Los Angeles herald., 1906-07-20
DROVE Of ELKS
PASS IN REVIEW
THEY FURNISH DENVER ITS
FINEST PAGEANT
Fifteen Thousand ElSs. sspressnsirs
About One Hundred lodges. Have
Flowers and snowballs Thrown
at Them
BY Associated Press.

BY Associated Press
DENVER, july 1e.-Festivitiss IN
connection with the twentieth reunion
Of the Benevolent Protective Order oi
slks eliminated today in the annual
parade, which was the finest pageant
Denver has ever witnessed. Under a
clear sky, with n light breeze, all conul-
tions were propitious and enormous
crowds lined the streets through whicn
the procession moved.
There were i'm line nearly l5O0O per-
sons. representing about 100 lodges'
and many magnificent floats Illustrative
of the cities whose lodges provided
them. Every lodge had a distinctive
uniform. gorgeous or comicaL inter
spersed in the procession were twenty
three bands. The Royal Hawaiian con-
cert band held the place Of honor az
the head Of the line, with the Midland
band Of Colorado Springs.
Gen. Bell at the Head
Denver lodge, 500 strong, and its
mounted escort team. all in blue serge
suits with purple cuffs and collars and
white straw hats with purple bands
acted as escort of honor to Grand Es-
uuire p. P. Christensen and staff. The
Colorado division was the largest In
point OF number. It was headed by
Gen. Sherman NJ. Bell.
Closing the procession was an auto
mobile and carriage division in which
were 500 vehicles, decorated with colors
and elk heads. Ladies and children ao-
companying the Elks generally rode In
the carriages and automobiles.
The first division consisted of a po-
lice escort. officers and members of the
grand lodge i'm decorated carriages. the
Denver lodge acting as escort of honor
Following this division marched New
York lodge No. I. the parent orSaniza
tion of the order. with other herds
from the Empire state trailing after
according to their seniority. Philadel-
pfia lodge No. 2. with other Pennsyl-
vania herds, came next. followed by
San Francisco No. and California
lodges. The next position was assigned
to Chicago No. 4, other Illinois lodges
following
The procession moved promptly at II
O'Clock On reaching the reviewing
stand the grand officers dropped out of
line and, with the judges of the various
features for which prizes are given, re-
viewed the entire procession.
Flowers and Snow
Along Sixteenth street the marchers
were showered with flowers and snow
balls, several carloads of snow having
been brought from the summit of the
Rocky mountains by the Moffat road
to show the diversity of the Colorado
climate.
The following first prizes were
awarded in connection with the parade:
Band marching contest-First, Cow
boy band Of Idaho Springs $500.
Best appearance in line-First, De
troit, $500.
Uniforms-Kansas City, $500.
Most attractive fioat-Ffrst, Centra
City Colo. $3.50.
Most beautiful banner-Aetna, Pa.
$150 punch bowl.
j. S. Porteus of Paducah, KY. won
two prizes-first for being the tallest
Elk and first for being the leanest.
Porteus is s feet 613 inches tall and
weighs 147 pounds.
The shortest man, H. c. Kean of
Central City. Colo. is feet 3A inches
The fat mans prize was awarded to
August Gottwald of Defiance, Ohio
whose weight is 41S pounds
Central City's Display which won the
first prize. was a magnificent exposition
of the mining industry on several floats
showing how ore is discovered. mined
and smelted