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Analysis Of The Recent Subscription List.
ANALYSIS OF THE RECENT SUBSCRIPTION LIST .
THERE are two or three features in connection with the recent Festival of the Boys' School , which call for separate comment . In the first place the amount which ought to have been announced was the largest ever collected at one of these important Festivals . In the next , the number of brethren who undertook the office of Steward
was small by comparison with what it was last year , or the year before , in behalf of this Institution . Lastly , there was a very much smaller gathering of the Stewards and their friends , while the magnates of Freemasonry were for the most part conspicuous by their absence . Under these
circumstances we cannot but feel it is our duty to offer those who took part in , or in any wise contributed to , the success of the day's proceedings , our warmest congratulations . They were no doubt animated by the healthy spirit of determination to which we alluded a fortnight since .
They meant accomplishing great things , and all honour to them for having done so . But to pass to the list itself . The sum , as announced in the course of the evening , was £ 12 , 856 , but , unfortunately , by a clerical error , a large amount from one of our most considerable Provinces ,
which had actually been paid into the bankers , had been overlooked , or it would have been the Secretary ' s duty to declare the total subscriptions and donations as £ 18 , 160 15 s . Other sums have since been handed in , and the result is that the list , as furnished in these columns last week , presented a total of £ 13 , 312 2 s . We are aware this is in
excess of the sum we have seen announced elsewhere , and which was stated to us shortly before going to press last week ; but all our items have been carefully and independently checked , and the several columns have since been cast and recast , in order to ensure as complete accuracy as
possible in our manipulation of the figures . Taking then the total , as stated above , at £ 13 , 312 2 s , we find that London contributed £ 6 , 790 18 s , the Provinces £ 6 , 116 19 s , one District abroad £ 73 10 s , and Various £ 330 15 s . In securing this result there were engaged 228 Stewards . Of
these 110 represented Loudon , 110 the Provinces , one a district , and there were seven various . We have said that London , by the hands of its 110 Stewards , contributed £ 6 , 790 18 s . Of this , £ 281 4 s together made the lists of the President , the Honorary and Acting Vice Presidents ,
and the Honorary Treasurer of the Board . Four Chapters were represented , and the amount received from tbem , with one list still outstanding , is in the aggregate £ 75 lis 6 d . For the rest , 99 , or about two-fifths of our metropolitan Lodges , were represented by 102 Stewards , who gave £ 6 , 634 2 s 6 d .
It is worthy of mention that sundry among these , such as Nos . 2 , 5 , 8 , 10 , 18 , 21 , 22 , 23 , 28 , 33 , 179 , 256 , and 657 have figured in every list during the years 1875 , 1876 and 1877 , while many others have been represented , eight , seven , six , or five times . About a dozen , perhaps , have not
contributed at all , to either of our Institutions , within three years , that is , so far as we are able to gather from the published lists . They may , of course , have given in the course of the year apart from the Festival . It is also worthy of note that no less than fifteen out of the ninetv-nine Lodees
have not yet been in existence two years and a-half , and of these Cripplegate , No . 1613 , gives £ 200 , Bayard , No . 1615 , £ 135 9 s , and Orpheus , No . 1706 , which , as far as we know , has not yet been formally consecrated , figures for £ 115 10 s . The last feature to which reference will be made in connection with the Metropolitan Lodges ia the result of Bro .
Analysis Of The Recent Subscription List.
Constable ' s Stewardship . He started last autumn with a determination to present a four-figured list to the Funds of the Royal Masonic Institution for Boys , and to this end he issued some thousands of shilling tickets , the purchasers of which would be entitled to participate in a ballot for Life Governorships . The number of these would necessarily depend on the amount realised by the scheme . As a
matter of fact , forty-six Life Governorships and a Life Subscribersbip , yielding together £ 488 5 s , were balloted for , and this formed the principal item in Bro . Constable ' s list , the rest , a little over £ 700 , being obtained among his personal friends . This is the largest individual list which ,
as far as we can remember , has ever been announced at one of our Festivals ; ancl as it entailed upon him a more than usually heavy amount of labour , he is , of course , entitled to a quidp'o quo in the shape of a more than usually hearty expression of thanks .
We now come to the Provinces , which together contribute less than the Metropolis , though it is more than probable that if we take into account that Bro . Constable ' s tickets found their way into every part of the country , there is no appreciable difference between the two . As we have again
and again stated to our readers , there are forty-one Pro * vinces under the jurisdiction of our Grand Lodge of England , and three districts not presided over by a P . G . M . —Beds , the Channel Islands , and the Isle of Man ; or , in all , forty-four groups of Lodges . Thirty-one of these were represented at last week ' s Festival , the thirteen absentees , being Beds ., Cambridge , Worcester , and Isle of Man , which have not been represented at any Festival during the
triennial period just ended . The other nine are Bristolwhich , however , contributed to all three Institutions in 1875 , and the Benevolent in February ; Cornwall , which gave by the hands of Bro . ' Hughan between £ 400 and £ 500 to the Boy ' s School last year ; Cumberland and
Westmoreland , which figured in the Boys' list last year , and at the Benevolent Festival in February ; Hereford , which assisted the Girls in 1876 ; Monmouthshire and South Wales , which did its dnty admirably to the Girls in 1875 , and the Benevolent this year ; Norfolk , which has appeared on the list at each of the last three Festivals of the
Benevolent , sent a small contribution to the Boys' last year , and loyally supported Lord Suffield , its Prov . G . M ., at the Girls ' Festival in May last ; Northamptonshire and Hants , which has helped the R . M . B . I . twice , and the Boys' and Girls ' each once in these three years ; and the Channel Islands and
Jersey , which gave at the Festival of the Girls last year . Turning now to the contributing Provinces , in their alphabetical order , we note that Berks and Bucks is entered for £ 171 18 s 6 d , and there is one list yet to come in . It gave a slightly larger sum to the Benevolent in February ,
and £ 114 9 s- to the Girls' in May . It supported the Girls ' and Boys' last year , and all three Institutions the year before , so that this Province has been absent only once but of the nine occasions at which it has been possible to figure during tbe period we have chosen for our comparison . We
shonld add that it has sixteen Lodges , four of which , represented by five stewards , appear in the list . Cheshire is a large Province , with thirty-nine Lodges . Its contribution , £ 106 18 s 6 d , is , therefore , comparatively a modest one ; but it , too , has figured at eight out of the last' nine Festivals .
Moreover , it has a prosperous Masonic Educational Insti . tute of its own , and has further purchased the right of perpetual presentation by the payment in one sum of one thousand guineas , so that Cheshire is far from being the least mindful among our Provinces of its duty to our central
. Institutions . Six Lodges were represented by seven
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Analysis Of The Recent Subscription List.
ANALYSIS OF THE RECENT SUBSCRIPTION LIST .
THERE are two or three features in connection with the recent Festival of the Boys' School , which call for separate comment . In the first place the amount which ought to have been announced was the largest ever collected at one of these important Festivals . In the next , the number of brethren who undertook the office of Steward
was small by comparison with what it was last year , or the year before , in behalf of this Institution . Lastly , there was a very much smaller gathering of the Stewards and their friends , while the magnates of Freemasonry were for the most part conspicuous by their absence . Under these
circumstances we cannot but feel it is our duty to offer those who took part in , or in any wise contributed to , the success of the day's proceedings , our warmest congratulations . They were no doubt animated by the healthy spirit of determination to which we alluded a fortnight since .
They meant accomplishing great things , and all honour to them for having done so . But to pass to the list itself . The sum , as announced in the course of the evening , was £ 12 , 856 , but , unfortunately , by a clerical error , a large amount from one of our most considerable Provinces ,
which had actually been paid into the bankers , had been overlooked , or it would have been the Secretary ' s duty to declare the total subscriptions and donations as £ 18 , 160 15 s . Other sums have since been handed in , and the result is that the list , as furnished in these columns last week , presented a total of £ 13 , 312 2 s . We are aware this is in
excess of the sum we have seen announced elsewhere , and which was stated to us shortly before going to press last week ; but all our items have been carefully and independently checked , and the several columns have since been cast and recast , in order to ensure as complete accuracy as
possible in our manipulation of the figures . Taking then the total , as stated above , at £ 13 , 312 2 s , we find that London contributed £ 6 , 790 18 s , the Provinces £ 6 , 116 19 s , one District abroad £ 73 10 s , and Various £ 330 15 s . In securing this result there were engaged 228 Stewards . Of
these 110 represented Loudon , 110 the Provinces , one a district , and there were seven various . We have said that London , by the hands of its 110 Stewards , contributed £ 6 , 790 18 s . Of this , £ 281 4 s together made the lists of the President , the Honorary and Acting Vice Presidents ,
and the Honorary Treasurer of the Board . Four Chapters were represented , and the amount received from tbem , with one list still outstanding , is in the aggregate £ 75 lis 6 d . For the rest , 99 , or about two-fifths of our metropolitan Lodges , were represented by 102 Stewards , who gave £ 6 , 634 2 s 6 d .
It is worthy of mention that sundry among these , such as Nos . 2 , 5 , 8 , 10 , 18 , 21 , 22 , 23 , 28 , 33 , 179 , 256 , and 657 have figured in every list during the years 1875 , 1876 and 1877 , while many others have been represented , eight , seven , six , or five times . About a dozen , perhaps , have not
contributed at all , to either of our Institutions , within three years , that is , so far as we are able to gather from the published lists . They may , of course , have given in the course of the year apart from the Festival . It is also worthy of note that no less than fifteen out of the ninetv-nine Lodees
have not yet been in existence two years and a-half , and of these Cripplegate , No . 1613 , gives £ 200 , Bayard , No . 1615 , £ 135 9 s , and Orpheus , No . 1706 , which , as far as we know , has not yet been formally consecrated , figures for £ 115 10 s . The last feature to which reference will be made in connection with the Metropolitan Lodges ia the result of Bro .
Analysis Of The Recent Subscription List.
Constable ' s Stewardship . He started last autumn with a determination to present a four-figured list to the Funds of the Royal Masonic Institution for Boys , and to this end he issued some thousands of shilling tickets , the purchasers of which would be entitled to participate in a ballot for Life Governorships . The number of these would necessarily depend on the amount realised by the scheme . As a
matter of fact , forty-six Life Governorships and a Life Subscribersbip , yielding together £ 488 5 s , were balloted for , and this formed the principal item in Bro . Constable ' s list , the rest , a little over £ 700 , being obtained among his personal friends . This is the largest individual list which ,
as far as we can remember , has ever been announced at one of our Festivals ; ancl as it entailed upon him a more than usually heavy amount of labour , he is , of course , entitled to a quidp'o quo in the shape of a more than usually hearty expression of thanks .
We now come to the Provinces , which together contribute less than the Metropolis , though it is more than probable that if we take into account that Bro . Constable ' s tickets found their way into every part of the country , there is no appreciable difference between the two . As we have again
and again stated to our readers , there are forty-one Pro * vinces under the jurisdiction of our Grand Lodge of England , and three districts not presided over by a P . G . M . —Beds , the Channel Islands , and the Isle of Man ; or , in all , forty-four groups of Lodges . Thirty-one of these were represented at last week ' s Festival , the thirteen absentees , being Beds ., Cambridge , Worcester , and Isle of Man , which have not been represented at any Festival during the
triennial period just ended . The other nine are Bristolwhich , however , contributed to all three Institutions in 1875 , and the Benevolent in February ; Cornwall , which gave by the hands of Bro . ' Hughan between £ 400 and £ 500 to the Boy ' s School last year ; Cumberland and
Westmoreland , which figured in the Boys' list last year , and at the Benevolent Festival in February ; Hereford , which assisted the Girls in 1876 ; Monmouthshire and South Wales , which did its dnty admirably to the Girls in 1875 , and the Benevolent this year ; Norfolk , which has appeared on the list at each of the last three Festivals of the
Benevolent , sent a small contribution to the Boys' last year , and loyally supported Lord Suffield , its Prov . G . M ., at the Girls ' Festival in May last ; Northamptonshire and Hants , which has helped the R . M . B . I . twice , and the Boys' and Girls ' each once in these three years ; and the Channel Islands and
Jersey , which gave at the Festival of the Girls last year . Turning now to the contributing Provinces , in their alphabetical order , we note that Berks and Bucks is entered for £ 171 18 s 6 d , and there is one list yet to come in . It gave a slightly larger sum to the Benevolent in February ,
and £ 114 9 s- to the Girls' in May . It supported the Girls ' and Boys' last year , and all three Institutions the year before , so that this Province has been absent only once but of the nine occasions at which it has been possible to figure during tbe period we have chosen for our comparison . We
shonld add that it has sixteen Lodges , four of which , represented by five stewards , appear in the list . Cheshire is a large Province , with thirty-nine Lodges . Its contribution , £ 106 18 s 6 d , is , therefore , comparatively a modest one ; but it , too , has figured at eight out of the last' nine Festivals .
Moreover , it has a prosperous Masonic Educational Insti . tute of its own , and has further purchased the right of perpetual presentation by the payment in one sum of one thousand guineas , so that Cheshire is far from being the least mindful among our Provinces of its duty to our central
. Institutions . Six Lodges were represented by seven