Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-05-06
MAINE MASONS.
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the subscriber was appointed treasurer.
The secretaries of our several lodges
were asked to furnish the addresses of
members and the Masons of Maine were
quite generally supplied with circular
letters of advice as to the movement.
Our letters were also mailed to the
members of supreme council of the
Northern Jurisdiction, A. and A. S. rite.
and TO the members of the Grand
Lodge of the Royal Order of Scotland.
for the United States, of which Brother
Drummond was the provincial grand
master.
The responses were SO prompt and
numerous that the committee felt iusti-
fed in making early contracts for a
monument to mark his burial place.
From suggestions of the committee,
Brother John Calvin Stevens made Il
sketch which was received with favor.
also working plans, making no charge
for his service and in addition made a
money contribution. The services of
Chas. Calverly of New York city. the
distinguished sculptor, was secured to
make the portrait, and the contract for
stone work was given to Geo. w.
Leighton & Co. of Portland. TO Broth
er Frank r. Miller, the manager of the
granite works, as we'll as to Mr.. Cav
erly, we are under special obligations,
not only for the excellence of their
work but for the promptness of it's ex-
eCutiOn. While the number who have
taken an active interest in this move
ic. l., tn
in this report, we should be unjust if
we failed to express our obligation to
the secretaries of lodges for services
which in nearly every case We're given
without charge, and to Brothers Mil
lard F. Hicks, Warren o. Carney. Chas.
NJ. Drummond. Geo. A. Bynon and Miss
Susie o. Ham, for assistance in ad-
dressing and mailing circulars and Ger
titicatns: also to Messrs. Loring. Short
& Harmon for a special cashbook and
to Mrs. Warren G. King for keeping
the accounts, all working without COM
pensation for love OF their departed
friend
The monument has been paid for but
continue to come in ana
the committee are hopeful that suf-
ficent amount will be realized to buy
from the estate of Brother Drummond
his collection of Masonic books to add
to the library of this Grand Lodge i'm
which, while in life, he took such an
active interest, and with this addition
would make the library itself a Drum
mond memorial. Two thousand and
forty-siX dollars have already been paid
in in amount from 10 cents to $25 and
to each subscriber has been mailed a
certificate which will serve as a me-
mentO of their good friend A very
large majority of the subscribers have
been reached by the suggestion in Cir
cularS, but one brother, q nonresident,
sent $25, as he expressed himself 1924
for friends who would like to contrib
ute but did not at the time feel able to
do so Brother James d. Richardson,
sovereign grand commander of the
Southern Supreme Council sent in be
half of his council 81, one for each ac-
i've member. Landmark Lodge of Bal
tmore, Md, sent $40; three brethren
$40 each; three brethren s.
each and three 81 each.
The subscribers are not all of our
faith: quite a number of women have
sent contributions; the Weymouth His
torical Society, of which Brother
Drummond was an honorary member,
sent SO, and the names OF quite q
number of men not MaSOnS appear up
on our cash book. There have been
several affecting incidents in this con-
nection-an aged widow brought so
cents and asked that the name of her
dead husband be placed upon the list
for friendships sake; she could i'll af-
ford it.
One brother. past his four score
years walked more than mile to sub
scribe 80 cents. | suggested that he
needed the money for himself and
ought not to give, to which he replied,
Il want to-" Several letters enclosing
10 cents each have been received; the
in some of them indicate a
hand crampcd with age.
Many sympathetic letters have been
received which, together with the cards
bearing the autogra phs of most of the
will be placed in the arch
ives Of this Grand Lodge.
MARQUIS F. KING, Treasurer.
There are mop millionaires and more
paIperS in Moscow than in the whole