Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1898-09-18
THE GREATCONCLAV We
RICHMOND KNIGHTS TEMpLAR AR
RANGING TO GO TO PITTsBuRG.
TO TRAVEL IN A SPECIAL TRAIN.
Richmond Commandery Goes ms the
Guest Of the Commandery Of st.
Andrew-Great Preparations BEING
Made at Pittsburg.
Made at Pittsburg.

the second week In october.
The Commandery OF st. Andrew. No. IL.
has invited Richmond Commandery, No.
2 to be its guests, returning the compli-
ment paid them IN 1895. when st. Andrew
Commandery was the guest of the Rich
mond Commendery. at the conclave in
Boston. Many OF the members OF Rich
mond Commandery have accepted the
invitation Of the st. Andrew brothers.
The Richmond knights and a number of
their ladies will leave here over the
Richmond Fredericksburg and Potomac
in a special train at noon October sth,
and will go through without change.
reaching Pittsburg at o'clock the next
morning. 1t will be fine train, and
the party will be a jolly one.
GO on A SPECIAL TRAIN.
st. Andrew Commandery goes in body
under Eminent-Commander II. NJ. Boy
kin. The committee in charge of all ar
rangements is composed Of Messrs.
Charles A. Nesbitt, H. NJ Boykin. George
l.. Street. +. D. Hotchkiss, II. Theodore
Ellyson. L. =. Ecker, and Thomas Whit
tet. IT is desired that those who in
tend going to Pittsburg with the party
report TO the chairman of the committee,
Mr. Nesbitt at as early date as pos
sible. Rooms were engaged at the Newell
House for the Richmond Templars and
friends nearly a year ago. The San
Francisco Templars, probably the richest
commandery in the world, will stop at
the Newell. a magnificent hosiery. The
members will bring their black horses
from San Francisco and each day of the
conclave they will receive a carload of
fruit from California.
The arrangements are being actively
carried forward by the Communicates of
Pittsburg to make the triennial conclave
all that the Templars of the United
States could desire. All visiting COM
manderies will be met at the depots by
escorts from local Communicates. and es-
corted to their hotels. At the Boston
triennial in 1895 there were said to be
26GOO knights in the parade. with 1877
bands. Pittsburg expects 5000 Sir knights
and 200 bands. About 1000 horses will
be required for the parade. and about
1900 musical instruments.
General Goblin, grand marshal Of the
great parade says he has selected as his
diutS Il HumUtI Oh the most
men in the country, both in military and
civil circles. Among the military men
will be some who are row and have been
in the thickest of the fray at Santiago,
Porto Rico, and in the navy. General
Goblin said that he would be at he head
Of the great parade in person, and that
his staff, owing to the prominence of the
characters, will be the greatest ever
formed
Hon. G. L. Magee, the executive direc-
tor of the triennal, and James Il. Young
son. chairman of the Entertainment Com
mittee. have reached an agreement that
the banquet of the triennial will be held
i'm the Duquesne summer garden what
has heretofore been known as the Belle
field car barns of the Consolidated Trac-
ton Company, on Craig street. The trac-
ton company recently vacated the big
building, and it is now being transformed
into beautiful casino, for summer opera
and other amusements. There will lie
new floor laid, the walls and ceiling will
be beautifully arranged by some decora-
tive scheme, and there will be spacious
gallery encircling the entire interior. The
building will be illuminated by an i'm
mense number of electric lights, the
power for which will be provided ly
l.OOO-horse power dynamo that is now be-
ing placed in position. The flood OF nght
is expected TO exceed anything ever at
tempted. There will be 1000 people at the
banquet, and for the first time in the his
tory Of these gatherings have the ladles
been invited.
A GREAT CROSS.
Some Of the grandest electrical displays
ever attempted will be on exhibition du-
ring concave week. Among these will be
IN
ington. The emblem will be 100 feet high,
with arms % feet in length. Each Sec
ton will be II feet wide, and the whole
is to be brilliantly illuminated by natural
gas IL will be constructed of 2 and 8
Inch feeder There will be 1000 Jets on
the cross and each perfOration is calcu-
lated 10 throw flame II inches long Inc
design will consume about 10000 feet OF
gas per hour. or the flow of 6-inch pipe
under six-ounce pressure. Inc cross VIII
not be vertical 1t Will incline 10 one
side at an angle of about 80 degrees anu
will he placed in a reclining position at
an angle of about the same degree. 1t
viii he raised high enough above ground
70 give the emblem the appearance OF be-
INC suspended in midair. The cross VIII
he illuminated every night until l A. NJ,
and il will be visible from most parts OF
pittsburg and Allegheny. Its cost OF con-
struction will be between 5000 and SSoVO'
Other electrical designs VIII be q re-
volving figure Of st. George, and Eeroic-
si1ed figlres Of ancient Knights Templar,
ho,b ON foot and on horseback. Maltese
croeses and heradic emblems of all kinds
Nh Also be shown. One prominent build
inc viii show Illuminated portraits OF
Dewev. Hobson. Schley, Wheeler, Roose-
,.olt and other heroes Of the Spanish war
I'm their names in electricity at the
hase Of each picture. on the roofs OF the
Richest buildings in Pittsburg and Ale
ghenv will be placed powerful search
i,abtS and in the streets will be located
~ regular intervals brilliantly Illuminated
srches There will be no darkness In
e,tbe, city throughout the week.
THE MUSIC AND THE LADIES.
hand concert of 1000 pieces, made up
81 various bands of the city during the
,yeak is an important feature of the
nroeramme. President Mckinley, 1t is
said positively, will be there. and pro-
bsblv Vice-President and Mrs. Hobart
4 committee Of one hundred ladies' OF
pIttsbprg il at work arranging for the
',,tertotnment of the wives and daugh-
ters OF the visiting Knights at Plttsourg'
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