Omaha daily bee., 1902-07-11
.COLORED PEOPLE ON PARADE
Knights and Daughters Of Tabor will
Perambulate with PGraphsrnalia.
THEIR ELEVENTH ANNUAL CONVENTION
Chief Grand rate Traces tbs His
tori of the order from the Time
of the TabOrian knights
of Old.

Between 10 and II O'Clock this morning
the principal thoroughfares Of this mu-
nicipaltty are TO be ~perambulated by
some hundreds Of those colored people who
hold membership in the international Or
der Of Twelve, Knights and Daughters OF
Tabor, Grand Temple and Tabernacle Of
Kansas and Nebraska Jurisdiction.
This professional advertisement is to be
the s~alutary feature of the terminating day
Of the eleventh annual session, which en-
joyed inception at st. Johns African Meth
odist Episcopal church. Eighteenth and
Webster streets, last Tuesday.
Excepting Wednesday evening, when Rev.
Allen Garner Of ~Coffeyville, Kan, chief
grand orator. delivered a public address
tracing the history Of the order from the
time Of the old Taborian knighthood among
the Modes and Persians, 1850 years before
the coming Of Christ. and excepting the
memorial services from IL to ~ o'clock yes
terday, the sessions are all secret.
Line of March.
The parade today will formulate at
Eighteenth and Webster streets. move east
from Eighteenth to Sixteenth, south on Six
teenth to Douglas. east on Douglas to
Twelfth, south on Twelfth to Farnam, west
on Farnam to Eighteenth, south on
Eighteenth to Harvey, east on Harvey to
Sixteenth and south on Sixteenth to Leav-
enworth, where the cohorts will be disinte-
grated that the participants may take the
motor conveyances to Hibbeler's park and
there regale themselves with innocent
frivolities such as strength contests and
pedestrian rivalries, in which the feminine
element will assist. Some visiting reverends,
the mayor of Omaha and James H. Van
ntNann - CA..NA n,.,
the speakers Of the day. at night officers
will be installed.
II the weather be propitious 1t is in
tended that the procession shall incorporate
not only the band, the uniform rank knights
and the Palatine Guards Of Omaha, in full
regalia, but the grand officers and delegates
in ~barouches.
Yesterday morning there were in attend
ance about $50 delegates from abroad and
today an excursion is expected from Kansas
City, st. Joseph, Atchison and Lincoln. The
adornment of the church auditorium has
been enhanced with the elaborate
paraphernalia Of the order and in each cor
ner is the banner OF the order, on which
appears the legend: 'In Solo Dec Salus.
333-777-999-44."
Prospective Regime is Designated.
Late yesterday afternoon the officers of
the grand temple and tabernacle were
elected. They are: Sir Frank Wilson,
Kansas City, Kan, chief grand mentor;
Daughter Emma Gaines. Topeka, chief
grand preceptress; Sir D. L. Taylor, Salina,
vice grand mentor; Daughter Bessie Hall,
Fort Scott, vice grand preceptress; Sir A.
w. Hopkins, L~eavenworth, chief grand
scribe; Daughter Sarah Williams, Lincoln,
chief grand recorder; Sir William Core, To-
peka, chief grand treasurer; Sir G.. c.
Tucker, Omaha, grand presiding prince;
Daughter Eliza Scott, Leavenworth, grand
queen mother; Sir Allen Gamer, Cofey-
vile, Kan, chief grand orator; Daughter
Hattie Montgomery, Atchison, chief grand
priestess; Daughter Maggie Mack, Kansas
City, Kan, grand inner sentinel These will
be Installed publicly at the park tonight.
At the entertainment and reception at
Washington hall last night there was given
a program which consisted principally of
musical numbers and addresses by Chief
Grand Mentor Frank Wilson OF Topeka and
Rev. ]. w. Cluke of Omaha.