Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1901-03-01
g9IGMIs TEMpLAR
Are Preparing for the TrlsnaIaI ConcIaVe at
Louisville.

Louisville. Ky, February 2S.--A
delegation of Knights Templar, rep
resentlng Marietta Commandery, No.
so. of Marietta, o., was here this week
to arrange for accommodations for a
party of rs swords" and ladies who
will attend the twenty-eighth trien-
NAL conclave to be held in Louisville
August 27-30, next. 1t was composed
of Sir Knight G. e. Verges, of Lowell,
who is a member of Marietta, and Sir
Knight Charles F. Henry, who lives
at the thriving county seat of Wash
ington. They were taken in charge
by Colonel J. T. Gathright, chairman
of the conclave committee on hotels,
and driven over the city to see the
way Louisville expects to care for
crowd of 100000 visitors next August
There are 80 hotels, $50 boarding
houses, any number of private homes
old Southern residences for which
the city is noted-a Pullman village,
where may be parked sleeping cars for
use as quarters during Grand Encamp-
ment week. and a tented city to be es-
tablished at Fountain Ferry Park, that
will take care of 1000 knights and la
dies. Messrs. Verges and Henry were
especially well pleased with Mrs. Lii
lian Cockrell's house at 1909 Third
street, one of the most convenient To-
cations in the city, and took an option
on it for few days, which they will
probably close. Mr.. Henry said to
your correspondent that Mariette
would be represented at conclave by
at least rs Templars and their wives
and daughters, accompanied by band
of 16 pieces.
Louisville expects to make the COM
ing triennial the most successful in
the history of Templarism. Fifty
committees are already actively en-
gagged on the preliminaries. A fund
of 100000 has been raised and will
be spent in providing a program of
attractions never before attempted at
conclave. The week will open with
divine service at one of the leading
churches, conducted by Very Eminent
Sir and Rev. j. G.. w. Coke, of Wash
ington, Iowa, Grand Prelate of the
Grand Encampment. Monday will be
devoted to receiving and escorting to
their quarters the thousands of plum
ed knights reaching the city On
Tuesday the big parade, with 10000
uniformed Tmplars and 125 bands of
music in line, will be the feature. The
competitive drill, the first since the
San Francisco conclave in 1883, will
be conducted on Wednesday. This will
bring together all the crack Templal
teams of the United States. The prizes
to be offered will be handsome sterling
silver trophies, the award of which at
the horse show building that night,
Will be made the occasion of a social
entertainment, in which 27 of Ken
tucky's prettiest young women will
take part as sponsors for the different
communicates of the Blue Grass State.
The winners will not be announced
until at night. Thursday will give the
visitors the opportunity of seeing the
Kentucky horse-the thoroughbred
the trotter and the pacer-at his best.
as on that day the equine aristocracy
of the state will be on display at
Churchill Downs, where the famous
Kentucky derby is run and won every
spring. For Friday the executive
committee is thinking of giving a
monster cake-walk and band concert
at the Jockey Club grounds. Every
night of the week will see the city
ablaze, as 100000 is to be spent in il
Elimination. The entertainments for
evenings will include a grand ball at
Confederate Hall. which will accom-
modate $4,000 dancers and spectators;
moonlight reception and lawn fete
at the Masonic Widows and Orphans
Home, the pioneer institution of the
kind in the United States; boat excur-
sions up the Ohio river; public and
private receptions to the distinguished
guests, among them will probably be
President Mckinley, Speaker Hender-
son, Rear Admiral Schley and Hon.
James d. Richardson, Sovereign
Grand Commander of the Southern
jurisdiction of Scottish Rite Masonry.
There is certainly great time ahead
for the visitors in Louisville next
August.