Los Angeles herald., 1905-06-06
TRAINS BRING THOUSANDS
Visitors From All Points Of Compass
Pour Into Los Angeles

Pour into Los Angeles
Thousands of knights arrived in Los
Angeles yesterday from morning until
night and the end is not yet. other
trains are due today, among which is
special bearing many Ohioans who
have been delayed in Texas for the
past two days by the heavy rains.
During the afternoon the boat from
San Francisco brought a large NUM-
Der Of visitors from Oakland and the
north, and with special trains from the
east greatly added to the large quota
of the city's guests.
One of the most important specials
to arrive was that which pulled into
the Arcade station at II o'clock last
night with 40 knights from New York,
New Jersey and West Virginia and
was denominated the Buffalo Column
bad" 1t was made up of twelve cars
and in every way was or the most lux
urious appointments. A special COM
mittee met the company at Santa Bar
bara and accompanied them to Los
@hiiteS'So' iCS dlC lldhlIl6 tlClI lSdu-
quarters at the Lankershim.
The train left Buffalo May 26 and
came by the northern route. At Chi
cago, Denver, Colorado Springs, Ogden
and San Francisco, Santa Cruz and
Santa Barbara they were met by COM
mitttees of the lodges of those cities
and given a warm welcame.
AT San Francisco they were guests
of the local order for two days, and
at Santa Cruz the company spent
day in the big tree forests as guests
of the Santa Cruz council.
Eight state deputies are represented
in the company, as are many promi-
nent business men. Among these are
Hon. William A Grattan of the New
York state legislature; Hon. Dan Shee-
han, mayor of Elmira, N. Y; Ed P.
Murphy, chief of the fire department
of Buffalo; J. w. Sweeney, editor of
the st. Mary's Elk County Gazette;
Judge Charles Luhr, ex-member of the
Pennsylvania assembly, and John
Hays, a leading merchant of Phila-
delphia.
ST. Louis Special Arrives
AT the Angelus the larger portion of
the 127 visitors from st. Louis have
taken up their quarters. They arrived
in Los Angeles last night at 10 o'clock
and have taken the city by storm.
They left st. Louis June over the
Santa Fe, and after spending a day at
the Grand Canyon continued their
journey to the convention city.
There are many prominent knights
of the order among their ranks. In
John S. Leahy, state deputy st. Louis;
Peter Byrne, state warden; Edward
Dewey, grand knight of the st. Louis
council, and Father Edward A. Casey, |
first state chaplain west of the Missis-
sippi river.
The roster Of the party also contains
the names Of ]. r. Shepard, president
of the First National Bank of st. Louis;
Peter Byrne. vice president of the
Witte Hardware company; Chris Ke-
noe, a prominent real estate dealer;
DR.. Robert O'Reilly, capitalist;
James Prendergrast, president of the
Prendergrast Lumber company, and
others of equal note.
A prominent company of fasteners
yesterday to arrive over the Santa Fe
in a special car attached to the regular
train was made up of the following
P. ]. Brady, an attorney of Cleveland
and national treasurer of the ORDER
]. C. Pelletier a lawyer of Boston and
one of the national directors; w. T.
Tobin, a well-to-do merchant of Akron, |
o., and district deputy; Roy Bour, a
district deputy from Canton, o.; Rob-
ert Waldeck, manufacturer of Cleve-
land; William Connolly, an oil producer
of independence, Kas.; Congressman
William McNairy of Boston; Thomas
]. Kenney, the we'll known attorney,
and Judge John McGinnis of North
Adams, Mass The party assembled In
Chicago a week ago Sunday and