The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1904-06-10
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NNIAL
CONCLAVE
In san Francisco Next September WIN
Be An Occasion Of Great Brilliance,
Profit and pleasure.

The knights of TcmpIar VINO viii at
tend the Triennial Conclave in San
Francisco next September and all those
who will accompany them on that pill
grimage. may look for the most cordial
reception and the most lavish entertain
ment ever offered by any community to
a gathering of this kind. The californ-
ians-all the Californians-ha 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
entertainment ever attempted by fra
ternity, or even 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 before reaching
San Francisco, the pilgrims will be met
at the depots where the trains stop,
and given an ovation. Committees viii
meet each incoming train on approach
ing the city by the Golden Gate and oc-
company the travellers to their destina-
ton The escort on arrival at the de-
pot. by mounted 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 decorations viii
surpass those of any city on the CONT
nent in attractiveness. The Grand
Commandery of California will entertain
at tae Palace Hotel, and California
Commandery, No. i, together with other
communicates. will keep continuous open
house in the Mechanics pavilion, struc.
ture that will accommodate $4,000 peo-
pie An exhibit of CALIFORNIA; wealth,
from valley and hills, mines and or
ehards, vineyards, forest and field, will
be installed beneath the same roof, The
entertainment will inclue free excur-
sions on ocean liners around the Bay of
San Francisco, to all the points of in
terest. and out side the heads as far as
the Farallone Islands, steaming around
the Seal Rocks, the harbor fortifications,
United States Arsenal, Naval Training
School, the great shipbuilding plants and
famous ironworks; trolley rides to
Golden Gate Park, with its hundreds of
acres in flowers at all seasons, its great
eonservators, aviary. zoo. lake and. the
museum containing the rarest treasures
on the American continent; the Sutro
Baths, the largest under a glass roof
anywhere; the Cliff House, built on
perpendicular cliff oyerhanging the omen
beach of the Pacific Ocean. All these
are free to all visitors. Chinatown, a
real part of the Celestial Empire, right
in the heart of an American city; tne
offices. pressrooms and editorial depart
ment of the only Chinese newspaper
published outside of China; nightly per-
formances of troop of Celestial actors
and Chinese orchestra, and one thous-
and and one other novel sights, startling
/ to the visitor but common to California.
The famed natural wonders of California
surprising in grandeur the great sights
of the rest of the globe, can be reached
= within one days journey and ut a nom
innl cost. and, while not entirely free,
the expense is within the means Of al
most anybody who comes to California
Living j. cheaper in California than any
where else on earth, and it is much bet
ter for the same price. San Francisco
/ i prepared to house comfortably 200.
coo visitors, share with them the ample
blessings Of TIE Golden State. at a nom-
inal expense. and make them wish that
they could tarry forever.