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disposal of the Committees of the two Schools ; and in return we are surely entitled to put forward our claim on them , —Give , give . We want intelligible accounts of the expenditure of the funds BO freely provided ; we should like to bo convinced , by tho evidence of clear balance sheets , thafc the largo sums annually subscribed are judiciously laid out . We desire , when canvassing , to be able to

assure our friends thafc monies will , nofc only bo thankfully received , bnfc bo faithfully applied ; and we wish to show a better result to our elections than the disappointment of seventy per cent , of tho candidates whose claims have been admitted , ancl whose parents have , in many cases , answered freely to the call , —Give , give . What has beeu done with £ 27 , 000 ? All wo know ia thafc 210

Boys and 200 Girls aro reported to have been provided for afc an average cost of upwards of sixty-five pounds each for the year ! "A SUBSCRIBER " last week referred in the CHRONICLE to the cost of the children in the Royal Albert Orphan Asylum , being afc tho rate of £ 19 17 s Id per head . The report of a largo Metropolitan School now before me shows the average annual expenditure per head ,

during the past ten years , to have been aboufc £ 31 , including every charge ; admissions may be bought into many institntions at about £ 25 per annum paid iu advance ; but the monies subscribed for Masonic orphans appear to havo been squandered afc the rate of £ 65 per head . Yet , again , the Stewards are hard at work repeating their never ceasing cry , —Give , give .

Possibly the Committees may render accounts which , will make it clear that there has been no extravagance , no waste . They may be able to show that the care of Masons' children necessarily costs more than twice the amount required for the offspring of the popular world who are not Masons . In any case , they possess information which the subscribers require , and it shonld be as much a pleasure to them as it is a duty to , —Give , give . Yours fraternally , H .

LONBON MASONIC CHARITY ASSOCIATION .

To the Editor of the FREEMASON ' S CHRONICLE , DEAR SIR , —Having gathered from the remarks mado in the columns of yonr contemporary that this Association had ceased to exist , my surprise was great to see its promoters actively engaged at the Elections on Saturday and Monday last , a feeling greatly intensified by the result of the Boy ' s Election ; the scrutineers returning

117 votes only as having been recorded for C F . Frost , and but 7 for F . A . Giles . Surely such a termination to its labours is far from commensurate with the trouble and expense the Association must have been put to ; it , in fact , merely illustrates the fable of the mountain in labour . The friends of the two candidates , Frost and Giles , must have felfc themselves considerably disappointed , inasmuch

as virtually the two cases were , to use a Masonic term , blackballed . Ifc might have happened that had less prominence been given to their candidatures a different position would have been assigned to them by the scrutineers on the declaration of the poll . The Craft will . be keenly on tho alert for the publication of the next report of

the Association , as , doubtless , tho Executive will thereby throw light on much which , at the present moment , is shrouded iu obscurity . Youvs fraternally , , A SUBSCRIBER . 16 th April 1879 .

[ We are enabled to state that the members of the London Masonic Charity Association who had conduct of the votes on the occasion of the election on Monday , finding ifc was impossible to secure the election of either of the candidates they had promised to support , made

the best use possible of their proxies by lending them to assist in the election of another child , tbo result in that case being a success . They therefore , are in a position to demonstrate their ability at the next election to carry a case , and we hope iu October next to record they have been successful . —ED . F . C ]

CHARITY ASSOCIATION

To the Editor of THE FREEMASON ' S CHRONICLE . DEAR SIR AND BROTHER , —Will your correspondent , Bro . C . J . Perceval , give the West Yorkshire Masons particulars as to the Editor of the Freemason being " One of the fathers—if not the father of a similar organisation ' in West Yorkshire' to the London

Masonic Charity Association ?" Many brethren in the West Riding do nofc credit the Editor of tho Fredmasori with being the "Father" of any such association . I

have no doubt that whilst he was a Provincial Grand Officer for West Yorkshire Bro . Woodford helped on the cause of charity , but his being the founder of our West Yorkshire organisation is unknown to many of the Craffc in this Province .

Yours fraternally , P . M . W . Yorks Huddersfield , 5 th April 1879 .

A NICE POINT .

To the Editor of the FREEMASON S CHRONICLE , DEAR SIR AND BROTHER , —Would you kindly inform me if , when a Brother Mason resigns voluntarily , for eerfcain reasons , based on substantiated facts , and that ho communicates orally theso reasons to the Lodge duly opened , and afterwards hands over tho commuui-

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cation to the W . M ., the fact of his resignation and the circumstances or reasons leading thereto are to be registered on the minutes P It appears to me evident thafc they should . For if at once or afc some future time that Brother wishes to join another Lodgo ,

according to Constitutions , under heading " Members and their Duty , " Art . 5 , he would be obliged to produce a certificate stating tho circumstances nnder which he left . So if theso aro nofc registered on the miuutes , I fail to see how he is to obtain that certificate , especially if a series of years has elapsed before it is asked , and when

ifc is possible thafc a new Secretary may be there , and in fact many , perhaps even all the members composing the Lodgo may be comparatively new , and would know nothing whatever of tho matter . I ask you this , as Secretary of a Lodge , and would feel greatly obliged if you would give me a reply by return .

I remain , yours respectfully , Sir and Brother , A SEC . AND P . M . [ Ifc is unreasonable to imagine that the Secretary of a Lodge should take a verbatim account of everything that transpires in his

Lodge . Of course , ifc is very awkward to attempt to give an opinion upon such a point ; it is rather for the brethren in question , when the minutes are brought forward for confirmation , to consider whether they are sufficiently explicit or nofc . Afc all events , so far aa we are able to see , no fixed rule can be laid down for a matter of this sort . —ED . F . 0 . ]

Places Worth Knowing About.

PLACES WORTH KNOWING ABOUT .

BY A PERIPATETIC BROTHER . WHERE to dine ia almost as perplexing a matter to the City man as the annual question is to Paterfamalias—Whore shall we go for our holiday ? And the main difficulty lies in the selection from the myriad hotels , restaurants , and eating honaea which abound ou every hand , aud from which are emitted the most savoury odours " daily from twelve to three o'clock , " as the menu says . Demosthenes junior

lamented the plenitude of books , and considered that his learning availed him nothing now that his fellows had an equal chance of gaining information . If we argued on the same grounds , wo might say that because of the legion of inviting luncheon bars aud dining saloons which meet us at every turn it is no good to eat . We think it was Byron who asserted

that" Happiness for man--the hungry siuner Since Eve ate apples—much depends on dinner ;" and there is no doubt a considerable amount of moral force in tho assertion . Seeing , therefore , that meals aro indispensable , aud that the readiest way to find your way into a man ' s good graces is through his digestion , we look around for the most likely and suitable places

we can find . We are not overburdened with this world ' s goods , in theso depressed times , ancl a little money must bo made to go much further than it nsed to do , unless one would fall into the difficulties which beset Mr . Richard Swiveller . In the first place , then , cleanliness is the chief recommendation to a house where diners most do congregate . The best dinner in Christendom is spoilt , by dirty plates

and cutlery , and a slovenliness in the disposition of the various concomitants of the diner ' s use . A clean tidy saloon—with cheerful attendance—into which you can " pop" at stated hours , and be sure of getting good viands and drinks at a moderate tariff , is sure to prove attractive , and the best ; proof of success is when you sea tho samo satisfied faces at the same rendezvous on successive days .

Travelling every day by the South Eastern line to and from Cannon Street , I have noticed with pleasure , as no doubt many of my fellorr . voyageurs have done also , the great improvements which have been made by Bros . Smith and King of the Cannon Tavern , at the corner leading into Walbrook . Nofc long ago I turned into this bar with afriend to transact a business matter : I well remember tha

stuffy tap-xoomy aspect of the place compared , with what ifc is now . Then but one joint was cooked , at mid-day , and it was Hobson ' a choice with the few who frequented the tavern , —more from motives of convenience than preference , —it being near their offices in this parfc of the City . The close atmosphere seemed to condoase divers steaming odours thafc ascended from some subterranean vault , and tho whole

place was stuffy , sticky , and uncomfortable . Now all ia changed ; and that our Bros . Smith and King have been enabled to effect so great a transformation in so abort a time since their occupancy is only another proof of the omnipotency of enterprise and business aptitude . The size of the bar has been doubled , the whole of the serving business being transacted in the central parfc ; whilst around

the rectangular counteta there ia ample space for customers to ait at ease and enjoy comfortably their chop , steak , or more substantial faro . The interior fittings of thia tavern are of the most brilliant and attractive description , the walls being painted in that delicate green which is at all times so grateful to the eye , whilst the cornices and pillars are iiluminated in gold and colours after the most fanciful

and elegant designs . Without ; question this is , as I heard a gentleman remark the other day , " ono cf the prettiest bars in the City of London . " It ia extremely picturesque , without being showy , and the embellishments exemplify exceeding good taste in fcho application of decorative art . Oyer the central counters depend three six-light gaseliers , the framea of whioh are adorned with blue and white

picked out with gold ; and along tho side -walls are bracket lights of similar manufacture . These , when lit at night , give to the room aa aspect of dazzling brilliancy , combined with luxury and comfort . The lights are reflected in a series of large mirrors all round , glinting on gilded pillars and fretwork of Japanese design , setting forth exquisitely pretty and chaste devices , amongst which bouquets