The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1895-02-23
CELEBRATING ITS ANNIVERSARY.
Entertainment Given by the Knights
of Pythias Last Night.
Addresses and Other Features at Pyth-
ian Hall-The Order and Its
Chief Purposes.

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interviewed since the Knights of Pythias
was organized in Washington, d. c., the
order has grown from a modest begin
ming to a mem bership of upward OF half
q million. The Uniformed Rank itself
numbers more than $4,000 members.
The arrangements for last nights cele-
bration were perfect. the members hav-
ing been engaged for several weeks in
preparing the programme, which was on
quite an elaborate scale.
The room in which the exercises were
held was crowded by Sir Knights and
their friends to listen to addresses from
prominent persons in the State who are
members of the order.
District Deputy J. II. Liggett, Chairman
of the Committee of Arrangements, acted
as Master of Ceremonies. On his right
on the stage sat Colonel c. F. McGlashan
of Truckee, commander of the Second
Regiment, Uniformed Rank, and Colonel
G. b. Nichols, Assistant Adjutant- Gen.
eral of the California Brigade. Both OF
ticers were in full uniform. On Mr..
Liggetts left sat Hon. Carl Il. Lindsay of
Santa Cruz, Grand Chancellor of the State,
and Past Grand Chancellor Senator
Frank MCGOWAN of Humboldt.
The exercises of the evening COM
menced with an overture by the orches-
ira, followed by Master of Ceremonies
Liggett, who, after few brief remarks,
introduced Colonel McGlashan.
ADDRESS OF WELCOME.
Colonel McGlashan was on the pro-
gramme to deliver the address of well
come. He said that on the occasion of
the celebration of Washington's birth
day, the loyal men and women present
needed no welcoming. The Order OF
knights of Pythias, he said, makes 10y
atty one of its cardinal principles. The
French should not have destroyed the
Bastile, but should have kept it for a
permanent part of Its history. Italy
should have preserved its dungeons of the
Inquisition, to be looked back to when
the struggle was on for liberty.
America needs no pointing backward
On these occasions, that children should
learn to be loyal, we place the American
flag on the schoolhouse top. In the
Uniform Rank of knights of Pythias
there is TO be created a ritual based on
loyalty. Pythianism is inseparable from
loyalty. There is a longing, a hunger
ing tor friendship in the order.
At the close of the nineteeth century it
seems as though mankind has become so
elevated as to make men to be brothers
of each other. This Is the only order,
the speaker said, that takes the friend
ship that existed between Damon and
Pythias for lesson.
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wonderful. 1t seems as if in the wisdom
of God the order was born. Colonel Nc
Glashan welcomed his hearers as loyal
men and women.
Mrs. s. katzenstein followed with a
vocal solo, and responded to an encore.
ANNIVERSARY GRAFTON.
Grand Chancellor Carl Z. Lindsay then
delivered the anniversary Grafton:
ITO commemorate with appropriate
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versary of the creation of our institution,
which exists Tor no other purpose than
the elevation, the happiness, the better
ment of mankind, is to plant in the
storm beaten, wind-furrowed desert of
life a guidepost which may point some
way weary, tootsore, heartsick traveller
to the green-clad mountion of perpetual
peace, watered by countless springs of
delight and gloritied by the sunshine of
the love of God. That such a landmark
may be erected, the Knights of Pythias
of this Capital City of our golden State
have with their friends and loved ones
here assembled to celebrate the thirty
first birthday OF the great Pythian order.
And it seems to me indeed fitting that
our hearts should meet in such rejoicing
on the day set apart by a grateful Nation
to honor the memory OF him who gave to
freedom our own beloved land; for our
order, born on the soil OF America, has
sprung to might and grandeur beneath
the skies which bend over this home of
liberty and has been warmed into vigor-
GUS life by the sun of American pros
perity.
at has for its guiding precepts the
grand principles OF friendship, charity
and benevolenee, which can be exempli-
fed in their fullest sense only where
men are free. Loyalty to country is with
it a cardinal virtue; patriotism and broth
arly love are instilled into the hearts of
its members, and all over this broad land
1t rejoiceS tonight that at the front of its
mighty and eyer-lncreasing army are
spread two banners, one the tri-colored
emblem OF brotherly love, the banner of
the Pythian fraternity, and the other the
tri-colored emblem of freedom-the stars
and stripes of the United States OF
America.
while yet the black cloud of awful
war lowered over this then distracted
land; while yet the arm of brother was
raised against brotherin fratricidal strife:
while yet the thunder of the death deal
ing cannon filed the air with its terrible
reVerberations; while vet the crash of
deepest foundations; while yet the weep
ing of desDairing widows and orphaned
children filled the land with sorrow for
those whose blood has soak ed the soil
of hundreds of battle-fields; while vet the
flash OF the red artillery cast its baIefIl
Washington; while yet the fate of the
Nation hung tremb bling in the balance.
then it was that there was born into the
world a new order, having Tor its mis-
sion-peace and for its gospel-brotherly
love-"
The speaker then reviewed the history
of the Knights of Pythias Order, and
closed with tribute to the characters OF
Damon and Pythias.
Mrs. S. hatZenstein then favored those
present with another vocal solo.
SENATOR FRANK MCGOWAN
Delivered an address, in which he said
the order showed in a mark ed degree the
birth of universal love. We ind OIL
looking back, he said, that man was no
given TO fraternity. In times gone by
man delighted in deeds OF carnage anC
bloodshed. Man then was regarded as {
hero who became the victor in the com ba
with his fellow. Man in learlier stage!
saw he had no one to look to for love anC
happiness. Since then he has found il
his family spot for the happiness of him
self and family.
The Order of Knights of Pythias was
essentially fraternal one. One of the
fundamental principles of the order is {
mans devotion to his family. 1t teache.
friendship that comes not in times O
peace aud happiness, but in darker
hours. The speaker then recited deeds O.
valor performed by members of the
the order lives up to it's teachings he neec
not be IN fear of punishment in the here.
after.
Professor Laurie followed with the
recitation, 1.-THE Moneyless Man,
The floor was then cleared and dancing
was INDUCED in until II o'clock.
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