The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1915-06-06
THREE HUNDRED HEPS
CHARTER A STEAMBOAT
Big Delegation VIII Arrive From Bal
timorc Tomorrow Morning. Fol-
lowing Half Hundred
Today.
FIVE HUNDRED EXPECTED
At SUPREME COUNCIL.
Informal Reception At Murphy's To-
morrow Night VIII Be First of Many
Interesting Events During Coming
Week-Program Complete.

The first of the Heptasophs to arr
rive in Richmond for the fifteenth
biennial session of rle supreme con-
clave of the Improved order of Hep
tasophs, to be held here Tuesday 10
Friday, are expected to reach Rich-
mond today, They will be at Muir
phys Hotel. convention headquarters,
where the registration bureau will he
opened tonight
Among the early arrivals will be a
party OF half hundred or more from
Baltimore where the offices of he
supreme conclave are located. IN
this group will be Supreme Archon
Morris G. Cohen and General Counsel
DIN NJ Bryan. Other supreme con-
clave officers are expected in the
crowd of about about three hundred
which arrives tomorrow morning by
special boat and train arranged over
the York River Line and the Southern
Railway The steamer City of Rich
mond. chartered for the trip, Will
leave altimore at O'Clock this after
noon and will arrive early tomorrow
morning
Estimate Several Thousand
The convention will be large one,
il being estimated that about o,Vue
delegates and alternates, with visit
ing ITlenuS VIII NOIIlt ftAN IVA N@'S
meeting. The conclave will have sew
eraI matters of much importance to
the order TO act upon and the meet
ing will be one OF the most interest
ing held in years. The last supreme
conclaye convention held in Richmond
was in 1903.
All arrangements for the visitors
entertainment have been completed
and a lively FIVE days is anead for the
some two thousand Richmond Helps
and their guests. Entertainment fea-
lures will include automobile sight
seeing parties torchiight parade
Wednesday night at o'clock ana a
special performance at the Lyric at
IL O'Clock, a ball and buffet lunch
con at the Masonic Temple Thursday
night and a grand outing at Forest
Hill from O'Clock till Friday after
noon The opening event viii be an
informal reception in Murphy's Hotel
tomorrow night at $3.50 O'Clock.
Business sessions Of the supreme
conclave will be held i'm the audi
forum of the John Marshall High
school where the visitors will gather
Tuesday afternoon at O'Clock 10 be
welcomed by Mayor George Ainslie.
The business periods will begin at 10
O'Clock in the morning on Wednes-
"
3 o'clock in The afternoon on We'd
nesday and Thursday.
The Local Committee.
The general committee, headed by
Colonel John =. Murphy. in charge
of all arrangements consists Of the
following:
Richard Jones, treasurer: Frank
Mareck, secretary; f. c. Gardner, A.
l.. Vonderlehr James E Lampkin,
Carl Kaufman, Dir. VIM. RI. Parker.
joseph Welsh, Jahn II. Biiley. Sol.
Oppenheimer, NJ, r. Flosheim, l. =
Hatke. L. Weinberg. Joseph Baker,
VIM. ~. Sullivan, David Marks l. A
Chapman. r. p, Brophy. BENJAMIN
I.ovenstein. Hugh Smith, f. NJ. Bern
stein George f. Lutte, John Mann, Jr.,
! F. FarkersoR, T w. Scott {. A.
Raines. j. T. Morrisette. c. A Stuart,
Henry Masserschm DR.. T. d. Jones.
DR. Parker is grand marshal Of the
torchlight parade of Wednesday night