The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1910-03-25
ROYAL WELCOME
!. FOR THE B.P.O.E.
Detroit Elks Making Good Prog
ress With Plans for Grand
Lodge Reunion.
PARADE WILL BE SPECTACULAR
Liberality Of Railroad Companies in
Arranging Rates Will Contribute
to Success of "Purple Week"
During July.


Detroit, Mich, March 25.-Detroit
is preparing to take care of 100000 |
visitors next July when the Elks' |
Grand Lodge reunion will be held in
this city. The entertainment of the !
members of the order and their friends |
will be on a scale never before at
tempted i'm Detroit Though the ga
thering is still three months away all |
available accommodations have been
reserved in the Detroit hotels and
large boarding houses and arrange
ments are being made TO Nuarter many |
of the guests in the hotels of Windsor
Mt. Clemens, Pontiac and other neigh
boring places.
The informal entertainment Of the
visitors will begin several days before
the grand lodge assemblies for busi-
ness. on the evening OF Monday, Ju
ly IL. the Grand Exalted Ruler and
Grand Lodge members will be for
mally welcomed to the city.
The arrival of the distinguished Wis
itors will be made the occasion for
grand water pageant illustrating the
arrival to the site of the present city
of Detroit of Counts Pontchartrain,
Cadillac and -basalle. The boats and
costumes will be faithful reproduc-
tions of the originals. The hotilla
will be hemmed in by canoes bearing
Pontiac and his Indians.
The Grand Lodge officials and
1 a t1.r 1afaA ffar
place and escorted to the Lyceum
theater. where welcoming addresses
will he delivered bv Governor War
ner, Mayor Breitmeyer and the heads
of the local reception committee. It
is planned to have tthe mayors Of all
the chief cities of Michigan partici
pate in the welcome demonstration.
The response for the visitors VIII be
made by James u. Sammis Of iowa,
Grand Exalted Ruler or the Order.
Tuesday morning the Grand lodge
viii assemble for business and daily
sessions will be held until Thursday.
The business Of the convention, how
ever will be literally interspersed with
features OF entertainment. During the
|
sions for the visitors to Belle Isle,
Tashmoo park and other nearby re-
sorts. Free band concerts, official re-
ceptions. luncheons, theater parties
and baseball games VIII be included
in the program. Another notable fea-
ture will be a grand electrical alle-
gorical parade. depicting the founding
|, | o,d Of tho cffU
The decorations and illumination Of
, the city during Elks' week will be
on scale of unparalleled magnifi-
oence on the Sunday evening pre-
ceding the opening of the convention
; Thomas A. Edison, at his home in
New Jersey, will press a button which
will be the signal for turning on the
J brilliant illumnations which will
. convert night into day throughout the
= central portion of the city. Publi2
: buildings and business houses will be
| festooned with thousands of electric
lights. while mammoth arches of ar
tstic design will be erected at the
principal street intersections TO bid
welcome to the BEST People on
, Earth"
[ AS at previous conventions OF tho
p Elks the crowning event of the weei
: will be the great parade, which !:
e scheduled for Thursday, July IA. Be
tween 10000 and $4,000 members ol
the order mostly I'm uniform, vii
march to the music of 200 bands. The
automobile manufacturers of Detroit
| a. l,o N
try of the world, will furnish score
of handsomely decorated motor cars
for the accommodation of the Gran'
Lodge officers and distinguishe'
guests who will ride in the parade
The manufacturers will also place
thousand automobiles at the disposa
: of the reception committee to carr
the visitors on sight seeing trips abou
: the city. one of the concluding fea
: lures of the weeks program will be
grand automobile parade in which wi
e be shown every style OF motor ca
: manufactured i'm Detroit and vicinity
Prize Grill and numerous other com
o. petitions will add to the attraction
of the week. Liberal cash prizes Wi
IS be given for the best bands attendin
j. the reunion. Among the competitor
, will be the full bloded Chippewa In
l. dian band from Mt. Pleasant, Micf
Two thousand dollars will also b
l. distributed among the citizens VIII
&c show the best decorated building
is downtown Another feature OF tn
m week will be the free distribution
n. 6, 1000, 900 oranges by the lodges =
pc southern California.
\ The liberality of the railroads In re
l. ducing their rates together with Dc
troits central location and it's eas
$ access from every part of the Unite
8 states and Canada. Is expected to r.
n, suit In the largest attendance fro
v everv mart of the United states al