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THE FUNERAL OF THE LATE BRO . RICHARD EVE . " Life ' s work well done " was the keynote of the impressive burial service on the I 2 th instant . Bro . Eve had found in life manifold points of sympathetic contact with his fellows , and on the 13 th instant his friends rose up from all parts of England to pay a last tribute of respect to his memory . It was a solemn and inspiring sight—this long procession of black-coated men , representing many ranks and diverse interests in life , yet all with a connecting link through their

regard for him in the coffin in their midst . As it paced slowly down the Victoriaroad , its head turning into High-street as the rear emerged from Arthur-street , the feeling deepened that Aldershot was giving honourable burial to one of its worthiest sons . The body had been brought home on Tuesday night , and lay , coffined , in the inner office . By Wednesday the first of the floral tributes had arrived , and thereafter they followed in such number and magnificence that by Thursday the room appeared a garden of flowers . Nearly all were from public

and Masonic bodies , and were correspondingly large and beautiful . Half-past two o ' clock was fixed for the departure from the house . For some time before that the mourners arrived in streams , and prepared to take their positions in the procession . Meantime the coffin was brought out and laid on an open car drawn by four handsome black horses . The wreaths and flowers were placed and hung over and around , until scarcely a corner , even on the canopy , remained uncovered . Then , as the car passed away from the door , the five mourning coaches succeeded

to receive the principal mourners . In the first rode the Rev . Priestley Evans ( minister of the New Meeting House , Leamingtoo ) , who was to conduct the service ; Mr . Gustavus Thompson , of the firm of Bro . Eve's London agents , and one of the executors ; Bros . C . Belton , P . G . D ., Sec . 1 ; and J . W . H . Thompson , P . M . and Treas . 165 . The second carriage contained Mrs . Thompson ( London ) , Mrs . Clinton ( Aldershot ) , Mrs . Marshall , and Miss Cartwright ( Bro . Eve's housekeeper ) . In the third were Bros . Col . A . K . Prescott , 1 , P . A . G . D . C . ; A . L . Thompson ,

P . M . 222 S ; Mr . Marshall , and Dr . Stroyan . Carriage number four was occupied by Colonel W . H . Tabot ( of Kidderminster ) , who represented Bro . Sir A . Frederick Godson , M . P ., Prov . G . M . of Worcestershire , and also the congregation of the New Meeting Church , Kidderminster ; Mr . Parry , Bro . George Houldsworth , J . P ., of Kidderminster , representing Lodge Hope and Charity , No . 377 ; and another gentleman from Kidderminster . Riding in the last carriage were Mr . Donald Murray , Secretary of the National Liberal

Club , and a brother of No . 2772 ; the Rev . M . Scarlett Parry , representing the Aldershot Athletic Club ; Dr . J . H . Gibson , and Mr . Bennett , The vanguard of Masons : The great body of Masons , other than those already mentioned , marched in two's in front of the car . There were about 100 of them altogether , all wearing the customary white gioves and carrying their sprigs of acacia . The Board of Management of the Royal Masonic Institution for Boys , of which Bro . Eve was chairman , was strongly represented . Among those

present were Bros . W . A . Scurrah , P . G . Std . Br . ; Chas . E . Keyser , M . A ., F . S . A ., J . P ., P . G . D ., Treas . ; Harry Manfield , Grand Treas ., S . W . 2772 ; Major John E . Le Feuvre ( J . P ., Southampton ) , P . G . D . ; E . Margrett , J . P . Fitzgerald , P . M . and Sec . 2772 , Sec . Logic Club ; J . M . McLeod , P . G . S . B ., Sec . R . M . I . B ., J . W . 2772 ; and the Medical Officer ( Dr . W . E . Porter ) . The Headmaster ofthe School ( Bro . H . A . Hebb , M . A . ) , as well as Bros . Major J . W . Woodall , E . Letchworth , G . Sec ; and F . R . W . Hedges , P . G . S . B ., Sec . R . M . I . G . ; were

unable to be present from various causes . Several members of the Richard Eve Lodge , No . 2772 , in addition to those mentioned above , were in the procession . These included Bros . O . B . Cuvilje , J . H . Gerard , W . Masters , and C . H . West . Three brethren represented Guy ' s Lodge , No . 395 , Leamington , Bro . Eve ' s mother lodge . They were Bros , the Rev . J . P . Cranstoun , VV . M . ; Albert E . Gibbs , I . P . M . ; and J . F . Burgess . The Hampshire and Isle of Wight province was represented by Bros . Commander H . J . Giles , R . N ., Prov . G . Sec ; J . W . Gieve ,

Prov . G . Treas . ; and John Brickwood F . R . G . S ., I , P . P . G . W . Other Masons from distant lodges included Bros . A . H . Salter , Sec Percy Mark Lodge , Guildford ; T . White , P . M . 777 ; and Captain G . E . W . James , representing No . 2578 . Local Masons turned up in force , and there were representatives of all the Aldershot lodges , viz ., Nos . 723 , 1331 , 54 ( Mark ) , 1971 , and 723 ( chapter ) , as well as Nos . 1046 , and 2203 . Among the Aldershot brethren were Bros . VV . Sowden , senior P . M . 723 ; H . J . Marshallsay , VV . M . 723 ; E . Finch , VV . M . 1331 ;

Norman Clinton ( Bro . Eve's partner ); Colonel Pickance , Dr . Stroyan , Sergeant-Major Cockburn , ILL . Allen , VV . Burns , A . J . Colledge , C . Cullen , B . A ., C . A . L . Calvert , Jas . Doe , R . Elliott , R . Featherstone , W . E . Foster ( clerk , Aldershot U . D . C . ) , C . J . Jerome , R . L . Lloyd , Lehmann , J . Meiklejohn , J . Milner , VV . Marlow , J . May ( chairman Aldershot U . D . C . ) , C . H . Smith , A . H . Smith , N . Solomon ( captain Aldershot Fire Brigade ) , Shearwood , H . Saunders , A . G . Tolley , T . Turner , J . Tavcrner , T . Vincent , G . VVasley , Thomas Wells

( vice-chairman Aldershot U . D . C . ) , and J . M . \ oud . The rarnhorough and North Camp representatives included Bros . Carpenter , A . Davis , C . Gates , J . J . Galsworthy , G . Goodall , G . Harrison , H . J . Joyce , and Captain Bachelor . From the St . Andrew ' s Lcdtre , No . 1046 , came Bros . Dr . J . H . Gibson , and Dr . C . E . Tanner . Public bodies represented ; A prominent member ot the procession was the Hon . Mark F . Napier , who was concerned with Bro . Eve in the defence of Arabi Pasha , and who represented the Board of Management of the National Liberal Club .

Colonel G . F . Birch ( the chairman ) and Mr . VV . T . Robertson were the Aldershot magistrates present , and they were accompanied by their clerk ( Mr . ] . I .. Brooks ) and his deputy ( Mr . V . Knapp ) . Mr . H . Barber ( the clerk ) represented the Hants County Council . Many of the Aldershot District Council were present in other capacities , but their ranks included Surgeon-General O'Dwyer , P . M . O ., Mr . VV . Chrismas , M . T . Jeffries , Dr . T . Dunlop ( medical officer ) , and Mr . Nelson F . Dennis ( surveyor ) , Mr . R . Bateman ( chairman ) , and Messrs . T . Budd , B .

Croxford , and C . I ' . Roelich represented the Burial Board . Superintendent Hawkins was present with a strong body of police . Court Colin Campbell , A . O . F ., of which Bro . Eve was a member , was represented by Bros . Colyer , Cox , Gannon , Hughes , and Williams . Others noted in the procession , or at the graveside , were : Kir . John Fell , J . P ., of Leamington ; Bro . Robert Manuel , Treasurer of the Logic Club ; Mr . Perry St . Gerrans , Mr . \ V . Reavell , vice-chairman Aldershot School Board ; Mr . Merry , and Mr . VV . Wren , secretary Aldershot

Hospital . Unavoidably absent : Long as is the list above , it far from represents all who would have been present had they not been unavoidably prevented . Only a few can be mentioned of those from whom letters of apology for absence were received . Among the number were Bro . the Right lion . Lord Leigh and liro . the Right Hon . W . W . Ii . Beach , M . P ., P . P . G . M ., Hants and Isle of Wight , who were joint trustees with Bro . Eve of the R . M . I . B . ; numerous members of the R . M . I . Board of Management , including Bros . George Corbie , Vice-Chairmin ; George Everett , P . G . Treas . ; lohn Strachan , () . C , G . Reg . ; W . V . Smithson

P . G . D . ; and R . V . Vassar-Smith , J . P ., P . G . D . Others who regretted absence included Bros . F . Trehawke Davies , Sec . 2771 ; Ralph Gooding , Treas . 1 ; and VV . F . Lamonby , editor of the FiAd . At the Cemetery ; The slow march to the cemetery was made through roads lined almost all the way by respectful bystanders . On Redan Hill the children of the East End Schools had taken up positions to see the last of their friend and benefactor . At length the open grave was reached . It lies on a gentle slope in the southern part of the cemetery , and adjoins that of the late Rev . Ellis Hewitt . Round the space the members of the three Fire Brigades ( Aldershot , who were under Captain Solomon ; Farnborough ,

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under Captain Joyce ; and Farnham , under Captain Elliott ) , formed a cordon within which stood the chief mourners and the Rev . Priestley Evans . The service was according to Unitarian rites , and was very simple . A reading of Scriptural passages , an extempore prayer , and address , and then the committal sentences . In his address the Rev . Priestley Evans said it was not his intention had it been in his power , to deliver a funeral oration to such a company as he saw before him , but he should feel negligent and callous if he turned away without

one word respecting him , whom many of them had learned to honour if not to love . It would seem cold and faithless to turn their backs upon him and get absorbed immediately in the turmoil of the world , forgetting that there lay a soldier of humanity , who fought many a noble fi ght , and did many deeds that wore the colours of Heaven . Such deeds it would not be fitting to enumerate ; it was needful but to record the spirit which animated them , which spirit was simply the desire to do good , to

uphold the cause of justice and truth and to scatter blessings , almost unknown to his friends , on the needy and helpless . As the years of life rolled away people became impressed with the transitorincss of things , and often that led to the disease of indifference . But there were no such signs of decay in him they were now honouring . Mr . Eve was young to the end , although he had almost completed the alloted span . Life was always full of interest for him , and that in spite of a certain loneliness , for he was the last member of his family and had no

near relative in this country . Ins presence was always buoyant , full of cheer courageous , and inspiring . He had the ambition of being of use to his fellow men and leaving thc world better than he found it . Perhaps fewer things helped to keep a man young than to possess a lofty ambition , which enabled him to forget himself and the little annoyances of life . It was the fate of few men to realise all their ambitions , but the chief thing was to have ambitions that were worthy . There was no drearier desert on earth than a life without a loftv

ambition , for it lacked all interest . Still , they must remember that they we ' re but mortals , that whenever the time came they must depart with grateful and modest hearts , and make room for others , when the Giver of the Feast so willed it . So long as their chief aim had been not to indulge their own selfishness , but to glorify the Giver of the Feast , they would not find fault with Him nor lament the end . Rather they would believe with Whittier that " life is ever greater than death " that that vast energy in life that permeated the universe , so constituted man that

the soul had two dominating yearnings , the desire to preserve life here and to continue it hereafter . They would believe that the Author of those yearnings would not prove faithless , but would possibly weave another garment , as Paul put it , of finer texture , to clothe the nakedness of life once more . In that hope and that faith they trusted to meet yet again across the border in another of the mansions of the realms of life . The service over , the Freemasons filed past the grave and dropped their sprigs of acacia as they took their last look at the coffin

The floral tributes : To describe in detail the many beautiful wreaths would be scarcely possible , and we can do no more than enumerate the senders . Of Masonic bodies , the following sent tributes : The Board of Management of the R . M . I . B another from " The Boys " of the School , the Prov . G . Lodge of Hants and Isle ' of Wight , the Panmure and Aldershot Camp Chapters , and the following lodges-Yorick , Aldershot Camp , Royal Alfred , Richard Eve , Military Mark , Shadwell Clerk Honour and Generosity , and Panmure . Others were from the National Libenl

Club , the Logic Club , the Aldershot U . D . C ., the Aldershot Volunteer Fire Brigade , the Bowling Club , the teachers and scholars of the East End and VVest End Board Schools , the Boys' Collegiate School , Aldershot , Mr . J . W . Howard Thompson , " Will and Pearl , " W . G . Thompson and son , Bertie Godsell ( a scholar of West End School ) , Mr . R . Bateman , Dr . and Mrs . Loughrey , Mrs . Klenck , Mrs . Anderson , Miss G . Jones , Mrs . T . J . Keene , and Mr . and ' Mrs . Robertson .

BRO . GEORGE GRAVELEY . Bro . George Graveley , who was familiarly known as the " Masonic Patriarch of Essex , " to whose painfully sudden death on the 13 th instant , we refer in our " Notes , " was initiated in the Tcmpcrance-in-the-East Lodge , No . SnS on the 23 rd February , 1876 , and , having passed through the junior oflices , was successively appointed Junior and Senior Warden , and elected and installed in the chair of K . S . in May , 1 S 83 . He was also a joining member of the Old King ' s Arms

Lodge , No . 28 , and a member of the Correspondence Circle of Lodge Quatuor Coronati . He was exalted in the Yarborough Chapter , No . 554 , on the 14 th November , 1 S 7 S , and in February , 1887 , after occupying successivel y the chairs of Third and Second Principal , was installed M . E . Z ., and for the second and third times in iSSS and 1 SS 0 . He was for many years Treasurer of the chapter . In

July , 1 S 84 , he was founder and first M . E . Z . of the Temperance-in-the-East Chapter , No . SgS . In 1 S 93 he was chosen to fill the chair of J . ; in 1 S 8 4 and again in 1 S 95 that of H . ; and in 1 S 9 S he again presided over the chapter as its First Principal . In March , 1 S 92 , he was a founder and lirst acting P . Z . of the Guelph Chapter , No . lGS 5 , and in 1 S 98 was its Treasurer ; while in November of the same year he was founder and first H ., and afterwards installed M . E . Z ., of the Shurmur

Chapter , No . 2374 , his services in its behalf being recognised , a month after its consecration , by his appointment as Prov . ist A . G . S . of Essex . In 18 9 6 he was appointed A . G . D . C . in Supreme Grand Chapter . In the Mark Degree , to which he was advanced in the Beaconsfield Lodge , No . 205 , in November , 1 S 7 8 , he served as its VV . M . in 1 SS 4 ; was appointed the same year Provincial G . S . B . ; and the year following Provincial S . G . O . of East Anglia ; was a P . M-

of the Old Kent ( T . I . ) Lodge ; was founder and first W . M ., in 1885 , of the Temperance-in-the-East Lodge , and , on vacating the chair , was elected Treasurer ; while , in 1 S 85 , he was appointed Grand Inner Guard in Mark Gran " Lodge ; and , in 1885 , bad conferred upon him the brevet rank of P . G . S . B . 1 ' joined the Panmure Lodge in 1 S 8 C , and some years since was founder and fir !" VV . M . of the Mark lodge , No . 461 , which bears his name . He was , in addition , a