Lewiston evening teller. [volume] (Lewiston, Idaho) 1903-1911, 1908-07-22
SHRINERSLEAVE
over 100000
ESTIMATED THAT ST. PAUL HAS
AVERAGED 10000 VISITORS
DAILY THROUGHOUT THE
WEEK.

st. Paul, MINI, July 22.-The
Shriners have spent more than two
million dollars during their week
In st. Paul. There have been more
than 10000 visitors on an average
Tor the entire week. St. Paul never
entertained In more hearty and
generous style, and no visitors st.
Paul has ever had have been more
genial. more thoroughly imbued
with the spirit of good fellowship
or more thoroughly acceptable as
guests OF the city. St. Paul feels
that the flower of the rank and file
of Americas citizenship has been
here, and sees the red fez depart
with very genuine regret.
The city has never before enter
tanned such tremendous crowd. IT.
has never seen a crowd more free
from disorderliness and objection
able characteristics.
There has been nothing for the
police court to do, and the police
force has loafed the entire week
while the Finest" chinned with the
visiting mobiles. The city has been
absolutely free from crime and dan
gerous and disreputable characters
have been handled without gloves
the instant they showed their faces.
Poor giddy St. Paul wakes with
all the feelings of the morning at
ter. The old Saints head feels like
a corner lot and wiley baking the
biscuits on 1t In preference to u.s.
Ing the gas stove. The old Saint
has had to chain 1t to the bed post.
when he has no far forgotten him.
self as to sleep. for fear 1t would go
bouncing against the ceiling. The
rumble Of the ice wagon down the
streets sounds sweeter than an an
them on Easter Sunday.
Forty Thousand Shriners have
tern up the city and then put 1t
back again wrong side out. They
tied trafhc into a double bow knot
and threw half hitch on the street
car system. And! all the policemen
have looked like sweet little angels
on their way to Sunday school. Ev-
erything has gone on just about as
quietly ~. II someone had touched
up forty tons of dynamite. The
famous lid" was blown into the
hole in the bottom Of the Yea and
everyone has been busy filling up at
the hole. Cafes have been packed
like Tammany conventions and the
mobiles have lined the bars until 1t
has been necessary to give them
numbers as In q barbsf shop. The
10000 were here because they we're
here. Up and down the brilliant
streets in the dazzling glow of mil
lions Of electric bulbs. singing and
dancing. men and women have zig
Jagged back and forth. 1t has been
delerious experience and the old
Saint Paul will be weeks before he
can sneeze without getting drunk.
And yet
III al puC WYNN INV q "Osss~AA $500
been ,insulted on the streets.
Not a crime has been committed.
/, Not a drunken man has been seen
In public.
There has not been the teas, sign
of anything but the kindliest, pleas
ATTEST and most genuine good fel-
lowship everywhere.
1t has been as II 10000 grown
men and women have been OF one
mind resolved to be children again
for a night, and children were never
better behaved than the visiting no.
bles
IT has been a remarkable week.
I. shows that honor and the SOUND
principles of gentlemanliness are
firmly implanted in the breasts OF
every Mason.
There are still 10000 unregister-
ed Shriners and 1t will be practical
ly impossible to make the ohicial
records show the signatures OF
those who have been here. There
been too much going on. The visit
ing mobiles were too busy to bother
with trivialities when there has
band every half block and a celebra'
ton in every restaurant and cafe
Arrayed In the most precise ant
correct evening clothes, shaven ant
shorn and decked with red fez,
distinguished gray haired man wal
spotted on the way of light. Be
hind him n trio of jolly Shriner
watcher. There was a group o
corner and the distinguished son o
the desert approached them. fes II
hand.
Il beg your pardon, ladies'" n
said. II am John D. Rockefeller
could you favor me with the loan o
q quarter?"
He got the money and the three
shouted with glee and with the bill
lionaire on their shoulders started
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