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Article TO OUR READERS. Page 1 of 1 Article IMPORTANT NOTICE. Page 1 of 1 Article Answers to Correspondents. Page 1 of 1 Article Births, Marriages, and Deaths. Page 1 of 1 Article Untitled Page 1 of 1 Article Untitled Page 1 of 1 Article THE GIRLS' SCHOOL FESTIVAL. Page 1 of 1 Article THE LAST MEETING OF GRAND CHAPTER. Page 1 of 1 Article SERVICES OF THE NEW GRAND OFFICERS. Page 1 of 2 →
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To Our Readers.
TO OUR READERS .
The FREEMASON is a Weekly News paper , price 2 d .. It is published every Friday morning , and contains the most important , interesting , and useful information relating to Freemasonry in every degree . Subscription , including postage * . United America , India , India , China , & c .
Kingdom , the Continent , & c . ViaBrindisi . Twelve Months ios . 6 d . 12 s . od . 17 s . 4 d . Six „ 5 s . 3 d . 6 s . 6 d . 8 s . 8 d . Three „ 2 S . 8 d . 3 s . 3 d . 4 s . 6 d . Subscriptions may be paid for in stamps , but Post Office Orders or Cheques are preferred , the former payable to
GEORGE KENNING , CHIEF OFFICE , LONDON , the latter crossed London Joint Stock Bank . Advertisements and other business communications should be addressed to the Publisher . Communications on literary subjects and books for
review are to be forwarded to the Editor . Anonymous correspondence will be wholly disregarded , and the return of rejected MSS . cannot be guaranteed . Further information will be supplied on application to the Publisher , 198 , Fleet-street , London .
Important Notice.
IMPORTANT NOTICE .
It is very necessary for our readers to advise us of all money orders they remit , more especially those from the United States of America and India j otherwise we cannot tell where to credit them . Several P . O . O , ' s are now in hand , but having received no advice we cannot credit them .
Answers To Correspondents.
Answers to Correspondents .
The following stand over : — Reports of Lodges , Sec . — Duke of Connaught Lodge of Instruction De Tabley Lodge , 941 . Great Stanmore , 1549 . ¦ Lodge of Faith , 141 . St . John ' s Chapter , 328 .
Pattison , 913 . Brixton Mark , 234 . Elias de Derham , 5 86 . St . George ' s Instruction , 140 . Blair , 815 . Finsbury Park Instruction , 1288 Mount Lebanon Chapter , 73 .
Devon Chapter , 1138 . La Tolerance Lodge of Instruction , 538 Sackville , 1619 . Merlin , 1578 . Blackpool , 1476 . Rowley , 10 5 Mariners Lodge of Instruction , 249 . Rosicrucian Society—Yorkshire College .
Macdonald Chapter , 1216 . Obituary Notices—Bro . Joseph Poore . Bro . George Thompson . Original Research—Masonic Works in British Museum . Earliest use of word Freemason . Sixty-seven years a Mason .
BOOKS , & c , RECEIVED . " Hull Packet , " " Royal Cornwall Gazrtte , " " Alliance News , " "North China Herald , " " Liverpool Mail , " "Die New Yorker Bundes Prcssc , " "Proceedings of M . P . Grand Council of Royal and Select Masters , Pennsylvania , " " Keystone , " " Australian Freemason . "
Births, Marriages, And Deaths.
Births , Marriages , and Deaths .
[ The charge is 2 s . 6 A . for announcements not exceeding Four Lines under this heading . ]
BIRTHS . FREnEMCKSow .. —On the 12 th inst ., at St . Hubert ' s , Beckenham , Kent , the wife of Mr . A . D . Frederickson , of a son . PENFOLD . —On the 9 th inst ., at the Royal Dockyard , Portsmouth , the wife of Mr . F . Penfold , Secretary R . N ., of
a son . STKETTO . V . —On the 12 th inft ., at Saxe Coburg-street , Leicester , the wife of Clement Edwin Stretton , of a son .
MARRIAGE . HAMILTON—SCHOFIELD . —On the 12 th inst ., at Kensington , James F . Hamilton , son of the late Lieut .-Col Thomas Talbot Hamilton , to Ellen Bertha , daughter of thc late Mr . Robert Schofield , of Rochdale , Lanca shire .
DEATHS . MANTEL . —On thc 3 rd inst ., at Jersey , Bro . Edward Mantel , P . M . 491 and ' 958 , P . Z ., P . G . J . W . THOMPSON . —On the nth inst ., at his residence , 94 Rye Hill , Newcastle-upon-Tyne , Bro . George Thompson , P . M ., & c , aged 66 years .
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SPECIAL EDITION . A Special Edition of the Freemason will be ready early on Saturday Morning , containing a full report of the Committee Meeting and Election of Candidates of the Royal Masonic Benevolent Institution .
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THE FREEMASON . SATURDAY , MAY 17 , 1879
The Girls' School Festival.
THE GIRLS' SCHOOL FESTIVAL .
The anniversary on Wednesday last was , indeed , a triumphant success . £ 11 , 700 , with nineteen lists to come in , was truly a grand total , £ 3000 ahead of 1878 , , § £ 2000 more than any previous festival . With nineteen lists yet to come in , it is more than probable that before the
close of 1879 the returns for the Girls' School will not fall far short of £ 12 , 000 . Again , we repeat , a magnificent totality . Despite the badness of trade , despite the complaints of the agricultural interest , despite hasty prophecies
and doubting valuations , the zeal of English Freemasons betrays no lessening ; , points to no falling back j and we agree with Bro . Binckes , when , as he truly and tersely puts it , " bad times and hard times do not seem to affect the
hearts and hands of Freemasons . It is , indeed , a subject of great rejoicing to all members of our Order to note how nobly our great Charities are supported , year by year , by the spontaneous and hearty offerings of our large-hearted fraternity . We venture to repeat what we have remarked
before , that there is no earthly society , that we are aware of , essaying , or succeeding to accomplish , what English Freemasonry yearly brings about , for the great cause , the goodly claims , the needs , the work , the " outcome" of charity . Some of the circumstances attending the Festival
of 1879 deserve to be noted and remembered . Three weeks before the Festival there was no Chairman found , or even apparently rindable , and then it was that our gallant and energetic Bro . Lieut .-Colonel Creaton placed himself , in a most fraternal and commendable spirit , and
following a good precedent , in the hands of the Boards of Stewards . It was felt for many reasons , that under the then circumstances of the case , the actual position of affairs , this was an offer not lightly to be rejected , or hastily ignored . Lieut .-Colonel Creaton possessed advantages for
the post which none others , we make bold to say , are endowed with . He was Trustee and Treasurer of the Institution , he was Chairman of the Bui / ding Committee , his services to all the Charities have been conspicuous and unceasing . He had recently , also , been elected
Grand Treasurer of England , and it was not unreasonable , to expect that the brethren , mindful of his Masonic career , and glad to recognize his undeniable claims on their sympathy , good will , and respect , would rally round our distinguished brother . And the result has proved how sound
these views were , and how seasonable was the action of the Board of Stewards . If it be true that a " more distinguished brother " in mere social position might have been found , yet we venture to think that a " more distinguished brother " in Masonic services , and zeal , and sacrifices for the
Charities cannot be found than our kindly friend , the Grand Treasurer . And hence , no doubt , the warmth of his reception , and the success and prestige of the gathering . We congratulate all concerned—the Stewards , the Managing Committee , and , above all , Bro . Hedges . As the old
adage runs , the " proof of the pudding is in the eating , " and we are glad to find that the anniversary of 1879 affords the most complete vindication of those many brethren , who in the election of Bro . Hedges , sought to carry out true
Masonic teaching , in " commending industry and rewarding merit . " We reserve for next week an analysis of tho return , —the more so as we shall probably have to say a good deal on the subject , and we refer our readers to the full and faithful report of the Festival .
The Last Meeting Of Grand Chapter.
THE LAST MEETING OF GRAND CHAPTER .
The last meeting of Grand Chapter was an important one in all respects , in that it dealt with a case , not uncommon just now , of the application for a charter to be attached to the Orpheus Lodge , No . 1706 . The lodge it seems had not been in existence three years , and as
three years should elapse , we are told , before a charter to a lodge be granted , the Committee recommended tbat the " prayer of the petition be not complied with . " This recommendation of the Committee was carried on a division by 24 to io ; the application for a chapter was
therefore lost . The term of " three years " is not forced by the Royal Arch Constitutions , but by a resolution of the Committee of Grand Chapter in 1875 , approved of by Grand Chapter . We think , with all deference to Graad Chapter , that such a resolution is a mistake , and requires
amendment , and for these reasons . In the first place , we object to the government of the members of the Royal Arch Grade by a " resolution " of the Committee ; any such provision ought to be inserted in the "Constitutions . " In the next place , the resolution is , in our opinion , a mistake , and
one not suited , to 1879 , whatever it may have been so late even as 1875 . Twelve months is quite a sufficient term of delay to prove the stability of a lodge , and the present system is a great practical hardship on lodges and brethren , and is the cause of the paucity of Royal Arch Masons
as compared with Craft Masons . A charter is granted in a provincial town , for instance , where there is only one lodge . A large influx of members takes place . They are all eligible for exaltation at the expiration of twelve months , but as the lodge cannot get a charter for three years , they
either go to another town , or they stop where they are , and never are exalted at all . Hence , at this moment , not one quarter of our Master Masons are members of the Royal Arch . We venture to think that an injustice is thus done to Master Masons , and Royal Arch Masonry is
kept back , evidently by a " resolution " which certainly seems to ignore , whenever put in force , the wants and position of our lodges today . In the case of the " Orpheus , " it has eighty-five members , and twenty of the members are P . M . ' s . So that there is , indeed , plenty
of support to be in it found for the more limited area of Royal Arch Masonry . If in former times , when Royal Arch Masons were fewer , and lodges were less numerous , such a restriction was not improper , it has ceased to have any reason and meaning when Royal Arch Masonry is
increasing rapidly in favour and numbers amongst us . We hope soon , therefore , to hear that this resolution is amended in the sense we have ventured to indicate , and that the provision , be it what it may , be incorporated in the Constitutions . The Committee wa ? ,
no doubt , perfectly justified in upholding a previous resolution , approved of in Grand Chapter , and still unrepealed , but we are , nevertheless , distinctly of opinion that , with the best motives in the world , such a resolution is an interference with the just rights and lawful claims of Master
Masons , and is , above all , most antagonistic to the proper development and increase of Royal Arch Masonry . We beg respectfully to call the attention of our rulers to the subject , anxious as we know they always are to do what is right and fair to all . "
Services Of The New Grand Officers.
SERVICES OF THE NEW GRAND OFFICERS .
GRAND TREASURER . Lieut .-Col . Creaton was initiated in the Phcenix Lodge in 1 S 52 , and joined the Lodge of Antiquity in 1857 . He was exalted in St . James ' s Chap ter in 1857 , and is a P . Z . ; and was W . M . Lodge of Antiquity i 860 and 1861 . He was Grand Steward in 1 S 60 ( President of the Board ) ;
Grand Deacon in 1862 j Grand Sword Bearer Grand Chapter in 1862 , nnd is Steward for all the Charities . He is Vice-Patron and Trustee to all the Charities , Treasurer Girls' School . and President Grand Chapter Committee i Chairman Building Committee Girls' School , and Grand Treasurer . Has been Member ot
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To Our Readers.
TO OUR READERS .
The FREEMASON is a Weekly News paper , price 2 d .. It is published every Friday morning , and contains the most important , interesting , and useful information relating to Freemasonry in every degree . Subscription , including postage * . United America , India , India , China , & c .
Kingdom , the Continent , & c . ViaBrindisi . Twelve Months ios . 6 d . 12 s . od . 17 s . 4 d . Six „ 5 s . 3 d . 6 s . 6 d . 8 s . 8 d . Three „ 2 S . 8 d . 3 s . 3 d . 4 s . 6 d . Subscriptions may be paid for in stamps , but Post Office Orders or Cheques are preferred , the former payable to
GEORGE KENNING , CHIEF OFFICE , LONDON , the latter crossed London Joint Stock Bank . Advertisements and other business communications should be addressed to the Publisher . Communications on literary subjects and books for
review are to be forwarded to the Editor . Anonymous correspondence will be wholly disregarded , and the return of rejected MSS . cannot be guaranteed . Further information will be supplied on application to the Publisher , 198 , Fleet-street , London .
Important Notice.
IMPORTANT NOTICE .
It is very necessary for our readers to advise us of all money orders they remit , more especially those from the United States of America and India j otherwise we cannot tell where to credit them . Several P . O . O , ' s are now in hand , but having received no advice we cannot credit them .
Answers To Correspondents.
Answers to Correspondents .
The following stand over : — Reports of Lodges , Sec . — Duke of Connaught Lodge of Instruction De Tabley Lodge , 941 . Great Stanmore , 1549 . ¦ Lodge of Faith , 141 . St . John ' s Chapter , 328 .
Pattison , 913 . Brixton Mark , 234 . Elias de Derham , 5 86 . St . George ' s Instruction , 140 . Blair , 815 . Finsbury Park Instruction , 1288 Mount Lebanon Chapter , 73 .
Devon Chapter , 1138 . La Tolerance Lodge of Instruction , 538 Sackville , 1619 . Merlin , 1578 . Blackpool , 1476 . Rowley , 10 5 Mariners Lodge of Instruction , 249 . Rosicrucian Society—Yorkshire College .
Macdonald Chapter , 1216 . Obituary Notices—Bro . Joseph Poore . Bro . George Thompson . Original Research—Masonic Works in British Museum . Earliest use of word Freemason . Sixty-seven years a Mason .
BOOKS , & c , RECEIVED . " Hull Packet , " " Royal Cornwall Gazrtte , " " Alliance News , " "North China Herald , " " Liverpool Mail , " "Die New Yorker Bundes Prcssc , " "Proceedings of M . P . Grand Council of Royal and Select Masters , Pennsylvania , " " Keystone , " " Australian Freemason . "
Births, Marriages, And Deaths.
Births , Marriages , and Deaths .
[ The charge is 2 s . 6 A . for announcements not exceeding Four Lines under this heading . ]
BIRTHS . FREnEMCKSow .. —On the 12 th inst ., at St . Hubert ' s , Beckenham , Kent , the wife of Mr . A . D . Frederickson , of a son . PENFOLD . —On the 9 th inst ., at the Royal Dockyard , Portsmouth , the wife of Mr . F . Penfold , Secretary R . N ., of
a son . STKETTO . V . —On the 12 th inft ., at Saxe Coburg-street , Leicester , the wife of Clement Edwin Stretton , of a son .
MARRIAGE . HAMILTON—SCHOFIELD . —On the 12 th inst ., at Kensington , James F . Hamilton , son of the late Lieut .-Col Thomas Talbot Hamilton , to Ellen Bertha , daughter of thc late Mr . Robert Schofield , of Rochdale , Lanca shire .
DEATHS . MANTEL . —On thc 3 rd inst ., at Jersey , Bro . Edward Mantel , P . M . 491 and ' 958 , P . Z ., P . G . J . W . THOMPSON . —On the nth inst ., at his residence , 94 Rye Hill , Newcastle-upon-Tyne , Bro . George Thompson , P . M ., & c , aged 66 years .
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SPECIAL EDITION . A Special Edition of the Freemason will be ready early on Saturday Morning , containing a full report of the Committee Meeting and Election of Candidates of the Royal Masonic Benevolent Institution .
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THE FREEMASON . SATURDAY , MAY 17 , 1879
The Girls' School Festival.
THE GIRLS' SCHOOL FESTIVAL .
The anniversary on Wednesday last was , indeed , a triumphant success . £ 11 , 700 , with nineteen lists to come in , was truly a grand total , £ 3000 ahead of 1878 , , § £ 2000 more than any previous festival . With nineteen lists yet to come in , it is more than probable that before the
close of 1879 the returns for the Girls' School will not fall far short of £ 12 , 000 . Again , we repeat , a magnificent totality . Despite the badness of trade , despite the complaints of the agricultural interest , despite hasty prophecies
and doubting valuations , the zeal of English Freemasons betrays no lessening ; , points to no falling back j and we agree with Bro . Binckes , when , as he truly and tersely puts it , " bad times and hard times do not seem to affect the
hearts and hands of Freemasons . It is , indeed , a subject of great rejoicing to all members of our Order to note how nobly our great Charities are supported , year by year , by the spontaneous and hearty offerings of our large-hearted fraternity . We venture to repeat what we have remarked
before , that there is no earthly society , that we are aware of , essaying , or succeeding to accomplish , what English Freemasonry yearly brings about , for the great cause , the goodly claims , the needs , the work , the " outcome" of charity . Some of the circumstances attending the Festival
of 1879 deserve to be noted and remembered . Three weeks before the Festival there was no Chairman found , or even apparently rindable , and then it was that our gallant and energetic Bro . Lieut .-Colonel Creaton placed himself , in a most fraternal and commendable spirit , and
following a good precedent , in the hands of the Boards of Stewards . It was felt for many reasons , that under the then circumstances of the case , the actual position of affairs , this was an offer not lightly to be rejected , or hastily ignored . Lieut .-Colonel Creaton possessed advantages for
the post which none others , we make bold to say , are endowed with . He was Trustee and Treasurer of the Institution , he was Chairman of the Bui / ding Committee , his services to all the Charities have been conspicuous and unceasing . He had recently , also , been elected
Grand Treasurer of England , and it was not unreasonable , to expect that the brethren , mindful of his Masonic career , and glad to recognize his undeniable claims on their sympathy , good will , and respect , would rally round our distinguished brother . And the result has proved how sound
these views were , and how seasonable was the action of the Board of Stewards . If it be true that a " more distinguished brother " in mere social position might have been found , yet we venture to think that a " more distinguished brother " in Masonic services , and zeal , and sacrifices for the
Charities cannot be found than our kindly friend , the Grand Treasurer . And hence , no doubt , the warmth of his reception , and the success and prestige of the gathering . We congratulate all concerned—the Stewards , the Managing Committee , and , above all , Bro . Hedges . As the old
adage runs , the " proof of the pudding is in the eating , " and we are glad to find that the anniversary of 1879 affords the most complete vindication of those many brethren , who in the election of Bro . Hedges , sought to carry out true
Masonic teaching , in " commending industry and rewarding merit . " We reserve for next week an analysis of tho return , —the more so as we shall probably have to say a good deal on the subject , and we refer our readers to the full and faithful report of the Festival .
The Last Meeting Of Grand Chapter.
THE LAST MEETING OF GRAND CHAPTER .
The last meeting of Grand Chapter was an important one in all respects , in that it dealt with a case , not uncommon just now , of the application for a charter to be attached to the Orpheus Lodge , No . 1706 . The lodge it seems had not been in existence three years , and as
three years should elapse , we are told , before a charter to a lodge be granted , the Committee recommended tbat the " prayer of the petition be not complied with . " This recommendation of the Committee was carried on a division by 24 to io ; the application for a chapter was
therefore lost . The term of " three years " is not forced by the Royal Arch Constitutions , but by a resolution of the Committee of Grand Chapter in 1875 , approved of by Grand Chapter . We think , with all deference to Graad Chapter , that such a resolution is a mistake , and requires
amendment , and for these reasons . In the first place , we object to the government of the members of the Royal Arch Grade by a " resolution " of the Committee ; any such provision ought to be inserted in the "Constitutions . " In the next place , the resolution is , in our opinion , a mistake , and
one not suited , to 1879 , whatever it may have been so late even as 1875 . Twelve months is quite a sufficient term of delay to prove the stability of a lodge , and the present system is a great practical hardship on lodges and brethren , and is the cause of the paucity of Royal Arch Masons
as compared with Craft Masons . A charter is granted in a provincial town , for instance , where there is only one lodge . A large influx of members takes place . They are all eligible for exaltation at the expiration of twelve months , but as the lodge cannot get a charter for three years , they
either go to another town , or they stop where they are , and never are exalted at all . Hence , at this moment , not one quarter of our Master Masons are members of the Royal Arch . We venture to think that an injustice is thus done to Master Masons , and Royal Arch Masonry is
kept back , evidently by a " resolution " which certainly seems to ignore , whenever put in force , the wants and position of our lodges today . In the case of the " Orpheus , " it has eighty-five members , and twenty of the members are P . M . ' s . So that there is , indeed , plenty
of support to be in it found for the more limited area of Royal Arch Masonry . If in former times , when Royal Arch Masons were fewer , and lodges were less numerous , such a restriction was not improper , it has ceased to have any reason and meaning when Royal Arch Masonry is
increasing rapidly in favour and numbers amongst us . We hope soon , therefore , to hear that this resolution is amended in the sense we have ventured to indicate , and that the provision , be it what it may , be incorporated in the Constitutions . The Committee wa ? ,
no doubt , perfectly justified in upholding a previous resolution , approved of in Grand Chapter , and still unrepealed , but we are , nevertheless , distinctly of opinion that , with the best motives in the world , such a resolution is an interference with the just rights and lawful claims of Master
Masons , and is , above all , most antagonistic to the proper development and increase of Royal Arch Masonry . We beg respectfully to call the attention of our rulers to the subject , anxious as we know they always are to do what is right and fair to all . "
Services Of The New Grand Officers.
SERVICES OF THE NEW GRAND OFFICERS .
GRAND TREASURER . Lieut .-Col . Creaton was initiated in the Phcenix Lodge in 1 S 52 , and joined the Lodge of Antiquity in 1857 . He was exalted in St . James ' s Chap ter in 1857 , and is a P . Z . ; and was W . M . Lodge of Antiquity i 860 and 1861 . He was Grand Steward in 1 S 60 ( President of the Board ) ;
Grand Deacon in 1862 j Grand Sword Bearer Grand Chapter in 1862 , nnd is Steward for all the Charities . He is Vice-Patron and Trustee to all the Charities , Treasurer Girls' School . and President Grand Chapter Committee i Chairman Building Committee Girls' School , and Grand Treasurer . Has been Member ot