The record-union., 1899-04-22
.TEMpLARS STILL IN SESSION
GRAND COMMANDERY MEETS
AGAIN TO-DAY.
Grand Officers Elected Yesterday
and Other Business
Transacted.

The second days session oi the
Grand Commandery, knights Iempiar
of California, was opened yesterday
morning at 10 O'Clock, the Grand Mas
ter presiding. os,
The Grand Recorder read the proceed
ings of the last session, WHICH eon
suned considerable time.
The Grand Commander appointed olr
Nehemiah Blackstone to I'LL vacancy
in the Committee on Jurisprudence.
The Grand Commander presented
commissions of Past Grand Comman-
ders as representatives of other Graho
Communicates near this Grand Conn
tmandery, as follows:
Sir William O. Gould to be representa-
tive of the Grand Commandery OF
Kansas. Sir S. H. Wegener to be rep
resentative of the Grand Commandery
of New York. Sir w. M. Petr4e to be
representative of South Dakota and
Texas Grand Commanderies. Sir FRANK
lin H. Day to be representative OF the
Grand Communicates of West Virginia
and Kentucky. Sir John F. Merrill to
be representative of the Grand Com
mandery of Iowa.
The Grand Commandery took recess
till D. M and when it reconvened the
special order the election OF ofhcers
for the ensuing year, was taken up and
officers elected as follows:
Right Eminent Grand Commander L.
Sir John F. Merrill of San Francisco.
Deputy Grand Commander, e. Sir
Frederick Miller of Fresno.
Grand Generalissimo, e. Sir George
b Mckee of San Jose.
Grand Captain General, E. Sir Will
lam Frank Pierce of Oakland.
Grand Senior Warden, E. Sir William
D. Knights of Sacramento.
+. Grand Junior Warden, E. Sir George
Sinsabaugh of Los Angeles.
Grand Prelate, E. Sir j. d. March OF
Chico
Grand Treasurer, E. Sir Edward
Coleman of San Francisco.
Grand Recorder, E. Sir William A.
Davis of San Francisco.
The Grand Commandery resolved
against reduction of fees and voted to
let them stand as fixed at present.
The next meeting of the Grand Com
mandery was fixed to take place at
Los Angeles on April "A, 1901.
A resolution was adopted by the
Grand Commandery thanking Sacra-
rnento Commandery No. 2, and the citi-
Z6flS OIL SdCTdultIIlO lOl lAOlA iiOSPANS'ii-J' .
The Grand Commandery adjourned
till 10 a. m. to-day.
WHO HE IS.
Sir John F. Merrill, the new Grand
Commander, is an old and Well-knoWn
Sacramentan. He was knighted in Sac
ramento Ccmmandery, No. ,, and now
by a strange coincidence, at the forty
frst annual conclave of the Grand
Commandery and the first one ever held
in this city, he has been elected Grand
Commander
ORDER OF THE RED CROSS.
Last evening the Order of the Red
Cross was conferred by Nevada Com
mandery No. q, large attendance be-
ing present
LAST NIGHTS RECEPTION.
Last evening, at O'Clock, Sacramento
Commandery and the ladies received
the visiting Knights and their ladies at
tile Art Gallery. The Committee on
pecora ton had worked faithfully for
days in decorating the rooms and had
sneceeded grandly and made some of
the rcoms bowers of beauty The front
room in the basement was a triumph
or art The cases containing stuffed
birds, etc, were covered with skilfuliy
woven ivy, interspersed with Gala lilies.
A large American flag, fianked on either
side by flags of the First Artillery of
California, covered the north end of the
room and palms and other plants re
iu evidence, while from the top of one
OF the cases a stuffed white owl, with
extended pinions, looked down on the
card tables with an air of wisdom. In
the hall, at the foot of the stairs, was
a screen formed of magnolia branches
and vines, surrounding a bank of roses
On the main floor the conservatory
was thing of beauty. Il. f. Wilson of
san Francisco had ably assisted the
Decorating Committee, and with the
sides of the room trimmed profusely
with Banksea roses and magnolia
branches, a number of hanging baskets
and red lanterns overhead, rare tro..-
cal plants and Kentia palms, inter-
sporsed with cinerarias, it was the m 3st
attractive room in the building. Next
To it came the red room, decorated with
American Beauty roses, weeping willow
and long grasses woven into graceful
garlands, caught up into loops and fes-
toons with green MORE ribbon. The' e
We're also hanging baskets and red Ian
terms. The room was beautiful.
The art studio was handsomely deco
rated, the bases of the statues and the
inches being ornamented with banks of
roses, while the orchestra was screened
from view by palms and potted plants
In the library We're two refres SHINE ut
tables, surmounted by handsome arches
of vines and roses. One contained Ice
cream and cake and the other punch
and lemonade IN profuse quantity. This
latter proved very attractive room.
Refreshment tables were set also up
stairs in the art gallery.
The grounds outside We're prettily
decorated with dozens of Chinese Ian
terms strung among the trees and many
during the evening promenaded there
or reste6, themselves in the chairs.
The Reception Committee was cone
posed of all those ladies concerned ir
the reception who We're not on the Com
nittee on Decorations.
" hen s o'clock arrived the visitors
began to come in couples and groups
and in a. short time the spacious rooms
were crowded and many hundreds We're
unable to obtain seats in spite of the
large number of chairs. Every one was
thore to extract enjoyment from the oc
casion. and ALL apparently, attaine,l
that end. rYa
Noack's orchestra gave a fine pro-
gram of selected music, which was
n uch enjoyed. and in addition there
was a vocal program. The quartz:
composed of Mrs. Moeller, Mrs. Copper
smith. Miss Obarr and Mrs. Hawlay
sang All, Tis a Dream in such de-
lightfully real manner that they ha,