The Washington times., 1901-07-28
KNIGHTS OF THE TEMPLE
Programme for the Triennial Con-
clave at Louisville, Ky.
Subordinate Communicates From
More Than Thousand Cities and
Towns to BE Represented - A
Fund for Entertaining visitors.

Towns to be Represented - A
Fund for Entertaining visitors.
LOUISVILLE, Ky, July H.-The
twenty-eiehth triennial conclave of the
Knights Templar of the United States,
will be held in this city August q to
80 inclusive. More than 1000 cities and
towns in the Union have one or more
subordinate communicates each, with
/ a total membership of 125,000 SiI
| Knights, and all will be represented
here either through individual deleea-
tions or through the grand bodies of
| the respective States. According to
contracts made for quarters to date,
Templar visitors will be present from
, the following States: Alabama, Arkan-
sas, California, Colorado, Connecticut,
| District OF Columbia Florida, Georgia,
| Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Indian Terri
tory, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana,
| Maine. MARYLAND, Massachusetts,
Rhode Island, Michigan, Minnesota,
Mississippi. Missouri, Montana, Ne
| braska, New Hampshire, New Jersey,
! New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Penn
! sylvania, South Dakota, Tennessee,
| Texas, Vermont, Virginia, West Vir-
| ginia, Wisconsin, Idaho, South Caro-
! lima.
Louisville has made ample prepara-
! tions for the reception of the great
! white -plumed armY. and the tens of
| thousands of other visitors that will be
I brought with it. A citizens committee
has raised fund of 5000 for the en-
| tertainment of the city's guests. Pro-
/ verbal Kentucky hospitality will be
dispensed in manner that will shat
| ter all records even of the Bluegrass
| State ilf-
| Particular attention is TO be paid to
| the subject of the decoration and illu-
| mination of the city, the sum of $4,000
| being expended in this manner alone.
A quadruple electric arch is to be the
most noteworthy feature. This mag
| nificent structure is now in course of
| erection at the intersection of Fourth
| Avenue and Broadway. 1t will be
| eighty-two feet high, will be illumi-
mated by 5000 16-candle-power electric
lamps. It will cost $4,000. A great cross
| and crowp--cne of the most prominent
of the Templar emblems-will sur
| mount the dome and will be kept con-
stantly revolving by an electric me-
chansm. M. J. Domer, a Chicago
| sculptor, has the contract for the erec-
| ton of the structure, which was de-
| signed by Charles D. Meyer, a Louis
| vile architect, and is said by artists to
surpass in beauty the famous Dewey
| arch.
Conspicuous among the other decora-
tive features will be Floral Square.
This will cover the lawn in front of the
jefferson County courthouse and the
| adjacent streets Two handsome floral
| arches will be erected over the street
| at this point California Conimandery,
| No J. Of San Francisco, will erect a
| beautiful Templar arch, fifty feet high,
| in front of it's headquarters, at cost
Of 81, 500.
| The week of the Conclave will be one
| of rare attractions. The States repu-
| tation for hospitality is to be main
| tanned at the Louisville custom house,
where the Grand Commandery of Ken
| lucky will have headquarters. This is
| one of the handsomest buildings in the
| South. The entire second floor win be
at the disposal of the grand body of the
| State Templars, and seven elegant en-
| tertainments are scheduled for the
| week.
Other public buildings that will fig
ure prominently in the exercises that
\ mark the week will be the city hall, an
| elegant building that will be converted
| for the time being into an electric pal
| ace. and where several Of the important
| comma ndery entertainments will oc-
| cur: the Jefferson County courthouse,
| where number of Communicates viii
| have headquarters. and the Female
| High School, where the official sessions
of the Grand Encampment of the
| Knights Ternplar will besheld.
| Attractions are continually being
added to the weeks programme, so that
it is impossible to announce the com
plete schedule at this date. Divine SER
| vices will be conducted ON Sunday
| afternoon, August 25, at Broadway
Methodist Episcopal Church South, by
| Rev. j. c. w. Coke. ID. D., of Washing
| ton, Iowa, Grand Prelate of the Grand
| Encampment. An escort committee of
! 100 Kentucky Sir Knights will be on
/ duty from Saturday until Tuesday
| morning. All incoming delegations will
| be met at the railway stations and es-
corted by uniformed Templars with
bands of music to their stopping places.
On Monday evening the Kentucky
| Grand Commandery headquarters will
| be opened. Tuesday morning the con-
| clave proper will be inaueurated with
| the grand parade. Indications point TO
the appearance of 10000 uniformed
| Knights Templar and 125 bands of mu-
, sic in the procession. The route of the
| parade covers the handsomest and
| broadest thoroughfares in the city. On
Tuesday evening a monster lawn fete
| will be given 1.-THE Masonic Widows
and Orphans Home, a fireworks exhibi-
tion accompanying this feature. The
| same evening q chorus of 200 negro
| voices. under the direction of Col. VIII
| S. Hays, author of "Mollie Darling"
| and other popular songs. Will give an
entertainment at the Horse Show build
| ing.
| The second day of the conclave will
be devoted to the competitive drills.
| Five magnificent sterling silver
| trophies. valued at $1,000, are to be
awarded as prizes. Not since the tri-
ennial of 1883. at San Francisco. have
| the knights Tenplar held a.. similar
| contest There will he two divisions in