Evening Star Newspaper, October 1, 1927, Page 5

OCTOBER 1, 1927 TALL CEDARS HOLD CEREMONIAL HERE Several Thousand Parade Up Avenue Prior to Initia- tion at Willard. To the tunes rendered by a one- hundred-piece band, drum and fife corps, several thousand members of the Tall Cedars of Lebanon, attired in civilian clothes or gayly colored uni- forms, paraded up Pennsylvania ave- nue and a ceremonial in the Willard Hotel last night, incident to the first annual gathering of the seventeenth district, Tall Cedars. The district in- cludes Maryland, West Virginia and the District of Columbia. The affair was under the auspices of Capitol Forest, No. 104, of this city, and more than fifty new members swere initiated at the ceremony in the WWillard Hotel following the parade. Starting at the Peace Monument at % o'clock, the parade, headed by su- preme officers and district repre- sentatives, swung up Pennsylvania avenue to Fifteenth street, north to F street and east to the F street en- trance of the Willard Hotel. With traffic halted on F between Four- teenth and Fifteenth streets, the Royal Ranger Drill Team from Har- risburg, Pa. went through a series of intricate drills before a cheering throng. Reeves Makes Address. Capitol Forest, No. 104, the local body, headed by Grand Tall Cedar Alvah W. Patterson, officers and mem bers of the executive committee, fol- Jowed the supreme officers and Dis-1 | trict representatives in the line of | B march. Next came Baltimore Forest, No. 45, led by officers, past presidents. and including a band, rangers, fife and | drum corps, together with more than 500 members. Hagerstown Forest, No. 95, with its officers, drum and bugle corps, followed. Last were the officers of Harrisburg, Pa.. followed by their drill team. In the ceremony in the Willard Hotel, following the parade and drill, ‘Supreme Tall Cedar Edmund H. Reeves and Past Supreme Tall Cedars were made honorary members of the Jocal Forest. Mr. Reeves responded with a brief address. Grand Master of Masons Gratz E. Dunkum, a member of the Tall Cedars, presented Alvah W. Patterson, Grand Tall Cedar of Washington, with a gift in token of appreciation for his work in connection with the order in this city. Besides Mr. Reeves, others high in the organization attending the cere- mony were: Junior Deputy Supreme Tall Cedar H. Franklin Brossman, Reading, Pa.; Supreme Scribe John M. Wright, Mrenton, N. J.; Supreme Treasurer Au- gust Roemmele, Newark, N. J.; Su- prenie Preceptor Louis G. Groh, Phila- delphia; Past Supreme Tall Cedar ‘Archey C. New, Baltimore; Past Su- ppreme Tall Cedar J. Edgar Grater, Royersford, Pa.; Supreme Representa- tives Ralph E. Merrell, Bridgeton, N. J.; Samuel A. Schreckengaust, Harris- burg, and George H. Hensler, Balti- more; Grand Tall Cedars J. Ralph Fiery, Hagerstown; Preston Wright, Baltimore, and Oscar J. Bogen, Har- risburg, and Past Grand Tall Cedar Charles A. Jaquette of Capitol Forest, No. 104, Washington. Many Are Initiated. Those initiated at the ceremony in- cluded: Willlam Patterson Ames, Elmer H. Bailey, Robert S. Boyd, William H. Briscoe, Clarence Leroy Bullion, A. Thomas Burriss, Clarence E. Bush, Roy Hubert Dale, Arba M. Earp, Frank W. Evans, Frank Richard Elliott, William A. Folger, George Mortimer Fox, Walter B. Fry, Paul 8. Gault, Julius B. Gay, Arthur R. iGilchrist, Lynn L. Gilchrist, Ernest Paul Harrison, Walter Holder, Jar- rett G. Huddleston, R. E. Johanson, John George Gleun, Theodon C. Lewis, Willard S. Lines, George W. Madert, Ernest H. Miller, Herndon Morsell, Joseph Paravati, Ernest O. Paland, John Westley Peters, Ed- ward J. Peoples, Arthur G. Peterson, Charles Henry Phillips, James Rob- ertson, Joseph N. Romm, George Amna Rucker, John K. Russell, Win- fleld Scott, the commissioner of pen- sions; James Clinton Shanholtzer, Ernest M. Seaman, Sydney A. Ship- man, Almus Reed Speare, Percy P. Sutton, Frank P. Tscharrer, William Franklin Warner, William Weis- backer, George Calvin Wells, Robert Snead William, Joseph M. Wose, Jacob H. White, Rolland C. Young and C. M. Zepp. Earlier in the day the supreme offi- cers were received by President Cool- idge at the White House, after which they visited the tomb of the Unknown Soldier, where a wreath was placed by Supreme Tall Cedar Reeves. The Lee Mansion and other places of in- ferest were included in a tour yester- day afternoon. i A e e A P A R A CLINIC PLANS OUTLINED. i3 The medical clinic of the District Health Department will vacate its present quarters at 409 Fifteenth street before October 15, in order that , / the building can be razed to make way for the new Department of Com-| s 7 merce Building, it was announced yes- s terday afternoon by Commissioner| ¢ B Proctor L. 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