Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-05-25
VISITING KNIGHTS TEMPLAR
Communicates Prom Philadelphia Are
Hospitality Entertained.
After Pilgrimage to Pittsburg They
Are Taken to Mt. Vernon by
Columbia Commandery.

Washington has been invaded by a noble
band of warriors. They come not on a mis-
sion OF war. however, but merely comprise
the plumed knights and their ladies of Mary
Commandery, St. Johns Commandery and
kadosh Commandery, Knights Templar,
whose home is Philadelphia and who are in
the capital city on a sightseeing tour.
When the Quaker city knights arrived last
evening they were surrounded upon alight-
ing from the train, and a moment later
learned that the local commanderies-Co-
luInbia, Washington. De Molay and Poto-
mac-had secured them as prisoners. Re
sistance was useless.
The visitors are on their way home from
a meeting of the Grand Commandery of
knights Templar Of Pennsylvania, held re-
Luray, and then the party proceeded to
this city and took up headquarters at the
Ebbitt House. A reputation in years past
has been established by the Washington
knights for hospitality, and the four local
communicates have combined to make the
stay Of their Philadelphia brethren a pleas
ant one. This morning the visitors, escort
ed by a party of one hundred Washington
knights and their ladies. steamed down the
Potomac to Mount Vernon, and later were
transported across to Marshall Hall for a
planked shad dinner. While the male ele-
ment Is being entertained at Masonic Tenn
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conduct the ladies to Albaugh's to witness
The Pirates of Penzance' by the Stra-
kosch Opera Company. Later, husbands
and wives meet at FusselPs for a straw
berry feast.
Members of the Party.
A surrender of prisoners is announced to
take place tomorrow morning, when the
Philadelphians will be allowed to depart for
home.
The officers of Mary Commandery are
Frederick Munich, eminent commander;
William ]. Milligan. generalissimo; WILL
lam McCoach, captain-general; Ezra s.
Bartlett. treasurer and Alexander McCune,
recorder. Those in the party being Mr. and
Mrs. Thos. Riddle. Mr.. and Mrs G. w.
zimmerman, Mr.. and Mrs. H. Barnett
George Barnett and Frank Barnett of st.
F. Flanagan, MIR. and Mrs. c. ]. Cooke. Mr..
and Mrs. Thos. OFT, John Miner, H. Hub
bert, Chas. Chapman and wife, Mrs. VIM.
V. Parker, Miss Hattie Chapman, A. H.
Keen, VIM. Craig and wife, II. Dunlap and
wife, Samuel Edgar and wife, James AK
ford and wife. Mrs. Boisburn and Mrs. H.
Patterson of kadosh Commandery. No. %.
c. z. Allen and wife, Mrs. Geo. Branson.
Mrs. E ID. McDuvell, VIM. McCoach and
wife. F. Munich and wife. VIM. c. Had
dock and wife, G.. w. Evans and wife.
Thomas Holt and wife. c. NJ. Gatchell and
wife. z. A. Parker and wife. A. Y. Hanna
ard wife, James W. Howard and wife.
James w. Baird and wife. Alex. McCune
and wife. r. A. Shetzline and wife, Will
lam a. Hamilton. Mrs. Hamilton. j. p.
Weatherly and wife. Miss Weatherly, VIM.
]. Mcclure and wife. s. ]. Thompson and
wife, Samuel Burwell and wife. Miss Bur-
well. Miss Matlock. Harrison Johnson. W.
T. Millick, Chas. Shaw. VIM. j. Milligan.
VIM. Mcintyre. John Crawford, John ID.
John T. Sanders and Louis Y. Matlock of
ST Mary COmmandery. No. &c.