Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1908-07-15
SHRINERS HAVE
HIGH JINkS
At ST Paul
Gompers Is There. Seattle
and Louisville Want
Next Meeting

st. Paul, Mimi, July 1.-THE open
ing session Of the Imperial council of
the Ancient Arabic Order. Of the Mys-
tic Shrine was held today, but the
principal session will be held tomor-
row when the officers will be elected
and the place for meeting Of 1909
will be selected
So far as popular interest is con-
cerned, the big events of the day
were the parade this morning from
the Ryan hotel to the Auditorium,
where council session was held,
breaking the ground for the new
Masonic temple to be erected in st.
Paul, and the banquet at the Audi
forum this afternoon, and the cleo
trical parade tonight.
The executive session Of the i'm
Hperial council was preceded by an
open meeting, at which addresses of
welcome were delivered by Mayor
Daniel w J. Lawler of st. Paul and
Frank a. Day, private secretary of
Governor Johnson, who spoke for the
chief executive Of the state, and by
b Oar Reese, a member Of Osman tenn
pie, st. Paul.
Responses were made by VIM. G.
Bell of Winnipeg, who spoke for the
late past imperial potentate, Henry
A. Collins Of Toronto; and by Chas.
r. Pullen, potentate Of Anezeh tenn
pie, Mexico City.
9ss As living flag. composed Of 200
school children, occupied the stage
and sang several numbers. 2fs'' 5S.;ssf
In the parade that preceded the
meeting Of the imperial council, were
thirty-six Arab patrols and twenty
y four uniformed bands. The largest
band was. that of LIN Lu temple, Phil
adelphia, which was composed Of So
pieces. Toronto temple, headed by
a band dressed as Scotch Highland
ers, made a novel showing; and sala-
din patrol of Grand Rapis, Mich,
was accompanied by the newsboy's
band of that city. Moila patrol, st.
Joseph, Mo-, was accompanied by a
carriage drawn by two camels.
The work in behalf of candidates
for Office was active among Shriners
today, but If precedent is adhered to,
but one place will be open to the
field. 1t Is the custom of the shrin-
ers to advance to the Office of i'm
perial potentate, imperial deputy po-
tentate. IL this custom is followed,
HdWin +. Alderman Of Marion, Ia,
will be made imperial potentate, in
succession to Frank g. Roundy, who
will become past imperial potentate.
Officers below imperial potentate will
each be advanced q step and the
contest will be open to candidates for
the lowest Office, imperial outer
guard.
Tomorrow morning exhibit drills
by Arab patrols will begin at Lexing-
ton ball park. Thirty-six patrols
have been entered for the contest. n
In the afternoon the Shriners will
attend automobile races at Hamline
track where an attempt will be made
to lower the world s record. Tomor-
row night Arab patrols will parade
Minneapolis and in st. Paul recep-5
tons will be given at the state CAPT
tol building which will be fully IL
Eliminated for the occasion.
Among the prominent shriners now
IN 81. Paul are Samuel Gompers,
president of the American Federation
Of Labor and John HI. Atwood, mem
4 Der Of the Democratic national com
nittee from Kansas.
Apparently the contest for the
next meeting lies between Seattle
and Louisville.
~ his address to the imperial coun-
Gil Imperial Potentate Frank g.
Roundy recommended the discontin-
uation Of the use of intoxicating liq-
i uors ct Shrine banquets; that the
minimum fee for confering the order
e Shrine be advanced TO $50; that
tne imperial council appoint conn
miItee TO formulate the service for
corner stone laying by subordinate
temples.
fis report Of Imperial Recorder