The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-08-06
KNIGHTS TEMP[ARS
MEET IN CHICAGO
Richmond Members Leave To-
Morrow Night for Triennial
Conclave.
vIRGINIANs THIRD IN LINE
Became Part OF Grand Command
cry, of United States
in 1923.

Richmond Knights Templars will
leave tomorrow night for Chicago,
where next week the trlennial con.
clave Of the grand encampment will be
held. With the Richmond knights will
go the knights from other parts of the
State who compose the Grand Corn
mandery of Virginia.
The party Will leave Richmond over
the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad to-
morrow evening at 6:45 o'clock, and
Will arrive in Chicago Monday at 4
p. NJ.
Those who will go from this State
are A. L. Traylor, grand commander
of Virginia, Danville; Alexander NJ.
Baker, grand captain-general Win
chester; James Blanks, grand record
er, Petersburg: r. +. Taylor, grand
tandard-bearer. Roanoke; Colonel II.
NJ. Boykin. past grand commander.
Richmond: w. c. Stephenson, pas,
Pamplin. Commaudery st. Andrew. No.
IS. Richmond; A. Wingtield Baker.
Richmond Commandery. No. 9, Rich
mond; A. s. Cherry, Commandery ST.
Andrew. No. 10. Richmond: Robert
Lecky. Commandcry st. Andrew, No
~, Richmond.
TrienniaI ConcIuve.
The triennial conclave is the grano
encampment of the Grand Commando
ries OF the United States. Every State
and Territory in the Union Will be
represented. including Alaska, and also
Hawaii and the Philippines. 1t is at
tended by more than 10000 knights.
This year among the special guests
England and other lands across the
sea. The conclave is presided over by
the grand master of the Grand En-
campment Once in the past this hon.
CIR fell to Virginian, when from
1Ss3-'S6, Robert Gnoch Withers occu-
pied the high Office and presided at the
Grand Encampment
While in Chicago the Virginia
knights will make their headquarters
at the Palmer House, where they will
entertain. Thousands of invitations
worded as follows, have been issued:
The Grand Commandery. knights
Templars OF Virginia, extends knight
ly courtesies. Palmer House, parlors
Y and W. Chicago, August TO-"
| The Virginians will entertain In
royal fashion. They Will serve theiy
| guests with real old-fashioned vir-
ginia dinners, consisting of fried
chicken, Smithheld ham. hot biscuits
mint juleps and those other things
which have helped make Virginia din
| ners famous. Several barrels OF Vir.
ginia mint will be carried along, a.
will the other prerequisite for the fra,
grant connection.
Virginia Third In Line.
> Especial interest attaches to the fac
that Colonel Boykin. of Richmond, ha
been appointed an aid to the chief mar
shall OF the parade. In the parade tn
Virginia Commandery will be third l.
line. this position corresponding to it
| entrance into the Grand Comma ndery
| The Communicates of the States o
Massachusetts, and Rhode Island an
the commandery of New York were ad
mitted before the Virginia Command
cry. which became part of the Gran
Commandery in November. 1923.
The conclave this year will be tn
grandest in the history Of the ordel
The city Of Chicago has provided tn
sum Of s25o,001 for electrical illumi
nations alone. and the other feature
for the reception and entertainment c
the knights have been arranged on tn
same lavish scale. The knights will b
In session the entire week The gran
parade on Tuesday will be the larges
ever held at a conclave The review
ing stand which has been erected fo
the occasion is four blocks long an
will accommodate $4,000 people. On
OF the decorations is the entrance arch
which is intended to represent the en-
trance to the city. 1t is constructe
In the form OF an ancient battlemen
with turrets and towers, which will b
magnlticently Illuminated at night. An
other magnificent feature of the deco
ration Is mammoth representatio
OF the badge Of the order, which Is 10
feet high, the colors of the emble1
being shown at night by 5000 electri
lamps