Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-09-30
SIR KNIGHTS In LINE.
Preparations for the Triennial Con-
clave of the Templars.
A LARGE ATTENDANCE ASSURED.
Members Will be Present From Canada and
Far California.
THE ORDER OF THE GREAT PROCESSION
Pennsylvania Alone viii Furnish Full Division t.
Swell the Column.

The final arrangements are being made
for the triennial conclave of the knights
Templar at Washington next week. 1t viii
be the most largely attended in the history
of the order in the United States. Canada
will send visiting delegation.
WASHINGTON, September 29. = The
twentv-fourth Triennial Conclave of the
knights Templar of the jurisdiction OF the
United States will begin in this city one week
from tomorrow. The whole week will be
round of festivity. The grand encampment
will hold sessions each day, at which 0usi-
ness of special interest to members of the
fraternity will be transacted.
In the parade it is estimated that there
will be %, 900 men in line, or more knights
Templar than have ever heretofore marcned
in procession on one occasion, and exceed
ing bv Il, 900 the number in line at the last
triennial conclave in st. Louis. The COM
mander1es come from all parts OF the
United States, and every State and Terri
tory will be represented either by its Grand
Commandery or by subordinate command
cries.
SOME CANADIAN VISITORS.
Although not in this jurisdiction several
Canadian preceptories (as subordinate
bodies are denominated in Canada) VIII
be in line. Fully $50 cities will have
separate bodies in line. The States
having the largest representation will
be Massachusetts and Rhode island,
which comprise one jurisdiction; New
York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Illinois and
Michigan, there being no less than q sub
ordinate commanderies from Ohio alone, 29
from Illinois and % from Pennsylvania.
The parade will be reviewed by President
Harrison, who will occupy a stand erected
in front of the White House. Another
stand will be erected for the Grand Master
of the Encampment, Charles Roome, of New
York. who will also review the Knights.
The Chief Marshal of the parade will be
Myron M. Parker of this city, with Harri-
son Dingman as Chief OF Staff. There will
be II divisions. The First division will be
commanded by Colonel VIM. G. Moore, OF
this city, and will be headed by the local
communicates.
A BRILLIANT ARRAY.
The officers and delegates to the grand
encampment will follow in carriages with a
detachment of Ceur de Leon Commandery
No. %, of New York City, as a special
escort to the Most Eminent Grand Master.
Second division, comprising Massachusetts
and Rhode Island communicates; Austin q.
Wood, the Third, composed of New York
communicates; j. L. Beck, the
Fourth, made up of Knights from
Virginia, Delaware, Vermont, New
Hampshire and Connecticut. Henry Per-
kins. the Ohio, Kentucky and Maine
paraders, who will form the Fifth division;
Terence f. Nipple, the % commanderies
from PENNSYLVANIA, who will take up the
whole of the Sixth division; Duncan T.
Bacon. the Seventh division, comprising Sir
knights from Indiana, Texas and Michigan;
Norman T. Gassett, the Eighth division,
Illinois Templars; Samuel Hopkins Wag-
ner, Division No. g. including California,
Tennessee, Wisconsin and New Jer-
sey commanderies; A. G Howard,
the Tenth division, having Knights
from South Carolina. Georgia, Missouri,
Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana; Wal
ter H Sanborn. communicates from Mime
sofa, Kansas, Maryland, Nebraska, Arkan-
sas, West Virginia, Colorado and North
Carolina, and w. D. Sites, the last or
TWELFTH DIVISION,
in which the Canadian preceptories and
Communicates from Dakota, Montana,
Washington Territory and Wyoming
will march. Many State headquar-
ters will be established during the
conclave. The Ohio Knights have secured
the armorv of the Washington Light In
fanty, and the Indiana Templars that of the
National Rifles.
State headquarters will be handsomely
decorated, and the armory in which the In
diana Knights will be will represent a
tented field.