The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1894-08-29
PYTHIANS' DAY
IN WASHINGTON
Most Delightful Weather for The Great Parade
Yesterday.
EIGHT THOUSAND MEN IN line
An Imposing Array of Fine Looking
Men-President Cleveland Views
the Parade from the White House
Grounds-Meeting of the Supreme
Lodges and the Pythian Sisterhood.
Condition of the Society.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 2S

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lUAUJ lessen the effects of the suns
VIV brightness, the Knights of
wv Pythias had an ideal day for
heir great parade. Broadcloth uni
forms were a little too thick for com
fort, perhaps, but the Knights did not
appear to mind such slight incon
venience and made a magnificent show
ing with their waving Dlumes and gold
and silver aeeoutrements.
The parade assembled at Camp
Washington on the monument grounds
at 4 o'clock and marched up Seven =
teenth street to Penn avenue, where
the procession turned, and the knights
marched in review past President
Cleveland. A small stand, decorated
appropriately, had been erected in
front of the white house, and on this
the president stood during the entire
time occupied by the procession in pas =
sing. Mr. Cleveland was accompanied
by Colanel c. A. Kahl, Major General
Carnahan's chief of staff, in full uni
form, and Colonel John NJ. Wilson,
United States army, the commissioner
of public buildings.
Members Of the citizens committee
on horseback led the parade, and they
were followed by the local militia or.
ganizations. Then came Major Cen
eral Carnahan, commander in chief of
the uniform rank, riding at the head
Of his staff. composed of brigadier gen
erals and colonels too numerous to
mention.
EIGHT THOUSAND IN LINE.
About s, 900 men were in line and
they made an excellent showing, The
line OF march was eastward along
Pennsylvania avenue from Seventeenth
street. down Fifteenth street past the
Treasury Department building to
Pennsylvania avenue, thence eastward
to tho Peace monument at the foot Of
Capitol hill around the monument
and back to the camp by tue same
route.
The first meeting of the suprema
lodge of the Knights Of Pythias at the
Builders Exchange today was not pro-
ductive of any important business.
Eighty-one new members ifrom many
states and from some foreign countries
were admitted to membership A
pleasant incident was the ''presenta
to Supreme Chancellor Black well, of a
handsome gsvel inlaid with silver, by
the Idaho delegates, and q gold and
silver jewslled ornament by Montana's s
representatives
THE PYTHIAN SIsTERHooD
Like the meeting of the supreme
lodge, the meeting Of the supreme as
sembly ofthe Pythian sisterhood which
was held at Grand Army hall, was
conducted with closed doors, but the
sisters sought to refute the old sayiug
about woman and secret by dsclin
ing to give out anything official about
their proceedings
Mrs. A. A. Young, the supreme chan
cellor, made an address and presented
her report. 1t has been determined
that Mrs, George W. BELLS, of Worces
ter. Mass, shall be the next supreme
chancellor.
In the annual report which he has
just submitted to the supreme lodge,
Supreme Chancellor Blackwell recon-
mends that German lodges be refused
permission to translate the ritual of the
organization into German. He de
clares that the lodges now using Ger
man rituals are in rebellion and SAYS
the Pythians should stand on the plat,
form of America for Americans
MEMBERSHIP OF THE ORDER.
According to the report the mem ber-
ship in the order on July 1, 1894, was
as follows: Grand lodges "a; subordi-
nate lodges. 6.262; total number Of
members, 465. TAI, a net increase OF
72,025 during the past two years.
The report Of T. G. Sample, supreme
master of the exchequer, for the year
ending Marsh 81 last, shows total re-
oeipts for the year, $91, 1OS; total ex
penditures for the year, $62, 04O; bal
ance, $99,659.
Major General Carnahan says in his
annual report that the financial de-
preston has made difficult the work ol
organizing new divisions of the uni
form rank. Notwithstanding this there
has been a reasonably healthy growth.
The membership is now 49, ,036 mel
gain in two years of 5, 150