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Show KNOT TO MEETTODAY Program Opens With the Reception of Arriving Ar-riving Commanderies Governor to Deliver Address of Welcome Grand Parade Tuesday Tues-day Afternoon Denver, Aug. 1 0. Follow ing the religious re-ligious services which today marked the opening ceremonies of the thirty- second triennial conclave of the grand encampment of Knights Templar, Tem-plar, the business and social affairs of the week will start tomorrow-morning. tomorrow-morning. Monday s program begins with the reception of arriving commanderies. Denver Knights will meet the visitors and escort them to their quarters A j reception In honor ..f the grand encampment en-campment officers and members will bo given by Denver Commandery No. 26 at headquarters In the Broadway theater followed by a similar recep j tion by Colorado Commandery No. In El Jebel Temple. These events will occupj the time of the Templars ; until noon. Rand concerts will be given during the afternoon and evening at City park and In the huge temporary I grandstand which has been erected on tho site of the projected civic center. On Tuesday, August 1L there will be i grand parade through the business busi-ness section of the city, starting at 10 MO o( lock The parade will be In fifteen divisions estimated at from 500 to 2000 Bwords each The afternoon program will open with welcoming addresses by tiovei-nor tiovei-nor E. .M a.mmons, Mayor John M. rvrklns of Denver, and Cornelius J. Ilait of Pueblo grand commander or Colorado Response will be made by ! most Eminent Sir William Bromwell j Mollsh, grand master of tho grand oncamument At : o'clock the grand encampment convenes In secrel session A battalion batta-lion drill by Damascus commandery No 42, Of Detroit, will be given at 8 o'clock in the evening Receptions and band concerts wil round out the day's program Tho secret sessions of the grand encampment will be resumed at 10 o'clock on Wednesday At the same hour the competitive drills will be-gin, be-gin, with soventeen teams entered from all over the United States At 7 o'clock In tho evening will come the official banquet to the grand encampment en-campment at El Jebel temple. In accordance with Templar custom no intoxicants win be served During tho evening, Detroit Commandery No. will give a battalion drill. There will also be receptions and band concerts. con-certs. Grand encampment sessions and competitive drills will be continued on Thursday In the evening, prizes Brill be presented to the victorious drill teams. There ar.' five prizes, consisting of a silver punch bow 1 service, valued at $5000; three loving cups, valued at $2500, $1000 and 5750 each; and a piano, valued at $1200. Following the presentation of prizes, there will be a grand ball at the municipal mu-nicipal auditorium, receptions, band concerts, and other social events. On FHday and Saturday there wijl be excursions into the mountains, many of the visitors having planned fishing and sightseeing trips to the Interior of the state Denver, Aug 11. Before a watch ing crowd of Denver citizens and vis Iting spectators which numbered into thousands, commandery after commandery com-mandery of Knights Templai detrained detrain-ed at the union depot today to attend the ..2nd triennial conclave of the order, or-der, which formally will open here tomorrow. Commanderies from Massachusetts. Mas-sachusetts. Maine, New Hampshire. Pennsylvania, Illinois. Michigan, N'evs York, Wisconsin, Indiana and central western states were among the first arrivals. With pretty precision the Kni?f.s stepped from thlr trains and forme. 1 into lines of march, preceded by their escort of the Colorado commandery, and followed bv their ladles, many oT whom were garbed or bedecked in some uniform which bespoke the commanderies com-manderies of their Knights by Its excellence ex-cellence of maneuver. The entire morning in Denver was given over to the reception of incoming incom-ing Sir Knights and almost as quick ly as commanderies arrived they were escorted to their quarters and joined the throngs on gaily decorated streets. Denver. Aug. 11 -It is estimated that 18.000 Knights Templars arrived in Denver yesterday and late last night to attend the thirty-second triennial tri-ennial conclave which was Informally opened here Saturday night Special trains bearing commanderies contln tied to arrive until after midnight and each train was met by an escort from the Colorado cornmanuery auu marched to their hotels. Early this morning St. Bernard commandery, Chicago, arrived and were the first of the day's influx of Templars They were soon followed by the Creston commandery, Burlington, Burling-ton, Iowa, and at Intervals of few mil utes special trains reached the Union depot and additional armies of Sir I Knights, cohorts glittering with silver I and gold of full parade uniform, de-I de-I scended upon the conclave city. Among the most interesting of the I early arrivals were the 200 members of California commandery No 1, Knights Templars, who will form tho escort of honor to Grand Master William Wil-liam B Mell6h during the conclave Awaiting them at the station were 2nd raven black horses from the Enwood farm, Colorado Springs, which have been especially trained by United Elates army officers. The Knights detrained in full uniform, and mount led their steeds, and escorted by their, I mounted escort, and accompanied by martial music paraded the streets to their hotels. Seventy-eight spot lal trains carrying B total of 213 eoache ar- si hoduled to .'.nave today and ir is expected that they will bear at least ir) "Ou K nights. Late last night a delegation from the Sovereign Great Priory, Knigh's Templar of Canada, arrived to attend the conclave. The party consisted of ihe supreme grand master and his staff of six past grand masters and their ladles. They came direc from the meeting of the Supreme Great 1'rlorv at ancouver. B. C. This evening from 8 o'clock until 'i 30, was to be spent by the Templars generally In a reception to the Grand encampment officers and members by Denver commandery' number 25 at commandery headquarters In the Broadway theatre. Later another re ceptlon was tendered the grand en campment officers and members by Colorado commandery number 1. at El rebel temple. Immediately upon their arrival many of the visiting grand and constituent con-stituent commanderies established "open house" for the entertainment and reception of Sir Knights and their ladles The coming of the Sir Knights to their triennial conclave was the sub-! sub-! Ject yesterday of many sermons by i local ininlsters. all of w hom accorded : high praise to the fraternity of Chris tian militants whose bailee of progress i Is the cross and the crowu. and whose divine service held later In the da ; proved to be the most Impressive re-! re-! Ilgious ceremony ever witnessed In Denver Public interest in the conclave centers cen-ters between the gTeat dress parade of Knights Templar to be held tomorrow to-morrow morning and the horse Bhow and ball to be given in honor of the Sir Knights at the great Stadium I Thursday night The Stadium will be converted Into a dance ball, probably the largest ever used for that purpose Nine thousand tickets have been issued for the fete The horse show will precede the danco and will be accompanied by an illuminated automobile parade. Miss Loula Long of Kansas City, whose horses have won many a buie ribbon throughout the nation, will be lone of the Judges of the show. Al Crane of Chicago, and C. C Christie of Kansas City will be the other judges. Jn order that the hopes of the vis- itors from the far eastern part of the nation might be fulfilled in every particular, par-ticular, the conclave committee has induced several families. of "Lo, the poor Indian " to pitch their tepess at the entrance to the Stadium and there tho red man, squaw and papooses will give truth to the mistaken belief that the remnants of historic Utes and their tribes, yet may be seen in their wigwams on the streets of Denver. |