Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1907-07-19
Proslrat|Ons We're Confined Al.
most Entirely 10 Spectators
Who Lined The Curbs.
PERSONS TREATED NUMBER $500
Thermometer lowered Around the 90
Mark and the Humidity Was Intense
About 100 Lodges Were in Parade
and the Spectacle was an Exception,
ally Fine One. I
(ny Associntnd prcssl !

PHILADELPHIA, PA. July IS
The parade of the Benevolent and
Protective Order of Elks today was
marked during its progress by the
prostration from heat of an army of
persons estimated by the police and
hospital authorities at $500. Never
has there been such n wholesale pros.
tration of people in this city For six
hours the police. ambulance surgeons
ana the Red Cross nurses were kept
on the run looking after persons who
collapsed under the scorchine RAYS of
the sun and largely because of their
excellent service, hut one case result.
ed fatally. James Rowlcy aged 81
years of this city died in a hospital
after being stricken in the street The
other stricken people were said to be
In good condition
The parade grounds was on Broad
street for a distance of three miles
north and the same distance south
Of the city hallS Tho paraders coun-
termarched the last three miles back
to the city hall so that they traversed
upward of nine miles yet few of those
overcome by the heat were in the line
OF march
The Spectators Succumbed
the spectators. damned along the
street in solid mass from one end
OF the line to the other. The tempera.
tire lowered around 90 degrees and
the humidity was excessive and rs
consequence people sweltered. Among
the few paraders who were overcome
were j. Harrington Walker of St
Paul, Mimi. and Henry J. Walter. ex-
allied ruler of the Philadelphia lodge
OF Elks. The other victims were
chiefly from this city and the sur
rounding territory. The police showed
records of more than 1000 heat cases
which were handled by them or taken
To the hospitals. but hundreds were
cared for in the dispensaries where no
record of the cases were made while
the police surgeons and nurses cared
for innumcrahle others.
Every attention was given to the
spectators to see that they were pro-
tectcd. hut it required four hours for
the marchers to pass a given point
and the eager people stood in the hot
sun for two hours or more before
the parade started. The total num-
Der in the line OF march is conscrva-
lively estimated at 10000 men with
about % floats.
Parade Fine One.
About 100 lodges from cities and
towns from the Atlantic to the Pacific
participated. There we're ten divis-
ions and were under command OF
Chief Marshal John p. Sullivan. OF
New Orleans. Grand Esquire OF the
Elks. The Philadelphia lodge, the
host fthc occasion. had the right OF
line with 1900 men,
The Grand Lodge installed its new
ly elected officers tonight lat which
time it was announced that mt pre-
vons session the state associations of
Elks had been given official recogni-
ton. This decision on the part OF the
grand lodge settles n fight that has
been wagcd for two years. The state
association is restricted in its work
and may not take up legislative mat
ters or interfere with Legislative af-
fairs in the subordinate lodges. Its
princiapl work will be along charit-
able and frntprnnl linpS