The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-08-25
THE pyTHIAN ENcAMPMENT.


KANSAS CITY. Aug. 24.-Popular inter-
est in the biennial PythiaD encampment
centers in Camp Shaw, the only attractive
thing in connection with today's program
being the competitive drilling. The drill
ing began promptly at O'Clock this morn
ing and viii continue each dag OF the en-
campment until each entry has had an
opportunity to drill. Camp Shaw was
early the scene of bustling and animation.
All through the great wilderness of tents
preparations for the drill were going on.
knights in All stages of full dress and I'M
dress were hurrylng to ana FRO. mounted
orderlies, booted aud spurred. galloped up
and down the rows of tents. Black por-
ters aud camp followers, with vastly inn
portant airs, hustled about furnishing
equipments and plying brushes to make
the knights spick and span Tor the drill
The competition comprises battalion
and division drills Today there were
three division and one battalion drills.
The latter was given by the First Indiana
battalion, which went through the move
ments promptly and in good form, not
withstandiug the fact that Colonel w. j..
Heiskell, in command, was barely able TO
go on the field, as he was suffering from
the effects of an attack of syncope before
the call for the drill. The first DIVISION
called for drill was Terre Haute No. 3 OF
Terre Haute, Ind, Captain Alonzo Ded-
delstone in command. Red Cross DlVl-
sion No of St. Luuis was next III orier,
Captain j. T. Shick commanding. Ihe
closing drill of the day was that OF Louis
vile No of Louisville, KY, Captain j.
w. Reccins commanding.
Major General Carnahan of the
uniform rank this afternoon reviewed all
the Pythian bodies in camp. he was sur
/ i ~. t.,fT tad NJ Z
various divisions, regiments and brlgades
passed by him for inspection. The bear
| ing of the knights in general was highly
| pleasing to the commanding general Inc
| Nebraska brigade especially showed up IN
fine form, and after the review General
Caruahau personally congratulated the
! officers of the Nebraska brigade upon the
| correctness of their marching, and remark
Ell that it was the only brigade in line That
passed inspection without the discovery
of flaw. Mona division No. 26 OF kear-
ney, Neb, attracted special attention oy
reason of the precision of its marching ana
its general military bearing,
This was a busy day for the supreme
[ lodge. Three sessions were held and much
| hard work was done At the morning
session the routine business under consld-
GRAFTON but not disposed of yesterday was
taken up and the consideration OF 1t re-
sumed. Twelve aSpirantS TO the supreme
| lodge were admitted and the rank confer
| red. The committee on distribution OF
assignments distributed the different
! topics of Chancellor Shaw's report TO the
/ appropriate committees. The lodge re-
solved itself inta committee of the whole
to discuss the report of the committee on
| rules. The consideration of that report
occupied the rest of the day, and IL was
not concluded at the adjournment this
| afternoon.
/ Tonight the lodge held a special meet
ing TO consider the report OF the committee
on revision of the ritual. An eXempllhca-
tion of the new ritual took place, TO give
the lodge an opportunity to see whether
it was sufficient improvement over the
present one to be adopted. The new ritual
| is mainly the work of Walter Is. Rltchle.
| supreme representative from ONO, and a
! candidate for supreme vice chancellor. he
| report of the committee WAS not fiually
| acted upon tonight.
| Tomorrow the supreme lodge Will elect
officers for the coming two years. William
! Work Blackwell of Kentucky, now su-
preme vice chancellor, Will succeed Cham
| Cellor Shaw, according to precedent. For
supreme vice chancellor Walter b Rltchle
of Ohio and Eli I. Blackmer OF San Diego,
| supreme prelate, are candidates. Supreme
Inner Guard Blackwell of Wyoming and
Supreme Representative j. II. Lyon of
Kansas are candidates for the Office of su-
preme master-aU-arms, now held by Mr..
| Morrison of Nevada The supreme keeper
of records and seal and the supreme
master of the exchequer viii doubtless be
reelected.
The supreme temple of the Pythian sis
ters held a short session today. Supreme
Chief Mrs Ida NJ Weaver delivered hel
biennial address, giving review of the
reports of the other chief officers. Mrs
NJ. ID. Wood, supreme mistress of records
aud correspondence, reported that the
order now had IA membership OF $4,000, The
increase in the last niue months having
been 1000 The supreme mistress o
finance Mrs. Emma s. Bacon of Canton
O, presented a report. showing balance
in the treasury Of $4,000.