The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1922-04-28
MILLION DOLLAR
BAND OF SLOAN
COMMANDERY HERE
Visitors VIII Be Shown Sights
Of the City, Naval Air
Station and Forts.
WILL BE GIVEN CHANCE
FOR A DIP IN THE SURF
Committee From Coeur De Lion
Commandery and Chamber
Of Commerce Kept Busy.

To the number Of more than two
Thousand and with twelve bands dis
coursing patriotic and popular airs,
sixteen knights Tempiar Commander
los will arrive in Pensacola this morn
ing. remaining over until this even
ing and enjoying the hospitality of the
city and the many sights Of interest.
The lines of the Pensacola Electric
company, the many boats which have
been brought into reouiEition, and at
least one hundred automobiles will be
used to convey the hundreds OF knights
who Will be shown the Pensacola Nay
al air station, with its wonderful
equipment the great coast fortifica-
tions OF Fort Pickens, said to be the
most complete and modern on the Gulf
coast, the old Spanish fort at Barran-
cas-, the splendid, land locked harbor,
the widest and deepest in the South,
and the beauties OF the Gulf OF Mexico
from Santa Rosa Island, where all will
be offered an opportunity for dip in
the surf.
Six OF the Communicates come from
Chicago, the Sloan Commandery of
Oak Park, will be headed by its mil
lion dollar band. and will number 21O;
the Illinois Grand Commandery will
have representation of 1s5; the Chic
ago Commandery, 173, Chevalier Bay
lard OF Chicago so Englewood. section
one. VIII number 10 and Englewood
section 2. will number 122. The Wood
lawn commandery will have a repre-
sentation Of 22o.
Other communicates, many of
which will have their own bands. will
be Mt. Vernon Commandery, Colum-
bus, Ohio, 1903; Hanselman Command
cry Cincinnati, 144; Mt. Calvert Com
mandery, Omaha, so; Oriental Com
mandery. Kansas City, 100; Mt. Olivet
Commandery. Wichita, Kansas, 5S;
Dixon Commandery, Dixon, III, 25:
Baltimore Commandery, 100; New
Haven Commandery. so; Kansas City
Commandery No. 10. 100.
The same general outline will he fol-
lowed out in the welcome of each com
hours, the schedule having been so
arranged ttEt the specials, of which
there will be at least twelve, will reach
Pensacola at such hours as will make
1t possible to serve all guests, without
undue crowding. ~.----.-
Not in all the history of Pensacola
has so distinguished a gathering met
together here as that which has gath
cred in Pensacola this week, and par
ticularly today, and the two thousand
knights who will be received here this
morning and who will spend the day
Sightseeing and enjoying the various
pleasures that the program offers. may
feel that their welcome IL most sin
cere and cordial. For many weeks the
convention committee Of the Chamber
of Commerce. of which J. A. Jones Is
chairman, has worked with untiring
zeal to show the hospitality for which
Pensacola is noted, to these distin-
guished guests.
BY train and boat and automobile
the knights will be conveyed from
point to point. and 1t is safe to say that
the day will be ono Of pleasure, tudg-
ing by the reports from those who have
already visited Pensacola, for the
praises have been many, and with ell
modesty 1t may be safely predicted
that the knights Templars who arrive
here today will indeed remember Pen
sacola as the City OF Their Dreams.
CHICAGO coMMANDERY
Chicago Commandery was chartered
in 1865, being the second oldest com
mandery in Chicago, and the largest at
the present time. Some of the most
prominent men OF the city OF Chicago
have been identified with Il in its fifty
six years.
Chicago Conmandery. No. 10
knights Templar, has membership OF
over twenty three hundred Sir Knights
and at the present time Is by far the
largest Commandsry in the State Of
Illinois, and either the second of third
largest Conmandery in the United
States being surpassed by one East
Grn eommandery, and only one other
that we know Of.
The principal officers of Chicago
Comnandsry are a. follows: Arthur II.
Puah, commander, Jos. A. Downey,
Ransraiissimo. Geo. E, Dierssen. cap
tain general.
The commandery will be accompani-
Cd by its own knights Templar hand of
fifty-ssven TnusiciDns. This is an or
aanixation inauguratcd during the war
period. Their first public appearance
| was made ut The Triennial conclave in
phiiadelpnia In 1919 Since then, un-
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