San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1892-03-05
JOLLY SHRINERS.
MASONRY'S, HIGH DEGREE EX-
EMPLIFIED.
Camel Riders of Arabia in Lodge
and Banquet Assembled.

Yesterday San Antonio had few Mobiles
CT the Mystic Shrine. Today she has
many within her gates. The Austin dele
CATION from Ben Hur Temple, headed by
Ilustrious Potentate Morse, accom-
panied the following novices over the
burning sands on camel back last night at
Odd Fellows hall:
w II Westfall, of Burnett; VIM Reid, of
Taylor; John ID Jackson, A E Shepard
and Alex Gardiner, of Austin; Chas s
Wheeling, William Luke, Ed E Moulton,
L A Trexler, Richard ID Wallace, r
Fleming, Thos S Grunlay, Jesse II Press
nell, P + Smith, Z X Norton, c II Wag-
ner, J b Hamilton, w S Hadley and L A
Trexler, Of San Antonio; JAS p Lewis,
VIM M Fly, II s Kokernot and r s Mar
tin, of Gonzales; French Simpson, of
and William Berry, of Yoakum; r l.
Martin, of Sween Home, Neh., and John
A Frawley, of Stromberg, Neb.
The officers who initiated these were as
follows:
Chas s Morse, of Austin, illustrious po-
tentate; D w Doone, of Austin, chief
rabban: w Fl Hill, Of Austin. assistant
and prophet; j E Wildbahn, Austin,
oriental guide: Tom Murrah, Austin,
treasurer; e c bartholomew, Austin, re-
corder; j ohm Mcdonald. Austin, first cere-
monial master; Burt Mcdonald, Austin,
second ceremonial master; Jno o john
son. Austin, marshal; A HotchkisS,
Palestine, as captain OF the guard: Ben
Collins, San Antonio, as outer guard.
The mobiles in attendance were: ABE
Williams, Charles w Barnes, S 5 Shack
elford, ] w Marshal. TO Maxwell, John
Orr, Monroe Miller. j D Mccall, ID Nal
vern, l. L Foster, j w Warmoth, M M
Smith, R S Graves, Fred Stergling, o n
Stitnaker, A l. Teagarden. Of Austin; K
ii Walker, NJ Murphy, T HARDWOOD,
of Gonzales; Thomas Frailkill. p E Ham
mond, of Taylor; ] L. Burd, OF Palestine;
A j CulbertSon, of Burnet; Marion San
som, of Alvarado; Ben Collins, S ID Scud-
der and A ID Nash, of San Antonio.
Besides the mobiles the following WIS.,
itors were present: Charles A Hotchkiss,
Palestine; w ii Young. Taylor; K
Rucker, Holland; r w Gray, El Paso;
George b Zimpelmann, Austin; William
Elliott, Tayler; w Maxwell and w w
Bostwick, benison, of the Hella Temple,
Dallas; A Barrager, of Secs iris Temple,
Nebraska; E ID Pennock, Chicago; John
p Charch, of Syrian Temple. Cincinnati,
and r b Taylor, of Mecca Temple, New
York.
Prior to the ceremonies the visiting
Shriners paraded the principal streets
with their regalia, which consists OF red
Turkish fez, on which is the In sigma, a
double tiger's-tooth, gold Lone star and
drawn cimetar above,
The work occupied the entire evening
up to midnight. At that hour they re-
paired to Mahncke hotel where, after
prayer by Noble Murrah, OF Austin, an
elegant banquet was served and the good
things We're washed down with many
beakers of champagne. AT 1870 a. m.
toasts were called for by the 1liustrious
Potentate as follows:
To the Imperial Grand council of the
United States-Drank in silence.
To Hella Temple, Dallas-Responseb by
Noble Hotchkiss, who stated that Dallas
had 400 Shriners.
To San Antonio Commandry, Knights
Templar Response by Noble Scudder, who
was proud to welcome the visiting Shrin-
ers and novices of Ben Hur Temple to
San Antonio, which is the metropolis OF
Texas, always hospitable and with gates
open for all strangers. The Shrine is an
American and English Institution and
will increase our patriotism. He invited
them to stay over until today and see our
city from commercial standpoint.
The military OF Fort Sam Houston
Response by Noble J Z Haskell. He said
San Antonio had five young men now at
West Point.
Our Absent Wives and Sweethearts-
Response, Noble Il Fleming. He hoped
San Antonio would always be the Mecca
of Ben Hur Temple as it always had been
the cradle of liberty. San Antonio has
many bridges, but we have 10 electric
bridges: we have some expert horSemen,
among others oNoble PreSsnall, but we
have no practice in riding q
boat on the Nile. He complimented
Mobiles Collins and Scudder for their eff
forts to entertain and thanked Capt. Nc
Donald for their safe trip down the n lie,
and to the toast, the highest compliment
we can pay them, our wives and sweet
hearts, is to retire and go to them.
The Press-Joseph Byrne, who made
his excuses, as he was not prepared.
The regular toasts being ended, volun-
teer toasts were called for, and among
those responding were Mobiles Mcdonald,
Hadley and Trexler. The latter re-
sponded to THE Novice" as follows: My
feet have never trod the burning sands of
Arabia or the Soudan. but nevertheless
my shoes are full of feet, and while never
encouraging the Alliance crop of corns,
yet they have allowed the bunion in all
its multiplicity, to feed fat upon
them. In the trip down the Nile all the
fatigue OF the overland Journey was, of
course, obviated, but it's question with
me whether the policy | pursued tonight
in going by boat was the best. But on
board met the best of treatment in the
cabin and am happy to say
will use my best efforts on the next tripto
induce other novices to take passage.
The banquet adjourned at o'clock.
The visitors left this morning for their