Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-08-16
KNIGHTS COMING IN.
Mayor Gourley Will Welcome the
Pythias Members This Morning.
BIG CONTEST FOR INNER GUARD.
Headquarters Opened and Candidates Doing
Some Lively Work.
J. j. DAVIS NEXT GRAND CHANCELLOR

The Knights of Pythias will own the town
during their stay here. The annual meet
ing of the Grand Lodge will begin this
morning in the Grand Opera House, and
by 10 o'clock fully 800 delegates are
expected to be present. Most Of
the officers arrived yesterday, and
members came in on all the late trains
The reception committee, consisting of 100
members, was kept busy going to the de-
pots and receiving visitors The committee
held meeting at the Monongahels House
last night and made arrangements to be at
the various stations this morning to well
come the Uniformed Rank
A number of business houses have been
decorated with flags, and the words swell
come knights" can be seen almost any,
where along the streets The headquarters
will be at the Monongahels House, and the
lobby of the hotel is looking very gay with
its garb of red, white and blue The Gen.
trail Hotel is most elaborately decorated in
side and out
A Brave Display OF Bunting.
Flags wave from every window, and
fine banner of the famous Inland City divi-
sion from Lancaster is stretched across the
street. Lancaster will furnish 100 men
with band of % pieces, and they will all
be located at the Central. The officers e1-
pect 5000 members, and while the hotels
will be jsmmed all the visitors will be
cared for The Lancaster people will come
in this morning Delegations are headed
this way from New York, Ohio, West Vir-
ginia. Maryland and Pennsylvania, and by
tonight they will all be here ready for the
parade tomorrow afternoon.
Among the grand officers in the city are
Grand Chancellor Buckman, Grand Prelate
j. M. Stratton, Grand Inner Guard G. G.
Freed, George Hawkes.. Keeper of Records
and Seals, Julius Mountney, Oscar Kline
and Smith D. Cozens, Supreme Represents
tives. The Grand Vice Chancellor is j. J.
Davis, and the Grand Master-at-Arms R.
H. jackson, OF Pittsburg. Nearly all the
other officers hail from Philadelphia.
The meeting in the Opera House will
open this morning with an address of well
come from Mayor Gourley. r FL. Jack
son will speak for the lodges of Allegheny
county, and Grand Chancellor Buckman
will respond. The morning session will be
taken up with speech making.
Where There Is a Lively Contest.
In the afternoon the election of the Grand
Inner Guard will occur. There is
tremendous contest for the place, The
leading candidate is considered to be DIR.
Donnell, of Scranton. He has opened
headquarters in the Seventh Avenue Hotel,
and is prepared to do some hustling. Other
candidates are J. N. Anderson, Tioga county;
William Sellers, Allegheny, and last, but
not least. comes Colonel Sewell, /, of Scottdale,
The election is determined by a majority
vote of the lodges, and there are 1000 in
the State, so that a candidate must have
jority, the election is then decided BY a vote
of the delegates on the floor. 1t is difficult
to say who will win, for all the candidates
are working hard.
The result of the other elections which
have been held was announced yesterday.
j. J. Davis, Assistant City Controller, is
the new Grand Chancellor; John Stratton,
Grand Vice Chancellor; r. 81. Jackson,
Grand Prelate; G. G. Freed, Grand Master
at Arms; George Hawkes., Keeper of Rec
ords and Seals; Julius Mountney, Grand
Master of the Exchequer, and the Grand
Trustees are Messrs. Beebe, Hart and Love.
Some star Appointments.
Coroner Heber Mcdowell, marshal of the
second division of the Knights of Pvthias
parade tomorrow, announced his staff ap-
pointments yesterday. They are: Chief OF
Staff, William Angloch; Assistant Chief of
Staff, Harry Peterson; Assistant Adjutant,
w. 81. Hahn; Color Bearer, James Nc
Ateer; Aides, A. X. Williamson, Joseph
Van Ullem, Meyer Silverberg. William A.
Louis Schirainer, b. A. Hoffman,
s. p. Barrows. Thomas Asbury, F. A.
Sphinx, NJ. Kober, r. 8. Mcdowell,
Jasper A. Wolfe, A. Pearlstein, Ed
Huiing, W. S. Duff, Thomas Carson,
William Lang, L. Leroy, S. P. Clayburg,
c. H. Kramer, Mott Steel, Morris Rossn-
thai, George Tam. M. j. Price, John
Frank x. Burns, E. J. Nc
Charles Fl. Brenning, Richard
Nolan, E J. Shinn, A. Bernstein, r. NJ.
Vance, J. c. Sturtz, Louis Smith, Charles
H. Price, George B. B. Rather, George
". Meyer, F. M. Williams, W. D.
7. Morgan, W. j. Knox, W. M. Garfield,
Oswald Hickman, Joseph Holland, George
Ielder.