Royal Masonic Institution For Girls.

ROYAL MASONIC INSTITUTION FOR GIRLS .

The Quarterly Court of Subscribers to this Institution was held last Saturday ? at Freemasons' Tavern . Bro . Horace Brooks Marshall , CC , Past G . Treas ., Treasurer of the Institution , presided , and was supported by Bros . Frank Richardson , P . G . D ., and C . J . Perceval . Bro . Hedges , Sec , was present . A large number of brethren attended .

After the reading and confirmation of the minutes of last Quarterly Court , the General Committee ' s minutes were . read , when Bro . PERCEVAL , who , at one of those Committees , gave notice of motion for this Quarterly Court that " in the event of the recent addition to Law 55 being confirmed , to add the following rider , viz .: ' That this clause shall not apply in the case of a child whose father was a Life Governor of the Institution at the time of his death , '" withdrew the motion , and gave notice of motion for next Court in January , in the following words ;

A girl shall not be eligible for election unless the father , if living , has been a subscribing member to a lodge , or lodges , for seven years . If the father be dead , he must have been a subscribing member to a lodge for three years . But should death , or permanent incapacity , occasioned by paralysis , blindness , fire , shipwreck , or other calamity , have occurred within three years of his initiation , this rule shall not apply , providing , nevertheless , that at the time of such occurrence the father vvas a subscribing member . "

Bro . C . H . WEBB seconded . After the formal business had been completed , and before procpeding to the election , the CHAIRMAN said he was sorry that after the munificence of the brethren at the last Festival the Institution could not admit more than nine girls , out of the 62 candidates on the list for admission . They could not do more than the limits of the Institution would allow . Every part of

the building was occupied , but they hoped that at the next April election the alterations would be completed , and that by next October , if not in April , the remainder of the candidates would be admitted . There were , however , four candidates on that day ' s list , Nos . 3 , 4 , , and 52 , whose last chance it was ; that day was with them now or never . He hoped the brethren would support them , and , anxious to discharge his duty as Chairman , he should reserve his votes as usual to assist last application cases .

Bro . HENRY SMITH , D . P . G . M . West Yorkshire , pointed out that it was an utter impossibility to admit more children . The building was alread y over-crowded . The CHAIRMAN went on to say that , although at these half-yearly elections a certain number of candidates had to go away , yet when the building was increased they hoped to take in all the rest of the 63 candidates .

Bro . J . A . BIRCH , East Lancashire , said the Chairman had left out of calculation altogether the new candidates who would apply between the present election and the April election . The CHAIRMAN contended that old candidates stood a better chance

than new ones . If the friends of the children he had named vvould use their exertions to secure their election , the Committee had reasonable expectations that the whole of the others would be elected in A pril or October next . He went on to say that he considered it an outrage that people should put down candidates without intending to do their best to secure their return .

Bro . J . A . BIRCH protested against such an expression . East Lancashire had a candidate , which it did not intend to carry that day , but would reserve it for a future time .

Several other brethren expressed dissatisfaction with the remarks of the Chairman , and the election of 9 out of 62 girls was proceeded with . At the close of the day the following was found to be the result :

SUCCESSFUL . Name . Votes . Name . Votes . Frances Jessie Short ... ... 5308 Frances Norah Wells ... ... 3680 Dora Sims ... ... ... 4221 Annie Winifred Belton ... ... 350 S Ellen Anne Blanche Pooler ... 4131 Sarah Bissett ... ... ... 3365 Elsie Winifred Reay Mackey ... 4109 Mary Elizabeth Wilson ... ^ 3165 Ada Charlotte Turton ... ... 3907

UNSUCCESSFUL . Name . Votes . Name . Votes . Ruby Rosetta Webster ... ... 2784 Fanny Clark Campbell ... ... 335 Henrietta Jessie Codling ... ... 2701 Ruby Blanch Loetchen Butcher ... 314 Adelaide Howett Jane Hading ... 2564 Helen Maud England ... ... 2 97 Leonie Rosamond Lee ... ... 2424 Ivy Grace Towse ... ... 182

Hilda Maud Liverd ... ... 241 S Ethel Lilian Julia Wells ... ... 168 Mabel Alice Cookes ... ... 1846 Harriet Fitzwater ... ... JA 2 Florence Charlotte Hemmings ... 1764 Jane Routledge Wilkinson ... 129 Henrietta Ada Staff ... ... 1732 Nellie Burgess ... ... ... \ 02 Laura Amelia Thaw ... ... 1701 Muriel Agnes Smith ... . ' .. 102 Georgina Balch ... ... ... 1520 Anita Mary Thorne ... . " 67

Bertha Elizabeth Venables ... 1395 Florence Ethel G . Dixon ... ... 61 Mabel Elizabeth Bruce ... ... 1290 Ada Lilian Smith ... ... ... 61 Olga Katinka Tettenborn ... ... 11 S 0 Agnes Le Gros ... ... 47 Annie Elizabeth Alice Sumner ... 1148 Emily Frances Griffith ... . " . 41 Eliza Pether ... ... ... 1134 Alice Louise McCue ... '" . 33 Amy Florence Gorton ... ... 1063 Elizabeth Lamploueh ... ... 2 _ i

c-dith Winterbottom ... ... 1046 Beatrice Cochrane ... 14 Lilian May Astington ... ... 1012 Alice Winifred Bingham ... " ... 13 Mary Ponsford Gould ... ... 985 Mary Gwendoline Robson ... 12 rriscilla Minnie Swaebe ... ... 788 Alice Katie Beatrice Prout 10 Hilda Collard 775 Jane Troop "" = r Doroth

y Janet Wood 600 Ada Haylett " \ 3 Alice Taverner ... ... ... 593 Bertha Johnston ... ... " ? Margaret Ellen May Roberts ... 558 Dorothy Parnell Anthony ... ... — Norah Geech ... ... ... 555 Frances Emma Hooke ... — ™ ary Ellen Morris 371 Mary Maud Watson ... _ Uthel Mansfield Boyd 343 Jessie Sophia Ives ... ( Withdrawn )

Royal Masonic Institution For Boys.

ROYAL MASONIC INSTITUTION FOR BOYS .

The October Quarterly Court of the Subscribers and Governors of this Institution was held on Friday , 26 th ult ., in the large hall at Freemasons ' ¦ lavern . Bro . William Roebuck , P . G . Swd . Br ., presided , and at the Chairman ' s table were Bros . Ravnham W . Stewart . P . G . D .: Richard R VP .

***¦ Treas . ; Henry Smith , Deputy Prov . G . M . for West Yorkshire ; John Wordsworth , P . Prov . G . W . West Yorkshire ; and Frederick Binckes , ecretary of the Institution . A large number of supporters of the Institution were present .

After the reading and confirmation of the minutes of the July Quarts ^ ourt > an ^ ^ reac ^' S ° f other minutes for information , ~' he h ° ' J AMES STEVENS , L . G ., introduced the following motion , of which an _ r B'ven not'ce "• To expunge Law 55 , including Second Paragraph , " <> enact in lieu thereof as follows : —

Royal Masonic Institution For Boys.

A boy shall not be eligible for election unless the father , if living , has been a subscribing member to a lodge , or lodges , for seven years . If the father be dead , he must have been a subscribing member to a lodge for three years . But should death , or permanent incapacity , occasioned by paralysis , blindness , fire , shipwreck , or other . calamity , have occurred within three years of his initiation , this rule shall not apply , providing , nevertheless , that at the time of such occurrence the father was a subscribing member .

He said he did not know that he had anything to add to the words on the motion , but he might observe that it did not in any way affect the principle of the law ; it was'intended merely for the purpose of explaining a rule which had been to a great extent misunderstood , or not fully understood , by the Committees with regard to applicants , and their qualifications for admission to the School . His motion , he believed , would remove all difficulty .

Bro . A . E . GLADWELL , and other brethren wished to know whether instead of being a member of a Iodge it should not be "a member of the Craft . " Bro . BINCKES said the object was that the brother should have been a member of a lodge or lodges for seven years .

Bro . J AMES STEVENS , alluding to the awkwardness of these suggestions as affecting his motion , said he was afraid he should have to fall back upon the word " concurrently " after all . Another BROTHER wished to know if a brother who had not subscribed for three years , but had become a Life-Governor or a Vice-Patron of the Institution , was to have his son excluded .

Bro . J AMES STEVENS said that his wishes went in favour of a brother so qualifying himself , though certainly his motion did not embrace such a . case . It was then suggested that , as the present was not the proper occasion to settle the wording of a motion or resolution , Bro . Stevens should with-, draw the motion , and bring it forward in due form at another meeting .

Bro . RICHARD EVE proposed that , instead of " a lodge or lodges , " the words should be , " some lodge . " Bro . STEVENS remarked that of late , there was no doubt about it , many persons came into Freemasonry for the sole object of benefiting themselves or their wives or children . ( Hear , hear ) . As the contingencies of life went , they might be persons who , at the time , were fairly entitled to enter the

Order . But there vvere other cases where the initiates were hardly able to pay their initiation fee . If the father were alive , it should be distinctly shown , when his child vvas a candidate for the School , that when he joined Masonry he was in a condition of life to warrant his going into the Order . At Bro . RICHARD EVE suggesting the words "if living" were omitted as being unncessary .

Bro . C . J . PERCEVAL thought that Life Governors or such qualified persons should have an exception made in their favour , and he proposed an addition to the motion to that effect . Bro . A . E . GLADWELL opposed the amendment . Ten guineas would be a very cheap and advantageous investment .

Bro . BINCKES also opposed . To do such a thing would render Freemasonry and its Institutions a benefit society . Ultimately the motion was carried in the following form :

A boy shall not be qualified for election unless the father has been a subscribing member to some lodge for seven years . If the father be dead , he must have been a subscribing member to a lodge for three years . But should death , or permanent incapacity , occasioned by paralysis , blindness , fire , shipwreck , or other calamity , have occurred within seven years of his initiation , this rule shall not apply if at the time of such occurrence the father was a subscribing , member . "

On behalf of the House Committee , the following motion was proposed , seconded , and carried : " That three additional Vacancies be declared—in consequence of withdrawals from the Establishment—and that such Vacancies be filled up by the Election of the same

number of Candidates , in addition to the number announced in the Voting Papers , at the Quarterly Court on the 26 th October inst . " To Elect Twenty-One Boys—or , should the Notice of Motion as above be adopted , Twenty-Four Boys—from an approved List of Seventy-Seven Candidates , reduced to Seventy-Five by the withdrawal of Two Candidates , Nos . 12 and 35 .

The election was then proceeded with , and , at the declaration of the poll , the following vvas found to be the result :

SUCCESSFUL . Name . Votes . Name . Votes . Arthur Henry Grimsey ... ... 3702 George Rushworth ... ... 2245 Charles Ball ... ... ... 2810 Francis Pater Turner ... ... 2230 Herbert Troop . „ 2658 Fras . Dealtry Witherden Menpes ... 2221 Samuel Henry Reginald Fursey ... 2633 Stanley Baylis ... ... ... 2217 Robert Percy Chinneck ... ... 2544 Kenneth Kendall ... ... ... 2204

Vernon Peed Caches ... ... 2535 William Hubert Pinder ... ... 2175 Walter Land ... ... ... 2466 Fred Wilson ... ... ... 2149 Frederick Bland ... ... ... 2453 John Leonard Brown ... ... 2141 Charles William Green ... ... 2441 Rhys Edgar Morgan ... ... 2116 Charles Irwin Mossop ... ... 2380 Frank Edmond Everton ... ... 2076 Ernest Murley ... ... ... 2374 Arthur _ Herbert Windsor ... ... 2066 George Hancock Cox ... ... 2330 Frederick Joseph Harris ... ... 2032

UNSUCCESSFUL . Name . Votes . Name . Votes . Stanley Aynsley Mundle ... ... 1988 Clement Siggers ... ... ... 414 John Baron Fry ... ... ... 1 S 68 Edward Dunthorne Hodgkinson ... 336 Joseph Wood ... ... ... 1733 William John Harrison ... ... 259 Harry Lawrence ... ... ... 1677 Lewis GordonCauston Swornsbourne 218

Harold Gray ... _ ... ... 1433 William Arthur Mears ... ... 207 Alex . Sydenham Sherriff Clunes ... 1374 Arthur Thomas Browne ... ... 186 George Wilkinson ... ... 1371 Frederick Wm . John Scott ... 132 Arthur Edward Kennedy ... ... 1307 Arthur Stanley Hill ... ... 112 Edward George Jarmain ... ... 1165 Archibald Wallace Campbell ... 99 Samuel Carr ... ... ... 1160 Edmund Arnold Greening Lamborn - 98

Arthur Howard Kemp ... ... 1081 Frederick George Hart ... ... 55 Miller Bassett Lumsden ... ... 1049 James Carruthers ... ... 2 3 Austen Royle Podmore ... ... 1018 Martin Roddwell Bostock ... ... 18 Wallace Peter Charles Bosco ... 993 Ernest Edward Whale ... ... 18 Edgar Holmes Burgess ... ... 9 88 William Robson Binks ... ... 15 Alfred William Clarke ... ... 959 Basil Glover Wood ... ... 13

Stanley Edmund Rolls Pratt ... 920 John Grossman ... ... ... 10 Ernest James Brown ... ... 857 Benjamin Lamplough ... ... 9 Benjamin Henry Tiedeman ... 833 Redfern Edward Gee ... ... 8 Harry Vernon Moreton ... ... 828 Herbert John Drewitt ... ... 5 Frank Gowland Harvey ... ... 818 Wilfred John Alley ... ... 5

Lewis Morris Nicholl ... ... 790 Frank Roberts ... ... ... 2 John Herault de Caen ... ... 664 Alfred Ernest Perkins ... ... 1 Percy Howard Wells ... ... 473 William Ralph Pugh " ... ... 1 Walter Woolcomb Bloomfield ... 473 Frederick Woodman ... ... — William John Jennings ... ... 417 Votes of thanks to the Scrutineers of votes , and to the Chairman of the day , closed the proceedings .