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...matters at stake are of course not completely open to the public, but it transpired that recently William Zumbrunn, attorney for the Klan, visited Denver and requested the resignation of Dr. John Galen Locke, Grand Dragon of Colorado. Grand Dragon Locke announced this fact at a meeting of the local Klan and added that he had tendered his resignation. The meeting rose up and gave him a great ovation. His resignation was not accepted...
Here politics came upon the scene. For U. S. Senator Rice W. Means and Mayor Benjamin F. Stapleton were suspended from the Klan for partaking in an alleged plot to unseat Locke and make Senator Means Grand Dragon...
...Dragon Day-during which students dragged a monster illuminated dragon, several hundred feet long, through the streets-banners inscribed "Death to the English brigands" and "Declare War on England" formed part of the procession. No violence was reported, but tremendous activity in raising money for strikers in the Provinces was noted...
...hundreds piled there together-some thick as fagots, the canes of maimed sailors; some the spindling, pathetic splinters that had propelled crippled children-left behind as testaments of those who, kneeling in the basilica, had been healed by the Holy Ghost. The fire roared through the church like a dragon. Priests turned firemen, saved the statue of Ste. Anne; but, by the time that a special battalion of the Fire Department had arrived, by special train, from Quebec, the cathedral, sacristy, monastery and college were black heaps of smoldering rubble...
...music never interprets the fantasy, but plays with it, mocks it-rolls it ahead like a ball, follows after on subtle feet. The work is, in pattern, like those opera ballets of the 18th Century. Everything is a dance ; the chair-song a minuet; the fire-talk a gigue; dragon flies weave to the slow air of a waltz; the teapot chortles in a foxtrot. It is music that smiles over its shoulder, that caresses only with the tips of its fingers, and laughs at itself in its own mirrors...