The age-herald., 1901-08-25
KNIGHTS TEMPLARS
 LEAVE TONIGHT ar 5 Cyrene Commandery to Carry Delegation of Over Fifty WILL BE IN GRAND PARADE asdgt Ii Members Will Wear Badge Partly Made of Ensley steeI--conelave
 To Be In Session Four
 Days.
WILL BE, IN GRAND PARADE

Cyrene commandery, No. 10 of Birming- ham, will be represented in the trienniaI conclave parade of Knights Templar in Louisville next Tuesday by about fifty six Knights and the number in line from Alabama will be considerably over one hundred-probably one hundred and fifty
 The grand commandery of Alabama with the attachments from it's subordin- ate communicates has been assigned to the eighth division. with Missouri and Louisiana. There will be twelve divisions in all and it is estimated that 25.0OO Tenn plars will be in the parade It Is further estimated that fully 100000 visitors will be in Louisville to witness the brilliant pageant. Many of the Alabama Knights will be accompanied by ladies.
 Cyrene commandery will leave in sleepers by the Louisville and Nashville road at 9:20 tonight. Nearly all the other Alabama pilgrims will be on the same train. Many of them will rendezvous here and join No. 10
 The grand commandery sleeper will start from Montgomery, but the majority of the grand officers will take the train at Birmingham. The first four officers of the grand body are Robert Moulthroup of Selma. grand commander; George W. Wheeler of Birmingham, deputy grand commander; Louis Hubbard of Selma, grand generalissimo; and c. R. westcott Of Montgomery grand captain general. These and all past grand commanders are members of the grand encampment of the United States which is the supreme legislative body for American Templars, which convenes in Louisville Tuesday.
 VIII Arrive Tomorrow.
 The Alabama train will be due in the conclave city tomorrow morning at s:2O. MT. w S. Scott of No 10, secretary of the transportation committee, left for Louis- vile last night as advance representative to see that quarters be in readiness.
 The grand commandery secured elegant quarters as early as last November They are located at the corner of Brook and Broadway. Cyrene commandery will be ensconced at 1214 Second street.
 Monday will be spent in general sight seeing and in an exchange of kniehtly courtesies. The fraters of Cyrene will be well supplied with souvenir badges for exchange purposes. The badge design is the regulation Templar cross in maltese form, displaying the Latin cross and crown, but this emblem is unique in be- ing made of Ensley steel instead of con- ventional gold, silver or bronze. The wording on the adverse of the badge is:
 Compliments of Cyrene Commandary No. 10, K. T., Birmingham, Ala. Alabama Steel. Twenty-eighth Triennial Conclave, Louisville. Ky, 1901''
 Major Charles Wheelock, a member of the Grand Encampment. and c. E. Me- glemry, eminent commander of No. 10, have been appointed aides on the staff of the grand marshall
 To Be In Session Four Days.
 The grand encampment will be in ses- sion four days. Reuben H. Lloyd of Cal ifornia has been the most eminent grand master for three years. At the election this week he will, according to precedent, be succeeded by Henry B. Stoddard of Texas who has been serving as deputy grand master for three years
 The Order of Knights Templar is the only branch of Masonry, that is founded strictly on the Christian religion It is not only Christian in a general sense but