Los Angeles herald., 1909-07-04
X. OF P. TO MEET
AT SEATTLE FAIR
PYTHlAN JUBILEE WEEK TO BE
CELEBRATED
SPECIAL TRAINS WILL BEAR
10000 MEMBERS
lola Rank Team to Present Spectacu-
lar Production of Classic Drama.
Large Glass to Be
Initiated
Especial to The Herald. ]

SEATTLE, July 3.-Pythian jubilee
week at the Alaska Y Yukon-Pacif1c eX-
position will open July and continue
until July II. Commencing on the
Fourth, special excursion trains will
arrive from all parts of the United
States, and knights numbering at least
$4,000 will be in attendance on the open
ing of the jubilee.
A special train of Pullmans bearing
the world-famed lola knight rank team
and Ohio delegation, will reach Seattle
tomorrow afternoon, and the part taken
by this noted organization in the pro-
duction of the great drama, Damon
and Pythias," will make it the most
vitally interesting play ever staged III
the northwest. The organization is
composed of 1O3 persons and carries its
own orchestra and band, and all etteets
necessary to a perfect production OF
the play. The costumes alone have
value of 100000
Jubilee week will open with monster
parade of all knights of Pythias, and
the enormous gathering of uniformed
members will be accompanied by ten
brass bands. Every Knight will carry
an American flag, and the national
colors will form the great decorative
feature of the event Fifty automobiles
will lead the procession, and many
novel attractions will be introduced
during the march. 1t will be the great
est gathering of knights of Pythias
ever held on the Pacific coast, and one
OF the days of the week will be declared
a holiday in the city
To Confer Rank of Knight
Special trains VIII bring visitors from
Ohio, Massachusetts, Rhode Island,
Texas, Minnesota, Illinois, Indiana,
Oregon, Utah, Nevada, Montana, BRIT
ish Columbia and California. on the
evening of July the lola knight rank
team will confer the rank of knight on
a large class of candidates. Ihe great
meetings will be held in the National
Guard armory, and addresses of well
come will be delivered by the governor
of Washington, the mayor of Seattle
the president of the exposition ana the
grand chancellor of the grand domain
of washington.
Special sessions of the grand lodge
will be held in the armory July 3, 8
and r and the week will be entirely
occupied by continuous round or So
cial and sightseeing events. Headquar-
ters have been established at the Seat
tie hotel, corner of First avenue ana
James street, and a Pythian informa-
ton bureau will be conducted from
there.
Eminent members of the order from
all parts of the United states have sig
nifed their intention of being present at
the jubilee, and during the week the
highest officers of the Knights of Pyth-
las organization will deliver addresses
on lodge matters.
As fhe fair progresses the grounds
continue to appear more beautiful
their carpets of grass and their riot OF
flowers showing fairer as the peasant
weather heightens their color. The aV-
erage attendance is around 22,ooO' ana
success seems to be written in every
feature Of the big show on the shores
of the Pacific.
The Suffrage association devoted the
morning to the reading and discussion
of reports.
Mrs Rachael Foster Avery, who mas
directed the work of obtaining MIL
lion SIGNATURES to a petition to congress
asking for submission of a sixteenth
amendment enabling women to vote,
reported her work nearly completed.
The report Of the committee on legis-
lation for civic rights was submitted
by Chairman Lucretia Blankenburg.
A conference on methods of work
was held for interchange of views
Seeks Church Support
Mrs. Mary E. Craigie of New York
in her report as chairman of the com
mittee on church work spoke of the
courtesy and kindness she had received
from clergymen. She said: There are
two reasons why clergymen should
support the woman's suffrage move
ment--first because it is just and
right and in accordance with lne
Golden Rule, and, second because it
would augment the power of the
churches to have an enfranchised wom-
anhood to aid in carrying on the war
fare against the liquor traffic, the
white slave traffic, child labor, impure
food and many other existing evils that
depend on legislative enactment that
is being waged with only one-third the
power of the churches"
At the afternoon session the report
of the press committee which was read
showed a growing interest in suffrage
by the leading daily papers and maga-
zines.
The report dwelt with satisfaction
on the surrender of the managing edi-
tor of lone Of the largest Ohio dailies,"
who, vowing he would never print an
editorial favorable to woman suffrage
was doing that very thing, explaining
that. while his own views We're unal-
tered, the public mind had changed.
The split in the Washington state as
sociation gives the national officers
much distress. They are urging a
compromise. The state officers refuse
absolutely to accept the demand of the
insurgents led by former Lieut. Gov.
d. c. Coates of Colorado, for a new
state convention.
Further conferences were held to-
day.