The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1901-08-27
IN kNICHTLY
I. DECORATIONS
LOUISVILLE PRESENTS DAZ-
FLING APPEARANCE.
TEMPLAR EMBLEMS ABOUND
Many-Colored Electric Lights Ar.
ranged in Hundreds Of
Designs.
TEMPLARE MBLEMS ABOUND

of the 2Sth triennial conclave of the
order will not take place until next
Tuesday morning. Immediately after
dusk the city became a veritable
dream-land of dazzling brilliancy when
the electric current was turned on a
lures.
The entire central portion of the
city is tonight flooded with light from
the myriads of v~ari-colored incandes-
cent globes. Great Templar crosses
and shields adorn the entire fronts of
Office buildings and business houses.
Crusaders and prancing war horses
Of heroic design constructed of cath
edral glass behind which are placed
electric lights are CONSPICUOUS figures
on some of the public buildings. Fes-
toons of colored lights span the thor
oughfares Of forty different blocks
in the heart of the city.
A climax to the decorative effects
has been reached in the q%uadruple
electric arch at Fourth avenue and
Broadway and in the court of honor
in front of the Jefferson county court
house on Jefferson street, between
Fifth and Sixth. The magnifcence
Of the former structure was not real
lied until its 5000 i~ncandescent lamps
were lighted tonight. Four massive
piers carry the structure upward
from the four corners of the side
walks. Heroic figures of standing
knights and armoured crusaders on
steeds of wal guard the approaches.
Delicately wrought Templar 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 s~urmounted by a cross
and of the most striking
of the Templar emblems. The crown
is 25 feet in diameter and is jeweled
in golden lights. The cross is 20 feet
AlSA VIZ 11LOAd11y SOfClCu Wall oCd1-
let lamps. From the ground to the tip
of the cross is a distance of SO feet.
An electric mechanism makes the
cross and row revolve, thus causing
the entire structure to present a sim
liar appearance from each of it's four
approaches.
In tho cOlrt nf hnnnr tyynnfy-civ |
pillars each 80 feet high line the sides
of the street in front of the courthouse
n lead on one side up the monster
balustrades that run from the side
walk to the entrance of the building.
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,
follow from the piers that line the
street up to the columns connecting
with he front of the building. To-
night the scene is intensified in beau
ty by the use of thousands of electric
lamps. ~.
The court house is a building CT
stern Ionic architecture and it's front
is outlined in rows of i~ncandesent
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. Similar decorative effects are
witnessed on the exterior of the Gus
tom house, where the grand comman-
derry of Kentucky will open %headquar-
tiers Monday night.
California commandry, No. 1, of San
francisco, the first official arrival from
a point outside the state, reached the
city shortly after noon today. The
commandery started from home last
Sunday, stopping in Denver and Chi
cago en- route. Most Eminent Sir
Reuben H. Lloyd, grand master Of
the grand encampment. came with the
commandery. Tonight a reception and
musicale was rendered by California,
No. i, to the Knights Templar Of
Louisville and all other members of
the order who are now in the city.
The function was held at the Gait
house where the commandry has
headquarters and where it will enter
tain lavishly during tn coming week.
Only sir knights in full dress uniform