512 HISTORY OF PASADENA. 



well, Chief Councilor; Mrs. Meek, Vice-C; Dr. Fraser, Secretary; Swift, 

 Treasurer ; Mrs. McCIure, Prelate ; and six minor offices. Medical ex- 

 aminers : Dr. J. C. Fraser and Dr. Kate S. Black. Motto: "Fraternity, 

 Aid, Protection." Symbols of the order: Clasped hands, figure 7, seven 

 links, seven-pointed star, seven colors, the Ark, the rainbow, the triangle. 

 Number of members in 1895 are: 16 social and 18 beneficiary — total, 34. 



Pasadena Council No. 17S, Fraternal Aid Association. — Insti- 

 tuted February 7, 1895,. with 41 charter members, and 23 beneficiaries who 

 had already passed the medical examination. It is one of the Fraternity 

 life insurance secret orders. Its first officers were: Past President, V. E. 

 Carson ; President, A. ly. Petrie ; Vice-President, Mrs. L. E. Mason ; Secre- 

 tary, Luther A. Brown; Treasurer, W M. Pennel ; Medical examiner. Dr. 

 F. Grinnell ; Trustees, B. A. Sparks, W. Mason and A. Dougherty ; Cor- 

 respondent, Elizabeth Grinnell. 



Pasadena Tent No. i. Knights of the Mac- 

 cabees. — Instituted February 26, 1889, the first one in 

 California. Among the first members were : J. K. 

 Kelly, J. S. Glasscock, J. W. McEvers, Heman Dyer, 

 J. F. Church. The ofiicers in 1895 ^.re : T. O. Prince, 

 commander ; W. H. Korstian, lieut. commander ; F. E. 

 Burnham, record keeper ; J. W. Eyestone, finance keeper ; W. S. Albaugh, 

 chaplain; etc. [Very little data furnished.] Said to have 150 members. 

 Pasadena Hive No. 6, Eadies of the Maccabees. — Instituted 

 February 26, 1894, by Miss Bina West, official organizer for this State. It 

 is auxiliary to the Knights of Tent No. i. The first officers were : Mary E- 

 Furman, past lady commander ; Euella Conrad, lady commander ; 

 Minnie J. McEachlan, lieut. lady commander ; Kittie A. Prince, record 

 keeper ; Mary L,. Pennis, finance keeper ; Mary E. Shaw, chaplain ; Effie 

 J. Delbridge, .sergeant ; Eulu A. Clator, mistress at arms ; Emma Shaw, 

 sentinel ; Ruth A. Smith, picket ; Bertha E- Plant, Agnes Petrie, Ella E. 

 Mark, banner bearers. Has about 60 members in 1895. 



Fraternal Mystic Circle. — A secret Order bearing this name, and 

 having a life insurance basis, was instituted September 14, 1 891, in the 

 Knights of Pythias hall. There were 25 members, and the following were' 

 the first officers: C. A. Roberts, Worthy Ruler; S. R. Eippincott, Jr., W. 

 Vice-Ruler ; V. E. Carson, Past W. Ruler ; E- E. Barnhart, W. Chaplain ; 

 W. N. Campbell, W. Recorder; Henry Newby, W. Treasurer; W. S. 

 Windham, W. Collector ; P. W. Walker, W. Marshal ; Tilman Hobson, 

 W. Warden; Fred. Wieck, Guard ; F. M. Plischke, Sentry ; R. A. Eiickey, 

 H. H. Hillier and J. J. Blick, Trustees. The working plan of this order 

 did not prove satisfactory to its Pasadena members ; and in time they dis- 

 banded, and all of them who could pass the rigid physical examination 

 required by the " Royal Arcanum " joined it. 



