Arizona republican., 1904-09-07
The Opening of the Great
 IriennidI COnCIdve
AN IMPRESSIVE PARADE
A Boston Commandery Grouched by the Assignment Of Its Position LeTt the ProCession-ThOse Who Fell in the Long March.

San Francisco. Calif.. Sept G.-The twenty-ninth trienniaI conclave O. the order of Knights Templar was inaugu- rated today wIh a grand parade. which brought into contrast the thir- teenth and twentieth centuries and re called the age of chivalry in which Richard Couer de Leon and the no les lnightly Saladin battled for the pos- session of the Holy City with nutter- ing gonf2lons with richly caparisoneI horses, prancing in gay accoutrements.
 Ten thousand men who have passed through the vigil of the squire and have symbolically received the golden. spurs of knighthood. marched with. holding white and black plumes. with white Maltese crosses on their left shoulder with swords flashing and sita banners of the cross swung to the breeze. over seven miles of the city gaily decorated and thronged streets. as marched the knights and esquires of old through the sJ.eets of Lyons at1 Todraine to the rescue of the holy Ss- butcher.
 A feature of today's parade was ths presence in the line of the Earl or E,ls- ton and similar other officers of the Templar order representing ths Knights TeInplar of England and Wales. Their distinctive uniforms s.- tracted special attention. The EaEl as Euston. who occupied a seat in the Cafs riage with Grand Commander Stod- dard. wore a white cloth loose tuui- down to his knees and having down the front of it a large red cross. Over
 this he wore the white cloth tempiar cloak. reaching almost to his heels. This cloak was trimmed with crmine and had a loose lined hood with cIim- son. On the left side was the triple cross. On his head he wore a red vel
 vet skull cap With a golden cross oH the front. Diagonally across his breast was a black and white band. AbOut
 his neck was the triple cross and pin- ned to his tunic was the granl cross
 of the temple and the grand cross af Cons ;antine.
 The day was exceedingly warm and the long march was weaTis0me to the older sir knights. A great many drop- ped out before passing the reviewing. stand. Joseph II. Leath Of ;he Cous-r de Leon comma ndery O. Knoxville. Tenn, dropped dead during the parade.
 while starting to do a knightly act. Hr
 
 comrade who seemed to te almost ov- ercome, stepped from his carriage to | offer him a seat. As he touched the ground he dropped dead from an a9- l oDletic stroke.
 i Mir. Simonoff, a local sir knight. v-aa l thrown from his horse and seriously | injured. An incident Of the pasale
 was the marching out of the line iuss before the prOcessiOns started. by lsfrl- est cOmmandery in MasslcAuse -ts, tneg | thought they were entitled Co a posi-
 ton immediately behind the graul commau1ery of Massachusetts afII ! Rhode Island. This place had hscH assigned to de Molay commsade-y os
 Boston. The nlsmbers Of Boston Cota-
 rnandery Nc. refused to march iR ths place assigned them ard returned i9 | ttaeir hotel.
 Grand Commander StOddara. dis
 cussing the parade, said: ''It was 0ns
 of the most inspiring spectacle I have ever seen It was a revelation to ms and it was undoubtedly cTedltable gsot only to California, but 90 the kuiEhts Templar aS 8 whole" The busineEs session Of the sra aG
 commantbery began today with a short
 needing in the afternoon at which the
 representatives of the grand OsicrF were present. The night programme ir- ! cludeal receptions by Q number of com l maandeF4eS and q reception to Grand i Comm nder Stoddard.