The Portland daily press., 1874-08-07

| beiPiiA AOu5cs NJ 10, y, ~ w AA"oStes NVoen
Weymouth, 50 men.
Calanthe Lodge, No II, C c, A Flint, SIS men.
Commonwealth Lodge, No 10, G c, Il Cass, Bos-
ton, IS men.
Socrates Lodge, No 81, GOWN Wells, Boston, 20
Wamesit Lodge. No 25, c C, G Goodale, Lowell 10
King Phillip Lodge, No 80, &C, d B Brown, East
Boston, 80 men.
st Paul Lodge, No 81, G c. H o Souther, Quincy q
men.
Maverick Lodge, No 49, c, E A Misenier, East
Boston, 80 men.
Edmunds Band Of Boston, 95 pieces.
Webster Lodge, No IA, c C. c Hoffman, 125 men,
Boston.
st John Lodge, Boston, Rayard Lodge, No So, Hyde
Park, North Star Lodge, c G, 6 Royce,
M, Rowland, Jr.,
So men.
Mattapan Lodge, No a, &C, W Z JOY, Boston, II
men.
Myrtle Lodge, No 81, c G, F P simOnds Natick, l5
Lodge No 10, Palestine No 26, Schiller No "a, Old
Colony No 43, Marlboro No IS, Lake No 49, Damas-
Gus No so, S II Kinds No Sc, and Massachusetts, No
42.l
Rhode Island Marshal,
FL Clark of Olneyville.
Salem Brass Brand, 81 pieces.
Myrtle Lodge, mol, woonsocket, G, Gibson, 20
bitllon LouSo, M o. TroVlueHcct v W L DccAWltu,
POI men.
Washington Lodge, No 4, Central Falls, G C., Car
penter, 10 men.
Eureka Lodge, No Pawtueket, c. 80 men.
st Johns Lodge, No 6, Olneyville, c c. A Macken-
zie II men.
John Milton Lodge, Not, Providence, c c, II B
Whitman, Is men.
st Elmo LODGE No 49, Peacedale, G., Irving Wat
son, 10 men,
Ivanhoe LODGE No 16, c c, Sweet, Is men.
The published route of procession was gone
over, and about noon the Knights embarked
for the clam bake at Hog Island. The display
was brilliant one, the spenddly blazoned
banners of the Portland lodges the parti color
ed pennons of the visiting camps. the glitter
ing helmets and snowy baldricks of the
knights combining to make a procession the
like Of which has not been seen in Portland. 1t
was voted decided success, and so won the
spectators that the Order in this state at least
will not soon cease its already marvellous
growth.
AT THE ISLANDS.
1t is altogether probable that the steamer
New Brunswick never was more damned with
humanity than when she left her wharf with
the Knights. Saloons, ladies cabin, deck and
hurricane deck were seething mass of Pyth-
ians, laughing, talking, joking and singing.
On the hurricane deck we're stationed the
bands, which did their best to drown the babel
of voices below, but with only partial success.
Women struggled violently and pleaded touch
ingly to be admitted on board, but the hard
hearted Pythian who presided over the gang
way sternly Informed them it was a party for
nv Ill 1a% "a 1au as 1,ktl.
before one clock, and sailed about due north
east until a smoking volcano was sighted on
the easterly end of Hog Island. The signal
was then given, engines slowed and the steamer
was brought to the wharf.
There is something absolutely maddening
in the odor of clans. We have seen men who
said they produced intoxication and they were
in condition which seemed to justify the as
sertion. The effect OF this aroma was visible as
soon as the boat touched theswharf yesterday.
Decorous Knights instantly plunged peli nell
for the gang-way. 1t was useless for the bold
Knight who stood on the hurricane deck to cry
Gentlemen, get to the starboard! The boat
will heel over!' &c. The clans had been
scented and the species of emotional insanity
produced was only to be subdued by huge doses
of the bivalyes.
AS fast as they got on shore the Knights
seated themselves at the long tables which had
been set it the grove, the seaweed was raked
off the smoking pile and the tables loaded with
Holsters, clans, eggs, green corn and potatoes.
1t is no use to attempt to describe the scene
which followed. Doctors and apothecaries
were jubilant as they saw the indigestible vi
ands disappear.
After lunch the Knights devoted themselves
to physical exercises until five o'clock when
dinner was served, which, strange to relate,
was devoured with as much eagerness as the
lunch few hours before. The capabilities of
the human stomach are past all finding out.
1t was intended at!this meal to indulge in what
is tritely called feast of reason" but no
sooner had the tables been cleared than gen
eral stampede to the boat took place. 1t was
no use to attempt to stop it. and so the toast
master found his occupation gone.
When the boat arrived at the wharf in this
city the procession was reformed and marched
to the City Hall, where it was d;sbauded.
IN THE EVENING.
City Hall in the evening presented brilliant
hung from the galleries and the national flag
above the stage Uniformed knights escorted
more than the usual amount of youth and
beauty in the promenade preliminary to tn ?
dance, and though the proposed band concert
had to be dispensed with, the Bangor and
Portland bands furnished some excellent
music. In the Reception Hall the weary and
warm disciple of Terpsichore could res. and cool
off with an ice cream and recuperate his or her
energies for the next polka.
Dancing commenced at about ten o'clock.
The couples literally covered the floor. The
masculine dress was monotonous but the Ia
| dies presented all styles of makeup and all
| shades of color. Crowds of spectators looked
| down from the galleries upon the merry scene
below or peered in from the halls. Dance fol
| lowed dance inquick succession until an in
specton of the clock and the railroad time ia
bles compelled the visiting Knights to reluc
family take their departure for. the Pullman
trains, by which they returned to their homes
| 1t isonly just to say thatthe celebration in
| every respect was success. A programme ha
! seldom been carried out with fewer mistakes
| There was, as far as welcan learn, a total i'm
nun ty from accident Of any kind, and on h
| island there was not even an approach to an,
act which could be characterized as dsorierly
or rowdyish.
| U. 9. COmmissiener's Gases
Yesterday afternoon U. S. Marshal Marbl
arrived IN the city having in charge d. j. Fa
Her the seaman who refused 20 do duty O