Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-10-08
NIL OWN The Town.
Gates Of the City Will Be Thrown Open
to Visiting Knights

DURING THE SESSION OF THE
STATE GRAND LODGE OF THE
PYTHIAN ORIiER- THOUSANDS
OF VISITING KNIGHTS WILL IN
WADE THE CITY-CHIEF MAR
Shall KEEPERS AIDES MAJOR
GENERAL CARNAHAN COM
MANDER-IN-CHIEF OF THE
UNIFORMED RANK COMPANIES
IN THE WORLD, WILL ARRIVE
IN THE CITY TUESDAY NIGHT.
All arrangements for the big K. of P.
celebration in this city this week are
rapidly nearing completion. The gen
eral committee is to be congratulated
that they have so successfully handled
the affairs pertaining to the celebra-
ton. The members have for the most
part cast their business obligations to
the wind and have, in fact, dropped
everything except the work of the COM
mittee.
There are but three arches yet to be
erected. The company to which the
contract for the work was let have been
working day and night. The finest
arch will be at Market and Twelfth
streets. 1t will be double arch. One
stretching from Goetze'S to the German
Bank corner, the other from the Morton
c. Stout Company's to the Mcclure cor
ner. Work will be commenced on it
some time to-day All the arches will
be decorated in Pythian colors and en-
blems, and when the work is complet-
ed the effect will be very handsome.
The entertainment committee haa
been hard at work securing all the
rooms possible in which to lodge the
visiting Knights after the hotels have
been filled. A gentleman recalled the
last Grand Lodge meeting held in this
city seven years ago. At that time it
was necessary to prevail upon the mas
tiers of the large steamers lying at the
wharf to lay over to provide a place for
visiting members to sleep. The large
crowd doubtless can be easily taken
care of owing to the increased hotel
facilities.
The James T. MCGEE Company, No.
20, U. R. K. of P, and the Bernard
Stanley Company, No. 81, U. R. K. OF
P, OF this city, have secured very hand
the picture of both gentlemen. The
field is a small American flag, from
which tapers three steamers of blue
yellow and red, on which is stamped
in silver the name of the companies.
On Wednesday night the Cookies"
will hold forth. They will assemble az
the Pythian Castle, at which time fifty
candidates for entrance to the order
will be purged by their weary journey
over the burning sands. A banquet
will follow at which there will be much
JOY.
On Tuesday evening, on Market
street, between alley and the Nc
Lure, Capt. Baker, Of Parkersburg Com
pany, No, 3, will put his men through
the famous Imp" drill At Washing
ton, D. c., Capt. Baker took the prize,
a handsome sword, offered for the best
drilled captain. The Company, on this
occasion, took the prize for the best
drilled company.
On Wednesday the Ravenswood
Company, Capt Hoyt, will execute the
''FlambeauD drill at the same place.
If the weather is propitious the street
parade on Wednesday will eclipse any,
cf Ii
1t is at present expected that there
will be at least five thousand members
of the order in line
The Uniform Rank companies will
form on Eoff street, with right resting
on Twelfth. The subordinate lodges
will form on Chapline street, with right
resting on Twelfth. Visiting lodges and
uniformed cmpanies will take the
. light. The parade, under command of
Major General Carnahan, will move at
e:30 sharp.
The line of march will be: West on
twelfth to Market, north on Market to
Ninth, west on Ninth to Main, south on
Main to T'werity-s east on TWEEN
ty-seventh TO Chapline, south on Chap
line to Thirty-third, east of Thirty
third to Eoff, north on Eoff to Twenty
seventh, west on Twenty to
Chapline, north on Chapline to TWEEN
tieth, west on Twentieth to Market,
north on Market to Eleventh. and then
disband. The parade Will be reviewed
by Major General Carnaban and staff.
Chief marshal of subordinate lodges
DR.. L. N. Refers staff will consist of
the following Knights: c. w Kreiter,