Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1898-10-09


BALTIMORE WAS THE CHIEF
EVENT OF YESTERDAY EVENING.
BALTIMORIEANS SADDENED BY
THE DEATH OF A MEMBER EN-
EOUTEATHE CITY RESPLENDENT
WITH GRAND DECORATIONS AND
TANNED WITH PEOPLE.
PittSburg, Pa, October S.-Gor-
geously plumed Sir knights, the first
of the great body of Knights Templar,
which will virtually own Pittsburg for
! the next six or eight days, arrived in
Pittsburg to-day This vanguard was
the Sir Knights of the Golden State Of
| California.
The party was made UP OF the grand
commandery, its honorary escort; Cali
fornia commandery No l, of San
Francisco, and a score OF members of
another commandery Of that State
They arrived at ten O'Clock this morn
ing and their arrival marked the open
ing OF the great round OF festivities
that are scheduled for the coming
week.
/, This famous contingent of Templars
tSHm the Far West were met at the
Union station and escorted to the
headquarters of California commandery
No Nm the first floor of the Carnegie
office Building, by Pittsburg command
cry No /, and detachments Of the four
local COMMUNICATES. The visitors were
rr;x- y1ro1nOrna oOd
ing.
The party numbers nearly 500 Sir
Knights and a number o. ladies. They
left San Francisco last Monday morn
ing and have made the long pilgrimage
| overland in a special yestibuled Pull
man palace train They were the first
to leave their homes and are the first
to be welcomed by the triennial con-
clave city of 1898.
The most distinguished guest OF the
Calitornians was the Very Eminent Sir
Reuben H. Lloyd, who will be promoted
at the Grand Encampment 10 ;he high
est post within the gift Of the assem-
bed ghts-Graad Master OF the
Grand Encampment Of the United
States.
Captain William r. Hechert, who has
| charge of the commandery drills at
Schenley Park next Wednesday, an
nounces that there will be no c0mpeIi-
| tive exhibition, the late war with Spain
| having called many of knights into the
volunteer service. This fact comes as
a great disappointment to the knights,
as the competitive drills have always
been a feature of every ccnc.aye.
The programme for the schenley
Park exhibition next Wednesday, start
| ing at $50 a. m, will be As follows:
Drill by Bicycle Corps, Swift's Brig
ade, of Allegheny, Detroit No. l; St.
Bernard No. 49, Chicago; Louisville No.
/; Hanselman No. IL. Cincinnati; Da-
mascus No Is. Detroit.
Two other drill corps may take part.
Three drill instructors from West
Point will act as judges. To each COM
| mandery will be presented handsome
| banners. The corps entered for the
drill are the most expect OF the coun-
! try. St Bernard, of Chicago, has cap
| tured prize after prize in drills all over
| the country, and has the reputation Of
| being the most perfectly handled body
| of Knights in the United States
| Boomers for Louisville as the meet
| ing place for the twenty-eighth con-
| clave are perfecting plans for a Wig
orous campaign. Two large rooms in
| City Hall will be devoted to the use of
the Bourbon State knights as boom
| headquarters. The Grand Command
| cry of Kentucky will have the support
| Of DeMClay and Louisville commander
| ipc iniu+1I- he of bor
| representatives from all parts Of the
| State
The principal event in Knightly cir
| cles this evening was the arrival and
reception of Grand Master Warren La
Rue Thomas and staff. who arrived at
| $50 o'clock from Baltimore. He was
| received at the Baltimore & Ohio depot
by Grand Master Kuhn with consid-
| cradle pomp and ceremony. Attend
ing Grand Master Kuhn were the Off
GERS of the Grand Commandery OF
! Pennsylvania. representatives Of each
Pittsburg commandery and Columbia
| Commandery, Of Washington, D. c..
| headed by the famous Haley band. OF
Washington City.
| Upon arrival Of the train. which was
made up of five royal blue coaches,
Grand Master Thomas was escorted
through several Of the down town
! streets, returning to the Monongaheia
House, where an informal reception
was held
Baltimore Commandery No. 2. which
arrived earlier in the evening. had thei-
journey saddened by the sudden death
OF George w. Starr. While their train
was passing through Glenwood MIR.
Starr was among the gayest OF the gay
and was having fine time. when sud
denly he dropped to the floor a corpse
from the effects Of heart disease. His
remains were taken to the city and
taken to Simpsons undertaking rooms
/ Mr.. Starr was Past Grand Master OF
Baltimore Commandery No. >. ard Past
Grand Potentate Of Boumi Temple.
Among the Communicates arriving TO-
| day and tonight were the grand COM
mandery Of Maryland. Monumental No
| l, of Baltimore; Monumental No. 9. oil
Baltimore; Maryland No. 1. Baltimore;
| Corusade, Baltimore; Baltimore No. 2
| of Baltimore. These commanderie:
carried with them the Fourth Regiment
| Band. The Pennsylvania Grand Com
mandery arrived at p. m, followed
| BY the Grand Commandery Of Massa-
chusetts. the Joseph Warren Command
cry OF Boston; Ivanhoe, Of Mahanoy
| City, Pa, and Columbia No. 2, of Wash