The What Cheer Trestle-board
\nProvidence, R.I. – February 1930<\/p>\n
What today is known as the “Annual Triangular Meet” between the Councils of Attleboro,
\nProvidence and Hyde Park began at Providence on November 13, 1931 under the title of
\n“Friendship Triangle Visits”. But before this “Tri-Annual” event began, Attleboro and Providence
\nCouncil had been exchanging visitations and working the ritual of their Grand Jurisdictions in
\neach other’s Council for several years.<\/p>\n
\nAccording to “The What Cheer Trestle-board” (a newsletter publicized be What Cheer
\nLodge #21 then seated in Providence) for February 1930, an account is given of Providence
\nCouncil No. 1 paying a return visit to Attleboro Council on Tuesday evening January 7, 1930. The
\nevening was enhanced by the presence of Companion Alden Brooks Heffler – M.I.G.M. for the
\nMassachusetts Grand Council of Royal & Select Masters. The work exemplified that evening by
\nIllustrious Charles Thomae and Officers was the Royal Master Degree.<\/p>\n
\nDuring the course of the evening, M.I. Heffler, on behalf of Attleboro Council, present to
\nCompanion Henry S. See, the Trice Illustrious Master of Providence Council, a unique gavel that
\nhad been made by Companion Henry Alexander Turner of Foxborough. Companion Turner would
\nlater become the Illustrious Master of Attleboro Council for 1934.<\/p>\n
\nThe gavel was reported to be unique in that the top half of its head was fashioned from a
\npiece of wood taken from the original timbers of the Frigate Constitution (Old Ironsides), while the
\nbottom half of its head was made from wood taken from the favorite flagship of Lord Nelson’s fleet
\n(HMS Foudroyant) that was driven ashore and wrecked near Backpool, England on June 16, 1897.
\nThe handle was made of wood taken from the last of the Old New Bedford whaling vessels (The
\nWanderer) that was wrecked off Cuttyhunk, Massachusetts on August 26, 1924.<\/p>\n
\nThis gavel is an emblem a triangle of brotherly love, peace and friendship. One angle
\nreaching from Boston, where the Constitution was built and from where she sailed on her many
\nvoyages of glory; to that of England, where is found a piece of wood from the ship of the glorious
\nLord Nelson. Then returning in a line to Providence; where in close proximity is found the wood of
\na ship representative of a former American industry and valor; thence by the other hypotenuse
\nthrough Attleboro, where the clever artisan wrought the gavel and created the thought, to the
\noriginal starting point of Boston.<\/p>\n
\nWhat an emblem of friendship is this gavel. Symbolical of the friendship that now exists
\nbetween England and America, and for whose glory, two of those vessels so staunchly performed.
\nAlso of that friendship and brotherly love between our Councils. A symbol which recognizes no
\nbarrier or boundary line, domestic or international, but silently stands as a harbinger of good-will
\nand friendship of our English speaking countries and our beloved Cryptic Craft.<\/p>\n
\nLong may it ever stand, and long may it ever be to Providence Council, a treasured
\npossession of the fundamental principles that we, as Cryptic Masons, so revere, – “Friendship”.<\/p>\n
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