His death occurred on the 5th of January, 1900, in the sixtyfifth year of his age.

Upon the occasion of the Centennial Memorial Service of the death of Washington, held on the 31st day of December, 1899, by the lodges in the city of Rochester, in the Brick Church of that city, he delivered an address of exceeding force and brilliancy. His address was an eloquent plea in behalf of the Christian side of Washington's life as exemplified in his devotion to the Church. No one who listened to that address and who felt its complete grasp of the subject could possibly foresee that before another Sunday should have ushered in its time of rest and peace the speaker would be numbered among the dead.

BROTHER DOTY was a man of ability, integrity, and honor. His intellectual ability was only equaled by his moral worth. He was greatly beloved, not only within the limits of his own denomination, but in the wider circle without. His life was one of purity, reality, truth, and usefulness, and was a daily illustration before the world of the pure and benevolent principles of our Fraternity, and his last public utterance was to the Craft, and of that great Craftsman, George Washington.

R.. W.. RICHARD H. HUNTINGTON, Past D.D.G. M., Thirteenth Masonic District.

R... W... RICHARD H. HUNTINGTON died at Watertown, N. Y., on the 8th day of February, 1900, aged sixty-five years. He was a member of Rising Sun Lodge, No. 234, of Adams, and became its Master in 1864, serving several terms in that office. He was subsequently appointed and served acceptably as the District Deputy Grand Master of the Thirteenth Masonic District. In 1873 he was appointed to office in the Grand Chapter of Royal Arch Masons of this State, reaching by regular gradation the office of High Priest in 1886.

BROTHER HUNTINGTON was a man of rare ability and absolute integrity. In disposition he was kind and gentle. In his business career he discharged with exceeding fidelity the many duties committed to his care.

His life was full of kindly deeds, and he has left an example of upright manhood worthy of emulation.

W.. GEORGE SKINNER, Grand Pursuivant.

It seems almost impossible to realize that BROTHER GEORGE SKINNER is no more. The memory of the oldest attendant upon the sessions of the Grand Lodge to-day does not extend to the time when BROTHER SKINNER first occupied the position of Grand Pursuivant in this Grand Body. His death on the 14th of February, 1900, severed the last link in the chain which bound the present to the past of a half a century ago.

BROTHER SKINNER was initiated in Clinton Lodge, No. 47, of Massillon, Ohio, in February, 1844, and came to New York

in July of the same year. Affiliating with Manhattan Lodge,

No. 62, in 1846, he was elected Master in 1849, and served as such until 1850. The following year he dimitted and became a charter member and the first Master of Ocean Lodge, No. 156. At the formation of Kane Lodge, No. 454, in the spring of 1858, he became one of its charter members, and continued in that membership until the time of his death. In June, 1849, he was elected Grand Pursuivant, and was again elected to that position in 1851. Again, in 1883, he was appointed Grand Pursuivant, and filled the office until the finger of death pointed for his footsteps the way from this life to the life beyond.

BROTHER SKINNER was a man quiet in deportment, exemplary in life, and conscientious in the discharge of every duty.

The funeral services over his remains were held in the First Collegiate Reformed Church of this city, on Saturday, the 17th day of February, 1900, under the auspices of Kane Lodge, No. 454, which body was largely represented. A special committee, consisting of M.. W.. JOHN STEWART, Past Grand Master; R.. W.. GEORGE W. WHITE, Grand Treasurer; R.. W.. EDWARD M. L. EHLERS, Grand Secretary; and R... W.. ELBERT CRANDALL, Chief Commissioner of Appeals, represented the Grand Lodge upon that occasion.

REV. DR. ELMENDORF, and the R.. W.. JOHN LAUBENHEIMER, Grand Chaplain, officiated on behalf of the church, the R.. W.. GEORGE R. VAN DE WATER, D.D., Grand Chaplain, pronouncing the benediction at the conclusion of the Masonic. service.

R... W.. JEROME BUCK, Past District Deputy Grand Master.

The R.. W.. JEROME BUCK, Past District Deputy Grand Master, departed this life in the city of New York on the 21st day of February, 1900.

BROTHER BUCK was born in the city of Philadelphia, on the 18th day of May, 1837. He was graduated from the University of Pennsylvania, and studied law in his native city, being admitted to the bar in 1856. Several years thereafter he came to this city, and since that time has made his home here. His Masonic. career began in St. Nicholas Lodge, No. 321, in which he was raised in 1860. He was District Deputy Grand Master of the First Masonic District, then composed of lodges in New York City, which held their meetings north of Fourteenth Street, in 1867, 1868, and 1869. He was the representative of the Grand Lodge of Pennsylvania near the Grand Lodge of New York ten years, and held the office of President of the Masonic Veterans of this city for the period of two years.

BROTHER BUCK was a prolific writer of prose and poetry, and was a frequent contributor to many periodicals. He was also well known as a fluent and entertaining after-dinner speaker. He will be remembered as a Mason of the old school, fervent in his devotion to the Institution, active in his efforts to promote its welfare, and eloquent in his advocacy of its principles.

R.. W.. NORMAN Z. BAKER, Past D.D.G.M., Thirteenth Masonic District.

R.. W.. NORMAN Z. BAKER was born at North Granville, in the year 1836, and died suddenly, from heart failure, at Boston, Mass., on the 2d of March, 1900. In 1859 he became a resident at Whitehall and assumed the position of General Manager and Freight Agent in the employ of the Champlain Transportation Company. From that time until his death he was prominently and actively engaged in the business enterprise of that village, where his genial disposition and frank, honest nature secured him many friends.

BROTHER BAKER was initiated in Phoenix Lodge, No. 96, on the 3d day of January, passed the 24th of January, and raised the 31st of January, 1860. He was Junior Warden in 1864, and

Master of the Lodge from 1866 to 1872, inclusive.

He was

appointed District Deputy Grand Master in 1872, and held that office two years. He was Secretary of the Lodge from 1880 to 1888. He served as Village Trustee in 1874, and Village President in 1875.

The

BROTHER BAKER was а man of extraordinary executive ability and marked social tendencies. He possessed a suavity of manner that not only won friends, but retained them. A zealous student, he mastered that which he sought to acquire. It may be truthfully said of him that he was a leader of men. Grand Master remembers the intelligent activity and zeal displayed by this brother in his participation in the ceremonies connected with the laying of the corner stone of the new Armory at Whitehall on the 22d of July last. In his sphere of activity BROTHER BAKER has left a record of which any man would be very proud. That he was held in the highest esteem is evidenced by the manner in which Whitehall honors his memory.

R.. W.. THOMAS R. HOSSIE, Past D.D.G. M., Twenty-third Masonic District.

The R.. W.. THOMAS R. HOSSIE died at Gouverneur, on the 14th day of April, 1900. He was Master of Gouverneur Lodge, No. 217, during the years 1888, 1889, 1897, and 1898, and served most acceptably as District Deputy Grand Master of the Twentythird Masonic District in 1898, 1899. He was a physician of marked ability, and was conspicuously successful in the treatment of fevers. It is said he never lost a case of typhoid. He was a devoted Craftsman, and labored unselfishly and persistently to advance the standard of Freemasonry.

The R.. W.. JOHN WEBB, JR., Past Grand High Priest of Royal Arch Masons, in a letter written April 19th, pays this touching tribute to the man and brother who was his intimate friend:

"BROTHER HOSSIE's death was a blow felt by our entire community. Never in my life have I seen such general interest. in a man during his life and so spontaneous an expression of grief at his death as that manifested towards DR. HOSSIE. His friends were in every class of the community, but among the poor his death will be most felt. For them he labored incessantly,

giving freely of his time and means. I was proud of the manproud to be one of his friends; proud of his life; and doubly proud and glad at the great outpouring of our people to do him honor when dead. Such demonstrations money cannot buy, and it is only when a man's life has come very near the hearts and lives of his fellows that they are given or are possible."

NECROLOGY.

"There is a beautiful custom that in public worship has had the sanction of centuries among all those of the faiths represented in the constituency of Freemasonry, which it would be well to inaugurate in the proceedings of our Grand Lodge. The ancient Diptych is the roll of the honored dead. Both in Jewish synagogue and Christian sanctuary it has been a timehonored custom to have this roll read, and the congregation. would rise in reverence and respect while the names of the dear ones were recounted."-Report of Committee on Deceased Brethren, Proceedings 1894, page 137.

And now, my brethren, let us adopt the suggestion so acceptably offered, and, rising in our places, stand at respectful attention while the Grand Secretary solemnly calls the roll of the honored and fraternal dead.

M... W... KARL PAUL, Past Grand Master Eclectic Union, died at Frankfort-on-the-Main, June 2, 1899. R. W.. GEORGE H. RAYMOND, Grand Lecturer Emeritus, died at New York, June 8, 1899.

R.. W.. CHARLES SACKREUTER, Representative of the Grand Lodge Eclectic Union, died at New York, June 19, 1899.

M... W.. JOHN J. SUMPTER, Past Grand Master of Arkansas, died at Hot Springs, June 22, 1899.

R.. W.. NORMAN GURNEY, Past District Deputy Grand Master Thirteenth Masonic District, died at Sackett's Harbor, July 2, 1899.

R.. W.. ALEXANDER T. GOODWIN, Past District Deputy Grand Master Seventeenth Masonic District, died at Larchmont, July 3, 1899.