The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-03-27
KNIGHTS TEMPLAR
AT WILKES-BARRE
STATE coNCLAvE TO BE HELD
THERE IN MAY.

THERE IN MAY.
Programme That Has Been Arranged
for the Three Days During Which
the knights will Be in That City.
Scheme Of the Decorators Has Al
ready Been Decided Upon-It Is
Expected That Fully Two Thous-
and Men will Be in the Parade on
Tuesday, May 22.
At Wilkes Barre during the week be-
ginning Sunday. May 20. the annual
conclave Of the Knights Templar Of
the state of Pennsylvania will be held.
The programme for the week Is as fol-
lows:
MONDAY. MAY 2l.
Arrival and reception of communicates.
o'clock y. m.-Trip through Prospect
breaker and mines of the Lehigh Valley
Coal company's system.
Carriage ride for visiting ladies. parties
forming at Hotel Sterling promptly at 3
o'clock D. m.
Reception to visiting knights and their
ladies by X. L. Sir James b. Youngson.
r. e. Grand Commander. and officers of
the Grand Commandery at Hotel Sterling
parlors from s to 10 o'clock p. IN.
Reception to visiting knights and their
45, at Memorial hall from to Il o'clock
p. m.
Reception Of visiting communicates.
TUESDAY. MAY %.
10 o'clock a. Annual parade ana
review.
3 o'clock p. m.--Ses sion of the Grand
Commandery at Memorial hall.
Carriage ride through the city for vis-
iting ladies.
Inspection of wire rope plant of the
Hazard Manufacturing company.
Trip through the Prospect breaker and
mines of the Lehigh Valley Coal COM
pany's system.
All of the above starting from the Ho-
| tel Sterling promptly at o'clock p. m.
TUESDAY EVENING.
Ball and Tourni in the Ninth regiment
armory.
Grand march at Q o'clock p. m.
Preceding the grand march an exhibi-
ton drill will be given by the drill corps
Of Allegheny Commandery, No. S5.
| WEDNESDAY, MAY q.
go o'clock a. m.-Session of the Grand
| Commandery.
| 10 o'clock a. m.-Election of officers
of Grand CommanGcry.
10 o'clock a. m.-Inspection Of lace
works Of the Wiikes-Barre Lace Manu-.
featuring company.
| 10 o'clock a. m.-lnspection of the Shell.
| don Axle works.
| o'clock p. Naturalization Of officers.
elect of the Grand Commandery at the
Nesbitt theater.
The parade on May 90 will be one OF
the features Of the conclave the
Wilkes-Barre News of yesterday said
THE PARADE.
The parade was held here several year:
| ago and .all who saw it will recall the
magniticence of the event and the ad
mrable precision with which everything
pertaining to 1t was carried out. The uni
forms. the banners. the decorations. tho
| marching. the bands, in fact. everything
was of the most delightful character, anc
the people of the city We'd with Sacf
other in entertaining the knights from /;
distance and showing them the variou.
attractions of Wilkes-Barre The cit,
has grown since then in population ant
wealth, and when the knights come her,
from all over Pennsylvania, Wilkes
| Barreans will have an opportunity Il
again display that hospitality for which
the city has earned a wide reputation.
When the knights Templar of Wilkes
Barre start to do anything it is never
half done. They have some wonderful
organizers within their ranks and some
men who have the faculty of groupinl
details and adjusting them to one har
monious whole. These men have beer
l ~
already have the greater part of thu
preparatory work completed. Quarter
have beer found for the visitors and whei
each cOmmandery arrives, II will know
just where to go. Bands have been SO
cured, the line of march has been mappe,
ont and the scheme of decorations is 81
far advanced that the News is enabled t
give 1t to it's readers today.
| Wilkes-Barre has been beautifully dec
GRATED on numerous occasions in tn
past, but it Is safe to say that this prett.
little city of ours never looked SO at
tractive as 1t will on the occasion of tn
knights Templar conclave in May. Their
will be no cheap arches covered witt
fiimsy bunting whose colors will merg
in one hideous looking streak II littl
rain should fall. nor no life threatenin
towers to block the streets. On the con
trary everything in the line Of decora
tiCn will be substantial, beautiful to tn
eye, and placed in such position as I
give entire freedom to travel The arc
and the cheap bunting have had thei
day and in the future all organiza ton
wishing to make any pretense at decora
ton, will have to originate new idea
II they want to be considered as in tn
procession.
TWO THOUSAND IN LINE.
There will he fully two thousand men 4
line and about seventy-five bands. Adde
to this will be all of twenty thousan
strangers on the sidewalks, hence 1t
fitting that our city should have on It
most beautiful attire. And it will. Grea
columns, tventy-eight feet in height, wi
rear their proud heads from each corne
OF Public Square and at night each wi
stand out like huge sentinel, crowne
with electric lights. They are so high a
to be seen when entering The city fror
either extremity and so beautifully decor
and adnlira tion.
These columns are something new
decoration and description will give b.
n faint idea of their beauty. There ar
twenty-eiyht Of them in ALL and sc
about Public Square, from the Court c
Honor. Each column sets on n base A
; feet by 6. and is 2S feet in height. 1t
of solid wood, turned i'm a IN ILL., and dec
Grated in the colors OF the knights Tenn
lar, white and black. The top Is crowne
with q ball of golden color from whic
large flags, each feet inches by fec
. will be loated. and from which var
, colorcd electric lights will shine Ut nigh
At each corner of the square, the CO
umns will be set In triangles with n ro
OF columns on either side of the troila
line from one corner of the square to III