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To Correspondents.

To Correspondents .

[ Several letters on the Boys' School and other matters of interest stand over for want of space . ] The following communications unavoidably stand over : CRAFTEarl of Lathom Lodge , No . S 34 , MARKYork Lodge , No . 334 . Granville Lodge , No . 390 .-INSTRUCTIONKensington Lodge , No . 1767 . St . Ambrose Lodge , No . 1891 . Beaumont Lodge , No . 2035 . OBITUARY—Bro . William Wells . The Poet Burns . A Masonic Lodge held " Al Fresco . " Masonic Service at Beswick , Manchester . BOOKS . Sec , RECEIVED . " Canadian Craftsman , " " South Australian Freemason , " "The Tyler , " " Australasian Keystone , " " Keystone , " and " Freemasons Repository . "

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SATURDAY , MAY 25 , 1889 .

Original Correspondence.

Original Correspondence .

ROYAL MASONIC INSTITUTION FOR BOYS . To the Editor of the "Freemason . " Dear Sir and Brother , History repeats itself . The report of Bro . Philbrick and his colleagues reminds one how in 1 S 54 Charles Dickens wrote his Christmas story of " The Seven Poor Travellers " who experienced the hospitality provided at Rochester under the will of Richard Watts . This

gentleman by his will , dated in 1579 , founded a charity for " Six poor travellers , who , not being Rogues or Proctors , may receive gratis for one night lodging , entertainment , and Fourpence each . " I fancy Bro . Philbrick must have been reading the story shortly before drafting his report . At any rate the following extracts seem so singularly ad rem that it will interest your readers to reprint them .

"This , " said the matronly presence , ushering me into a low room on the right , "is where the travellers sit by the fire and cook what bits of suppers they buy with their fourpences . " "Oh ! then they have no Entertainment ? " said 1 , for the inscription over the outer door was still running in my head , and I was mentally repeating in a kind of tune

"Lodging , entertainment , and fourpence each . "They have a fire provided for ' em , " returned the matron , a mighty civil person , not , as I could make out , overpaid , " and these cooking utensils . And this , what's painted on a board , is the rules for their behaviour . They have their fourpences .... but not much is to be got for fourpence at present , when provisions is so dear . "

"True , indeed , " I remarked . I had been looking about the room , admiring its snug fireside at the upper end , its glimpse of the street through the low mullioned window , and its beams overhead . " it is very comfortable , " said 1 . " HI conwenient , " observed the matronly presence . I liked to hear her say so , for it showed a commendable anxiety to execute in no niggardly spirit the intentions of

Master Richard Watts . But the room was really so well adapted for its purpose that I protested , quite enthusiastically , against her disparagement . "Nay , ma ' am , " said I , " 1 am sure it is warm in winter and cool in summer . It has a look of homely welcome and soothing rest . It has a remarkably cosy fireside , the very blink of which , gleaming out into the street upon a winter night , is enough to warm all Rochester ' s heart . And as to

the convenience of the six poor travellers " — "I don't mean them , "_ returned the presence , "I speak of its being an ill-conwenience to myself and my daughter , having no other room to sit in of a night . " This was true enough , but there was another quaint room of corresponding dimensions on the opposite side of the entry , - so I stepped across to it , through the open doors of both rooms , and asked what this chamber was for ?

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"This , " returned the presence , " is the Board Roomwhere the gentlemen meet when they come here . " Let me see . I had counted from the street six upper windows besides those on the ground-storey . Making a perplexed calculation in my mind , I rejoined "Then the six poor travellers sleep upstairs ?" My new friend shook her head . "They sleep , " she

answered , "in two little outer galleries at the back , where their beds have always been ever since the Charity was founded . Itbeing so very ill-conwenient to me as things is at present , the gentlemen are going to take off a bit of the back yard , and make a slip of a room for 'em there , to sit in before they go to bed . " " And then the six poor travellers , " said I . " will be

entirely out of the house ?" " Entirely out of the house , " assented the presence , comfortably smoothing her hands , " which is considered muchibetter for all parties and much more conwenient . " I had been a little startled ; in the Cathedral by the emphasis with which the effigy of Master Richard Watts was bursting out of his tomb ; but I began to think now

that it might be expected to come across the High-street some stormy night and make a disturbance here . . . My questions and her replies brought us back to the Board Room so essential to the dignity of "the gentlemen , " where she showed me the printed accounts of the Charity . From them I gathered that the greater part of the property bequeathed was marsh land , but in time it had been

reclaimed and built upon and was very considerably increased in value . I found , too , that about a thirtieth part of the annual revenue was now expended on the purposes commemorated in the inscription over the door ; the rest being handsomely laid out in chancery , law expenses , collectorship , receivership , poundage , and other appendages of management , highly complimentary to the importance of

the six poor travellers . In short , I made the not entirely new discovery that it may be said of an establishment like this in dear old England , as of the fat oyster in the American story , that it takes a good many men to swallow it whole . So much for my story . May I add that in the discussions which have already taken place , I regret to have noticed

an attempt to make Bro . Binckes the scapegoat for the evils at Wood Green . Now , I have no personal acquaintance with our brother , or any particular reason for taking his part , and I do not deny that he must bear his fair share of blame . But I think it unfair to lay everything upon his shoulders . The report seems to afford ample evidence that a very considerable amount of blame attaches to the Head Master , and the House and Finance Committees ,

and vie now understand why Bros . Ramsay and Hogard should have attempted , a fortnight ago , to discount the impression the forthcoming report was likely to produce in the Craft at large . However , to elaborate these statements would necessarily take considerable time , and as my letter has already , I fear , somewhat unduly trespassed upon your space this week , I must holdover further comments for the present . —I am , your obedient servant , F . H . ROOKE . 45 , Lincoln ' s Inn Fields , 20 th May .

To the Editor of the "Freemason " Dear Sir and Brother , Though there can be but one opinion as to the existence of an unhappy state of things in the Boys ' School , there may be many opinions as to the conclusions arrived at , and the recommendations suggested by the

Committee of Investigation . It is one thing to discover abuses , it is another to apply appropriate remedies . I do not dispute the accuracy of the statements which the Committee have made , but I do entirely demur to their proposals for the future government of the School . Throughout the whole of the report there is one grand aim in view —the destruction of the Secretary and his influence . All

the officers are , no doubt , more or less condemned , but the Secretary is the arch offender . All that he has done , his labours in season and outot season , his enthusiastic efforts , and their effect on the growth and prosperity of the School , are calmly set aside , as if of no value . If any doubt existed as to the animus of the Report , that doubt will be removed by a perusal of the bitter reply from the Chairman

of the Committee , which appears in your last number . The teaching of the School is skipped over with a light step ; in a sentence , the education is said to be satisfactory , but no proofs are given , and the subject is not dwelt upon . We discover , however , incidentally , that the Master is severe , and , as he has iocked up the library and deprived the School of its use , there seems no special reason

to believe that his interest in his boys is very warm . He may be a good schoolmaster , and he is well-known as an industrious student , with a special leaning to Anglo-Saxon literature , but in what way such studies have fitted him to undertake the domestic details of a large establishment is not apparent . Usually , a man of this order of mind would be the very last to comprehend such details , or to take the faintest interest in them . And yet the whole

recommendations of the Committee of Investigation culminate in this—that the Head Master is to take the management of the house and all it contains . That is , he is no longer to limit his attention to those duties which he is said to have performed satis f actorily , but he is to leave the very work for which he has been trained , and is said to be well suited , in order that he may occupy his mind and energies with affairs and details , for which no one pretends that he is qualified , and in which he has had absolutely no

experience . The Committee endeavour to support their authority by quoting Dr . Barry . Now , every one who knows Dr . Barry must entertain for him feelings of deep respect and affection ; and if the matter in dispute were one of ecclesiastical procedure , or classical learning , we could only listen to him with submission . But on a matter which relates to the

internal arrangements of a public institution , one may venture to hold an independent opinion . Dr . Barry ' s experience as Principal of King ' s College , as Canon of Westminster , and even as Master of Cheltenham Grammar School , gave him no acquaintance whatever with the domestic life of suGh an establishment as the Masonic Boys' School . King's

College is a day school . Moreover , Dr . Barry had nothing to do with the school ; he was Principal of the College proper . At Cheltenham each master has his boarding house and conducts it as his own 'personal venture , and as he thinks proper . The experience of the one place sheda no light on the other .