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The Event Of The Week.
THE EVENT OF THE WEEK .
AFTER months of anxious anticipation the First Annual Celebration of 1888 , on behalf of the Central Masonic Charities , has become an event of the past , and ere these lines appear in print the result will have been made known throughout the length and breath of the land as another grand
success m the cause of Charity , for undoubtedly the total contributed on Wednesday , at the Anniversary Festival of the Royal Masonic Benevolent Institution , justly merits such a designation . As our readers are aware , there has been considerable uneasiness in regard to this Festival , and up to the last
moment its result was looked forward to with anxiety by all who take an interest in this the youngest of the great Masonic Institutions . Only last week , in closing our remarks in anticipation of the event , we predicted a severe falling off in the returns as compared with what had been realised in
previous years , but we also said we were prepared for an agreeable surprise . Well , the result has proved an agreeable surprise to us , and it will , no doubt , be equally agreeable to others , for notwithstanding the fact that the total is far short of the amount reached last year , when donations amounting to
£ 18 , 700 were announced , it is far greater than was generally expected would be the case on this occasion . With a Board of Stewards numbering in all two hundred and seventy-four , Brother Terry was on Wednesday enabled to announce a total of upwards of fifteen thousand pounds as this year ' s contributions
from the Craft on behalf of the Aged Masons and Widows whose circumstances in life compel them to crave the help of their fellows . The actual figures were £ 15 , 081 18 s 6 d , with ten lists outstanding , and two or three of those handed in described as
incomplete . London was represented by one hundred and twenty-seven stewards , and the sums subscribed and collected by these amounted to a total of £ 5 , 752 14 s , while the Provinces and outside Districts , represented hj one hundred and forty-seven Stewards , sent up a total of £ 9 , 829 4 s 6 d . These totals give a very high
average per Steward—no less than upwards of £ 55 per head , taken all round , or £ 45 6 s as the average of the Metropolitan Stewards , and £ 63 9 s 3 d as that of the Provincials , the latter being on tins occasion particularly fortunate in having among their contributions more than one Provincial Jubilee Memorial offering .
Of the London Stewards there were two whose lists each exceeded two hundred guineas , while among the one hundred and twenty-seven representatives of the metropolis we find , for the third time only in the history of the Institution , a lady acting as ' Steward . This fact is one which might well be taken to heart by our fair sisters , whose kindly aid we should very much like to enlist on behalf of the Masonic Charities . The subject received attention
The Event Of The Week.
from one of the speakers later in the evening , and is one to which we shall refer again at no very distant date . We may mention that it was Miss PI . M . Cotter who was the lady Steward on this occasion .
The East Lancashire total of £ 2 , 878 lis Gd included the Jubilee offering of the brethren of that Province ; and the one thousand guineas contributed
by the Masons of Cumberland and Westmoreland is also to be regarded as the outcome of the rejoicings of last year in celebration ofthe Fiftieth year of Her Majesty's reign , so that even at this late date the cause of Masonic Charity has not ceased to reap benefit from the thankfulness displayed bv the
people of England in connection with that auspicious event . The total of Northumberland ( £ 900 ) , brought up by the respected Provincial Grand Secretary of our northern county , is described as incomplete ; indeed it is all but certain the total will be raised to one thousand pounds by the 16 th of the present month , but as the money is not yet actually voted
our esteemed brother did not feel himself at liberty to add it to his list . The Eastern Division of South Wales , jDresided over by the Chairman of the day , comes fourth on the roll of honour , the total of its contributions , which included a personal donation from Sir George Elliot of £ 126 , being no less than £ 854 10 s . The immediate result of the efforts made
by the Provincial Grand Master of the Eastern Division of South Wales on behalf of the Benevolent Institution do not , however , appear to cease with his own Province , for we find the adjoining districts doing remarkably well , no doubt in compliment to their neighbour . Monmouthshire , for instance ,
contributed the largest sum ever sent by its brethren to the Benevolent Institution , its total on the present occasion being £ 438 3 s , a sum which places it sixth among the contributing Provinces . The Western Division of South Wales , too , appears to have caught the epidemic of kindliness which pervaded the district , and as a result sent up £ 108 10 s , by one Steward
—Bro . J . A . Jenkins , of Tenby , —to swell the total of the year . Suffolk has on this occasion eclipsed all its previous records , and with a total of £ 451 10 s takes tho fifth place in order of merit ; this sum is the largest amount it has ever contributed to a Festival , and it reflects the greatest credit on the
five brethren who worked as Stewards to secure it . The Western Division of Yorkshire did so well last year—when its members paid into the Institution a total of nearly three thousand pounds—that it might have been expected to repose awhile in regard to contributions to the Benftvnlftnt Institutionhut vpsnlts
, „ _ , V ~ - . . j . ..- v -. ^^ v . * ,.. ^ show it has not been wholly content to rest on its laurels , and to - prove its earnestness in the cause it sends up £ 400 , at the hands of ten Stewards . Middlesex is seldom behind when we come to make a reckoning in the cause of Charity , and this occasion juroves no exception to the rule / for the contributions from its midst figure up t 3
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The Event Of The Week.
THE EVENT OF THE WEEK .
AFTER months of anxious anticipation the First Annual Celebration of 1888 , on behalf of the Central Masonic Charities , has become an event of the past , and ere these lines appear in print the result will have been made known throughout the length and breath of the land as another grand
success m the cause of Charity , for undoubtedly the total contributed on Wednesday , at the Anniversary Festival of the Royal Masonic Benevolent Institution , justly merits such a designation . As our readers are aware , there has been considerable uneasiness in regard to this Festival , and up to the last
moment its result was looked forward to with anxiety by all who take an interest in this the youngest of the great Masonic Institutions . Only last week , in closing our remarks in anticipation of the event , we predicted a severe falling off in the returns as compared with what had been realised in
previous years , but we also said we were prepared for an agreeable surprise . Well , the result has proved an agreeable surprise to us , and it will , no doubt , be equally agreeable to others , for notwithstanding the fact that the total is far short of the amount reached last year , when donations amounting to
£ 18 , 700 were announced , it is far greater than was generally expected would be the case on this occasion . With a Board of Stewards numbering in all two hundred and seventy-four , Brother Terry was on Wednesday enabled to announce a total of upwards of fifteen thousand pounds as this year ' s contributions
from the Craft on behalf of the Aged Masons and Widows whose circumstances in life compel them to crave the help of their fellows . The actual figures were £ 15 , 081 18 s 6 d , with ten lists outstanding , and two or three of those handed in described as
incomplete . London was represented by one hundred and twenty-seven stewards , and the sums subscribed and collected by these amounted to a total of £ 5 , 752 14 s , while the Provinces and outside Districts , represented hj one hundred and forty-seven Stewards , sent up a total of £ 9 , 829 4 s 6 d . These totals give a very high
average per Steward—no less than upwards of £ 55 per head , taken all round , or £ 45 6 s as the average of the Metropolitan Stewards , and £ 63 9 s 3 d as that of the Provincials , the latter being on tins occasion particularly fortunate in having among their contributions more than one Provincial Jubilee Memorial offering .
Of the London Stewards there were two whose lists each exceeded two hundred guineas , while among the one hundred and twenty-seven representatives of the metropolis we find , for the third time only in the history of the Institution , a lady acting as ' Steward . This fact is one which might well be taken to heart by our fair sisters , whose kindly aid we should very much like to enlist on behalf of the Masonic Charities . The subject received attention
The Event Of The Week.
from one of the speakers later in the evening , and is one to which we shall refer again at no very distant date . We may mention that it was Miss PI . M . Cotter who was the lady Steward on this occasion .
The East Lancashire total of £ 2 , 878 lis Gd included the Jubilee offering of the brethren of that Province ; and the one thousand guineas contributed
by the Masons of Cumberland and Westmoreland is also to be regarded as the outcome of the rejoicings of last year in celebration ofthe Fiftieth year of Her Majesty's reign , so that even at this late date the cause of Masonic Charity has not ceased to reap benefit from the thankfulness displayed bv the
people of England in connection with that auspicious event . The total of Northumberland ( £ 900 ) , brought up by the respected Provincial Grand Secretary of our northern county , is described as incomplete ; indeed it is all but certain the total will be raised to one thousand pounds by the 16 th of the present month , but as the money is not yet actually voted
our esteemed brother did not feel himself at liberty to add it to his list . The Eastern Division of South Wales , jDresided over by the Chairman of the day , comes fourth on the roll of honour , the total of its contributions , which included a personal donation from Sir George Elliot of £ 126 , being no less than £ 854 10 s . The immediate result of the efforts made
by the Provincial Grand Master of the Eastern Division of South Wales on behalf of the Benevolent Institution do not , however , appear to cease with his own Province , for we find the adjoining districts doing remarkably well , no doubt in compliment to their neighbour . Monmouthshire , for instance ,
contributed the largest sum ever sent by its brethren to the Benevolent Institution , its total on the present occasion being £ 438 3 s , a sum which places it sixth among the contributing Provinces . The Western Division of South Wales , too , appears to have caught the epidemic of kindliness which pervaded the district , and as a result sent up £ 108 10 s , by one Steward
—Bro . J . A . Jenkins , of Tenby , —to swell the total of the year . Suffolk has on this occasion eclipsed all its previous records , and with a total of £ 451 10 s takes tho fifth place in order of merit ; this sum is the largest amount it has ever contributed to a Festival , and it reflects the greatest credit on the
five brethren who worked as Stewards to secure it . The Western Division of Yorkshire did so well last year—when its members paid into the Institution a total of nearly three thousand pounds—that it might have been expected to repose awhile in regard to contributions to the Benftvnlftnt Institutionhut vpsnlts
, „ _ , V ~ - . . j . ..- v -. ^^ v . * ,.. ^ show it has not been wholly content to rest on its laurels , and to - prove its earnestness in the cause it sends up £ 400 , at the hands of ten Stewards . Middlesex is seldom behind when we come to make a reckoning in the cause of Charity , and this occasion juroves no exception to the rule / for the contributions from its midst figure up t 3