The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-05-24
SIR KNIGHTS GO
TO EASTON TODAY
Leave ln Special Cars Via the D., L. &
W. Railroad.
WILL BE A SHORT STREET PARADE
En- Route to the station, Where the
Meiita and Coeur de Lion Com
manderies win Take the $40 Train
--will Be CHARTERED at the United
states Hotel--Accompnnied by
Bauer's Band of Thirty Pieces.

Bauer's Band OF Thirty Pieces.
A large number of Scranton Sir
Knights, a number of them accompa-
MED by their wives or daughters, will
be present at the annual conclave of
the grand commandery, Knights Temp
lar, ar Easton, today, tomorrow and
| Wednesday. Melita and Couer de Lion
communicates will leave here this af-
| ternoon, accompanied by Bauer's band,
| in special cars attached to the $50 train
| going east on the Delaware, Lacka-
wann and Western railroad.
| The communicates and band will as
| semble at the asylum, corner of Penn
| avenue and Linden street, at 2.30
| o'clock The members will be attired
| in complete regalia. Soon after 3
| o'clock the march to the depot will be-
| gin, the route making a short parade
| through the business streets. Bauer's
| band will wear new uniforms of red,
blue and gold and will play on the trip
a variety of new music which has been
carefully rehearsed for over a month,
but which has not been played in pub
| lie, excepting those selections that were
rendered at Saturday nights open-air
| Country club concert.
| THOSE WHO WILL GO.
Coeur de Lion commandery will be
officered by T.. Sir c. w. Gunster emf
nent commander; Sir r. ]. Williams,
generalissimo, and Sir w. S. Mears,
captain general. It's members will in
clude: E. Sir F.. L. Brown, e. Sir c.
d. Sanderson, e. Sir c. b. Derman. Sir
E. A. Bartl, Sir Frank Beavers, Sir Vic
| rlr
A. Connell, Sir F. p. Christian, Sir AL
fred Connell, Sir ]. NJ. Courtright, Sir
w. A. Dean, Sir M. II. Dale, Sir ]. H.
Danner, Sir D. G. Driesbach, Sir c. w.
Finn and wife, Sir r. j. Foster. Sir
George Geary, Sir Charles Heuster, Sir
John Horn. Sir w, l.. Henwood. Sir ].
M. Kemmerer, Sir w. A. Kemmerer,
Sir Henry Kosterbater Sir Albert Kolb
Sir C. H. Miller, Sir f. NJ. Meyer, Sir
Philip Robinson, Sir F.. NJ. Spencer, Sir
J. j. Taylor, Sir j. p. A. Tingley, of
Carbondale; Sir Richard Weisenflue,
Sir w. A. Raub.
| Melita's officers are E. Sir c. S. Sea-
mans, eminent commander: Sir ]. b.
Woolsey, generalissimo; Sir ]. S. Por-
teus, captain general. The members
who will go on the trip are: Sir Joseph
Alexander, p. G. c.; E. Sir j. w. Dus-
enbury, e. Sir ]. T. Fear E. Sir T.
F. Penman, q. Sir A. ]. Colborn, jr.,
| E. Sir r. A. Zimmerman, Sir w. II.
Brutzman, Sir j. w. Bullock, Sir John
Briegle, Sir w. c. Bronson, of Bing-
hamton; Sir George H. Benore, Sir j.
G. Bailey, Sir James Ellis, Sir H. w.
Hull, Sir j. d. Hackett, Sir Thomas
B. Howe, Sir c. r. Kinsley, Sir A. II.
Shopeland, Sir e. p. Mucklow, Sir J.
d. Peck, Sir John A. Schadt, Sir F. M.
Vandling, Sir j. F. Wardle, of Phila-
delphia; Sir Conrad Schroeder, Sir T.
c. Won Storch. Sir John Morris, Sir
Fred Warner, Sir A. b. Stevens, Sir
John Roll, Sir George F. Smith.
The Sir Knights will travel in three
special cars attached to No. Della
ware, Lackawanna and Western train.
At Easton they will be quartered at
the United States hotel, the headquar-
ters of the grand commanding officers,
and where tonight a reception will be
given by Grand Commander Sam s.
Yohe, of Easton. There will be other
receptions by local and visiting COM
manderies.
THE FIRST SESSION.
Tomorrow morning the first secret
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be held There will be another on
Wednesday morning, when the cleo
tion takes place. On that afternoon the
officers will be installed. The ceremony
will be public to Sir Knights and their
ladies. The annual ball will be held
tomorrow night in the Abel Opera
house. Tomorrow afternoon a recep-
ton will be given the wives and daugh-
ters of visiting Sir knights by Mrs.
Yohe, wife of the grand commander,
at her home.
| Late Wednesday afternoon the
Scranton communicates will leave for
home, reaching here probably at 9
o'clock.
f. Sir r. A. Zimmerman, past COM
mander of Melita commandery, will be
one of the aides to the marshal of the
first division of tomorrow mornings
parade.
The committee who made the ar
rangements for the trip are: E. Sir A.
z. Holmes, chairman e. Sir C. w.
Gunster; Sir II. J. Foster and Sir j.
James Taylor, of Coeur de Lion COM
mandery, and Z. Sir c. S. Seamans,
f. Sir r. A. Zimmerman and Sir A. H.
Shopland, of Melita commandery. They
have requested that members report at
the asylum not later, than 230 o'clock
as the brief parade will be started
carly in order to have plenty of time
for the arrangements at the station.
One hundred years ago, in 1897, the
first Pennsylvania commandery was
formed in Philadelphia. When the
grand commandery was formed at
Brownsville in 1854 1t numbered only
three Communicates while now there
are seventy-four with 1900 members.
A SCRANTON OFFICER.
Major T. T. Penman, of this city, was
at last years conclave in Scranton
elected grand junior warden. He will
in three years become grand comman-
der If the custom of past years is fol-
lowed in advancing the officers from
grand junior to grand senior warden,
to grand captain-general, to grand gen.
eralissimo, to grand commander
Grand Generalissimo H. II. Kuhn, of
Johnstown, will probably succeed
Grand Commander Yohe.
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