St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-08-16
Mystic Shriners Engage in a
Grand Parade Through
Omaha Oasis.
Glittering Lanees, Bright Ap-
parel and Swaying Cam
els Fill the Line.
llluStrious Potentate Briggs
Reeounts the Progress Of
the Order.
Commendable Achievements.
No Debts and q Solid
Treasury.

OMAHA, Aug. 15.-Three thousand
mobiles, with cleaning lances and brill
liant apparel, ON foot, in carriages and
astride gally caparisoned camels, wendell
their way through the oasis of Omaha
this evening. The caravan was mag
nlicent spectacle, and as it wound
around the trail leading from the temple
through the haunts of the traders, it was
greeted with a grand display. of bunt-
Ing, illumined with pyrotechnics.
Twenty thousand people gathered
along the line of march and witnessed
the grand parade of the Ancient Arabic
Order of the Mystic Shrine. now as
sembled in Omaha. Marching until 9
O'Clock, it disbanded OIL Farnum street.
after having been reviewed by Illustri-
Gus Potentate Briggs from the Paxton
balcony. Then came grand reception
to tine mobiles and their ladies. at which
they were welcomed by Mayor Bemis
and given the key and the freedom of
the city. The rooms of the temples
repre- scented here were
CrowedWith Mobiles.
and all day and far into the night there
was music to beguile the senses and re-
vive the memories of other days. The
water bottles, long upon the backs of the
camels, were opened and the sOjourn-
erS drank deep of the refreshing liq uid.
Then for those who desired deeper
draughts there were punch bowls, preSid-
ed over by dusky SONS of the desert. and
other refreshments worthy the travel
xrhn Do6 l,ithnr
every state in the Union.
The imperial council opened this
morning at Q o'clock at Masonic temple.
lllustriOus POtentate Sam Briggs called
the council to order and Imperial Re-
corder Frank NJ. Luce called the roll.
Immediately after the call Potentate
Briggs delivered his annual report.
Among other things he said:
Industrious Associates: Again | have
the pleasure OF greeting the imperial
| body in annual congress assembled with
the salutatiOn ordained by the prophet
| (hOnOred be his name), and in accord
ance with statutory regulations present
the report of the transactions of the i'm
| perial officers, as far as the same may
have come to my knowledge, with such
! recommendations as seem to be proper
| for your consideration"
commemorate ffOSfeSS.
He then quoted statistics showing that
| there were in this country GO temples
and 22,6S9 mobiles. against Is temples
and 425 mobiles in 1878, grand achieve
| ment for the few years elapsed since
the introduction Of the order in the
| Western hemisphere, and a noble Or
| ganization whose light once kindled has
never been eXtinguished at any oasis
| where charter has been granted; an
| order not requiring to shine by borrowed
light, but giving abundant tangible EVIL
| dcnce of its ability to live and prosper
| in the light of its own beneticent and
appreciated influence.
| Of the fraternal dead, Noble Briggs
| said: ''While hone of the active mem
! bers of this imperial council has been
summoned to the portals of the unseen
| temple during the past year, our affairs
have been draped in mourning for the
demise OfiseveraE prominent in the an
cient order in America. as we'll as one
who, by reason of his position as ruler
! in the East, had endeared himself to his
| people and to those of other nations
who has been brought in correspond
ence with him by his many acts of
courtesy and fOrbearance, which would
yield his memory additional glory by
| reason of the possession of those char
dClcIiStlcS WHICH SilOulu Ue COMMON u
all claiming membership in this ORR
entail order.
List OF the Dead.
1.-THE list of those who have been
| called from among us is as follows:
nDavid Kalakaua,. thirty-third degree, king
| of the Hawaiian islands, a noble Of Islam
temple. San Francisco, Cal, died at San
| Franti sco, Jan. 20. 1891.
William Jermyn Florence. thirty-third de-
| gree, grand shareef of Mecca temple, New
| York, and representative of temples in the
| East, died at Philadelphia. Pa, Nov. 10. 1891.
| Tewfik Mohammed Pasha, viceroy khedive
| of Egypt, shareef sultan of the shrine at
Cairo, Egypt died at Cairo, Egypt Jan. z,
| 1892
Edward Mitchell, thirty-third degree, right
| worshipful grand treasurer of the grand
lodge, A. F. and A. NJ, of Ontario; noble
of AlkOran temple of Cleveland, O., died at
Buffalo. n. Y, Feb. %, 1892.
William Franklin Baldwin, thirty-second
degree, right worshipful senior warden Of
grand lodge, A. F. and A. NJ, Of Ohio, a