Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1892-08-11
KNIGHTS TEMPLAR.

Owing TO Orders from Headquarters,
Only Two Communicates Take Part In
the Competitive Drill - Proceedings OF
the ConclAve.
DENVER. Col, August l0.-The Knights
were viewing Denver and its suburbs TO-
day, that is those who were not IN attend
ance at the Grand Encampment, or who
were not engaged in looking 10 the COM
forts Of the guests in various cluos ana
headquarters.
The weather was delightful and the
visitors enjoyed II immensely All DAY
and far into the night the street cars were
crowded, and so were the sidewalks.
The principal event OF the day, OUTSIDE
the meeting of the grand encampment,
was the exhibition drill in River Front
PARK. Ii is estimated that 81 least o.OOO
spectators witnessed il and, although only
two commanderies had entered, every
body was well satisfied with the eXhloluon'
Grand Master Goblin had forbidden
competitive drill and many companies
which had entered declined 30 take part in
the exhibition drill, but they probably re-
gret it now, for St. Bernard's, of Chicago,
and California, No. l, the only TWO com
manderles which entered will receive
handsome presents from the Denver Cham-
Der of Commerce.
They will probably be the silver bricks
which were intended for prizes In the com
petitive drill The California knights
drilled first. They were mounted on hand
some black horses and were attirsd IN black
suits trimmed with silver.
They presented handsome appearance.
There were twenty-five men headed oy SIX
trumpeters from the Seventh United
States Cavalry, Custer's lighting musl-
clans.
The various cavalry evolntions were
gone through. Columns, diamonds, crosses
and circles were formed amid the greatest
applause, and the commandery retired
knowing they had pleased the people.
Then ST. Bernard commandery, OF Chi
cago, marched in, headed by the George
W. Cook Drum Corps. II. Nj. Hurton
was in command and there were p swords
The st. Bernard drilled on foot, Templar
tactics. Their columns formations could
not be excelled. They were simply per-
feet.
The platoons wheeled perfectly aud equal
distances were observed between the
marching sets. Several very dinicult
double rank movements ana the wheels
were executed on a marching pivot and
drew forth much applause. The drill
ended py the formation of fancy figures
and the men marched of the field covered
with glory and dust.
The routine business OF the grand en-
campment was polished of expeditiously
at to-day's session. Reports from each OF
the Grand officers of the different States
and Territories under the jurisdiction OF
the encampment were presented and
adopted.
They showed the knight Templars Of
America to be in excellent shape, both nu-
merically and otherwise. The total num-
Der of mem bers Of the Grand and suoordi-
nate commentaries in this country being
g2. .79l. while the net cash resources in the
hands of the Grand treasurer amounts to
s25, ,525,97.
The report OF the special committee on
rituals Of Red Cross and Templar order oc-
cupied the attention Of the encampment
the greater portion Of the day. The com
mittee has been working for three years on
this report. 1t was adopted unanimously.
OF 0ouroe, tho proceedings were secret 10
outsiders, but information was given out
to the press officially.