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The Reporter.
THE REPORTER .
[ Vie have received several communications , complaining that our reports from lodges are both few ancl brief ; we can only plead in excuse that the Grand Alaster rules we are an unauthorized (!) publication ivhich we presume will be accepted as accounting for brevity—but if our correspondents will furnish reports , we will—mdlgre our being unauthorized—insert them . ] n
Erratum in our last , in re "Oak Lodge . " For Cornelius Homeread , Cornelius Stovm ; for Canille Home—read , Carville Stovin . EMULATION LODGE OF IMPROVEMENT , ( No . 318 ) , March 17 . —Presentation of the Testimonial to Bro . John Savage .-In order that this tributary acknowledgment to a most deserving brother should lack nothing of due honour , the members of the Emulation Lodge of Improvement determined to have a banquet the occasionthat the
on , brethren might associate in full Craft costume , and thus < rive to the proceedings additional prestige . About sixty brethren sat down , under the presidency of Bro . Dr . Crucefix . The Doctor was supported on his right by Bros . Savage , Shaw , & c , and on his left by Bros . Hervey Pratt , & c ; Bros . Faudel and Scrivener officiated as vice-presidents at the end 0 f the side tables . Notes were read from Bros . Big ° - Lane Whitmore , Mountain , and other brethren , regretting their compulsory absencehut all bearing to
, testimony the important masonic services of their esteemed Brother Savage . The CHAIRMAN , after the banquet , prefaced the health of the sovereign lady of England , in happy contrast with the excitement that prevailed m every other country . The toasts then given successively were the Grand Masters of England , Scotland , ancl Ireland . The Chairman then gave " The other Grand Lodges over the whole world" his
. During address he drew the attention of the meeting to the declaration of loyalty on the pari : of the French Grancl Lodge , who took immediate steps to send in then * adhesion to the new provisional government ; and he commented on the blessings that enshrined our own happy land , which , under the most trying circumstances , afforded protection and shelter to a Masonking , m the sad moment of his exile from his native land . The CHAIRMAN then entered on the subject of the toast of the evening vizthe of Service of
., presentation a Plate to Bro . John Savage commenting on his claims to the respect and admiration of the English Craft . He observed among the company many members of the Emulation Lodge of Improvement , such , and countless absent members , must feel gratefully sensible of the many advantages they had derived from the instruction of Bro . Savage , who never thought of the time bestowed or the trouble taken m promulgating the ritual of Masonry , which he with other worthieshad derived from
, the personal attention of the late Peter Gilkes . Bro . Savage had thrown himself ; heart and soul , into the Order , and thereby became a sound practical Craftsman ; every ceremonial , every lecture was so intuitively fixed in his memory , that he might be looked on as the authority of the day . Such was the high opinion entertained by the Grand Lod ge of his many qualifications that he was almost a standing member of the Board of General Purposes and to carry this qualification still higher , the Board itself hadtwice
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The Reporter.
THE REPORTER .
[ Vie have received several communications , complaining that our reports from lodges are both few ancl brief ; we can only plead in excuse that the Grand Alaster rules we are an unauthorized (!) publication ivhich we presume will be accepted as accounting for brevity—but if our correspondents will furnish reports , we will—mdlgre our being unauthorized—insert them . ] n
Erratum in our last , in re "Oak Lodge . " For Cornelius Homeread , Cornelius Stovm ; for Canille Home—read , Carville Stovin . EMULATION LODGE OF IMPROVEMENT , ( No . 318 ) , March 17 . —Presentation of the Testimonial to Bro . John Savage .-In order that this tributary acknowledgment to a most deserving brother should lack nothing of due honour , the members of the Emulation Lodge of Improvement determined to have a banquet the occasionthat the
on , brethren might associate in full Craft costume , and thus < rive to the proceedings additional prestige . About sixty brethren sat down , under the presidency of Bro . Dr . Crucefix . The Doctor was supported on his right by Bros . Savage , Shaw , & c , and on his left by Bros . Hervey Pratt , & c ; Bros . Faudel and Scrivener officiated as vice-presidents at the end 0 f the side tables . Notes were read from Bros . Big ° - Lane Whitmore , Mountain , and other brethren , regretting their compulsory absencehut all bearing to
, testimony the important masonic services of their esteemed Brother Savage . The CHAIRMAN , after the banquet , prefaced the health of the sovereign lady of England , in happy contrast with the excitement that prevailed m every other country . The toasts then given successively were the Grand Masters of England , Scotland , ancl Ireland . The Chairman then gave " The other Grand Lodges over the whole world" his
. During address he drew the attention of the meeting to the declaration of loyalty on the pari : of the French Grancl Lodge , who took immediate steps to send in then * adhesion to the new provisional government ; and he commented on the blessings that enshrined our own happy land , which , under the most trying circumstances , afforded protection and shelter to a Masonking , m the sad moment of his exile from his native land . The CHAIRMAN then entered on the subject of the toast of the evening vizthe of Service of
., presentation a Plate to Bro . John Savage commenting on his claims to the respect and admiration of the English Craft . He observed among the company many members of the Emulation Lodge of Improvement , such , and countless absent members , must feel gratefully sensible of the many advantages they had derived from the instruction of Bro . Savage , who never thought of the time bestowed or the trouble taken m promulgating the ritual of Masonry , which he with other worthieshad derived from
, the personal attention of the late Peter Gilkes . Bro . Savage had thrown himself ; heart and soul , into the Order , and thereby became a sound practical Craftsman ; every ceremonial , every lecture was so intuitively fixed in his memory , that he might be looked on as the authority of the day . Such was the high opinion entertained by the Grand Lod ge of his many qualifications that he was almost a standing member of the Board of General Purposes and to carry this qualification still higher , the Board itself hadtwice