St. Paul daily globe., 1892-04-30
KNIGHTS TENPLAR TO DRN-
YER.
The Burlington Route Chosen


Chicago Tribune. April %: The Chi
cago, Burlington & Quincy railroad has
just completed the schedules and ar
rangenents for its special through train
service between Chicago and Denver
during the triennial conclaye of K nights
Templar. which will be held in Denver
Aug. 9, 10. IL and u. 1t promises to
SUrpass not only anything thrt has pre-
yiously been attempted by. the Chicago,
Burlington Il Quincy, but any effort
made by any other Western road which
has its terminal in Chicago. Every de-
tail of the complex sys TEN which it has
undertaken is complete d. Thirty solid
special trains loaded with knights and
their families from Chicago. New York,
Brooklyn. Boston. Philadelphia and mahy
OF the other Eastern cities will leave the
union depot, in addition TO the regular
Denver trains, between noon of Aug. q
and the noon of the following day.
The entire traffic of the Omaha and
Kansas City divisions Will be snbordi-
mated to the special flyers, and during
Aug. and Z, when the grand exodus IS
being made, all east bound fast mer-
ehandise, together with the grain and
live stock traffic, will be sfdetracked at
division points. The trains will DE- run
In pfatoons, with sufficient time allow
ance between each group 10 provide for
any unlooked-iOr emergencies. Special
relay engines will be waiting at diyiS-
ion points to lend their assistance ii it
is required. The entire Journey OF ,026
miles will be made IN from twenty-nine
to thirty-four hours, according TO the
divisions over which the specials will
run.
The railroad has arranged to make
Chicago the pivotal point OF the jour
ney, both going out and returning, and
all the bodies from the East will be
given an opportunity to visit the worlds
fair grounds ana other places OF inter
est. The great feature of the under
taking will be that there will be no
mixed trains. Each delegation of
Knights will travel in its own special.
and will return by it after the conclave
is at an end.
The advance guard of the specials
will reach Chicago Aug. 2. 1t will be
special limited yesuibule train from
Philadelphia. bearing Gen. j. p. S.
Goblin, grand master of the triennial
cOnclaye and his party. The Bay City
cOlnmandery will be the first of the reg
ular bodies to leave Chicago. 1t will
arrive in the city OH the Grand Trunk.
and will leave Aug. 6 at IL 80 a. ~,
reaching Denver before sunrise on the
second day following. 1t arranged for
its transportation over year ago. The
Knights from New England Will travel
in five solid trains, starting from Bos-
ton and returning to the same point.
The appendant orders of Massachusetts
and Rhode Island alone will number 400
people, and two solid yestibule trains
will be placed at their disposal. Imne-
H. trl, a
their escort wifi be the st. Johns com
nandery and the commandery from
Worcester county, Mass, in two special
trains of eight hotel ears each, ,accommo-
dating $50 people to each train. The
Washington commandery, Of Hartford,
Conn, will arrive in Chicago and leave
between the hours of 4 and o'clock
Saturday, Aug. q.
The Apollo commandery, of Troy, n.
Y. will leave Chicago Saturday at 7:30
p. m, and will arrange to spend Sunday
i'll Kansas City. Following it, the Wash
ington, ID. c., conmandery will leave at
9 p. m. going by way of Omaha. The
communicates from Pittsburg, Detroit,
Brooklyn, the Cheyalier Bayard OF Chi
cago, the grand commandery of New
Hampshire, and many others, in their
own trains, will pull out of the union
Q6pOl at Intervals OF ndlI-nOllI. AT Inc
same time five trains will leave Gales
burg loaded with Knights from the sur
rounding cities, and each branch of the
system will run its quota OF specials,
under the same conditions as the trains
on the main line. Returning, arrange
ments have been made for a twelve
hours stop at Omaha, Aug. 15, where
convention Of the orders of the Mystic
Shrine will be in progress.
The New EngIanders have arranged
for $50 carriages which will be kept in
waiting at the depot to take the dele
gates to the worlds fair grounds and
over the drives OF Chicago. At Denver
more arrangements have been made by
which numerous side trips into PROM
inent localities will be made. The Chi
cago, Burlington 81 Quincy has every
movement Of its thirty special trains ar
ranged, even to the most minute details.
and the accommodation OF the heavy
special traffic will be utilized as a
feeler for the operations that are to be
undertaken during the progress of the
worlds fair