Omaha daily bee., 1902-06-04
SHRINERS FROM ALL POINTS
They Are Passing Through Omaha on Way
to San Francisco,
MINNEAPOLIS TEMPLE SPENDS DAY HERE
Cedar Rapids shriners Come in the
Afternoon and Join the NORTH
erners for the Long Trip
westward.

The frst Big gathering OF shriners from
foreign parts to make any extended stop
over in Omaha arrived yesterday morning
over the Illinois Central. II comprised the
members Of zuhrah temple Of Minneapolis,
some fifty in all, and they occupied two
special Pullman sleeping cars from the
northern city into Omaha, arriving here at
sos.
At 1925 in the afternoon another band ar
rived from Cedar Rapids, Ia, and they
call themselves Elkahir temple. In this
band there were s~eventy-1ve more Shriners
and they came into omaha in two special
Pullman sleeping cars over the Chicago,
Rock Island q Pacific railroad.
Meanwhile there we're three more Pull
can cars standing In the yards near Union
station and at 4:3O all seven were hooked
to a big engine, together with a dining car
and a baggage car, and when the Shriners
from Minnesota and Iowa were rounded
up and put on board again the train pulled
out for San Francisco.
This is the Omaha Rock Island special
for Shriners. II will land the travellers in
Denver at Z o'clock "Wednesday morning
and turn them over at once to the Denver
& Rio Grande railroad, which will carry
them on as far as It goes and then deliver
them to connections that will eventually
put the Shriners at the threshold OF the
lodge hall in Frisco.
The three extra Pullmans are to be oc-
cupied by Omaha and Lincoln people, two
for Omaha, one for Lincoln. The train
is the first special to go out west through
Omaha. and is the first one to be started
from here. From now on the Shriners
from the east are to come thick and fast.
Wednesday at 3 o'clock In the afternoon
comes Medinah temple OF Chicago in a
special train, also going via the Overland
route, and on the same afternoon at 4:25
the Burlington will run two special Pull
man carloads Of Omaha and Lincoln
Shriners out behind No. 3, forty people or
more in all.
The Burlington also reports an enor-
nous Shrine business over It's south lines.
At Oxford, Neb., Monday, the point
where the st. Louis and Kansas City south
line joins the main line from Omaha to
Denver, there passed through within one
hour six big trainloads Of people. There
were three sections Of No. 8, westbound,
all twelve cars or more. One was from
Omaha, one from Kansas City, one from
st. Louis and all we're loaded to the
guards. Then there were two sections of
No. 6 returning east, and one section OF
No. II eastbound. The big trainload from
st. Louis comprised Shriners from New
York City, 220 In all, the largest party OF
shriners to be carried in one train.
While the Shriners from Minneapolis and
Cedar Rapids were here they were kept
mighty busy by the Tangier temple men,
who had laid out to entertain them. They
were rushed frantically about the city,
seeing everything OF interest that could be
crammed into the few brief hours, and when
they finally got back to their trains they
were all In a whirl. for they had been going
every minute. Chief among the entertain
ers was "BiIl'' Hathaway of Minneapolis,
city ticket agent for the Rock Island there,
who brought zurah temple Town in his
charge.
AS soon as that 4:3O special left the local
shriners took big breaths and lolled around
a little while. freshening up for the next
relay, Syrians, at 11:3O p. m. Tangier men
realize that they will be kept on the jump
till Friday, and they are now deeply in
~terested in the theory Of the conservation
Of energy as applied to reception COM
mittees,