Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1873-08-12
Lord Massey.

great Middle State watering place
have been greatly disturbed during
the past few days by the appear
ance of person who consulted the
prospects of the Island and pitched
upon the mammoth hotel called
Congress Hall as the best site for
prospecting. Playing out there
in twenty-four hours, he took
another day for the cottages and
the Stockton House, and having
enjoyed the society of the best
men- and women too-on the Is
land, he disappeared about day
light this friday morning, lcav-
ing trail of tattle and wonder be-
hind him, which would have sub
sided ere this in good humored
merriment but for some risking
recrimination as to who was the
most taken in, and who first found
him out. He appeared on the
steamer from Philadelphia to Cape
May last Tuesday-the steamer
which brings down fine turnouts
and horses, and which especially
brings down the Baltimore passen-
gers from Newcastle.
A fine pair of splendid gray
horses were on the boat, freight
prepaid, and attended only by the
groom. The imposter appeared to
have become aware of the fact OF
the unknown ownership of the
horses, and he quietly assumed it.
This gave him some attention, and
he added to it by treating the child
ren miscellaneously with lemon
AIDES and sweets, so that the moth
ers and sisters inquired who he
might be. A few gentlemen, chief
ly Baltimoreans, of Confederate
State tendencies, got acquainted
with him, and he quietly introduce
ed the remark that he was a Brit
ish naval commander, off on O
leave in command of his own pri-
vate yacht, the Henrietta, which
he said, had been presented to him
by his fellow officers. He add that
large iron-clad of nine thousand
tons burden was being built for
him at this time, to be called the
Impregnable,a ,and that although sail
ing his private boat he had been
accorded the right of aship-of-war,
and his capacious stores had been
passed without being bonded.
The yacht, he said, had also been
hauled up and called for him at
the Philadelphia Navy-yard free
of expense by international courte-
sy, and would drop down to the
breakwater on Wednesday. He
added that he visited Cape May
from ennui and so much delay, and
would heartily be at the expense of
a sailing party, strictly of the best
people to go off from the Cape,
landing at Rehoboth, &C., to sea,
provided his new acquaintance
would select the passengers. He
registered his name Captain Il.
Massey, Royal Navy, England.
The great hotel clerk, Haskins,
who is no respecter of persons,
looked at the Royal Navy's COM
plexion, and straightway billeted
him for "Whislky Row." where he
slept that night. Next day he
put on the same suit, which he did
not apologize for, and looked in it,
with his red complexion, like a
careless British salt.
The shabby dress was his apollo
gy, for everybody says that no man
can be an imposter who puts on so
little style. The cape was full Of
people, and oil we're pining for
some excitement prior to the time
when the great Fifth Regiment is
to come among us. The Balti-
more people, who have been given
to loving royalty since the days of
Prince Jerome, bit far more readi-
ly than the Philadelphians, and
Messrs. Mills and Thompson, of
that city. He told them in his
modest, taking way, that he was
the only son Of n noblcman.