The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-05-11
MANY SIR KNIGHTS
WILL VISIT SAVANNAH DURING
GRAND CoNCLAVE.
MYSTIC SHRINERs SESSION.
AT WHICH THIRTY OR FORTY CAN
DIDATEs WILL CROSS THE SANDS.

of knights, Who VIII Escort the
Grand COmmandery From the De-
soto TO Masonic TempIe-AnOther
Session in Afternoon and Liturgt-
cal Service at Church at Night-La-
dies to Be Entertained at Thun-
derbOIt-Grand COmmandery EIec-
ton to BE Held Thursday Morning.
The Afternoon to Be Spent at Ty-
bee.
The forty-first conciave of the Grand
Commandery of Knights Templar will
be held in Savannah beginning We'd
nesday morning and lasting through
Thursday. Savannah's Sir knights
and MOBILES have been preparing for
the conclave for several weeks and
have about completed their plans for
a most enjoyable entertainment, or
rather a series of entertainments for
the Sir Knights and Mobiles and the
ladies who will accompany them. 1t
is expected that in all there win be
some 900 visitors.
Begin Arriving Tuesday.
The first of them, who will reach
Georgia Commandery of Augusta.
which will arrive over the Central,
and which will be accompanied by a
number of Sir Knights from other
communicates and also by a number
of ladies' The visiting knights will
be met at the depot by Palestine Com
mandery, headed by the First Regi-
ment Band and by them will be escort
ed to the De Soto, which will be head
quarters for the knights during their
stay. A committee from Palestine
Commandery, of which Mr.. Walter P.
Corbett is chairman, will look after
the ladies and see that they. too. get
TO the hotel safely and in comfort
The next visitors will arrive Wednes-
day morning on a special Southern
Railway train. This will bring Rome
Commandery, Couer de Leon, and At
lanta Communicates from Atlanta, and
1vanhoe Commandery of Fort Valley
This train, as in the former case, will
be met by Palestine Commandery, the
band and the committee to look after
the ladies'. The Atlanta Communicates
will bring with them the fire depart
ment drum and bugle corps of the Cap
itol City, commanded by Mr. John JOY
ner. chief of the Atlanta fire depart
ment, and also Sir knight.
Thirteen Communicates.
The Grand Commandery is at present
composed of thirteen communicates,
and probably all of these will be repre-
sented and many of them will attend
in a body. 1t is expected that there
will be $50 or more visiting Sir Knights,
and that. consequently. the parade.
which will take place Wednesday
morning will be quite an imposing
spectacle.
The parade will be formed so as to
start from the De Soto promptly at 10
o'clock. From the hotel the Grand
Commandery will be escorted to Ma
sonic Temple by the following route:
From the hotel southwark on Bull
street to Jones, thence eastward to
Drayton, along that street to Liberty,
eastward again to Habersham, which
will be followed to Broughton. then to
Drayton. to Bay, to Bull, back to Lib
erty and then to Masonic Temple.
The knights Welcome.
After assembling in the temple the
address of welcome will be made by
Rev. DR.. Jordan, pastor of the First
Baptist Church. The response will be
delivered by Sir Knight w. A. Davis
of St. Omer Commandery, Macon, past
grand mater F. and A. M, past grand
thrice illustrious master, r. and S. M;
and past eminent commander of St.
Omer Commandery.
After the address of welcome and
the response, lunch will be served
in the banquet room of the temple,
then the business session will begin,
at which Grand Commander Ernest
A. Cults will deliver his annual re-
port This session will be adjourned
for dinner about 2:30 o'clock, but will
be called on again for a short business
session at 4 o'clock.
After the morning parade and during
the session of the Sir knights the la
dies of the party in charge of a COM
mittee of ladies from Palestine Com
mandery will be taken on a trolley
ride to Isle of Hope, then to Thunder
bolt, where the Casino will be visited,
and where lunch will be served at Ban
mons Lodge, and then to the Yacht
Club, where some time will be spent.
They will return to the city in time,
however, to see the Shriners' parade,
which will be begun at o'clock. AMI
which will start. it is probable from
Masonic Temple.
The Shriners' Parade.
This will be one of the most origi-
nal parades of its kind ever seen in
Savannah. In it for the first time
in this city, will be seen the Arab
Patrol. of which Capt. ]. c. Fostell
will be captain. and Mr.. r. L. Geld
ing, lieutenant. Potentate of Alec
Temple, +. A. Cults, Rabbans Thos.
Ballantyne and H. E. Wilson and
High Priest and Prophet G. A. Breck
will ride in state on a float, and also.
on another float. will be perched the
lesser officers of Alec Temple. The
other members and the visiting Shrin-
ers will be on foot, but in the usual
costume, consisting of dress suit and
fez. After the Mobiles have passed
through the most principal streets. they
will return to Masonic Temple, where
they will be dismissed.
The Templars' Liturgy.
At night, at o'clock, the Templars
will again form a line of march at the
De Soto, and, proceeded by the band.
will march to the Independent Presby-
terrain Church. where the full Templar
service, including the litany of the or
der, will be celebrated by Rev. DR.. J.
Y. Fair, and where also the address
usual on this occasion will be delivered
by Hon. Thomas ]. Chappell, state SEN
ator from Columbus, and past eminent
commander of st. Aldemar Command
cry of that city.
This service will be public one.sand
the Templars extend a cordial invita-
ton to all who wish to attend it to
do So At its conclusion the command
cries will march back to the De Soto.
where they will break ranks and then
the Shriners will assemble in Masonic
Temple, where many unregenerate sons
will cross the hot sands of the desert