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Analysis Of The Subscription List.
ANALYSIS OF THE SUBSCRIPTION LIST .
BEFORE entering on onr customary task of noting the principal features of the subscrip tion list at the Festival of Thursday last , wo conceive it to be our duty , — and we certainly regard it in the light of a great pleasureto congratulate Bro . Binckes on having won back the
smiles of fortune , and under her kindly auspices resumed the place of honour he has occupied on so many previous occasions , the aggregate of his Stewards' Lists , so far as they were announced at the Festival itself , being £ 14 , 002 , a sum in excess of the returns announced at the two
earlier Festivals of the present year . We can do this with all the greater satisfaction , because , in congratulating Bro . Binckes , we shall not be understood as , by so doing , being in any way anxious to establish an invidious comparison between him and his brother secretaries of the Girls' and
Benevolent Institutions . We can fully understand that both Bros . Hedges and Teny would have preferred that their respective labours should have been the most productive ; but , as we suggested last week , neither of them will dream of grudging Bro . Binckes being , so to speak , at the head
of the poll . It was tbe place which . Bro . Terry himself occupied last year , while Bro . Hedges has the satisfaction of knowing : that the Girls' School Festival which took place during his first year of office as Secretary yielded more abundant fruit than any previous Festival held in
behalf of that Institution , and this year his efforts have been even more productive still . Moreover , we may , in general terms , congratulate the three Secretaries on having accomplished more in the present year in aid of the funds of the Institutions with which , they are severally connected than
they themselves , taken collectively , or any of their predecessors have ever been enabled to accomplish , that is , in respect of these anniversaries . Thus , if we take Bro . Binckes ' s figures only so far as they were known on Thursday last , we find that the three Festivals , held in the year
1880 , have together yielded over £ 40 , 000 , namely , Boys ' School , as aforesaid , £ 14 , 002 ; Girls' School , £ 13 , 748 : and Benevolent Institution , £ 12 , 280 ; and if we allow for the seventeen lists yet to be received only the modest sum often guineas each , Bro . Binckes will have realised close on £ 14 , 200 as the result of the nineteenth or twentieth
anniversary held since his appointment to the secretaryship of the Boys' School . In his case , too , as in that of Bro . Hedges , he has surpassed all previous efforts , so that on all these grounds we are justified in congratulating him ,
as we do most heartily , on the grand result of last Thursday ' s festive gathering . Having done this we enter on our task of analysing that result in the most perfect spirit of impartiality .
One feature will , probably , have attracted the notice of our readers last week . The list we published showed that there was a great difference in the aggregates contributed by London and the Provinces . The total amount being £ 14 , 002 , and that set down as contributed by the
Provinces being £ 9 , 721 , it follows that the London Lodges only subscribed amongst them £ 4 , 281 . Of course , as the Provincial Stewards ( 209 ) were almost twice as numerous as those sent up by the Metropolitan district ( 106 ) ,
there is nothing singular in the total subscriptions of the former being double , or rather considerably more than double , those of the former , especially when we bear in mind that three-fourths of the Provinces were represented , while less than half of the London Lodges , or , to be exact ,
Analysis Of The Subscription List.
only ninety-five of them , sent representatives . Again , we recognise among them many who give regularly and many who are absent only occasionally , so that there must have been an unusually large proportion of Metropolitan Lodges which had no part in the success of the Boys' Festival this
year . Next year , perhaps , this will be altered at this or one of tho other Festivals . Of the Lodges , however , which sent up Stewards , we find Yarborough , No . 554 , an Eastend Lodge , sending up £ 20 G by the hands of Bro . J . G .
Stevens , who acted as honorary Treasurer of the Board of Stewards . The next three-figure list is that of Bro . Bergmann of the Mizpah Lodge , No . 1671 , whose total exceeded £ 151 . Close at his heels comes Bro . C . E . Williams of
Kensington Lodge , No . 1767 , wth £ 147 , and then Bro . T . O . Barr of the St . Leonard ' s , No . 1766 , with £ 142 , Bro . F . Binckes representing the Grand Stewards' Lodge with £ 140 3 s , and Maj . General 0 . W . Randolph , as Steward for the Friends in Council , No . 1383 , with £ 138 . Four other
lists reached or exceeded £ 100 , namely , Evening Star , No . 1719 , which contributed by the hands of Bro . J . W . Sugg £ 116 lis , St . Michaels ' , No . 211 , represented by Bro . W . Radcliffe , to the amount of 112 15 s , and Albion , No . 9 , and Southern Star , No . 1158 , each of which gavo £ 100 , the
former being represented by Bro . J . Forbes , ancl the latter by Bro . G . H . Sharman . Most of the Lodges standing highest on the roll of Grand Lodge sent representatives , but only one of those constituted since the publication of Grand Lodge Calendar for 1879 , namely , the Coburn ,
No . 1804 . In fact , of Lodges numbered from 1000 upwards , only thirty of those belonging to London were represented by Stewards , all the others being absentees . We trust this will not again be the case , at least for some time .
Turning to the Provinces , we note first of all the absentees , which , though not so few in number as at the Girls' Festival , are only one-fourth of the whole . Beds , ( five Lodges ) appears to have been satisfied with its exertions on behalf of the Girls in April . Bristol ( eight
Lodges ) , then also a contributing Province , and to the extent of upwards of £ 216 , is unrepresented , and so are Cambridgeshire ( four Lodges ) , Cornwall , ancl Devon , with , in round figures , some thirty , and forty Lodges respectively ; Herefordshire ( four Lodges ) , Norths and Hunts
( nine Lodges ) , Notts ( nine Lodges ) , and Wilts , with its complement of ten Lodges . The Isle of Man , Jersey , ancl the Channel Islands are too remote for us to expect more than an occasional contribution , so that their absence passes , as a rule , without comment . Cambridgeshire ,
however , is almost invariably an absentee—a fact we especially commend to the notice of its noble chief , who seemingly takes little , if any , interest in the doings of his Province , albeit he has no objection to act as the representative of His Royal Highness the Grand Master . We
would also call the attention of Bro . John Deighton , the Earl of Hardwicke ' s Deputy , to this almost invariable absence of his Province from the subscription list , as well as to that of the members of the Isaac Newton University Lodge , No . 859 , which , it strikes us , should enter upon an
honourable rivalry with the Apollo University of Oxford on these occasions . Cornwall figures at intervals , and wheu it does its contributions swell to a considerable aggregate . Devon sent up Stewards to the Girls'
Anniversary Festival , and also fulfils its duty to our Charities . Herefordshire , as we said in the last of our analytical articles , is not a frequent contributor , and would be all the better if it were stirred into a little more activity . Norths and Hunts figured at the lacjfc Benevolent Festival , ancl
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Analysis Of The Subscription List.
ANALYSIS OF THE SUBSCRIPTION LIST .
BEFORE entering on onr customary task of noting the principal features of the subscrip tion list at the Festival of Thursday last , wo conceive it to be our duty , — and we certainly regard it in the light of a great pleasureto congratulate Bro . Binckes on having won back the
smiles of fortune , and under her kindly auspices resumed the place of honour he has occupied on so many previous occasions , the aggregate of his Stewards' Lists , so far as they were announced at the Festival itself , being £ 14 , 002 , a sum in excess of the returns announced at the two
earlier Festivals of the present year . We can do this with all the greater satisfaction , because , in congratulating Bro . Binckes , we shall not be understood as , by so doing , being in any way anxious to establish an invidious comparison between him and his brother secretaries of the Girls' and
Benevolent Institutions . We can fully understand that both Bros . Hedges and Teny would have preferred that their respective labours should have been the most productive ; but , as we suggested last week , neither of them will dream of grudging Bro . Binckes being , so to speak , at the head
of the poll . It was tbe place which . Bro . Terry himself occupied last year , while Bro . Hedges has the satisfaction of knowing : that the Girls' School Festival which took place during his first year of office as Secretary yielded more abundant fruit than any previous Festival held in
behalf of that Institution , and this year his efforts have been even more productive still . Moreover , we may , in general terms , congratulate the three Secretaries on having accomplished more in the present year in aid of the funds of the Institutions with which , they are severally connected than
they themselves , taken collectively , or any of their predecessors have ever been enabled to accomplish , that is , in respect of these anniversaries . Thus , if we take Bro . Binckes ' s figures only so far as they were known on Thursday last , we find that the three Festivals , held in the year
1880 , have together yielded over £ 40 , 000 , namely , Boys ' School , as aforesaid , £ 14 , 002 ; Girls' School , £ 13 , 748 : and Benevolent Institution , £ 12 , 280 ; and if we allow for the seventeen lists yet to be received only the modest sum often guineas each , Bro . Binckes will have realised close on £ 14 , 200 as the result of the nineteenth or twentieth
anniversary held since his appointment to the secretaryship of the Boys' School . In his case , too , as in that of Bro . Hedges , he has surpassed all previous efforts , so that on all these grounds we are justified in congratulating him ,
as we do most heartily , on the grand result of last Thursday ' s festive gathering . Having done this we enter on our task of analysing that result in the most perfect spirit of impartiality .
One feature will , probably , have attracted the notice of our readers last week . The list we published showed that there was a great difference in the aggregates contributed by London and the Provinces . The total amount being £ 14 , 002 , and that set down as contributed by the
Provinces being £ 9 , 721 , it follows that the London Lodges only subscribed amongst them £ 4 , 281 . Of course , as the Provincial Stewards ( 209 ) were almost twice as numerous as those sent up by the Metropolitan district ( 106 ) ,
there is nothing singular in the total subscriptions of the former being double , or rather considerably more than double , those of the former , especially when we bear in mind that three-fourths of the Provinces were represented , while less than half of the London Lodges , or , to be exact ,
Analysis Of The Subscription List.
only ninety-five of them , sent representatives . Again , we recognise among them many who give regularly and many who are absent only occasionally , so that there must have been an unusually large proportion of Metropolitan Lodges which had no part in the success of the Boys' Festival this
year . Next year , perhaps , this will be altered at this or one of tho other Festivals . Of the Lodges , however , which sent up Stewards , we find Yarborough , No . 554 , an Eastend Lodge , sending up £ 20 G by the hands of Bro . J . G .
Stevens , who acted as honorary Treasurer of the Board of Stewards . The next three-figure list is that of Bro . Bergmann of the Mizpah Lodge , No . 1671 , whose total exceeded £ 151 . Close at his heels comes Bro . C . E . Williams of
Kensington Lodge , No . 1767 , wth £ 147 , and then Bro . T . O . Barr of the St . Leonard ' s , No . 1766 , with £ 142 , Bro . F . Binckes representing the Grand Stewards' Lodge with £ 140 3 s , and Maj . General 0 . W . Randolph , as Steward for the Friends in Council , No . 1383 , with £ 138 . Four other
lists reached or exceeded £ 100 , namely , Evening Star , No . 1719 , which contributed by the hands of Bro . J . W . Sugg £ 116 lis , St . Michaels ' , No . 211 , represented by Bro . W . Radcliffe , to the amount of 112 15 s , and Albion , No . 9 , and Southern Star , No . 1158 , each of which gavo £ 100 , the
former being represented by Bro . J . Forbes , ancl the latter by Bro . G . H . Sharman . Most of the Lodges standing highest on the roll of Grand Lodge sent representatives , but only one of those constituted since the publication of Grand Lodge Calendar for 1879 , namely , the Coburn ,
No . 1804 . In fact , of Lodges numbered from 1000 upwards , only thirty of those belonging to London were represented by Stewards , all the others being absentees . We trust this will not again be the case , at least for some time .
Turning to the Provinces , we note first of all the absentees , which , though not so few in number as at the Girls' Festival , are only one-fourth of the whole . Beds , ( five Lodges ) appears to have been satisfied with its exertions on behalf of the Girls in April . Bristol ( eight
Lodges ) , then also a contributing Province , and to the extent of upwards of £ 216 , is unrepresented , and so are Cambridgeshire ( four Lodges ) , Cornwall , ancl Devon , with , in round figures , some thirty , and forty Lodges respectively ; Herefordshire ( four Lodges ) , Norths and Hunts
( nine Lodges ) , Notts ( nine Lodges ) , and Wilts , with its complement of ten Lodges . The Isle of Man , Jersey , ancl the Channel Islands are too remote for us to expect more than an occasional contribution , so that their absence passes , as a rule , without comment . Cambridgeshire ,
however , is almost invariably an absentee—a fact we especially commend to the notice of its noble chief , who seemingly takes little , if any , interest in the doings of his Province , albeit he has no objection to act as the representative of His Royal Highness the Grand Master . We
would also call the attention of Bro . John Deighton , the Earl of Hardwicke ' s Deputy , to this almost invariable absence of his Province from the subscription list , as well as to that of the members of the Isaac Newton University Lodge , No . 859 , which , it strikes us , should enter upon an
honourable rivalry with the Apollo University of Oxford on these occasions . Cornwall figures at intervals , and wheu it does its contributions swell to a considerable aggregate . Devon sent up Stewards to the Girls'
Anniversary Festival , and also fulfils its duty to our Charities . Herefordshire , as we said in the last of our analytical articles , is not a frequent contributor , and would be all the better if it were stirred into a little more activity . Norths and Hunts figured at the lacjfc Benevolent Festival , ancl