The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-08-20
SURE OF IMMENSE CROWD
BIG FOUR WILL HANDLE TEN FUEL
TRAINS FROM OTHER ROADS.
One from Boston AIone-Indiana Ex-
pected to Have Fourteen Thou
sand Men in the Parade.

The Big Four transportation department
has received notice from connecting lines,
of the delivery of ten full special trains, on
Sunday and Monday, of K. of P. people.
and Of fifty-two special coaches and Wag-
ner cars bringing posts from distant points.
On their own line, H. M. Bronson, assistant
general passenger agent, says every car the
company owns will be required to handle
the lodges and the friends who accompany
them. On Sunday. at 1915 a. m, a special
| train of fourteen cars will leave Boston for
| Indianapolis
Although the Uniform Rank will be here
| by the thousands next week it will be in
the minority, as compared to the members
of the subordinate lodges who are not mem
! bers of the rank. The camp for the rank is
now complete and in readiness to receive its
| guests. The canvas houses have gone up
rapidly during the last week and with the
arrangements for water supply, electric
| lighting, ETC., 1t is one of the largest and
| most complete camps ever seen around In
| dianapolis.
The prizes which will be given to the In
diana lodges having the largest percentage
| of membership in line in the parade, has
proved big inducement for large turnout
from this State. 1t is claimed Indiana will
| have about fourteen thousand men in the
parade, of which number about four thou
sand will be in full uniform. Most of the
| towns throughout the State have written to
headquarters for accommodations for excep-
tionally large delegations. Muncie will send
| several hundred and will bring a band.
Shelbyville has asked for room for two
| hundred, and Noblesvile, Sheridan, Center
vile, Knightstown and nearly every city
n ha Cfat hac
respondingly large turnout. The larger
places, such as Terre Haute, Fort Wayne
| and Evansville. do not yet know just the
number they will send, but these places will
not be behind the other cities. All of the
surrounding States will have nearly as good
representation as Indiana. Detroit will send
down a big crowd, headed by band, and
will make gallant fight for the 1900 en-
campment. Covington, KY, will send 162
knights in full uniform, and it will not be
doing any better than it's sister cities. In
diSnapolis alone will have in the nefghbor-
| hood of one thousand knights in line and
Marion county will have ten lodges in the
parade.
| The Supreme Temple of the Rathbone
Sisters will also meet in this city next
week. There are about twenty-five thousand
| sisters in this department of the order, and
about five times that number of knights are
| enrolled in its membership. Indiana has 175
temples, with $500 sisters and three thou
sand knights. Mrs. Ida M. Weaver, the SUI
preme chief. will arrive next Monday MORN
ing and establish headquarters at English S
Hotel for the Supreme Temple Monday.
most of the delegations will arrive and the
day will be taken up assigning them to cir
hotels and stopping places The headquar-
tiers of the Grand Temple and the informal
ton bureau will be at the New York store.
Competitive initiation drills will be held at
Masonic Hall on Tuesday Wednesday,
Thursday and Friday. A reception will be
given the supreme chief and her staff ct
Englishs Hotel Tuesday, and Wednesday
evening a general reception will be given
the Rathbone Sisters. The business of the
temple begins at the Propylaeum Wednes-
day morning. Thursday afternoon trip will
be made to Broad Ripple and at clock
Supreme Temple will elect officers, and in
the evening public installation ceremonies
will be held at Masonic Hall.
The railroad rates for the K. of p. en-
campment will be as follows: Saturday,
Sunday and Monday, Aug. 20, Il and %, l
cent a mile, good returning all week. This
includes all parts of Indiana, Illinois and
Ohio. Tuesday, cent mile on all morn
ing trains in Indiana, good returning only
on same day. Wednesday and Thursday,
Aug "a and Is, one and one-third fare for
round trip for all points within radius of
seventy-five miles of Indianapolis.