The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-01-16
ITS MECCA
IS HAWAII
Mystic Shrine Making
Ready To Come.
HONORS FOR THE ISLANDS
A Temple To Be Instituted in This
City by Imperial Potentate
Reed.

De reached until the Pacific Coast is
sighted. 1t will cross the great West
by one route and return by another,
and all the way there will be at least
two cars in the train bearing the label
of Grand Rapids & Indiana Railroad
thus giving prominence to the starting
point-Grand Rapids.
This special train will be that char
tered for the Honolulu pilgrimage of
Imperial Potentate of the Mystic
Snrlners Lou B. Winsor, of Reed City,
and his escort, Saladin Temple, of
Grand Rapids. Since the granting OF a
dispensation by the Imperial Council
for the formation Of a new temple or
the Mystic Shrine in that newly ac-
CURED garden spot of Uncle Sans DO
main, Hawaii, the resident mobiles of
Honolulu have perfected their organ
ization and have requested the honor
of having the Imperial Potentate instI-
tute the new temple in person, which
he has consented to do, granting SaIa-
din Temple the distinguished honor of
acting as his escort.
The following committee has charge
of the details of the trip: Mobiles Geo.
+. Sinclair, Charles E. Fink, Thomas
W. Strahan, Joseph c. Herkner Lucien
Z. Wood, John A. Wolcott and Charles
b. Quigley. They have worked ulli-
gently to obtain the best that could be
procured in the way of accommoda-
LUIS, DOlH SOlIlS anu returning, WlCn
the. result that they have arranged the
itinerary for five weeks outing such
as has never before been equaled in
the history of the Mystic Shrine or any
other order. They have gotten up had
published and distributed over the
whole Shrinedom, a handsome booklet,
containing, besides full Information
concerning the pilgrimage, a large
number of beautiful engravingS of
points of interest along the routes to
be trayerSed, including scenes in the
Hawaiian Islands and descriptions of
the towns and people. An important
part of the book is several pages de-
| voted to the city of Grand Rapids,
where the great pilgrimage starts, with
views of it's factories, business blocks
and streets, parks and resorts, together
with a necessarily brief but compre-
hensive historical sketch of the Furni-
ture City. showing its growth and
progress of fifty years. Five thousand
of these handsome books have been
sent broadcast over the whole country
and Grand Rapids, the home of SaladIn
temple, Will be given more prominence
thereby than through any other means
yet attempted. -
The Pilgrimage, as finally arranged,
covers distance of 1924 miles of
travel-7,124 by rail and 1900 by water
A special train of solid vestibule Sleep
ers, with dining cars attached, has
been chartered from Grand Rapids to
San Francisco, running through with
out change. The train, as it leaves
Grand Rapids, will be composed of two
combination coaches, which will be
fitted up as the commissary depart
| ment of the train, and two or three
Pullmans. The commissary cars will be
stocked for the entire trip in this city,
and all Mobiles joining the pilgrimage
will have free access to them. The
| Imperial Special" as the train will be
| calico, will proceed direct from this
city to Chicago, where other Pullmans
will be added to accommodate the No
| bles who join the party in that city.
| The accommodations of the special are
| limited strictly to 100 persons, and the
| personnel of the party will be confined
exclusively to Shriners and their ladies.
| Meals will be served a la carte. The
| cost for the round trip has been Sc
cured at $3.50, which will cover all ex-
| penses, except meals en- route from
| Chicago to the Coast and return, and
hotels wherever necessary.
| 1t is the intention of the Imperial Po-
tentate, to inspect officially, together
with his imperial escort, all of the
| temples enroute. During the short So
| journ at Chicago the caravan will be
| under the protecting wing of Medinah
Temple. The next stop will be at DeS
Moines, Iowa, where the infant Za-ga-
! Zig Temple has promised ito do some
thing" Malta Temple, of ST. Joseph,
Mo-, will next greet the imperial
| travellers. Abdallah Temple, OF Leav-
enworth, Kans., will have chance to
| pay homage to his imperial majesty
| and escort. AT Kansas City Ararat
| Temple will be inspected. Here the
Imperial Council will meet next June,
and the Ararat Mobiles will have an op-
| portunity to practice on the imperial
[ milo fnr fnyt rInr will
be no other stops until the special
reaches Dallas, Tex. Here the cara
vans will rest and be entertained on
Hella Temples oasis. There will be a
| long jump from Dallas to Phoenix,
ArfZ, where the sojourners will be the
guests of Ell Zaribah Temple, another
| oasis where true Western hospitality
abounds. Next the caravan viii be
| tied up at Los Angeles, Cal, where
| there will be rest of a day or two, as
J AL Malaikah Temple has spoken for
/ two days to show the inperialists its
numerous points of interest. From Los
Angeles the journey will be direct to
| San Francisco, where the party will be
received by Islam Temple with its Col
den Gate wide open.
| AT San Francisco the ocean pilgrim
age begins. The elegant steamship
fSonoma, of the Oceanic Steamship
| Companys line, has been secured for
INC tiip ~ iioiiOIsHiu. hS soAlfAeiS VIII
own the ship. There will be no steer
/ age passengers. They have access to
| all parts of the floating palace, save
| those occupied by the officers and
| crew while on duty, at any and all
| times of the day and night. A pro-
gram of entertainment will be arrang-
| ed for the evenings during the ocean
voyage, in which the ladies will take
an active part While on the Islands
| entertainments of all kinds will be the
| order. The new temple will be insti-
| tuted in the crater of an extinct VOL
cano. in which it is said the sands are
still hot.
| On the return trip the imperial party
viii be royalty entertained by Islam
| Temple, of San Francisco, and then the
| homeward journey will begin by rail
by the Northern route. The first oasis
reached will be that of Alkader Tenn
| nle at Portland Ore Seattle Tacorna