The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1896-08-26
MILITARY MEETS.
Knights Of Pythias Are Rapidly
Arriving at Cleveland.
EXERCISES AT THE CAMP BEGIN.

Crack Corps on the Ground-second Ohio
Regiment Gives Dress Parade-Knights
Ready at the Call Of the Country-Ger-
man Question Declared settIed-Prepa-
rations at st. Paul for the G. A. R.-Mrs.
Logan an Early Arrival.
CLEVELAND, Aug. 24-Great crowds Of
visitors were attracted TO the knights OF
Pythias encampment yesterday, II being
estimated that $4,000 spectators witnessed
the dress parade of the Second Ohio regi-
ment yesterday afternoon. This was the
only full regiment at the camp, but 10 is
expected that all the Ohio knights will be
here by today. Among the divisions
which arrived yesterday were those from
Pittsburg, Allegheny and Lancaster, Pa,
and Muncie, Ind, and the first battalion
of the First regiment from Charleston and
Parkersburg, w. Va. This afternoon at
4 o'clock Director General Day, of the
centennial commission, will formally turn
over the camp TO Major General Carna-
han. The exercises at the camp yesterday
afternoon consisted of the dress parade
and sacred band concert.
Crack Divisions at the Camp.
Last evening many of the visiting
knights attended service at the Epworth
Memorial NJ. Z. church and listened to an
appropriate sermon by the pastor. Among
the attractions at the camp is Lafayette,
Ind. division of the Uniform Rank, which
has won more prizes than any other
division in the country, even though 1t
has not competed in prize drills in eight
years There is also present the crack
division from Hastings, Mich. Both Of
these divisions will be in the parade and
competitive drill. Major General Carna-
han, in speaking Of the knights as mill
tary organization, said 1t was part of the
unwritten law of the order that the
knights should respond to the call of the
government in time of need, especially If
it was necessary to. repel an invasion by
foreign foe
Considers the German Question Settled.
The knights were not in any sense
'guardsmen, he said, and they would not
take part in internal dissensions unless 1t
was necessary to preserve order and up
hold the laws Supreme Chancellor
Richie, in speaking of the policy of the
change 1.-The same lessons that it teaches
men today" he said, will be good for men
1000 years hence. No great question of
policy will be debated at the present ses-
sions of the supreme lodge. The German
question and the saloon qestion were
both finally settled and in definite de-
cided and plain manner"
The First to Reach the City.
The first of the visiting knights to reach
the city were the members of the second
brigade, composed of divisions from near
by towns in northern Ohio. The Ports.
mouth division of the Virginia bri yade az
rived Saturday evening and was scorted
to the camp ground. This was only the
vanguard of the great Pythian army, but
the camp is already full of life and activ-
ity. The acres of snowy tents laid out in
streets, the grounds being illuminated by
electric lights, makes n very pretty sight.
The tents are pitched in big fields OH both
sides of Payne avenue, and nearly all of
the knights will live at the camp ground
during their stay in the city
Rathbone Sisters Are Electioneering.
The Rathbone sisters, one of the auxil-
larry orders of Pythians, has its headquar-
tiers at the Weddell House. The most inn
portant business TO come before its meet
ing is he election If a supreme senior.
The leading candidates for the place are
Mrs. j. b. Neubert, Of Kansas City,
and Mrs. Nellie Scattergood, of Michigan,
and some lively electioneering in their
behalf is already going on.