People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 August 1895 — TEMPLARS AT WORK. [ARTICLE]

TEMPLARS AT WORK.

RECULAR BUSINESS OF THE SESSION COMMENCED. Graml lincanpuson: Commences Its Deliberations :;t II;>.ton — Grand Itccprder Isaacs Submits 11 in Report —Growth of the Order. Boston, Mass., Aug. 2S. —The business of the twenty-sixth triennial conclave of Knights Tempi. ;- was begun in earnest this morning by the grand encampment, while the round of pleasure was resumed by the great body of knights with) lively enthusiasm. Sessions of the grand encampment were held both morning and afternoon at Masonic Temple; the grand competitive drill of the crack commanderies of the United States. Columbia of Washington, D. C.; Apollo Commandery Drill corps of Troy, N. Y.; the “Little Commandery” from the Masonic Widows and Orphans' Home of Louisville, Ky.; St. Bernard of Chicago; Minneapolis Knights Templar Drum corps, and Detroit of Detroit, Mich., was held at the South End baseball grounds. In the table of comparison in his report Grand Recorder Isaacs submitted the following concerning the growth of the Knights Templar: There were 813 subordinate commanderies in 1889 under the grand commnndery; 22 subordinate commanderies under the grand encampment, 1(5,877 knights in grand commanderies, 9(54 knighted in subordinate commanderies. Total membership of commanderies, 87,724. in 1892 the number of subordinate commanderies under the grand commandery was 880, and 30 under the grand encampment; 19,8(54 knighted In grand commanderies, 990 knighted in subordinate commanderies—92,7Bl total membership. There were 9(51 subordinate comanderies under the grand commandery in 189;> and 3G under tin? grand encampment; 21,531 knlgted in grand commanderies, 783 knighted in subordinate; total membership, 10(5,770. The financial report gives a comparative statement eight years back. In 1887, $3,538.40 was received from tin grand commanderies. which sum was supplemented each year until it reached $5,128.60 in 1895. There was $39(5 received from subordinate commanderies in 1887, which increased year by year, reaching $528 In 1895. Grand Treasurer H. Wales Lines reported balance, at last settlement, $2,099; receipts, $17,848; expenditures, $15,459; balance, $2,988; net cash resources, $30,303.