U see that same number....................29..............all over Dc......................
On September 29, 1876, a group calling itself "The Order of File
and Claw" broke into the Skull and Bones' holy of holies. In the
"tomb" they found lodge-room 324 "fitted up in black velvet, even
the walls being covered with the material." Upstairs was lodge-room
322, "the 'sanctum sanctorium' of the temple... furnished in red
velvet" with a pentagram on the wall. In the hall are "pictures of
the founders of Bones at Yale, and of members of the Society in
Germany, when the chapter was established here in 1832." The
raiding party found another interesting scene in the parlor next to
room 322.
From The Fall Of Skull And Bones:
“On the west wall, hung among other pictures, an old
engraving representing an open burial vault, in which, on a stone
slab, rest four human skulls, grouped about a fools cap and
bells, an open book, several mathematical instruments, a beggar's
scrip, and a royal crown. On the arched wall above the vault are
the explanatory words, in Roman letters, 'We War Der Thor, Wer
Weiser, Wer Bettler Oder, Kaiser?' and below the vault is
engraved, in German characters, the sentence; 'Ob Arm, Ob Beich,
im Tode gleich.'
The picture is accompanied by a card on which is written, 'From
the German Chapter. Presented by D. C. Gilman of D. 50'.”
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