Los Angeles herald., 1907-05-07
MEDINAH SENDS
BREEZY BUNCH
Eleven Carloads Storm AngeIus Hotel
to Dwell In BrotherIy Love
with Neighbors from st.
Louis

Medinah temple Of Chicago. which has
membership of 5565. brought its cara
van of fezed sons Of the desert to Los
| Angeles yesterday morning at lO:3O
o'clock. and at once the pilgrims felt at
home in the oasis where Chicagoans
have for years refreshed themselves and
grown rich off the fat of the land.
Medinah's sons are known from one
end of the country to the other. AT thelr
home temple the zem zem spring nows
night and day, where all may lave IN
the pure waters. So it will be at the
Angelus while the temple abides here.
Their neighbors, Moolah of st. LOUIS
| dwell. here in brotherly love.
1t took eleven cars to bring the sons
of Islam to the Land of Flowers, for 166
| formed the party Long had prepara"
| tions been made, for Chicago regards
Los Angeles as a sort of sister city into
which her sons and daughters have
married. Yea, it is like visiting another
family. Sons of Chicago have time ana
again folded tents to steal further west
ward, and this week is reunion OF that
family.
The Medinah pilgrimage wended its
way the past week through the center
of the United States, through the Colo
RADIO country, and to Denver. Here the
mobiles experienced snow storm that
covered Colorado's metropolis with six
inches of snow.
To Land of Warmth
| Grateful that they were destined for
| a land of warmth, mobiles and ladies
gathered their wraps tighter about them
| and set out for Glenwood Springs, and
after a short stay went on to Salt Lake
City and Las Vegas ReSe a visit to the
| Arizona club was notable event.
| On the border line of California they
were soon made to realize that they had
reached the favored state, for orange
groves began to make their appearance
and palms and waving trees prepared
them for the real oasis, where AL Ma
liakah's sons dwell in peace and con-
tentment
| At the smaller cities between Los An
geles and the eastern edge OF the state
fruits and flowers were showered on the
passengers by townspeople wherever the
| train stopped, and mutual greetings
were warm indeed.
Music, Sweet Music
At stopping points the famed Medinah
| band, composed of twenty Shriners
robed in Arabic garb, played selections.
The Lexington quartet, also known as
the Medinah quartet, also sang selec-
tions when stops were made, and from
time to time whiled away the languor-
i Gus hours on the train. And each night
as slumber time came the band and
quartet alternated in furnishing sweet
! lullabies.
In Medinah's caravan are such well
known Shriners as Frank 9. Roundy,
Nelson W. Lambert, Harris w. Huenl
and ]. B. McFatrich. The latter is po-
tentate of the temple.
The temple was founded October 80,
1882, and is housed in modern sky
seraper built on ornate lines.
A FraternaI Bunch
No set program was followed out by
| the men and women from Lake Michi-
gan on arrival yesterday, their first
duties being to pay fraternal visits to
other headquarters.
Some of the groups went to Casa Yer
dugo in the afternoon and some to Re
dondo Beach. There were plenty of sons
of Shriners in Los Angeles to guide
them right.
The night program was to take part
in the reception at the Alexandria hotel
and later to scatter around the different
hotels.
In their rounds the Medinah braves
found hundreds of former Chicagoans
who are now settled in Los Angeles.
4 Among the first of these adopted sons
of California to extend the hand of
greeting were F. A. Morley and E. ID.
Gould. All evening these reunions were
noted, wherever the Medinah fez loomed
up, and this will prove one of the most
enduring of impressions garnered at
this conclave.