The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1880-08-26
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ticas and nlamlnatiens.
The triennial gala week was ushered
ina Chicago on Sunday. August Is. 1,
was the beginning of the twenty first
Triennial Conclave of Knights Templal
of the United States, and citizens and
sojourning Knights honored it by appro.
pirate services to the Great Master to
whom the Order is dedicated. There
was divine service at Grace Episcopal
Church, at which Rev. Sir DIR. Clinton
Locke, the Grand Prelate of the Grand
Encampment, officiated, and which
was attended by the Knights of the Chi
cago Communicates and such Knights
as had reached Chicago from abroad in
advance of their several COMMUNICATES.
After service the day was devoted "a
sightseeing, visits to Chicago parks
and to social Intercourse.
The drums deep roll and the trum-
pets warlike blast made Chicago
streets resonant on Monday. The red
cross multiplied itself by thousands on
warehouses, hotels. structures devoted
to commerce and private dwellings.
The city looked like q bride decked out
for her honeymoon. All along the prin-
cipal thoroughfares, and particularly
along the proposed line of march for the
procession, flags and streamers bearing
the well-known devices of the Order
were thrown to the breeze, the thou:
sands of camps upon the Lake front
were pitched, and q veritable can
vass city arose as if by magic. The
day was further devoted to sight-see-
ing and the reception of guests, and
the evening to visits to the theaters,
moonlight excursions, musical and gas
tronomic receptions and the like.
Every minute swelled the multitudes
on all the thoroughfares. 1t seemed as
if the city had become a grand living
lake into which were poured continuous
streams of men, women and children.
Columns of gayly-decorated Knights,
preceded by gorgeous bands, were
everywhere, and radiated from the
Grand Headquarters like the spokes of
q wheel as they were escorted to their
resting places by detachments from
local organizations.
Tuesday was the day appointed for
the grand procession, which the mama
gers promised should eclipse everything
in the line Of display ever attempted in
this or any other country. It GER
tainly was y prodigious affair, and
if it did not equal the expec-
tations of its projectors, conso-
lation may be sought in the fact that
the "best laid plans of mice and men
aft gang aglee,' and that while the man
agement of large body of men on pa
per is easy enough, it is altogether diff
ferent when reduced to practice on a
crowded thoroughfare. The procession
was delayed in the starting, and delay
ed by the failure of some of its COM
pCnent parts to connect Mt the proper
time, and further delayed by the gem
eral stupidity and nismanagement of
the Triennial Committee who had
charge of it. It was grand affair, not
and was witnessed by
fully quarter of a million Of people
who thronged the side walks and filled
the doorways and windows along the
route traversed, and even climbed tele-
graph and lamp-posts and seized every
coign of vantage whence the display
could be witnessed. The number of
Knights in Chicago was estimated to be
about 10000, and of these probably
not more than 10000 participated in
the display. At the beginning they
we'll and the procession kept
intact, but, as blocks heightened into
miles, the constituent parts thereof one
by one dropped out, and only the Chi
cago Communicates, impelled thereto
by local pride, traversed the entire
route as originally laid out and pub
lished. The line of march covered
about seven miles, and the procession,
in consequence of the numerous neces-
sary and unnecessary delays, was near
" four hours in passing a given point.
The procession was composed of three
Grand Divisions, the First comprising
The first to the sixth divisions, the Sec
ond comprising the seventh to the
twelfth divisions, and the Third made
up of the thirteenth to the twentieth
divisions.
The First Grand Division comprised
communicates, and was
by En-. Sir Henry Turner,
assisted by nine aids.
The Second Grand Division was CON-
by Sir Fayette +. Fletcher, as
sisted by eight aids, and embraced sew
enty five Communicates.
The Third Grand Division was COM
p osed of ninety-eight Communicates,
ind was commanded by Sir Benjamin
F. Halter, assisted by eight aids. These
we're followed by the Grand Encamp-
nents and distinguished Sir Knights in
carriages.
The procession over, the remainder
If the afternoon was devoted to the
ask of recovery from the fatigue in
;ident to the march. ..
In the evening soiree musicale ct dan
'ante was advertised to be given at the
Exposition building-a structure capa-
Die of holding $4,000 persons with
For this something over
200, 900 tickets are reported to have
,een issued. As a consequence there
vas prodigious crush. very little
music and scarcely any attempt at dane
ng. The outs were consumed by an
insane desire to get in and the ms to
ret out; and as the arrangements for
ngress and egress were totally made
3uate, when The two lines met and
'trove to pass each other in the COM
paratively narrow passages the con-
sequences were something fearful.
W omen tainted, and several were badly
upon and hurt. This ended
he entertainment of Tuesday.
On Wednesday a monster concert
vas advertised to be given at the
Jockey Club track. in which several
thousand performers would participate,
out, either because the weather was too
not or the musicians indisposed, the
did not materialize to any great
extent. There was little music, and q
dri'l for prizes in which
indianapolis was awarded the first
,rize, Louisville the second and Day
on, Ohio, the third. There were
many excursions. ON the lake in the
all the steamers in the
,arbor not otherwise engaged being
pressed into service. In the evening
he Sir Knights literally patronized the
heaters and special concerts in McCor-
nick, Central Music and Farwell Halls.
After these entertainments there was .