The Savannah morning news., 1901-08-23
OFF TO LOUISVILLE
KNIGHTS TEMPLAR TO ATTEND
TRIENNIAL CONCLAVE.
WILL GATHER AT ATLANTA.
Err QUITS, LEAVE ON SPECIAL
TRAIN.


House-WiII BE Decorated With
PaImettOs, Moss, and Sea Oats.
Open House to BE Kept During En-
tire COnclaye-'GeOrgia Tea" Its
Constituents and the Poetry 1t In
spires-Badges of Georgia Prod
ucts to Be Given Away as Souve-
Mrs.
Palestine Commandery Knights Tenn
plar, headed by Eminent Grand Com
mander E. A. Cults, will leave by the
Central Railway tomorrow night for
Louisville, where the tri-ennial con-
clave will be held Aug $3.50, inclusive.
Many of the members of Palestine
Commandery are out of the city at
present, in New York, the mountains
and at watering places. The greater
number of these, however, will join the
Georgia delegation in Louisville.
All of the Georgia Communicates that
will attend the conclave will meet in
Atlanta, thence, by special train will
go to Louisville. Georgia's quarters at
the conclave will be in the New Gait
House. They will be most commodious
and will be decorated with things en-
blematic of the state. A part of these
decorations to be taken from Savannah
will consist of three huge palmetto
trees, a quantity of saw palmetto and
of green moss, small bundles of rice
tied with blue ribbon and a liberal
quantity of sea oats decorated in the
same manner. Georgia's quarters at all
former conclaves has been among the
most characteristic and attractive, and
there is no danger that it will fall be-
low its record this year.
But it will not be necessary to go to
headquarters to know that Georgia is
there and well represented, for in ad-
dition to the decorations of the quar-
tiers the delegates will have an unlim-
tied supply, that is, supply that will
meet all reasonable demands upon it,
of badges, consisting of open cotton
bolls, small blocks of water white or
window glass rosin, and tufts of rice.
These will not only be worn by the
Georgians, but will be distributed to
those that want them.
Also, with proverbial Georgian hospi-
tally, open house will be kept at head
quarters during the entire conclaVe. In
vitations, in the form of a railroad
pass, have been issued, and will be dis
tributed freely. The card is as follows:
For a number l Kentucky and
Georgia j. G. T. Golly good time).
The Sir Knight bearing this pass, and
his party, may go from the entrance of
the New Gait House to the headquar-
ters of the Grand Commandery of
Georgia and return whenever and as
often as he pleases.'' On the
reverse side, it is stated, This
&c
tfons of ice water, Lithia. water, soda
water, or ginger ale. If any of these
are demanded this ticket will be taken
up and the Sir Knight will be igno-
miniously fired"
The main beverage at headquarters
will be Georgia tea" a most seductive
connection, and one that so nearly re-
sembles mint julep that but few, if
any, are able to distinguish the differ
ence between them. Two colored men.
expert cOmpounderS of this beverage
who accompanied the Georgia Com
mandery to the conclave in Pittsburg
three years ago and that in Boston
six years ago, will be along this time
also, and without doubt will have am
pie opportunity to display their tai
ents.
1t was to the sweet inspiration of
Georgia tea" that the following bac-
chanal was written:
""Tis said that the Gods on Olympus
of old
(And who the bright legend profanes
with a doubtO,
One night, mid their revels, by Bac-
chus were told
That his last butt of Nectar had
somehow run out.
But determined to send round the COB
let once more,
3 They sued to the fairer immortals for
aid
In composing a draught which, till
drinking were DER,
Should cast every wine ever drank
in the shade.
Grave Ceres herself blithely yielded
her corn,
And the spirit that lives in each am
ber-hued grain,
And which first had it's birth from the
dew of the morn,
Was taught to seal out in bright dew
drops again.
Pomona, whose choicest of fruits on
the board
Were scattered profusely in every
ones reach,
When called on tribute to Gull from
the hoard,