The Nashville globe. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1906-193?, 1908-07-17

has been full of Pythians, Calanthes
and M. DIS this week. The doctors
have held their convention, but few
,of them returned home, for one and
all they were deeply concerned in the
fight for offices in the Knights ofPyth-
las. So interested were they in pol
itics that the meeting of their own as
sociation was almost failure. That
is, compared with other meetings Of
the body. How we'll the doctors
played politics is evident in the fact
that eight out of seventeen Grand
officers elected by the Grand Lodge
were doctors. A percentage so high
that many of the delegates, mere lay
en-, who work for a dollar day, are
beginning to complain, and that, too,
in terms not to be mistaken.
The Pythians arrived in great force
Monday evening and Tuesday morn
ing. From Nashville there came
three special cars filed with dele
gates from Nashville, Chattanooga,
Knoxville and intermediate points.
There was almost a carload of the
uniform rank on the train. The
opening session OF the Grand Lodge
was called to order by DR.. ]. P. Craw-
ford, Grand Chancellor, at 10 o'clock.
The meeting was opened in due form
DR.. Crawford read his appointments
of committees and while awaiting the
report of the Credential Committee,
called upon any of the representa-
tives to address the Grand Lodge
Qd6rnCC the
Grand Lodge were Revs. j. w. Tate,
of Chattanooga, DR.. G. w. Porter, or
Knoxville, and Rev. Sutton E. Griggs,
of Nashville Rev. Griggs met with
the same hearty response to his mas
terful address that he did at Knox
vile last year. 1t seems that the del
egates cannot hear this forceful ad-
dress as often or as long as they
would care to. The otner speakers
met a favorable reception.
The Castle Hall of Twentieth Gen.
tury Lodge is entirely too small to
hold such a body as the Grand Lodge
Knights of Pythias of Tennessee and
the afternoon parade came as a re-
lief to the perspiring delegates. The
parade was composed in the main OF
Uniform Companies Nos 3, and 8.
The officers of the Grand Lodge at
tended in carriages, the whole af-
fair being under the direction of Sir
r. E. Gee, Grand Marshal. The pro-
cession marched through the princi-
pal streets, ban dispensing music.
On Tuesday night the Grand Lodge
working in the Heraldric Degree,
conferred the Fifth Degree upon 125
Past Chancellors.
Wednesday morning and afternoon
sessions were devoted to the reports
of the Grand officers. The first OF
these to submit his report was DR.. j.
P. Crawford, Grand Chancellor. His
report gave an account of his stew
ardship ruding the term and was
frequently applauded. He made
many excellent recommendations.
DR.. Crawford showed that the past
year has been unprecedented in the
growth of the Order in this state.
That its membership was upward OF
5000 and that its finances upward
of $4,000 in all departments) would
bear comparison, and favorably, too,
with these of any of the older Grand
Lodges of the Knights of Pythias In
the country. He entered minutely
into his every official act and ex-
planned why he made his every de-
cision. 1t was a fine report, nicely
delivered, and the delegates sat spell
bound in the stuffy hall almost OBJ
livious of the heat. Other to sub
nit reports were the Grand Keeper of
Records and Seal, DR.. R. w. Allen, Of
Chattanooga; Grand Master of NIX