Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1875-06-10
Masonic.
Dedication of the Millionaire
Temple in New York.
$4,000 Masons in Procession.

$4,000 Masons in Procession.
New YORK, June 2--The
Masonic demonstration to-day
is most imposing affair. The
weather is delightful. Flags,
banners and buntings are eve
rywhere displayed. and tie
streets through which the pro-
cession moves are crowded.
The ceremonies of the dedica-
ton of the new Masonic Tenn
pie, at Twenty-third street and
Sixth avenue, may be said to
have begun yesterday P. NJ,
when the annual session of the
Grand Lodge Of the State was
opened.
At al early hour the city was
astir with music, with Masonic
bodies moving from headquar-
tiers to the point designated
for them by the marshal of the
day, an unusual promptness
having been observed by
most of them, and the result
was that at the hour named for
all to be in line, very few COM
nanderies or lodges were out
Of place. The side streets and
avenues leading to the head of
the line were gay with the mu-
sic and floating banners of
Knights Templar. Everywhere
the red cross showed in the sun.
and the familiar motto,
IN Hoe SIGNO VINCEs,
met the eye at every turn,
Soon after 9, three guns was fir
in quick succession from W ash
ington Square, and Immediate
ly the signal to move was COM
municated to the head Of the
line at Nineteenth street by the
waving OF guidons. Marshal
Preston and aids then took
their positions at the head Ct
the line, and the procession
marshalled in twenty divisions
took up its march. Preceding
the Masons came tWcnty-foul
mounted policemen and two
Iplatoons of officers on foot
The Marshals staff and mounted
aids were all designated by con.
spicuous badges and wore theil
handsome jewels on the letI
breast. The Communicates
looked well, and the elegance
Of the appointments together
with the excellence of the dis.
cipline, obtained for them many
favorable comments along the
line Of march. Banners were
occasionally supported by :
force of knights arranged il
the shape Of the Cross.
The Ecening Post says the
principal feature was tie De.
troit Commandery, No. 1. The
COmmandery is said to be The
most proficient in
THE PECULIAR DRILL
Of the Knights Templar of any
organization in the country
They were not long in demons.
trating their claims TO a great
deal Of credit for celebrity anc
soldierly precision, for soon at:
ter the line moved they began
their evolutions, and continued
them at short in tervals along the
line Of march, without in the
least retarding the genera
movement of the procession
Their movements included the
formation Of a line with a front
Of fifty men, and these were
formed with deXterity, and il
such good order, as to provoke
constant applause, and they
went on their way rewarded by
a hearty clapping Of hands and
flutter Of handkerchiefs, from
the ladies, who occupied every
available. window on Broad
way, where the procession
could be seen to advantage
AS the eighth division passed
Fifteenth street the Blue Lodge
filed into their places, from ell
Their side Of Fifth avenue. Pre-
vious to this their lines had
been broken to permit as many
Of the Order as possible to wit
ness the attractive part Of the
parade. The remaining divis-
ions up to the twenty-fifth, were
each provided with bands Of
music, and consisted of from ten
to fifteen Lodges each. Each
Lodge was represented by from
one to two hundred members.
although the divisions were ve-
ny unequal in strength of num-
bers. In the twenty-fifth diYis-
ion, St Johns Lodge, No. 1,
was the Bible on which
WASHINGTON Took HIS FIRST
OATH OF OFFICE,