The Grand Treasurership.

nature as to merit a large amount of sympathy and support , and provided an equally worthy brother was not previously in the field we should have been ready to throw

our influence into the scale with him . Still we hope to do what we have undertaken in such a way as to retain the good opinion of both candidates .

The point we last week touched upon as to the advisability of having but one candidate for the office each year stands out prominently at the present time , when the two brethren nominated for the appointment both have strong

and worthy claims on the Craft , so much so that it must be difficult for the ordinary voter , who is not personally accquainted with either , to decide for which candidate he shall record his vote .

There is very little to choose between the records of the two brethren , even though , when placed side by side , as they have been by Bro . Eve ' s Committee , the one may appear of greater dimensions ; the simple fact remains

that two Masons , who have each performed good service for the Order , and have supported its noble Institutions handsomely , stand before the Craft as candidates for the elective office of Grand Treasurer—it is for the brethren

to decide who shall secure it . In order , then , that our readers may hear both sides of the question , and in deference to Bro . Eve , we append a summary of his " Masonic career , " as given in the circular issued

by the Secretary of his Committee . Bro . Eve was initiated in No . 395 , in 1855 , and was installed as its Worshipful Master in 1860 , after serving junior offices . In 1862 he

was installed as Worshipful Master of No . 651 ; the following year he was exalted into Royal Arch Masonry , in the Shakespeare Chapter , and also received the appointment of Prov . Grand Pursuivant of tho Eastern Division

of South Wales . In 1864 he was installed in the Chair of fche Panmure Chapter , and two years later acted as Consecrating Officer of the Aberystwith Lodge , No . 1072 , being about the same time " recommended" to the then

Grand Master of England , the late Earl of Zetland , " for appointment to office in Grand Lodge , " a recommendation which does not appear to have been acted upon , hence Bro . Eve ' s present appeal to the Craft at large . In 1871

he rose to the chair of the Panmure Lodge , No . 723 , and was appointed Senior Warden of the Province of Hampshire and the Isle of Wight , while in 1885 he was installed chief Officer in the Lodge of Honour and Generosity ,

No . 165 , London . As a supporter of the Charities Bro . Eve has done much ; his record shows twenty-five Stewardships on their behalf , dating from 1864 upwards , while

his personal contributions have been such as to qualify him as a Patron of the Benevolent , and a Vice-Patron of the two Educational Institutions .

Before closing our remarks we should like publicl y to express the wish of ourselves and many others that Bro . Eve would retire on the present occasion with the understanding that he be nominated for the election of next

year . By doing so he would gain innumerable friends , and would remove the feeling of regret that many exhibit thafc one or other of the candidates must be rejected . The contest for the office , severe though it may be , will

doubtless be conducted with the utmost good feeling on the part of the candidates , and although the loser must envy his more fortunate rival , undoubtedly he will be ready to tender his congratulations to his brother so soon as the

result becomes known . Let the Committees of each candidate act on similar lines , and they will have no occasion to regret their association wifch the contest of 1887 , yet if once they depart from the lines of friendly rivalry they

will find themselves lowered in the estimation of their brethren , and perhaps despised by the very men on whose behalf they have erred . On this account we regret to see that

some of Bro . Eve ' s supporters are attempting to advance tho candidature of their nominee by questioning the bona fides of his opponent . Let them take warning ere it be too late ; let them remember that a Masonic Election should be conducted on Masonic Principles .

HOLLOWAY ' S PILLS . —Invalids distracted by indigestion and discouraged in their search for its remedy should make a trial of this never-failing medicine . A lady , long a martyr to dyspeptic tortures , writes that Holloway's Pills made her feel as if a burden had been taken off her . Hor spirits , formerly low , have greatly improved ; her capricious appetite has given place to a healthy hunger ; her dull , sick headache has departed , and gradually so marvellous a change has been affected , that she is altogether a new creature , and an-ain fit for her duties . These Pills may be administered with safety to tho most delicate . They never act harshly , nor do they ever induce weakness : they rightly direct deranged , and control excessive action .

Philadelphia "Mother" Question; Bro. Lane's Theory On.

PHILADELPHIA " MOTHER" QUESTION ; BRO . LANE'S THEORY ON .

BY BRO . JACOB NORTON . SINCE 1874 Bro . McCalla , of Philadelphia , and Bro . Hughan , of England , have continued to insist that a Masonic Grand Lodge , or Lodge , was duly warranted for Philadelphia in 1731 , either by the Grand Lodge of England

or by Daniel Coxe . Bro . Lane in his new book , viz ., " Masonic Records , " seems to have adopted a new theory . On page 271 find as follows : —

"THE HOOP , IN WATER STREET , PHILADELPHIA . This is in the Dublin list of 1735 . Warranted for America , but probably warrant never ' used . " For the information of the general reader I must explain that in 1735 was published " Smith ' s Freemasons '

Pocket Companion , " containing a list of about 125 Lodges subordinate to the G . L . of England . In those days Lodges had no names , each line in the Lodge list began with the number of the Lodge , followed by the name of the

publichouse wherein the Lodge used to meet , the days of its meetings , and last , by the date or year of its constitution . One line on the said list differed , however , from the rest . On that line it began with 79 and ended with 1730 , bufc

the intervening space was blank : there was no place of meeting , or days of meetings indicated on the list . Consequently , no one could learn from that list in what part of the world Lodge No . 79 was located . The blanks in

Lodge lists were intended to signify that those Lodges were defunct , but as No . 79 was the first unfortunate Lodge to be blanked on the list , and as no explanation

as to why it was blanked was given in the book , it is therefore no wonder that the blank was a puzzle to some of the owners of the hook .

The said Pocket Companion was reprinted in Dublin in 1735 , the blank following No . 79 doubtless puzzled the Dublin editor . But as he probably heard that a Lodge met at the Hoop Tavern in Water-street , Philadelphia , he

seems to have concluded that the Lodge in Philadelphia ought to go into the empty space on the Lodge list between 79 and 1730 , and so he popped it in accordingly , and gave in his reprinted Lodge list to No . 79 a location in

Waterstreet , Philadelphia . Bro . Hughan , who first discovered the Dublin Pocket Companion , imagining that what was printed in a Lodge list in 1735 must be true , brought his evidence forth

with great exultation . In vain I pointed out that there are blanks after 79 , both in Pine ' s official engraved Lodge list of 1734 and in Rawlinson ' s Lodge list of 1733 , and thafc the evidence of three English compilers of English Lodge

lists is preferable to the Dublin editor , whose very name is unknown . No ! Nothing shook the faith of Brother Hughan about No . 79 having been chartered for Philadelphia . At that time , however , the true origin and history of No . 79 was not ascertainable : but since Bro . Gould ' s " Four

Old Lodges " were published there can remain no doubt thafc No . 79 was born in Highgate , London , about 1730 , and that it lived in England until after 1814 . In short , that the Lodge No . 79 of 1730 never left England at all .

The history of the Highgate Lodge , No . 79 , is well known to Bro . Lane . Hence I am puzzled by Brother Lane ' s seeming inconsistency ; for if , as he admits , No . 79 was during its existence located in England , how can he

believe rhat it was ever chartered for America ? And if such a Lodge was chartered for America what reason has he for supposing that the warrant was never used ? It seems to me that Bro . Lane must have been misled by my

mistaken , persuasive , eloquent friend , Bro . Hughan . O this , however , I am not sure , for whereas Bro . Hughan never admitted that the warrant was not used , Bro . Lane ' s opinion is that the warrant was probably never used .

I must here frankly state thafc I highly appreciate Bro . Lane ' s patience and assiduity . I think that his " Masonic Records " will be very valuable to students of Masonic history . I do nofc , therefore , find fault for the sake of

finding fault , indeed it is because I regard Bro . Lane ' s book as a valuable work , and that it will be quoted in future time as an authority , that I wish to see all misleading errors therein ( if there are any ) corrected by himself . I must now tell Bro . Lane what I know about the origin of Masonry in Philadelphia , and the reasons for