Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1878-05-16
KNIGHTS OF HONOR.
The Supreme Lodge Entertained at q
Genuine Belle Meade Barbecue
Addresses OF Welcome by Gov
nor Porter and General
QuarIes, Responded
to by Eminent
knights.

Special to the Appeal
NASHVILLE, May 15.-Nashville was per-
turbed this morning. Everyone seemed ex-
ceedingly restless. All the principal streets
were thronged. The sidewalks along Church
street, from Masonic Temple to the Chatta-
nooga depot, were so crowded that one had
either to make vigorous use of his elbow or
take the street, which was far preferable.
The people who wore white and red badges,
and upon which was inscribed the letters,
tx. of FL. seemed almost innumerable. The
occasion was complimentary barbecue at
Belle Meade, by the lodges of Nashville and
Edgefeld, to the Supreme lodge OF Knights
of Honor. Everyone commenced early to
gravitate to that point.
At haif-past eight the committee of the
Grand lodge, general committee, and officers
of all the subordinate lodges of Nashville
and Edgefeld, assembled at the Maxwell
house, which seemed for the time to be hope
lessly overrun by an immense mass of peo-
pie. Half an hour later, however, they passed
out forward, in open line, before the Masonic
Temple, when the members of the Supreme
lodge filed out, and were escorted to the de-
pot of the Nashville, Chattanooga and st.
Louis railway, where they took the train for
Belle Meade. Three trains were required to
convey them out, besides vast number of
vehicles, which continued to run to the
grounds throughout the entire day.
The barbecue was a grand success in every
particular Governor Porter, on behalf of
Tennessee, and General James Quarles, on
the part of Nashville, delivered addresses of
welcome, which were responded to by Francis
Lobdell, of Connecticut; Colonel r. J. Brock
inridge, of Kentucky; VIM. Mac Williams, of
shire, and William Lovenstein, of Virginia.
SUPREME DICTATOR AND BROTHERS OF
THE SUPREME LoDGE-I have the honor to
be the organ of this large assembly of your
brothers and friends, who greet you with a
welcome intended to be cordial and without
stint We have avoided the ordinary social
festival with its statelings and dull uniform
ity, and have brought you here to enjoy the
freedom of the forest and the green fields,
and have given our hospitality form familiar
to Tennesseans and to other gentlemen here
from the southwest and which, | trust, will
be acceptable to you all. 1t is something for
congratulation that our organization has no
aim or purpose that is partisan in any sense.
We practice the virtues of charity and
benevolenca, and emulate the knights of the
middle ages only in the practice of the virtue
of courage and the protection of the weak.
You come among US from remote States of
the Federal Union to help cement and make
stronger these fraternal obligations. and to
extend and enlarge the beneicence of our
order. This greeting, let me assure you, is a
recognition of the dlsinterested services you
are rendering to the members of
the order and to their families. In
the name of the brotherhood of
Tennessee l bid you, sir, and the Supreme
lodge, welcome. 1t is personal qualification
to me to greet so many representative men
from the east and the far west. l trust that
the present meeting of the Supreme lodge will
be signalized by labors that will impart addi-
tional strength and permanence to the order
in the field already occupied, and by the ex-
tension of the area of its usefulness and ben
e6ts to all sections of the country.
Two fine string bands were on the grounds,
and made music for Terpsichore throughout
the day. AT noon a grand barbecue was
served: None but members of the order,
their families and immediate friends were
permitted to attend.