The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-10-30
GORGEOUSFEZ
 IS PARADED Picturesque Procession
 of ShrinerS. CITY CONVERTED BY GENn Split Town Wide Open, But No
 "Dlind Tiger" Believed The Animal Was Saved For Inner Temple and Probably at
 Banquet Session He
 CavOrted.

Alladin's wonderful lamp has been rubbed. and the genii who is held un- der its thrall has converted Montgom- cry for a day into town of the Haroun- -Al-Raschid dynasty.
 Are you skeptical? Then assured1y you were not upon the streets of Mont gomery between the hours of and o'clock Thursday afternoon. You did not see the gorgeous procession. em- bodying all the beauty and mystery of the East. You did not see the flow ing silks and the scimitars, and the Fezzes Cor whatever the plural of Fez is). If you had seen these sights, then you would have believed that Mont gomery for a few hours, was given over to the ancient Arabic nobles. who call themselves, after the manner of prosaic modern times, the Shriners.
 For the shriners were here, a full army of them. About 200 or more made up the parading body, and many more reached the city later during the evening, to attend the session at the with many, lured by the enticlng prom ise of the Shriner banquet.
 At o'clock Thursday afternoon. the Masonic Temple, by virtue of the magic of the lamp, became a mosque. out of which poured the nobles, arrayed in Fez (there's that word again), and brilliant silk. Forming themselves In marching array. the caravan set forth to view Montgomery and. Incidentally, to be viewed
 A Shriner band. for these luxurious students of the Koran. posses band, headed the army of nobles, marshalled by Policemen Taylor and Ragland. Following the band there was the of- ficial divan, gorgeous in flowing robes of silk and braid, majestic in their dig nified appearance.
 Something Foreign Here.
 Then there came-well something. Perhaps. in Arabic parlance, the some thing might have a name, but with civilized people, 1t must pass as non descript. Inquiry elicited the informa- ton that the something was officially known as Al Campbell. Further than that, the mystic shriners deepened their mysticism, and took on all the stolidity of the East. The Campbell thing was from the north called Bir- mingham and was wonderfully arrayed in epaulets high rolled trousers and a few other essentials. It also bore sword, and possessed an ability to gyrate in ludicrous manner.
 The members Of the Montgomery club followed, in full dress, and be- tween two cOlumnb or tu6 IhouioeES there was the bunch of captives, or as the Shriners call them. novices. Chained together, closely guarded by the Arab patrol the novices brought forth the sympathy of every onlooker Sorrowful in countenance were they mindful of the ordeal before them. fearful of the burning sands and other secret tortures. they Jagged. But the cruel whips of the agile Arabs spurred them on, and they marched to their doom, a pathetic sight.
 The procession had it's end at the mosque, and immediately the spell of the genii was broken, the robes and the scimftars, and the fezzes (-) dis appeared, and Montgomery was itself once more.
 Blind Tiger Is Missing.
 In one omission, the procession was A disappointment. For the nobles of Birmingham had declared that with them they would bring blind tiger"