The Grit-advocate., 1906-07-20
ELkS IN DENVER
CROWDS ARRIVE FOR GRAND
LODGE AND REUNION.
'ciTY IS eAYLY DECOR ATeo

'VssS - 0NsIu VSVVn SbSU
Wonderful Electrical Display - CITY
Given UP to Hospitality and Gen.
e=ai Joiiitic tication-immense Crowds
Arriving.
Denver.-The Benevolent and Pro
tecttve Order OF EIas has taken pos
SESSION OF Denver aud its members
Will soOn be grazing all over Colorado
aud adjacent regions. Sunday was de-
!voted to receiving the visitors as fast
n they arrived. but their coming was
tstow. All trains were late and il was
iessqing before big delegation came
In. Trains arrived fas, during the
night, however. and Monday found the
thotels crowded and Overlooking.
All day long Sunday workmen toiled
:a< the decorations replacing those in
ljared by the Saturday storm or putting
isp entirely new ones Some of the big
beat stores are not yet decorated. be
lnause they have been waiting in hopes
that the rains would cease. The cleo
itricai decorations are in place and
lsunday evening the city bust into a
blaze OF cleaning lights
With the lights and nutterinS ban
ners. the gay and laughing crowds. the
.Queen City of the Plains has become
1.-The city Of mirth. the Purple City. the
tCtty OF Good Fellowship
The mt aide ha nda happu tn coma in
iauaday and the sounds OF music were
!heRrd on every hand. The hotels and
newspaper offices were sercnadcd III
1.-THE evening by the Cowboy band from
Idaho Springs. who make good music
;aud certainly look their makeup.
Nearly all of the grand lodge officers
and many Of the delegates had arrived
hQ night and the various committees
iuere at work In preparation for the
Injecting. The arrangement of head
!Quarters at the Brown il very conven-
.ient. II Is all concentrated in 4 few
:rOOms at the head of the south side
stairs. second floor. The committees
ion ritual, laws. grievances, national
homo. registration OF delegates are all
'close toge'he
Small delegations kept coming in
lthroughout the day. and the line at
headquarters registering was un-
broken. A count has not been made
,stnce Friday night. but it must be that
$4,000 names Of Elks were placed on
the cards up to Sunday evening. The
first large delegation to arrive was
philadelphia. about 200 strong. They
twere met by the escort squad and the
Cook drum corps. The men were wear
ting drab busters and caps and every
sbody carried copper bells in imitation
,of the famous old Liberty Bell. They
tmade the streets musical as they
passed along. The men marched to
Headquarters and the women rodH In
automobiles.
The reception, escort and other com
:mlttees Of the home guard did most
!edicient work A man with purple no
.sooner stepped from a train until he
was surrounded, given the glad hand,
mis- grips taken from him, and with
1mlie aud good word, he was passed
ON to someone whose duty 1t was to
omalp. with him until he WAS safely
IN his quarters.
The committee had a bunch OF mes
.senger boys, small army. to assist IN
carrying grips. Thirteen special trains,
,fail to the guards of delegates, arrived
Astweea 6 q. m. and midnight. Every
trsgu,ar train had among It's passengers
Isc,res OF E,ks And there were two OF
ttkr, = sections of every regular train.
The Kanslns CAME on the run. yell.
ling. wearing unhoWers. the emblem OF
itheir state. The Wyoming delesa. es
wearing large straw hats. looked like
"A htnch OF farmers. and it was "Hello.
bill" all down the line with them.
The New Workers. yelled themselves
sltp4rse over their. great anil glorious
state The Jerseyites paid no atten
.tion to remarks about mosquitoes
sChey simpy yelled. Hello. Bill" The
Iebraskans varied their Hello, Bit"
with "Hurah for Bryan" with "Hello,
sBill," the big fayori'e.
Connecticut delegates wore smiles
saNd wooden nntmegs-amd yelled. y
Mig bunch Of New Fnslanders swepi
everything before them. There was
,alce crop from Illino;s--and enod
sized crowd from Nevada. telling
about new gold finds ami what the!
were going to do in Denver. Some o:
the big lunch OF Texans looked AS
wild aud woody as members of the
lCOwbOy band
The reception commits 20 had mad
ia good guess on the weather aud the
only outdoor feature of the day was
icaCried out according to promise. This
'was the carriage ride Tor the. grand
:ofice,s and members OF the grand
lodge II took thity-fvc carriages and
a big Columbian sutostObiie. The lin'
was headed by the carriage containing
the Grand Esquire. p. G.. Chris arsen
In each carriage rode a member OF the
.(nrHl lOdRe tn act AS aNN0NncaI auI,
point out The sights. The ride had
hardly started when the clouds disao
peared and The city looked fresh and
bright following the rain. The mem
bers expressed themselves as delighted
with The ,idc after they reached their
,hotc's at O'Clock.