Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-08-24

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TChicago Tribune, Saturday.
The grumbler at the management of the
recent conclave of Knights Templar is still
abroad in Chicago. He is not SO numerous
as he was, but still he wants to have him
self heard. Yesterday afternoon Tribune
reporter called upon Mr.. Norman T. Gas
settle, chairman of the triennial committee,
to see what he had to say about the various
complaints made in regard to delays, dis
appointments, etc. Mr.. Gassette said: ut
is not for me to say q word. If there is
anything to be said at all, Knights Templar
of Chicago ought to say it. /
have sacrificed every personal
comfort to make this thing success. For
two years or more have given this thing
my personal attention, for months past
haye scarcely seen my family, and have
given my time without thought for the
future, simply for the benefit of the city of
Chicago and Templarism. No conclave ever
passed off more successfully. and every fair
minded man who has attended other trien-
malls will tell you SO. The sub committees
had charge of the various details, aud nearly
every member of the executive committee
was chairman of one of these committees.
They went on to do their work, contracted
debts, and we merely approved what they
did in executive committee"
Further than this Mr.. Gassette would not
say. He had no reflections to make upon
anybody at all, and if the Templars of Chi
cago could stand it he could. That day
they had paid cut some $4,000, including
$500 for Hooley's Theatre, $500 to Pinker.
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at the Exposition ball and reception.
Mr.. Biakely, the secretary of the finance
committee, said that all the personal SUBJ
scriptions had been collected, and Mr.. Gas
sette said that he believed that he had
enough cash in hand to pay all the bills con-
tracted.
knight Templar who is in position to
know. said to Tribune reporter yesterday
that Mr.. Gassette was being assailed unjust
ly and unnecessarily.
81 never saw committees do anything
right anyhow, and now they try to shift all
the responsibility upon Chairman Gassette's
shoulders. 1t is not fair at all. The chair
en of the sub committees did the business.
Look at the botch that they made of the
arches. have heard it stated that Knight
Templar pretty we'll posted in
such things suggested that three
arches be put up, and one of them
across Madison, to the east of Dearborn
street, where everybody could see it. This
gas pipe and rag business was all nonsense.
The funeral arch was to have been of hand
some design, the column to have been in i'm
itation of granite, with the letters sunk. into
them. Instead of that they got some
cheap muslin and California pampas
grass for plumes, and some black rags,
and that did the business. The
gas-pipe arches were q total failure. 1t
was the same with the management of the
distribution of the tickets for the theaters
and the concerts. People who wanted to go
to Hooley's were sent to Haverly's or Nc
Vicker's, and vice verga, and some who
wanted to 60 to theaters were given concert
tickets. That feature wasn't attended
to or appreciated as it ought to
have been. 1t was only such man as
Gasseite who could have made the thing a
success, and if he had had the exclusive
power there wouldn't have been these serious
bitches at all"