Templars Parade in Boston Highlights Knights and Music
A veteran parade of Knights Templar in Tremont Street featured Sir Horton the herald leading rows of crusader insignia knights. Chaplains, non-saluting, while bands from Haverhill Gartland Albany and Roxbury etc provided diverse music along the route.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Haverhill City Band
Haverhill Commandery
Gartland Brass Band
Albany
N. Y
Haverhill
Templar
Benjamin W. Rowell
Bands Parade With Masonic Knights In Multicolored Display
A long parade of commanderies and bands moved in uniformed pageantry from Fort Ethan Allen to end with the Newburyport and Cyprus commanderies forming bands. Notable groups included Grand Commander Dana J. Flanders alry Band from Fort Hthan Allen Vermont, Rossi’s Italian New Bedford band, Lowell Military Band, and Boston Elevated Band. Some unions objected to Fort Adams subgroup and several bands faced pay disputes or contract claims.
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Newtonville
Lynn
Partridge
Franklin
Athol
Elmwood
Hyde Park
Everett City
Cambridge City
Manchester
Mass
Baw Beese Prom Corps
Gardner
America
Alry
Fort Hthan Allen
Vermont
de Molay
Hopedale
Sir Knights of
Milford
Church
Providence
R. I
Massasoit Fife and Drum Corps
Plymouth
New Bedford
Escort
Templars
Beverly City
Lawrence
Dover
N. H
Salem
Leominster
Fitchburg
Melrose Orchestral Association
Melrose
Boston Elevated
Brattleboro
St. Anne’s
Woonsocket
Fort Adams
Fall River
Pickpockets Busy as Templars Parade Draws Crowds
Inspectors tailed several alleged light fingered suspects during the Templars parade. Cornelius Shea, 16, of 7 Sprague Street Charlestown, arrested for snatching a purse containing 69 cents from Laura Beattie of 100 Sprague Street Dorchester. Frank Yolyer, 40, caught attempting to lift from an unknown man at Tremont and Boylston. Harry Jackson, 16, 43 Bowdoin Street, and David Markheim, 16, 05 West One Hundred Forty-second Street New York, arrested on sight. Additional suspects were detained for questioning at police headquarters.
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Templars
New York
Cornelius Shea
Sprague Street
Charlestown
Wolf and
Rooney
Tremont Street
Laura Beattie
Dorchester
Shea
Knox and
Houghton
Frank Yolyer
Tremont
Boylston
Yolyer
Harry B. Jackson
Bowdoin Street
David Markhein
West One Hundred and Forty-second Street
Smith and
Patterson
Mark
Police Arrangements Keep Knights Templars Parade Safe
Splendid police arrangements held the large crowd in check and allowed the Knights Templars parade to proceed with no friction. Streets were roped off, banners hung from iron bolts, blue P flags marked crossing points, and ambulances stood ready. Plainclothes officers patrolled the crowd and stations, with pickpocket surveillance everywhere.
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Knights Templars
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Sir Horton
Knights of the Round Table
Crook
Park Street
Eliot Street
Washington
Commandery
Berkshire Commandery
K. T
Roxbury Cadet Band
Togus
Togus National Home
Maine
West Point
St. John’s Commandery No. 1
Providence R. I
Boston Commandery
Fort Williams
Newport
Corps
West Point Band
Stevens
Chicopee Falls
Cav
Dana J. Flanders
Roxbury
Citizens’ Band
Westerly
Winthrop
East Boston Knights
Attleboro
Germania Band
Turner's Falls
East Weymouth
Trinity Band of
Hudson
Henry Wilson
Natick
Waltham
Newburyport
Cyprus
C. & M. Ambrosia
C&m
Blackstone
Hanover
Union Sts
Boston
California
Price
Somerville Knights
Springfield
Brethern
Springfield Commandery
Coeur de Lion
Memorial Hall
Green Street
Asylum of
Thompson Square
Henry A. Venetchi
Smith
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