Roseburg Review

ELEVATOR FOR MASONIC BUILDING.

Secretary of State Earhart, who is a trustee of the Masonic building here, was in the city yesterday making arrangements for placing an Otis elevator in the building. The present elevator is run by an engine in the upper story, which it is found shakes the building, and it is feared will eventually injure it. The hydraulic elevator being always in readiness, and not requiring the attendance of an engineer, will be found much more convenient than the old one.-Oregonian.

The above item will send a thrill of joy to the heart of every mason in Oregon who has or ever will attend the Grand Lodge sessions Our indignation comes from the fact, that once that old antiquated windlass stopped short about 10 feet from the upper landing and about 40 feet from below, and we were pulled out over bars, irons, wire ropes &c. and our clothes were buttonless when we gained the landing. Yes let the old superannuated gas engine failure go where the"woodbine twineth," and Brother R. P. Earhart will have more than a thousand men to "rise up and call him blessed". The only mean thing I ever knew Congressman Hermann to do was to make a speech in favor of that-ah yes we pause for the invective of a Shakespeare. When we come to our annual reunion next June, some of us who are mere floating zephyrs, will be happy beyond measure. Brother Earhart, long may you wave. Farewell to the nuisance. Requiescat in pace.