The history of pilgrimage of Washington Commandery, No. 1, Knights Templar, Hartford, Conn. to the twenty-ninth Triennial Conclave of the Grand Encampment of Knights Templar of the United States of America, held in the city of San Francisco, California, September fourth to September tenth, nineteen hundred and four (1905)
Knights Templar (Masonic order). Washington Commandery, No. 1 (Hartford, Conn.) · [Hartford, Conn. : The Commandery] · leaf 41
nre steamers fromsnnny sonthern ports wheie life is like a day-dream.And ))oats tliere are from the cold, bleak Northland,with men on board who ])raved the iee and snow, thetoil and nameless snfferin<;- for a few bright, ]ireciousnngoets, and in and out among these lordly shipssemi little boats,… … l>ut with the evening comes a change. Then itis as if the philosophers stone had touched the re-gion and turnc(l it into gold. First a few low-drift-ing clouds are changed to shining fleece, then therocks become bui nished, and then an ocean of moltengold sweei)s through the (iolden (iate. AVe…