Emulation Lodge Of Improvement.

EMULATION LODGE OF IMPROVEMENT .

Under the sanction of the Lodge of Unions , No . 256 . Meeting at Freemasons' Hall on cs-ery Friday Evening at Six o'clock , except during the months of July , August , and September .

STKWARIl !"—•V . W . Bio . Tims . Kl-. N-x , PITS . Htl . l ' . l \ , Traisnrcr .

« . «" . Hro . Sir . f . II . Moiicktun , P . li . W . V . W . ,, V ' . A . Pliilbrick . lJ . C , ( ' Herr . ,, „ Kobert ( irey , Pres .

Hit . of Hon . \ V . „ 11 . . 1 . P . Humus , l' . G . D . ,, ,, . 1 . (' . I ' lirkiii . snu , 1 'M . D . „ ,, Frank- Iticliiu'dson ,

T . CJ . D . „ „ Jus . H . Ahlttlitsvs , I ' . D ( i . D . C . „ . 1 . A . Fiirnlielel , P . Asst . fi . D . C . Hro . ( . ' . Hiissnno . P . M . 0 ( 1 . „ J . J . Muck , P . M . mill Pec . lSUl . „ Willinin Honny ,. 1 . 1 ) . 111 . ,, A . Stesvm-t Hnisvn ,

P . R . C . S ., P . M . 7 iW , Ac . „ Lennox Bross-ue , M . D ., VV . M . 2 SIS , P . P . G . S . W . Kssex . „ ErnestSt . CJiiir , P . M . 2 t * 0 il „ J . S . Cumberland , l ' . M . 2 I 2 S , P . P . G . J . W . N . & E . Yorks . „ Jus . B . Dnvison . W . lI . IS . „ K . P . Dclicnliimi , P . M .

lCT . P . P . G . Ilev . Hcits . „ Heurs * J . Ftlirrie 1 Humus , P . M . -Mil . „ T . H . Edmunds , P . M ., Ci . S . L . „ Geo . K . Fiiirchild , P . M . 11110 , l . 'HU . „ Jns . P . Fii . ZL'e-rilM , P . M .

21 ( 18 , 2127 . „ John >\ Five , P . M . . " . * Sec . lfi'Jt . ' „ A . J . Green , M . C . lllnil . „ Frimeis Hiiwkius , 11-1 . „ Hiiviiionil JI . Hiilc , NISI . „ 0 . E . Henil , 1 : 1211 , IH 2 II . ,, Henry Chas . lleiml , P . M . UII , P . P . G . H . Herts .

i „ G . Hooth Heming , P M . nnd Sec . 250 . „ A . C . A . Hierertv , P . M . lOIl . l' . P . H . D . Siirrey . Thcnes-. K . L . G . lloiiuiIli ' ,

,, I . P . M . 1 R 2 « , Pros * . HA ' . . Surrey . ,, Geo . Lesvis Keiiniibv , P . M . 2 * i , 'l , n * . * ii , Sec . l !* i * . * i „ I . W . J . Kennedy , W . M . •MB ' .

W . Mio . Fredk-. Mend , P . G . Ssvd . Br . „ Henri line , P . G . Std . Dr . ,, rims . K . MnticrJ' . G .

Std . Ilr . ,, „ * II . Clnv Sudluss-, P . G . Std . Br . ,, „ 8 . V . Aliriiliani , G . P . „ W . Hopekirk , P . G .

l ' urst . ,, „ Thoinus Wliituuu-sh , P . G . Pnrst . ,, ,, Henry Siuller , G . Tyler . Hro . 'tW ' . G . Kentish , Sec . P . P . G . D . Middx . ; P . M . 129 S-, P . M . & Scc . l 7 ( D * . „ W . H . Kirhs-, I . P . M . 1 HH 5 . „ J . Lancaster , P . M . & Sec .

au . „ V . W . Mnpletoii , P . M . 25 n . „ tTemple C . Murtin , S . W . 1708 . „ Fj * eilk .. \ iecev , J . P . M . lB ]* i . „ K . M . Money , P . M . 2 . 1 * 28 , P . G . Stsvd . „ t . l . <_* . Mortimer , 10 H . „ Thos . VY . Ockcudoii . P . M . I . * il 2 , 1050 , 1708 , P . P .

G . D . Middlesex . ,, John Pullman , P . M . s . „ tils * . Pritchnrd , P . M . 20 : 1 , 111 . 5 ; P . P . G . Treus . Middx . „ I W . P . Kvvnoklf , P . M . 7 . „ K . W . If . Kitchie , HSU . „ IV . Cl . Jfeiliinson , P . M .

11 I 73 . ,, * F . T . Kushton , P . M . 8 ; P . G . Stsvd . ,, Geo . H . Scott , 235 . ,, Williiini Sliiiiiiiiii ' . P . P . G . Treus . Kssex . „ Milton Sniitli , S . W . Ill ; Sec . 2 : « l « . „ •Francis H . Spaull , P . M .

1121 . tl 708 ; P . P . G . H . Snlop . ,, HiirrvH . Snuinie'i ' . s W . M . 1820 . Jiiincs K . Terry , P . M . A

,, Sec . 111 ( 11 . ,, Henry S . Wellcome , I . P . M . . 1 . ,, Stephen Barton Wilson , P . M . Jfc Treus . tl . ,, + 1 ) . ll . West , S . W . ins .

* Members of Iho Committee . + Workers of the Sections . THE ANNUAL FESTIVAL of the Lodge svill take place AT FREEMASONS' HALL , ON FRIDAY EVENING , THE 24 th FEBRUARY , I & J 3 , on which occasion THE R . W . BRO . WILLIAM W . B . BEACH , M . P ., Prov . G . Master of Hampshire & the Isle of Wight ,

HAS KINDLY CONSENTED TO PRESIDE . The Lodge svill be opened at Six o ' clock p . m . precisely . V . W . BRO . THOMAS FENN , Pres . Bd . G . P ., Treas ., as W . M .

THK FIIIST MICTURK WILL UK WOUKKD . 1 st Seel ion hy Bro . Temple C . Marliii , 2 inl „ „ I ) . II . West . *' rd ,, ,, Henry Pritehnrd . llh ,, „ J . C . Mortimer .

nth „ „ J . J . Illack . nth „ ., W . P . Ilcyimlds . 7 th „ ,, W . U . Kentish . TICKETS for the SUPPER , including admission to the Lodge , sr . each , may be had of the Stesvards , or of the Sccrtlaiy , Bro . VV . G . KENTISH , 5 , Laurence Potintney Hill , E . C .

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To Correspondents.

To Correspondents .

OUR PORTRAIT GALLERY OF WORSHIPFUL MASTERS . In future numbers of the Freemason we purpose giving a series of portraits of Worshipful Masters who have been recently installed . Recognising the fact that no greater honour can be bestowed on a brother than to be elected the Master of his lodge , we

desire to do our part tosvards creating a permanent record of such event in his Masonic history by placing bis portrait before our readers . We shall be pleased to furnish Secretaries of lodges and others who may take an interest in our project svhatever information may be desired as to our proposed method of procedure .

The follosving communications , amongst others , unavoidably stand over : Cn . srr LOUC . ES . —Royal Sussex , No . **•;; Industry , No . 186 ; Kuphratcs , No . 2 x 1 ; United Phe-rims , No . joy ; Westbourne , No . 733 ; Priory , No . loco ; Joppa , 114 ; Hemming , No . 151 a ; Coleridge , No . 1 * 750 ; ai d Duke of Connaught , No . 11-34 . Rov . st . ARCH CHM-THR . —Pattison , No . 913 .

MARK LOIKIKS . —Old York ( T . l . ); Moore , No . 146 ; Sir Irancis Burdett , No . 181 ; and Nenc , No . 22 7 . Consecration of the Tuscan Mark Lt dge , No . 4 S 4 . Our usual reports of lodges of instruction are still crosvded out , but they svill appear next sveek , and sve trust it will not be necessary in future to omit these items of Masonic news , svhich appear to be of interest to so many of our readers .

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toMSSSS^ S ATURDAY , F EBRUARY 4 , 18 93 .

Masonic Notes.

Masonic Notes .

There is not , as a rule , much in thc proceedings of Supreme Grand Chapter to attract notice ; but on Wednesday the agenda was an unusually full one . Firstly , there was an nrray of as many as 11 chapters to which svarrants svere recommended b y the

Committee of General Purposes to be granted . Then the said Committee recommended that there should be an increase in the number of Grand , Provincial Grand , and District Grand Ofiicers appointed annually , to correspond svith the increase in Grand , Provincial Grand , and

District Grand Ollicers svhich has been recently sanctioned by Grand Lodge . Lastly , the Acting Grand Z . —Comp . W . VV . B . Beach , M . P ., Grand J —called attention to Ihe epiestion of the exclusion from the

ceremony of opening of a chapter of [ all companions but such as svere Installed Principals . A discussion on this point follosved , which svill doubtless prove interesting to our readers .

We are delighted to hnd that the Board of Stewards lor the approaching festival of the Royal Masonic Benevolent Institution is becoming rapidly stronger in

point of numbers . Last week we svere able to report that the Board svas not far short of 160 , nosv it is 175 , and there are still three weeks in svhich to swell the number .

Wc are also delig hted lo hear that Hertfordshire notsvithstanding its supreme effort at the Benevolent Jubilee , in February , 1892 , is determined lo give Bio . Keyser all the support in its posver . A Province

svhich has 21 lodges on its roll , and raised i . 2000 in 1892 , cannot be expected to do very much in 18 93 , but it is bestirring itself , and the chances are in favour of every lodgs sending up a Steward .

The annual festival of the Emulation Lodge of Improvement is fixed for Friday , the 24 th inst ., and our advertising columns contain , this week , a full list of Stesvards . It seems almost superlluous to refer

again to the good work done in connection svith the "High School" of London Masonry , but it would be ungenerous not to exprcs--. when opportunity offers , our appreciation of its efforts to maintain and perpetuate the purest and best form of Masonic svorking . We