Installation Meeting Of The Pen And Brush Lodge, No. 2902.

Installation Meeting of the Pen and Brush Lodge , No . 2902 .

AMONGST the numerous lodges which have been formed during the last few years in connection with the arts , literature , and the drama , the Pen and Brush Lodge may claim to have secured a prominent position . It was

fortunate enough to secure for its first Master the genial and popular Grand Treasurer , Bro . W . S .

Penley . He is succeeded this year by Bro . Holmes Kingston , whose installation took place on the 20 th

January at the Troeadero Restaurant , the ceremony being

per-THK woRSiiiPi-ui . MASTEH . formed by Bro . Penley . A banquet afterwards took place , presided over by the Worshipful Master . The usual loyal toasts were duly honoured , and in responding for " The Grand Officers , " Bro . Edward Terry , Past

Grand Treasurer , said it gave him especial pleasure to be present . He regretted he had not had an opportunity of being with them during the year , having been away seeking fresh iields and pastures new ; but he was glad to iincl on his return that the lodge had prospered , and he could imagine

from the manner in which Bro . Penley had performed the installation ceremony what delightful meetings they had had under his mastership . He congratulated the lodge upon having so eminent a Past Master and so promising a second

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On behalf of the Past Masters he expressed a hope that the lodge would go on prospering , and that the work would continue to be so admirably performed as it had been that evening . " The Health of the Worshipful Master" was next proposed by Bro . Penley , who said he left the chair with a

full conviction that his successor was both capable of performing his duties and fulfilling his obligations to the chair . Bro . Kingston was the real promoter of the lodge , and had done the secretarial work . The lodge would not have been in existence or in its present position but for him .

Theirs was a very small lodge , but he hoped the members had been impressed and would become good Masons , and he asked the lodge to support the W . M . and make it , what he was proud to say it was rapidly becoming , a successful lodge .

Bro . Holmes Kingston , in briefly replying , said that he went to Bro . Penley in 1901 and interviewed him in his dressing room between the acts , and asked him to become its first Master , and he at once consented . Since then he had spared no pains to make the lodge a success . As W . M . he felt he had as good a set of officers as any in England ,

and nearly all were personal friends , but he had no easy task before him in following Bro . Penley . In proposing * ' The Health of the I . P . M . and Installing Master , " he remarked that since the consecration of the lodge Bro . Penley had been elected Grand Treasurer , and they had felt it a great

honour to have the Grand Treasurer of England as their first Master . Bro . Penley had been somewhat a severe task master , but he had licked them into shape , and without his assistance they would not have obtained a warrant from Grand Lodge .

Bro . Penley said he was gratilied to know that they were pleased with what he had done during the past year . It was a wholesome thing to know when the work was clone that the appreciation was true and genuine . He was impressed with Freemasonry and had endeavoured to be a good Mason , both in and out of the lodge . The jewel they

had given him was a bit too big to wear on his watch chain , but he hoped to wear it on his breast for many a year to come . Other toasts followed , and an excellent entertainment was given by Bros . Charles Bertram , Tom

Brameer , Dudley Hardy , Walter _ Churcher , C . Dixon , . W . H . Gadsdon , Robb Harwood , Lance Thackeray , I Edward Terry and other well-known members | ( of the dramatic and musical professions , Jj ^ - ____ _^ and representatives of both Pen " ^ , '" "F ^ r ' s . JoTC ^ anc ' Brush .