The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1907-07-23
MAN
ELkS LEADER
CONCERT GIVEN IN PHIL
ADELPHIA WITH WILLIAM F..
JOCHER AS LEADER.


PHILADELPHIA, June 1O.-Yester-
day, though day of rest, was a day
of enforced activity for the committee
which has charge of the arrangements
for the reception and entertainment
of the great army of visitors who will
participate in the Grand Lodge session
and reunion of the Benevolent and
Protective Order of Elks, which will
be held in this city July Is to 20.
1t is the opinion of those who are
in the best position to know of the
great interest manifested by Ellxs
throughout the country in the forth
coming celebration that Philadelphia
is not yet fully alive to the vast prop
ortions it is likely to assume, though
a thorough realization of its impor-
lance is shown by leading business
men and public officials.
One of the committee said yesterday
that this convention will be the great
est ever held by any organization in
this country.
A new, picturesque feature of the
festivities will be the gathering of all
the visiting bands of music en- masse
in the Court of Honor, near the City
Hail. on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday
and Thursday evenings of the festival
week. On these occasions there will
be a grand concert by the combined
bands. numbering 5000 musicians un-
der the leadership of one director, Pro-
lessor William F. Jocher
Promptly at 1859 p. m all the lights
on the City Hall and in the Court of
Honor will be extinguished, to blaze
out again grandly one minute later at
precisely II p. m. The instant the sud-
den illumination occurs the massed
band of 5000 pieces will wake the
echoes with "Auld Lang Syne," the
Elks' lode to our absent brothers"
Thousands of spectators about the
City Hall and the Court of Honor will
be requested to join in the chorus.
In order that the vase multitude,
sure to congregate in the streets on
these evenings, may not be concentrat-
ed at one point, a series of patriotic
concerts will be given from a huge
stand to be erected in Independence
Square, back of Independence Hall.
The character of these entertainments
will be not a whit less interesting than
the mammoth affair in Broad street,
but the number of musicians engaged
will be much smaller.
AS indicating something of the ex-
pense entailed in the item of music
alone during the convention. it was
said yesterday by one of the commit
tee that the amount paid the must
clans will fall but little short of $780,
O00 Three thousand members of
bands will receive, according to the
union scale of wages, SO each for day
work, and double pay, Sc, for their
services at night.
Cities and towns in Pennsylvania
and New Jersey, through which the
visiting Elks will pass en- route to
Philadelphia and on their return
| journey, are making arrangements on
grand scale for their reception and
entertainment. Harrisburg, Pittsburg
and Trenton are preparing elaborate
programs.
Evidence of the widespread interest
in the convention is furnished in ev-
cry batch of mail received by the local
committee Much rivalry of friend
ly nature exists between the different
sections of Elkdom, which promises to
result in a spectacle of pageantry sell
dom, if ever, equaled.