The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1913-07-20
KVIGHTSEXPECT
team Will WIN
Columbia Commandery Con-
6dent Of Capturing Drill
Prize at Denver.
LEAVES HERE AUGUST I
Grand Parade, in Which zoo, 900 viii
Participate, VIII Be q Striking
Feature Of Conclave.

Columbia Commanoery, NO. = hhieNeo
Templar, will leave Washington on
Thursday, August z, to attend the trien-
NAL conclave at Denver. Colo, to be
held August II to L. The drill tear OF
this commandery has been working more
than a year in preparation for the COM
petitive drill that is to be held In conflec-
ton with the conclave, and the members
of the team believe they have every
chance of carrying OF the championship
The drill team will spend two days In
sightseeing at Colorado Springs, taxing
in Cripple Creek. Pixies Peak, the Garasn
of the Gods, the Crystal Park automobile
road up over the Rockies, the South
Cheyenne Canon. and Seven Falls The
members will leave Colorado Springs
Monday, August 10. and arrive at Denver
At $50 D. m. At Denver their headquar-
tiers will be at the Hotel Drexel.
Tuesday August IL, the Grand Templar
parade of 100000 Sir knights will be one
of the striking features Of the conclave'
On Wednesday and Thursday the COIN
petitive drills will take place in an am
pittheater specially built for the puf-
pose. This amphitheater is built to seat
20, 600 persons, and is the largest tenn
porary structure of its kind ever built in
America.
Columbia Commandery will contest with
Communicates from all parts of the
United States.
Have Good Drill Masters.
Columbia Commandery members expect
to land the first prize, as they have the
good fortune to have had experienced
tnen as drill masters. Capt Frank +
Gibson has had experience in drilling diff
ferenc branches of the Masonic frater-
nifty. and has been prominent as drill:
master and author of fancy drills eve:
since he graduated from the High School
He has led Columbia Commandery to the
front in many competitions, the com
lnandery winning practically all the
prizes that it has contended for among
the Templars in this city and capturing
the second prize at Saratoga Springs, n.
T., July 10, 1907. The next year he zap
won the championship of North America
at the Imperial Council meeting Of the
Mystic Shrine at st. Paul.
The team is very fortunate in having
as assistants to Capt Gibson First
Lieut.. Charles d. Shackelford. he
having had experience in three different
competitions as first lieutenant of the
Odd Fellows and one year as captain of
the Odd Fellow team. winning a prize
each year. Lieut.. Shackelford is known
throughout the United States as a drill
master of merit.
The commandery is also fortunate in
securing a veteran drill master, c. Walter
Hoover, to act as second lieutenant
Lieut.. Hoover has been in every compe-
tition in which Columbia Commandery
has taken part in the last ten years. He
was captain of one Of the companies of
Columbia Commandery on each of the
two occasions it won the prize of Friend
ship. He was also assistant instructor of
A.
the Patrol won the championship of
North america.
VIII Take Mascot Coat.
The drill team will take Its famous
mascot goat Billy has Travelled with
the knights Templar and Shriners all
over the United States and is welI-known
throughout this country.
Capt Gibson will command the Co
lumbia Commandery team, which will
have full complement of twenty-seven
men and eight substitutes. They will be
attired in full Templar uniform. Among
the original tactical figures and tableaus
to be executed by the drill team will be
the American Beauty" Niagara Falls, -
Kimberly Diamond" Greek Cross, -
Maltese Cross" '.Templar Crescent, u
and Columbia Square"
There will be about fifteen prizes given
for the best-drilled team. The first will
be $500 solid silver punch bowl, with
forty-eight solid cups; second, a loving
cup of solid silver five and one-half
feet high; third, a solid silver loving cup
four and one-half feet high; fourth, a
grand piano valued at $50.
The members of the team are: Captain,
Frank. E. Gibson: first lieutenant, Charles
D. Shackelford; second lieutenant. c.
Walter Hoover; sir knights. George l.