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HISTORICAL SKETCH 
 
 OF THE 
 
 Cryptic Rite Pilgrimage 
 
 COLORADO AND PIKE'S PEAK, 
 
 August 6th to 13TH, A. D. 1899, A. Dep. 2899, 
 
 UNDER AUSPICES OF 
 
 ELLSWORTH COUNCIL, No. 9, R. & S. M., 
 
 ELLSWORTH, KANSAS. 
 
 PREPARED BY 
 
 WILLIAM M. SHAVER, 
 
 Grand Recorder of Grand Council of Kansas^ and Past Grand 
 Master of Grand Lodge, A. F. & A. M, of Kansas, 
 
 PUBLISHED BY 
 
 E. A. ARMSTRONG MFG. CO., 
 Chicago. 
 
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PREFATORY. 
 
 .^TVHROUGH the generous permission of the Most Illustrious 
 Grand Council of Royal and Select Masters of Kansas, 
 the following pages are reproduced from the official printed 
 Proceedings of the Annual Assembly of 1900. 
 
 The necessarily limited edition of the printed Proceedings, 
 and other matter therein contained of interest to the Rite of 
 Kansas only, made it desirable that the history of the unique 
 pilgrimage of August, 1899, should be prepared in separate form, 
 that knowledge thereof might be had by Cryptic Masons at 
 large. This we have undertaken In the interest of that too 
 often neglected Rite, whose attractive and instructive degrees 
 merit the heartiest approval and support of every one who 
 claims to be a patron of Masonry or a lover of its mystic art 
 and philosophy. 
 
 The entire matter relative to the pilgrimage, as prepared 
 and published by the Grand Council of Kansas, is herewith 
 reproduced without alteration or addition. 
 
 We shall feel more than repaid if this pamphlet shall prove 
 to be of interest to the "select, the faithfvil, and the worthy." 
 
 E. A. ARMSTRONG MFG. CO., 
 
 300, 302, 304 Wabash Ave., 
 September 1, 1900. Chicago. 
 
HISTORICAL SKETCH 
 
 OF THE 
 
 CRYPTIC RITE PILGRIMAGE 
 
 TO COLORADO AND PIKE'S PEAK, 
 AUGUST 6th to 13th, A. D. 1899, A. Dep. 2899. 
 
 Prepared by WILLIAM M. SHAVER, Grand Rboordek of the 
 
 Grand Council of Kansas, and Past Grand Master of 
 
 THE Grand Lodge, A. F, & A.M., of Kansas. 
 
 The pilgrimage of the Cryptic Masons of Kansas and of the 
 United States to Colorado and Pike's Peak, undertaken under the 
 auspices of Ellsworth Council, No. 9, of Royal and Select Masters 
 of Ellsworth, Kansas, under the jurisdiction of the Most Illustri- 
 ous Grand Council of Royal and Select Masters of Kansas, during 
 the week of August 6th to 13th, A D. 1899, A. Dep. 2899, excited by 
 its novelty great interest throughout the country, especially 
 among Masons, and that proper record of this unique event may 
 be made in the history of the Royal and Select Masters of the 
 United States in general, and of Kansas in particular, I have 
 been directed by the Grand Council of Kansas to prepare a brief 
 historical sketch of this pilgrimage for insertion in its published 
 Proceedings. 
 
 The history of this pilgrimage is so closely interwoven with 
 the history of Ellsworth Council that a sketch of this council is a 
 necessary prelude to the history of the pilgrimage. 
 
 BLLSWOBTH COUNCIL. 
 
 Ellsworth is a prosperous, enterprising city of about 2,000 
 population, located on the main line of the Union Pacific Railroad 
 in Kansas, 228 miles west from Kansas City, and is the western 
 terminus of the St. Louis & San Francisco Railway. It is the 
 county seat of Ellsworth county, and lies in a beautiful rolling 
 prairie country, famed alike for agricultural pursuits and fine 
 cattle ranches, and not far from the geographical center of the 
 
6 Cryptic Bite Pilgrimage. 
 
 United States proper, eliminating the Aleutian Isles and the re- 
 cent Philippine expansion. 
 
 The most enterprising: citizen of this enterprising little city is 
 M.-.Ill.-. Comp.BDWAED WiNSLOW Wellington, the first Thrice 
 Illustrious Master of Ellsworth Council, and the inventive spirit 
 of the Cryptic pilgrimage. Comp. Wellington is a native of 
 Boston, Mass., a graduate of Harvard University, a lawyer by 
 profession, and an investment broker by occupation. He is a 
 most enthusiastic Mason, a Past Master of Ellsworth Lodge, No. 
 146, A. F. & A. M., a Past High Priest of Ellsworth Chapter, No. 
 54, R. A. M., and a Past Commander of St. Aldemar Commandery, 
 No. 38, K. T. He is now, and has been for the past three years, 
 the chairman of the important Committee on Finance and Mile- 
 age in the M.-.W.-. Grand Lodge of Kansas; is the R.-.E.-. Grand 
 King of the Grand Chapter of Royal Arch Masons of Kansas ; is 
 the M.-.Ill.-. Grand Master of the M.-.lll.-. Grand Council of Royal 
 and Select Masters of Kansas; and is the V.-.E.-. Deputy Grand 
 Commander of the Grand Commandery of Knights Templars of 
 Kansas. He is also an enthusiastic Scottish Rite Mason, being 
 a Knight Commander of the Court of Honor, 32°, and a member 
 of Wichita Consistory, No. 2, in the Southern Jurisdiction of that 
 Rite. 
 
 In 1898 Comp. Wellington erected for the use of Masons of 
 Ellsworth a new masonic building with appointments, which, 
 with its subsequent furnishings, has made one of the most elegant 
 and exquisitely finished masonic homes not only of the State 
 but of the West. With lodge room built in pure colonial style, 
 finished in buff, white and gold, with hangings and carpets 
 especially selected in harmony of color and design, with the 
 richest of heavy, massive mahogany and leather furniture, 
 specially built from designs to harmonize with the style and finish- 
 ings of the apartment, this lodge home is truly a gem, and in ar- 
 rangement and tasteful harmonized docorations and furnishings 
 has probably no superior in this country. 
 
 An enthusiastic Cryptic Mason and a member of Zabud 
 Council, No. 4, of Topeka, Kansas, long famed for its excellent 
 work in the Crypt, Comp. Wellington conceived the idea of 
 installing in the new masonic home in Ellsworth a council of 
 Royal and Select Masters to take rank among the excellent ma- 
 sonic institutions of the State. On May 26, 1898, letters of dispen- 
 sation were issued by M.-. 111.-. Grand Master Aaeon H. Connett 
 to 111.-. Comp. Wellington and eight others for Ellsworth Coun- 
 cil, which letters expired on January 31, 1899. The council was 
 instituted on August 19, 1898. by the then Deputy Grand Master, 
 now M.-. 111.-. Thobp B. Jennings, of Topeka. During the con- 
 tinuance of these letters twelve assemblies were held- twelve 
 companions received the approval of the council, and their names 
 
Cryptic Bite Pilobimaqe. 7 
 
 were added as petitioners by the Grand Master; one hundred and 
 thirteen companions passed the circle, and forty-seven others were 
 elected to receive the degrees, making a total of one hundred and 
 seventy-two candidates elected for degrees and membership in 
 five months and thirteen days. At the time the council surren- 
 dered its letters and petitioned the Grand Council for a charter, 
 it owned personal property to the value of $829.94; its financial 
 exhibit showed an excess of assets over liabilities in the sum of 
 $783.57, and it was as finely equipped for work as any council in 
 the United States, at the same time being as elegantly housed as 
 any masonic body in the West. 
 
 Of course this prodigy was chartered, and on February 13, 
 1899, the M.*. 111.-. Grand Council of Kansas issued its warrant of 
 authority to Ellsworth Council, No. 9, with Edwabd Winslow 
 Wellington as Thrice Illustrious Master, Heeman F. Hoesman 
 as Illustrious Deputy Master, and Nelson Bbuneb as Illustrious 
 Principal Conductor of the Work, after adopting a very compli- 
 mentary report from its Committee on Councils U. D. 
 
 Without question Comp. Wellington had been ably sec- 
 onded and supported by his masonic companions at Ellsworth, 
 but none will challenge the correctness of the statement that to 
 Comp. Wellington's perseverance and personality the results 
 achieved by Ellsworth Council were largely due. 
 
 The Grand Council recognized this fact fully, when immedi- 
 ately after granting the charter to Ellsworth Council it unani- 
 mously, upon the motion of Past Grand Master Jacob DeWitt, 
 voted to grant 111.". Comp. Wellington a seat and vote in the 
 Grand Council "in recognition of his valued labors in the Cryptic 
 Rite in this State," and later in the same Assembly elected him 
 Grand Principal Conductor of the Work, the third officer in the 
 Grand Council. 
 
 OKIGIN OF THE PILGRIMAGE. 
 
 It is to this enthusiastic craftsman that Cryptic Masons are 
 indebted for the plan and successful consummation of one of the 
 most unique masonic pilgrimages on record. The idea of this 
 pilgrimage was born of jest. On November 22, 1898, Ellsworth 
 Council U. D. held an assembly for work in the Crypt, for which 
 elaborate preparations had been made, including a sumptuous 
 banquet. Fifty-seven companions passed the circle on that even- 
 ing, and fully as many more candidates were expected. Many 
 distinguished Cryptic Masons from over the State had been in- 
 vited, and many acceptances had been received. The elements, 
 however, conspired against the workmen from Gebal, and forty- 
 eight hours before the time for holding the assembly one of the 
 heaviest snow storms which Kansas had experienced in years 
 swept over the State; the snow drifted in great heaps, and rail- 
 
8 C RTF TIC Bite Pilgrimage. 
 
 road trains were delayed or blockaded and abandoned, and by the 
 afternoon of the 22d telegrams from expected visitors and candi- 
 dates commenced to pour in. Under these circumstances a person 
 of Comp. Wellington's temperament would naturally be in a 
 "frame of mind." While the success of the assembly was still in 
 doubt, a few congenial spirits were plodding through the snow- 
 drifts of Ellsworth on the afternoon in question, and attempting to 
 pacify the fretful "Duke" by calling his attention to the fact that 
 it was really too much to expect men to travel far through such a 
 storm to receive masonic degrees. To this Comp. Wellington 
 replied: "Well, if the boys can't stand it to wade through this 
 snow to get the Cryptic degrees, I'll take them out to Colorado 
 next summer and make them climb Pike's Peak for them." 
 
 The assembly of November 22d was a great success despite 
 the elements, and during the course of a very pleasant evening in 
 the Crypt and at the banquet table the remark of Comp. Wel- 
 lington was more than once repeated, and various changes were 
 rung upon It, and in a spirit of bravado the Thrice Illustrious 
 Master maintained that it was his purpose to enforce the threat. 
 
 Thus the idea originated. Its uniqueness and novelty, how- 
 ever, appealed to every mind, and the proposition soon soberly 
 took hold of Comp. Wellington, first as a very pleasureable 
 possibility, and later as a plan to be energetically pushed to suc- 
 cessful accomplishment. Prominent masonic friends over the 
 State were consulted, and meeting with encouragement and ready 
 proffers of assistance, the proposition had assumed such definite 
 form by February of 1899, that Comp. Wellington felt justified 
 in making announcement at the Annual Assembly of the Grand 
 Council of Royal and Select Masters of Kansas, held at Leaven- 
 worth in that month, as is shown by the following extract from 
 the published Proceedings : 
 
 "PILGRIMAGE TO OOLOEADO. 
 
 "111.-. Bdwabd W. Wellington, No. 9, for the information of 
 the Grand Council, presented the plan of a proposed Cryptic Rite 
 pilgrimage to Colorado, to be made sometime during the coming 
 summer, full details to be furnished later." 
 
 Up to this time the design of the pilgrimage was simply 
 that of Cryptic Masons and prospective candidates from Kansas, 
 with their families and friends, undertaken under the auspices of 
 Ellsworth Council, No. 9, but as the affair began to be bruited 
 about, the newspapers of the country became interested in its 
 novelty, and notices of it appeared in the press from the Atlantic 
 to the Pacific. Inquiries commenced to pour in, and soon Comp. 
 Wellington was busy with a corps of stenographers and clerks 
 answering correspondence and sending out circular information. 
 
SURFACE ON SUMMIT OF PIKE'S PEAK. 
 
Cryptic Bite Pilgrimage. 9 
 
 Gradually the plan assumed definite proportions, extending be- 
 yond the borders of Kansas, and the interest among Cryptic and 
 Capitular Masons became almost national. 
 
 OFFICIAL ENDORSEMENT. 
 
 The official endorsement and sanction of the General Grand 
 Master of the General Grand Council of Royal and Select Masters 
 of the United States of America, M.-. P.-. Beadfobd Niohol, of 
 Nashville, Tennessee; of the Grand Master of the Grand Council 
 of Kansas, M.-. 111.-. Thoep B. Jennings, of Topeka, Kansas, and 
 of the Grand Master of the Graijd Council of Colorado, M.-. 111.-. 
 John Humphreys, of Trinidad, Colorado, were obtained, and 
 the proper authority and dispensations found necessary were 
 granted. 
 
 THE plan developed. 
 
 Slowly but surely the plan developed. A date was agreed 
 upon, an official route planned and railroad selected ; twenty 
 thousand copies of an elegantly illustrated souvenir prospectus 
 were issued and placed in the hands of those interested. Comp. 
 Wellington, as director general, was compelled to make numer- 
 ous trips to Colorado, to Missouri, to Nebraska, besides visits in- 
 numerable throughout the Kansas jurisdiction. Loyal masonic 
 workers and friends were assigned to special service, and promptly 
 accepted the work assigned. M.-. E.-. Comp. Bestor G.Brown, 
 of Topeka, Past Grand High Priest of the Grand Chapter of Kansas, 
 and Past Thrice Illustrious Master of Zabud Council, No. 4, ac- 
 cepted the post of one of the directors of the pilgrimage, and his 
 advice and labor proved invaluable ; he became especially respon- 
 sible for the preparation and presentation of the ritual of the de- 
 grees in Denver,arrangements being perfected for staging the work 
 in one of the largest and best appointed theatres in that city, with 
 scenery painted for the occasion by some of the best scenic artists 
 in the country. To this work Comp. Brown brought all of the 
 enthusiasm and skill for which he has long been famous in 
 masonic ritualistic presentations. M.-. 111.-. Frank E. Davis, of 
 Atchison, Kansas, Past Grand Master of the Grand Council of 
 Kansas ; 111.-. Charles J Webb, of Topeka, Past Thrice Illustri- 
 ous Master of Zabud Council, No. ■!, and the then Deputy Grand 
 Master, now Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of Kansas, and 
 111.-. Wm. C. F. Beiohbnbach, of Topeka, Thrice Illustrious 
 Master of Zabud Council, No. -t, and the Grand Conductor of the 
 Council of the Grand Council of Kansas, also accepted appoint- 
 ments as directors, and being assigned to special branches of 
 the work, took hold with vigor. To no one is greater credit due 
 for the final successful consummation of the pilgrimage than to 
 Comp. Francis E. Demuth, of Ellsworth, the highly efficient 
 
10 Cryptic Bite Pilgrimage. 
 
 and painstaking Recorder of Ellsworth Council, whose indefatiga- 
 ble labors in attending to the details of the official correspond- 
 ence, and in perfecting and keeping in absolute order the mass 
 of official records made necessary by the nature of the pilgrimage, 
 merits unstinted praise. As Grand Recorder of the Grand Coun- 
 cil of Kansas, I can bear official testimony to the excellence of 
 the final reports to the Grand Council resultant from the pilgrim- 
 age. Comp. Demuth was ably assisted during the days of the 
 pilgrimage by an efficient corps of assistants, Comp. Albert K. 
 WiLSOX, of Topeka, Grand Secretary of the Grand Lodge of Kan- 
 sas, and Comp. Thomas L. Boxd, of Salina, E.-. Grand Senior 
 Warden of the Grand Commandery of Kansas, proving especially 
 valuable by reason of extended official experience, while Comps. 
 Thomas R. Wilsox and Thomas G. O'Doxxell were tireless in 
 their eilorts and never failing in courtesy. 111.'. Spexcee P. 
 Wade, of Topeka, Past Thrice Illustrious Master of Zabud Coun- 
 cil, No. -1, and Grand Sentinel of the Grand Council of Kansas, 
 and the one to whom probably tne greatest credit is due for 
 having originally lifted Zabud Council out of the Cryptic rut, 
 accepted the position of Master of Properties for the ritual pre- 
 sentation in Denver, that work so important to a successful pre- 
 sentation. One of the most difficult tasks, that of seeing that all 
 were provided with tickets for the various entertainments, was 
 most graciously and faultlessly discharged by Comp. William E. 
 Sherbiff, who always had a smile and pleasant word for every 
 one, no matter what the hour. A number of important committees 
 were named and were ably manned : Sir Albert B. McGaffet, 
 of Denver, Past Grand Commander of the Grand Commandery 
 of Colorado ; Sir Will C. Chaffee, of Topeka, Past Grand Com- 
 mander of the Grand Commandery of Kansas ; Comp. (.'harles 
 Ij. Seageaves, of Topeka; Comp. "Willis George Emersox, of 
 Denver; M.-. E.-. Aaeox H. Coxxbtt, of Great Bend, Past Grand 
 High Priest of the Grand Chapter, and Past Grand Master of the 
 Grand Council of Kansas ; M.-. E.\ Alexaxdeb A. Shaep, of 
 Larned, Grand High Priest of the Grand Chapter of Kansas; 
 Sir Geoege H. Jexkixs, of Kansas City, Past Grand Commander 
 of the Grand Commandery of Kansas, all doing efficient service. 
 The Grand Officers of the M.-. 111.-. Grand Council of Kansas of 
 course loyally assisted with their influence, their valued counsel, 
 and their personal work and effort, the M.-. 111.-. Grand Master 
 Thorp B. .Iexxings, of Topeka, and the 111.-. Deputy Grand 
 Master, the now lamented Charles M. ,Iox-es, of Wichita, being 
 particularly entitled to praise in addition to those Grand Officers 
 heretofore mentioned. 
 
 The special features of the pilgrimage as planned contem- 
 plated a Pullman car excursion to Colorado ; four days of outino- 
 in the Rockies, including a daylight trip over the scenic Colorado 
 
Cryptic Bite Pilgrimage. 11 
 
 Midland through the mountains to Cripple Creek and Glenwood 
 Springs, and two days of sight seeing around Manitou ; a pilgrim- 
 age up Pike's Peak, upon the summit of which the degrees of 
 Royal, Select and Super-Excellent Masters were to be conferred, 
 and where a memorial deposit was to be made, planned to remain 
 undisturbed by the Craft for the period of one hundred years; 
 several days of sight-seeing in and around Denver; the exemplifi- 
 cation of the Cryptic degrees in Denver upon the most elaborate 
 scale ever attempted in this country, and finally a banquet to be 
 tendered by Ellsworth Council, No. 9, to the M.-. P.-. General Grand 
 Master of the United States and his associate General Grand 
 Officers in the city of Denver. 
 
 The fees for the degrees were placed at $10.00, and the various 
 councils of Kansas and Colorado generously and loyally either 
 waived jurisdiction over prospective candidates in favor of Ells- 
 worth Council, or elected them, waiving the right to the work and 
 fee in favor of that council, which council had assumed the 
 necessarily heavy expense of the pilgrimage. 
 
 THE PILGEIMAGE BEGUN. 
 
 All preparations being completed, and the designated time 
 having fully come, the long anticipated pilgrimage commenced on 
 Sunday, August 6, 1899. Companions from the East rendezvoused 
 at Kansas City, Mo., from which point the official vestibuled 
 train of Pullman sleeping cars, with accompanying baggage 
 cars, started at 11:00 o'clock a. m., running as a special over the 
 great system of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad. The 
 rear car was equipped as the official headquarters, and fully ar- 
 ranged with all conveniences. It bore upon its sides, painted on 
 canvas in large letters, the inscription : "Cryptic Rite Pilgrimage 
 to Colorado, August 6 to 13, 1899. Ellsworth Council, No. 9, 
 Ellsworth, Kansas." On the same day other trains were run over 
 the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific, the Union Pacific Railroad, 
 and Shekinah Council, No. 24, of Kansas City, Mo., with a party 
 of friends, ran a special train over the Chicago, Burlington & 
 Quincy through Nebraska, the agreed uniting point of the vari- 
 ous excursions being Colorado Springs, Colo., on Monday morn- 
 ing. In addition to the regular train officials, the comfort of the 
 party on the official train was jealously guarded by Comps. Sba- 
 GBAVES and Webb, the latter managing the difficult and delicate 
 task of seat and berth assignments so as to call forth unstinted 
 praise and compliments from all, every special party of friends 
 being agreeably and conveniently located, and with no murmur 
 of complaint recorded. 
 
 An elaborate system of registration and identification had 
 been devised under the supervision of the Recorder of the Coun- 
 cil and the Committee on Badges, and every member, visitor and 
 
12 Cryptic Bite Pilorimaoe. 
 
 candidate, upon being properly identified and vouched for, was 
 required to register, giving name, residence, and if a member oi 
 the Rite, his standing and membership, and his masonic dignities 
 if any. He was then furnished with a handsomely designed and 
 numbered badge of the pilgrimage, suspended from a bar pin by 
 ribbon, the number corresponding with his registered number ana 
 no duplicates, the badges for members of the Eite and for candi- 
 dates differing in color of suspending ribbon, members wearing 
 purple and candidates white. Each registering companion was 
 then furnished with the special password for the pilgrimage, 
 "Kanorado," a combination formed from the names of the two 
 States, Kansas and Colorado, and with admission tickets and re- 
 served seat coupons for the various entertainments and gather- 
 ings of the Craft for which arrangements had been made ; and 
 wherever permissible these extended to families and friends. 
 
 DISTINGUISHED OKAFTSMBN TBOM OTHBB JUEISDICTIONS. 
 
 Accompanying the official train were a number of distin- 
 guished craftsmen from beyond the borders of Kansas, notably 
 Beadfoed Niohol, of Nashville, Tennessee, M.-. P.-. General 
 Grand Master; William H. Mayo, of St. Louis, Missouri, H.: P.: 
 General Grand Deputy Master, and Andebw P. Swansteom, of 
 St. Paul. Minnesota, P.'. General Grand Captain of the Guard, all 
 of the General Grand Council of Royal and Select Masters of the 
 United States of America; Beujamin W. Rowell, of Lynn, 
 Massachusetts, Grand Recorder of the Grand Commandery of 
 Massachusetts and Rhode Island; Ethblbeet F. Allen, of 
 Kansas City, Missouri, M.\W.'. Grand Master, and Campbell 
 Wells, of Platte City, Missouri, R.-.W.-. Grand Senior Warden, 
 both of the M -.W.-. Grand Lodge of A. F. & A. M. of Missouri ; 
 DwiGHT M. Baldwin, of Red Wing, Minnesota, Past Grand 
 Master of the Grand Council of Minnesota; N. E. Wood, of 
 Chicago, Illinois, Thrice Illustrious Master of Palestine Council, 
 No. 66, of Chicago; William A. Hall, of St. Louis, Missouri, 
 Deputy Master of Hiram Council, No. 1, of St. Louis ; and Geoege 
 W. Booth, of New Orleans, Louisiana, of Louisiana Council, No. 2. 
 
 distinguished KANSAS CRAFTSMEN. 
 
 Upon the official train were also the following officers of the 
 Grand Council of Kansas : 111.-. Charles M. Jones, of Wichita 
 Deputy Grand Master; and of course 111.-. Comp. Wellington 
 Grand Principal Conductor of the Work; William M. Shaver 
 Grand Recorder, and Spencee P. Wade, Grand Sentinel. M.-! 
 111.-. Thoep B. Jennings, Grand Master, and Wm. C. F. Reich- 
 ENBAOH, Grand Conductor of Council, were unavoidably delayed 
 arriving at Denver later. Of course most of the officers of Ells- 
 worth Council were with the official train. Other Masons of 
 
SOME OFFICERS OF GENERAL GKA>:11 COUNCIL AND GRAND COUNCIL 
 OF KANSAS, GROUPED AT CRYPTIC ROCK. 
 
Cryptic Bite Pilgmimaoe. 13 
 
 prominence in Kansas Grand Bodies who were with the official 
 party were: M.-. 111.-. Frank E. Davis, of Atchison, and M.-. 111.". 
 James H. MoCall. of Wichita, Past Grand Masters of the Grand 
 Council; R.-.W.-. Chaeles J Webb, of Topeka, Deputy Grand 
 Master, and R.-.W.-. Albert K. Wilson, of Topeka, Grand Sec- 
 retary, both of the M.-.W.-. Grand Lodge of Kansas; M.-. B.-. Alex- 
 ander A. Sharp, of Larned, Grand High Priest, and M.-.E.-. 
 Bestor G. Brown, of Topeka, Past Grand High Priest, both of 
 the Grand Chapter of Kansas ; Sirs Edd Hayes, of Wellington, 
 R.-. E.-. Grand Commander; Thomas L. Bond, of Salina, E.-. Grand 
 Senior Warden; Edgar R. Fulton, of Marys ville, E.-. Grand 
 Captain of the Guard; Will C. Chaffee, of Topeka, Past Grand 
 Commander, and George H. Jenkins, of Kansas City, Past 
 Grand Commander, all of the Grand Commandery of Kansas. 
 
 Beside the foregoing, many companions of prominence in 
 their communities were comfortably bestowed in the spacious 
 official train. A number were accompanied by their wives, 
 families and friends, and as the train sped westward over the 
 plains of Kansas that hot August afternoon, and numerous pil- 
 grims with accompanying ladies joined at various points, new 
 initiations and introductions were frequent. Lunch at Topeka 
 and supper at Hutchinson were served to the official party by 
 mine host Fred Harvey, and late at night a tired but happy 
 crowd dropped off to slumber and needed rest, preparatory to the 
 duties of the morrow. 
 
 MONDAY, august 7TH DAWNS. 
 
 Daylight saw the official train speeding over the plains of 
 eastern Colorado toward Pueblo, and many eager eyes were 
 anxiously peering to catch the first glimpse of the mecca of the 
 pilgrimage, the snow-capped summit of Pike's Peak, piercing the 
 clouds above the western haze. 
 
 COLORADO springs. 
 
 The official schedule called for breakfast at 8 o'clock at Col- 
 orado Springs, but as is usual with special trains, it was an hour 
 and a half later before the train rolled into the depot. In the 
 meantime, however, the commissary car was raided without 
 requisition, and oranges, bananas, Uneeda biscuit, cheese, ginger 
 ale and mineral water, kept the party from devouring the porters 
 under the demands of that rapidly growing appetite that was be- 
 ing stimulated and sharpened by the fresh, cool breeze blowing 
 from the mountains looming up on the western horizon, and 
 toward which the train was creeping, as it rapidly skirted to the 
 northward along the foothills of that outlying spur of the Rockies 
 of which Pike's Peak forms the pinnacle. To eyes accustomed to 
 the billowy stretch of the fertile rolling prairies of Kansas, the 
 
14 Cryptic Bite Pilobimaoe. 
 
 towering green masses of Cheyenne Mountain, broken by ine 
 deep, jagged clefts of the North and South Cailons, presented a 
 picture of which it seemed they would never tire; but yet no mur- 
 muring voice was heard when the scene was changed to the well- 
 fllled tables at the Alamo in Colorado Springs, where a bountiful 
 breakfast awaited the nearly famished but jolly pilgrims. 
 
 After breakfast an hour or two was spent in roaming over the 
 city and in visiting the Cryptic pilgrimage headquarters, renew- 
 ing old and making new acquaintances. Some more illustrious 
 pilgrims were here found. Dr. William F. Kuhn, of Kansas 
 City, Mo., Past Grand Master of the Grand Council of Missouri, 
 and Past Grand High Priest of the Grand Chapter of that State, 
 and also Comp. John H. Mubphy, of the same city, the Deputy 
 Grand Master of the Grand Council of Missouri, were shaking 
 hands witli friends ; here were also a number of prominent crafts- 
 men from Colorado ; here, also, Comp. N. M. Washer, of Fort 
 Worth, Texas, Thrice Illustrious Master of Fort Worth Council 
 and the Senior Grand Warden of the Grand Lodge of Texas, and 
 Comp. Gboege W. Tyler, of Belton, Texas, Thrice Illustrious 
 Master of Belton Council, and Past Grand Master of the Grand 
 Lodge of Texas, joined themselves to the party. A deputation 
 of Masons from Victor, Colo., also waylaid our pilgrims at this 
 point, insisting that on our way to Cripple Creek that afternoon 
 we stop over for an hour with our masonic brethren of Victor and 
 be ti'eated as masonic tenderfeet. We agreed. 
 
 A number of prominent Colorado companions registered upon 
 the pilgrimage, among whom we noted : M.-. III.'. Johx Hum- 
 phreys, Grand Master; E.-. III.-. William W. Field, Deputy 
 Grand Master, and R.-. 111.-. Calvin E. Reed, Grand Principal 
 Conductor, all of the Grand Council of Colorado; also, M.-. 111.-. 
 Comps. William McGrew and Thomas E. Shears, Past Grand 
 Masters of the Grand Council ; and R.-. 111.-. Arthur E. Jones, 
 Grand Treasurer ; and R.-. 111.-. Ernest Le Neve Foster, Grand 
 Recorder of the Grand Council, the latter being also a Past Grand 
 Master of the Grand Lodge and Past Grand High Priest of the 
 Grand Chapter of Colorado; M.-.W.-. Lawrence N. Greenleaf, 
 M.-.W.-. William D. Pierce, and M.-.W.-. Cromwell Tucker, 
 all Past Grand Masters of the Grand Lodge of Colorado, the first 
 two being also Past Grand High Priests of the Grand Chapter of 
 Colorado; R.-. W.-. Ed. C. Parmelbe, Grand Secretary of the 
 Grand Lodge and of the Grand Chapter of Colorado, and Grand 
 Recorder of the Grand Commandery of Colorado; Sir A. B. 
 MoGaffey, R.-. E.-. Past Grand Commander of the Grand Com- 
 mandery of Colorado ; also Thomas Linton, Grand Tyler of the 
 various masonic Grand Bodies of Colorado and of the several 
 masonic bodies of Denver, and claimed to be the oldest Tyler in 
 continuous service in the United States. Several of these com- 
 
Cryptic Bite Pilgrimage. 15 
 
 panions accompanied us through part of our wanderings through 
 the State, and they were all very courteous and helpful to us dur- 
 ing our sojourn in the City of Denver. 
 
 "THE MOUNTAIN BOUTE." 
 
 At 11 o'clock we again repaired to our trains. Here, we were 
 informed, the routes diverged, one leading by the Colorado Mid- 
 land through Ute Pass to Cripple Creek, and then by way of 
 Leadville and Hagerman's Pass to Glenwood Springs; the other 
 by the Denver and Eio Grande, retraced the way to Pueblo, 
 tlience through the Grand Canon of the Arkansas and over Mar- 
 shall Pass around through Grand Junction to the same destina^ 
 tion. Like good Capitular Masons we were all willing to clioose 
 the "Mountain Route," but again found out that it was all "moun- 
 tain route," and that as in the past we were to go the way they 
 led us ; so bidding farewell and GoD-speed to our friends from 
 Shekinali Council, who were ticketed over the Rio Grande, we 
 boarded our ofHcial train and headed from Colorado Springs 
 straight for the mountains over the picturesque Colorado Mid- 
 land. 
 
 In a few moments we were looking down on beautiful Mani- 
 tou, nestling at the very base of the mountains, and then with a 
 piercing shriek from the whistle of our engine, caught up and 
 hurled back in defiance by cliff on cliff witli many reverberating 
 echoes, our train plunged into the mountains, and soon we were 
 gazing in speechless awe at the marvelous majesty of nature, the 
 feeling, however, being tempered with wondering pride at the 
 engineering skill of man. Onward sped the train, now dashing 
 around some rocky spur, now plunging across some yawning 
 chasm, anon gliding through some peaceful valley deeply hidden 
 among those majestic mountains. Soon we were permitted to 
 alight at the beautiful little hostelry at the foot of Cascade Cafion, 
 where luncheon was served. 
 
 After lunch, on we sped again through Ute Park, past Green 
 Mountain Falls, gliding around into Woodland Park, ever catch- 
 ing changing views of the rugged mass of Pike's Peak as we fol- 
 lowed up the Ute Pass to Divide. At Divide our train left the 
 Colorado Midland for a short run over the Midland Terminal into 
 the celebrated Cripple Creek mining district. Skirting around to 
 the westward of Pike's Peak, ever mounting higher and higher, 
 we viewed with much interest as we passed the mining camps at 
 Gillett, Cameron and Independence. 
 
 VICTOB MINES. 
 
 At Victor a stop of an hour was made, and at this mining 
 camp, probably the richest in the world, the masonic brethren, 
 with their ladies, were out in full force to welcome us. We visited 
 
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 the lod^e room, where short addresses of welcome and happy re- 
 sponses were given, and where every visitor was presented with 
 a neat little souvenir of the occasion in the shape of a rich sample 
 of gold ore from the different famous mines of the district. Here 
 many of our pilgrims lingered to see the sights, later enjoying the 
 novelty of an electric ear ride through the mountains to Cripple 
 Creek, and there rejoining the excursion. Our party left Victor 
 with three cheers for its royal Masons and their ladies. 
 
 OBIPPLE CREEK'S HOSPITALITY. 
 
 Twenty-five minutes later, after winding around through the 
 mountains to cover four miles of distance, our train pulled into 
 famed Cripple Creek. Here the Masons and Commercial Club 
 greeted us, and tendering us the freedom of the city, took us in 
 charge to show us the sights. After an hour and more of wander- 
 ing and an excellent dinner at one of the leading hotels, a recep- 
 tion was tendered by the Masons of Cripple Creek and their 
 ladies to the visiting pilgrims in the commodious masonic lodge 
 room of the city. Here open-handed hospitality and a hearty 
 greeting as invigorating and bracing as was the air in that city, 
 9,734 feet above sea level, was enjoyed by all. Light refreshments 
 were served; the floor was prepared for dancing, and an orchestra 
 furnishing the needed harmony, many of our pilgrims tripped the 
 light fantastic as long as the shortened breath would permit, thus 
 trying to convince our brethren who were accustomed to meet 
 on the high hills that the feetof those who came from the low vales 
 were not yet tender from the arduous mountain route of this pil- 
 grimage. At midnight a tired but not wearied band sought the 
 Pullmans, and fell to sleep to the music of the echo of the snort of 
 the locomotive and the shriek of the whistle as it reverberated 
 from peak and crag. 
 
 TUESDAY, AUGUST 8TH. 
 
 At daylight, those of us who were fortunate enough to awake 
 early, discovered the train creeping over the Park Range to make 
 the run-up the Arkansas Valley toward Leadville. Soon the 
 magnificent view of the valley, flanked on the west by those col- 
 legiate peaks of the Saguache Range, Mt. Princeton, Mt. Yale 
 and Mt. Harvard, and with the aptly named little city of Buena 
 Vista quietly nestling in the valley, burst upon us, and then all 
 those who wanted still to sleep were not granted the required per- 
 mission. It would be difficult indeed to find a more entrancing 
 view than that afforded from the Colorado Midland train from 
 Newett to Leadville. 
 
 Our schedule said, "Breakfast at Leadville," but when our 
 train paused at Arkansas Junction, we were informed that for 
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 ville and would go on to Basalt before breaking our fast, and as 
 our leaders had hold of the front end of the cable-tow we soon 
 found ourselves climbing the sharp curves of Hagerman's Pass. 
 Higher and higher crept the train, now sharply rounding some 
 projecting'spur overhanging a dizzy precipice, here dashing up a 
 rooky gorge, only to circle the slope and dart back again to look 
 down on the path already trod. Here we would run under a pro- 
 tecting snow-shed, there we would glide over a giddy piece of 
 trestle-work, constantly mounting higher toward timber line. 
 This marvelous piece of man's engineering skill drew forth many 
 exclamations of wonder and admiration, only to be checked into 
 speechless awe as the awful grandeur of nature in that rocky 
 cliaos was borne in upon us. Soon we were in the region where 
 snow falls almost daily, and then the cars were tightly closed, the 
 gas lighted, and we plunged into the darkness of mother earth at 
 an altitude of 10,944 feet, passing through the celebrated Busk 
 tunnel. We were glad to see the sunlight and breathe the pure 
 air once more, when we emerged on the Pacific side of the Conti- 
 nental Divide. 
 
 A few minutes pause at the little station of Ivanhoe, and we 
 commenced to glide down the western slope. A repetition of the 
 wonderful feats of engineering skill, and soon we were at Hell 
 Gate, a rugged, wild spot in the journey. Here the order came to 
 vacate the cars and proceed to the rear of the train to be photo- 
 graphed by the official artist of the Colorado Midland. We 
 obeyed, although some of us felt a little rebellious, fearing it 
 might prove a repetition of some well-remembered Past Master 
 experiences. Our fears proved groundless, however, and a reduc- 
 tion of the result obtained graces this sketch. 
 
 By tliis time the sun appeared to be rapidly approaching the 
 meridian, but still no call to morning refreshment. The time 
 table showed Basalt to be full forty miles away, and over frozen 
 ground at that. A hot box on the train required attention, and 
 progress was slow, so again we made a raid on the commissary 
 car, and this time we cleaned it out. Delicate ladies munched 
 crackers and cheese, and drank Manitou water and ginger ale, 
 without a word of invidious comment. It was a famished crowd, 
 however, that finally besieged and took Basalt; although some of 
 us vowed vengence on "mine host" upon being compelled to wait 
 until the second table, yet we had a little grim satisfaction in 
 knowing when we had finished, that a famine was declared in that 
 land. 
 
 GLENWOOD SPRINGS. 
 
 From here on to Glenwood Springs was only a short run, and 
 we were hardly prepared to do justice to a 1 o'clock lunch, but 
 like genuine Weary Williams, we tried. Here we were to rest 
 
18 Cryptic JUth Pilobimaoe. 
 
 and refresh ourselves until 11:00 p. m., and very different were the 
 methods adopted for that end. The M.-. P •. General Grand Mas- 
 ter disappeared to hunt trout, or fish for bear, we have really for- 
 gotten which, and we will have to refer you to his truthful report, 
 filed in the archives, for results. Many tried the famous swim- 
 ming pool fed by the natural hot springs, and here the B.'.P.'. 
 General Grand Deputy Master had a narrow escape from drown- 
 ing. Statements differed as to the cause of this incident. We 
 believe that our Right Puissant Companion averred that it was a 
 deliberate attempt to kill him, while others implicated alleged 
 the affair' was purely accidental. We own a kodak snap shot 
 that throws some light on several parties involved, if not upon 
 the incident itself, and we were intending to make it a part of this 
 sketch in justice to the truth of history, but although we heroi- 
 cally resisted all attempts at bribery, yet the tears and com- 
 plaints of our brethren on the other side of the river finally pre- 
 vailed, and we will say no more. 
 
 Dinner was served to the pilgrims at the famous Hotel Colo- 
 rado, and after an excellent repast we roamed around the spacious 
 grounds or loafed on the broad verandas, listening for an hour 
 or more to the music or watching the play of the beautiful 
 electric fountain, until wearied bodies drove us to our Pullmans 
 and to sleep. Few knew when the train whistled out of Glenwood 
 at 11:00 P. M. for the return night ride to Manitou, and we have 
 nothing to record until breakfast time on Wednesday morning, 
 August 9th. 
 
 ON PIKE'S PEAK. 
 
 Our train rolled into Manitou in time for a late breakfast, to 
 which we did ample justice at the Iron Springs Hotel. After 
 breakfast our party scattered to see the many points of interest 
 in and around that beautiful mountain resort. Four train loads 
 of anxious pilgrims started up the Pike's Peak Cog Wheel Rail- 
 road for the summit, in charge of HI.*. Comp. Bestob G. Beown, 
 of Topeka, Past Thrice Hlustrious Master of Zabud Council, No. 4, 
 and Past Grand High Priest of the Grand Chapter of Kansas, 
 acting as Thrice Illustrious Master of Ellsworth Council, No. 9. 
 With him were Comps. Charles M. Jones, the HI.-. Deputy 
 Grand Master of the Grand Council of Kansas, and Francis E. 
 Demuth, Recorder of Ellsworth Council, with other companions. 
 
 Ellsworth Council, No. 9, had been regularly opened in full 
 form at Ellsworth on August 5, 1899, prior to the commencement 
 of the pilgrimage, and acting under special dispensation from the 
 M.". HI.". Grand Master while still on Kansas soil, and from the M.-. 
 Hl.\ Grand Master of Colorado while on Colorado soil, had been 
 kept at masonic labor in the crypt from day to day. Upon reach- 
 ing the summit, Ellsworth Council, No. 9, convened in special 
 
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Gryptic Bite Filquimage. 19 
 
 assembly in a perfectly tyled and safely guarded crypt in the 
 stone building erected by the United States government as a 
 signal station on the summit of Pike's Peak, and here, 14,127 feet 
 above the level of the sea, beyond sight and sound of the turmoil 
 and strife of the busy world, on that rugged mass of chaotic 
 granite, piercing above the fleecy clouds and bathed in the nearer 
 glow of God's eternal sunshine, the masonic light imparted 
 through those beautiful and impressive degrees of Royal, Select 
 and Super-Excellent Master was communicated to a large class 
 of previously elected companions in a manner and under circum- 
 stances that produced upon them and upon the Cryptic Masons 
 there assembled an impression as deep and abiding as memory 
 itself. This occasion and that of the day following undoubtedly 
 marked the most ambitious attempt ever made by Masons to 
 meet on high hills for masonic labor, and at this time and place 
 the mystic trowel was used in the conferring of masonic degrees at 
 the highest altitude on the face of this globe where Masons ever 
 sought to gather for such purpose. 
 
 Next to the assembly chamber where the cryptic degrees 
 were conferred, the special point of interest upon the summit to 
 the visiting pilgrims was "Cryptic Rock" already prepared to 
 receive the bronze casket designed to hold the memorial deposit 
 for its century of rest. This massive red granite boulder is situ- 
 ated on the highest point of the Peak and at the extreme northern 
 edge overlooking the so-called Bottomless Pit, with its sheer 
 descent of four thousand feet. The top of the rock is practically 
 level, about ten feet in diameter, and of irregular size. Into the 
 top of this hard granite a deep oblong opening had been cut to 
 receive the casket, and the face of the rock had been further re- 
 cessed to receive the triangular bronze covering plate, for which 
 sockets had also been cut to hold the anchors. Every pilgrim 
 religiously visited the cryptic rock and examined the prepara- 
 tions visible for the reception of the deposit with great interest. 
 As the summit of Pike's Peak is United States government res- 
 ervation, authority had been procured from the proper depart- 
 ment of the government for the placing upon it of this Memorial 
 Deposit. The train loads of pilgrims returned to Manitou in time 
 for a late lunch. 
 
 On the afternoon of this same day an assembly of Ellsworth 
 Council was held in the Garden of the Gods with Thrice Illus- 
 trious Master Wellington presiding, for the purpose of commu- 
 nicating the degrees upon a class of candidates who did not desire 
 to make the trip to the summit of the Peali. 
 
 DANOB AT MANITOD. 
 
 On Wednesday evening the pilgrims and their ladies and 
 some of the good people sojourning in Manitou, enjoyed a social 
 hop at the famous bottling works of the Manitou Mineral Water 
 
20 Cryptic Bite Pilobimaoe. 
 
 Company, the large upper room beiag cleared and prepared for 
 the use of the party through the courtesy of the gentlemanly 
 manager, Mr. W. H. Mobeland. Here Manitou Ginger Cham- 
 pagne was freely supplied to all the thirsty by the Mineral 
 Water Company, and their health and prosperity were toasted by 
 all. 
 
 It was probably late that night, or early the following morn- 
 ing before our party all retired to Pullman headquarters. The 
 writer is unable to speak truthfully upon this point, for the reason 
 that he was early to bed as he was early to rise, to catch the sun- 
 rise train for the summit of Pike's Peak, starting at 3 A..M. 
 
 THXTBSDAT, AUGUST IOTH. 
 
 Thursday morning, August 10th, the hour of 2:15 found us 
 wending our way toward the depot where it was expected we 
 would meet the M.-.P.-. General Grand Master and R.-. P.'. General 
 Grand Deputy Master, and such other companions as were in- 
 tending to reach the summit in time to see' the sun rise, and to 
 attend the early assembly upon the Peak. It was intended that 
 the M.-. P.-. General Grand Master should preside at the assembly 
 and confer the degrees on this occasion, but these two Puissant 
 Companions danced too long at the hop and so failed to materi-- 
 alize for the early trains, much to our disappointment. The 
 writer was therefore obliged to assume charge of the work fur- 
 nished by the two early train loads of pilgrims. An assembly 
 was held in the prepared apartment in the Signal Station build- 
 ing, and the degrees of Royal, Select and Super-Excellent Master 
 were conferred on the summit of the Peak by lamp light and be- 
 fore the first rising beams of the Great Lesser Light of Masonry 
 burst from the eastern horizon. The wierdness of this experience 
 is deeply engraven on memory's tablets. 
 
 Later in the moraing two more trains from the lower terminal 
 brought the belated General Grand Officers, with most plausible 
 explanations for the early disappointment, several of the Grand 
 Council Officers, the Thrice Illustrious Master of Ellsworth Coun- 
 cil, and other companions, and a goodly class of expectant candi- 
 dates. Again we assembled in the Crypt, and the degrees were 
 conferred upon the class in a most impressive manner by M.-. P.-. 
 Bbadfoed Niohol, the General Grand Master of the General 
 Grand Council of Royal and Select Masons of the United States 
 of America. At the close of the assembly some time was spent 
 in examining Cryptic Rock and the various points of interest upon 
 the summit. Several excellent photographs were obtained by 
 Comp. RowBLL, of Massachusetts, a few of which in reduction 
 illustrate this sketch. The party returned to Manitou in time for 
 a late lunch, and the remaining hours of the afternoon were spent 
 in sightseeing; another assembly was held in the Garden of the 
 
Cbtptic Bite Pilorimaqe. 21 
 
 Gods io clear up unfinished work, and at 5 o'clock all bade fare- 
 well to Manitou and the mountains, and repaired to the train for 
 departure for Denver. 
 
 A run of a couple of hours brought us to the beautiful capital 
 city, the official train was dismissed, and the party dispersed to 
 the hotels, the Windsor being headquarters. After a late dinner, 
 the evening was spent in trolley-car parties, in sight-seeing or in 
 visiting, while those who were especially interested in the ritual 
 presentation, to be given on the following evening, hied them- 
 selves to Broadway Theater for a full-dress rehearsal. 
 
 FRIDAY, AUGUST llTH. 
 
 Friday, August 11th, was another day spent in sight-seeing. 
 It was a "go-as-you-please" day. Those who wanted to flsh 
 betook themselves to Berkely Lake or Rocky Mountain Lake. 
 Some went to Manhattan Beach and some to Chutes Park. Some 
 of the weary pilgrims had to go and carry the bundles while the 
 ladies went shopping. Some took the "All Over Denver" electric 
 cars and saw the city. In the afternoon most of the party visited 
 Elitch's Gardens, and after seeing the Zoo and the flowers, at- 
 tended the matinee performance in the summer theater in the 
 Gardens, which was given for the special benefit of the pilgrims, 
 and for which tickets and reserved seat coupons had been previ- 
 ously issued to all Cryptic pilgrims, their families and friends. 
 
 JBITUAL AND DEPOSIT OEEBMONIES. 
 
 On Friday evening the Crj'ptic Masons repaired to the Broad- 
 way Theater, the largest and best equipped theater in Denver, 
 and here only Cryptic Masons were admitted. An elaborate sys- 
 tem of vouching and identification insured the attendance of 
 those only entitled to be present, while a previous arrangement 
 and distribution of reserved seat coupons placed all companions 
 in desirable and pleasant locations. Previous to the opening of 
 the work, and in the interirh between the degrees, while changes 
 of stage settings became necessary, the orchestra of the theater 
 was admitted, and furnished excellent music. 
 
 On this evening Ellsworth Council was opened upon the stage 
 in full form, and the several degrees of Royal, Select and Super- 
 Excellent Masters were exemplified before the largest Cryptic 
 audience ever assembled, and in a manner never before attempted. 
 The entire presentation was in charge of III.'. Comp. Bestoe G. 
 Brown, as stage manager and director, and with the stage set 
 with special scenery painted for this occasion by the finest scenic 
 artists in the country, with furniture and paraphernalia selected 
 from the best equipped councils of Kansas and Colorado, with 
 each officer and participant selected with the especial view to his 
 fitness for the work assigned, and correctly costumed historically, 
 
22 Gryptic Mite Pilorimaoe. 
 
 a result was achieved that merited the close attention and ap- 
 plause bestowed by the Cryptic audience. The program of the 
 exemplification, which is set forth as an Exhibit hereto, gives the 
 dramatis personce, and furnishes the scope of the presentation as 
 clearly as is permissible. 
 
 The principal participants were naturally from Kansas 
 Crypts, but the Denver companions very loyally and courteously 
 supplied the large number of minor characters so needful to the 
 proper presentation of work of this character. Where all were 
 so courteous, so loyal, and so helpful, it seems almost invidious to 
 suggest distinctions, but the untiring zeal, faithfulness and help- 
 fulness of those two royal craftsmen, E.-. E.-. A. B. McGaffby, 
 Past Grand Commander of the Grand Commandery of Colorado, 
 and M.-.W.-. William D. Pibkob, Past Grand Master of the 
 Grand Lodge of Colorado, call for the sincerest gratitude and 
 warmest expressions of thanks from Kansas Cryptic Masons. 
 To all Colorado participants in this ritual presentation we tender 
 our grateful thanks, especially to our two most zealous friends. 
 
 During the course of the evening, the ceremonies incident to 
 the preparation of the memorial deposit to be made at the con- 
 clusion of the pilgrimage on the summit of Pike's Peak were per- 
 formed by the officers of the M.-. 111.-. Grand Council of Kansas, 
 and as these are of. interest to the Cryptic Craft of this day, and 
 we trust will prove of great historical interest to our successors a 
 century hence, the ritual used is set forth in full as an authorita- 
 tive expression of the intent and scope of this memorial deposit 
 of the Craft. 
 
 SATUBDAY, AUGUST 12TH. 
 
 Saturday, August 12th, was another "go-as-you-please" day, 
 although many of the pilgrims availed themselves of the special 
 excursion over the Colorado & Southern Railway through Clear 
 Creek Canon to Idaho Springs, Georgetown, and over the world- 
 famed loop, that marvelous piece of railroad engineering skill, 
 returning to Denver by late afternoon train. All those who 
 availed themselves of this side trip spent a delightful day. 
 
 In the evening, the ceremonies connected with this unique 
 Cryptic Rite pilgrimage were brought to a successful close in a 
 complimentary dinner tendered by Ellsworth Council to the M.-. P.-. 
 General Grand Master of the General Grand Council, Comp. 
 Bbadpobd Niohol, of Nashville, Tenn., and his associate offi- 
 cers. This was spread in the spacious dining room of the ele- 
 gant Windsor Hotel in the city of Denver, covers being laid for 
 four hundred guests. Copies of the engraved invitation, of the 
 menu card, and toast program appear as an appendix hereof. 
 
 Comp. Wellington presided in a most gracious and polished 
 manner, at all times happy in introduction and comment. The 
 responses to the. toasts were exceptional in their excellency; wit. 
 
Cryptic Bite Pilgmimaoe. 23 
 
 wisdom, and rhetoric being so artistically blended as to make a 
 single dull moment impossible. 
 
 One delightful incident of the evening was not on the pro- 
 gram — the presentation of a magnificent cut glass punch bowl 
 and ladle to Illustrious Comp. Wellington ; this was accom- 
 plished in a graceful manner by Comp. Benjamin W. Bowell, 
 of Boston, who, interrupting the regular proceedings, arose, and as 
 the punch bowl, covered with white linen, was placed in front of 
 Comp. Wellington, said : 
 
 Illustrious Companion Wellington: 
 
 There has been delegated tome on this occasion a most pleas- 
 ant and agreeable duty. The pilgrims who have journeyed with 
 you on the special official train during the past week, are not un- 
 mindful of the many acts of kindness and courtesy received at 
 your hands. Wishing to express themselves in some manner 
 more decisive than mere words, they have selected a token 
 that shall in no unmeaning manner convey to you their apprecia^ 
 ' tion and satisfaction for the many pleasant and enjoyable sights 
 and occurrences of the journey, and they have delegated me to 
 present to you in their names this gift, that in tlie future you 
 may in a small measure realize that they will ever treasure in 
 their memories your ever kindly consideration, your many atten- 
 tions and manifold covirtesies during this most successful, and 
 ever to be remembered, tour of pleasure and profit; and they one 
 and all unite in extending their best wishes for your future pros- 
 perity and happiness. 
 
 Accept then this gift, and let its pure and spotless substance 
 ever be a slight reminder tiiat in the hearts of all your compan- 
 ions there will ever remain bright remembrances and appreciation 
 of your worth as a true gentleman, a faitliful friend, loving com- 
 panion and bright Mason. 
 
 When the program was finished, it was with reluctance that 
 farewells were said, and each turned on his own pleasure bent. 
 
 Thus passed into history the most unique masonic event of 
 the century, if not of all time. The like will probably never 
 transpire. In its joys and pleasures, its friendships and instruc- 
 tion, it was indeed befitting the organization whose mystic teach- 
 ings make such procedure possible. 
 
 For those who participated in this pilgrimage, the written page 
 of history is not needed, nor could it compass the wealth of de- 
 liglitful memories that is theirs. For others, and for posterity, is 
 this penned,thatallmayknow that such unselfish devotion to one's 
 fellows, such love of truth, is begot by the eternal principles of 
 Masonry, and that, while within the granite fastness of that snow- 
 capped and hoary sentinel of the plains there now lies safely de- 
 posited treasures sacred to the Craft, by which its history might 
 be perpetuated, there is a priceless treasure, which Masonry jeal- 
 ously guards — the love of God and man — that will perpetuate 
 the labors of the select, the faithful and the worthy, long after the 
 bronze tablet has disintegrated through the erosion of time. 
 
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APPENDIX. 
 
 Being Copies of Various Documents of Interest 
 IN Connection with the Foregoing History. 
 
OFFICIAL TABLEAU. 
 
 GENERAL GRAND OFFICERS, 1897-1900. 
 
 General Grand Master. 
 Bradford Niohol Nashville, Tenn. 
 
 General Grand Deputy Master. 
 William H. Mayo St. Louis. Mo. 
 
 General Grand Principal Conductor. 
 
 General Grand Treasurer. 
 Charles H. Heaton Montpelier, Vt. 
 
 General Grand Recorder. 
 Henry W. Mordhurst Fort Wayne, Ind. 
 
 General Grand Chaplain. 
 W. D'ORVILLE Doty Rochester, N. Y. 
 
 General Grand Captain of Guard. 
 Andrew P. Swansteom St. Paul, Minn. 
 
 General Grand Conductor of Council. 
 Henry C. Larrabbe Baltimore, Md. 
 
 General Grand Marshal. 
 Graff M. Aoklin Toledo, Ohio. 
 
 General Grand Steward. 
 Jacob T. Barron Columbus, S. C. 
 
28 Cryptic Bite Pilobimaoe. 
 
 OFFICEES OF THE M.-. ILL.-. GRAND COUNCIL OF 
 KANSAS. E. & S. M. 
 
 M.-.Ill.'. Thorp B. Jennings Ch-and Master. 
 
 111.-. Charles M. Jones Deputy O-rand Master. 
 
 111.-. Edward W. Wellington, Grand Prin. Cond. of the Work. 
 
 Peter J. Freling Grand Treasurer. 
 
 William M. Shaver . . . Grand Recorder. 
 
 Samuel E. Bitssbr Grand Chaplain. 
 
 Thomas G. Fitoh Grand Capt. of the Guard. 
 
 W. C. F. Reiohenbaoh . Grand Cond. of the Council. 
 
 Alex. M. Switzer Grand Marshal. 
 
 John C. Postlethwaite . Grand Custodian of the Work. 
 
 William H. Voeth Grand Steward. 
 
 Spencer P. Wade Ch-and Sentinel. 
 
 OFFICERS OF ELLSWORTH COUNCIL, No. 9, R. & S. M. 
 
 111.-. Edward W. Wellington Thrice Illustrious Master. 
 
 111.-. Herman F. Hoesman III. Deputy Master. 
 
 111.-. Nelson Brcner Prin. Cond. of the Work. 
 
 William E. Sherriff Treasurer. 
 
 Francis E. Demuth Recorder. 
 
 Rev. Albert Watkins Chaplain. 
 
 Edward T. Fairchild Captain of the Guard. 
 
 Henry Z. Hissbm Conductor of the Council. 
 
 Clark L. Danneb Marshal. 
 
 Charles J. Evans Steward. 
 
 Robert H. Vance Sentinel. 
 
Cryptic Bite Pilqrimaqb. 29 
 
 SPECIAL APPOINTMENTS. 
 
 Director General. 
 I1L-. Edwaed "W. Wellington Ellsworth, Kan. 
 
 Directors. 
 
 111.'. Bestob G. Bbown Topeka, Kan. 
 
 M.-.Ill.-. Fbank E. Davis Atchison, Kan. 
 
 111.-. Chablbs J Webb Topeka, Kan. 
 
 111.*. W. C. F. Reiohenbach Topeka, Kan. 
 
 Assistant Treasurer. 
 OaOAE SEia?z Salina, Kan. 
 
 Assistant Recorders. 
 
 Thomas R. Wilson Ellsworth, Kan. 
 
 Albebt K. Wilson Topeka, Kan. 
 
 Thomas G. O'Donnell Ellsworth, Kan. 
 
 Chaeles E. Hall Russell, Kan. 
 
 Thomas L. Bond Salina, Kan. 
 
 Master of Properties. 
 
 111.-. Spenoeb p. Wade Topeka, Kan. 
 
 Cyeus S. Conead Salina, Kan. 
 
 CHAIRMEN OF COMMITTEES. 
 
 Reception. 
 
 Albbet B. MoGaffey Denver, Colo. 
 
 Thomas B. Dewey, vice Abilene, Kan. 
 
 Transportation. 
 
 Chaeles L. Seagbaves Topeka, Kan. 
 
 Will C. Chaffee, vice Topeka, Kan. 
 
 Sleeping Cars. 
 
 111.-. Chaeles J Webb Topeka, Kan. 
 
 Heebeet K. Lindsley, vice Sterling, Kan. 
 
 Press. 
 
 Willis Gboege Emeeson Denver, Colo. 
 
 Fbank S. Fostee, vice Ellsworth, Kan. 
 
 Badges. 
 
 111.-. Bestoe G. Bbown Topeka, Kan. 
 
 111.-. Heeman F. Hoesman, viae Ellsworth, Kan. 
 
30 Cryptic Bite Pilquimage. 
 
 CREDENTIAL COMMITTEE. 
 
 M.-.Ill.-. Aarox H. Connett, Chairman Great Bend, Kan. 
 
 111.-. Geobge H. Jbnkii^s, Vice Kansas City, Kan. 
 
 111.-. John C. Postlethwaite Jewell City, Kan. 
 
 Will C. Chaffee Topeka, Kan. 
 
 111.-. Edwabd W. Watxaxt Leavenworth, Kan. 
 
 111.-. Alex. M. Switzee Hutchinson, Kan. 
 
 111.-. Stanley H. PoLLEY Osawatomie, Kan. 
 
 111.-. Abraham B. Wright Wichita, Kan. 
 
 111.-. John J. Hays Osborne, Kan. 
 
 111.-. Charles C. Copp Atchison, Kan. 
 
 111.-. Ben S. Paulen Fredonia, Kan. 
 
 M.-.Ill.-. John Humphreys Trinidad, Colo. 
 
 HI.-. William D. Pierce Denver, Colo. 
 
 111.-. George Weaver Durango, Colo. 
 
 111.-. James H. Peabody Canon City, Colo. 
 
 111.-. Edmuxd W. Hathaway Pueblo, Colo. 
 
 111.-. F. S. Manning Greeley, Colo. 
 
 111.-. Myeb S. Rafield Colorado Springs, Colo. 
 
 111.-. William D. Thomas Laramie, Wyo. 
 
 111.-. Victor A. Engstrom Bvanston, Wyo. 
 
 111.-. Abram D. Dibble . Green River, Wyo. 
 
 111.-. Geo. H. Puemost Sheridan, Wyo. 
 
 M.-.Ill.-. John J. Mercer Omaha, :Xeb. 
 
 M.-.Ill.-. Wm. J. Bean St. Louis, Mo. 
 
PROGRAMIVtE 
 
 EXEMPLIFICATION OF THE RITUAL. 
 
 Each candidate and member of the Rite present at the ex- 
 emplification of the Ritual at the Broadway Theatre in Denver 
 on Friday evening, August 11, 1899, was handed a handsome 
 souvenir programme, bound in purple, with gold embossed 
 broken triangle on the front. The contents was printed in pur- 
 ple, on heavy enameled paper, and fastened to the cover with 
 yellow silk cord. The matter is herewith reproduced. 
 
EXEMPLIFICATION OF THE RITUAL 
 
 OF 
 
 CRYPTIC MASONRY, 
 
 ELLSWORTH COUNCIL, NO. 9, R. & S. M., ELLSWORTH, KANSAS, 
 
 AT DENVER, 
 
 FRIDAY EYENING, ATI6TJ8T 11, A. D. 1899, A. DEP. 2899, 
 BROADWAY THEATRE. 
 
 THE EITUAL. 
 
 The work as prescribed by the Grand Council of Kansas, and 
 practiced by its constituent councils, will be adhered to; this 
 work has been subjected to no changes in thirty years. The pre- 
 sentation of the degrees will accordingly be an authentic exem- 
 plification of Cryptic Masonry in its earliest form, supplemented 
 with a musical program and the most extensive and magnificent 
 costumes and paraphernalia ever employed in Cryptic work. 
 
 MUSIC. 
 
 The music will be under direction of Comp. Wm. M. Shavbb, 
 by whom that feature of the program has been arranged, and by 
 whom it will be sung. He will be assisted by Prof. Frank N. 
 Haib, of Baker University, as organist. 
 
 The Vocalion, manufactured by Mason & Risohb, has been 
 placed in the theater for this work through the courtesy of The 
 Knight-Campbell Music Co., of Denver. 
 
 SOENEBY, COSTUMES, PEOPEBTIES. 
 
 Special scenery has been painted for this work by The E. A. 
 Armstrong Manufacturing Co., of Chicago. 
 
 The recently purchased and specially designed costumes and 
 paraphernalia of Ellsworth Council, have been augmented by 
 some of the equipment of Zabud Council, of Topeka and Denver 
 Council. 
 
 A number of newly designed and executed costumes are pro- 
 vided through the kindness of The E. A. Armstrong Manufactur- 
 ing Co., of Chicago. 
 
 The ritualistic work and ceremonies will be under direction 
 of 111.-. Comp. Bestob G. Beown. 
 
34 Cryptic Bite Pilgrimage. 
 
 OPENING. 
 
 Ellsworth Council, No. 9, R. & S. M. 
 
 SELECT MASTEB'S DEOBEE. 
 None But the Select, The Faithful, The "Worthy. 
 
 Gbeeting. 
 
 Edward W. Wellington, Thrice Illustrious Master. 
 
 Authority. 
 
 Reading Dispensations. 
 
 Distinguished Visitors Announced. 
 
 Courtesies Extended. 
 
 Work. 
 
 Labor suspended in the Secret Vault and a Council 
 of Royal Masters opened. 
 
CRrPTic Bite Pilorimaoe. 
 
 35 
 
 ROYAL MASTER. 
 
 ■'■All the vessels that pertained unto the House of the Lord." 
 
 ■'■I am Alpha and Omega; the beginning. and the end; 
 the first and the last." 
 
 DBAMATIS PBBSON^. 
 
 111.-. Edwabd W. Wellington .... Thrice Illustrious Master. 
 
 111.-. Chables M. Jones Illustrious Deputy Master. 
 
 111.'. Chables J Webb Prin. Conduetor of the Work. 
 
 111.-. Thomas L. Bond Captain of the Ouard. 
 
 Augustus O. Wellman Conductor of the Council. 
 
 Claek L. Danneb Marshal. 
 
 111.-. Chables S. Bixby Steward. 
 
 Hebbebt K. Lindsley Sentinel. 
 
 OEAFTSMEN. 
 
 William C. Calhoun. 
 Donald W. Campbell. 
 John F. Depew. 
 Edward A. Durbin. 
 William I. Giflord. 
 Lewis C. Greenlee. 
 Silas W. Chaney. 
 Henry O. Frost. 
 Leonard H. Flanders. 
 William C. Griswold. 
 George W. Hart. 
 Clarence E. Hager. 
 John J. Hud dart. 
 Charles K. Hearley. 
 George W. Kramer. 
 Isador Kastor. 
 Jason P. La Belle. 
 Frederick A. Moss. 
 
 John W. Hudson. 
 Charles E. Keepers. 
 Thomas E. McKee. 
 Perry K. Pratt. 
 Justis M. Rhoads. 
 Henry H. Roser. 
 Thomas Nichols. 
 Elisha J. Nolds. 
 Charles J. Reilly. 
 Orlando B. Schobey. 
 Thomas A. Uzzell. 
 H. L. Wadsworth. 
 James W. Roberts. 
 Leonard B. Meek. 
 William T. Lambert. 
 George H. Knifton. 
 John Eisner. 
 John E. Crellen. 
 
36 
 
 Cbtptic Bite Pilgbimage. 
 
 Royal Master— Continued. 
 
 FIRST SECTION. 
 
 The Beautiful Piece of Wobk. 
 
 "And in due time shall receiye his reward." 
 
 HiaH Twelve, 
 
 The Adoration of Deity. 
 
 O LORD, BE MERCIFUL. 
 
 With broken heart, and contrite sigh, 
 A trembling sinner, Lord I cry ; 
 
 Thy pard'nlng grace is rich and free, 
 O God, be mercilul to me. 
 
 Nor alms, nor deeds that I have done, 
 Can for a single sin atone ; 
 
 To Thee, O Lord, alone I flee, 
 O God, be merciful to me. 
 
 -Homer N. Bartlett. 
 
 Thaxatopsis. 
 
 " It will be burled here.'' 
 
 FOREVER WITH THE LORD. 
 
 Forever with the Lord ! 
 
 Amen ! So let It be. 
 Life from the dead is in that word- 
 
 'Tis Immortality. 
 Here in the body pent, 
 
 Absent from Him I roam. 
 Yet nightly pitch my moving tent 
 
 A day's march nearer home. 
 
 Labor Resumed. 
 
 -Ch. Gounod* 
 
 Glimpses of Tragic Bvexts. 
 
 Tlie First Demand. 
 
 The More Persistent Demand. 
 The Fatal Demand. 
 
 Dust to Dust. 
 
Cryptic Bite Pilgrimage. 37 
 
 Royal Master— Continued. 
 
 SECOND SECTION. 
 
 The Bight Cibcumnambulations. 
 
 And he set the Cherubim within the inner house ; and they 
 stretched forth the wings of the Cherubim so that the wing 
 of the one touched the one wall, and the wing of the other 
 Cherub touched the other wall, and their wings touched one 
 another in the midst of the house. 
 
 And Solomon made all the vessels that pertained unto the 
 House of the Lord ; the altar of gold and the table of gold 
 whereupon the shrew-bread was ; and the candlesticks of 
 pure gold, five on the right side, and five on the left, before 
 the Oracle ; with the flowers, and the lamps, and the tongs 
 of gold ; and the bowls and the snuffers, and the basins, and 
 the spoons, and the censers of pure gold ; and the hinges of 
 gold, both for the doors of the inner house — the most holy 
 place — and for the doors of the house, to-wit: of the Temple. 
 So HiBAM made an end of doing all the work that he had 
 made King Solomon for the House of the Lord. 
 
 The Obligation. 
 
 The Bboken Tbiangle. 
 
 The Explanation. 
 
 GOD IS A spirit. —Wm. Sterndale Bennett. 
 
 God Is a Spirit ; 
 And they that worship Him, 
 Must worship Him In spirit and in truth. 
 
 For the Father seeketh such to worship Him. 
 
38 
 
 Cryptic Site Pilgrimaoe. 
 
 SELECT MASTER. 
 
 "TAe time when prying eyes are closed in sleep." 
 
 ^'■Maintain Secrecy; Practice Charity.^' 
 
 DBAMATIS PERSOX^E. 
 
 111.- 
 111.- 
 111.- 
 111.- 
 
 111.- 
 
 Edwabd W. Wellixgtox 
 
 Charles M. Jones 
 
 Charles J Webb 
 
 Thomas L. Bonp 
 
 ATTG0ST0S O. Wellmax 
 
 Claek L. Daxner 
 
 Chaeles S. Bixby 
 
 Herbert K. Lindsley 
 
 . Thrice Illustrious Master. 
 . .Illustrious Deputy Master. 
 
 Prin. Conductor of the Work. 
 
 Captain of the Guard. 
 . Conductor of the Council. 
 
 Marshal. 
 . Steward. 
 . Sentinel. 
 
 workmen from gebal. 
 
 William C. Calhoun. 
 Donald W. Campbell. 
 John F. Depew. 
 Edward A. Durbin. 
 William I. GifEord. 
 Lewis C. Greenlee. 
 Silas W. Chaney. 
 Henry C. Frost. 
 Leonard H. Flanders. 
 William C. Griswold. 
 
 George W. 
 
 Clarence E. Hager. 
 John J. Huddart. 
 Charles K. Hearley. 
 George W. Kramer. 
 Isador Kastor. 
 Jason P. La Belle. 
 Frederick A. Moss. 
 John W. Hudson. 
 Charles E. Keepers. 
 Thomas E. McKee. 
 Hart. 
 
Cryptic Rite Pilobimaoe. 89 
 
 Select Master— Continued. 
 
 The Seobbt Laboes. 
 
 The Intbudeb Apprehended. 
 
 The Consultation. 
 
 HEAR MY PRAYER. — W. F. Sudds. 
 
 Hear my prayer ; 
 
 O God, Incline thine ear. 
 
 From my petition do not hide ; 
 
 Wlthoiit Thee all is dark. I have no guide. 
 
 Hear my prayer ; 
 
 O God, Incline thine ear. 
 
 The Inflexible Penalty. 
 
 The Faithless Sentinel. 
 
 The Pabdon and Vow. 
 
 "Be dumb and blind." 
 
 The Ninth Aboh Penetrated. 
 
 The Hidden Tbeasuees. 
 
 The Globious Traditions. 
 
 TO thee, my god. —Beethoven, 
 
 To Thee, my God, whose Presence flUs 
 
 The earth, the seas, and skies ; 
 To Thee, whose Name, whose Heart, Is LOVE, 
 
 "With all my powers arise. 
 
 Though oft Thy ways are wrapt In clouds. 
 
 In clouds mysterious and unknown, 
 TRUTH, RIGHTEOUSNESS, and MERCY stand 
 
 The Pillars of Thy Throne. 
 
40 
 
 HYP TIC Bite Pilgrimage. 
 
 SPECIAL Deposit ceremonies. 
 
 In imitation of our three ancient Grand Masters, there will 
 be deposited, not in the cavernous recesses of Mother Earth, but 
 upon the snow-capped, cloud-wreathed summit of Pikers Peak, 
 treasures sacred to the Craft, and upon the spot a triangular tablet 
 will be erected, to proclaim to future ages that even there, amid 
 the warring elements of heaven, has the mystic trowel been 
 wielded in the service of the Rite. 
 
 Ceremonies of deposit conducted by the oflficers of the M.'.Ill.-. 
 Grand Council of Kansas. 
 
 Aeticles of Deposit. 
 
 1. Book of the Law. 
 
 2. Masonic square and compass. 
 
 3. A history of Cryptic Masonry, by Josiah DBUM:MOND,of 
 Maine. 
 
 4. A copy of the Proceedings of the convention organizing 
 the General Grand Council of the United States, and a 
 copy of the Proceedings of that Body at its Triennial 
 Assembly in 1897. 
 
 5. Proceedings of the M.-. 111.-. Grand Council of Kansas, 
 at its Annual Assembly in 1899. 
 
 6. Proceedings of the M.-. 111.-. Grand Council of Colorado, 
 at its Annual Assembly in 1898. 
 
Gryptic Ritb Pilorimaoe. 41 
 
 Special Deposit Ceremonies— Continued. 
 
 7. A history of Ellsworth Council, No. 9, of Ellsworth. Kan. 
 
 8. Photographs of Most Puissant Grand Master Bbadfobd 
 NiOHOL ; M.-. 111.-. Grand Master John Humpheeys ; 
 M.-. 111.'. Comp. Thobp B. Jennings ; 111.-. Comp. Ed- 
 ward W. Wellington. 
 
 9. A History of the Colorado Pilgrimage, by 111.-. Comp. 
 Bestob G. Bbown, of Kansas. 
 
 10. A complete list of all Royal and Select Masters regis- 
 tered upon the pilgrimage. 
 
 11. A complete roster of all companions who passed the cir- 
 cle during the pilgrimage. 
 
 12. Copies of the official itinerary, invitations, programs, 
 Denver daily papers, etc. 
 
 13. Three phials containing Kansas corn, wine and oil. 
 
 14. A keystone with the general mark of the Craft thereon. 
 
 15. A copy of the triangular plate of gold. 
 
 16. A masonic trowel. 
 
 17. The United States flag. 
 
 All is Finished. 
 
 PRAISE YE JEHOVAH! — H. R. Palmer. 
 
 Praise ye JEHOVAH ! Sing, all ye people. 
 
 Sing and be Joyful all ye lands of the earth ! 
 Praise ye the Lord, and be joyful In Him, all ye people ; 
 
 Serve Him with gladness, and come into His presence with a song. 
 Sing unto Him, Oh sing aloud to the God of our safety ; 
 
 Come ye and bring hither the timbrel and be Joyful In the Lord. 
 Great Is the Lord, and greatly to be praised, 
 
 In the mountain of His holiness. 
 In the city of the Lord, our God, 
 
 And upon His holy hill. 
 Praise ye JEHOVAH ! Sing, all ye people ; 
 
 Sing and be joyful all ye lands of the earth ! 
 Hallelujah! Amen! 
 
 Council op Select Masters Closed. 
 
42 Cryptic Bite Pilgrimage. 
 
 SUPER EXCELLENT MASTER. 
 
 '■'■Our Old Men are Captives; Our Young Men are Slain.'' 
 
 '■^If I do not remember Thee, let my tongue cleave 
 to the roof of my mouth.'''' 
 
 DBAMATIS PERSONS. 
 
 111.-. Edward W. Wellington . . Zedekiah, King of Judah. 
 
 111.-. Bestob G. Beown Oedaliah. 
 
 111.-. Charles J Webb First Keeper of the Temple. 
 
 111.-. Charles M. Jones Second Keeper of the Temple. 
 
 111.-. Thomas L. Bond Third Keeper of the Temple. 
 
 Clark L. Banner Marshal. 
 
 Herbert K. Lindsley Sentinel. 
 
 hebalds. 
 Thomas B. Shears. August A. Zizka. George L. Sites. 
 
 ROYAL guards. 
 
 Harold W. Baerresen. John F. Depew. 
 
 William C. Calhoun. James B. Westhaver. 
 
 Donald W. Campbell. 
 
 ASSYRIANS. 
 
 Thomas R. McKee. Thomas A. UzzeU. 
 
 Perry K. Pratt, H. L. Wadsworth. 
 
 Justis M. Rhoads. James W. Roberts. 
 
 Henry H. Roser. Leonard B. Meek. 
 
 Thomas Nichols. William T. Lambert. 
 
 Elisha J. Nolds. George H. Knifton. 
 
 Charles J. Reilly. John Eisner. 
 
 Orlando B. Schobey. John E. Crellen. 
 
Cryptic Bitb Pilgrimaoe. 43 
 
 Super Excellent Master— Continued. 
 
 CAPTIVES AT BABYLON. 
 
 Edward A. Dnrbin. John .T. Huddart. 
 
 William I. Gifford. Charlefs K. Hearley. 
 
 Lewis C. Greenlee. George W. Kramer. 
 
 Silas W. Chaney. Isador Kastor. 
 
 Henry C. Frost. Jason P. La Belle. 
 
 Leonard H. Flanders. Frederick A. Moss. 
 
 William C. Griswold. John W. Hudson. 
 
 George W. Hart. Charles E. Keepers. 
 
 Clarence E. Hager. 
 
 FIRST SECTION. 
 
 The Council Assembles, The Time of the Second Watch. 
 
 HEAR THE VOICE OF MY CRY. —Root, 
 
 Hear the voice of my cry, O my Gob, 
 For unto Thee will I pray ; <■ 
 
 I will call unto Thee as long as I live. 
 Deliver me, O Lord— to Thee do I fly ; 
 O save me from them that rise up against me, 
 Save me, O Lord. 
 Forsake me not^ now that 1 am old, 
 But save me from them that rise up against me, 
 For Thy mercy's sake. 
 
 The Herald, Nebuchadnezzar Approaches ! 
 
 Unto Thee, O Lord, do I lift up my soul. — Recitative. 
 
 O my God, I trust In Thee : Let me not be ashamed ; 
 Let not mine enemies triumph over me. 
 
 The Herald, The Formidable and Victorious Enemy. 
 
 O God, why hast Thou cast us off forever? ' —Recitative. 
 
 Why doth Thine anger smoke against the sheep of Thy pasture? 
 Remember Thy congregation, which Thou hast purchased of old ; 
 The rod of Thine Inheritance, which Thou hast redeemed ; 
 This Mount Slon, wherein Thou hast dwelt. 
 
 Make haste, O God, to deliver me ; 
 Make haste to help me, O Lord. 
 
44 Cryptic Bite Pilgrimage. 
 
 Super Excellent Master — Continued. 
 
 The King Cometh. 
 
 The Stabtling Reports. 
 
 The Attempt to Escape. 
 
 In Thee, O Lord, do I put my trust ; —Becttative. 
 
 Let me never be put to confusion. 
 
 Deliver me in Thy righteousness, and cause me to escape ; 
 Incline Thine ear unto me, and save me. 
 
 Be Thou my strong habitation, whereunto I may continuall}' resort. 
 Thou hast given commandment to save me ; 
 
 For Thou art my rock and my fortress. 
 Deliver me, O my God, out of the hand of the wicked. 
 Out of the hand of the unrighteous and cruel man. 
 
 For Thou art my hope, O Lord God ; 
 Thou art my trust from my youth. 
 
 O God, be not far from me ; 
 O miy God, make haste for my help. 
 
 The Fate of the King, The Gathering at the Altar. 
 
 Father, I bend to Thee ! —Himmel. 
 
 Life, It was Thy gift, Thou now can'st shield it ; 
 From Thee It came, and to Thee I yield It ; 
 In life, or death, forsake not me. 
 Father, I bend to Thee ! 
 
 All I give back to Thee ! 
 When at Thy call I my life then shall yield, 
 When In the cold tomb my fate shall be seal'd. 
 Father, my soul take unto Thee, 
 
 Father, forsake not me ! 
 
 The Victorious Chaldeaxs, Jerusalem Overthrown. 
 
 SECOND SECTION. 
 
 The Babylonish Captivity. 
 
 fear not YE, O ISRAEL! —Dudley Buak. 
 
 Behold ! there shall be a day. 
 When the watchman upon the mountain-top shall cry aloud : 
 "Arise ye ! arise ye ! get ye up unto Mount Zlon, 
 Unto the Lord your God !" 
 
 For thus saith the Lord : 
 Fear ye not, O Israel, neither be thou still dismayed ; 
 Refrain thy voice from weeping, and thine eyes from tears ; 
 For I the Lord am with thee, and will save thee ; 
 I have loved thee with an everlasting love. 
 And have redeemed thee. 
 
Cryptic Bite Pilobimaqe. 45 
 
 Super Excellent Master— Continued. 
 
 Why orlest tliou In thine affliction? 
 Why mouniest thou In nightly watches? 
 I have redeemed thee ! Therefore, thus saith the Lord : 
 Sing ye aloud with gladness ! Thy mourning Is turned Into joy. 
 I, even I, have redeemed thee I Be glad and rejoice ! 
 
 Thy sorrows now are ended, and great shall be thy peace. 
 
 Rejoice ! be glad ! be glad and rejoice ! 
 Then fear ye not, O Israel, neither be thou still dismayed. 
 I have redeemed thee. 
 
 The Lamentations. 
 
 "How doth the City sit Solitary that was full of people." 
 
 By Babel's streams we sit and weep, —Ritual. 
 
 Our tears for Zion flow ; 
 Our harps on drooping willows sleep. 
 
 Our hearts are filled with woe. 
 
 The Square, The Camp of the Israelites. 
 
 "By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down." 
 
 Our walls no more resound with praise, —Ritual. 
 
 Our Temple, foes destroy ; 
 Judea's courts no more upraise 
 
 Triumphant songs of joy. 
 
 The Delta, The Triple Duty. 
 
 " Judah is gone into captivity." 
 
 Here, mourning, toil the captive bands, —Ritual. 
 
 Our feasts and Sabbath cease ; 
 Our tribes dispersed through distant lands 
 
 Are hopeless of release. 
 
 The Cieolb, - Friendship and Eternity. 
 
 "This captivity is long." 
 
 But should the ever-gracious Power —Ritual. 
 
 To us propitious be, 
 Chaldeans shall our race restore. 
 
 And kings proclaim us free. 
 
 The Link in History's Chain. 
 
 To the Glory of the Holy One of IsraeL 
 
 All Companions Rise and Sing. 
 Peaise God From Whom All Blessings Flow. 
 Fob God and Country ! 
 
 My country, 'tis of thee, — .-I 
 
 Sweet land of Liberty, 
 
 Of thee I sing. 
 Land where my fathers died. 
 Land of the piigrlins' pride. 
 From ev'ry mountain-side 
 
 Ijet freedom ring. 
 
RITUAL 
 
 MEMORIAL DEPOSIT CEREMONIES 
 
 AS PBBFORMED AT THE 
 
 Broadway Theatre, Denver, Friday Evening, 
 August ii, A. D. 1899, A. Dep. 2899. 
 
RITUAL 
 
 MEMORIAL DEPOSIT CEREMONIES, 
 
 PERFORMED AT 
 
 Denver, Colorado, Friday Evening, August ii, A. D. 1899, A. Dep. 3899, 
 During the Cryptic I^ite Pilgrimage, 
 
 Prbpabbd bt "WILLIAM M. SHAVER, Grand Rboorder of the Most 
 
 Illustrious Grand Counoil of Royal and Select 
 
 Masters of Kansas. 
 
 After the conclusion of the lecture In the Select Master's degree, the 
 Grand Master continued : 
 
 Grand Master: As part of the ceremonies incident to the 
 completion of the design of this memorable pilgrimage of Cryptic 
 Masons to the great State of Colorado, originally planned by our 
 Grand Principal Conductor of the Work from our neighboring 
 crypt of Kansas, 111/. Comp. Edward W. Wellington, the 
 Thrice Illustrious Master of Ellsworth Council, No. 9, under 
 whose patronage we are assembled, there has been in contempla- 
 tion the preparation of an indestructible casket containing treas- 
 ures peculiar to the rite and the great fraternity of Freemasonry, 
 the same to be safely deposited in a suitable receptacle hewn 
 froni the everlasting granite upon the summit of Pike's Peak, 
 there to remain for one hundred years and until the opening 
 dawn of the twenty-first century, as a memorial of the 
 CRYPTIC RITE and of this pilgrimage, so unique in conception, 
 so elaborate in preparation, and so successful in consummation. 
 To these memorial ceremonies we will now address ourselves. 
 
 It is of course understood that these ceremonies are no part 
 of the ritual of the Select Master's degree. 
 
 These special memorial deposit ceremonies will be under the 
 direction of the officers of the Most Illustrious Grand Council of 
 Boyal and Select Masters of Kansas; these officers will now 
 
50 CsrPTic Bite Pilquimage. 
 
 assume their respective stations, and I will ask the acting olBcers 
 of Ellsworth Council kindly to vacate their stations temporarily 
 for the purpose indicated. 
 
 (The officers of Ellsworth Council then retired, and the Grand Officers of 
 Kansas entered and assumed their stations.) 
 
 Grand Masteb: The Grand Eecorder will call the roll of 
 the officers of the Grand Council. 
 
 (The Grand Recorder then called the roll.) 
 
 Grand Master: We will now proceed with these special 
 ceremonies. 
 
 One of the first lessons impressed by Freemasonry upon the 
 aspirant for masonic light and knowledge is that no man should 
 ever enter upon any great and important undertaking without 
 first invoking the blessing of Deity. We will therefore bow our 
 heads while our Grand Chaplain asks for the divine blessing 
 upon the duties of the hour. 
 
 ( The Grand Chaplain then led In prayer, after which the Grand Master 
 continued:) 
 
 Grand Master: When the covenant Go'd of our fathers, 
 the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob 
 revealed himself to Moses at the burning bush by his ineffable 
 name Jehovah, the eternally self-existent, immutable one. He 
 declared that this should be His memorial unto all generations. 
 
 When Moses by divine command went unto his down-trodden 
 brethren in Egypt with his message of deliverance, it was to the 
 elders of Israel — the chiefs, the select men of the people — to 
 whom he came with this great and sacred name, and by them was 
 the word received as the symbol of divine truth, and as such was 
 sacredly preserved among the chiefs of the nation as a memorial 
 of the eternal God. * * « * 
 
 The masonic tradition recently given in your presence recites 
 the effort made in the days of the glory and power of Israel, 
 during the reign of the Illustrious King Solomon, to place the 
 knowledge of this mysterious name in the possession of the faith- 
 ful and worthy of the craft who had toiled long and assiduously 
 to erect a magnificent material memorial to the greatness of 
 Jehovah, a house of the Lord, but which effort was frustrated 
 by the hand of an assassin belonging to the very craft sought to 
 be benefited. 
 
 We have seen however how, by the wise precaution of our 
 three ancient Great Masters the knowledge of this sacred word 
 was preserved from the general wreck of the nation during the 
 years of destruction, captivity and woe following the reign of the 
 perfidous Zedekiah, and again restored to the craft, as we have 
 been taught, in the Royal Arch degree. 
 
Cryptic Bite Filobimage. 51 
 
 In the fullness of God's time the day came prophesied by 
 Jeremiah: "Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, that I will 
 make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the 
 house of Judah. This shall be the covenant that I will make 
 with the house of Israel: I will put my law in their inward 
 parts, and write it in their hearts: and will be their God, and 
 they shall be my people. And they shall teach no more every 
 man his neighbor, and every man his brother, saying. Know the 
 Lord ; for they shall all know me, from the least of them to the 
 greatest of them, saith the Lord." 
 
 This day is here. The new covenant has been made with the 
 new household of faith, and in fulfillment of the divine promise 
 the knowledge of the true word, the great and sacred name, 
 Jehovah, that name which was declared by the Lord unto 
 Moses as His memorial unto all generations, is now possessed by 
 the least as well as the greatest of the new house of Israel and 
 of Judah, and to Him we pray: "Our Father, who art in heaven." 
 
 The necessity for a deposit such as was made by our three 
 Ancient Grand Masters does not now exist, but the desire to pre- 
 serve a memorial of this remarkable pilgrimage in the history of 
 the Cryptic Rite furnishes ample occasion for these ceremonies. 
 
 In the early history of the world, the custom of erecting 
 great heaps of stones as witness of any memorable event, and to 
 preserve the remembrance of some matter of great importance, 
 was very common. Such piles of masonry were the most ancient 
 monuments among all peoples, and especially amongthe Hebrews. 
 
 In those older ages, these monuments were instead of inscrip- 
 tions, medals or histories. The records of the fathers abound 
 with reference to the custom. Jacob and Laban raised such a 
 monument upon Mount Gilead in memory of their covenant. 
 Joshua erected one at Gilgal, made of stones taken out of the 
 Jordan to preserve the memorial of his miraculous passage over 
 the river; and the Israelites that dwelt beyond Jordan also 
 raised one upon the banks of the river as a testimony that they 
 constituted but one nation with their brethren on the other side. 
 
 It is not our desire nor design to erect a great heap or pillar 
 of stones for the memorial we propose to raise on this occasion. 
 Nature has already built it for us, and in that majestic mass of 
 imperishable granite which the Great Architect of the Universe 
 has placed as a sentinel upon the plains, guarding the everlasting 
 hills that form the backbone of this continent. Pike's Peak, and 
 which has been to so many of you the sacred altar where you 
 have repledged your fealty to Jehovah and the eternal princi- 
 ples of Freemasonry, we have the monument of stone, the use of 
 which for this deposit is in itself a memorial of our allegiance to 
 the Great I Am. Within a prepared opening in a massive 
 granite boulder upon the summit of Pike's Peak will be placed 
 
62 Cryptic Bite Pilgrhiage. 
 
 the memorial deposit, ^-hich, in imitation of our three Ancient 
 Grand Masters, we will now prepare. 
 
 Companion Grand Marshal, you will present the bronze casket 
 and the materials for this deposit. 
 
 ( The Gi-and Marshal retired and returned with casket and materials on 
 tables. ) 
 
 Gbajjd Master: The Grand Recorder will read the list of 
 the articles which enter into this deposit. 
 
 Ge AND Recorder read : A copy of the Book of the Law, the 
 Holy Scriptures in the Old and New Testaments, with a Masonic 
 Square and Compasses. 
 
 Gbaxd Master : Those Great Lights of Masonry we deposit 
 as the foundation of our faith in Jehovah, our allegiance to Free- 
 masonry, and our belief in the fatherhood of God and the brother- 
 hood of man. 
 
 ( Deposited in casket.) 
 
 Grand Recorder READ : A history of the Cryptic Rite of 
 Freemasonry, prepared by Most Puissant Josiah H. Drummond, of 
 Portland. Maine, Past General Grand Master of the General 
 Grand Council of Royal and Select Masters of the United States 
 of America, and Most Illustrious J. Ross Robertson, of Toronto, 
 Canada. Past Grand IMaster of the Grand Council of Royal and 
 Select Masters of the Dominion of Canada. 
 
 Grand Master : This we deposit as a memorial of that par- 
 ticular Rite of Freemasonry in whose honor this pilgrimage has 
 been undertaken, and in whose vaults we are now laboring. 
 
 (Deposited.! 
 
 Grand Recorder bead : A copy of the Proceedings of 
 the General Grand Council of Royal and Select Masters of the 
 United States of America at its Sixth Triennial Assembly, held at 
 Baltimore, Maryland, October 11 and 12, A. D. 1897, A. Dep. 2897; 
 a copy of the Proceedings of the Grand Council of Royal and 
 Select Masters of Kansas, at its Thirty-first Annual Assembly, 
 held at Leavenworth, Kan., February 13, A. D. 1899, A. Dep. 2899; 
 and a copy of the Proceedings of the Grand Council of Royal 
 and Select Masters of Colorado, at its Fourth Annual Assembly, 
 held at Denver, Colorado, September 23, A. D. 1898, A. Dep. 2898. 
 
 Grand Master : These we deposit in testimony of our allegi- 
 ance to the Sovereign Governing Body of the Cryptic Rite in 
 these United States of America, and in honor of the Grand Juris- 
 diction from whose Crypts originated this pilgrimage, and of that 
 Grand Jurisdiction by whose fraternal courtesy we are here as- 
 sembled. 
 
 (Deposlted.l 
 
Cryptic Bite Piloeimaoe. 53 
 
 Gband Eeoobdeb bead: A history of Ellsworth Council, 
 No. 9, of Royal and Select Masters, of Ellsworth Kansas, compiled 
 by Comp. Edwabd T. Faibohild, of Ellsworth. 
 
 Gband Masteb: Ellsworth Council, No. 9, the youngest 
 chil d in the Cryptic family of Kansas, beingnow not quite one year 
 old, even dating its birth from its initial assembly under letters 
 of dispensation, as the patron of this pilgrimage deserves special 
 recognition in this memorial. At the time its charter was granted 
 in February last it ranked second in membership in Kansas, and 
 with the additions made during this pilgrimage it will certainly 
 assume front rank in total enrollment among the councils of the 
 world. 
 
 ( Deposited.) 
 
 Gband Recordeb bead : Photographs of the Most Puissant 
 General Grand Master of the General Grand Council of Royal 
 and Select Masters of the United States of America, Beadfoed 
 NiOHOL, of Nashville, Tenn. ; of the Most Illustrious Grand Mas- 
 ter of the Grand Council of Royal and Select Masters of Kansas, 
 Thorp B. Jennings, of Topeka, Kan.; of the Most Illustrious 
 Grand Master of the Grand Council of Royal and Select Masters 
 of Colorado, John Humpheeys, of Trinidad, Colo.; and of the 
 Thrice Illustrious Master of Ellsworth Council, No. 9, of Royal 
 and Select Masters of Ellsworth, Kan., Edwabd W. Welling- 
 ton, of Ellsworth, who is also the Grand Principal Conductor of 
 the Work of the Grand Council of Kansas. 
 
 Gband Masteb: It is not inappropriate to add to this me- 
 morial casket the photographs of the executive heads of the Grand 
 Council of the United States of America, and of the Grand 
 Councils of Kansas and Colorado, and also of him whose fertile 
 brain conceived, planned and executed this remarkable demon- 
 stration of the Cryptic Rite. 
 
 (Deposited.) 
 
 Gband Reoobdee bead: A history of the pilgrimage made 
 to Colorado by the Royal and Select Masters of Kansas and of the 
 United States, August 6 to 13, A. D. 1899, A. Dep. 2899, written by 
 111.-. Bestob G. Bbown, of Topeka, Kansas. Past Thrice Illustri- 
 ous Master of Zabud Council, No. 4, of Topeka, and Past Most 
 Excellent Grand High Priest of the Most Excellent Grand Chap- 
 ter of Royal Arch Masons of Kansas. A complete list of all 
 Royal and Select Masters registering upon this pilgrimage. A 
 complete register of all companions who have passed the circle 
 during this pilgrimage, including all those who have registered 
 for the first time as Super-Excellent Masters. Daily report of 
 the pilgrimage as published in the Bocky Mountain News, of 
 
54 C RTF TIC Bite Pilgrimage. 
 
 Denver, Colorado, copies of the official itinerary, invitations, pro- 
 grams and reports connected witli the pilgrimage. 
 
 Geand Mastee : We are making history in the Cryptic Rite 
 here to-night. National gatherings at Masonic Sovereign Grand 
 Bodies are neither new nor novel. We have our Triennial Con- 
 vocations of the General Grand Chapter of Royal Arch Masons, 
 Triennial Assemblies of the General Grand Council of our own 
 beloved rite, and also Encampments of Knights Templar, all 
 gatherings for legislation, but a pilgrimage beyond the confines 
 of a State, undertaken solely with ritualistic aim in view, is 
 unparalleled in the history of any rite, and it is but fitting that 
 special prominence be given in this memorial deposit to every- 
 thing connected with this unique masonic assembly. 
 
 (Deposited.^ 
 
 Gbaxd Reoobdbb bead: Three phials containing Kansas 
 corn, wine and oil, the emblematical Wages of the craftsmen : a 
 Keystone Mark; the Triangular Plate of Gold; and a Masonic 
 Trowel. 
 
 Gbaxd Masxeb: Add these well-known emblems of the 
 Masonic Craft, and that this deposit may be known to contain 
 treasures peculiar to the Craft, in imitation of our three ancient 
 Grand Masters, you will place on top thereof our three jewels. 
 
 (Deposited.) 
 
 Gbaxd Rboohdeb bead: The United States Flag. 
 
 Gbaxd Masteb: And finally in testimony of our adherence 
 to the great principles of liberty and equality, and of our posses- 
 sion of that virtue of patriotism ever inculcated at our masonic 
 altars and exemplified in the lives and deaths of thousands of the 
 sons of light whose deeds are recorded in our masonic archives, 
 cover all with the folds of this blood-bought emblem of light and 
 freedom, the Star Spangled Banner. 
 
 *^Long may it wave o'er the laad of the free and the home of the brave."- 
 
 ( Deposited.) 
 
 Gband Masteb : Our task is completed, and our memorial 
 is prepared. And now Illustrious Grand Principal Conductor of 
 the Work, into your hands we place this memorial deposit for 
 completion according to the original design. You will cause to 
 be added the final historical record of the completion of all the 
 ceremonies of this pilgrimage ; you will close and hermetically 
 seal the casket ; you will bear it to its final place of deposit upon 
 the summit of Pike's Peak, and after placing it thereon you will 
 carefully and securely close the secret vault, and place above it 
 the bronze memorial tablet, that he who runs mav read. 
 
Cryptic Bite Pilomimaoe. 55 
 
 Grand Principal Conduotob of the Wobk: Most Illus- 
 trious Grand Master, the trust is accepted, and all shall be accom- 
 plished. 
 
 Grandmaster: Illustrious Companion, I feel that I can 
 safely repeat the ancient eulogium : from your well-known fidelity 
 I have no doubt that all will be fulfilled agreeably to the original 
 design. 
 
 You will make due report to me of your final acts in connec- 
 tion with this deposit, and due record shall be kept in the 
 archives of the Most Illustrious Grand Council of Royal and 
 Select Masters of Kansas for the information of the coming 
 masonic generations. 
 
 This memorial deposit in its place of rest above the clouds, 
 beaten by the storms, swept by the fierce blasts, and bathed in 
 the nearer glow of God's eternal sunshine, shall remain as the 
 sacred trust and treasure of the Most Illustrious Grand Council 
 of Kansas, unopened and unmolested for the period of one hun- 
 dred years, and at the close of the twentieth century, whose 
 dawn is now breaking upon us, this memorial casket shall be 
 opened to the wo?ld with appropriate ceremonies by some suc- 
 cessor to my office, and our memorial to Jehovah and to our 
 mystic rite be read and known of all men. To the fulfillment of 
 our official pledge we shall solemnly charge our successors in the 
 Eastern chair. 
 
 Grand Master, Deputy Grand Master and the Grand 
 Principal Conductor op the Work unitedly : All is finished. 
 
THE DEPOSIT CASKET AND PLATE. 
 
 The casket which contains the deposit was specially made of 
 polished brass. It is ten inches long by eight inches wide and 
 deep. The cover was so made as to not be entirely removed, and 
 after the deposit was made, the casket was closed, sealed and 
 brazed, so that it is as one solid sheet of brass. 
 
 The plate is solid cast bronze ; in form an equilateral triangle, 
 two feet on each side. It is over two inches thick, and at each 
 corner a heavy anchor, three inches long and one and one-half 
 inches in diameter, is cast. The inscription and characters are 
 cast in bold relief and the face polished, the background being 
 stippled. The accompanying illustration shows the inscription 
 and design of the plate: 
 

 Assiate! !()' Oruiul Council nf JSjibsbs X«ar^ -S ^tiiuit'!^'' t4 Ji! &sniSidwi»fc 
 
 BRONZE TABLET WHICH COVERS MEMORIAL DEPOSIT. 
 ( Size 2 feet each side.) 
 
BANQUET. 
 
 The invitation to tiie banquet was handsomely engraved. 
 
 The menu card was artistically printed in colors, and laid in 
 handsome purple covers with gold embossed front, being held 
 together with heavy purple satin ribbon bows. 
 
 The toast card was in purple, on heavy beveled edge bristol, 
 fastened in the corner with a purple satin ribbon bow. 
 
THE INVITATION. 
 
 em/e^ea -uoee ^o ^e ^i/iiien^ a^ a funnei 
 
 tfi Aonei o/ 
 
 ^^y^cti^ tyaidaan^ Ueneia/ uiana ^MaA^ei 
 
 atta ncii a<)/)octa/e of/iceia. 
 
 ai /)m; o c/ocK. 
 
 Windsor Hotel, 
 Denver, Colorado. 
 
COMPLIMENTARY DINNER 
 
 — BT — 
 
 Ellsworth Council, No. 9, R. & S. M., of Ellsworth, Kansas, 
 
 Most Puissast Gknekax Grand Master, BRADFORD NICHOL. and 
 
 Associate Officers, Satubdat, August 12, 1899, 
 
 Windsor Hotel, Denver, Colo. 
 
 THE BILL, OF FARE. 
 
 ^'■Somc hae meat that canna eat; 
 And some would eat that want it: 
 But we hae meat^ and we can eat, 
 Sae let the Lord be thankit." 
 
 Famished people must be slowly nurst. 
 And fed by spoonfuls, else they always burst. 
 
 — Byron. 
 
 Call for the best the house may bring ! 
 
 — John Flelclifr. 
 
 The feast is ready 
 
 Please you, therefore, draw nigh and take your places. 
 
 — Titus Andronicus. 
 
 Little ;Xeck Clams. ' 
 
 I send a shell from the ocean beach. 
 
 But listen thou well, for my shell hath speech. 
 
 — Charles Henry Webb. 
 Plura clam removebat. 
 
 (He makes way with many clams.) —Cicero. 
 
 Green Turtle Soup. S''^"''' 
 
 Vino de Pasto. 
 
Cryptic Bite Filorimaoe. 61 
 
 Soup Sticks— 8al ted Almonds. 
 
 Good, well-dress'd turtle beats them hollow : 
 
 It almost makes me wish, I vow. 
 
 To have two stomachs, like a cow. 
 
 And lo: as with the cud, an Inward thrill 
 
 Upheaved his walst-ooat and disturbed his frill, 
 
 Hla mouth was oozing and he work'd his jaw— 
 
 "I almost think that I could eat one raw." 
 
 — Hood. 
 
 Planked Roe Shad. 
 
 Shoestring Potatoes — Cucumbers. *" '"1°'. 
 
 -Shakespeare. 
 
 Cruse & Fils Freres. 
 Bait the hook well': this flsh will bite. 
 
 The like to this flsh which we show 
 Was ne'er in Fish-street, old or new, 
 Nor ever served to the Sheriff's board. 
 Or kept in souce lor the Mayor Lord. 
 Had old astronomers but seen 
 This Fish, none else in heaven had been. 
 
 — Dr. Jasper Mayne. 
 
 Vines that cu-cumber the ground. 
 
 —John O. Saxe. 
 
 ^ ._ , _, . ^, . 1 m i. Pontet Canel 
 
 Broiled Sprmg Chicken on Toast. ^^^^^ ^ p^^ P^^^^^ 
 
 Asparagus. 
 
 He shall be plucked and eaten to the bone. 
 
 — John Dvycien. 
 
 Hast thou named all the birds without a gun? 
 
 —Ralph Waldo Emerson. 
 
 Not yet old enough for a man, nor yet young enough for a boy. 
 
 —Shakespeare. 
 
 . , -.r 1 Champagne, 
 
 Fillet de Beouf with Mushrooms. Pommery. 
 
 French Peas— Saratoga Chips. 
 
 'Tls known I am a pretty piece of flesh. 
 
 — Shakespeare. 
 
 Such is the simplicity of man— to harken after the flesh. 
 
 —Shakespeare. 
 
 Tornadoes of beef? yea, verily, tornadoes. 
 Cyclones and mighty whirlwinds, tempests, hurricanes. 
 Typical forsooth of English courage which has swept the world. 
 
 —Daniel Pratt. 
 
 ( Unpublished.) 
 
 Heavenly grace Is like a lump of beef-cut and come again. 
 
 — Rowland Hill, 
 
 There never was a good war nor (a) bad peas. 
 
 — Ben Franklin. 
 
 Cigarettes. 
 Roman Punch. 
 
 I wish vou all sorts of prosperity -with a little more taste. 
 
 —La Sage. 
 
62 Cryptic Bite Pilorimage. 
 
 Water? — Beg your pardlng, young man, there you lied. 
 
 —Bret Harte. 
 
 I do confess thouYt smooth and fair. 
 
 —Sir a. Aytoiin. 
 
 No going back, the past Is an abyss ! „ „ 
 
 ^ —Martin F. Tupper. 
 
 Tomatoes and Lettuce Salad. 
 
 M'e may pick a thousand salads ere we light on such another. 
 
 —Shakespeare. 
 
 Day Is done brown, and set away to cool. 
 And evening, like a salad fresh aud moist. 
 And peppered with her mustered stars comes on; 
 The Moon, like a large cheese, cut Just in hall. 
 Hangs o'er the landscape most Invitingly. 
 
 IS^eapolitan Ice Cream —Assorted Cake. 
 
 Fruit. 
 
 Wouldst thou both eat thy cake and have It? 
 
 — George Hei-berf, 
 If thou well observe 
 The rule of "Not too much," by temperance taught, 
 In what thou eat'st and drink'st seeking from thence 
 Due nourishment, not gluttonous delight, 
 Tin many years over thy head return: 
 So mayst thou live, till, like ripe fruit, thou drop 
 Into thy mother's lap, or be with ease 
 Gathered, not harshly pluck'd, for death mature. 
 
 —Milton. 
 Roquefort Cheese. 
 
 Bent's Crackers, Toasted. 
 
 I will make an end of my dinner ; there's pippins 
 and cheese to come. 
 
 — Shakespea re. 
 
 Coffee. 
 Cigars. 
 
 Xo more wine? Then we'll push back chairs and talk. 
 
 — Robert Browning. 
 Some sigh for this aud that. 
 
 My wishes don't go far ; 
 The world may wag at will. 
 So I have my cigar. 
 
 — Thomas Hood. 
 May we have entertainment here, or must 
 We further go? Let's know whereon to trust. 
 
 —Mr. Great Heart. 
 
 Let's go, for 'tis after midnight. 
 
 — Shakespea re. 
 
Cbyptic Bite Pilgiiimaoe. 8S 
 
 THE FEAST OP REASON AND THE FLOW OF SOUL. 
 
 ILI,.-. E. W. WELLINGTON, Presiding. 
 
 Welcome to Our Honored Guests. 
 
 Willis Geoege Bmkkson, 
 
 Ellsworth Council, No, 9. 
 
 Response. 
 
 M.-.P.-. Bhadfoed Niohol, 
 
 General Grand Master. 
 
 Kansas — The Brightest Star in Our National Firmament. 
 
 M.-.lLL.-. Thokp B. Jennings, 
 
 Grand Master, Grand Council of Kansas. 
 
 The Purple Glow. 
 
 M.-.E.-. Bestor G. Beown, 
 
 Past Grand High Priest of Kansas. 
 
 Masonry in American Citizenship. 
 
 M.'.W.-. Ethelbert F. Allen, 
 
 Grand Master, Grand Lodge of Missouri. 
 
 Colorado — Our Sister State. 
 
 M.-. III.'. John Humphrkts, 
 
 Grand Master, Grand Council of Colorado. 
 
 Freemasonry, the Educator. 
 
 R.-.P.-. William H. Mayo, 
 
 Deputy General Grand Master. 
 
 Where Are We At? 
 
 R.-.E.-. A. B. MoGaffey, 
 
 Past Grand Commander of Colorado. 
 
 The Heart of Masonry. 
 
 Rev. MATT S. Hughes, D. D. 
 
 Hobnobbing With Masonry. 
 
 III.-. Samuel E. Busser. 
 
 Grand Chaplain, Grand Council of Kansas. 
 
 Hopes and Possibilities of the Future. 
 
 M.-.lLL.'. Chas. J. Phelps, 
 
 Past Grand Master, Grand Council of 
 Nebraska. 
 
 The New Republic. 
 
 M.-. III.-. Robert Ash, 
 
 Past Grand Master, Grand Council of 
 California. 
 
Dispensations and U. S. Government Permis- 
 sion TO Make Deposit on Pike's Peak. 
 
DISPENSATIONS AND OFFICIAL CORRESPONDENCE. 
 
 THE GENERAL GRAND COUNCIL OF ROYAL AND 
 
 SELECT MASTERS OP THE UNITED STATES. 
 
 Bradfoed Niohol, 
 
 General Orand Master. 
 
 Nashville, Tenn., June 16, 1899. 
 To Whom Concerned., Greeting: 
 
 Whereas, Ellsworth Council, No. 9, Kansas, by and with the 
 consent of the Grand Masters of Royal and Select Masters of 
 Kansas and Colorado, has requested dispensation from the Gen- 
 eral Grand Master to meet in August at the Garden of Gods, Col- 
 orado, or some other place or places, to resume labor in the secret 
 vault, there to receive, ballot on and obligate and confer the 
 degrees of Royal Master, Select Master and Super-Excellent 
 Master, on petition from Kansas, Colorado, Wyoming, Texas, New 
 Mexico, or any jurisdiction, waived especially by said legal juris- 
 diction, or any other points not legally occupied by Grand Juris- 
 dictions. 
 
 Now, therefore, by virtue of power in me vested, I do hereby 
 grant said dispensation and fully empower the Thrice Illustrious 
 Master of said council, viz: B. W. Wellington, and his associ- 
 ates to hold said councils, the same to be in accord with the 
 ancient landmarks and not in violation of any of the rites of any 
 Grand Jurisdiction, which work, when completed, said dispensa- 
 tion to be returned to the General Grand Recorder. 
 
 BRADFORD NICHOL, 
 Attest : General Grand Master. 
 
 HENRY W. MORDHURST, 
 
 General Grand JReoorder. 
 
Cryptic Eite Pilgrimage. 
 
 Office of the 
 
 M.-. III.-. GEAND MASTER OF THE GRAND COUNCIL 
 
 OF R. & S. M. OF Kansas. 
 
 To all Whom These Presents Shall Come, Oreeting: 
 
 Know Ye, That whereas, application has been made to me in 
 due form by the Thrice Illustrious Master of Ellsworth Council, 
 No. 9, Royal and Select Masters, working under charter from this 
 Grand Council, for a dispensation, authorizing the said council to 
 meet at their crypt and elsewhere in Kansas, in such stated or 
 special assemblies as may be deemed best, for the purpose of giv- 
 ing success to the coming pilgrimage to Colorado in August, 1899; 
 to make the pilgrimage to Colorado, with the consent of the Grand 
 Master of Colorado, there also to meet in assembly, subject to said 
 Grand Master's approval, to receive and act upon petitions and 
 confer degrees. 
 
 Now, therefore, I, Thobp B. Jennings, Grand Master of the 
 Most Illustrious Grand Council of Royal and Select Masters of 
 Kansas, by virtue of the power and authority in me vested, do 
 hereby grant this, my special dispensation, authorizing and em- 
 powering the said Thrice Illustrious Master, officers and members 
 of Ellsworth Council, No. 9, to do any and all such acts as above 
 set forth, and no more, and to make due report of their action to 
 me immediately after, on the other side of this sheet. 
 
 In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and 
 affixed my official seal, at the office of Grand Master this 22d day 
 of July, A. D. 1899. A. Dep. 2899. 
 
 T. B. JENNINGS, 
 
 Grand Master. 
 
Cryptic Bite Pilorimaoe. 69 
 
 ROYAL AND SELECT MASTERS OF COLORADO. 
 
 Office of the Grand Master. 
 John Hdmphreys, 
 Grand Master. 
 
 Trinidad, Colo., April 10, 1899. 
 To Whom it May Concern, hut More Especially to the Cryptic 
 Masons of the Or and Jurisdiction of Colorado, Greeting: 
 
 Whereas, L did on the 17th day of March, 1899, receive a re- 
 quest from Most Illustrious Grand Master, Thorp B. Jennings, 
 of the Grand Council of Kansas, to allow the Cryptic Masons 
 of Kansas to enter this Grand Jurisdiction some time prior to 
 September 1st next, for the purpose of resuming labor in the 
 secret vault, located in the Garden of the Gods, or some other 
 place to be hereafter selected, there to obligate a class of petition- 
 ers from the Jurisdiction of Kansas, and also upon any who may 
 legally petition from other j urisdictions; and afterwards to resume 
 labor in the secret vault at some suitable place located in Denver, 
 Colo., for the purpose of exemplifying the beautiful degrees of 
 Royal, Select and Super -Excellent Master, and 
 
 Whereas, Most Illustrious Grand Master Thobp B. Jen- 
 nings does recommend Right Illustrious Comp. Edward W. 
 Wellington and his associate officers of Ellsworth Council, 
 No. 9, of Ellsworth. Kan., they being in all respects competent to 
 perform all the duties required of them. 
 
 Now, therefore, by virtue of the powers in me vested, I do 
 hereby grant this, my dispensation, authorizing and empowering 
 Right Illustrious Comp. Edward W. Wellington and his asso- 
 ciate officers to hold councils of Royal and Select Masters in this 
 Grand Jurisdiction for the purpose set forth in this dispensation 
 during the pilgrimage, the same to be in accordance with the 
 ancient landmarks and usages of the Order and the Constitution 
 of the Grand Councils of Kansas and Colorado, but not otherwise. 
 
 And this dispensation shall remain in force until September 
 1, 1899, (unless it shall be sooner revoked by me), at which time 
 it shall be returned to me with a complete report of the same. 
 
 Given under my hand and seal at Trinidad, Colo., this 10th 
 dav of April, A. Dep. 2899, A. D. 1899. 
 
 JOHN HUMPHREYS, 
 
 M.-.Ill.-. Or and Master. 
 
70 Cryptic Bite Pilobimage. 
 
 2903-'fi9. [Copy.] A.M. 
 
 L. & B. B. Div. A. M. 
 
 DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR. 
 
 Washington, July 28, 1899. 
 E. W. Wellington, Ellsivorth, Kansas. 
 
 Sib:— In answer to your letter of the 3d instant relative to 
 the request of the Cryptic Masons for permission to deposit a 
 steel chest, and to erect a tablet over it, on the summit of Pike's 
 Peak, in the limits of the Pike's Peak Timber Land Reserve, you 
 are advised that I have to-day granted the request in a letter to 
 the Commissioner of the General Land Office. 
 
 I enclose a copy of that letter herewith for your full informa- 
 tion. Very respectfully, 
 
 THOS. RYAN, 
 
 Acting Secretary. 
 
 2903-'99. [Copy.] A.M. 
 
 L. & B. B. Dlv. 
 
 DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR. 
 
 Washington, July 28, 1899. 
 The Commissioner of the General Land Office. 
 
 Sib: — In your report of the 25th instant on the request of the 
 Cryptic Masons for permission to deposit a steel chest and to 
 erect a tablet over it on the summit of Pike's Peak, in the limits 
 of the Pike's Peak Timber Land Reserve, while on its pilgrimage 
 next month, you have stated that you see no objection to allow- 
 ing the request, provided the chest and tablet are located on 
 vacant public land, and that the object for which the reservation 
 was created is not interfered with. 
 
 I, therefore, hereby grant the request referred to above and 
 direct that the Forest Superintendent, W. T. S. Mat, Denver, 
 Colorado, be advised of this action and instructed in accordance 
 with the tenor of your report. 
 
 Very respectfully, 
 
 THOS. RYAN, 
 
 Acting Secretary. 
 
CANDIDATES 
 
 On Whom the Cryptic Degrees were Conferred 
 During the Pilgrimage. 
 
LIST OF- CANDIDATES. 
 
 Anderson, Robert B. 
 Adams, Henry H. 
 Atherton, Otis L. 
 Arnold, George H. 
 Arnold, C. R. 
 Arnold, Wm. W. 
 Atkinson, James W. 
 Arnett, Louis S. 
 Ackroyd, Eli. 
 Angell, Prank B. 
 Ashbaugh, A. 
 Beckham, O. B. 
 Brinkham, Charles V. 
 Bigger, L. A. 
 Bush, George E. 
 Brown, Earl Van Dorn. 
 Barnes, M. O. 
 Burke, Richard. 
 Burrows, R. H. 
 Bowlus, Thos. W. 
 Baldridge, Haud M. 
 Bristol, Nathan S. 
 Boston, W. H. 
 Boyd, Arthur L. 
 Baldwin, Chas. AUen. 
 Baldwin, James C. 
 Bailey, George H. 
 Brooks, George W. 
 Brodie, John Campbell. 
 Beard, Henry Ambler. 
 Branch, Vernon H. 
 Babcock, L. V. 
 Baldwin, Lee. 
 Brundage, John M. 
 Bruner, Henry C. 
 Ballard, F. W. 
 Busby, Wm. 
 
 Burton, A. G. 
 Cretcher, L. W. 
 Clark, James W. 
 Carter, James. 
 Craig, Wm. 
 Crouter, C. W. 
 Chamberlain, Wm. J. 
 Conway, J. S. 
 Cooke, Maynard E. 
 Coates, Wm. S. 
 Coffin, Lemuel C. 
 Cornwell, Lafayette. 
 Clark, E. E. 
 Dillingham, Frank. 
 Diederick, Leonard H. 
 Doherty, J. T. 
 DeGuerre, Albert S. J. 
 English, W. A. 
 Eldred, B. S. 
 Emmons, Frank M. 
 Findlay, Robert. 
 Pehringer, Adolph 
 Feldman, Chas. A. 
 Fuller, Herbert M. 
 Fielding, George F. 
 Frayne, W. S. 
 Finney, Frank. 
 Frambaeh, Henry A. 
 Gibson, Jolm S. 
 Gunnell, Allen T. 
 Glazier, Irwin O. 
 Gilbert, W. R. 
 House, E. L. 
 Herlocker, J. W. 
 Hay, George L. 
 Hee, Fred. F. 
 Horn, T. G. 
 
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 Cryptic Bite Pilorimage. 
 
 Hoagland, W. H. 
 Hamilton, Joseph 
 Halloway, H. M. 
 Haines, Forest M. 
 Hull. Mike Lee. 
 Hunt, A. W. 
 Haddaway, Rochester. 
 Hartmann, Chas. F. 
 Isenhart, Frank J. 
 Imler, David H. 
 Irwin, Robt. D. 
 Johnson, Silas D. 
 Johnson, F. B. 
 Johnson, G. W. 
 Jones, A. D. 
 Jenkins, Chas. E. 
 Kuntzman, George 
 Kunz, Wni. F. 
 Kyner, Geo. E. 
 Knig-ht, Frank M. 
 Kohn, Howard L. 
 Keesee, Daniel. 
 Killian, James R. 
 Kite, Chas. A. 
 Kline, P. A. 
 Latta, James 
 Liaskey, Howard L. 
 Lyons, Matt. 
 Law, David F. 
 LaDue, Addison K. 
 Little, Geo. W. 
 Lewis, W. J. 
 Lott, Geo. B. 
 Meek, Maynard L. 
 Middagh, J. L. 
 Montgomery, Willis S. 
 Morgan, B. F. 
 Monro, Henry, Jr. 
 Munson, Chester. 
 Moffat, A. H. 
 Muelschuster, Frank. 
 Markham, Lincoln W. 
 Moore, Chas. Andrew. 
 Maughan, W. H. 
 Miiner, W. W. 
 Miller, Seymour L. 
 McPherson, D. F. 
 
 McMahan, John 
 McCullagh, Geo. L. 
 McLeish, Malcolm. 
 Neese, Albert. 
 Naill, David W. 
 Owen, N. E. 
 Orcutt, Clinton D. 
 Owen, Frank H. 
 Pierson, Elmer E. 
 Parker, G. A. 
 Pilla, Chas. 
 Porter, Frank S. 
 Phillips, James M. 
 Page, C. G. 
 Pemberton, John N. 
 Payne, John L. 
 Peterson, Andrew. 
 Ryan, Peter K. 
 Ridpath, Chas. 
 Rockwell, Geo. A. 
 Redmond, Chas. H. 
 Rees, L. W. 
 Ranch, Frederick A. 
 Richards, H. 
 Stogdale, R. W. 
 Share, John D. 
 Stafford, Grant. 
 Speer, George. 
 Smith, John H. J. 
 Smith, James F. 
 Smith, Morton E. 
 Smith W. P. 
 Smith, S. Ben. 
 Smith, Albert S. 
 Smith, Louis W. 
 Smith, Harry D. 
 Schmidt, Louis. 
 Stover, Samuel C. 
 Stevens, Edwin A. 
 Shaffer, Edward L. 
 Spencer, John C. 
 Singer, Frank. 
 Short, James. 
 Scrogin, N. B. 
 Swartz, Chas. E. 
 Scott, Wm. R. 
 Schermerhorn, Frank L. 
 
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 76 
 
 Shaw, Harry H. 
 Stone, Wm. A. 
 Somer, Mathew. 
 Sargent, S. A. 
 Sheafer, John W. 
 Slayton, Wm. H. 
 Salmon, E. L. 
 Spruance, Clement. 
 Suppes, Christian. 
 Sherman, James B. 
 Sipe, Burney B. 
 Sherwin, E. N. 
 Sondheimer, Samuel. 
 Stone, Henry B. 
 Thomas, Geo. P. 
 Thomas, Theodore H. 
 Taylor, H. C. 
 Taylor, John B. 
 Thrall, Frank G. 
 
 Townsend, Chas. H. 
 Twombly, John C. 
 Taliaferro, James C. 
 Tonesmeier, J. 
 Thompson, Clarence C. 
 Treadway, John. 
 Veak, John E. 
 Wheeler, Albert H. 
 Wellington, Q. J. 
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