Wilmington, Nov. 28—Two hundred and fifty Klansmen, representative of the Wilmington klan and other klans in Eastern North Carolina, paraded in masks and robes through the main streets of the city last night, marching silently through thoroughfares that were banked with silent humanity.
The hooded pageant formed at the foot of Grace street and marched off about a half hour behind schedule.
Thousands of people lined the streets, awaiting the coming of the Klansmen. Automobiles congested, at times, the streets, and later these were so parked that their occupants could witness the marchers.
An automobile bearing the officials of the local and other klans led the procession, net were two mounted klansmen, one carrying an electrically illuminated cross, the other bearing a United States flag; and then the hooded members, two by two, arms folded, filed by. A band from Wallace was also leading the marchers.
The Klansmen proceeded up Market street to Ninth, thence to the Robert Strange playgrounds, where the Konklave was conducted in the presence of a multitude of people who surrounded the grounds to witness the ceremonial. A large cross illuminated the klan-area, over which also surmounted an American flag.
About 20 initiates were inducted into the order. These were led before the Cyclops thence to the table on which was a saber, an American flag, a Bible and a blass. There these candidates recited the klan oath.
From the front page of The New Bernian, Saturday Morning, November 29, 1924.
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