Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-08
MISCELLANEOUS GATHERINGS.

Knights Templar 'Triennial Conclave,
Denver, August 9.
Grand Army Encampment, Washington,
September 90.
Sons of Veterans Helena, August s.
Odd Follows Convention, Portland, Sep
tember 10.
Lawyers Convention, Saratoga, August
1926.
American Medical Association, Detroit,
June 40.
Discovery Day, everywhere, October II.
The KNIGHTS TEMPLAR-Quite para
lei with the preparations Minneapolis is
making for the entertainment of the Ma
tional Republican Convention, and even
more elaborate, if possible, are the hospita-
BILE plans OF the city of Denver, Col, for the
reception of the twenty-ffth triennial con-
clave of the Knights Templar. The local
committee of the knights had early in
April assigned definite quarters to more
than 30, 900 applicants for hotel accommo-
dation, and it is confidently expected that
100000 visitors from all parts Of America
will be in Denver Oh the 9th of August
when the conclave will open with a grand
parade. AT no preceding triennial gather
ings of the Knights have there been any
arrangements of more munifcent and
splendid character than Denver is now per-
tecting; and the whole State of Colorado is
making ready to give royal welcome to
guests of both coasts and every corner of
the land. From 800 to 1000 Pullman cars
will stand at convenient points upon side
tracks during the conclave, in expansion Of
the hotel capacity Of the city.
THE GRAND ARMY-This great assem-
blage will meet in Washington, at the cap
ital of the country and in sight Of Arling-
ton, where so many thousands o. their COM
rades of 30 years ago lie buried The at
tendance will reach scores of thousands
The Commander in Chief this year is Gem
eral John Palmer, of Albany, N. Y, and
the date fixed for the encampment is Sep
tember 20. At last accounts the Grand
Army had a total membership of 39S, ,O67,
The annual meeting of the Women's Relief
Corps, and some other kindred organiza-
tions, will be held at the same time and
place.
Sons OF VETERANs-This year the
annual gathering of the Sons of Veterans
will be held on August 8, at elena, Mon.
1t will be delegate body, and the number
OF representatives entitled to vote will be
only few hundreds; but it has been Gus
tomary for large number of visitors to at
tend the annual reunions. Mr.. Russell B.
Harrison, the son of President Harrison is
chairman of a transportation committee
MEDICAL GATHERING NGs-Perhaps the
largest OF the yearly professional confer
ences Of the country is that OF the American
Medical Association 1t will hold its forty
third annual session at Detroit, Mich, j une
40. This convention is made up of dele |
gates who receive their appointment from
permanently organized State medical socie- |
ties, and from such county and district soci- |
cites as have regular representation in their |
State associations, together with |
delegates from the medical departments of |
the Army and Navy and the Marine Hos
pital Service of the United States William |
B. Atkinson, NJ. D., Of Philadelphia, is
Permanent Secretary. The society works
in IL sections each dealing with some depart
ment of medical science or practice. Some
/ 800 delegates are expected at the Detroit
meeting, besides several hundred other
guests. The American Institute of Home
opathy will hold its annual gathering at
June 13 to II. The Canadian
Medical Association will meet at Ottawa
in September
THE LAWYERS CoNvENTIoN-The
American Bar Association has given much
valuable attention to comparative State leg
islation, and as result OF its discussion and
work numerous reforms in statutory law and
in the modes of procedure and practice have
been accomplished. The distinguished New
York lawyer, ex-Judge John F. Dillon, is
this year the President of the Rar Associa-
ton, and Mr.. Edward Otis HinckIev, of
Baltimore, is the Secretary. The fifteenth
annual meeting will be held at Saratoga
Springs, August "a, % and &C. The men,
bership of the association at present ex-
ceeds 1,100.
ODD FELLows-The Independent Order
of Odd Fellows will concentrate at Port
land, Ore, on the third Monday of Septem-
Der. According to late statistics their men,
bership in the United States is nearly 7OO,-
BOO. Mr.. Charles NJ. Busbee. of Raleigh,
n. c., is Grand Sire of the Sovereign Grand
Lodge.
DISCOVERY DAY-The 18th of October
the four hundredth anniversary of the find
ing of the Western World by Columbus.
President Bonney, of the Worlds Congress
Auxiliary of the Chicago Exposition, has
issued an address regarding the observance
of the day. There will be great gathering
at Chicago for the purpose OF dedicating the
grounds. The day is likely to
be observed throughout the Union as hoii-
day. and in all the public schools of the en-
tire country, probably by proclamation of
President Harrison and OF the Governors
of all the States, there will be held conf
exercises with uniform pro-
yranme prepared by the superintendents of
commemoratlon in which it is
estimated that 13,00O,0 900 school children
will participate.
LABOR ORGANIZATIONS - Organized
labor has not in prospect any OF the great
popular gatherings which have been held
in several former years, but the national
of number of special trades
will meet at different dates during the
summer. The Knights of Labor have not
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