Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 September 1894 — THE PYTHIAN ENCAMPMENT. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

THE PYTHIAN ENCAMPMENT.

Fifteen Thousand Knights Reviewed by the President in Washington. The biennial encampment of the Knights of rythias was held in Wash ington this year. Representatives c

ah the State juri - dictions asemb ed for the j urpose of legislating for and furthering the interests of the order, and hundreds of uniform divisions from all sections of the country competed for prize i in drilling and marching. The selection of Washington < ity as thepla e for holding. ♦Va ZA k-d 11 r*l ZAZA WA ZA T ZA/l ZA-.-.

the Supreme Lodge supreme < h»n< eiior. and encampment was a singularly appro; riatc action on the part of thela-t. tension, wh ch convened in Kansas City. Washington is the birthplace of the Knights of x-ythia-, ana it is fitting that the city in which the infant strugges of the order we e made should., now be the scene of the largest gathering of Knights ever brought together. The order wa- founded Feb. 19, ib(s4, by Mr. Justice H. Rathbone and ot ers, and from a beginning of live members has grown to over half a million.

The feature of the encampment was the grand parade of the uni o -tn ran <. Fifteen thousand knight were in line, marching by State brigades, and the. precession was more tnan two ho.un pa ging the presidential review i g stan I. Penn<ylvania avenue wa ■ crowded with more than oje hundred thousand ]:e0,13. alar e propo tion of them visitors from <ut of the city. The I resident reviewed the procession from a small stand erected on the eu -h----ing ju t in fr. nt of the White H< u-e. and as the knig us swept past he acknow edued b e saint ti me of tbe» . commanding-0.. axes uy. row aj

W. W. BLACKWELL.