Democratic Sentinel, Volume 20, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 August 1896 — GREAT MEETING OF PYTHIANS. [ARTICLE]

GREAT MEETING OF PYTHIANS.

Encampment at Cleveland Drawing Crowds of Knights. Great crowds of visitors were attracted to the Knights of Pythias’ encampment at Cleveland, it being estimated that 50,000 spectators witnessed the dress parade of the Second Ohio Regiment Sunday afternoon. The exercises at the camp during the aftefnoou consisted of the dress parade and* a sacred band concert. In the evening many of the visaing knights attended services at the Kpworth Memorial M. E. Church and listened to an appropriate sermon by the pastor. Among the attractions at the camp was Lafayette, Ind., division of the uniform rank, which has won more prizes than any other division in the country, even though it has not competed in prize drills in eight years. There was also prospnt the crack division from Hastings, Mich. Maj. Gen. Carnahan, in speaking of the knights as a military organization, said it was part of the tin written law of the order that the knights should respond to the call of the Government in time of need, especially if it was necessary to repel an invasion by a foreign foe. Ihe knights were not in any sense guardsmen, lie said, and they would not take part in internal dissensions unless it was necessary to preserve order and uphold the laws. Supreme Chancellor Richie, in speaking of the policy of the order, suid their would probably be no Change. "Tht^same lessons that it teaches men to-day,” he said, “will be good for men 1,000 years hence.”