Historic Chairs At Toronto Exhibition.

Historic Chairs at Toronto Exhibition .

IN the centre room of the Art Gallery at the Canadian National Exhibition was a collection of seven chairs of great historic interest , the property of M . W . Bro . J . Ross Robertson , of Toronto . The chairs are known as the " Coronation chair , " " Masonic chair , " " Palestine chair , ' '

" Nelson ' s chair , " . " Canada Company ' s chair , " "Bishop ' s chair , " and " Upper Canada College chair . " The most striking of the chairs was an exact reproduction of the famous Coronation chair at Westminster , in which British monarchs have for many centuries been crowned .

Beneath the seat of this chair is a replica in material and form of the ancient stone of Scone , around which so many legends have gathered , and on which Scottish kings sat at their coronation long before it was taken from Scone to Westminster . The back , arms , and seat are covered with

the marks of the profane hands which cut initials and names on it in bygone days . Among the names on the back are those of N . Lister , T . Pelham , K . Ashcton , N . Curzon ( an ancestor of the present Viceroy of India ) , R . P . Mayne , B . Kennedy . The worn velvet on the arms has been imitated

even to tiny stains , and each scar on the wood has been traced . Down the back can be seen a water stain on the wood , and another on one of the arms . From the celebrated " Goose and Gridiron " ale house in London , where the Masonic Grand Lodge of England

was formed in 1717 , came the oaken beam out of which the Alasonic chair is made . The arms and back are covered with elaborate carving of leaf and I lower design . The Palestine chair is made of solid olive wood from

the Mount of Olives . The wood is much lighter than oak and takes on a very high polish . A branch of olives is carved down the centre standard of the back , surmounted by the Masonic compass and square . There is a reminder of the " ships of oak" and the

gallant deeds of Lord Nelson in the Nelson chair . The oak of which this chair is manufactured was taken out of the old " Foudroyant , " the favourite flagship of the great admiral . There is little carving about this chair . Three of the other chairs are made from wood taken

from the earliest buildings erected in York , which Bro . Robertson has had worked up into this form for the sake of the memories connected with the first days of the new settlement . The Canada Company chair is a solid piece of pine wood

from the beams put info the second brick building in York , which was erected by the Canada Company in 1807 and demolished man ) ' years ago . On the back is carved the arms of the Company , a beaver , saw and axe , plough and wheat sheaf in the four quarters of a shield , the centre

being occupied by a St . George ' s Cross charged with a lio : i . The bishop ' s chair is made of oak out of the heavy threshold of Bishop Strachan ' s palace , which stood on Front Street , Toronto , and was erected in 1818 . The back is plain except for an excellent relief portrait of the bishop , which

stands out from the high top . The Upper Canada College chair is of oak made from the old college building on King Street , Toronto . It is quite plain , but the oak in it is very handsome . —Masonic Sun .

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