Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1895-08-27
KNIGHTS TEMpLAR CONVENE.
Grand Parade This Morning Pro-
nounced Most Magnificent Pageant
in the History of Boston.
Growth of the Grand Order-The Noble
Ideas 1t Seeks to Promote-Lisr
of New Commandries.

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fifty thousand people saw the parade OF
over $4,000 Sir Knights Templars to-day
and with one accord pronounced it the
grandest pageant ever witnessed in Bos,
| ton.
The clear skies and hot sun of the
past two days had given way to heavy
clouds, but finally the sun broke through.
Trains from every direction brought
thousands of uniformed templars and
roads we're completely overwhelmed by
| the magnitude of the crowd.
Everywhere within the radius of twenty
miles of the state house the day is prac-
tically holiday.
The police appointments we're 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, until the
last division passed, no traffic of any
kind WAS allowed on those thorough
fares.
The lines of the parade were formed in
thirteen divisions in a column of double
sections. There was the usual delay con-
suquent to the formation of a grent pro-
cession, but all was in readiness shortly
after 10 o'clock and by 1856 the long
line was in motion.
The great body of knights moved down
Commonwealth avenue. The spectacle was
inspiring. The music of 100 bands and
the applause of thousands of people filed
! the air.
Gaily bedecked horses pranced at the
head of each division, while the contrast
of the digniied black cloth uniforms,
waving rich plumes and silver and gold
emblems, conspicuous in tenn plars' uni
forms, combined to present a scene
pleasing and impressive.
NEW CoMMANDR1Es.
In Arizona warrants have been issued
to three commandries, to wit: Arizona
No. l, Ivanhoe No. 2 and Phoenix No. 8.
Past Eminent Commander Sir George
]. Roskrudge, Arizona No. 1, organized
the grand commandry and installed its
officers.
Warrants have also been issued to three
chartered commandries in the state of
Florida, to wit:
Cpur De Leon No. l, Damascus No. 2,
and Olivet No. 4.
In this state Past Eminent Sir William
A. Mclean, of Damascus Commandry No.
2, organized the grand commandry and
installed its officers.
Nine dispensatlons forming and estab-
fishing new commandrles have been is
sued as follows:
Aztec Commandry No. s, Ration, N. M.
Palatka Commandry No. s, Palatka,
Fla. .s.,. ,....-a,
Gate City Comp.andry No. 4, Pocatello,
Idaho.
Ell Reno Commandry No. 8, Ell Reno, O..
T.
Chickasaw Commandry No. 2, Purcell,
1T.
McAllister Commandry No. 8, McAllis.
ter, I. L.
Plant City Commandry No. 6, Plant
City, Fla.
Rio Hondo Commandry No. 6, Roswell,
N. M.
Popocatepetl Commandery No. l, City
of Mexico, Mexico.
GROWTH OF THE ORDER.
The report of the grand recorder shows
most gratifying condition of the growth
and prosperity of the order.
In concluding his address Grand Master
McCurdy said:
"We have, sir knights, noble order of
historic names. We have record of
growth OF which we may be justly proud.
SIN 1916, when this grand body was
formed, there were only eight command
cries, or encampments, as they were then
called-only 500 Knights Templar in the
United States. Now we have member
ship of 10000; forty grand command
ries, having under the immediate juris
diction of this grand body thirty subord-
mate commandries. Our asylums are
erected in every state and territory save
Alaska, and this grand encampment has
also established an asylum and erected
temple and shrine in Honolulu, Sandwich
Islands.
"Surely our order has not yet reached
the fulness of its glory and helpfulness,
and its course must continue upward and
onward in fellowship and harmony with
the age and lofty principles of Him
whom we all acknowledge as our Lord
and Master, Emmanuel = God with us.
This is
OUR wATCHwoRD.
"With Him we must ever be moving on
ward to better things. Templarism
teaches US as its first and last lesson that
we are to be like Him. That what He is
to men, we are to be to men.
"His command, thou shalt love thy
neighbor as thyself, Templarism inter
prets as command to be a God to ones
fellow man. Love means God.
"Our mission is not that of the ancient
knight, to rescue the tomb of our Divine
Lord from desecration, but to live his life
before men, that their souls shall become
filled with the spirit of the everlasting
brother.
"We are called to be knights, not of the
old, but of the new chivalry. The essence
of this chivalry is to care for the little
ones. Its command to every sir knight
is, use your power to bless the little ones.
The widows and orphans, the aged and
the infirm, the poor, the tired man in the
shop, the overworked woman In the
kitchen, these are our little ones, these all
challenge our chivalry. To rescue man
hood and womanhood from their graves;
honor, virtue, and chivalry, from their
sepulcher, this the duty.call to the modern
knight; work far nobler this that that
which summoned our ancient fraters to
battle fields or toilsome journeys"