The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-11-29
INITIATE A BIG CLASS.
knights of Columbus Confer Fourth
Degree on $50.

| Fourth degree honors were confer
red on one hundred and fifty knlghts
| of Columbus of this district at thell
hall in Topeka yesterday afternoon
| One of the most noted and prominent
| delegations of Roman Cathol1c clergy
| and laity that ever assembled IN the
| Kansas capital city witnessed the GER
emony These included J. w. Glib
bons, of Topeka. master of the fourth
degree; II. E. Carroll, grand knight OF
the Ieavenworth district; Francis
| Downey, Kansas City, Mo; T. M
Monaghan, a past grand knight OF the
knight of the Salina council; the Rev
Father Orr, chaplain Of the fourth de-
gree, Frankfort, Kan; M. J. F1tzger-
aid, marshal of the fourth degree To-
peka council, and others.
The Right Reverend Bishop Hen
nessey of the Wichita diocese and the
Right Rev. Bishop Lillis, bishop OF
the Leavenworth diocese, witnessed
the ceremony and appeared to take
great interest in the work from start
to finish In addition to these noted
Catholic clergymen were the follow
ing prominent visitors VINO came 10
Topeka to witness the ceremony which
practically graduates so many knights
Of Columbus in this vicinity: T. r.
Sullivan, New Cambria; A. DeDouder,
ST. Marys; 3. McManus, Newton; e. j.
Law, Salina; J. a. Oberhausen, To-
peka; H. NJ. Sherrin, b. j. Martin, j.
r..
lima; Richard Erbacher, John F.
Ryan, ST. Marys; T. H. Kiniery, Be
lott; Frank Martin, Peter Meahler, M
D. O'Grady, Solomon; Chas. r. ka1-
fer. Peter b. CASTILLO and M. A. Qulg-
lev. Atchison and Joseph Spannan or
Beloit. :.
After the initiatory work had been
finished-and it lasted from :So TO
nearly o'clock-the knights and
their distinguished guests sat down at
the banquet board at the Copeland
hotel. There for more than two hours
there was feast of reason ana now
of soul in its prettiest form. Plates
were laid for two hundred The Very
Rev IS. NJ. Hayden of Topeka, gave
the invocation. J. w. Gibbons was
POSTMASTER and delivered a witty,
eloquent and entertaining 1ntroduc-
tory. Responses were made by the
Very Rev Casimir Taylor of ST. Paul,
Kan, to ''Knighthood in the Knights
of Columbus" and by Edward L.
Hearn, supreme knight of the order.
New Haven, Conn.,, to "Our Order :
der to the initiates, their wives and
daughters at Music hall.
The Knights of Columbus is an ex-
elusive Roman Catholic order. 1t was
founded by Father McGivney of New.
Haven, Conn.,. seven years ago and az
the present time it has a membership
of over a quarter of million mem
bers. Its chief tenets are said to be
social purity and insurance.
One of the interesting sights in con-
nection with the Catholic celebration
was the visit to the city of Bishop
Hennessey's chapel car. 1t was built
especially for the work its name inn
plies at a cost of more than $4,000
and is fitted with all the appointments
OF Roman Catholic church, of
course in miniature form, sixty per-
sons being able to celebrate mass in
it at the same time
Following are the knights who took
the fourth degree yesterday: Bernard
H Achter, Hum boldt; Jno. j. Brown,
Leavenworth; Frank F. Brandt, Kan
sas City; B. c. Brainer, Chanute;
Benz F. Brown, Salina; ]. H. Book