The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-04-17
C0NCLAVE OF SHRINEHS
Extensive Preparations TO Enter
tain the Visiting Mobiles.
a VAST COncOursc of the Wearers of
the Fez. Scimitnr. and Crescent
Sands and Assemble in the Capital
Next Nonth-Many Unique Plans.

Washington will be called upon in May
10 entertain one of the largest throngs OF
visitors that ever sought hospitality at her
hands. and the strangers composing it will
represent the substantial. well-to-dO
classes who are ever willing TO pay libcr-
ally fer what they receive. Once before
similar crowd assembled in the National
Capital. This was in 1889 when the tri-
ennial concave of the knights Templar
was held here. When the Sir Knights de-
parted the local Golfers of every descrip-
ton were fuller of the circulating medium
than ever before.
The mobiles of the Mystic Shrine are
knights Templar under another name. for
TO acquire the right to wear fez and the
scimitar and crescent an ascirant must
be either a Knight Templar or a Scottish
Rite Mason. The Supreme Council of the
order of the Mystic Shrine will hold its
annual session here May % and % and on
all such occasions the mobiles Of the numer-
Gus temples throughout the country gather
10 indulge In fraternal and social inter
course and have a general good time.
Advices received by the executive COM
mittee of Aimas Temple of this city. which
has the arransemer. for the important
event. indicate that between 1900 and 90
coo mobiles will be present. with half as
many ladies in their immediate parties. In
addition excursions are now being organ
lied In all parts of the country, the Shrin-
ers having secured from the railroads the
hitherto unheard of concession of enc fare
for The round trip for all passengers from
any point in the United States and Can
ada.
There are eighty-one temples in the
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have membership of over 1000 each while
those with five hundred and upward are
numerous, and 1t will be a poor noble in
deed that will not make the trip nither.
The capacity of all the Washington
hotels has already been pretty completely
contracted for. so the boarding houses will
have to be depended on to accommodate
the overflow. The entertainment for the
visiting crowds will include great tight
and day parades of the mobiles a fantastic
competitive drill of the Arab patrol. par
ticipated in by a thousand grotesquely
uniformed Arabs on the White Lot ellipse,
an evening reception by the President and
Mrs. Mckinley steamboat rides down the
Potomac, trolley excursions TO Cabin John,
and other points, and open houses wher-
ever the expressive sign of the scimtar
indicates there is cancels milk for the
thirsty and mama for the hungry.
ne washington DODleS nave determined
to raise a fund of $4,000 TO meet the ex-
penses of entertaining their visiting
brothers, and nearly $4,000 of this sum
has been already subscribed. Chairman B.
II. Warner, of the finance committee, hav-
ing reported as follows:
Amount previously published, $50 50; T. C.
Davis $40; James q. Bowen. SO; House *
Hermann. s25; fl. Maus Spencer SO; Franz T.
Rawlings, SO: Ball a Pollard, $40; Judd d Bet
weller, $40; Is. II. Stinemetz x Son, S25; ID. j.
Stuart Els: ". NJ. Hannay, SO; 2. j. Brennan,
SO; Percy Crawford, SIS; T.. y. GRAY. $40: L. ID.
Crumpacker, $40; George W Harvey, SIS; A. G.
JenFin,. sos; Harrison bingham, s2j; II. c.
Espey, $40; James II. Lamb!e, $40: Clarence f.
Norment, sos; r. ID. Sioat $40; Alexander Scott,
SO; !. B. LittlewOod. $50; Cash, 500; John X.
Heyl, $40; Z. 6. SclAfer.->jO; the c. J. Mctub-
bia Company. SIS. The New Grand "a. b. Chase,
Manager. SIS; Emile Wagner (addtionaD
$3.50; Kelley & ChambeTlin. S25; John F. ,Iayins
SIS; Cannon d Chandler, SIS; Charles W. Brown,
SIS; George Bessler, SIS; +. r. May & Co, $40;
Jackson a Co, SO: Browning 4 Middleton SO:
4. W. Hancock, sos; Hotel Vendome P z.
EMERSON. 500; NJ. " Beekman, SOS: John
Small, SIS; Creamery Lunch Company, $40; John
Lynn, go; J. F. Connors, $40; y. Walerstein,
SIS; James :. Topham, $40; Byron 5. Adams,
SO; W. II. Butler, SO; Louis J. Kessel, $40;
George II. Getz. $40; J.. II. Posey, $40; X
Kneessi Sons, $40; II. r. kehr. Sl5; J. W Dare
SO; Ernest Gersternberg, $3.50; II. L. Costing,
SO; Joseph L. Atkins SO; J. H. Crawford, SIS.
Total, 1855.