At The Sign Of The Perfect Ashlar

At the Sign of the Perfect Ashlar

Bro . the Hon . Arthur Stanley , M . P ., the neyv Provincial Grand Master of the Isle of Man , is third son of the sixteenth Earl of Derby , and has represented the Ormskirk Division of South-West Lancashire in the House of Commons since 18 9 8 . He commenced his public life as Attache in the

Diplomatic Service , and became Private Secretary to the First Lord of the Treasury in 1892 . With regard to his Masonic career , it may be stated that the new Provincial Grand Master yvas initiated in the St . George's Lodge of Harmony , No . 32 , Liverpool . During the past year he has

occupied the chair of Senior Warden , and is at present the Worshipful Master elect , but it may be observed he cannot be instituted into his new office of Provincial Grand Master until he has been installed as a Worshipful Master .

. © < s » < s > The approaching Festival of the Royal Masonic Benevolent Institution in February presents some special features of interest . The annuitants are ahvays yvith us , but Chairmen and Secretaries come and go . On this occasion the chair

yvill be filled by a brother who , within a very short time of his appointment as Provincial Grand Master of Suffolk , and before even his formal installation could be carried out , unhesitatingly responded to the appeal made to him to preside at the 1903 Festivaland that the truly Masonic spirit the

, Earl of Stradbroke has shoyvn will be heartily responded to by the brethren of Suffolk . All yvho know that province will need no assurance that every possible effort will be made , both in support of their Chairman and the Institution , and will be cheerfully and zealously undertaken .

< 5 > S > < S » Bro . Colville Smith , too , makes his first appearance as Hon . Secretary to the Board of Steyvards in succession to the veteran Bro . James Terry , yvho for so many years has scored successes at an ever increasing ratio . Bro . Smith ' s task is

a heavy and difficult one , but yve venture to hope that the Institution will continue to receive that support which its pressing needs and rightful claims to our generous sympathy demand .

< S > < s > ( 8 > Bro . W . S . Penley , Grand Treasurer nominate for the present year , yvas the principal guest of the Logic Club , which held its tyventy-second Annual Festival at the Frascati Restaurant , on the evening of the 18 th January , under the

presidency of Bro . Richard Manuel . The Club yvas formed yvith the object of teaching a perfect and " logical " rendering of the Masonic ritual , and in its early days enjoyed the advantage of the ripe experience and perfect elocutionarymethods of the late Bro . John McLean , yvho acted for some

years as its Preceptor . To-day it obtains support from such yvell-knoyvn brethren as Henry Ashby , Fred H . Chatterton , Henry Hermann , and Harry Nicholls , as yvell as many other members of the dramatic and musical professions , and yvhile ably carrying out its principal objects has also largely helped the great Masonic Charities , to yvhich it has subscribed no less a sum than 6 , 000 guineas .

< D » < J > O Whatever the differences of opinion as to the need which exists for such revision of our ancient ritual , as the founders of this particular school of Masonic teaching have introduced , there can be but one opinion as to tlie unbounded generosity of its members . In the matter of Charity , that greatest of

Masonic virtues , they can at least lay claim to have carried out logically the Masonic teachings of their predecessors from time immemorial .

A number of Grand Ollicers yvere present at the meeting , amongst them Bro . Percy Fitzgerald , Grand Standard Bearer of the year , yvhose pride it is that during his twentv-tyvo years' Secretaryship of the Club he has not been absent from its yveekly meetings more than half-a-dozen times . Bro . Penley yvas cordially thanked for his many efforts to promote the success of the organisation .

< a- © i <& A warrant has been granted by the M . W . Grand Master for the establishment of a neyv lodge to meet at the Masonic Hall , Southampton , and to be called the " Beach " Lodge in memory of the late Provincial Grand Master , the Right Hon .

W . W . B . Beach , M . P . Bro . R . Denness is named as the hist Worshipful Master , yvith Bro . P . A . A Cleveland as Senior Warden and Bro . Price as Junior Warden . Mrs . Beach has expressed her yvarm approval of the proposed name and her appreciation of the yvish to honour the memory of her late husband in such a manner .

< S > ¦<¦ » sg » The eighty-sixth regular meeting of the prosperous West Ham Abbey Lodge , No . 2291 , yvas held at the Toyvn Hall , Stratford , on Thursday , January 1 st , yvhen a good muster of brethren yvas present . The Worshipful MasterBro . H .

, Barroyv , had a good opportunity of shoyving his ability for yvork , each of the three Degrees being conferred , and they yvere carried out in a most efficient manner . Bro . T . Threlford , jun ., yvas elected as Worshipful Master , and Bro . James Boulton , P . G . S . B ., re-elected Treasurer . It yvas

reported that the ball given in aid of the West Ham Hospital yvould result in a sum of fifty guineas being handed over to that institution . The banquet on this occasion yvas throyvn open to ladies and non-members of the Craft , and about sixty visitors took advantage of this . The toasts yvere necessarily curtailed . An excellent musical programme yvas provided by Bro . Spencer .

BRO . UKMtY HAHIiOW . Bro . Henry Barroyv , yvhose portrait yve give , yvas the lirst initiate of the West Ham Abbey Lodge , No . 2291 , in the year 1888 , and has tyvice filled the Master's chair . He yvas

one . of the founders of the St . Clement Lodge , No . 2442 , Leigh , and afterwards its Worshipful Master . In the Provincial Grand Lodge of Essex he received the collar of Provincial Grand Sword Bearer . Bro . Barrow is also a Royal Arch Mason as yvell as Mark Master Mason . In the

former Degree he has occupied the First Principal ' s chair of the Doric Chapter , and in the latter he is a Past Master