The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-08-12
SPECIAL. FROM ILL,
Fifteen Hundred Delegates to
X. of P. Arrive Tomorrow.
Many Already Here for World
Convention of CoIOred.

Fifteen hundred delegates from
Illinois, to the worlds convention of
the colored Knights of Pythias, will
arrive in Topeka on a special train
over the Union Pacific railroad Sat-
urday afternoon. The convention will
begin Sunday, August ii, and will be
in full swing until the following Sat-
urday. The program for the week is
nearly completed. At least 1900
delegates are expected.
A carnival company has been en-
gagged to entertain the delegates, and
an amusement troup, composed of
members of the Knights of Pythias
will also furnish entertainment for the
occasion.
Parade Tuesday Night.
Tuesday night, August 16, the big
Patriotic and Pythian Mardi Gras
parade will be held. The parade will
leave the fair grounds at 8 o'clock
sharp and march east to Kansas ave-
Third street. turning at Third it will
go on Kansas avenue south to Seven
teenth and back to the fair grounds.
Thursday has been set aside as Gov
ernors' day. An invitation has been
extended to Gov. Henry ] Allen and
his staff to attend the exercises at the
fair grounds, beginning at o'clock in
the afternoon. Mayor Herbert ]. Cor
wine and the city officials have also
been invited to attend these exercises.
Another Parade Friday.
At 1890 o'clock Friday morning,
the big street parade in which all of
the delegates at the convention will
march. will leave the fair crumbs and
march east to Harrison street, north on
Harrison to Third street, east to Kan
sas avenue. south to Ninth street, west
to jackson, south to Tenth street, east
on Tenth street to Kansas avenue and
south on Kansas avenue to even
teenth street, from where the parade
will swing back to the fair grounds.
The governor and the mayor, with
their staff and a number of state and
city officials, have been asked to be
present in the reviewing stand during
the street parade on Friday. The Of
ficial reviewing stand will be located
on the large balcony on the south side
of the Memorial building at Tenth
and Jackson streets.
All business meetings of the con-
vention will be held in legislative hall
| in the state house. The city audi
torium will be used exclusively for the
social functions which will entertain
the delegates at night.
Friday night grand military ball
will be held in the auditorium. Gen
| R. r. Jackson. of the uniform rank
is already at the fair grounds direct
! ing lEXe SStllHS up OIL the tents which
viii accommodate the 5000 members
of the uniform rank who will camp al
| the fair grounds.
Officers Are Arriving.
| One of the first delegates to arrive
/ in Topeka was Maj. Thomas W. Ken
| nedy, of Kansas City, Mo. Supreme
| Chancellor S. H. Green and Supreme
Worthy Councillor Ernest S. Tidring
ton will arrive here Sunday. All ar
rangements have been made by tbs
/; local ways and means committee tt
| take care of the large number of dele
gates. More than 5000 rooms have
been obtained in private homes for tht
delegates Abundant feeding facilities
| have been provided by the committed
J n charge Of the commissary depart
ment-
/ This is the twenty-first world con
| ventioh of the colored knights o.
Pythias. The last one was held in At
| lantic City in 1919.