The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-08-27
BOSTON'S PAGEANT.
Twenty-Five Thousand Knights
in the Grand Parade.
Railroad Men Overwhelmed by
the Great Crowd.
BUSINESS SUSPENDS.
One Hundred RandC Furnish
BUSINESS SUSPENDS
One Hundred Bands Furnish
Music for the Occasion.
Rich Plumes, Silver and Gold
Dazzle the Eye.

BOSTON, Aug. 27.-Seven hundred and
fifty thousand people saw the parade of
over $4,000 Sir Knights Tempiar today,
and with one accord pronounced it the
grandest pageant over witnessed in Bos-
ton.
The clear sky and hot sun of the past
two days had given way to heavy clouds,
but finally the sun broke through the
clouds and vigorously endeavored to
drive the mist away. Although a ma
jority of the sir knights spent last night
until late hour entertaining friends or
being entertained, they were astir early
this morning.
Trains from every direction brought
thousands of uniformed templars and
their friends to swell the host From
every state Communicates began to ar
rive at an early hour and thousands of
spectators came with them. The streets
near the depots echoed with the din of
scores OF bands and the tramp Of arriv-
ing knights and their escorts. The rail-
road men were completely over rwhelmed
| by the magnitude of the crowd.
Everywhere within radius of twenty
miles of the state house today is practi-
cally holiday. Most of the factories in
nearby cities are closed and the opera
tives helped to swell the crowds who
watched the procession.
The police appointments were we'll
nigh perfect Shortly before the parade
started, platoons of officers cleared every
street through which the sir knights
were to pass and rOped them off, and
i until the last division passed no traffic of
any kind was allowed on those thorough
| fares.
The line of parade will form in thir-
! teen divisions in column of double sec
tions At o'clock the commanderies of
the first division begaa to gather on the
south side of Commonwealth avenue
near Berkley street and about the same
hour the other divisions began to take
| up their positions in the avenue back of
The Back Bay district. There was the
usual delay consequent to the
formation of great professions,
but all was in readiness shortly
after 10 o'clock, and by 1885 the
| long line was in motion, the signal for
the start being greeted by the cheers
and salutes of 10000 people gathered
AS the great body of knights moved
down Commonwealth avenue the spec
music of 100 bands and the
applause of thousands of people
filled the air; gaIy bedecked
horses pranced at the head of each di-
vision, while the contrast of the dignif1ed
black cloth of the uniforms, the waving
of the rich plumes and the silver and
gold emblems, which are conspicuous in
the Templar uniform, combined to pre-
sent a scene that was pleasing and i'm
pressive.
The leading division of the pageant,
preceded by plantoons of Boston's sturdy
policemen, was very imposing.
The first division which was led by
Right Eminent Sir Samuel c. Lawrence
grand commander of the grand com
mandery of Massachusetts and Rhode
Island, as chief marshal, with Right
Eminent Sir Charles c. Fry as his chief
of staff and ffty-four of the most promi-
nent knights of the Boston commandery
as aides, including the representatives
of the grand Communicates of the United
States as escort to the grand marshal
with SO aides from the more prominent
communicates of America; Boston COM
manderY, Detroit commandery as special
escort to the most Eminent Grand
Master, Hugh McCurdy, the officers of
the grand encampment in carriages; the
men bers of the grand encampment in
carriages and subordinate Communicates.
The Sc cond division was led by the
Eminent Sir Eugene Fl. Richards, deputy
| grand commander of the grand COM
mandery of Massachusetts and Rhode
| Island, as chief of division, with Sir
| Albert II. White as chief of staff, accom-
panied by thirteen aides and command
cries of Massachusetts and Rhode Is
! land.
Communicates of the grand command
cry of Massachusetts and Rhode Island
composed the third division. Eminent
| Sir VIM. R. Walker. grand generals
simo of the grand commandery of Mas
sachusetts and Rhode Island, was chief
| of this division, with eminent Sir Henry
A. Pierce as chief of staff with nine
| aids.
Eminent Sir Walter Cutting, grand
captain general of the grand command
cry of Massachusetts and Rhode Island,
was chief of division four.
Eminent Sir VIM. E. Wilcox acted as
chief Of staff and five sir knights were
his aides. Twenty Communicates of
| Massachusetts and Rhode Island com
| posed the main part of this division.
New York, Virginia and Vermont were
represented in the division. Emiuent Sir
Arthur Macarthur, grand captain general
of the grand commandery of New York,
was at the head of it as chief. Eminent
Sir John w. Sisson acted as chief of
| staH, with twenty-four, aides from the
communicates of New York city.
Eminent Sir John Hatch, grand gen
eralissimo of the grand commandery of
| New Hampshire, led the knights of New
Hampshire and Connecticut, who made
up the sixth division. Eminent Sir An
drew B. Preston, his chief of staff, was
attended by ten aides.
The western states were represented
in the seventh division. Ohio and Ken
lucky being in line with the grand com
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