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ARMFIELD'S SOUTH PLACE HOTEL , FINSBURY , LONDON , E . C , This new and r andsomely-furnished Hotel is now FULLY nrENCED . Its position is central , and charges are moderate ; the sanitation is perfect . Passenger lift to IPECIAL CONVENIENCE FOR MASONIC LODGES , 5 * DINNERS AND ClNDERELLAS .
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rpEOFANI'S HIGH-CLASS CIGARETTES . Awarded Two Gold Medals for Quality and Make , International Tobacco Exhibition , 1 S 9 J .
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A Feature of the Metropolis . SPIERS & POND'S / CRITERION RESTAURANT , PICCADILLY CIRCUS , LONDON , W . EAST ROOM . Finest Cuisine , unsurpassed by the most renowned Parisian Restaurants , Luncheons , Dinners and Suppers a la carte and prix fixe . Viennese Band . GRAND HALL . Musical Dinner 3 s . 6 d . per head . Accompanied by the Imperial Austrian Band . WEST ROOM . Academy Luncheon 2 s . 6 d ,, Diner Parisien 5 s ., during both of which the renowned Mandolin Quartette performs . BUFFET & GRILL ROOM . Quick service a la carte and moderate prices . Joints in each room fresh from the Spit every half-hour . AMERICAN BAR . Service of special American Dishes , Grills , & c . Splendid Suites of Rooms for Military and other Dinners .
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NOTICE . A SPECIAL EDITION will bo issued on SATURDAY MORNING containing a full Report of the Quarterly Court of tho E . M . I . for Boys , with tho result of the Election .
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Masonic Notes.
Masonic Notes .
? " docs not often happen that we have the opportu-11 Jy of addressing a further final appeal in behalf of children whose names will be removed from the list of J-indidates if they are unsuccessful at an election . 'Ins spring , however , the Girls' Election will be held ^•morrow ( Saturday ) , that is , on the day following , s ead of , as in ordinary circumstances , the day pre-SATURDAY , APRIL 16 , 1898 .
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ceding the Boys' Election , which takes place this ( Friday ) afternoon . We are , therefore , in a position to invite those Governors and Subscribers who are not interested in the success of any particular candidate to give their votes and their influence in behalf of the girls standing on the list as Nos . I , 3 , ro , and 13 respectively . There is now no reason why all the girls who are accepted as candidates should not be admitted
into the Institution . It needs but a little judicious management to effect this , and the only inconvenience caused will be a few months' delay in the case of the one or more children whose claims are not pressed . At all events , we hope our appeal in behalf of Nos . 1 , 3 , , and 13 on the Girls' list will be as successful as similar appeals have been at previous elections . * * *
We regret to find that so little progress has been made during the last fortnight in strengthening the Board of Stewards for the approaching Festival of this I nstitution . There is a decrease compared with last year ' s Board of fully 130 members , and the day for the celebration is only about a month distant . We trust that our lodges and brethren will not entirely lose sight of
the fact that the Girls' School expenditure will be the same as it was last year—that is to say , not far short of . £ 14 , , and that its permanent income will not greatly exceed £ 2500 , any more than it did in 1897 . * * *
The Committee of Management of the Royal Masonic Benevolent Institution held their monthly meeting at Freemasons' Hall on Wednesday , under the presidency of Bro . J . A . Farnfield , P . A . G . D . C , Patron , Treasurer . The business was for the most
part of the usual character and Bros . J . A . Farnfield , J . Newton , P . G . P ., and C . Kempton were appointed the Committee to draw up the report for the past year for presentation at the annual meeting of the Governors and Subscribers on Friday , the 20 th May .
# * * Our readers will learn with regret that Bro . the Earl of Euston , Pro Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of Mark Master Masons , is so ill as to be confined to his bed . In consequence , his lordship was unable to fulfil his engagement to instal Bro . the Earl of llalsbury
( Lord High Chancellor ) , as Prov . Grand Mark Master of Cornwall in succession to Bro . Sir C . B . Graves-Sawle , Bart ., resigned . The ceremony , however , took place at Truro on Wednesday , Bro . Euston ' s place being filled by Bro . Lord Skelmersdale , as Deputy Grand Master , the latter being assisted in his duties by Rrn P K Matier Grand Secretary . Bro . Maior C . W . - ¦
—* " •^*« 1 > , J Carrell , Grand Director of Ceremonies , and other officers of the Mark Grand Lodge .
We have much pleasure in announcing that the foundation-stone of the new wing of the Warneford Hospital , Leamington , will be laid with full Masonic ceremonial on Thursday , the 5 th prox ., by Bro . the Right Hon . Lord Leigh , Lord-Lieutenant and Prov . G . Master of Warwickshire , who will be assisted in his duties by Bro . George Beech , P . G . Std . Br ., Dep . P . G .
Master , and other Prov . G . Officers . Prov . Grand Lodge will be opened at Guy's Lodge , No . 395 , Town Hall , at 1 . 30 , and the brethren having been formed in procession will march to the site of the new buildings . The stone will be laid at 3 p . m . Subsequently luncheon will be served , tickets for which —price 3 s . 6 d ., exclusive of wine—must be applied for on or before Saturday , the 30 th inst . * * *
The printed Proceedings of the District Grand Lodge of Northern China , at its regular communication , at the temporary Masonic Hall , Shanghai , in September , 18 97 , furnish us with the particulars of one of the most interesting incidents in the history of this
Masonic District which it has been our good fortune to notice . At this meeting , portraits of Bro . Cornelius Thorne , first Grand Master of the District—and of the late Bro . J . I . Miller , Dist . G . Master , were unveiled by Bro . L . Moore , Dist . G . M ., and the latter took the opportunity of speaking in terms of warm commendation of the able services which both these brethren had rendered to Freemasonry generally , and
to the Northern China District more particularly . Bro . Miller has , unfortunately , passed from our midst , but Bro . Thorne was present , and gratefully acknowledged both the honour paid him in placing his portrait in the Masonic Hall , and the kind terms used by the District Grand Master when unveiling it . But what greatly enhanced the interest connected with the meeting was the presence of the R . W . M . of Lodge No . 428 ( Scottish Constitution ) , and of the District Deputy
Grand Master of Massachussetts , who both spoke in the warmest terms of the kindness and consideration which had been uniformly shown to the Scottish brethren of the Cosmopolitan Lodge and the Massachusetts brethren of Ancient Landmark Lodge . Both these brethren bore willing testimony to the services of the late Bro . J . I . Miller ,
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Dist . Grand Master ( E . C ) , and his predecessor in office , Bro . Thorne , and both expressed a hope that the harmony heretofore existing among the brethren of the three Constitutions established in Shanghai might continue to exist in the future . It is evident that even in this remote corner of the earth there is no difficulty about brethren , albeit of different Masonic organisations , dwelling together in unity .
* * * At a regular Communication of the same District Grand Lodge , held early in January of the present year , the District Grand Officers for the ensuing 12 months were appointed , and the Dist . Grand Master , in his address , impressed upon the newly-installed
Worshipful Masters of lodges the dignity and importance of their offices and the necessity of instilling into the brethren under their rule the proper zeal and energy in behalf of Masonry . He also wisely cautioned them against the indiscriminate admission of candidates . " Bear well in mind , brethren , " said he , " that while it is highly gratifying to increase our
number , it is still more desirable that worthy men , and worthy men alone , should be allowed to enter the Craft . " The Dist . Grand Master also expressed the pleasure he felt at learning' that the Masonic Charity Fund was in a flourishing condition—in fact , Freemasonry in the District of Northern China appears to be in a highly prosperous state .
* * The sixth triennial meeting of the General Grand Council of Royal and Select Masters for the United States , which was held in Baltimore in October last , under the presidency of Comp . John W . Coburn , General Grand Master , seems to have passed off most
successfully . From the brief account given of the proceedings in the Voice of Masonry , it appears that among the leading lights of the Order there were present Comp . George McCahan , who is General G , H . Priest of the Royal Arch Masons of the U . S . A . ; Comp . and Sir Knight Warren La Rue Thomas ,
Grand Master of the Order of the Temple , and Past G . M . of the Royal and Select Masters of Kentuck y ; Comps . Josiah H . Drummond , George M . Osgoodby , George J . Pinckard , and O . A . B . Senter , all Past General G . Masters of the Order ; and Comp . Theodore S . Paivin , who responded in a most eloquent address td
the cordial and respectful salutations accorded him . To judge from the very brief account given of the General Grand Master ' s address , that document must have been characterised by unusual brevity . . The new General Grand Master is Comp . Bradford Nichol ,
of Nashville , Tennessee , while Comp . Henry W . Mordhurst , of Fort Wayne , Indiana , remains at his old post of General Grand Recorder . We may mention that , in the course of the meeting , fraternal greetings were received from the Grand Council , R . and S . M ., of England and Wales .
* * * It does not often happen that an American G . M . \ i under the necessity of announcing , at the commencement Ot his annual address , that he will be unable to give "full and detailed account of his year ' s labours . " Yet this was the unfortunate lot of Bro . A . N . Sloan , M . W . G .
Master of the Grand Lodge of Tennessee , when he rose " in his place at the 84 th annual communication , held in Nashville on the 26 th January last , the reason he fur * nished being that " on April 3 rd , 18 97 , " his " office and its contents were destroyed by fire . Not a vestige was saved . All records and papers pertaining to the office
of Grand Master , as well as tho jewel and apron , were lost . " We sympathise with Bro . Sloan in the dilemma he was placed in , while , at the same time , we congratulate him on the loss having occurred within three months of his ejection as Grand Master instead of
during the closing days of his year of office . We can hardly picture to ourselves the difficulty in which he and his Grand Lodge would have found themselves had the fire occurred , say , on the 3 rd January of the current year . An annual communication without the Grand Master ' s address would have been a catastrophe .
» » . If , however , under these lamentable circumstances , Grand Master Sloan was unable to enlighten the Grand Lodge of Tennessee as to his acts between the date of his installation and the day on which all the official records relating to his office were destroyed , so that not
a vestige , not even the semblance of a vestige , was saved , therd would appear to have been no lack of materials provided during the remaining nine months of his term for framing an address of pretty nearly the usual formidable length and detailing the minutest details of his proceedings . However , let us hope that our Tennessee brethren , apart from the sympathy
which they , in common with ourselves , must feel—and in ourown case haveexpressed—for Bro . Sloan , have had time to recover from the shock to their mental system which must have followed the grave announcement . There was plenty of " address" relating to the last nine months for them to think over , and this must have reconciled them to their position .
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ARMFIELD'S SOUTH PLACE HOTEL , FINSBURY , LONDON , E . C , This new and r andsomely-furnished Hotel is now FULLY nrENCED . Its position is central , and charges are moderate ; the sanitation is perfect . Passenger lift to IPECIAL CONVENIENCE FOR MASONIC LODGES , 5 * DINNERS AND ClNDERELLAS .
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rpEOFANI'S HIGH-CLASS CIGARETTES . Awarded Two Gold Medals for Quality and Make , International Tobacco Exhibition , 1 S 9 J .
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A Feature of the Metropolis . SPIERS & POND'S / CRITERION RESTAURANT , PICCADILLY CIRCUS , LONDON , W . EAST ROOM . Finest Cuisine , unsurpassed by the most renowned Parisian Restaurants , Luncheons , Dinners and Suppers a la carte and prix fixe . Viennese Band . GRAND HALL . Musical Dinner 3 s . 6 d . per head . Accompanied by the Imperial Austrian Band . WEST ROOM . Academy Luncheon 2 s . 6 d ,, Diner Parisien 5 s ., during both of which the renowned Mandolin Quartette performs . BUFFET & GRILL ROOM . Quick service a la carte and moderate prices . Joints in each room fresh from the Spit every half-hour . AMERICAN BAR . Service of special American Dishes , Grills , & c . Splendid Suites of Rooms for Military and other Dinners .
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NOTICE . A SPECIAL EDITION will bo issued on SATURDAY MORNING containing a full Report of the Quarterly Court of tho E . M . I . for Boys , with tho result of the Election .
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Masonic Notes.
Masonic Notes .
? " docs not often happen that we have the opportu-11 Jy of addressing a further final appeal in behalf of children whose names will be removed from the list of J-indidates if they are unsuccessful at an election . 'Ins spring , however , the Girls' Election will be held ^•morrow ( Saturday ) , that is , on the day following , s ead of , as in ordinary circumstances , the day pre-SATURDAY , APRIL 16 , 1898 .
Masonic Notes.
ceding the Boys' Election , which takes place this ( Friday ) afternoon . We are , therefore , in a position to invite those Governors and Subscribers who are not interested in the success of any particular candidate to give their votes and their influence in behalf of the girls standing on the list as Nos . I , 3 , ro , and 13 respectively . There is now no reason why all the girls who are accepted as candidates should not be admitted
into the Institution . It needs but a little judicious management to effect this , and the only inconvenience caused will be a few months' delay in the case of the one or more children whose claims are not pressed . At all events , we hope our appeal in behalf of Nos . 1 , 3 , , and 13 on the Girls' list will be as successful as similar appeals have been at previous elections . * * *
We regret to find that so little progress has been made during the last fortnight in strengthening the Board of Stewards for the approaching Festival of this I nstitution . There is a decrease compared with last year ' s Board of fully 130 members , and the day for the celebration is only about a month distant . We trust that our lodges and brethren will not entirely lose sight of
the fact that the Girls' School expenditure will be the same as it was last year—that is to say , not far short of . £ 14 , , and that its permanent income will not greatly exceed £ 2500 , any more than it did in 1897 . * * *
The Committee of Management of the Royal Masonic Benevolent Institution held their monthly meeting at Freemasons' Hall on Wednesday , under the presidency of Bro . J . A . Farnfield , P . A . G . D . C , Patron , Treasurer . The business was for the most
part of the usual character and Bros . J . A . Farnfield , J . Newton , P . G . P ., and C . Kempton were appointed the Committee to draw up the report for the past year for presentation at the annual meeting of the Governors and Subscribers on Friday , the 20 th May .
# * * Our readers will learn with regret that Bro . the Earl of Euston , Pro Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of Mark Master Masons , is so ill as to be confined to his bed . In consequence , his lordship was unable to fulfil his engagement to instal Bro . the Earl of llalsbury
( Lord High Chancellor ) , as Prov . Grand Mark Master of Cornwall in succession to Bro . Sir C . B . Graves-Sawle , Bart ., resigned . The ceremony , however , took place at Truro on Wednesday , Bro . Euston ' s place being filled by Bro . Lord Skelmersdale , as Deputy Grand Master , the latter being assisted in his duties by Rrn P K Matier Grand Secretary . Bro . Maior C . W . - ¦
—* " •^*« 1 > , J Carrell , Grand Director of Ceremonies , and other officers of the Mark Grand Lodge .
We have much pleasure in announcing that the foundation-stone of the new wing of the Warneford Hospital , Leamington , will be laid with full Masonic ceremonial on Thursday , the 5 th prox ., by Bro . the Right Hon . Lord Leigh , Lord-Lieutenant and Prov . G . Master of Warwickshire , who will be assisted in his duties by Bro . George Beech , P . G . Std . Br ., Dep . P . G .
Master , and other Prov . G . Officers . Prov . Grand Lodge will be opened at Guy's Lodge , No . 395 , Town Hall , at 1 . 30 , and the brethren having been formed in procession will march to the site of the new buildings . The stone will be laid at 3 p . m . Subsequently luncheon will be served , tickets for which —price 3 s . 6 d ., exclusive of wine—must be applied for on or before Saturday , the 30 th inst . * * *
The printed Proceedings of the District Grand Lodge of Northern China , at its regular communication , at the temporary Masonic Hall , Shanghai , in September , 18 97 , furnish us with the particulars of one of the most interesting incidents in the history of this
Masonic District which it has been our good fortune to notice . At this meeting , portraits of Bro . Cornelius Thorne , first Grand Master of the District—and of the late Bro . J . I . Miller , Dist . G . Master , were unveiled by Bro . L . Moore , Dist . G . M ., and the latter took the opportunity of speaking in terms of warm commendation of the able services which both these brethren had rendered to Freemasonry generally , and
to the Northern China District more particularly . Bro . Miller has , unfortunately , passed from our midst , but Bro . Thorne was present , and gratefully acknowledged both the honour paid him in placing his portrait in the Masonic Hall , and the kind terms used by the District Grand Master when unveiling it . But what greatly enhanced the interest connected with the meeting was the presence of the R . W . M . of Lodge No . 428 ( Scottish Constitution ) , and of the District Deputy
Grand Master of Massachussetts , who both spoke in the warmest terms of the kindness and consideration which had been uniformly shown to the Scottish brethren of the Cosmopolitan Lodge and the Massachusetts brethren of Ancient Landmark Lodge . Both these brethren bore willing testimony to the services of the late Bro . J . I . Miller ,
Masonic Notes.
Dist . Grand Master ( E . C ) , and his predecessor in office , Bro . Thorne , and both expressed a hope that the harmony heretofore existing among the brethren of the three Constitutions established in Shanghai might continue to exist in the future . It is evident that even in this remote corner of the earth there is no difficulty about brethren , albeit of different Masonic organisations , dwelling together in unity .
* * * At a regular Communication of the same District Grand Lodge , held early in January of the present year , the District Grand Officers for the ensuing 12 months were appointed , and the Dist . Grand Master , in his address , impressed upon the newly-installed
Worshipful Masters of lodges the dignity and importance of their offices and the necessity of instilling into the brethren under their rule the proper zeal and energy in behalf of Masonry . He also wisely cautioned them against the indiscriminate admission of candidates . " Bear well in mind , brethren , " said he , " that while it is highly gratifying to increase our
number , it is still more desirable that worthy men , and worthy men alone , should be allowed to enter the Craft . " The Dist . Grand Master also expressed the pleasure he felt at learning' that the Masonic Charity Fund was in a flourishing condition—in fact , Freemasonry in the District of Northern China appears to be in a highly prosperous state .
* * The sixth triennial meeting of the General Grand Council of Royal and Select Masters for the United States , which was held in Baltimore in October last , under the presidency of Comp . John W . Coburn , General Grand Master , seems to have passed off most
successfully . From the brief account given of the proceedings in the Voice of Masonry , it appears that among the leading lights of the Order there were present Comp . George McCahan , who is General G , H . Priest of the Royal Arch Masons of the U . S . A . ; Comp . and Sir Knight Warren La Rue Thomas ,
Grand Master of the Order of the Temple , and Past G . M . of the Royal and Select Masters of Kentuck y ; Comps . Josiah H . Drummond , George M . Osgoodby , George J . Pinckard , and O . A . B . Senter , all Past General G . Masters of the Order ; and Comp . Theodore S . Paivin , who responded in a most eloquent address td
the cordial and respectful salutations accorded him . To judge from the very brief account given of the General Grand Master ' s address , that document must have been characterised by unusual brevity . . The new General Grand Master is Comp . Bradford Nichol ,
of Nashville , Tennessee , while Comp . Henry W . Mordhurst , of Fort Wayne , Indiana , remains at his old post of General Grand Recorder . We may mention that , in the course of the meeting , fraternal greetings were received from the Grand Council , R . and S . M ., of England and Wales .
* * * It does not often happen that an American G . M . \ i under the necessity of announcing , at the commencement Ot his annual address , that he will be unable to give "full and detailed account of his year ' s labours . " Yet this was the unfortunate lot of Bro . A . N . Sloan , M . W . G .
Master of the Grand Lodge of Tennessee , when he rose " in his place at the 84 th annual communication , held in Nashville on the 26 th January last , the reason he fur * nished being that " on April 3 rd , 18 97 , " his " office and its contents were destroyed by fire . Not a vestige was saved . All records and papers pertaining to the office
of Grand Master , as well as tho jewel and apron , were lost . " We sympathise with Bro . Sloan in the dilemma he was placed in , while , at the same time , we congratulate him on the loss having occurred within three months of his ejection as Grand Master instead of
during the closing days of his year of office . We can hardly picture to ourselves the difficulty in which he and his Grand Lodge would have found themselves had the fire occurred , say , on the 3 rd January of the current year . An annual communication without the Grand Master ' s address would have been a catastrophe .
» » . If , however , under these lamentable circumstances , Grand Master Sloan was unable to enlighten the Grand Lodge of Tennessee as to his acts between the date of his installation and the day on which all the official records relating to his office were destroyed , so that not
a vestige , not even the semblance of a vestige , was saved , therd would appear to have been no lack of materials provided during the remaining nine months of his term for framing an address of pretty nearly the usual formidable length and detailing the minutest details of his proceedings . However , let us hope that our Tennessee brethren , apart from the sympathy
which they , in common with ourselves , must feel—and in ourown case haveexpressed—for Bro . Sloan , have had time to recover from the shock to their mental system which must have followed the grave announcement . There was plenty of " address" relating to the last nine months for them to think over , and this must have reconciled them to their position .