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The Masonry Of Flowers.
mirth , hoAvever harmless . And now I am afraid I have trespassed on your patience too long , so , praying you to take into yoiu > grave consideration the few hast y hints I offer , and , asking pardon for my boldness in daring to lecture such a high and mighty functionary as yourself , I am , my dear Mr . Editor , Avith all imaginable respect , Tour humble Servant , FLOEINE .
TO THE EDITOE OE THE TBEEMASONS' QTJAETEELY MAGAZINE . Hull , May 25 th , 1854 . DEAE SIE AND BEOTHEE , — The numberless cases of begging by so-called " distressed Masons " which have come under my notice for some time past lead me to give you the particulars of one which has just occurredthatbits
publi-, , y cation in the " Quarterly , " it may be the means of preventing those Brethren being imposed upon who Avould otherwise have parted with their money without the object of " relieving the distressed " being realized . A few days since a person named James Maekie , of St . Stephen's Lodge , 145 , Edinburgh , called upon me for relief , with a
recommendation from some of the members of the Tarborough Lodge , 611 , from which he had received a gift of 20 s . ( from the Lodge funds ) . Se told me it ivasfrom private subscription . I therefore relieved him again , and gave him the names of the Masters of the tAvo Lodges in this place . He called upon them , with " my compliments . " However , it so happened that the Master of one Lodge ( the Minerva ) Avould not relieve him until he had called on the Master of the other
( the Humber ) , Avho referred him to the Treasurer with a note . Here he got 5 s . ; but , not content with this , he forged the Master ' s name for 10 s ., and then called again on the Master of the Minerva , who was about to relieve him to a similar extent , when Bro . , Master of the Humber , passed ; he was called in , and the impostor was , of course , immediately detected . In addition to this , the writer had occasion to visit the Provincial Lodge at Lincoln last weekwhen he found that
, he had not . only made victims there , but that he had also forged the name of the Master of the Witham Lodge . He has in his list 10 Z . from the Grand Lodge , SI . from B . B . Cabbell , M . P ., and other familiar names of 2 Z . and 31 . each . He states he has been Avrecked in March last , and lost his father and property . He has now a mother dependent upon himand he wishes to get enough to pay his passage
, to Australia . I may further remark that his certificate is " well Avorn , " and pasted upon a piece of cloth . By his list of donors it will be noticed that he proceeded from Boston via Lincoln , Gainsborough , and Hull , to get to London . I trust this description will prevent a continuance of the deceptions
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The Masonry Of Flowers.
mirth , hoAvever harmless . And now I am afraid I have trespassed on your patience too long , so , praying you to take into yoiu > grave consideration the few hast y hints I offer , and , asking pardon for my boldness in daring to lecture such a high and mighty functionary as yourself , I am , my dear Mr . Editor , Avith all imaginable respect , Tour humble Servant , FLOEINE .
TO THE EDITOE OE THE TBEEMASONS' QTJAETEELY MAGAZINE . Hull , May 25 th , 1854 . DEAE SIE AND BEOTHEE , — The numberless cases of begging by so-called " distressed Masons " which have come under my notice for some time past lead me to give you the particulars of one which has just occurredthatbits
publi-, , y cation in the " Quarterly , " it may be the means of preventing those Brethren being imposed upon who Avould otherwise have parted with their money without the object of " relieving the distressed " being realized . A few days since a person named James Maekie , of St . Stephen's Lodge , 145 , Edinburgh , called upon me for relief , with a
recommendation from some of the members of the Tarborough Lodge , 611 , from which he had received a gift of 20 s . ( from the Lodge funds ) . Se told me it ivasfrom private subscription . I therefore relieved him again , and gave him the names of the Masters of the tAvo Lodges in this place . He called upon them , with " my compliments . " However , it so happened that the Master of one Lodge ( the Minerva ) Avould not relieve him until he had called on the Master of the other
( the Humber ) , Avho referred him to the Treasurer with a note . Here he got 5 s . ; but , not content with this , he forged the Master ' s name for 10 s ., and then called again on the Master of the Minerva , who was about to relieve him to a similar extent , when Bro . , Master of the Humber , passed ; he was called in , and the impostor was , of course , immediately detected . In addition to this , the writer had occasion to visit the Provincial Lodge at Lincoln last weekwhen he found that
, he had not . only made victims there , but that he had also forged the name of the Master of the Witham Lodge . He has in his list 10 Z . from the Grand Lodge , SI . from B . B . Cabbell , M . P ., and other familiar names of 2 Z . and 31 . each . He states he has been Avrecked in March last , and lost his father and property . He has now a mother dependent upon himand he wishes to get enough to pay his passage
, to Australia . I may further remark that his certificate is " well Avorn , " and pasted upon a piece of cloth . By his list of donors it will be noticed that he proceeded from Boston via Lincoln , Gainsborough , and Hull , to get to London . I trust this description will prevent a continuance of the deceptions