishment of the Temple Club, and took a lively interest in everything pertaining to the Fourth District. He will be sadly missed by the brethren of Lotus Lodge, where he was most highly esteemed for his sterling qualities of head and heart. R.. W... ADOLPH MUEHSAM, Representative Grand Lodge of Switzerland near the Grand Lodge of New York.

As a

ADOLPH MUEHSAM was born and educated in Prussia. young man he was compelled, under the German law, to serve an enlistment in the military forces of that kingdom. Coming to America at the outbreak of the Civil War, it was but natural that the enthusiasm of youth and a taste for military life should lead him to enlist in the Union forces. He served through that long and cruel civil strife with fidelity and valor, attaining the rank of sergeant and receiving honorable wounds during that contest.

At the close of the war he returned to this city, and shortly thereafter became a member of Manahatta Lodge, No. 489, and subsequently, in 1895, its Master. He died in the city of New York on the 26th day of August, 1899.

BROTHER MUEHSAM was a genial, kindly man, greatly beloved by a large circle of brethren and friends. Of pleasing manner, social in disposition, free, open-handed, unstinted in his benevolence, he brought sunshine and gladness to replace sorrow and care. Peace to his ashes.

M... W.. OSCAR COLES, Past Grand Master.

M.. W.. OSCAR COLES, Past Grand Master, joined Independent Royal Arch Lodge, No. 2, and withdrew therefrom

November 10, 1845, to become the first Master of Manitou Lodge, No. 106, chartered on the 3d day of March, 1846. He served as Master of this Lodge during the years 1846 and 1847; was elected Deputy Grand Master in 1848, and Grand Master in 1851. He died on the 12th of October, 1899, at Bellport, Long Island, in the eighty-sixth year of his age. His obsequies took place three days thereafter in this hall, under the direction of Manitou Lodge, No. 106, the Grand Master and a large number of the officers of the Grand Lodge being in attendance.

During the years of BROTHER COLES' active service in the Craft, he was a central figure at every Masonic gathering in this city. Of easy and graceful carriage, his manners were frank, courteous, and captivating. He was a man of strong individuality, having a natural force of mind and character, together with large and varied resources gathered by reading, study, and observation in extended fields. He had, as he deserved to have, the confidence and respect of those with whom he was associated. His kindly disposition, sterling integrity, and exalted character as a man, endeared him to the community in which he lived.

Just in all his dealings, truthful in all his sayings, no man could come in contact with him without being impressed with the noble nature of OSCAR COLES.

R.. W... WILLIAM HOWES SMITH, Representative of the Grand Lodge of Maine near the Grand Lodge of New York.

BROTHER WILLIAM HOWES SMITH, Representative of the Grand Lodge of Maine near the Grand Lodge of New York, died at Schenectady, N. Y., on the 14th of October, 1899, in the fifty-first year of his age.

BROTHER SMITH was born in Schenectady, educated in Union College, graduated in the class of 1869, and was prominently identified with the Delta Phi Fraternity. For a time he studied law, but this study he abandoned to enter active business life with his father. In 1875 he was elected Recorder of the city, and in 1877 he was elected Mayor, continuing as such for two years. At the expiration of his term as Mayor he was elected a member of the Common Council for the period of three years.

In 1888 he was appointed a member of the Board of Education. The following year he was elected president of that board, and continued in that capacity until his failing health compelled him to resign in October, 1898.

BROTHER SMITH joined St. George's Lodge, No. 6, in 1874, and was its Master in 1895 and 1896. In his home life he was a devoted husband and a fond and indulgent father.

Among his associates he was ever the same pleasing companion and warm, faithful friend.

R.. W... ROBERT A. DAVISON, Past D.D.G.M., First Masonic District.

BROTHER DAVISON became a member, by initiation, of Morton Lodge, No. 63, in 1878, and was its Master during the years 1882, 1883, 1897, and District Deputy Grand Master of the First Masonic District 1883, 1884. He died in Brooklyn on the 19th day of November, 1899. His funeral services were held in the Methodist Episcopal Church, at Rockville Center, Long Island. BROTHER DAVISON for many years, and up to the time of his death, was the superintendent of the Sunday-school connected with this church.

Sincere, genial, and kind, he combined in a remarkable degree the gentle and vigorous traits of character which impressed every one who came, even for a moment, within the circle of his charming and magnetic influence. Generous in sentiment, warm and catholic in his sympathies, yet firm and tenacious in personal convictions, he had a broad creed for other people, but a narrow one for himself.

There was no relation in life in which he stood which he did not adorn. As a civilian, he was patriotic in the highest degree; as a business man, his sense of honor was most keen and his integrity most marked; in the social circle, he was one of the most delightful and interesting companions; while in the closer privacy of his home, he was a model husband and ideal father. His domestic life was full of countless courtesies, abounding in little nameless and unnumbered acts of love and kindness. He was a man who could be ill spared, and upon whose like we shall not soon look again.

R... W... CHARLES E. IDE, Past Senior Grand Warden.

R.. W.. CHARLES E. IDE, Past Senior Grand Warden, died on Saturday morning, December 9, 1899, at Jacksonville, Florida, whither he had gone in the vain hope of resisting, for a time at least, the ravages of the almost necessarily fatal illness with which he had been stricken.

He was born at Oaks Corners, in the Town of Phelps, Ontario County, New York, May 31, 1853. He was educated at Geneva, and subsequently removed to Syracuse, where he resided with his family until his death, and where he was admitted to the bar and began the practice of his chosen profession.

"He was an eloquent advocate, an original thinker, an able counsellor, and skilled in all branches of the law," is the tribute which appears in the memorial adopted, at a special meeting, by the Onondaga County Bar Association.

He sought and obtained political preferment, having been for a time Corporation Counsel of the city of Syracuse.

His was an intense nature. He was aggressive in thought and action, strong in his convictions, and wholly without fear of the consequences to himself of any course of action he deemed it wise to pursue. He was a man who loved his friends rather than his enemies, and was, in turn, beloved by those with whom he sustained constant and intimate relations.

He was made a Mason in Central City Lodge, No. 305, July 2, 1878, and served as Master during the years 1889 and 1890. He was Grand Steward for two years, and was elected Junior Grand Warden in 1893 and 1894, and Senior Grand Warden in 1895, 1896, 1897, and 1898.

In his Masonic relations he was industrious, energetic, and ambitious. Always an enthusiastic Craftsman, he gave freely of his time, his means, and his talents to the affairs of our Fraternity, but his sympathies and activities were for the most part with the appendant Orders of Freemasonry. He was for many years a zealous and faithful officer in the Grand Commandery, K. T. of the State of New York, and at its last annual conclave was unanimously elected Right Eminent Grand Commander. In the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite he held

the distinguished position of Deputy of the Supreme Council for the State of New York.

The Grand Lodge was represented at the funeral services of our departed Brother at Syracuse, on Wednesday afternoon, the 13th day of December, 1899, by a special committee appointed by the warrant of the Grand Master, consisting of the R.. W.. CHARLES W. MEAD, Deputy Grand Master; the R.. W.. CHARLES W. CUSHMAN, Senior Grand Warden; and the R.. W.. JERRIE T. DURHAM, District Deputy Grand Master of the district in which the home lodge of BROTHER IDE is located.

Our fraternal sympathy is extended to his family and kindred, and we can but express the fervent hope that the consolation of the Divine Spirit may soothe their sorrowing hearts.

R.. W.. EDWARD G. WILLIAMS, Past D.D.G.M., Third Masonic District.

BROTHER WILLIAMS joined Mistletoe Lodge, No. 647, by initiation on the 15th of February, 1869. He was Master of that Lodge during the years 1878, 1879, and 1880, and was appointed District Deputy Grand Master of the Third Masonic District, 1889, serving two years.

Up to a few years ago, BROTHER WILLIAMS was a successful business man and held an honorable station in the mercantile world. When financial reverses came, he lacked the fortitude to stem the tide. Broken in spirit, utterly despondent, deserted by the hope of regaining his lost fortune, he welcomed the grim messenger who released him from all earthly cares on the 21st day of December, 1899.

R.. W... WILLIAM D'ORVILLE DOTY, Past Grand Chaplain.

The R.. W... WILLIAM D'ORVILLE DOTY, D.D., rector of Christ Church, in the city of Rochester, was initiated April 18th, passed May 2d, raised October 31, 1882, in Yonnondio Lodge, No. 163. He dimitted from this Lodge in 1889 to become a charter member of Frank R. Lawrence Lodge, No. 797.

DR. DOTY served as Chaplain of the Grand Lodge 1884, 1885, and endeared himself to very many of the brethren of our Craft.