The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-08-25
TRIENNIAL C0NCLAVE
KNIGHTS TEMPLAR NOW GATHER
ING AT LOUISVILLE.
CITY IN FULL GALA ATTIRE.
SCHEME OF ILLUMINATION ONE OF
GREAT BEAUTY.

with : Myriads of Vari-Colored
Electric Lights-Arches and Tenn
plar EmbIems-Grand Encamp-
ment Officers Have All Arrived
and Every Train Brings I'm Sir
knights.
Louisville, KY, Aug. PA gala week
for the knights Templar of the United
States began tonight, though the for
NAL exercises of the opening of the
twenty eighth triennial conclave of the
order will not take place until next
Tuesday morning. Immediately after
dusk the city became a veritable
dreamland of dazzling brilliancy when
the electric current was turned on a
hundred designs and decorative struc-
lures.
The entire central portion of the city
is tonight flooded with light from my
riads of vari-colored incandescent
globes. Great Templar crosses and
shields adorn the entire fronts of Of
flee buildings and business houses.
Crusaders and prancing war horses of
heroic design constructed of cathedral
glass behind which are placed electric
lights are conspicuous figures on some
of the public buildings. Festoons of
colored lights span the thoroughfares
of forty different blocks in the heart
of the city.
A climax to the decorative effects
has been reached in the quadruple cleo
trio arch at Fourth avenue and Broad
way, and in the court of honor in front
of the Jefferson County Court House
on Jefferson street. between Fifth and
Sixth. The magnificence of the former
structure was not realized until its s.
900 incandescent lamps were lighted
tonight. Four massive piers carry the
structure upward from the four cor
ners of the sidewalks. Heroic figures
! of standing knights and armoured
crusaders on steeds of war guard the
approaches. Delicately wrought Tenn
plar emblems are displayed on the four
faces of the structure in heavy relief,
made still holder by the countless lights
that outline them. The massive dome
that arches above the intersection of
the two streets is surmounted by a
cross and crown-one of the most strik
ing of the Templar emblems. The
crown is 25 feet in diameter and is jew
eled in golden lights. The cross is %
feet high and literally covered with
scarlet lamps. From the ground to the
tip of the cross is a distance of SO feet.
cross and crown revolve, thus causing
the entire structure to present
a similar appearance from
each of it's four approaches
The Court of Honor.
In the court of honor twenty-six pill
lars. each thirty feet high, line the
sides of the street in front of the court
house and lead on one side up the
monster balustrades that run from the
sidewalk to the entrance of the build
ing. The bases of the pillars are nine
and one-half feet high and surmount-
ed around the bottom of the columns
by potted plants. On an urn on the
top of each column grows a Boston
palm eight feet high. Garlands of
flowers and green. three strands in all.
connect the pillars on the south side
of the street and on the north side
where the court house is situated, fol-
low from the piers that line the street
up to the columns connecting with the
front of the building. Tonight the
scene is intensified in beauty by the
use of thousands of electric lamps.
The court house is a building of stern
Ionic architecture, and it's front is out
lined in rows of incandescent lamps.
Across Sixth street the city hall is a
palace of light, every angle and outline
of the big building being traced in
rows of lights of different colors. Sim
liar decorative effects are witnessed on
the exterior of the custom house, where
the Grand Commandery of Kentucky
will open headquarters Monday night
California Commandery, No l, of San
Francisco, the first official arrival from
point outside of the state, reach
ed the city shortly after noon to-day.
The commandery started from home
last Sunday, stopping in Denver and
Chicago en- route. Most Eminent Sir
Reuben H. Lloyd, grand master of the
Grand Encampment, came with the
commandery. Tonight reception and
musicale was rendered by California,
No. 1, to the Knights Templar of Louis
vile and all other members OF the or
der who are now in the city. The
function was held at the Calf House,
where the commandery has headquar-
tiers and where 1t will entertain lavish
ly during the coming week. Only Sir
Knights in full dress uniform, minus
the sword and ladies in evening dress
were admitted to the reception
Each train since noon has brought
in one of more Templar delegations
and hundreds of other visitors. The
attendance promises to surpass that
of any previous meeting of the Grand
Encampment. over $4,000 Templars
and their ladies are already provid-
ed with quarters.
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Lloyd all the officers of the Grand En-
campment are now in the city. These
officers are as follows: Reuben H.
Lloyd, San Francisco Grand Master;
Henry Bates Stoddard, Bryan. Tex.
Deputy Grand Master; George NJ.
Moulton, Chicago, Grand Generalissi-
mo; Rev. Henry w. Rugg, Providence,
r. l., Grand Captain General; Will
liam B. Melish. Cincinnati. Grand Sc
Nor Warden; Rev. j. c. w. Coke,
Washington, Ia. Grand Prelate; H.
Wales Lines Meriden. Conn. Grand
Treasurer; William II. Mayo. st. Louis.
Grand Recorder; Lee S. Smith. Pitts
burg Grand Standard Bearer; Arthur
Macarthur, Troy. N. Y, Grand Sword
Bearer; Harper NJ. Orahood Denver,
Grand Warden: Charles c. Vogt,
Louisville, Grand Captain of the Guard.
Sundays Programme.
Divine services will be held under
the auspices of the Knights Templar
at 3 o'clock tomorrow afternoon at
Broadway Methodist Episcopal Church.
South. corner of Floyd street and
Broadway. The officers and members
of the Grand Encampment will be es-
corted from headquarters at the Gait
House to the church by a detail of Sill
knights in full uniform and headed by
band OF music. Rev.J c. w. Coke,
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