The Somersetshire Lodge No. 2925.

jierhaps advisable to hold the toast of the Worshijiful Master over until the close of his year of office , when the }" would have more material to work ujion , but he would do his best to make his year of office a thorough success . He thanked those brethren who had sujijiorted him so freely with subscriptions for the Royal Masonic Institution for Boys

at the forthcoming festival , of which their first Worshipful Alaster , the R . W . Bro . the Earl of Cork , would preside . He concluded his thanks by presenting the lodge with a loving cuji , a jihotograjih of which we rejiroduce . The loving cup jireseuted by the Worshijiful Alaster was

a quaint jiiece of rare Somersetshire ware with three handles , a view of the tower of the St . Mary Magdalen Church , Taunton , and a view of Taunton from a field ojijiosite Play Street House . It had been recently mounted and strength en ed with silver , and bore the inscrijition : — " Presented to the Somersetshire Lodge , No . 2933 , by Wor . Bro . Henry Newland , W . AI ., October 10 th , 1904 . "

1 he Worshijiful Alaster gave the toast of " The Installing Alaster , the Earl of Cork , " who was so well known as an active Alason that he felt it almost an act of jiresumjition for him to sing his praises , but although he held such an exalted jiosition , he was never above doing work in a private lodge . When they ajijiroached him to become a founder

of the lodge they did so with fear and trejiidation , but that soon jiassed as they saw in him only a thorough Alason , whose heart and wishes were directed towards promoting the interests of Freemasonry , and he had entered into it heart and sou ) , realizing that it would form a stronger bond

between Somersetshire Freemasons in London . They all knew their I . P . M ., W . Bro . T . Whitemore Chant , as a lively , generous man , always frying to do a kind action to a friend or brother , but who was not afraid to exjiress his opinion when he thought things were not as they should be . It had afforded him great jileasure to jiresent the Past Alaster's jewel that evening .

R . W . Bro . the Earl of Cork , responded briefly , thanking the Worshijiful Alaster for his kind words . The founders could congratulate themselves upon the great jirogress they had made , and he trusted that the jiresence of the Dejiuty Grand Alaster there that evening would cement the fraternal feelings now existing between the Somersetshire lodge and

the Province of Hertfordshire . He thanked the Worshipful Alaster for the loving cuji he had jireseuted , and expressed the pleasure it had afforded him in acting as installing Alaster . The I . P . AL , W . Bro . T . Whitemore Chant , rejilying , expressed his ajijireciation of the kind references the Worshipful Alaster had made to himself , and of the jewel

they had jireseuted to him , which he hojied to wear for many years as a token of the kindness and courtesy and brotherly love that he had always received from the members , and which he trusted would now be transferred to his successor .

The toast of " The Visitors " followed , and was replied to by Bro . French , W . Af . 261 , Taunton , and other brethren . The toast of " The Alasonic Charities " was jirojiosed by W . Bro . T . Whitemore Chant , a member of the Board of Management of the Royal Alasonic Institution for Boys , who urged the brethren to sujiport that Institution at the

forthcoming Festival , at which their first Worshijiful Alaster , R . W . Bro . the Earl of Cork , would jireside . W . Bro . J . Af . AIcLeod , P . G . Swd . Br ., replying , made his usual eloquent ajijieal . The Worshipful Alaster , in jiroposing the toast of " The

Treasurer and Secretary , " remarked that they were fortunate in having the services of so exjierienced a Treasurer and Alason as W . Bro . T . Adolphus Bullock , P . G . Swd . Br ., who always managed to achieve what might be described as the " jierfection " of Treasurershiji , viz ., the bringing out the

balance on the right side . Their Secretary , W . Bro . F . Trehawke Davies , had won the esteem of the brethren and the rejiutation of being one of the most admirable Secretaries . The thanks of the lodge were clue to him for his arduous and successful labours , and to his daughter , Aliss Davies , who

had selected the admirable and ajiprojiriate quotations ujion the menu cards and jirogrammes , which undoubtedly jiointed to the fact that she must not only have taken infinite jiains , but must be an exjierienced Shakesjiearean student . W . Bro . Bullock , rejilying , thanked the Alaster for his

flattering testimonial to him as Treasure ] -, and hojied that the jierusal of the next balance would not disajijioint them . W . Bro . F . Trehawke Davies said he rejoiced to be linked with his friend , W . Bro . Bullock , both working for the advantage of the lodge .

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