The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1899-04-09

down upon the Centennial State in August
and here hold high carnival for ten days
in Denver, Colorado Springs, Manitou,
Cripple Creek and Victor.
With the visitors will come more than
500 candidates for degrees in Cryptic Ma
sonry. These will be Joined by perhaps
80 Colorado candidates for the same de-
grees and all are to be obligated In the
beautiful council degrees on the top OF
Pixies Peak, in the Cave OF the Winds and
in the Garden of the Gods, as the candi-
dates themselves may prefer or their
health permit.
The first special trains. equipped with
commissary cars and musicians, and car
ryug hundreds of Royal Arch Masons
from the different States named, together
with the grand officers of Missouri Ne
braska and Kansas, and the general grand
officers Tor the United States-all with
their wives, daughters and swecthearts.
viii leave Kansas City on August {. The
pilgrims will be met at Colorado Springs
by the grand Masonic officers of Colorado
toget her With the members of the council
oil Royal and Select Masters, holding their
membership in the grand jurisdiction of
Colorado
From Colorado Springs several side fps
will be made. Cripple Creek and Victor
VIII be visited and the pilgrims here
met with trumpet and bard by the Masons
of Colorado's twin golden wonders"
FROM Cripple Creek TO Denver is next
on the schedule. and from this city on TO
Georgetown and around tho world famed
/ loop on the Colorado and Southern rail-
road. Then back again to Denver where
'ne Masons Of Colorado's capital city will
meet INC beseigers at tho Union depot and
there bind them to Denver ny the slken
bonds of fraterna friendship At the
Union depot the Masons, in full regatta
WIN be formed into marching columns and
ne triumphantly escorted through Tho
principal streets of the city
Ihe entire expedition is to be under the
management OF Edward w. Wellington
OF Ellsworth Kan, thrice illustrious mas
Ter and grand principal conductor of the
work Of the grand council of Kansas
pispensations have been granted authoriz.
ing Ellsworth council No. o ROYAL and
select Masters, under the grand iurisdic-
lon OF Kansas. to receive and ballot upon
petitions and TO lead the "pledgings" into
me silent folds of Masonic brotherhood
upon the top OF Pixies Peak, in the Garden
oi the Gods or In the Cave Of the Winds
The candidates simply being obIieato3 q,
'oe places named while the degrees them
serves are 10 be eXempliAed In Dcnver's
magnificent Masonic temple with full mar
dpnernaiia, All Royal Arch Masons re-
oelViog the council degrees during the car
nlVal VIII have their Masonic home IN inc
council nearest their place OF residence
An ostensible object OF this pilrrlnaye
Is 10 build up and stimulate interest in
NlyPuc KITE Masonry in the various Stntes
va t,Clpating and create enough Masons
81 tnls degree in Wyoming to form several
councils Of Royal and Select Masters In
'nat state. hundred or more cardi-
yates from Wyoming are expected 10 &C.
company tho expedition.
rs grand finale TO the whole celebra
uon an elaborate banquet will be ten
uered the visitors by the Masons eli Den
yer is the Denver Masonic tem-
nle Speeches will be made ~
this banquet by many nromipont
Masons OF other States as we'll as OF those
states more actively participating
rraise Will here be sung OF the brother
mood that, through all the vicissitudes Of
ne centuries is believed to have guarded
protected and handed down lis teuts In ali
their ancient perfection 70 the Masons NJ
To-Day ~ win be one of the greatest Ma
sonic love teasts ever held in the WEST
ana me same eulogles that were spolSen
ny Masons In secret conelavo whom thn
smoke OF sacrifice arose TO heather pnds
ana when war and bloodshed WAC ,hA
business OF the world, wsil again he ~.
faithful "p' iuse Us
~ railroads leading into Denver ana
oolorado Springs will grant srecial exrur.
SION rates nor the occasion; aud n Il y.
nevsd that several thousand visitors vii,
participate in the cetemopie. 49,
Grant lpasr,