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Show LouisieM )mnS&27-30 I Thirty Thonaand In l.lne. Toe triennial conclave of Knights Tnnplara of the I'nlted Statea will eon-at eon-at Louisville. Ky., Aug. 27. At "ta rat function of the order It is "lXfted there will ba present io.000 Knights, representing every state "4 nearly every city In the anion, "a preparations fur their reception M entertainment during their four W stay In the most hospitable city America have been carried to a Wot Where nothing la Ml to be de-""d' de-""d' Loulavllle Templars, among tom are Included the leading city Hate officials of Kentucky, have Pared neither effort nor expensa to j" tha occasion worthy of the vls-lwn vls-lwn and themselves. according to contracts made for QWrtera to data Templar visitor will I present trom tha following statea: Alabama, Arkanaaa, California, Colo- it "rt. aJ7 rvKmrinr rjjaaqjry.-nutsirwi Tj I V MIS5fl7nrTH. frvsfsllT JllWVWi Yi vj y t,ivnit mmmi rwouuu) onCMauao -J A GROCr OF LADY SPONSORS. rndo, Connecticut. Dlatrlct of Columbia, Colum-bia, Florida, Georgia, Illlnola, Indiana, Indi-ana, Iowa, Indian Territory, Kanaaa, Kentucky, Louisiana. Maine, Maryland, Maaeachueetls, Rhode Island, Michigan, Michi-gan, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Jer-sey, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texaa, Vermont, Virginia, West Virginia, Vir-ginia, Wisconsin, Idaho, South Carolina. Caro-lina. goaae Hare Attractions. Tha week of tha conclave will Ua one at rare attractions. The state's reputation repu-tation tor hospital Ity Is to ba maintained main-tained at tha Loulsvllls custom house, where the Grand commandery of Kentucky Ken-tucky will have headquarters. This Is one of tha handsomest buildings In the south. The entire second floor will be at ths disposal of tha grand body of tha State Templars and seven elegant ele-gant entertainments are scheduled for tha week. Other public buildings that will figure prominently In tha exorcise exor-cise that mark the week will be the city ball, an elegant building that will be converted for the time being Into an electric palace, and where several of ths Important commandery entertainments entertain-ments will occur; ths Jefferson county coun-ty court bouse, where a number of commandurlos will have headquarters, and the Female High school, where the official suasions of the grsud encamp-nisnt encamp-nisnt of tba Knights Templar will ba held. Particular attention Is being paid to the subject of Illumination and decoration, deco-ration, tha sum of iOO.000 being expended ex-pended la this manner alone. A quadruple electric arch la to ba tba most noteworthy feature. Tha Koutucky Grand commandery headquarter In the Loulavllle custom bouse will be opened Monday evening, and the following morning the conclave con-clave will ba opened by tho grand parade par-ade of over 30,000 uniformed Templar and 126 banda ot music over the handsomest hand-somest and broadest thoroughfares In the city, Tuesday evening a great lawn fote will be held at tba Maaonlo Widows' and Orphans' horns,- closing with a display of fireworks. A chorus of 200 nugro voices will give a concert t tha borsa show bullulng the asms venlng. Competitive drills will occupy oc-cupy the second day of the conclave, when five magnificent sterling silver trophies, worth IS.OOO, will be given I as prices. This Is ths first contest ot the kind since tha trlennlnl of 18K3 at Han Francisco. Twenty-seven of tha hand.-omest belles of Kentucky will act as sponsors for the Sir Knights In this contest The conclave ball will ba held In Confederate Confed-erate hall on Thursday-evening. This great floor will hold 16.000 dancer at once. The ball promises to b the moat brilliant social function ever given In tba south. Churchill Downs, tha famous fam-ous rare course where tha Kentucky derby la run, will be tha scene of a horse show during tha week, at which Kentucky thoroughbreds will be on exhibition. ex-hibition. Excursions on tha river will ba given every afternoon and evening during tha week and rallrood side trip are to ba made to tha Mammoth cava, Chlckamauga battlefield and other points of Interest Indications show that It will be tha moat brllllnnt and successful encampment In tha history of tha order. The KnlshU Templar Drill. The schedule of the drill Includes about 70 movements, which will require re-quire about 40 minute on tha field for each commandery. During the recess re-cess for dinner Detroit commsndery 1, of Detroit. Mich., will give an exhibition exhi-bition drill. The Judgea In tha contest will ba well-known U. S. army officers. They will reserve their derision until at night, when tha award of tha prlies will be made the occasion of a function func-tion at the horse show building, In which tha 27 Kentucky aponsers will take part Associated with Capt Grant on tb , drill committee are Gen. John I). Caa- X tleman and two colonels ot Kenturky regiments Col. David W. Gray ant Col. Thomas J. Scrilth. Additional Interest aturhea to tho taulsvllle conclsve because ot tha fact that at it a southerner. Right Eminent Em-inent Blr Henry Hate Stoddard of llryan. Tex., will be elected grand master. mas-ter. Mr. Stoddard I now deputy grand master, and will succeed Mr. Lloyd ot Ban Francisco, the present grand master. mas-ter. The south has furnished only two grand masters up to date Most Eml- i nent Blr Warren taRue Thomas and John (Julnry Adams Fellows of Kentucky Ken-tucky and Lotilslsna respectively. The officers of tha grand encampment, encamp-ment, with the exception of Messrs. Lloyd and Stoddard, already mentioned, are: Grand Ocneralliialmo George M. Moulton of Chicago. Grand Captain General Henry W. Rugg of Providence, II. I. Grand Senior Warden William B. Mellah of Cincinnati. Grand Junior Warden Joseph A. Locks of Portland, Me. Grand Prelat-I)r. 1. C. W. Cox of Washlnaton. la. Irand Treasurer II. Wale Line ot Mrrlden, Conn. Grand Recorder William H. May of Bt. Louis. Ornnd Btandard Bearer Col. Arthur MnrArthur of Troy, N. Y. Grand Warder Harpor M. Orahood of Denver, Col. Grand Captain of the Ouard Charle C. Vogt of Loulavllle. Mr. Vogt Is the chairman of tha executive ex-ecutive committee for tha triennial. I .mis South! r Lonlavllle. j A long ago aa 1SS9, when the York ! branch of Mnaonry ot lxiulsvllla mad J Its triennial pllitrlmage to Washington, j representjitlva Kenturky knights went thither to extend in the Templars aw tnvttaMofi on oehalf ol the member . li of the order In the Blue Grass stats to hold their next conclave In Its matron- oils, but Denver vt, and three year, later Boston carried oft ths prlse-Loulsvllls prlse-Loulsvllls coveted. Again at the Hub-was Hub-was Loulavllle defeated, but at Pittsburg, Pitts-burg, In 1MI8. aucceeded In having tb knights agree to hold the 2Nth triennial trien-nial conclave of the Templar grand encampment of tha United Stale la Louisville Uili year. For three years tha Templars ot tba-stat tba-stat and city have been making perfect per-fect the plana for tb hospitality they will extend to the visitors. Ths work hss been divided among (0 different committees, whose members are tha-moat tha-moat prominent of all profession and craft In ths city. Ths executlv committee, tha governing gov-erning body, while containing only 14 member, has the mayor of the city, Hon. Charles P. Weaver, tb pot-mastor. pot-mastor. Dr. Thomas H. Baker, bankers, bank-ers, wholesale merclianta, leading railroad rail-road men, etc. An entertalnir'nt fund of over 1100.-000 1100.-000 ha been raised, of whloh (36,000 was given by the Knlgbta Templars ot Louisville and Kentucky and 120,000 by the city council as a special appropriation. appropria-tion. Besides this liberality on tb part of the council. It has further agreed to meet practically all tha expellee ex-pellee incurred by the committee on public comfort, which will amount to about another ll'O.ooo. THE QUADRUPLE ARCH, LOUISVILLE. j r |
