Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-08-10
A CITY OF SLEEPERS
For the Accommodation of the Visit
ing Knights Templar.
CARS AT BOSTON TRIENNIAL
Hotels Where the Rest of the
Visitors Will Stay.
G r A I'd PR EP ARATION


When the mighty army of knights
Templar marches on Boston two weeks
hence it will find city ready to
receive it, a city rich in historic in
terest, made brighter and more in
teresting in scores of ways never before
thought of. The triennial conclave will be
the biggest event of the kind in the history
of Boston as well as in the history OF Ma
sorry, and everything now points to a week
OF gorgeousness and entertainment which
Will far outclass the last famous triennial
at Washington.
The knights Templar of Boston and the
surrounding towns and cities have entered
INTO the work of preparation with the true
Masonic spirit of liberality, originality and
hvellness. The merchants are preparing to
join with them, and the railroad companies
running into Boston are outdoing them
selves In their determination to facilitate
the transportation of the mighty hosts
which will surely arrive.
Inc ranks of the Templars embrace most
OF the Solid men of the country; they repre-
sent wealth and influence, and this fact is
apparent in all that is being done to re
ceive them. Every palace car available is
pelns pressed into service for their especial
benefit, and the splendid Knight Templar
trains which will run into Boston this
month Will mark an epoch in railroading.
"A nulIrOuO Park.
One of the unique features of the conclaye
will be city of sleeping cars, the like of
which has probably never before been seen
IN this country. 1t will be made feature
OF the triennial. and some of the finest en-
tertainments Of visiting knights will be
offered at the settlement which will hold
forth in glory for week
Inc Boston and Maine road evolved the
idea wnen IT gave an official announcement
trat track room for 800 sleeping cars would
be provided on the old Mclean ASYLUM
grounds park-like expanse used by enc
OF the best known sanitariums for years.
until 1t gave way to the encroachment of
business. and the managers sold out at big
price to the railroad corporation. Day by
day the magnificent stretch of green dotted
with fine old trees is giving way to lines of
steel gridironed with sleepers. but the park
Is SO large that even though the work goes
rapidly on. it will be many weeks before
1t is completed, and the 25th of this month,
when the first contingent of knights reach
es Boston, will find plenty of pleasant room
left for the accommodation of the Sleeper
visitors"
Probably only breakfasts will be regular
~ served In this car city. but booths will
be arranged SO that If any one is hungry
or if sick ones find it ecessary to remain
there all day no one shall suffer from want
of food.
Nowhere about the city can a cooler place
be found than the asylum grounds and it
is not unlikely that in the steaming dog
days not few of the visitors, especially
ladies. will find it very desirable to wander
about the shaded park, rather than travel
in the dusty and heated city. For that rea-
son. If for no other. the committee of ar
raEgements desires to make the place fully
as attractive as the city breathing places
Some of the visiting Communicates will
invite the fraters whom they wish to enter
tain to that place and evenings there will
be scene rivaling the most famous Of Pa
risian boulevards
Generous Hospitality.
When Boston put in her claim for the
conclave of '95 its representatives declined
to say anything about the amount Of
money that should be spent in entertain
ing. Some rival municipalities mentioned
that $4,000 or even 100000 could be raised,
but the Boston men declared that it was
not question of money-if the conclave
came to Boston the knights and their la
dies and friends would be well taken care
of. Today in the city and suburbs alone
it is estimated that 100000 has been
raised and probably surrounding cities,
like Lowell. Worcester. Salem. etc. will
offer at least $4,000 more, SO 1t can be
easily seen that the conclave here is bound
to exceed in magnificence and brilliancy
anything heretofore held in the way of
triennial gatherings. But beyond the
question of money Is the feeling mani
tested by the people generally.
There is a universal desire to see the
knights, TO help tnem nave Boou time
and for them to go away with the best Of
impressions of the New England metropo-
lis. In every way those things are to be
done which will make visitors feel that
left unturned to insure a sojourn which
shall be not only pleasurable but profita-
BILE. This feeling is marked particularly
by the arrangements for decorations that
have already been announced. Every
business house in the city will display the
stars and stripes and bunting, and Masonic
as well as Tenplar emblems in profusion.
All the big hotels will practically be COW
ing, and the visiting Communicates will
tack up enough emblems and Templar en-
blems to lend variety to the lines of red,
white and blue.
some of the business buildings. on Ma
sonic Temple, On Horticultural Hail. the
headquarters of Boston commandery. and
the Vendome. where the grand encamp-
ment and several other visiting organize
lions will be quartered, are to be the finest
and most elaborate ever seen in this coun-
try and probably in the world, says the
Commandery Headquarters.
The quarters arranged for the comman-
deries thus far are as follows: Grand En-
the Vendome; Alabama. No.
"a Huntington avenue; Arkansas, No. Al
West Newton street: California, Hotel Bar
toll; Colorado, Hotel victoria; Connect1-
cut, Hotel Abbottsford: Delaware, MAYER
lex House. East Boston; Georgia. No. 65S
avenue; Illinois, Hotels Vic
toria and Vendome; Indiana, Cotilion Hall;
Iowa, Nos. 527 and $40 Massachusetts ave-
nue.; Kansas, No. SOB Boylston street; Ken
lucky. Hotels Brunswick and Oxford
Maine, Hotel Victoria; Maryland, Hotel
Eendome: Massachusetts and Rhode Is
land, Hotel Brunswick; Michigan, Hotel
Minnesota, Perkins Hall; Mis-
souri, Hotel Huntington; Montana No. All
avenue; Nebraska. CopIey
square; New Hampshire. Young's HOTEL
New Jersey, Hotel Victoria New York, No.
so Commonwealth avenue; North Carolina,
No. 439 Boylston street; North Dakota,
Hotel Vendome; Ohio, Hotel Brunswick;
Hotel Vendome; South Caro-
lima, Nc. 500 Columbus avenue; South Da-
kota, Hotel Vendcme: Tennessee No. 491
avenue; Texas, No. 1928 Com
avenue; Vermont No. % Union
Park; Virginia, Hotel Brunswick: West
Virginia, Hotel Brunswick; Wisconsin, New
England Conservatory of Music.
Some of the more prominent local COM
manderies have the down town hotels, |
while as can be seen the grand comman-
deries have secured quarters at and about
the Back Bay, the Vendome and the Bruins
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