The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-04-01
KNIGHTS TEMPLAR FROM EVERY
STATE SEE TILE DEGREE
CONFERRED.
TWAS AN EPOCH FOR MAS0NS.
CEREMONIAL WHICH HAS BEEN
WITNESSED BUT FEW TIMES
BEFORE.
CLASS OF FORTY-TwO KNIGHTED
In the Presence of Fifteen Hundred
or More Guests-News of Mime
apOi1s.

knights Temp1ars from every state
In the Union, to the number of l. 500 or
more, were guests last night Of Zion
Commandery No. q of Minneapolis.
They were willing and welcome guests,
and when they departed from Masonic
Temple last night it was with the
knowledge and satisfaction of having
witnessed one Of the grandest events IN
the history of that order in the United
States.
1t was the spring festival of Malta Of
Zion commandery and marked the first
third Of a century of it's existence In
commemoration Of this event invita-
tons had been sent to all fraters
throughout the universe to be present
upon the occasion. The magnet which
brought so many acceptanceS of these
invitations lay in the fact that Zion
cOmmandery was to confer upon a
class of candidates the degree of the
Order of Malta, more properly known
as the Knights Hospitallers of the Order
OF st. John Of Jerusalem, Palestine,
Rhodes and Malta Ordinarily this
would not prove so great an attrac-
ton Zion commandery has already
conferred such degree upon two
classes and other communicates
throughout the United States have
done likewise.
The announcement, however, that
all known accessories would be used to
make the ceremonial beautiful and i'm
pressive carried with it to knights
Templars something more than the
words would imply to the uninitiated.
1t told them that Zion commandary
was to give a complete and elaborate
exemplificatiOn of the work in hand
something attempted heretofore but
two or three times in the history of the
order in the United States. To knights
TemplarS such an occasion marks an
epoch in the lives of all those fortunate
enough to have witnessed the ceremOni-
al, and that the invitations so literally
extended should have shown such good
returns is not by any means strange
From early yesterday morning every
train into the city from north, south,
east or west brought Knights, the last
Of them arriving late in the afternoon.
With their arrival the crowd about the
seventh floor Of Masonic Temple grew.
The examining and VOuching commit
tee were in session from early morn
and as each visitor arrived and was
VCuched for, he secured his card ad-
uniting him to the ceremonial in the
evening. Toward the latter part of the
afternoon so many applications for ad-
mittance were received that it was
found necessary to enlarge the COM
mittee, thus establishing two over
f1ow offices in which the applicants
could secure their credentials. 1t was
after z o'clock, and but few minutes
before the commencement of the cere-
monial, that this work was finished,
so great was the demand for admit
lance.
The work of comforting the degrees was
done under Eminent
j. B. Hingeley, commander of Zion Com
mandery No. 2, as eminent prior assisted by
Lieutenant Commander Staples, Captain Cen
eral c. e. Overshire Chaplain G. F. Sharpe,
Military Director E. l.. Hills, Marshal r. T.
McAdam, Captain of the Outposts G. E.
Sanders. Grand commander Of Minnesota,
the R. E. Sir John H. Randall requested that
the work be DONE and personally kpighted
each of the candidates. -......s
There were forty-twC candidates in all, as
follows: Zion Commandery, Minneapolis
Robert H. Pratt. DR.: J. F. Force Sherman
Smith, L. Kinney, W. w. Sykes, Rev; A. A.
AeHandeT W. C. Bq Thgb J. p Laddy
G. C. E. Goetz. O. c. Brunius T. ]. Dams
ingburg, c. H. Hatkins, II. Hahn, George S.
]. E. Smith. G. w. Bahan, J. H. Robinson,
Stewart Gamble. c. E. Eichler, F. Rosche,
H. E. Esterly. ---. 49,.
Apollo Commandery, Albert Lea-Willam
E. Lows, Charles S. Prentice, John E. Bar
ron E. A. Bliss, T. ]. TOnge.
Palestine Commandery, Fergus Falls. H.
Ludliff.
Ascalon Commandery, Brainerd-John D.
Martin, G. K. Mcdowell, F. B. Johnson, A.
L. Ferris.
FaribauIt Commandery, Faribault-W. E.
Moses. J. r. Phillips c. E. Carver.
Minneapolis Mounted Commandery, Mime
apolis-Adolph Achlener Schlener.
st. Bernard Commandery, Austin, MIMI
F. B. Wood.
The following state Communicates were also
represented by from one 10 twenty knights
in each instance:
Occur do LION Conmapdarv No . WI
! mona, Mimi; Cyrene Commandery No. g.
Owatonna, Mimi; Bayard Commandery No
IL, Saltwater, Mimi; Palestine Commandery
No. IA, Fergus Falls, Mimi; Redwood Falls
Commandery No. 10, Redwood Falls, Mimi. ;
Ascalon Commandery No. 16 Bra:nerd MINI. ;
Be ,hel Commandery No. 10, Morris, Mimi. ;
Constantine Commandery No. 20, Crookston,
Mimi; Paladin Commandery No. q, st. Paul.
Mimi; Luverne Commandery No. % Lu-
verne Mimi; Nazarene Commandery No a.
| St. Cloud MINI.
In addition to the above there were one or
more representatives present from nearly all
of the Eastern and Southern states