The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-12-01
KNIGHTS TEMPLAR.
In Hoe Signo 'lnces'


plar inaugurated to-day; decorations OF
prominent buildings, preparations for lliuml-
nations are being made, and there is every
evidence that the reception accorded the adj
vent Of the Knights in this city, will be COM
mensurate to the Importance which attaches
to the event. Up to Sunday evening, about
one thousand Sir Knights had arrived, and
many more would have been ON hand Monday
had it not been for the general delay on the
routes, by which the various Communicates
are coming The steamers Great Republic
and Illewild would, doubtless, have been at
the landing before dark, had they not been
detained by fog.
However, they came forward during the
night and with the Communicates which
were to have arrived by train, it is calculated
that not less than twenty-five hundred Sir
Knights will be present this morning.
The details, as made at headquarters, for
reception purposes, yesterday, were as fol-
lows:
Indiyisible Friends Commandery No. l, at
Jackson Railroad depot, at l 80 P. NJ, to re-
ceive and escort the delegations due on the
train at that hour; Jacques De Molay Com
mandery No. 2, to assemble at the Masonic
Hall at P. NJ, thence to move to the New
Orleans and Mobile Railroad depot, to receive
and escort those Sir knights which were due
at p M. from Mobile; Orleans Commandery
No 3 was ordered to the landing at p. NJ,
to meet the delegations which came on the
steamer Thompson Dean and Mississippi
Commandery to the Morgan ferry landing, to
receive the Grand Commandery, due at 3:45
P. nj. These duties constituted the pro-
gramme for the day, with the exception Of
the Grand Council, which was convened at
noon at the Masonic Hall, and which had for
its object the organization of General Grand
Council for the United States.
AT THE LANDING.
Promptly at 2 o'clock, Orleans Commandery
No. 3, headed by a band Of music, wendell
their way to the landing, head of Canal street,
to await the arrival Of the steamer Thomp son
Dean. Thither had been dispatched, just pre-
vious to this, a section of Battery B, Louisiana
Field Artillery, with two twelve Founders, to
give to the reception that imposing addition
a national salute. The steamer, however, failed
to come to time, and there ensued tedious
delay of fully two hours and q half, for the
hands of the clock in the steeple were oscil-
Dean hove in sight, and then there ensued
trouble and loss of time in etfecting a landing
owing to the manner in which the wharf was
crowded with craft.
The train from Mobile, whereon were the
st. Louis No J., Aldamar No. IS, Command
cries Of ST. Louis, and representatives from
various Communicates throughout the State OF
Missouri, was also behind time, and did not
arrive before near the hour Of five, so that the
reception of those Sir Knights who came by
that route and those arrived by the steamer
Thompson Dean, took place about the same
time, and the depot being quite near the land
ing, made it appear almost as though the re-
ception of the two distinctive bodies was one
ceremony.
As the train rolled in, and as the Dean Ct
fected her landing which occurred about the
same time, the salute from the artillery was
begun and concluded only as the newly arrived
Sir Knights, escorted by their reception Com
manderies, filed from the levee into the city
and to the st. Charles Hotel, where they were
assigned the quarters prepared for them.
The arrivals by the Thompson Dean were
the Grand Officers Of the Grand Commandery
of Illinois.
r. E. Sir Hiram Warner Hubbard, G. E.
v. E. Sir Theo. Z. Quincy, D. G. G.
- V. E. Sir Louis H. Jorgens, Generalissimo.
v. E. Sir Eugene B. Meyers, proxy Captain
'. E. Sir John Mile Phillips, Prelate
V. E. Sir Lang Mckinney, Junior Warden.
VI Sir Oscar Hughes, Standard Bearer.
Jewett Welcox, Sword Bearer.
VIM. J. Morgan, Warder.
Robt. H. Smith, Captain Guard.
r. E. Sir James A. Horsley, P. G. c.
The Cairo Commandery performed escort
duty to the Grand Commandery Of Illinois.
There were also on board Cairo Command
ery No. Is, C. w. Dunning, E. c., forty-two
Sir Knights, with forty ladies, and band OF
twenty-seven.
The Centralia Commandery No. %, Henry
r. Rhodes E. c., sixteen Sir Knights, with
nineteen ladies, and the Terre Haute Com-
mandery No. 16, Alexander Thomas, E. c.,
sixty Sir Knights, with sixteen ladies and ten
invited guests.
The arrivals by train from Mobile consisted
as above mentioned, of the St. Louis Com
lmandery No. l, St. Aldamar Commandery NO.
IS, and delegations of other Missouri Com
manderies.
The prominent officers who arrived WIN
these Communicates, are Past Grand COM
manders John Ure and Thomas Wanneu'
Deputy Grand Commander John G. Bloom
field and Captain General David Goodfeliow,
and P. NJ. Sabery, of Grand Commandery OF
Mississippi. The Eminent Commanders were'
A. T. Bissel, Tancred Mobrey, No. 70, Il. D.
Wells, Hugh de Payne. No. 4, St. Joseph
Mo. A. n JavneS w. Orner No IL, Sedalla,