Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1904-06-09
Twenty-Niuth Triennial Oonclave Knights
Templar.

The knights Templar who will at
tend the Triennial Conclave in San
Francisco next September, and all
those who will accompany them on
that pilgrimage, may look for the
most cordial reception and the most
lavish entertainment ever offered by
any community to gathering of this
kind. The OalifoInians-all the Cali
fornians-have been studying, planning
and preparing for the coming event
for the past three years, and their
plans are OF such stupendous and
gigantic nature, as to eclipse any en-
tertainment ever attempted by fra
ternity, or even a whole community.
San Francisco is peculiarly adapted
for great demonstration, parade,
drill, or any out of door exercises or
gatherings, because the weather may
be relied upon for fully eight months
in the year. Even on the way and be-
fore reaching San Francisco, the pill
the trains stop, and given an ovation.
Committees will meet each incoming
train on approaching the city by the
Golden Gate, and accompany the
travellers to their destination. The es-
cort on arrival at the depot, by mount
ed and unmounted details of Sir
knights in uniform, with unfurled
banners and bands of music, will be
quite a feature. The city will be
ablaze with lights that will make
night brighter than midday. The de-
corations will surpass those OF any
city on the continent in attractive
ness. The Grand Commandery of Cali
fornia will entertain at the Palace
Hotel, and California Commandery,
No |, together with other Comman-
deries, will keep continuous open house
| in the Mechanics Pavilion. a structure
that will accommodate 200 people.
| An exhibit of California's wealth,
from valley and hills, mines and or
chards, vineyards. forest and field,
will 5e installed beneath the same
roof. The entertainment will include
/ free excursions on ocean liners around
| the Bay of San Francisco, to all the
I points of interest, aud outside the
heads as far as the FarallOne Islands,
steaming around the Seal Rocks, the
harbor Notifications, United States
Arsenal. Naval Training School. the
great shipbuilding plants and famous
iron works; trolley rides to Golden
Gate Park, with It's hundreds of acres
| in flowers at all seasons, its great con-
servatory, aviary, zoo, lake and the
museum containing the rarest trea-
sures on the American continent the
Sutro Baths, the largest under glass
roof anywhere the Cliff House, built
on perpendicular cliff overhanging
| the open beach of the Pacific Ocean.
| All these are free to all visitors. Chi
natown, real part of the Celestial
Empire, right in the heart OF an Am
erican city; the offices, pressrooms and
editorial department of the only Chi
nese newspaper published outside OF
China nightly performances of troop
of Celestial actors and Chinese or
chestra, and one thousand and one
other novel sights, startling to the
| visitor, but common to California.
The famed natural wonders of Cali
fornia, surprising in grandeur the
great sights of the rest of the globe,
can be reached within one days jour
ney and at a nominal cost. and, while
not entirely free, the expense is with
in the means of almost every body who
comes to California. Living is cheap
er in California than anywhere else
on earth, and it is much better for the
same price. San Francisco is prepar
ed to house comfortably 200, 600 visit
ors, share with them the ample bless
ings of the Golden State, at a nominal
| expense, and make them wish they
| cOuld tarrS forever