The daily morning journal and courier., 1894-11-10
BANQUET OF SIR KNIGHTS.
NOTABLE EVENT IN THE HIsT0RY
 OF NEW HAVEN NCOMMASDERY.

OF NEW HAVEN NCOMMASDERr.
 Two Hundred Sir Knights From wsshinE-
 ton and St. Elmo Commanderios, K. H.,
 of Hart ord and Meriden-Dcgree of the
 Temple Conferred on H. A. stcvens-
 Speeches by Ernest l.. Csdy, Senator Platt
 and Others.
 New Haven commandery. Knights Templar. last evening brilliantly enter tained about 200 guests from Washing ton commandery. No. 1, of Hartford, and St. Elmo commandery, No. 9. of Meriden. The visiting knights arrived on special train from Hartford about 8 o'clock, and marched directly to the asylum on Church street, where the order of the temple was worked on H. A. Stevens of Fair Haven. About 1o:3o they all marched to Harmonic hall. where they sat down to an admirable banquet. At coffee several speeches were made by some of the most promi- iiSut hdSou5 III thC Slutc.
 Eminent Commander Cobb of New Haven commandery, who very ably and happily presided as toastmaster, made the opening address most fittingly well coming the knights to the city. Eminent Commander Jarman of Washington commandery, who Is former New Ha- ven boy, and Eminent Commander Stokes of St. Elmo commandery, re- sponded with appropriate remarks. Sir Knight William H. Ely of New Haven commandery was the next speaker. He spoke in part as follows: we are glad to meet the members of Washington and St. Elmo communicates. We are glad to meet some of you because you come from the city of Hartford, city with which we once jointly shared the honor of being the capital. But they wanted
 the sole capital, and so they went seek ing immortality with their pocketbooks in their hands and won the prize. Now we may go up there with some wrong
 to be redressed, we are met on the threshold of, that beautiful building with the question, "Is there anything in 1t? And if there isn't anything in it
 we didn't get 1t. Then we have recourse
 to small birds and large bottles, and
 when we leave Hartford we have light purses and large heads. $r' And we are glad to see you of Meri- den. You gave us four times as big 8 majority as you promised in the political contest just passed. It was a shrarp
 battle, and 1t Is an agreeable fact that we can sit down around the same social board, all of US bound together by the
 bonds of Masonry. think there Is something in our order which makes the ties of fellowship closer HnUng saliNwflS are in the brotherhood"
 Lieutenant Governor, Ernest L. Cady of Hartford then made short address. Referring to the political situation, he said, that while his position in Mason ny tnight-jbe Alpha. in politics 1t was certainly Omega ."The previous speak
 er," he said. "has referred to Hartford as the capitol city, and the possible seat of corruption. Perhaps if he had come in little different form the city would
 not have been so badly represented" Naughter).
 Attorney William A. Williams of Bir-
 mingham was the next speaker, after whom Senator Orville H. Platt of Mex den spoke. He said that he lived han way between these two contending cities. live neither on the Quinnipiac river nor on the Connecticut river, but on a still more famous stream called Har- bor brook. So am in the position to be peacemaker. There is no corruption in Meriden, gentlemen. We are as pure as the snow which came too early this year and showed under our friends, the democrats Seriously, gentlemen. we are all elevate our living. To be good Is to be great. Not in the goody7goody theologi- cal sense. But man who has honor, integrity and truth as his guiding qual- ities is good man.
 Knight Templarism tends to lift us up above the level of the world and make us nobler men. Its tendency is to exalt men to higher living and higher aspirations" t. X Gt6V. U. M. JSdIlcS OI Iuc 6cCOuu SOu- gregational church, Fair Haven, then
 made an excellent address and was fol- lowed by Chaplain Paine of Washington commandery, who made the last speeoh ofthe evening.
 The visiting knights then formed in a line and marched to the depot, where l they took their train for home. R < tRa a {