Palestine daily herald. [volume] (Palestine, Tex.) 1902-1949, 1910-08-06
TEMP. AIS
A CHICAGO
WINDY CITY WELCOMES MEN,
BERS OF KNIGHTS TEMPLAR
WITH OPEN ARMS, BEING WELL
nDRESSED UP" FOR OCCASION.
(Herald Specially

their ladies to the thirty-first trien
NAL conclave to be held here durin,
the next five days. In almost ever.
instance the visitors are met by som,
| local or suburban lodge and escorted
to their various headquarters. Man.
Of the visiting bodies have brough
their own bands or drum corps will
them,, and the scenes at the railroad
stations are those of gaiety and pleas
| ing confusion.
| No city was ever better dressed
up" to receive a great company o
guests than is Chicago. Electricians
decorators, florists and others have
been at work for nearly two weeks OF
the principal downtown streets anG
prominent buildings, and the result
is the most lavish and beautiful dis
play of flags, bunting, electric lights
and color imaginable. No one can es
innate the amount of bunting that has
been used, one enthusiastic decorating
company put it millions of yards-and
the demand upon the electric com,
panies has been so great that they
were compelled to refuse further or
ders.
The decorations throughout are en-
blematic of the part played by the
crusaders in shaping history One of
the handsomest single pieces is the
entrance arch spanning Michigan ave
nue. near the Park Row station. The
arch represents an ancient battle
ment, with its towers and turrets, out
lined at night by myriad of electric
globes. From this section of battle
ment, heralds will announce the arri-
val of the various divisions of the
grand parade next Tuesday.
State street, from Randolph to Van
Buren, street, through the heart of the
retail district, has been transformed
int2<Smplar Way. The street is
lined on either hand BY massive Co
rinthian columns of pure white, thir-
ty-three feet apart, and surmounted
by globes studded with stars The
columns are twenty-one feet in height
and will be Illuminated at night with
seventy-three electric lamps. From
column to column are festoons of
natural laurel. In the center of each
festoon is a circle three feet in dame
ter containing a bright red cross.
The night decorations form one of
the main features of the elaborate
scheme of identifying the downtown
district. The Illinois commandery has
its headquarters at the La Sale Ho-
rel, in front of which has been erected
an imposing white arch, and in Grant |
Park, opposite the Congress Hotel, |
which is the headquarters of the
grand commandery of the United |
States, is towering structure $50 !
zee. high, consisting of the emblem of
he order blazing forth in thousands
If colored electric lights.
Importance is attached all over the
world to this meeting of Knights
Templar, and, in fact, men will at
end from almost every part of the
lobe. A party of English knights
ave come especially to extend the
reetings of the brothers across the
Tater. There are seven in the COM
any, among whom is the Earl of Eus-
On as the representative of the Duke
Connaught and of the grand COM
landery of England and Wales.
The conclave and encampment
roper will be held from Monday to
but services tomorrow in
lurches all over the city will be the
.al beginning. The main service will ,
2 held at Orchestra Hall, when Sir +
night George H. McAdams of Madi-
IN, Wis, will officiate The service =
i'll be attended by the grand COM :,
andery of the United States.
Monday will be devoted chiefly to
e reception of the visitors and va
1us features of entertainment h
lesday will be the day of the grand n
rade when ii is expected over fifty .
ousand uniformed knights will be r,
line. The grand officers and dis =
lguished guests will review the pro- =,
ssion from stands erected in Grant r.
rk The stands are the largest II
ar constructed in Chicago. p;
The exhibition drills are set for H.
and Thursday Many
ndsome and costly trophies will be
ltested for in these drills, which it co
aimed, shall eclipse all former rec tn
Is. Sir Knight George NJ. Moulton As
the chairman of the exhibition drill tn
nmittee. The competitions will he
e place at the West Side baseball ge