Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-06-22

| those who may want to take advantage
| of them. Tuesday will occur. the great
| Terhplar para2e- and it is expected that
| at least 25,0o knights Templar will be in
line. In the evening joint reception of
| the officers of the Grand Commandery of
| New York and the constituent command
| cries will be held in the parlor of the Grand
| Union Hotel which the sir knights of the
| District of Columbia and their ladies will
attend. Wednesday the competition prize
drills will take place on the famous Sara
| toga race track. Many of the crack drill
| teams of the United States are entered,
and among them Columbia Commandery
| Drill Corps This will be of the most
| interesting occasions of the conclave, and
| 1t is confidently expected that the Washing
ton contestants will bring back one of the
| trophies offered as prizes During the day
and evening a continuous vaudeville per
| formance will be given in Congress Park,
and at Convention Hall in the evening
| the drill prizes will be awarded.
| Elaborate preparations have been made
| Tor the conclave. The electrical display
| promises to be the most extensive of all
| events of this character, many of the
| schemes are novel and new, and to illu-
| inmate the city as has been planned will
cost about $4,000. 1t is estimated that at
least twenty-five thousand Templars will
take part In the parade and that there will
be about one hundred thousand visitors in
Saratoga. Not only will there be Tenn
plars present from all the states Of the
Union, but they will come from Mexico.
England, Hawaii and other countries
Columola Commandery. No. 2 knights
| Templar, has completed all its arrange
ments for the pilgrimage to Saratoga. The
| headquarters will be at the Hotel Heustis
annex. The commandery will leave WASH
ington Sunday morning. July I, on a Penn
| sylvania special. For Thursday Columbia
has accepted an invitation to be the guests
of Apollo Commandery, No 49, of Troy,
N. Y. 1t has planned tor meet Columbia
at the station in Troy and take sight
seeing tour in automobiles around Troy,
Cohoes and Albany, which will give an OPP
Fporeunity to visit the many points of his
toric interest In and around those cities
and to view the beautiful scenery for which
| that region is celebrated.
20, Soiumeia Saratoga committee is com
posed of Eminent Commander Charles E.
BALDWIN. chairman; J. Frank Trazzare,
klopfer, Harry F. Riley J. Harry Cunning
ham, John A. Meyer Charles p SWEET,
Frank E. Gibson, H. w. Thomas. Frank
| n. Underwood, George e. Hebbard, Town
, ley A: Mckee, C. B. Matthews and Sam
| w. Stinemetz.
Columbia held a stated conclave last
evening and conferred the orders of the
| Iemple and Malta. In his circular announc-
| ing this conclave the eminent commander
says:
| The laying of the corner stone of the
| new Masonic Temple was the most impress
| sive and successful Masonic event that has
| occurred In this city in many years. The
| DAY was most propitious, the parade orderly
| and admirably conducted and the program
| Oh very high order The whole was car
| ried to conclusion without mishap, delay
| or confusion Brother Theodore Roosevelt
PRESIDENT of the United States, honored the
| occasion by his presence and after having
| clothed himself a Master Mason he took
| up the trowel and spread the cement around
| the corner stone, after which he delivered
| an eloquent address on an appropriate Ma
| sonic subject. Too much praise cannot be
| extended to our past commander, Eminent
| Sir Knight ]. Henry Small jr. president
OF the New Masonic Temple Association,
on whose shoulders fell the burden of the
| arrangements, and who is responsible for
| the great success achieved. The commander
taxes TINS opportunity to congratulate Past
| commander Small upon the event. and to
| nope tina tthe temple will lbe completed
as successfully as it has been begun 1t
was very gratifying to see such a large
| mandery in line, thereby manifesting their
interest IN the commandery and the occa-
The services of the renowned Baumline
Band of Albany, N. Y, have been secured
| 10 Iurnlsh music for the commandery on the
gay or the Saratoga parade. AS this is
splendid band of thirty pieces good march
ing music is assured"
! plar. issued interesting itinerary for the
| trlenniaI conclave at Saratoga, giving de-
1alis OF its proposed participation in the
| Iriennial Conclave of Knights Templar at
| Saratoga Springs, N Y July next.
This commandery, the junior one of the
District. held its oath stated conclave
/
| OF the Temple and Malta. The command
cry gave an excursion for the benefit of it's
Saratoga fund Thursday evening and will
hold two or three more drills before the
| triannial.
In his most recent circular Eminent Com
mander f. II. Tompkins says: Our COM
mandery kept up her record at the corner
stone laying Your commander and officers
We're proud of the fine showing there be-
| ing hfty-three swords in line. We know
| the weather was very threatening and
| rnI1I
otherwise have been there.
The itinerary of the pilgrimage to Sara
| toga is completed in every detail All ar
engagements have been completed except
| those which depend upon the number of our
| fraters and ladies who will attend; and
| these cannot be perfected until the commit
| tee is in receipt of this information. 1t is
| hoped that large number of sir knights
| and ladies will attend this triennial, as
everything possible is being done at Sara
| toga and by our committee for their pleas
| ure and comfort. Our party will be exclu-
sive on the train to New York, and our
| commissary, Sir Knight Siggers, will have
| plenty of good things for continuous lunch
''Th, commandery will depart on its pill
| grimage Sunday morning, July Z, via the
Baltimore and Ohio railroad, at 8 o'clock
| arriving in New York (foot of Liberty
street, DIT 2:3O pm. which will leave time
for a short car ride prior to the departure
| of the steamer for Albany. The command
cry will arrive at Albany at o'clock am,
| Monday, July g. and at o'clock the train
| will leave via the Delaware and Hudson
| railroad. and bring Orient to it's destination
| at $40 o'clock.
| "A reception of Orient Commandery will
! be given at its headquarters Wednesday
| evening, ito which all visiting sir knights
| and their ladies will be invited.
| "On Friday Orient Commandery will leave
ESaratoga at 7:1O o'clock am, arrive at
| Albany at 800 and leave by the day boat
down the Hudson at $780, being due in
| New York at O'Clock pm. Qrient's COM
| mitt ee consists of William E. Miller, chair
man; Edward II. Tompkins, E. B. Hesse, E.
| P. Hazlaton, Alex. Mckenzie, William NJ.
! Garrett and F. S. Hodgson."
John ]. McGuigan, a veteran Pythian,
| died on Wednesday, and his funeral was
| held from his late residence 40S 9Th street
| southeast, at IL O'Clock this morning. The
exercises were in charge of Rathbone-Su-
| perior Lodge, No. 30 knights of Pythias,
and interment was in Arlington cemetery !
the deceased having earned burial there by