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 43
of the mysterious Fast, and would not beat all surjirised if he saw Confucius standing in oneof the gloomy doorways under the swaying lanternsof red and yellow pa])er. He enters a tea-house, and sii)s from cuiious 37 (•ui)s, witli a still morp curious china spoon, wiiile heh)oks aiound at tlic… … him with a personal meaning, for he remembers hav-ing said that everything in America seems new. Hewill never say it again —that he promises himself ashe passes out, casting a backward glance into thesoft twilight of blue smoke that drifts along the hallleading to the black windowless kitchen where…