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GLASGOW . St . Enoch Hotel ( Adjoins Glasgow Terminus of the Midland and G . & S . "V 7 . Railways ) . The St . Enoch Hotel is one of tile finest in Creal Britain , and is the most conveniently situated for both pleasure and business centres . Lounge . Nestaurant and dill Uooui . Good Cooking . Cloud Service . Kleclr ' ic Light . Lifts . Bedrooms : Single from 4 s . ; Double from 6 s . 6 d . AYR . stat j on Motel . New Lounge . Electric Lii * ht . New Lift . Good Cooking . DUMFRIES . Station Hotel . I- ' or liurns' Country , Lovely Drives , Walks , Coif . Good Cooking . Electric Light . Bedrooms : Single from 3 s . 6 d . ; Double from 6 s . 6 d . Xo CII . \ KI ; I < : lot ; ATTEXIIAXCK AMI Ki . ix'iuic l . ttiiiT . For tlt-scripti . r iinii intt'rcslinii . tiirilf ifri-c ) . apply—Chief Office : — J . U . THOMAS . Alanager , ST . ENOCH HOTKI ., GI . ASC . OW . C > . & S . W . Uy . Co . ' s Hotels .
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PERRIER = JOUET & Cos . CHAMPAGNES . FINEST VINTAGE RESERVE-CUVEES . THE FAVOURITE MASONIC BRAND . Agent—A . BOURSOT , 9 , Hart Street , Hark Lane , London .
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ROYAL EXCHANGE ASSURANCE [ INCORPORATED AD . 1720 . ] Fire , Life , Sea , Accidents , Burglary , Employers' Liability , Fidelity Guarantees , Annuities . TRUSTEES ~ and ^~ EXECUTORS . The Corporation will act as : — EXECUTOR OF WILLS . TRUSTEE OF WILLS AND SETTLEMENTS . Funds in hand exceed U N I M REACHABLE £ 5 , 250 , 000 SECURITY . Prospectus and all Information may be obtained on application to the Secretary , Head Office : ROYAL EXCHANGE , LONDON , E . C .
The Girls' School.
The Girls' School .
IBfmSOHIC^ yO Masonic Festival excites more widespread interest J than that which is to be commemorated for the 117 th time on Wednesday , May 10 th . It is the oldest of our Charities , having been founded by the Chevalier Ruspini as far back as 1788 , and an Institution which survives for 117
years , eacli one of which has a greater record of usefulness than the one before , has undoubted claims to consideration . It commenced life in a very modest way on Lady Day , a
very appropriate anniversary , and by the following January there were fifteen fatherless children partaking of its benefits . The number now on the rolls is 278 , and , in all , 2174 girls have passed through the Institution . Complete records of all transactions have been kept from the foundation , and it lias been possible therefore to write a
complete history , a task very efficiently performed by the late Bro . G . B . Abbott . From 1788 to the present time , an annual festival has been held , and the total amount realized up to the end of 1904 has been £ 579314 2 s . rod . Nothing under £ " 20 , 000
, , is looked for nowadays , and , if we exclude the Centenary in 1888 , that sum was first reached in 1899 . That year showed more than £ 11 , 000 in advance of the year before , but the Boys' Centenary was celebrated in 18 9 8 , and doubtless the girls were not the only ones to suffer . Probably the boys
suffered when the girls got more than £ 51 , 000 in the Albert Hall ten years previously . Of course a considerable amount of this large total has been invested from time to time , in fact the capital account stands at £ 262 , 28 9 , of which approximately one-half is
represented by convertible securities , and the rest by land , buildings , and fixtures . There is , therefore , an income from investments of more than £ 4 , , and as the upkeep for the year 1904 cost £ 15 , 600 , there remained a balance for reserve and other investments of £ 20 , 000 . As payments on building account and installation of electricity were somewhat heavy , the actual sum invested in the last year was £ 700 .
Whilst the Girls' School is usually referred to as one of the Masonic Charities , it must not be supposed that it is , in the ordinary sense of the word , a charity school . Nor are its inmates necessarily trained to occupy menial positions in their future lives . They have for the most part been well nurtured and brought up , as the children of parents who
have held honourable positions in Masonry as well as in the world , and in fact at the very beginning of the rules governing the Institution it is laid down that eligibility for admission must be due to the " altered circumstances" caused by , the death , illness , or misfortune of their fathers . Girls , therefore ,
who pass through the Institution are found lo have obtained appointments in the Post Office and the Civil Service , and under the several educational authorities . The local examinations established many years ago by the Universities have been taken advantage of by so many employers of labour , as
well as by so many bodies of examiners in technical instruction , that they may be regarded as affording a most convenient entry into public and official life , and consequently girls are encouraged to present themselves for the local examinations of the University of Cambridge , and the record
of success achieved has been most gratifying . In a recent year , for instance , out of ( ifty-seveii girls who competed , all but one passed . A statement like this speaks volumes for the thoroughness of the education imparted , and for the excellence of a system which seeks to level up the whole
school to a standard of moderate efficiency , rather than to cultivate tlie few clever scholars to the possible exclusion of those less gifted .
A very interesting circumstance connected with the management is that the whole of the present resident staff is made up of old pupils . In the year 1886 , for instance , there died a venerable servant of the Institution , Miss Jarwood , who had been connected with it in various capacities for 67 years , ever since she entered it at the age of nine .
In a previous article dealing with the Benevolent Institution we have referred to the wholesome rivalry between the White and the Ked Roses . Quite recently this war of the Roses culminated in a pitched battle so to speak . In 1902 , the Earl of Lathom presided at the annual festival ,
and no less a sum than the magnificent amount of £ 8 , 046 was contributed by West Lancashire in support of its Provincial Grand Master . This represented high-water mark up to that time , but next year it was the turn of West Yorkshire , and so the White Rose set about beating its
neighbour , with the result that they established a new record , sending up £ 8 , 676 . East Lancashire has this year made a fierce assault on this record by contributing £ 14 , 43 6 .
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Ad01000
GLASGOW . St . Enoch Hotel ( Adjoins Glasgow Terminus of the Midland and G . & S . "V 7 . Railways ) . The St . Enoch Hotel is one of tile finest in Creal Britain , and is the most conveniently situated for both pleasure and business centres . Lounge . Nestaurant and dill Uooui . Good Cooking . Cloud Service . Kleclr ' ic Light . Lifts . Bedrooms : Single from 4 s . ; Double from 6 s . 6 d . AYR . stat j on Motel . New Lounge . Electric Lii * ht . New Lift . Good Cooking . DUMFRIES . Station Hotel . I- ' or liurns' Country , Lovely Drives , Walks , Coif . Good Cooking . Electric Light . Bedrooms : Single from 3 s . 6 d . ; Double from 6 s . 6 d . Xo CII . \ KI ; I < : lot ; ATTEXIIAXCK AMI Ki . ix'iuic l . ttiiiT . For tlt-scripti . r iinii intt'rcslinii . tiirilf ifri-c ) . apply—Chief Office : — J . U . THOMAS . Alanager , ST . ENOCH HOTKI ., GI . ASC . OW . C > . & S . W . Uy . Co . ' s Hotels .
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PERRIER = JOUET & Cos . CHAMPAGNES . FINEST VINTAGE RESERVE-CUVEES . THE FAVOURITE MASONIC BRAND . Agent—A . BOURSOT , 9 , Hart Street , Hark Lane , London .
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ROYAL EXCHANGE ASSURANCE [ INCORPORATED AD . 1720 . ] Fire , Life , Sea , Accidents , Burglary , Employers' Liability , Fidelity Guarantees , Annuities . TRUSTEES ~ and ^~ EXECUTORS . The Corporation will act as : — EXECUTOR OF WILLS . TRUSTEE OF WILLS AND SETTLEMENTS . Funds in hand exceed U N I M REACHABLE £ 5 , 250 , 000 SECURITY . Prospectus and all Information may be obtained on application to the Secretary , Head Office : ROYAL EXCHANGE , LONDON , E . C .
The Girls' School.
The Girls' School .
IBfmSOHIC^ yO Masonic Festival excites more widespread interest J than that which is to be commemorated for the 117 th time on Wednesday , May 10 th . It is the oldest of our Charities , having been founded by the Chevalier Ruspini as far back as 1788 , and an Institution which survives for 117
years , eacli one of which has a greater record of usefulness than the one before , has undoubted claims to consideration . It commenced life in a very modest way on Lady Day , a
very appropriate anniversary , and by the following January there were fifteen fatherless children partaking of its benefits . The number now on the rolls is 278 , and , in all , 2174 girls have passed through the Institution . Complete records of all transactions have been kept from the foundation , and it lias been possible therefore to write a
complete history , a task very efficiently performed by the late Bro . G . B . Abbott . From 1788 to the present time , an annual festival has been held , and the total amount realized up to the end of 1904 has been £ 579314 2 s . rod . Nothing under £ " 20 , 000
, , is looked for nowadays , and , if we exclude the Centenary in 1888 , that sum was first reached in 1899 . That year showed more than £ 11 , 000 in advance of the year before , but the Boys' Centenary was celebrated in 18 9 8 , and doubtless the girls were not the only ones to suffer . Probably the boys
suffered when the girls got more than £ 51 , 000 in the Albert Hall ten years previously . Of course a considerable amount of this large total has been invested from time to time , in fact the capital account stands at £ 262 , 28 9 , of which approximately one-half is
represented by convertible securities , and the rest by land , buildings , and fixtures . There is , therefore , an income from investments of more than £ 4 , , and as the upkeep for the year 1904 cost £ 15 , 600 , there remained a balance for reserve and other investments of £ 20 , 000 . As payments on building account and installation of electricity were somewhat heavy , the actual sum invested in the last year was £ 700 .
Whilst the Girls' School is usually referred to as one of the Masonic Charities , it must not be supposed that it is , in the ordinary sense of the word , a charity school . Nor are its inmates necessarily trained to occupy menial positions in their future lives . They have for the most part been well nurtured and brought up , as the children of parents who
have held honourable positions in Masonry as well as in the world , and in fact at the very beginning of the rules governing the Institution it is laid down that eligibility for admission must be due to the " altered circumstances" caused by , the death , illness , or misfortune of their fathers . Girls , therefore ,
who pass through the Institution are found lo have obtained appointments in the Post Office and the Civil Service , and under the several educational authorities . The local examinations established many years ago by the Universities have been taken advantage of by so many employers of labour , as
well as by so many bodies of examiners in technical instruction , that they may be regarded as affording a most convenient entry into public and official life , and consequently girls are encouraged to present themselves for the local examinations of the University of Cambridge , and the record
of success achieved has been most gratifying . In a recent year , for instance , out of ( ifty-seveii girls who competed , all but one passed . A statement like this speaks volumes for the thoroughness of the education imparted , and for the excellence of a system which seeks to level up the whole
school to a standard of moderate efficiency , rather than to cultivate tlie few clever scholars to the possible exclusion of those less gifted .
A very interesting circumstance connected with the management is that the whole of the present resident staff is made up of old pupils . In the year 1886 , for instance , there died a venerable servant of the Institution , Miss Jarwood , who had been connected with it in various capacities for 67 years , ever since she entered it at the age of nine .
In a previous article dealing with the Benevolent Institution we have referred to the wholesome rivalry between the White and the Ked Roses . Quite recently this war of the Roses culminated in a pitched battle so to speak . In 1902 , the Earl of Lathom presided at the annual festival ,
and no less a sum than the magnificent amount of £ 8 , 046 was contributed by West Lancashire in support of its Provincial Grand Master . This represented high-water mark up to that time , but next year it was the turn of West Yorkshire , and so the White Rose set about beating its
neighbour , with the result that they established a new record , sending up £ 8 , 676 . East Lancashire has this year made a fierce assault on this record by contributing £ 14 , 43 6 .