The professional talent enil)loyc(l has been of the very best, and the anuiteur entertainments have always been welcomed with crowded audiences and have jiroduced an exalted opinion of the dramatic talent of some of the citizens.

The Ionic Lodge was the first Lodge of Free and Accei)ted Masons in White Plains. It was organized under a dispensation from the Grand Lodge of the State of New York, and held its first meeting I'^ebruary 1, 1858. It never held but three or four meetings. John P. Jenkins was BLuster ; Elijah Guion, Senior Warden ; and Lewis C. Piatt, Junior Warden.

White Plains Lodge, No. 473, received its charter some time later, and held its first meeting Ajjril 8, 185!). Hiram P. Rowell was its first .Master ; John F. Jenkins, Senior Warden ; John P. Jenkins, Junior Warden; John W. Mills, Treasurer; Daniel H. Little, Secretary; Francis Dauchy, Senior Deacon; William S. Cameron, Junior Deacon; and William llahlen, Tiler.

The first place of meeting was in Moger's Hall, on Railroad Avenue, near Broadway.

The lodge, in 1884, contained fifty members. Meetings arc now held in a hall, which has been fitted up at an expense of about three thousand dollars, on the northeast corner of Railroad and Lexington Avenues.

The present officers are (ieorge W. Brown, Master; John Birch, Senior Warden ; William Nehr, Junior Warden; Francis H. Hessels, Secretary ; Richard Manney, Treasurer; Leonard O. Roselle, Senior Deacon ; James H. Howes, Junior Deacon ; J. F. Loy, Senior Master of Ceremonies; Aaron Radick, Junior iMaster of Ceremonies; J. S. I'ye, Tiler; Trustees, John M. Rowell, E. B. Long and D. Morgan Underbill.