The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1904-06-29

appreciation at the honor bestowed
upon San Francisco and California
| by holding the Templar Conclave in
| the city by the Golden Gate. Not
the mlnutest detail has been neg
| lected or omitted to make the visi-
tors feel perfectly at home the mo-
ment they will step upon the soil
of San Francisco. Their entry into
the western metropolis is to create
a favorable impression, and that
they may be at perfect ease and
quite at home, they will be received
and escorted in a style of splendor
perhaps never attempted at any
conclave or other gathering of an
order or fraternity. The reception
committee and the escort committee
will work ia unison in meeting and
receiving the visitors. Delegations
will 60 up the road some miles and
meet incoming trains, give the pill
grims all information they desire
about hotels, headquarters, where
abouts Of friends and relatives, and
such other matters as the visitors
are interested Ia. The advance
guard of the reception committee on
meeting commandery or delega-
ton, will at once telegraph or tele-
IphOne the information to the escort
committee the exact time when the
train will reach SanFrancisco. The
escort consists of three we'll drilled
companies in full Templar uniform,
one mounted and two unmounted,
who will be on duty day and night,
beginning Sept. 3, for three consec-
utive days, receiving each com
mandery as it arrives at the depot,
or dock if by steamer, and escorting
the arrivals with music and bear
| ing the Templar banner aloft, thru
the principal thoroughfare of the
city to their respective headquar-
tiers or hotels. For the ladies and
children and others accompanying
the Sir Knights who do not desire
to march through the streets, car
riages, automobiles and special cars
will be provided, also gayly draped
with appropriate colors and en-
blems, to convey them to their des-
tination, ehaperoned by a delega-
ton of the escort committee. The
spacious rooms and the grand nave
at the ferry depot, over 500 feet in
length and Is feet from the marble
floor to the crystal roof, will be con-
verified into reception rooms,
equipped with telegraph and tele-
phone facilities to accommodate all
ARRIVALS; coterie of Sir Knights
and a bevy of ladies constantly in
attendance to receive and welcome
the visitors, make them feel at
home, and offer such services or
impart information that may be de-
sired. Leaving the depot after the
first greetings and courtesies have
been exchanged the visitors will
behold a city dressed in holiday at
tire, decked and drapedin flags and
bunting, emblems and floral designs,
from the ferry landing to the city
hall, through the main artery Of the
city, a broad avenue, stretching as
far as the eye can scan the distance,
and beyond Those arriving at
night will find the city ablaze in a
food of light that will make night
brighter and more brilliant than
midday; for illumination on such
occasions is the boast of San Fran
cisco, and it has been demonstrated
that, within the last two years, San
Francisco has been more brilliantly
Illuminated than any city in the
world. A canopy Of light of dazzl-
ing effect will be suspended over
the principal thoroughfares and
Union square, park in the very
heart Of the city.
At each Of the principal hotels a
delegation of the ladies reception
committee will be in attendance to
receive the ladies upon arrival, di-
rect them and advise them, if they
desire to do any shopping, and as
sist them in any other way the Wis
ifnrS may rnnnire