The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-08-25
Pvthinn Notes.

".
College Hill. Cincinnati.
The Sheridan Band was in the rear of
Darlington Lodge, and in front or sheridan
Lodge. No. 176, during Tuesdays parade.
William Postal, of Muncie. has his left eye
IN sling. A Muncie lady who was looking
for her husband poked the end of her UNI
brella handle into Postal's eye.
Lodge No. 90, of Muncie, claims to have
Uniformed Rank. Twerty-seven out of a
membership of thirty-one were in the march.
Captain Mcclellan, of the Brazil company.
is one Of the popular men in the Indiana
section, and the members of this company
are having pleasant time because of this
fact.
Three small wooden butter dishes are fast
ened to a post in the shape of a pawn
brokers' sign in the Illinois division Above
them is a sign reading, IL. Simons, Pawn
broker"
The committee having charge of awarding
the prizes to the winning companies par
ticipating in the big parade of Tuesday has
not as yet prepared its report, but is ex-
pected to be ready by Saturday morning.
Col. L. G; Hunt, assistant quartermaster
general of the OHIO brigade, has nice little
tent, all fixed up with lace curtains and sofa
pillows. The colonel has been a-camping
before and knows how to make life worth
Lieut.. NJ. c. Alexander clever citizen of
Brockton, the great shoe town of Massa-
cEusetts, is proud of the Massachusetts, di.
vision, which has ia men. The members of
this division are all big men, averaging zoo
pounds each.
The band accompanying the Wheeling. w.
Va, division gave concert last night at
the English Hotel. The musicians were in
vited to the balcony and for an hour the
crowd about the monument enjoyed some
excellent music
manded by Capt. w. B. Gray, is a lively
crowd. 1t delights in posting notices of
decidedly personal character Yesterday
placard on one of the tents informed pass
ers-by that Page Potter snores''
]. L. Gottschalk, who carried the banner
for Lodge No. 80, of Muncie, in the grand
every foot of the long march, and the boys
from Muncie feel that Sir Knight Gott-
schalk is all right for man of his years.
The Alexandria company, numbering thir-
is differed by Capt. P. j. Reehling, First
Lieut.. W.. A. Johnson, Second Lieut. j. G.
Jenkins, Guides Harvey McAbee and A. w.
Clauve and Quartermaster c. M. Trilnler.
Captain Hummel and Captain Wagner
command the two companies from Muncie.
There are sixty-seven men in the two
lodges. They all were in the march Tues
day. Charles Gass gave out just as the
parade was disbanded, and for a time his
condition was serious
P. C. John c. Crandall, of New York
says there was much curiosity as to the
knight in the parade who wore the yellow
cape. That knight was Mr.. Crandall, who
claims the distn Slnt OF invenng the UNI
Brown, Pilgrim father.
The Terre Haute contingent at Camp Col
grove has dubbed its street Easy street,
who halls from Terry Hut" or the banks
OF the Wabash. Captain Duddleston and
Captain Pasig command the two uniformed
companies from Terre Haute.
"Das Deutsche Company is the big sign
that indicates the quarters of the Logans-
port crowd. The banner gives. the further
Logansport, Eel township, Cass county. A
second banner bids visitors Wllkommen."
Capt. G. A. Schaefer is the commanding
officer
Hetfield Lodge, No. 433. of Newtown,
Fountain county, Indiana. instead of Hep
field Lodge, had forty-four members June
eight. All were in line in the parade in
GLIDING a band of twelve pieces all mem
bers of the lodge. The lodge was organized
Anderson has a large representation and
made very creditable showing in the pa
rade. The officers are: Major. c. E. Owen;
Beebe end the other official positions are
held by Charles Parkhurst, w; H. Daniels
Charles Daniels and E. E. Morris The
delegation numbers fifty men.
No. 5, the crack drill company of New
Albany. will not enter the competitive drills
because Of the illness of several of the best
is greatly disappointed, but does not care
| to go into the contest with crippled COM
| pany. The captain is entered in the contest
| for the sword to be presented TO the most
| popular captain outside of Indianapolis
| The Journal was serenaded yesterday aft
ernoon by the Second Regiment michigan
Band, from Otsego. The band is an excel
lent one and its music greatly pleased
large crowd which gathered around the
musicians. After each piece Detroit boom
er led the applause by waving a banner on
which was printed "Detroit-l9C0" The men
hustling to secure the next encampment for
Detroit take every advantage to further
their boom.
Lee better known as Coffin" Smith. of
I,OO9nSnOrf lif1fs
| being the funniest and noisiest man in the
big camp. Smith sells collins as a business,
but on an occasion like this he lays aside
his sad and solemn face and assists in in
ducing Rome to howl. 1t is this fact that
accounts for the banner which was. at
| tached to his tent yesterday by admiring
friends The streamer reads, Tie the Dog
Loose"
The Kansas City, Kan. division of uni
formed knights gave street parade last
night. led by a fife and drum corps that
ratified off popular airs. Each member of
| the division carried cornstalk and one Of
Handsomely fla some i decorated with Ribbon. The d.
vision has several colored mascots and the
boys executed some lively steps in front of
division attracted much attention. General
| Lyons, of the Kansas brigade. and Colonel
| Rivley, of. the First Kansas Regiment.
headed the procession.
| burg, last night marched into the lobby OF
the Denison House and serenaded Supreme
Chancellor COlRrOVo ana all the OIneT
guests of the hotel. Afterwards the band
paraded the streets serenading the newspa-
per offices and everything else in sight AT
midnight it turned up in front of the Jour-
nal office with just as much wind as IL mad
| when it started out. A crowd of laughing.
| cheering Knights followed in the wake or
the band, exemplifying, in the technical
| language of the order, the song "Therell
| be hot time in the old town tonight.
| About five hundred people had lots of fun
| with half a dozen little darkies along the
| big ditch which divides the camp yesterday
| afternoon. A penny or a nickel would be
! thrown on the muddy bank of the ditch
| and the boys would scramble for the money.
| This was kept up for four or five hours,
| during which time all the loose real estate
| in the vicinity was transferred to the faces
| and clothing of the boys and the loose
| change to their pockets. A big special po-
| liceman came along and tried to make the
| boys leave, but as soon as his feet touched
| the mud ne took a ''shoot the chute" atti-
| about bushel of mud up his back. The
| crowd applauded him, but he would not re-
| spond to an encore.
The Sentinel official organ of the
knights and Ladies of Honor, published at
| Oak Park. Chicago, says of the Pythian
| parade: 1.-The citizens of indianapolis wit
messed a great fraternal gathering the goth,
f, 2lst and 22d of August. The Supreme Lodge
knights of Pythias, representing a member
| ship of nearly 5000 convened there at that
time, together with the Supreme Conclave
of the Uniform Rank of the order. The
parade of the latter was the attractive fea-
ture although the whole gathering was "a
good thing to see. It is "a good thing too,
that the meeting of this grand fraternity
was held in indianapolis. for better hotel
accommodations and better streets through
which TO parade are not 20 be found in this