Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 July 1891 — The Masons of New York. [ARTICLE]

The Masons of New York.

N. Y. sun. “We keep our secrets in the dark,” said a Free Mason, “but it is not now a secret that we have over 75,000 members of the Masonic fraternity in the State of New York. Yes, we' have a mystic shrine, and we wear aprons, and wc have symbols and ceremonies, and we meet in lodges,'find we have masters and apprentices, and we reveoe King. Solomon, who built the Temple of Jerusalem, but I cannot tell you any more, for the rest is secret in the dark. Is it worth while to join the fraternity? That is for you to find out after you get into it. We do not ad vis 5 people to join it.”