The guild has two hundred and forty-eight members. Thirty come from the southernmost part of the city, by which is meant the two small neighborhoods around the foothills. Ten come from the bridge zone, two from the long meadow, five from the great bend, one from the Hitch, three from the small pebbled desert encircling the Hitch, eleven from the cross-straits, thirty in what has historically been called the Fist District but which has now been renamed Oakland Glen, two in the frontage, two in the park, one in the uppermost part of the city north of the point, four in the boats docked off that uppermost part. Each of those members has a wife, husband, or partner who accompanies them, making a total of one hundred and one doubled by their others, and to this we add “Inviteds,” meaning out-of-towners who can be attached to a meeting, and who number eighteen in the Southland, nine in the Northland, eight in the Eastland, six in the Westland, and five in the close-held heart of midtown.
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