Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1892-09-01

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The Supreme Lodge OF the Pythian
Order for the world is In session at Kan
sas City, Mo. At ii o'clock Tuesday
morning the big doors OF Scottish Rite
hall were opened, the Supreme Chan
cellor and the representatives who COM
pose the Supreme Lodge passed through,
the doors closed with a bang, the Su-
preme Outer Guard assumed his station,
and thus the complicated machinery
which moves the Pythian Order was put
in motion. The seventeenth session of
the Supreme Lodge was then in session
and to the rank and file there was moth
ing more. The great doors shut out the
beauties OF the hall, and the Supreme
Outer Guard precluded peeping at the
keyhole. In the preliminaries leading
up to the formal opening Of the first ses-
sion were included reception to the
Supreme Lodge at the Grand Opera
House, and addresses of welcome by
the Mayor OF the city and the Governor
OF the State. and by dignltaries high in
the order OF Pythian brotherhood.
This, the first formal public greeting
to the assembled representatives of the
order, was as unostentatious as 1t could
well be. The presence of panoplied
knights lent dignity and added pic
turesque coloring, but in all the hearty
welcoming which the sir knights receiv-
ed there were no stilted phrases, and no
conventional speeches. The greeting
was from the heart, and was received in
the spirit offered. The visitors were
made to feel that they were welcome,
and everything within the city which
could could conduce to comfort was
theirs.
VIII Make Laws for Two Years.
The public reception concluded, a
short march 10 the hall was made, and
promptly at the hour appointed every
member of the Supreme Lodge. all the
Supreme Representatives and the Su-
preme Chancellor, who temporarily will
WELD the gavel until his successor shall
be chosen, were in their places. Then,
in executive session, the deliberations
OF the first Supreme Lodge which ever
convened west OF the Mississippi for
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deliberations laws for the order for the
next two years will have been made.
Once made there is no appeal. 1t is the
supreme body, and as such its delibera-
tions at this time will possess the keen
est interest for every member OF the
order.
Twelve Thousand In Line.
Promptly at o clock the big Pythian
parade started from Fifteenth street
and Woodland avenue. While there
was no counting done, close tally was
kept on the marchers, and 1t Is estimat-
ed that 1000 knights were in line. No
fancy evolutions were permitted, but 1t
was straight-away walk for two hours,
the only evolutions made to break the
monotony being the changing from fours
to platoons. The line was two full
hours passing a point, and before the
end of the march light rain began fall
ing, which quickly scattered those wear
ing plumes, who were afraid they would
get their fine apparel spoiled. In point
of numbers the parade was the larg-
est ever seen in the city, but from
q spectacular standpOtnt, according
TO an eye witness, it was very
poor and the crowds began leaving the
streets long before the end OF the line
came in sight. There were one or two
casualties, in the way of men getting
exhausted. but the police ambulances
which followed the line picked them
up and carried them to places where
they could receive attention. At night
the business men of the city took it upon
themselves to have a parade of their own
in honor of the visitors, and with um-
brellas of Pythian colors they marched
to the various hotels OF the city and
then to Camp Shaw, where they sere-
naded all the knights, and then went in
a body to Exposition Park, where they
viewed the fireworks which were the
feature of the evening.