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The Approaching Festival Of The Boys' School.
THE APPROACHING FESTIVAL OF THE BOYS' SCHOOL .
It is hardly possible to avoid feeling certain grave misgivings as to the result of the approaching Anniversary Festival of the Royal Masonic Institution for Boys . In ordinary circumstances , the Board of Stewards is sufficiently strong by about the middle of April to justify the belief that , unless something very untoward should happen in the meantime , the
subscriptions at the Festival will about suffice for the year s expenditure . But though fully six months have elapsed since Bro . Binckes was in a position to announce that R . W . Bro . Viscount Ebrington , M . P ., Provincial Grand Master of Devonshire , had kindly undertaken to preside as chairman , and thcugh during the whole of that period he has been
going about visiting lodges both in town and country soliciting brethren to give their services as Stewards , we regret to say that the responses which have been made to his eloquent and earnest appeals have been far less numerous than in any of the last 12 or 14 years . While , however , it will not be difficult to account for this partial failure of his efforts , we must take
upon ourselves to remind our readers and the Craft generally that the duty lies upon them to provide the sum necessary to maintain the School upon its present footing . Every one expects that from time to time some special requirements will arise in connection with one or other of our Masonic Charitable Institutions which can only be satisfied by an extra display oi
zeal and generosity on the part of the brethren . In 1883 it was the erection of a Preparatory School for the Boys Institution , and the appeal then made for the wherewith to carry out the proposal was nobly met . This year it is the Centenary Festival of the Girls' School which is engrossing so large a share of our attention , and not only are we all most anxious for the success
of the celebration , but we make bold to say that there is not a brother in England who will not be grievously disappointed if that success does not far surpass all other Festival successes , no matter how brilliant they may have been . Then in 1892 we shall have the Jubilee of the Royal Masonic Benevolent Institution , and a few years later still we shall be as full of the
Boys' School Centenary as we are now of that of the sister School . But while we fully recognise the justice of these special claims upon our energy and our purses , and shall always endeavour to satisfy them in a manner worthy of their importance , we must be careful that the needs which recur annually in the case of each of our Charities are not lost sight of . The Festival
of the Benevolent Institution for the current year has passed off most satisfactorily , the total of the subscriptions realised being rather more than will suffice to provide the £ 15 , 000 required for the annuitants , while the success of the Girls' School Centenary to which we are looking forward so hopefully , has not been in the slightest degree imperilled ; and what we would impress
upon our readers now is that the special claims of the Girls' School Centenary , which merit every exertion that can be made in their favour , can , and should be met without causing any detriment to the interests of the Wood Green Institution—even the most out-and-out supporters of our senior Charity would regret a triumph , no matter how signal or how
desirable it may be , which was gained under such circumstances . Unfortunately , the Boys' School prospects just now , when but little more than two months remain to us , is more discouraging than we have known since the year of the Prince of Wales's installation as G . Master . The Board of Stewards , which is ordinarily some 200 strong towards the latter part of
April , numbers at present only about 150 brethren , the representation both of London and the provinces being considerably less than usual . We have every confidence in those who have volunteered their services , that they will spare no exertion in order to raise the sum required to clothe , educate , and maintain the 260 boys on the establishment . No doubt Bro . Lord Ebrington
and his Province of Devonshire will put their shoulders to the wheel in order lhat the Festival , in which they have undertaken to play the leading part , may not compare unfavourably with its predecessors . Much also may be done between now and the middle of June in obtaining additional Stewards , and by those who are already serving in that capacity in obtaining
additional subscriptions . But even the most sanguine amongst us must allow that there is a terrible amount of leeway to make up , while the position has been rendered a thousand limes more difficult by the series of disgraceful and unjustifiable attacks which have been and still are being directed against the School authorities , so that it is difficult to believe
these will pass away without exercising a disastrous influence on the subscription list . We trust , therefore , while there is yet time for it to be of service , that the further assistance which is so urgently requited will be forthcoming , so that when the 27 th of June arrives , it may be Bro . Binckes ' s privilege to announce a total which shall at least suffice for the requirements of the current year .
Royal Masonic Institution For Boys.
ROYAL MASONIC INSTITUTION FOR BOYS .
The Quarterly Court of the Governors and Subscribers to this Institution was held on Monday at the Freemasons' Tavern , Bro . Capt . S . George Homfray , P . A . G . D . C , Dep . Prov . G . Master Monmouthshire , inthechafr . He was supported on the dais by Bros . Dudley Rolls , Joyce Murray , Raynham W . Stewart , Henry Venn , and others .
The minutes were first confirmed , and afterwards , on the motion of Bro . HENRY VENN , seconded by Bro . W . A . SCURRAH , Bro . George Plucknett , P . G . D ., was unanimously re-elected Treasurer of the Institution . The following brethren were elected the General Committee : Bros . C . W . Bennett , W . B . Blackmur , John French , Charles T . Dorey , Noah Martin , E . C . Massey , Henry Massey , C . H . McKay , A . H . Scurrah , John Stock , H . Webb , and Henry Wells . Bro . N . B . HEADON , P . M . 1426 ,
moved—In Law 31 , to leave out so much of the clause as follows the words " or by a resolution of the General Committee , " line 5 , and to insert the following in lieu thereof : — " Six days' notice of such Court being given by advertisement in three , at least , of the daily papers , notice also being sent to every Provincial Grand Secretary . The business to be transacted at such Special Court shall be specified in such requisition or resolution , and confirmation of minutes of proceedings of any such Special Court shall not be required except in such cases as provided for in Law 34 .
Royal Masonic Institution For Boys.
" The decision of a Special General Court shall not be reconsidered at any S 1 sequent Special Court or at any Quarterly General Court until after the expiration J twelve months from the date of the Special General Court at which such de ,- ; ..: was adopted . Clsi 0 n "The time at which a Special General Court shall be convened shall be betwee the hours of twelve at and four in the afternoonand the at which such
noon , place Cou shall be held shall be the place at which the Courts and Committees of the Institute are ordinarily held . " n The motion was seconded by Bro . J . S . CUMBERLAND , and carried . Bro . GEORGE J . Row , Life Governor ,
moved—That a sum not exceeding £ 103 he contributed by the Institution towards Hi guarantee fund now being raised by a Committee at Wood-green for the purpose oi promoting the Bill at present before the Houses of Parliament for the separation of Wood-green as a Local Board District from the existing Tottenham Local Board , which if carried out , will be the means ot adding to the value of the property belonging t „ this Institution by the improvement of the roads , & c , in its vicinity , and also tend to a reduction of the rates in the district .
He submitted that the Institution had large property at Wood Green , which was well known , and anything that would improve that property should be adopted . The state of the roads had been disgraceful for years past , and the rates had gone on gradually increasing until last year they were 4 s . iod in the pound . The time had come , he thought , for bringing about a
different order of things , and the separation of Wood Green as a Local Board District from Tottenham Local Board would be a desirable move , ment . It was necessary they should obtain £ 2000 to take part in the pro . motion of this Bill , and they had already £ 500 . If the £ 100 he asked for was granted it would be only as a loan , for it would be repaid out of the first ( Oh , oh . ) This Institution paid £ 240 a year for Local Board rates .
A BROTHER asked if the Court had the power to vote this money . ( Several voices— " No . " ) Another BROTHER said he thought it was a waste of time to discuss this question . Bro . G . J . Row said he had been advised by the House Committee to put this notice on the paper .
Bro . F . BINCK . ES ( Secretary ) wished to correct this statement . On the contrary , the Board said they had no funds at their disposal , and even if they voted any sum , they could not go beyond 10 guineas . If the brethren would look on their agenda papers they would see a strong appeal made to the Craft for assistance , because the Institution was absolutel y in distress :
_ The services of Brethren as Stewards are most urgently needed this year , as , owing to the confidently anticipated and naturally to be expected exceptional support assured to the Centenary Celebration of the sister Institution , the gravest apprehensions are excited as to the realisation of the amount absolutely required to m ; et the ordinary annual expenditure .
He did not see how , in face of that appeal , they could ask the Court to grant the sum asked . Another BROTHER said he thought it would be monstrously wicked in such a state of things to vote money for the purpose named ; really it was only to support one local body in a quarrel with a rival body . Bro . Row asked the Chairman to put the motion .
The CHAIRMAN said it had not been seconded yet . He hoped Bro . Row would withdraw it . When Bro . Row saw what was at the bottom of the circular notice which had been read he did not see how he could persist in his motion .
Bro . Row , as one taking an interest in the matter , came to the meeting hoping the motion would be received in a favourable spirit . If the sum was to be reduced to a smaller amount he would be happy to receive it . ( "Oil , oh , " and "Withdraw . " ) They strongly recommended it , and he hoped the brethren would see their way to granting it . The motion , having been seconded by a BROTHER , Was put to the meeting and lost .
Bro . J AMES MOTION wished to ask a question as to the management of the School . ( " Chair . " ) He was informed at the last meeting of the General Committee that now would be a good opportunity to ask the question . The CHAIRMAN said he could not take it . The next business was the
nomination of Scrutineers for the election . The Scrutineers were then appointed . Bro . MOTION again tried to get an answer to his enquiry , but was told it would not be taken . The election of 15 boys out of an approved list of 6 5 candidates was then proceeded with , and at the declaration of the poll the following was found to be the result : —
SUCCESSFUL .
Name . Votes . Arthur Oswald Crompton 3477 Reginald Woodley Goldring ... 329 S Ernest William Nankivell 32 / 1 Robert Samuel Bird 3 222 George Louis Granville Gallott ... 3046 Walter Herbert Brown 3043 Robert Guy Bindley 3002 Henry Cecil Cheek 2937
Name . Vo . es . David William Ewart Cable ... 28 ' Noel Chandos D'Oyley Foote ... ^ Arthur Ernest Davey ... - C , William Albert Fou'ds ... - fl Francis Le Gros 2 f \ Richard George King ... - " ? Henry James Staff - ^
UNSUCCESSFUL .
Name . Votes . Charles Ball 2428 Charles William Green 2299 Charles Irwin Mossop 2270
Arthur Henry Grimsey 2151 Robert Percy Chinneck 1976 Vernon Peed Gaches 196 5 Stanley Baylis 1641 Francis Pater Turner 1603 Ernest Murley 1455
Frederick Bland 1371 Walter Land 1177 Fred Wilson 1135 Joseph Wood 1049 Harry Lawrence 1036 Harold Gray 1024 Samuel Henry Reginald Fursey ... 070
Samuel Carr 935 Edward George Jarmain S 22 Arthur Herbert Windsor 739 Arthur Hughes Crane 729 Wallace Peter Charles Bosco ... 726
Ernest James Brown 6 S 6 Arthur Howard Kemp 631 George Wilkinson 504 Edgar Holmes Burgess 503
Name . v ° ' Alfred William Clarke ... - f * Stanley Edmund . Rolls Pratt ^ William John Jennings ... £
Percy Howard Wells ... - ' John Herault De Caen ... ~ Frederick William John Scott - g ^ Edward Dunthorne Hodg kinson ... Archibald Wallace Campbell - '' Edmund Arnold Greening Lamborn /'
Sydney Hammersley Wakefield - 6 } George Hancock Cox ... - ^ Arthur Thomas Browne ... •¦¦ , Clement Siggers "' 25 Frederick George Hart ... •¦• 20 James Carruthers "' 15 John Leonard Brown ... " , 2
Ernest Edward Whab ¦•• — p John Crossman '" S ' Martin Roddwell Bostock ... - 5 Rhys Edgar Morgan " 4 Herbert Tohn Drewkt ¦ " 1
William Hubert Pinder ... - 3 Alex . Sydenham Sherriff Clunes ... 3 Kenneth Kendall "• ••• '" --Frank Gowland Harvey ... "' . „ a
Votes of thanks to the Scrutineers and the Chairman of the day the proceedings .
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The Approaching Festival Of The Boys' School.
THE APPROACHING FESTIVAL OF THE BOYS' SCHOOL .
It is hardly possible to avoid feeling certain grave misgivings as to the result of the approaching Anniversary Festival of the Royal Masonic Institution for Boys . In ordinary circumstances , the Board of Stewards is sufficiently strong by about the middle of April to justify the belief that , unless something very untoward should happen in the meantime , the
subscriptions at the Festival will about suffice for the year s expenditure . But though fully six months have elapsed since Bro . Binckes was in a position to announce that R . W . Bro . Viscount Ebrington , M . P ., Provincial Grand Master of Devonshire , had kindly undertaken to preside as chairman , and thcugh during the whole of that period he has been
going about visiting lodges both in town and country soliciting brethren to give their services as Stewards , we regret to say that the responses which have been made to his eloquent and earnest appeals have been far less numerous than in any of the last 12 or 14 years . While , however , it will not be difficult to account for this partial failure of his efforts , we must take
upon ourselves to remind our readers and the Craft generally that the duty lies upon them to provide the sum necessary to maintain the School upon its present footing . Every one expects that from time to time some special requirements will arise in connection with one or other of our Masonic Charitable Institutions which can only be satisfied by an extra display oi
zeal and generosity on the part of the brethren . In 1883 it was the erection of a Preparatory School for the Boys Institution , and the appeal then made for the wherewith to carry out the proposal was nobly met . This year it is the Centenary Festival of the Girls' School which is engrossing so large a share of our attention , and not only are we all most anxious for the success
of the celebration , but we make bold to say that there is not a brother in England who will not be grievously disappointed if that success does not far surpass all other Festival successes , no matter how brilliant they may have been . Then in 1892 we shall have the Jubilee of the Royal Masonic Benevolent Institution , and a few years later still we shall be as full of the
Boys' School Centenary as we are now of that of the sister School . But while we fully recognise the justice of these special claims upon our energy and our purses , and shall always endeavour to satisfy them in a manner worthy of their importance , we must be careful that the needs which recur annually in the case of each of our Charities are not lost sight of . The Festival
of the Benevolent Institution for the current year has passed off most satisfactorily , the total of the subscriptions realised being rather more than will suffice to provide the £ 15 , 000 required for the annuitants , while the success of the Girls' School Centenary to which we are looking forward so hopefully , has not been in the slightest degree imperilled ; and what we would impress
upon our readers now is that the special claims of the Girls' School Centenary , which merit every exertion that can be made in their favour , can , and should be met without causing any detriment to the interests of the Wood Green Institution—even the most out-and-out supporters of our senior Charity would regret a triumph , no matter how signal or how
desirable it may be , which was gained under such circumstances . Unfortunately , the Boys' School prospects just now , when but little more than two months remain to us , is more discouraging than we have known since the year of the Prince of Wales's installation as G . Master . The Board of Stewards , which is ordinarily some 200 strong towards the latter part of
April , numbers at present only about 150 brethren , the representation both of London and the provinces being considerably less than usual . We have every confidence in those who have volunteered their services , that they will spare no exertion in order to raise the sum required to clothe , educate , and maintain the 260 boys on the establishment . No doubt Bro . Lord Ebrington
and his Province of Devonshire will put their shoulders to the wheel in order lhat the Festival , in which they have undertaken to play the leading part , may not compare unfavourably with its predecessors . Much also may be done between now and the middle of June in obtaining additional Stewards , and by those who are already serving in that capacity in obtaining
additional subscriptions . But even the most sanguine amongst us must allow that there is a terrible amount of leeway to make up , while the position has been rendered a thousand limes more difficult by the series of disgraceful and unjustifiable attacks which have been and still are being directed against the School authorities , so that it is difficult to believe
these will pass away without exercising a disastrous influence on the subscription list . We trust , therefore , while there is yet time for it to be of service , that the further assistance which is so urgently requited will be forthcoming , so that when the 27 th of June arrives , it may be Bro . Binckes ' s privilege to announce a total which shall at least suffice for the requirements of the current year .
Royal Masonic Institution For Boys.
ROYAL MASONIC INSTITUTION FOR BOYS .
The Quarterly Court of the Governors and Subscribers to this Institution was held on Monday at the Freemasons' Tavern , Bro . Capt . S . George Homfray , P . A . G . D . C , Dep . Prov . G . Master Monmouthshire , inthechafr . He was supported on the dais by Bros . Dudley Rolls , Joyce Murray , Raynham W . Stewart , Henry Venn , and others .
The minutes were first confirmed , and afterwards , on the motion of Bro . HENRY VENN , seconded by Bro . W . A . SCURRAH , Bro . George Plucknett , P . G . D ., was unanimously re-elected Treasurer of the Institution . The following brethren were elected the General Committee : Bros . C . W . Bennett , W . B . Blackmur , John French , Charles T . Dorey , Noah Martin , E . C . Massey , Henry Massey , C . H . McKay , A . H . Scurrah , John Stock , H . Webb , and Henry Wells . Bro . N . B . HEADON , P . M . 1426 ,
moved—In Law 31 , to leave out so much of the clause as follows the words " or by a resolution of the General Committee , " line 5 , and to insert the following in lieu thereof : — " Six days' notice of such Court being given by advertisement in three , at least , of the daily papers , notice also being sent to every Provincial Grand Secretary . The business to be transacted at such Special Court shall be specified in such requisition or resolution , and confirmation of minutes of proceedings of any such Special Court shall not be required except in such cases as provided for in Law 34 .
Royal Masonic Institution For Boys.
" The decision of a Special General Court shall not be reconsidered at any S 1 sequent Special Court or at any Quarterly General Court until after the expiration J twelve months from the date of the Special General Court at which such de ,- ; ..: was adopted . Clsi 0 n "The time at which a Special General Court shall be convened shall be betwee the hours of twelve at and four in the afternoonand the at which such
noon , place Cou shall be held shall be the place at which the Courts and Committees of the Institute are ordinarily held . " n The motion was seconded by Bro . J . S . CUMBERLAND , and carried . Bro . GEORGE J . Row , Life Governor ,
moved—That a sum not exceeding £ 103 he contributed by the Institution towards Hi guarantee fund now being raised by a Committee at Wood-green for the purpose oi promoting the Bill at present before the Houses of Parliament for the separation of Wood-green as a Local Board District from the existing Tottenham Local Board , which if carried out , will be the means ot adding to the value of the property belonging t „ this Institution by the improvement of the roads , & c , in its vicinity , and also tend to a reduction of the rates in the district .
He submitted that the Institution had large property at Wood Green , which was well known , and anything that would improve that property should be adopted . The state of the roads had been disgraceful for years past , and the rates had gone on gradually increasing until last year they were 4 s . iod in the pound . The time had come , he thought , for bringing about a
different order of things , and the separation of Wood Green as a Local Board District from Tottenham Local Board would be a desirable move , ment . It was necessary they should obtain £ 2000 to take part in the pro . motion of this Bill , and they had already £ 500 . If the £ 100 he asked for was granted it would be only as a loan , for it would be repaid out of the first ( Oh , oh . ) This Institution paid £ 240 a year for Local Board rates .
A BROTHER asked if the Court had the power to vote this money . ( Several voices— " No . " ) Another BROTHER said he thought it was a waste of time to discuss this question . Bro . G . J . Row said he had been advised by the House Committee to put this notice on the paper .
Bro . F . BINCK . ES ( Secretary ) wished to correct this statement . On the contrary , the Board said they had no funds at their disposal , and even if they voted any sum , they could not go beyond 10 guineas . If the brethren would look on their agenda papers they would see a strong appeal made to the Craft for assistance , because the Institution was absolutel y in distress :
_ The services of Brethren as Stewards are most urgently needed this year , as , owing to the confidently anticipated and naturally to be expected exceptional support assured to the Centenary Celebration of the sister Institution , the gravest apprehensions are excited as to the realisation of the amount absolutely required to m ; et the ordinary annual expenditure .
He did not see how , in face of that appeal , they could ask the Court to grant the sum asked . Another BROTHER said he thought it would be monstrously wicked in such a state of things to vote money for the purpose named ; really it was only to support one local body in a quarrel with a rival body . Bro . Row asked the Chairman to put the motion .
The CHAIRMAN said it had not been seconded yet . He hoped Bro . Row would withdraw it . When Bro . Row saw what was at the bottom of the circular notice which had been read he did not see how he could persist in his motion .
Bro . Row , as one taking an interest in the matter , came to the meeting hoping the motion would be received in a favourable spirit . If the sum was to be reduced to a smaller amount he would be happy to receive it . ( "Oil , oh , " and "Withdraw . " ) They strongly recommended it , and he hoped the brethren would see their way to granting it . The motion , having been seconded by a BROTHER , Was put to the meeting and lost .
Bro . J AMES MOTION wished to ask a question as to the management of the School . ( " Chair . " ) He was informed at the last meeting of the General Committee that now would be a good opportunity to ask the question . The CHAIRMAN said he could not take it . The next business was the
nomination of Scrutineers for the election . The Scrutineers were then appointed . Bro . MOTION again tried to get an answer to his enquiry , but was told it would not be taken . The election of 15 boys out of an approved list of 6 5 candidates was then proceeded with , and at the declaration of the poll the following was found to be the result : —
SUCCESSFUL .
Name . Votes . Arthur Oswald Crompton 3477 Reginald Woodley Goldring ... 329 S Ernest William Nankivell 32 / 1 Robert Samuel Bird 3 222 George Louis Granville Gallott ... 3046 Walter Herbert Brown 3043 Robert Guy Bindley 3002 Henry Cecil Cheek 2937
Name . Vo . es . David William Ewart Cable ... 28 ' Noel Chandos D'Oyley Foote ... ^ Arthur Ernest Davey ... - C , William Albert Fou'ds ... - fl Francis Le Gros 2 f \ Richard George King ... - " ? Henry James Staff - ^
UNSUCCESSFUL .
Name . Votes . Charles Ball 2428 Charles William Green 2299 Charles Irwin Mossop 2270
Arthur Henry Grimsey 2151 Robert Percy Chinneck 1976 Vernon Peed Gaches 196 5 Stanley Baylis 1641 Francis Pater Turner 1603 Ernest Murley 1455
Frederick Bland 1371 Walter Land 1177 Fred Wilson 1135 Joseph Wood 1049 Harry Lawrence 1036 Harold Gray 1024 Samuel Henry Reginald Fursey ... 070
Samuel Carr 935 Edward George Jarmain S 22 Arthur Herbert Windsor 739 Arthur Hughes Crane 729 Wallace Peter Charles Bosco ... 726
Ernest James Brown 6 S 6 Arthur Howard Kemp 631 George Wilkinson 504 Edgar Holmes Burgess 503
Name . v ° ' Alfred William Clarke ... - f * Stanley Edmund . Rolls Pratt ^ William John Jennings ... £
Percy Howard Wells ... - ' John Herault De Caen ... ~ Frederick William John Scott - g ^ Edward Dunthorne Hodg kinson ... Archibald Wallace Campbell - '' Edmund Arnold Greening Lamborn /'
Sydney Hammersley Wakefield - 6 } George Hancock Cox ... - ^ Arthur Thomas Browne ... •¦¦ , Clement Siggers "' 25 Frederick George Hart ... •¦• 20 James Carruthers "' 15 John Leonard Brown ... " , 2
Ernest Edward Whab ¦•• — p John Crossman '" S ' Martin Roddwell Bostock ... - 5 Rhys Edgar Morgan " 4 Herbert Tohn Drewkt ¦ " 1
William Hubert Pinder ... - 3 Alex . Sydenham Sherriff Clunes ... 3 Kenneth Kendall "• ••• '" --Frank Gowland Harvey ... "' . „ a
Votes of thanks to the Scrutineers and the Chairman of the day the proceedings .