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Mark Masonry.
MARK MASONRY .
TEMPLE MARK LODGE , No . 173 . AT the installation meeting of this Lodge , held at tho Green Dragon , Stepney , on Monday , 20 th inst ., Bro . Wm . Hawes was
duly installed as W . M . of the Lodge . The ceremony was ably performed by Bro . G . Ward Verry P . G . Sword Bearor . Ono brother was advanced to the degree of M . M . M . The usual banquet followed , aud the brethren enjoyed a thoroughly happy meeting .
HIGH CROSS MARK LODGE , No . 284 . rPUIS prosperous Lodge held its regular meeting at tho Great J . Eastern Hotel , Liverpool-atreet , on Wednesday , the 15 th inst . Tbe W . M . Captain C . J . Knightley Provincial Grand Overseer worked
tbo ceremony of advancement in a most satisfactory manner . Announcement was made that the Right Worshipful the Provincial Grand Master would honour the Lodge with a visit on the 22 nd May . Work being ended , the brethren adjourned to the banquet , where the usual Loyal and Masonio toasts were given .
Grand Mark Masters' Lodgo of Instruction . —The annual festival was held at Mark Masons' Hall , on Tuesday in last week . The ohair was taken by Bro . Vincent , whose work in this degree is the standard set up by Grand Mark Lodge for all other Lodges to follow . It is needless , therefore , to say how carefully the work was done . The whole of tbe musio of this degree ( which is
essentially a musical one ) was ably rendered on tho organ by Bro . F . Osmond Carr , of the Isaac Newton University Lodge , No . 112 , Cam . bridge , who for his services on this ocoasiou was elected an honorary member of the Lodge . The interesting and instructive lecture in the degree was giveu by the S . W . Ten new members were elected , who
nearly all hailed from the Royal Savoy Mark Lodge , No . 355 . The usual banquet followed , presided over by Bro . Thomas Fenn , President of the Board of General Purposes and Past Grand Warden About fifty brethren sat down to tho banquet , whioh was a very enjoyable one .
Kintoro Lodge of Instruction . —At the usual fortnightly meeting , on Tuesday last , at the Stirling Castlo Hotel , Camberwell , a very good attendance of brethren enabled the W . M . Bro . Marshall to work the ceremony of advancement throughout . Bro . Voysey , of the Southwark Mark Lodge , No . 22 , is the Preceptor , and all Mark Masons living in the southern suburbs of London will always derive benefit from visiting this Lodge of Instruction , on tho first and third Tuesdays in each month .
Reviews.
REVIEWS .
AU Books intended for Koview should bo addressed to the Editor of The "Freemason ' s Chronicle , Belvidere Works , Hermes Hill , Pentonville , London , N . The Freemasons' Calendar and Directory for the Province of Leicestershire and Rutland , 1891 . Compiled by Bro . B . A . SMITH , M . A ., LL . M ., P . M . 523 , Past Prov . Graud Junior Warden .
i OR the nineteenth year the Province of Leicestershire and Rutland has issued its Masonio Calendar , whioh will meet all the requirements of the brethren . Now demands on the available space have again necessitated a change in the Calendar . In order to admit of tho insertion of fresh matter , of ^ ocal interest , without rendering the book too bulky for the pocket , it has been desirable to eliminate all
that does not directly concern the district . The roll of Lodges , & c , in the adjoining Provinces haa been omitted ; in the space thus provided will be found a list of Provincial Grand . Officers from 1886 " , in continuation of the list contained in the last edition ; of the byelaws of the Province , and a list of the meetings of Provincial Grand Lodge held since that date . The table of the days of meeting of Lodges , & c , whioh was dropped last year , has been restored . Bro .
Smith , the compiler , acknowledges with grateful thanks the assistance be has received from Bro . W . Kelly , F . S . A ., Past Prov . Grand Master , the Deputy Prov . Grand Master , the Prov . Grand Secretary , and the many brethren who have supplied information for the work . A capital portrait of tho late Bro . Lt .-Col . W . Millican , J . P ., F . R . I . B . A ., P . P . G . Supt . of Works Leicestershire and Rutland , forma the frontispiece . Tho Calendar is carefully printed and is neatly got up .
The Right Hon . Sir Michael Hicks-Beach , as Provincial 'G-rrapd Master of Gloucestershire , has fixed Tuesday , in Whitsun week for the holding of the Provincial Grand Lodge , k the Town Hall , at Dnrsley .
^ Bro . Alfred Spencer , P . M . of the Abbey Mailing Lod ^ e , Jaa again been selected to preside over it for the ensuirto-¦ year . Bro . Spencer is the Provincial Grand Secretary •ot Kent , and Past Grand Sword Bearer of England . He Js a most ardent Mason , and the appointment will be a very popular one .
Bro. Henry Berkowitz.
BRO . HENRY BERKOWITZ .
THK Jewish Chronicle of the 10 th inst . has the following in reference to this well-known brother : — The Rev . Bro . Henry Berkowitz was born in Warsaw , aud came to London when he was about twenty-five years of age . Attracting the attention of the late Dr . Adler soon after his arrival , Bro . BerkowiU became a member of the Rav ' a household , and assisted in teaching
some of tho younger children . Although filling a somewhat humble position , he gained the friendship of Dr . Adler , whioh ho retained until it , waa dissolved by death . Ambitious to give fair and full play to his talents , Bro . Berkowitz started a school at Gravesend , and by his indomitable energy and zeal gradually obtained for it an established position and a world-wide reputation . Surrounded almost
entirely by non-Jows , he won the esteem and affection of bis neighhours by his high character as a thoroughly tolerant man of abounding charity , and a consistent and stedfastly-observant Jew . Over thirty years he maintained the only synagogue of the district entirely at his own expense . The neatly titted-up synagogue attached to Tivoli House was consecrated by Dr . Adler , and every worshipper , whether
poor or rich , was cordially welcomed . His energy waa resistless , and he overcame difficulties under whioh men of less persistence would have succumbed , never to rise again . Steadily winning favour and goodwill , he made friends among all olasaea and creeds iu Gravesend . Local honour was paid to him in abundance , until the climax was reached in November 1887 , when with unusually
unanimous approval he was elected Mayor of Gravesend . The town waa gaily decorated , the church bells rang merry peals , and many friendly mottoes were displayed , tho most pleasing being that dis . played at the Literary Institute : "God bless our Jewish Mayor , whose noble acts and good deeds all Christiana might well strive to imitate . " A characteristic incident attracted much kindly feeling
at the inaugural banquet . By special desire of the newly-installed Mayor , and by the courtesy of the Aldermen , the place of honour was given to Mr . Sydney Poland , the Mayor ' s first pupil , and hia confident and staunch friend for forty yeara . In proposing the health of the Mayor on that occasion , Sir William Fletcher said , among other kindly observations , that , " whilst it was well known that all
the poor of his own religion who passed through that town were relieved and assisted solely by him , and they could not during the long period of forty years trace a single instance of any Jew having sought relief from their pariah—of few men could such continuous and unostentatious charity be told aa that—but whilst the reverend gentleman looked after the spiritual and temporal welfare of hia own
people , he took equal care of his Christian brethren . The Church , the Chapel , the Sunday School , tho Waterside Mission , had all largely benefited by hia kindly hand . The soup-kitchens were entirely of hia creation . The old people in the almshouses , the hospitals , the dispensary , tho poor in the workhouse—in faot , every kind of suffering humanity , were largely indebted to him . " The discharge of local
public duties , combined with increasing years , caused Bro . Berkowitz to resign , during the last few years , much of the active duties of tho School to hia eldest sou and three of his daughters . Ilia wife , predeceased him in 1885 , and he leaves a large family . At the funeral on Wednesday there wero general manifestations of mourning throughout tho town . Flaga were half-masted on all the
public buildings , blinds were drawn in all the houses along the route to the railway station , a military guard of honour surrounding the hearse . All the public bodies and institutions were represented , the Mayor wearing his chain of office , and preceded by the Mace-Bearer , Aldermen , Town Councillors , Superintendents of Police , with a detachment of the men , Representatives of the Local Freemasous ,
Foresters , Odd Follows , all the local charities and literary institutions , the Working Men ' s Club , a detachment of the Boys' Homo , & c . The various religious denominations were also represented , the Protestants by tho Vicar of Holy Trinity , the Rev . F . Tomkins , and the Catholics by the Rov . Father Wyatt . Many floral offerings were sent to be placed on the coffin : one bore the touching inscription ,
" To our revered and dearly-beloved Principal , from his broken-hearted pupils . " Special arrangements were made by the South-Eastern Railway Company for the conveyance of the body to London ; a portion of the station being reserved for the concourse of mourners . Ou arriving at Cannon Street Station , the body was conveyed to West Ham Cemetery , where the burial service waa read by the Rev . M . Hast , First Reader of the Great Synagogue .
On Monday morning the Mayor of Gravesend on taking his seat at the Police Court , referred in sympathetic words to tho loss tho town had sustained by the death of Bro . Berkowitz , whose kindness of manner , largeness of heart , and general philanthropy , tho Mayor said , had endeared him to all classes . At local meetings during the week reference was made to the death , and votes of sympathy and condolence with the family wero passed .
The funeral of Bro . Benjamin Brokenshar , C . E ., in his eighty , second year , who died at Lostwithiel , on 4 th April , took place on the 9 th inst . The deceased was respected and beloved by every one with whom he came in contact , especially of the Masonic Fraternity . He was one of the oldest Masons in the Province , having been initiated into the Peace and Harmony Lodge , of St . Austell , on tho 3 rd July
1844 , and filled the W . M . ' s chair in that Lodgo for three years , and was principal agent in resuscitating the Lodge when it was at a very low ebb . He also filled the office of Secretary and Treasurer in tho same Lodge for several years , and was presented with a P . M ' s jewel for his very efficient services . He also obtained the P . G . S . D . collar in 1862 . Ou his removing to Lostwithiel he became a member of Lodge St . Matthew , now Lodge Restormel .
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FUNERALS properly carried out and personally attended , in London and Country , by Bro . G . A . HUTTON , 17 Newcastle Street , Strand , W . C . Monuments erected . Valuations made .
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Mark Masonry.
MARK MASONRY .
TEMPLE MARK LODGE , No . 173 . AT the installation meeting of this Lodge , held at tho Green Dragon , Stepney , on Monday , 20 th inst ., Bro . Wm . Hawes was
duly installed as W . M . of the Lodge . The ceremony was ably performed by Bro . G . Ward Verry P . G . Sword Bearor . Ono brother was advanced to the degree of M . M . M . The usual banquet followed , aud the brethren enjoyed a thoroughly happy meeting .
HIGH CROSS MARK LODGE , No . 284 . rPUIS prosperous Lodge held its regular meeting at tho Great J . Eastern Hotel , Liverpool-atreet , on Wednesday , the 15 th inst . Tbe W . M . Captain C . J . Knightley Provincial Grand Overseer worked
tbo ceremony of advancement in a most satisfactory manner . Announcement was made that the Right Worshipful the Provincial Grand Master would honour the Lodge with a visit on the 22 nd May . Work being ended , the brethren adjourned to the banquet , where the usual Loyal and Masonio toasts were given .
Grand Mark Masters' Lodgo of Instruction . —The annual festival was held at Mark Masons' Hall , on Tuesday in last week . The ohair was taken by Bro . Vincent , whose work in this degree is the standard set up by Grand Mark Lodge for all other Lodges to follow . It is needless , therefore , to say how carefully the work was done . The whole of tbe musio of this degree ( which is
essentially a musical one ) was ably rendered on tho organ by Bro . F . Osmond Carr , of the Isaac Newton University Lodge , No . 112 , Cam . bridge , who for his services on this ocoasiou was elected an honorary member of the Lodge . The interesting and instructive lecture in the degree was giveu by the S . W . Ten new members were elected , who
nearly all hailed from the Royal Savoy Mark Lodge , No . 355 . The usual banquet followed , presided over by Bro . Thomas Fenn , President of the Board of General Purposes and Past Grand Warden About fifty brethren sat down to tho banquet , whioh was a very enjoyable one .
Kintoro Lodge of Instruction . —At the usual fortnightly meeting , on Tuesday last , at the Stirling Castlo Hotel , Camberwell , a very good attendance of brethren enabled the W . M . Bro . Marshall to work the ceremony of advancement throughout . Bro . Voysey , of the Southwark Mark Lodge , No . 22 , is the Preceptor , and all Mark Masons living in the southern suburbs of London will always derive benefit from visiting this Lodge of Instruction , on tho first and third Tuesdays in each month .
Reviews.
REVIEWS .
AU Books intended for Koview should bo addressed to the Editor of The "Freemason ' s Chronicle , Belvidere Works , Hermes Hill , Pentonville , London , N . The Freemasons' Calendar and Directory for the Province of Leicestershire and Rutland , 1891 . Compiled by Bro . B . A . SMITH , M . A ., LL . M ., P . M . 523 , Past Prov . Graud Junior Warden .
i OR the nineteenth year the Province of Leicestershire and Rutland has issued its Masonio Calendar , whioh will meet all the requirements of the brethren . Now demands on the available space have again necessitated a change in the Calendar . In order to admit of tho insertion of fresh matter , of ^ ocal interest , without rendering the book too bulky for the pocket , it has been desirable to eliminate all
that does not directly concern the district . The roll of Lodges , & c , in the adjoining Provinces haa been omitted ; in the space thus provided will be found a list of Provincial Grand . Officers from 1886 " , in continuation of the list contained in the last edition ; of the byelaws of the Province , and a list of the meetings of Provincial Grand Lodge held since that date . The table of the days of meeting of Lodges , & c , whioh was dropped last year , has been restored . Bro .
Smith , the compiler , acknowledges with grateful thanks the assistance be has received from Bro . W . Kelly , F . S . A ., Past Prov . Grand Master , the Deputy Prov . Grand Master , the Prov . Grand Secretary , and the many brethren who have supplied information for the work . A capital portrait of tho late Bro . Lt .-Col . W . Millican , J . P ., F . R . I . B . A ., P . P . G . Supt . of Works Leicestershire and Rutland , forma the frontispiece . Tho Calendar is carefully printed and is neatly got up .
The Right Hon . Sir Michael Hicks-Beach , as Provincial 'G-rrapd Master of Gloucestershire , has fixed Tuesday , in Whitsun week for the holding of the Provincial Grand Lodge , k the Town Hall , at Dnrsley .
^ Bro . Alfred Spencer , P . M . of the Abbey Mailing Lod ^ e , Jaa again been selected to preside over it for the ensuirto-¦ year . Bro . Spencer is the Provincial Grand Secretary •ot Kent , and Past Grand Sword Bearer of England . He Js a most ardent Mason , and the appointment will be a very popular one .
Bro. Henry Berkowitz.
BRO . HENRY BERKOWITZ .
THK Jewish Chronicle of the 10 th inst . has the following in reference to this well-known brother : — The Rev . Bro . Henry Berkowitz was born in Warsaw , aud came to London when he was about twenty-five years of age . Attracting the attention of the late Dr . Adler soon after his arrival , Bro . BerkowiU became a member of the Rav ' a household , and assisted in teaching
some of tho younger children . Although filling a somewhat humble position , he gained the friendship of Dr . Adler , whioh ho retained until it , waa dissolved by death . Ambitious to give fair and full play to his talents , Bro . Berkowitz started a school at Gravesend , and by his indomitable energy and zeal gradually obtained for it an established position and a world-wide reputation . Surrounded almost
entirely by non-Jows , he won the esteem and affection of bis neighhours by his high character as a thoroughly tolerant man of abounding charity , and a consistent and stedfastly-observant Jew . Over thirty years he maintained the only synagogue of the district entirely at his own expense . The neatly titted-up synagogue attached to Tivoli House was consecrated by Dr . Adler , and every worshipper , whether
poor or rich , was cordially welcomed . His energy waa resistless , and he overcame difficulties under whioh men of less persistence would have succumbed , never to rise again . Steadily winning favour and goodwill , he made friends among all olasaea and creeds iu Gravesend . Local honour was paid to him in abundance , until the climax was reached in November 1887 , when with unusually
unanimous approval he was elected Mayor of Gravesend . The town waa gaily decorated , the church bells rang merry peals , and many friendly mottoes were displayed , tho most pleasing being that dis . played at the Literary Institute : "God bless our Jewish Mayor , whose noble acts and good deeds all Christiana might well strive to imitate . " A characteristic incident attracted much kindly feeling
at the inaugural banquet . By special desire of the newly-installed Mayor , and by the courtesy of the Aldermen , the place of honour was given to Mr . Sydney Poland , the Mayor ' s first pupil , and hia confident and staunch friend for forty yeara . In proposing the health of the Mayor on that occasion , Sir William Fletcher said , among other kindly observations , that , " whilst it was well known that all
the poor of his own religion who passed through that town were relieved and assisted solely by him , and they could not during the long period of forty years trace a single instance of any Jew having sought relief from their pariah—of few men could such continuous and unostentatious charity be told aa that—but whilst the reverend gentleman looked after the spiritual and temporal welfare of hia own
people , he took equal care of his Christian brethren . The Church , the Chapel , the Sunday School , tho Waterside Mission , had all largely benefited by hia kindly hand . The soup-kitchens were entirely of hia creation . The old people in the almshouses , the hospitals , the dispensary , tho poor in the workhouse—in faot , every kind of suffering humanity , were largely indebted to him . " The discharge of local
public duties , combined with increasing years , caused Bro . Berkowitz to resign , during the last few years , much of the active duties of tho School to hia eldest sou and three of his daughters . Ilia wife , predeceased him in 1885 , and he leaves a large family . At the funeral on Wednesday there wero general manifestations of mourning throughout tho town . Flaga were half-masted on all the
public buildings , blinds were drawn in all the houses along the route to the railway station , a military guard of honour surrounding the hearse . All the public bodies and institutions were represented , the Mayor wearing his chain of office , and preceded by the Mace-Bearer , Aldermen , Town Councillors , Superintendents of Police , with a detachment of the men , Representatives of the Local Freemasous ,
Foresters , Odd Follows , all the local charities and literary institutions , the Working Men ' s Club , a detachment of the Boys' Homo , & c . The various religious denominations were also represented , the Protestants by tho Vicar of Holy Trinity , the Rev . F . Tomkins , and the Catholics by the Rov . Father Wyatt . Many floral offerings were sent to be placed on the coffin : one bore the touching inscription ,
" To our revered and dearly-beloved Principal , from his broken-hearted pupils . " Special arrangements were made by the South-Eastern Railway Company for the conveyance of the body to London ; a portion of the station being reserved for the concourse of mourners . Ou arriving at Cannon Street Station , the body was conveyed to West Ham Cemetery , where the burial service waa read by the Rev . M . Hast , First Reader of the Great Synagogue .
On Monday morning the Mayor of Gravesend on taking his seat at the Police Court , referred in sympathetic words to tho loss tho town had sustained by the death of Bro . Berkowitz , whose kindness of manner , largeness of heart , and general philanthropy , tho Mayor said , had endeared him to all classes . At local meetings during the week reference was made to the death , and votes of sympathy and condolence with the family wero passed .
The funeral of Bro . Benjamin Brokenshar , C . E ., in his eighty , second year , who died at Lostwithiel , on 4 th April , took place on the 9 th inst . The deceased was respected and beloved by every one with whom he came in contact , especially of the Masonic Fraternity . He was one of the oldest Masons in the Province , having been initiated into the Peace and Harmony Lodge , of St . Austell , on tho 3 rd July
1844 , and filled the W . M . ' s chair in that Lodgo for three years , and was principal agent in resuscitating the Lodge when it was at a very low ebb . He also filled the office of Secretary and Treasurer in tho same Lodge for several years , and was presented with a P . M ' s jewel for his very efficient services . He also obtained the P . G . S . D . collar in 1862 . Ou his removing to Lostwithiel he became a member of Lodge St . Matthew , now Lodge Restormel .
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FUNERALS properly carried out and personally attended , in London and Country , by Bro . G . A . HUTTON , 17 Newcastle Street , Strand , W . C . Monuments erected . Valuations made .