The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-07-27
ENCAMPMENT OF KNIGHTS.
Probability of Another Big Attraction
Being Given to This City Next Year.
General Carnahan Says that the National En-
campment of the Uniformed Rank, K. of
p, May Be Held Here in July. 1887.

Gen. James r. Canadian, the major general
of the Uniformed Rank of Knights of Pythias,
returned yesterday from the biennial concaye
as Toronto. In speaking about the meeting, he
said to Journal reporter that the people of
Toronto had no idea of the force of the organi-
cation before the gathering of the Knights.
In Toronto the membership of the or
der is not large, numbering only about
300 persons, but these are of the highest social
standing Although it was the first meeting Of
the order ever held outside of the United States,
there were, according to the reports of the rail
road officials, over %. 900 visitors to Toronto
from this country during the convocatioa. The dis
play made by the Uniform Rauk of the order
was the great feature of the gathering. The dis
cipline shown IN the parade, in which
fully 1850 uniformed men appeared,
was generally commented upon as wonderful,
and much interest in the display as military
affair." was manifested by the Canadians The
tactics used were those prepared for the Uniform
Rank by General Carnahan, based upon Upton's.
The rules conformed 30 closely to those in use
by the army that the government detailed two
military officers to go to Toronto and with
lieutenant-colonel of the British army, act as
judges of the drills.
Concerning the report that member of the
indianapolis Division appeared on the drill
ground intoxicated, General Carnahan said,
Before going to Toronto, issued an order pro-
hlbiting members of the Uniformed Rank from
visiting saloons and during the whole of the time
that we were in Toronto. did not see single
man belonging to any division under the iniu-
ence of liquor. One of the members of Captain
Richardson's division, while standing in
the ranks. tainted and fell He had
been resting on cot not more
than three minutes when the bugler called the
indianapolis division on the drill ground /
sisted the sick Knight in putting on his belt to
participate with his division in the drill, and
know that he had not been drinking anything in
toxicating."
During the two years that General Carnahan
has been major-general of the Uniformed Rank
its membership has increased from 4, 100 to over
$4,000. At the Toronto meeting he was pre-
vailed upon by the Supreme Lodge to
building up the rank, and, everything he de-
manded was conceded, he accepted the trust.
He is confident that at the next meeting, to be
held at Cincinnati in 1888, there will be not less
than ten thousand welldrilled men in the pa
rade. AT Toronto the States of Texas,
Louisiana, Florida, Alabama, Tennessee, Vir-
ginia and Maryland were represented by
from one to four divisions. while
from Missouri, Nebraska, Minnesota, Iowa. Illi-
nois Wisconsin, Michigan. Pennsylvania, New
York, Massachusetts. Rhode Island, New Jersey,
Maine, New Hampshire, Ohio, Indiana and the
Canadian provinces, the rank was represented in
force.
I'VE are now talking" said General Carnahan,
"of holding the national encampment of the
Uniformed Rank in Indianapolis next year,
during the week of July
have been promised by the officers
in Ohio, Illinois and Missouri that If the en-
campment is held here they will send their di-
visions in force. In Ohio there are now seven
regiments of the Uniformed Rank, Ia Missouri
there are two, and in Illinois there are three. /
have assurances from other States that they
would be represented by from three to ten d.
visions each. Major Ross and have already
got the refusal of the Exposition grounds for the
affair"
"How many people would the encampment at
tract to IndanapolisF'
There would be from 5, 900 to 5000 members
of the Uniformed Rank in camp, and l think
that fully $4,000 people would be attracted to
the city"
when will the question as to the holding of
the encampment be decided?"
1.-THE whole matter is practically in my hands
now. At the meeting of the officers il was voted
unanimously to come to Indianapolis if salts
factory arrangements could be made. shall
not however, decide upon the holding of an en-
campment unless am sure that 1t can be made
a Success"
General Carnahan brought home with him a
magnificent silver tea set of ten pieces, presented
to him at Toronto by the members of his staff