28 LIFE OF TEGETMEIER 



several other fellow " Savages," including Tom 

 Robertson, Dr. Strauss, Andrew Halliday, W. J. 

 Prowse, and J. C. Brough, all of whom made use 

 of fictitious names in signing their respective 

 contributions. 



It is but natural that during his bachelor period 

 our young Bohemian would have to depend very 

 often, like Shenstone, for his " warmest welcome 

 at an inn," and in fact we know that the Savage 

 Club was founded largely because the coterie of 

 friends who formed its nucleus desired more 

 privacy than they could ensure at the various 

 taverns at which they were wont to meet. Of 

 these days I have an interesting reminiscence in 

 the shape of a sketch done for me by Mr. Teget- 

 meier in the year 1902, which shows the earliest 

 English form of the " penny-in-the-slot " machine. 

 This was a brass box used in public-houses, in the 

 middle of the nineteenth century, for the delivery 

 of small plugs of tobacco obtainable by the 

 insertion of a penny in the aperture provided. 

 Though now found only in museums or private 

 collections, they were fairly common in the days 

 alluded to. The sketch in question, though very 

 rough, is so accurate in essentials that I at once 

 recognised, from my recollection of it, one of these 

 boxes when I saw it recently in the house of his 

 eldest daughter. Mr. Tegetmeier made me the 

 sketch in illustration of his referring to the old 

 adage " there is nothing new under the sun." 



