monopoly of money crimes of one man, knights to · that authorizes you tosay that. mr.horr— lsay...

MONOPOLY OF MONEYHarvey Declared It Has

Been the Ruin ofMankind.

SCARCITY AND POVERTY.

The Want of the Purchasing

Medium Often DestroyedCharacter.

HOER OTTERRTTPTED BY CRIES.

One More Day Will Wind Up the

Great Debate Between Cham-pions of Gold and Silver.

(Copyright 1896 by AxelF. Hatch.)

CHICAGO, 111., July 27.—There was an

attendance of between 75 and 100 listenersto-day when Mr. Horr inaugurated thenext to the last session of the great silverdebate. Mr. Horr opened by quoting a re-

port of the Finance Committee of theUnited States Senate for the purpose ofshowing that gold had not appreciatedsince 1573, and challenged his opponent'ssincerity in basing his arguments in thismatter upon Sauerbeck's tables, which arecompiled by an Englishman and basedupon English values.

In his reply to the charges, Mr.Harveyscored one of the hardest nits that have yetbeen placed to his credit. He produced anarticle written by Mr.Horr inanswer toa correspondent, which had appeared inthe weekly and monthly editions of the£ew York Tribune, in which Mr. Horrscoffed at the idea which he has frequentlyadvanced in the present debate that humanlabor formed a trustworthy standard ofvalue. Mr.Horr's reply to the correspon-dent, as quoted by Mr.Harvey, concludedwith the words: "Your system seems soabsurd that Ican hardly treat itsoberly."

Inreply to the charge that he had un-fairlybased his arguments upon a foreigntable, Mr. Harvey produced a comparative6tatement showing that his arguments

would have been even more forcibly em-phasized by the Aldrich report to theUnited States Senate, and further statedthat his selection of Sauerbeck's figureswas based upon his belief and the gen-erally accepted opinion that they weremore authoritative.

Mr.Harvey said he was accused by hisopponent of finding fault with men andconditions for the reasons, as he charged,that the silver people delighted to do so.Mr.Harvey continued:

"He has touched a phase of humannature on which volumes might be writ-ten, and it is a hope of all who take anactive interest in the promotion of civiliza-tion that the time will come when therewillbe nothing but content and happinesson this earth. But to reach that periodwe must remove the obstacles in the way.The argument he makes has been used inages to fortify and defend the many.There is one instance in this country whenthat argument was made, and the answerto it was the Declaration of Independence.

"Later the King issued an amnestyproclamation offering peace to those whowould lay down their arms, and the in-sidious tongue told the people they werepessimists to further arraign the condi-tions under which they were living. Theanswer to that was Yorktown. You can-not deter men who know their rights anddare maintain them by an argument thatis intended to lure them from the subjectto which they invite your intelligentanalysis. Mr. Horr's inappropriate lan-guage consisted of words that might be ad-dressed to slaves, but not to free men."

Mr.Harvey, in defending his use of theSauerbeck table to show the decline inprices of staple articles since 1850, at-tacked the Aldrich table, which he saidwas made by a committee of the UnitedStates Senate, and that one of the men

.who helped tomal^e it was Edward Atkin-son, whose bias could be judged by thefact that he had recently said over his ownsignature to a Chicago paper that theproper way to deal with a silver man wasto hithim over the head with a club.

Yet that report showed a decline inprices of 30 per cent below 1872 and 8 percent below the price of 1860. The Aldrich,Sauerbeck and Soetbes tables show thatprices are lower now than in 1850. Allthetables proved the enormous purchasingpower ofmoney when exchanged for prop-erty and the small amount of moneyproperty will buy when exchanged formonej.

Mr.Horr accused his opponent of beingtricky in quoting one sentence from thearticle which he had written for the NewYork Tribune and assuming that itshowed the gist of the whole article.What he said in reference to the. man'stheory being ridiculous did not relate tohis measure of value at all. Itwas hisattempt to substitute a paper dollar basedon nothing with which to do the businessof the country. Mr.Horr added:

"That is where Harvey will land yet.The disease that he has never dies out.He has reached the last stages ofit. Thatis the trouble. What he wants and whatthese people are after is to destroy allproperty and to put this Nation on a so-cialist and anarchist basis." [Cries of"No."]

Mr. Horr—That is right; Iknew youwould understand that.

Mr. Harvey—lsubmit right here thatthere is not one scintilla in this debatethat authorizes you to say that.

Mr. Horr—lsay there is one scintilla initand Isay that up to date you have gotapplause from this audience, your part ofit, only when your arguments tended toshow that you think the whole society ofthis country ought to be destroyed. [Criesof "No."] Iknow what lam talkingabout. Now, as to banks, why is it thatMr.Harvey feels called upon to enter intoa tirade against banks and to indulge insuch a torrent of abuse against bankers?Ihardly conceive of a greater, morewicked misrepresentation of facts thanhave crept into the talk he has givenus up to the present moment. Why doyou keep insisting that this country hasnothing left, and that allwe have left weowe to foreigners? Why do you try toprove to the people that we are on thebrink of a precipice

—future ruin? Look

at the facts. No nation on the face of theearth has been as prosperous as the UnitedStated since 1873. As far as the UnitedStates are concerned, Iknow he is mis-taken.

Mr.Harvey presented his opponent witha. table of failures in the United Statesduring the last thirty-eight years, and de-clared that the credit system of money,withits tax of $200,000,000 annually, wouldaccount for«very dollar in th.ese failures.

Ifthere was more real money instead ofbank credit there would be comparativelyfew debts and few failures. The peopleowed it to themselves and to civilization toget rid of bank credit money and substi-tute for itreal money. The intricacies ofthe science of money were not difficult tomaster.

The first lesson to learn was the neces-sity for money. Civilization was so con-structed as tomake it a necessity. Thewant of money often destroyed characterin man and woman. The scarcity of moneywas the principal cause of their poverty.To relieve the demand money should bemade no more desirable than other prop-erty. To take that one great strain fromthe human mind and turn itin a nigherand nobler direction was the true study ofeconomy and statesmanship. The mo-nopoly of monejr has encouraged all formsof monopoly.

Mr. Horr—lcharged my friend Harveytwo or three times with tending towardthe old notions of greenbackism and beingareal believer in that ridiculous fiat money.He does not deny it.

Mr.Harvey—ldo deny it.Mr. Horr

—You did not, and you have

not. You simply say: "There is nothinginthis debate from which you have a rightto infer anything of the kind." Iinferreditfrom his methods of arguing that oldcraze of fiat money. He bases hiß newphilosophy entirely on the theory that thepeople of the world are all in debt. Itdoes not occur to him that sums of in-debtedness include debtors and creditors.

ALLCAUSED BY SICKNESS,Terrible Domestic Tragedy

Enacted Near Petty,Texas.

Farmer Bradshaw Killed HisWife and Child and Then

Himself.

PARIS, Tex., July 27.—Details of one ofthe most horrible tragedies ever enacted inthis section reached here this morning. Forsome time Henry Bradshaw, a farmer liv-ing sixteen miies west of this city and oneand a half miles south of Petty, a smalltown on the Texas and Pacific Railway,has been inbad health and grown despond-ent. He had a wife and two children andwas in good circumstances.

About 3 o'clock yesterday afternoon hewent to his house from the held and tookhis shotgun and fired a charge into hiswife's back while she was at work in thekitchen. He then 6hot his little four-year-old daughter, who was in another room.The charge struck her in the head andliterally blew it off.

Bradshaw then reloaded his gun andwent into the sitting-rooni and lay down onthe floor, placed the nun in his mouth andpulled the trigger.with the result of almostdecapitating himself. Neighbors heardthe shots, but thought nothing of it.

About sundown the hired man went tothe house and found the dead bodies indifferent rooms all saturated with blood.The baby, only about 10 months old, wascrooning in its cradle, unmindful of theghastly scene around it.

Bradshaw was a sober, industrious manof good family, and his wife was thedaughter of a Methodist minister. Theirmarried lifehad been happy, and no othermotive for the horrible deed can be givenexcept that Bradshaw had grown weary oflifeand did not want to leave his wife andchildren.

UNITED AT LAST.

Romance Connected With the Marriage ofa German Couple.

NEW YORK, N. V., July 27.—Justice ofthe Peace George F. Seymour of Hobokenwas called upon yesterday to officiate at awedding in the Hansa Hotel. The couplewere Richard Blankenberg, 37 years old,and Miss Elizabeth Dohring, aged 27. Afterthe ceremony Blankenberg said that aboutten years ago his present wife and himselfwere lovers in a hamlet in Germany, wherethey were both born and liveduntil theyreached their maturity.

They quarreled one day and Blanken-berg became enamored of another womanlivingin town. She accepted his suit, andafter a brief courtship they were married.Blankenberg and his bride sailed for Amer-ica and located at Grand Rapids, Mich.He secured employment as a cabinet-maker and saved considerable money. Helived happily with his wife until aboutthree years ago, when she died.

About a year later Blankenberg decidedto return to Germany. He met MissDohring and again became a suitor for herhand. He proposed marriage and she ac-cepted, with the condition that the cere-mony should not be performed until twoyears later. Blankenberg accepted herproposition. He returned to his home inGrand Rapids and the couple corre-sponded. About a month ago Blanken-berg received a letter from her saying thatshe had engaged passage for America.She expected to arrive in Hoboken lastSaturday. Blankenberg came on and mether on the steamship dock. Monday theywent to the Hansa Hotel and were mar-ried. Mr.and Mrs. Blankenberg will re-main in Hoboken until to-morrow, whenthey willgo to Grand Rapids.

REMAINS IN BOSTON.

Rev. Xfehemiah Jioynton Will Not Acceptthe Call to Oakland.

BOSTON, Mass., July 27.—Rev. Nehe-miah Boynton, pastor the Union Congre-gational Church, who had received a callto Oakland, Cal., has declined. The invi-tation came informally to give Mr. Boyn-ton an opportunity to look over the field.Had he intimated a willingness to accept,a formal one would have followed fromthe church, which was known to be unani-mous in its desire to engage the Bostonpastor.

Mr. Boynton, however, has decided notto allow the church to take this step, andhe willnot leave Boston and his parish.The California church at Oakland is one ofthe largest in point of membership on thePacific Slope; in fact, twice as largo as isMr. Boynton's present charge.

ELECTION THUGS SENTENCED.The Most Brutal Offender Received One

Tear.CHICAGO, 111., July 27.—As a result of

the continued crusade by the CivilFedera-tion on the election outrages in Parksidelast fall Judge Brentano to-day passedsentences on the ringleaders as follows:Simon McNulta, a year in the peniten-tiary: Dennis Maloney, William Heslanand Patrick Miller,all fined $2000; JamesBurke, fined $150; Patrick Corcoran, $100.

McNulta's sentence was made moreoevere than the others on account of thepeculiarly abhorrent character of his crime.He struck a woman voter in the face andbroke her nose.

Drowned While Bathing.

BRATTLEBORO. Vt., July 27.—GeorgeA.Currier of San Francisco, who has beenvisiting withrelatives at Brooklyn, aboutfive miles from Newfane village, wasdrowned while bathing inWest River thereto-day. He was accompanied by FrankTotwin and Charles Barnes, who tried torescue him in eieht feet of water. Thebody was recovered. Young Currier hada perilous journey around Cape Horn, enroute for New York, and barely escapedwith his life. His parents have been in-formed of the drowning, and will comeEast.

CRIMES OF ONE MAN,Holmes Held Accounta-

ble for Another Dis-appearance.

MAYBE IT WAS MURDER.

This Victim Was a BeautifulBrunette Who Worked as

a Cashier.

BREAKING DOWN OF aUINLAN.

Stories of the Suspected Accom-plice of the Swindler Are Con-

tradicted.

CHICAGO, 111., Jn 27.—The most im-portant development to-day in the Holmesmystery was the announcement by thePolice Department of the identity of theyoung Chicago girl who has been missingfor over a year. The announcement wasnot made until the department felt thatthe girl's disappearance was in some, wayconnected with Holmes. The conclusioncould no longer be withheld that theswindler had enticed her away from herhome and perhaps made away with her,or, at the very least, sent her to some re-mote part of the country where she willbe very hard to find, in order to get insur-ance money on her life.

The name of the mysterious beauty wasEmily Van Tassel. With her mother,Mrs. M. L.Van Tassel, she lived on theWest Side at 641 North Robey street. Heroccupation was that of cashier in a res-taurant at 1151 Milwaukee avenue, and itwas here that she met Holmes. All thatthe police are able to ascertain about herconnection with Holmes is that he sawher on four different occasions. The firsttime Holmes also met the girl's motherand together they ate ice-cream at the•estaurant.

Emily Van Tassel was a young lady ofmuch more than ordinary beauty. A pic-ture in the office of Inspector Shea showsher to have been a typical brunette withshort, curly hair, clean cut, aristocratic-looking features and a general air ofsprigntliness and vivacity. Her figure wasslender, her age 16 and her weight about100 pounds. She was a Sunday-schoolteacher at an adjacent church, and FrankWild, the proprietor of the restaurant withwhich she was employed, says she alwaysbore a good reputation, so far as his knowl-edge extended. She disappeared Wednes-day, June 1, 1892, and has never beenheard from since. Of course it is by nomeans certain that she went away withHolmes, but she showed a remarkable lik-ing for him, and her mother and step-

father Believe, in the light of the recentrevelations as to Holmes' character, thatshe went withhim. She was seen at Sun-day-school by a number of persons on theSunday preceding the day she disappearedand seemed to be inher usual good spirits,chatting with all her acquaintances andhaving a word to say to all her scholars.

Not a single clew to her has ever been re-ceived since she left home, and whether ornot she went away with Holmes, there islittle doubt in the minds of her friendsthat she is dead.

This afternoon was spent in examina-tion of Clarence A. Phillips, agroceryman,who at one time worked for Holmes, andafterward bought out the business. Hetold little that the police did not knowalready, but his testimony is regarded asvaluable because of some contradictions tostatements made by Janitor Quinlan. Thepolice hope to confront Quinlan withenough contradictions to cause him toconfess all that he knows, and they cer-tainly have a formidable listof refutationsof his testimony now. He was not exam-ined to-day, but willbe given until Mon-day to think the matter over. Mrs.Holmes willalso be examined Monday.

A clotted mass, which the experts pro-nounce to be human hair, was the only im-portant findat the castle to-day. Itis nowcertain that the bones found to-day wereonly soup bones.

Chief Badenoch left to-night forhis sum-mer residence at Brown Lake, Wis.,taking withhim a great pile of documen-tary evidence which he has not had achance yet to look over, He will returnMonday and resume active investigationof the case.

The workmen digging in the cellar ofHolmes' house in Englewood this after-noon unearthed two brick vaults, threeand a half feet beneath the surface. Thevaults are 6 feet long and 3 feet wide andjust deep enough to make a grave for asingle body each. Both were filled withquicklime. Near by was found anotherbunch of hair clotted with blood.

The indications are that in the graves, orvaults, were laid the bodies of Minnie andAnnie Williams. Time and quicklime hadaccomplished their work, but there stillremained sufficient evidence to make theidentification satisfactory.

Two soft spots ina bed of nard clay werethe size of human bodies, and where theheads would have been were mats of longhair. The hair found is of two shades, andthe position of itwould indicate that thebodies of the owners were laid side by side,the heads but a few inches apart.

By far the most important person foundby the police to bring the crime of murderhome to Holmes appeared at police head-quarters to-day and told a startling story,corroborated by the material fact of ahuman skeleton, supposed to be that ofMiss Emeline Cigrand or Miss Anna Wil-liams. His name is kept a secret, but thisis his story insubstance:

About the time of the disappearance ofAnna Williams and Miss Cigrand from the"castle" of Holmes at Sixty-third andWallace streets a man answered an adver-tisement in the Chicago papers in thename of Harry Gordon, which was one ofthe names Holmes assumed The adver-tisement was to call at Sixty-tMrd andWallace streets. The man went there andwas given the body of a man to articulateby Holmes. He performed the work andwas paid for it. Then he was given thebody of a woman with the flesh of the facetorn off. He articulated this body and re-ceived pay for the work from Holmes.

He was given a third body, which wasthat of a woman, and the flesh of this onewas also torn off. Holmes did not pay theman for doing this last work and he re-tained the skeleton. To-day he broilghtthe skull of the woman, which he hadkept in his possession, to Inspector Fitz-patrick.

Detectives were at once sent to the man'shouse to bring the remainder of theskeleton to the City Hall,and the ghastlyproof of Holmes' fiendish murders is nowat police headquarters. The police believethe skeletons of the women are those of

Anna Williams and Miss Cigrand, as bothwere missed about that time, according tothe man's story. The male body is sup-posed to be that of Robert E. Phelps, whois said to have been Holmes' businessmanager in the copying concern, and tohave married Minnie Williams.

MISS VIGRAND'S FATHER.

He Was Located in Indiana, but WasIgnorant of the Murders.

LAFAYETTE,Ind., July 27.—After two jdays' search by wire Peter Cigrand, thefather of Miss Emeline Cigrand, Holmes'supposed victim, has been located at An-derson, Ind., and was interviewed by aUnited Press representative to-day. He isemployed at the Buckeye ManufacturingWorks, in the western part of that city.

He said he had not heard from the miss-ing daughter since the time of her sup-posed marriage. The letter he receivedthen was to the effect that she was goingto Europe to spend the following year.After failing to hear from her again hewrote to Holmes, and later heard fromhim, stating that he had not seen hersince she had married Phelps, and that hedid not know where she was. The letterwas typewritten and dictated and signedby Holmes. They have put it away, butare unable to lay hands on itnow. Theold man was prostrated when he learnedfor tne first time what he was beingsearched for and why. He is growing oldand says he is not financially able to go toChicago. He does not know of the partic-ulars of the case of Holmes' victims, as hedoes not read a great deal.

THECOMPTROLLER'S ACTSDiscovery of a Supreme

Court in the TreasuryDepartment.

Secretary Carlisle, However, Is theMoving Power Behind the

Throne.

WASHINGTON, D. C, July 27.-Thedelegation now in this city from Louisianato appear before Comptroller Bowler on be-half of the sugar bounty cases which havebeen held up are verymuch concerned overthe outcome of the visit and are not in-clined to be oversanguine that the Comp-troller willreverse his decision, which willresult in having the entire amount of thesugar bounty, over $5,000,000, held up onthe ground that the appropriation was un-constitutional."Ihave looked carefully over Storey and

Kent to see if1 was not mistaken aboutwhat these great authorities say on thejudicial powers of the Government," saidSenator Caffery. "Ihave found that suchjudicial power was lodged in the SupremeCourt and certain inferior courts withinitsjurisdiction throughout the country. Butin spite of this Comptroller Bowler has dis-covered another Supreme Court in thetreasury, and he presides over it. Thiscourt has power, it is claimed, to declareany and all acts unconstitutional and fromitsdecision there is absolutely no appeal.The entire action of Congress might benullified by Comptroller Bowler inall in-stances in which appropriations are car-ried.

"The sugar bounty is not the only in-terest that may suffer. Congress appro-priated $100,000 for the Atlanta exposi-tion; it appropriated a subsidy to cer-tain steamship lines, and Mr.Bowler mayadjudge both these appropriations to beunconstitutional. The most serious partof this whole matter is that Mr. Bowlerhas power to do what he is doing. Itisprovided by statutes that the Comptrollershall have authority to pass upon any andall accounts, and from his decision there isno appeal. The Secretary of the Treasurycould not reverse Mr. Bowler's decision.In the case of these sugar bounties Con-gress passed the law, and the President,who is sworn to defend the constitution,approved it. To our amazement and sur-prise Bowler has discovered this SupremeCourt inthe Treasury Department, and isconscientiously of the opinion that itishis duty to pass upoa the constitution-ality of the acts of Congress.

"This is the first time the Comptroller ofthe Treasury has ever asserted his author-ity to turn down an account because thelaw authorizing itwas not constitutional,and this action has been reserved for Mr.Bowler."

The Louisianians leave for Gray GablesMonday to try and induce PresidentCleveland to interfere in their behalf, but,of course, he will not do it. The truthisthat Secretary Carlisle is responsible forBowler's action. He wants to save everydollar possible for obvious reasons.

CRAIG NOT REMOVED.

Secretary Carlisle Approves CollectorWise's Recommendation.

WASHINGTON, D. C, July 27.—Sec-retary Carlisle decided to-day that he wouldnot revoke the commission of Mr.Craig ofSan Francisco as a notary public. Mr.Craig's only connection with the customsservice of the United States was that of anotary public administering; such oaths aswere required in the transaction of itsbusi-ness at Wan Francisco. He was charged bythe United States CivilService Commissionwith having acted as custodian of fundscollected from officials in the Governmentservice in San Francisco for political pur-poses and the Secretary was asked to re-voke his commission. Collector Wise wasasked to report on the case ana he did so,recommending that Mr. Craig be not dis-turbed for the reason that he did not vio-late the law, because he was not a Govern-ment employe. After considering the caseSecretary Carlisle approved the Collector'sreport.

BECK IS UPHELD.

Acting Secretary Reynolds Approve* theAgent's Acts.

WASHINGTON, D. C, July 27.-Theactions of Captain Beck, U. S. A., Indianagent of the Omaha and WinnebagoIndians, has been approved by theDepartment of the Interior in thematter of evicting the tenants ofthe Flournoy Company from thelands of the Indians. Acting SecretaryReynolds of the Interior Department latethis evening replied to the telegram of theCongressional delegation stating that thedepartment approved of the manner inwhich Captain Beck had proceeded, as itwas inaccordance with the decision of theUnited States court at St. Louis that theFlournoy Company leases were illegal.Acting. Secretary Reynolds suggested tothe delegation that the settlers protectthemselves by taking out leases under de-partmental regulations.

Of Intereat to the Coast.WASHINGTON, D. C, July 27.—J. E.

Lindow and C. E. Jonas, and Philip Coak-ley of Oakland are among to-day's arrivals.

Amer P. Roberts was commissionedPostmaster at Orick.

Pensions have been granted as follows:California: Horace B. Gunnison, Phil-

lipsville; Leroy S. Williams, Los Angeles.Reissue— Mason C. Marburn, Three Rivers;Joseph B. Harbridge, Los Angeles. Mexi-can war survivor, increase

—Henry R.

Smith, Salinas.Washington :Original—John Laspence,

Colfax. Reissue— Samuel Whitney Eve-rett.

KNIGHTS TO PARADE,Preliminary Plans for

the Triennial atBoston.

THE TEMPLAR CONCLAVE.

At Least Thirty-five ThousandMembers to Assemble

Next Month.

GROWTH OF A GREAT ORDER.

Some Interesting Information Con-cerning the Men Who March

Under the Red Cross.

BOSTON, Mass.. July 27.—With theChristian Endeavor convention out of theway only a little over a week ago, the Hubhas already commenced to turn its atten-tion to, tlie reception of the KnightsTemplars of the United States, who holdtheir twenty-sixth triennial conclave herethe week of August 26. Itwill be one ofthe greatest gatherings of the Knightsever known, both in point of attendanceand in the interest which has shown itselfall over the country, and which is particu-larly marked here. Not only Boston butall the smaller cities about here take an in-terest in the big meeting, such places asLowell,Worcester, Providence and othershaving already made extensive plans tohelp their brethren of Boston inentertain-ing the visitors from all over the country.Of course Cambridge, Lynn, Somervilleand other suburban places will take ahand, but they need no particular nren-tion, as they are included in the plans ofthe triennial committee as a part of greaterBoston.Itwillby no means be a similar gather-

ing to the big Christian Endeavor conven-tion which ha 3just conquered the city.Tne difference is most marked. For ex-ample, at the Hotel Vendome, one of theprincipal hostelries in the city, there was

not a single Endeavorer. but the househas already been engaged .for 600 Knights.That indicates much; the same is true ofevery other first-class hotel in the city.

The arrangements already made by thetriennial committee and its corps of sub-committees are very perfect, and unques-tionably willprovide for the Knights oneof the best entertainments they have everbeen offered at any conclave. Money hasnot been spared in any direction, nearly$100,000 having been appropriated forthis one branch alone of the conclave.Reports come to Boston that the visitorsare not to be behindhand in lavishness,and ifthis be true the Sir Knights willbetreated to a magnificent occasion.

The grand parade comes on Tuesday,August 27. Itis conservatively estimatedthat there will be 36,000 men in line. Itwillbe one of the "shows" of the century.There is nothing in a military line toequal tne uniforms of the Knights, andmany of the commanderies make aspecialty of marching maneuvers whichcannot be approached by Uncle Barn'sboys in blue in street tactics. For thatreason the show of the Knights on thestreets is one of exceptional brilliancy andwillgo down inhistory, if for that reasonalone.

The order has grown so in recent yearsthat itis becoming somewhat unwieldy atthese triennial conclaves, and accordinglythe subject of making a Northern andSouthern jurisdiction and dividing thisimmense army is to be broached at theBoston conclave. Ifthe motion is carrieditwillmean that never again can so greata spectacle be presented in this country.The city will be crowded to its capacityduring the meeting. Already it is impos-sible to secure a room at any hotel for thatweek, and the better class of lodging-houses have made engagements univer-sally. The choice has been the beat thatthe city could offer, and of that everythinghas been taken.

Many hundred of visitors, unable to se-cure first-class lodgings, will sleep in thecars which bring them to the city and theBoston and Manic Railroad has alreadyprovided track-room for 500 sleeping-cars.That shows something of the extent of thearrangements.

Notwithstanding the great size andprominence of the order in this country itis one that has not been extensively adver-tised. Many persons associate it with vari-ous sorts of "knights," others know thatitis some part of Masonry, while there arenot a few, Respite the fact that there ishardly a village throughout the lengthand breadth of the country but has a repre-sentative, who are totally unacquaintedwith the organization.Itis a part of Masonry ; itis the body at

the head of what is known as the Yorkrite and a man desiring to become a mem-ber passes through several other bodies. Itis composed of representative men in acommunity. Notif the order can help itare unworthy citizens allowed to join andtherefore it stands for what is best andtruest inmanhood and patriotism.

At the present time there are 39 GrandCommanderiea in the United States, hav-ing under their jurisdiction at the lastreport 972 subordinate commanderiea and103,303 members. Pennsylvania has thelargest membership (10,594), followed byMassachusetts with 10,384, a numbergreatly increased during the last threemonths; New York 10,018, Illinois 8523,Ohio 7566, Maine 2756, New Hampshire1853, Vermont 1283, Connecticut 2099. Itwill be seen from the above that about40 per cent of the total membership iswithin300 miles of Boston, which insuresthe largest attendance at any triennial.

The Grand Commandery of Massachu-setts and Rhode Island is by far the oldest,having been organized in 1812, and that ofConnecticut in1827. The anti-Masonic ex-citement prevented further extension until1843, when the Grand Commandery ofOhio was organized.

The order of Knights Templar is ofgreat antiquity, dating back to the time ofthe first crusade to the Holy Land, whenthe military order of the Temple wascalled into existence for the purpose ofchecking the power of the infidels and de-fending the Holy Sepulcher and other sa-cred places of the Christian faith inPales-tine. It was not introduced into thiscountry, however, until about the begin-ningof the present century.

The order was instituted in 1113 withnine knights, who embraced the vows ofperpetual chastity, obedience and poverty,after the manner of monks, and devotedtneraselves to the task of clearing the high-ways and protecting the pilgrims on theirw*y to the holy city. The first grandmaster was Hugh de Payens. Unitinggreat devotion and desperate valor, theysoon gained a wide reputation. At first

they had no church or place of abode, butin1118, nineteen years after the conquestof Jerusalem by the Crusaders, they wererewarded for their services to the Chris-tians by a place granted them within thesacred inclosure of the temple upon MountMoriah. From this time these knights,who had previously called themselves"the poor fellow-soldiers of Jesus Christ,"became known as "The Knighthood of theTemple of Solomon." From this temple,granted to their use by Baldwin, King ofJerusalem, they derived their name ofKnights- Templar.

The history of the various crusades is ahistory of the Knights Templar, for in allthe wars and bloody battles until theywere finally driven out of Palestine theywere active and heroic participants. DeMolay was the last grand master of theactive religious order, and under hisleadership, after the Templars had leftPalestine for the last time, they estab-lished themselves in the island of Cyprus.

But though the active work of the mili-tary and religious order of the KnightsTemplar was terminated by their lossesabroad and persecutions at home, it isclaimed that the order has never ceased toexist, and, in support of this claim, an un-broken line of grand masters from Hughde Payens in 1113 until the present time ispresented. The beautiful ceremonies andritual of the modern Knights Templar arefounded upon the ancient rules of thePoor Fellow-soldiers of Christ, though themonastic and active military features havebeen discarded. The modernized orderwas introduced into the United Statesearly in this century, and presents an un-broken line from that time.

Boston Comnianriery, (he oldest Tem-plar organization- in the United States, andthe largest inthe world, having now over800 members, has the honor of inaugura-ting the movement which has resulted insecuring the presence of the Templar hostsin Boston. The initial action was taken bySir Eugene A. Holton, then commander ofBoston Commandery, and gathering forceas itwent resulted in the indorsement ofthe invitation by every commandery inthe jurisdiction, and also by the GrandCommandery of Massachusetts and RhodeIsland. The invitation was presented atthe Denver conclave, and though Cincin-nati and Louisville were also candidatesfor the honor the claims of Boston were soably presented that the committee re-ported inits favor and the Grand Encamp-ment accepted the invitation, both byunanimous votes. The action created awave ofenthusiasm throughout this juris-diction, and measures were at once takento make all the necessary preparations.A large and influential committee was ap-pointed, with R. E. Sir General Samuel (J.

Lawrence as chairman, E. Sir BenjaminW. Rowell as secretary, and Sir Daniel W.Lawrence as treasurer.

NATIONAL SILVER PARTY,Leaders Have Agreed to Meet

With That Object inView.

Congressman Latimer Said theAgreement Was Delayed by

Bland's Objections.

COLUMBUS, S. a, July 27.—Congress-man Latimer of South Carolina is author-ity for the statement that the silver leadershave agreed to call a convention to meetin St. Louis in September for the pur-pose of forming a National silver party.Among the names mentioned of those whohave agreed to the scheme are Bland ofMissouri, Tillman of South Carolina andMarion Butler of North Carolina. Largenumbers of others have signified their as-sent. According to Congressman Latimer,the agreement has been somewhat delayedby the objections of Senator Bland, whorefused to come inat first, and to sever hisconnection with the Democratic party.The purpose is to form a party independ-ent of the two old parties and one that, itis expected, willdraw much strength fromthe Populist party.

The ball was set in motion at the Mem-phis conference and has been quietlypushed ever since. The plans are nowcomplete and willbe given to the public jna few weeks, when the call for the conven-tion is issued. Since the Memphis confer-ence sentiment has bee,n sounded, and theleaders say the time is most opportune forthe formation of such a party. Congress-man Latimer gave this information pri-vately and went no further inhis speech tothe alliance to-day than to say :

"Let us call an additional conventionlike our own 'March convention' and saywe are for both metals, and then put aman on a simple platform for silver andmake the race and win the fight. TheRepublicans say that they will not deserttheir name. lam a Democrat, but Iamin "favor of this early convention, and Isay to you, hold itand winthe fight."

Death of the Old Trust.CHICAGO, 111., July 27.—The last rem-

nant oflife in the old whisky trust was,upon motion of Levy Meyer, counsel forthe reorganization committee, destroyedby an order entered in the United StatesCourt by Judge Showalter at noon to-day.The order ia the final decree and willhavethe effect of winding up the businessaffairs of the old company.

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, JULY 28, 1895.3

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