Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 169, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 July 1911 — TROOPS TO ATTEND MASS [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

TROOPS TO ATTEND MASS

•ervlcM To Rs Held for 10,000 Sol- , - diets at Chicago Tournament In accordance with a long established custom, the National Military Tournament, to be held In Grant park, Chicago. July 23 to 30, will be opened with the celebration of a military mas. The services will be held in the big arena Sunday morning, July 23, for the 10,000 national guardsmen and regular soldiers who will attend the tournament ■- ‘SWsy - ■

The mass will be celebrated by the Rev. Edward A Kelly, chaplain of the

Seventh infantry, and will be an imposing and impressive function. Three hundred robed choristers will sing the musical portions of the mass and the Paulist cadets will perform the military rites. An altar Is to be constructed directly tn front of the reserved seat section in the arena and the Rev. Kelly will celebrate the mass from this point Ths Paulist cadets will be drawn up surrounding him and directly in front of him will be the Paulist Choral society and the Irish Choral society, comprising nearly 300 robed choristers. The military mass is for the benefit of the soldiers in camp who are expected to attend in a body, but the general public Is invited. Because of the solemnity of the occasion it will be requested, however, that those who do attend go to the arena in a reverent manner and witness the mass just as they would in church. No smoking or loud talking will be allowed, as permission was only given for the military mass after assurances that it would be heard in a befitting manner and not regarded as an amusement feature of the tournament, The regimental bands to furnish the instrumental music for the mass have not yet been selected. A military mass is especially adapted for soldiers and dates back to the days of the Knights of St. John, when this famous military body originated the high military mass.

Soldiers' Encampment In Grant Park, Chicago.