The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1898-09-26
Novel Souvenirs for
Sir Knights.
DISTINCTIVE OF PITTsBURG
ELECTRICAL DISPLAY WILL BE
MARVELLOUS.
Elaborate Hotel and Sleeping-Car
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
for the Parade, Ball 49,
and Banquet. g

PITTSBURG, Sept. 25-There will be
many unique features distinctive of
Pittsburg at the triennial conclave Of
Knights Templar in this city, October
10 to IA. Tancred Commandery will
present to every visiting knight a large
earthenware loving cup for use at ban
quets, etc. In addition to being useful
the cups will make pretty ornaments.
On the inside of each will be burned the
history of the loving cup, which is not
generally known. Thousands of the
cups have been made.
Another. distinctive product of Pitts
burg is the stogie. Orders have been
given for the manufacture of half a
million stogies, and they will be put up
in fancy-covered punches Of four. The
packages will be left at the various
commandery headquarters for distribu-
ton, and no matter where the sir
knights may go in Pittsburg they will
find stogies to burn. Tin-plate manu-
facturers are also working on large
knights Templar badges Of tin plate,
which will be distributed as souvenirs.
Allegheny Commandery No. SO has
arranged to spend $1,000 per day in dis
pensing samples of Pittsburg hospi-
tality. Ascalon Commandery No. 90
has rented Elks Hall for the week and
will keep open house there. On the
stage in the hall q continuous musical
and vaudeville entertainment will be
given day and night the entire week of
the conclave. Many high-class attrac-
tions have been engaged for this
unique theater.
AS Pittsburg is the home Of cleo
tricity, the electrical exhibition, 1t is
claimed, will be the greatest ever seen
in the world. Prominent electricians
from all parts of the country are in
Pittsburg now working out designs and
trying to secure enough dynamos to
generate the fluid. Every public and
private lighting plant has been called
on for power and every old dynamo in
the vicinity has been overhauled and
made ready for use. The orders for
electrical power have so greatly ex-
ceeded the possible supply that many
business firms, social organizations,
etc, have been forced to drop out or
cut their plans.
The greatest electrical exhibition
will be made in Fifth avenue. On this
main thoroughfare the Masonic Tenn
pie stands. In the inches along the top
of the building will be placed the
figures of four knights in arnor and
high. BY an arrangement of lights in
side the fiery cross on the breastplates
they will be plainly visible at night,
and light will stream through the
visors. By an alternating system of
using the lights, the chargers on which
the knights will be mounted will be
given the appearance of moving, their
riders saluting, etc. On the sills of the
third-story windows will be enormous
American eagles worked in gold, with
outstretched wings. Clutched in the
talons will be festoons of Old Glory.
The front of the building proper will
be a combination of relief work,
worked In gold and draped with cleo
trical effects. The exterior decorative
piece will cover the entire front of the
temple, standing out far enough to
admit of a hidden arrangement of 800
electric lights behind The general ef-
feet will be in gold, while the temple
and national colorS will be introduced.
The Fifth-avenue front Of one Office
building will be covered with 200 red.
white and blue lamps in the shape of
an American flag. The alternating sys-
tenn of lighting will be used and this
will give the flag waving appearance.
1t will be the largest American flag ever
made. One prominent electric company
is laying a special cable from it's works
to its city Office building and will have
display of 5000 to 10000 lights.
not all been taken the railroad COM
panies have arranged to sidetrack over
200 sleening and private cars which will
be used as living quarters by visiting
knights. There will be no crowding of
special trains between rows of freight
cars on sidings. Instead the sleepers
are to be parked in admirable order
where they will be easily accessible at
all hours of the day and night. The
Pennsylvania Railroad will park the
specials in the Grant street, Try street
and Water street yards. and the Bal
Western Railroad will use the
Burlington and Ohio yards along the
river fronts. Substantial board walks
will be constructed, where there are no
platforms, leading from the trains to
the nearest thoroughfare. The walks
will be well lighted and over the cars
will be Illuminated signs. Officers will
be employed day and night to keep
away all persons who have no business
near the trains. Special systems of
sewerage and sanitary arrangements
will be laid.
The railroads expect to handle over
100000 people on the day of the parade.
This will be on Tuesday. and on all the
lines freight shipments will cease at
midnight Monday. In order to facili-
tate the handling OF passengers no
freight trains will be run on thai day
burg.
General ]. P S. Goblin, the grand
marshal of the parade, promises he will
have fifty generals of the recent war
on his staff in the parade. General
Joseph Wheeler and Colonel Theodore
Roosevelt have accepted invitations.
Many of the Rough Riders are knights
Templar and will be in line.
The parade will be strictly on mill
tary lines. 1t will start in Allegheny
and will move by a system of sirnals
fired from motor lccated on Seminary
Hill. Bombs when exploded at point
high en- oh to be seen from all parts
of lower Pittsburg and ALCHEMY will
flo para chute signal to the various
divisions and Communicates indicating
when they will move and take place In .
line. One bomb will be fired as pre-
paratorv command, followed by an
other bomb giving the direct command
for a particular division to move. There