The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1898-10-22

tons used in the different issues and
tracing out by this means the develop
ment of the financial history of the
times. One of the features of the early
notes issued was one that Mr.. Davis
considered excellent and worthy Of
having survived to this day. It was the
use in connection with certain denom-
nations Of fixed geomstrical designs
surrounding the figures thus making
note raising an fnpossibility and avoid
ing all mistakes that may arise from the
mistaking the denomination of note.
The Antiquarian Society has in it's
possession hut two fragments of notes
of The colonial issues, but it is hoped
that there may be some secured in or
der that study of the matter may be
made and the collections of the society
amplifed.
FAKE ANTIoUARIANs.
Edward Charming, Phi. D., of Cam
bridge, told a story that was new to
the members of the society, which he
had found in the London Times and
which illustrated the means that are
sometimes reserted to by fake antigua
rians to earn the favor and monetary
rewards of their patrons by finding out
for them the kind of information they
desire to have brought to light.
The article in the Times was headed,
Lieut.. Col. Shipway's ancestry" The
officer in question was a member of
the British army who acquired wealth
or had it thrust upon him. not having
been born that way, and who was in
stantly filled with q desire to climb his
family tree as soon as he acquired the
golden means Of watering it, which
that article Of vegetation always re-
quires. He hired a Mr.. Davies, who
claimed to be master of arts in Cam
bridge University, and instructed him
to look up his title to ancestral fame,
he being honestly convinced that he
was entitled to it. Mr. Davies present
ed a bill that amounted in our cur
rency to over three thousand dollars,
an6 with it the gratifying intelligence
that he had dragged out of the shades
of oblivion an ancestor who might per-
haps be a trff1e shopworn, but was the
real article, nevertheless.
At the conclusion of the session, Sen
ator Salisbury invited the members to
partake of lunch at his residence, and
all of them did so. Most of the out-of-
town visitors returned to their homes
in the late afternoon.
These present were: Senator George
F.. Hear, stephen Salisbury, Charles A.
Chase, Edmund NJ Barton, Col. A. G..
Bullock, Samuel S. Green, j. Evarts
Greene, DIR. George II. Haynes, DIR. Il.
C. Mendenhall, Henry A. Marsh, Will
liam A. Smith, Col. f. B. Stoddard, DR..
George e. Francis, DR.. Thomas II.
Gage, DR.. G. Stanley Hail. DR.. Charles
L. Nichols, all of Worcester; Franklin
p. Dexter and George p. Fisher of New
Haven, James P. Baxter of Port
land Prof. Edwin A. Grosvenor of
Amherst, Rev. Or. Eghert G. Smith of
Andover, Samuel A. Green. Solomon
Lincoln, Rev DR. Edward Everett Hale
of Boston. Rev. DR.. Edward H. Hall of
Brookline. Andrew Mcfarland Davis,
Henry II. Edes of Cambridge, James
F. Hunnewell of Charlestown, Edward
G. Porter of Dorchester, John M. Merri-
am of birmingham, Henry S. Nourse
Of Lancaster, DIR. Cyrus Hamlin of Lex
ington, George w. Gable of Northamp-
ington, DR. Edward S. Morse of Salem,
William E. Foster, j. Franklin Jane
son and William B. Weeden of Provi-
dence; Frank P. Goulding, Francis Fl.
Dewey DR.. Leonard P. Kinnicutt of