The Minneapolis journal., 1902-06-20
.RAH FOR zUHRAH
Minneapolis Shriners Cut a Wide
Swath at Frisco.
A CUP. AWARDED FOR THEIR DRILL.
Some Feeling Among Their Friends
.~,y Because They Were Haired
From Competition,
SpeciaI to The Journal.

Special to The Journal.
San Francisco, June 20.-The Mystic
Shriners' conclave is over as far as the
scheduled program of entertainment for
this city is concerned. The visiting mobiles
have cleaned out the city and are now
seeking new fields to conquer. Most OF
them have gone to Los Angeles, where the
local Shriners will entertain them. The
Minnesota delegation left to-day and will
be gone until next Monday, when they
return here and leave few days later
for home ,>going by way of Portland, Seat
tie and Spokane, over the Great Northern
road. ~
Zuhrah temple--Was- as-represented in the
imperial council by H. M. Myers, Judge
H. D. Dickinson, John A.. Schlener and
F. M. Hutchinson. They have been stay
ing at the Palace, where numerous friends
of former days in Minneapolis have
greeted them. The Arab patrol has been
quartered at the Sutherland. Captain A.
M. Shuey was in command and the seven
teen men comprising the patrol were Rol-
and H. Hartley, Asa Paine, Fred Falconer,
DR.. A. Owre, Harry Moore. c.. o. Olson,
S. Hall, A. N. Bearman, Joe Warren, C.
S. Dever, D. A. Clark, Captain C. c.. Ben
nett, Henry Deutsch, Max Pfaum, 0. L.
Jacoby, c. T. Ozmun and E. w. Kittridge.
their wives. Among the others present
were B. P. Lewis and wife, M. Bassford
and wife, George LaBarr and wife of
Brainerd, and Fred Gilman. ....
, The Arab patrol : of Zuhrah temple at
tracted much attention whenever they ap
peared on the street. The first day when
the. visiting delegations marched in a
tonished the spectators along the line by
the ease with which they went through
the most intricate evolutions. Later, in
the night parade, Zuhrah was loudly.
cheered along the line of Market street
and their exhibition drill in Mechanics
pavilion was an eye opener to people.
There were many reasons for this. The
Zuhrah boys appeared in their white
yachting suits, caps and red umbrellas
which have. become famous to Shriners
wherever Zuhrah has appeared This uni
form, so different from the usual Arab
patrol uniform, was at once marked Again
in their marching evolutions the military
precision was new, for the other patrols
have attempted much fancy work which
had' no semblance to anything which Zuh-
rah presented : D
1t was almost universally expected that
Zuhrafr would carry off the prize in the
competition drill, :but t this. hope was
dashed to- the ground when the judges de-
clared that Zuhrah, did not present the
minimum number of men and was there
fore Ineligible. This decision caused con-
sternation among Captain Shuey and his
men, for there had been absolutely no no.
tice of any conditions for the competing
patrols to meet 1t was supposed that
Zuhrah would be allowed to enter, al
though it was expected that on account
of having but four sets of fours, the
judges would handicap the patrol, which,
however, the Zuhrah- boys expected to
overcome by the superiority of their work.
There was much feeling engendered and
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Minneapolis people, for the other patrols
declared that it was an unjust and un-
heard of ruling.
| The judges, however; as sort of con-
| cession and partly to stem the tide of un-
fair cry, decided that Zuhrah could givean
exhibition. And when thiscexhibition was
over, there was hardlySa man or woman
on the Oakland race track where the
drills took. place, who did not say that
Zurah put up the finest unique drill ever
seen in this city and If allowed to enter
| would have carried off first prize. Mem
bers of the successful Denver team admit
ted this. and other Shriners made some
sarcastic comment on the affair which did
not tend to make matters any smoother
Zuhrah's. warmest admirers were the
| Shriners from Los Angeles, who during
the entire week have paid special atten-
tion to the Minneapolis delegation and at
| tempted to show that they fully sympa-
| thized with the zuhrah boys. 1t was
marked that although much disappointed,
the JZuhrah boys did not have much to
say and would not make any adverse COM
ment on the judges ruling. For their
splendid exhibition drill the committee
awarded zuhrahs patrol handsome
special cup. -. ~ ,.- .
Among the pleasant affairs for visit
ing members of Zuhrah was dinner CIV
| en- by two former past grand command
ers of Minnesota who are nowliving in San
| Francisco. On Wednesday evening
| George w. Prescott, the first grand com
| mander Of Minnesota who held office in
! 1867 and who has lived here for twenty
J five years, and B. H. Langley another