At The Sign Of The Perfect Ashlar

W . Bro . E . D . Everard , P . M ., P . G . S ., P . P . G . D . C , has for many years been connected with the Province of Buckinghamshire . A founder of the Eton Lodge , No . 245 8 , and its present Worshipful Master . He is also W . M . of another lodge in Buckinghamshire , the present being his second

\ V . BliO . 1 _ . D . EVERARD . —( Photo Elili- Tin-lmil Co . ) ¦ consecutive year of office . Provincial Grand honours were conferred on him last year by Bro . the Right Hon . Lord Addington , R . W . Provincial Grand Master . Exalted in the

Bevan Royal Arch Chapter in 18 95 , he received the honour of being appointed Provincial Grand Director of Ceremonies for Buckinghamshire . i !_ « «» « The American Tyler is a little perturbed at the

announcement that a Masonic play is about to be produced on the American stage , in which our ancient and honourable Institution , if the report be correct , is to be caricatured . It is , we believe , a new farce from the German by the great Frohman , called in the original language " Lodge Brothers , "

but it will be produced in America under the title of '' Are you a Mason ? " Our contemporary resigns itself to the endurance of such things as these by the consoling thought that were we not truly great we would not be permitted the exquisite pleasure of being caricatured .

The question of Class Lodges is not , it seems , confined to this country . A lodge in Havana , Cuba , desires to make itself a purely English-speaking lodge . Its membership is now composed almost entirely , if not wholly , of Englishspeaking Masons , and hoping doubtless to perpetuate the

character of its membership , it requested the Grand Master to permit it to initiate only American citizens and English subjects , leaving all Cubans to the other lodges of the city , at the same time lequiring the other lodges to avoid receiving American citizens or English subjects . In short , Havana

wishes , as the American Tyler remarks , to create a corner in the Anglo-Saxon race—to have a monopoly of all such who . seek light in Masonry in the capital of Cuba . It is satisfactory to learn that the Grand Master denied

their petition , as he believed such a plan to be contrary to the usages of Masonry , and , moreover , he had no power to make such distinctions between lodges as to nationality or otherwise , or to give to any lodge any such exclusive right . Our contemporary quite rightly deprecates any such attempts to narrow the field of Masonic work , since the same results mav be accomplished through the natural course of events by

their own violation , without the action of Grand Masters or Grand Lodges . There are numerous cities both in America and this country where lodges work in different languages . It is but a natural result that Germans should associate with Germans and have a German lodge , and the same with all

nationalities . If it is known that there is but one Englishspeaking lodge in Havana , those who speak English will naturall y seek it out . If it does not grow naturally what it wishes to be—a purel y Anglo-Saxon lodge—then it cannot well have such a character forced upon it .

* * <& In London we have amongst our most successful Craft lodges , Lodge La France , and Lodge L'Entente Cordiale , working entirely in French , and the Pilgrim Lodge working entirely in German , these as well as the numerous lodges in

London and elsewhere which have been formed with the object of providing a Masonic home for brethren of various tastes , professions , and callings , preserve their individualit y only by their inherent cohesiveness , and should the barriers be broken through , it may be safel y concluded that the

character and purpose of its founders are no longer a controlling factor in its destinies , and that the changes are the result of the survival of the fittest .

Bro . Julius W . Price—well known as an artist , an author , and a traveller , whose portrait we reproduce—is a member of the Eccentric Lodge , No . 2488 . Perhaps the most brilliant of his travels are recounted in his book , " From the Arctic Ocean to the Yellow Sea , " where is described ,

firstly , his journey with the exploration expedition to open up the Nordenskiold route to the interior of Siberia , via the Kara Sea , the Arctic Coast of Siberia , and up the Yenesei River ; and secondl y , how , unaccompanied , he traversed Siberia , Mongolia , the Globe desert , and Northern China to

Pekin in the year 1890-1 . Since then , Bro . Price has journeyed down the Yukon River to Klondike , and explored the West Australian Gold Fields , of both of which expeditions he has written interesting accounts . He also served in a journalistic capacity with the Greeks in the Gneco-Turkish

win . . in . irs w . I'liit'K . wh „ i „ I .,, „ , „„ sh-, ; - „ s ,-,, j , ; ,. v „ . ) war . As an artist , Bro . Price has not confined himself to black and white work , having exhibited at the Roval Academy and the Paris Salon . We hope that Bro . Price ' s recent initiation mav be but the beginning of a distinguished Masonic career .