The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-06-09
SHRINERS GO
 TO BED TIRED Spend a Great Day js Louisville. QUESTIONS COME 4 TODAY
 ->S / Warm Fight on for the Next
 Meeting. New orleans, Toledo, and Atlaatic city, are in the Race--Thousands of visitors in Kentucky
 City.

Louisville, Ky, June S.-What with drilling all day and marching all night in heat, relieved but little by q rain at dusk, these Mobiles of the Mys- tic Shrine who went to bed at all to- night were very tired indeed.
 Politics was also an important fea- turt of the day's proceedings in this. the thirty-fifth annual session of the Shrine and tomorrow morning there will be settled the following imports ant questions: sr
 Will the imperial divan--thsa cabinet of the order--bs ''pegged up" as the custom, one officer succeeding another and leaving . vaes1cy of imperial outer guard. orss~ii this custom be
 Who w,,sSbs elected imperial outsr guard?,s
 VIII New Orleans. Toledo or At iantic City win the fight to entertain the Shrine in 1910?
 The imperial council, amid the spectacular features of today managed to meet and hold an important session at which an unusual thing was done. This was to make James Wemming- ton Boyle potentate of ziyara Temple of Utica, N. r., member emeritus ad vittm, an honor which has been con- ferred on but four other men In the history of the Shrine.
 A committee was also appointed to- day by Imperial Potentate Edwin Alderman, of Cedar Rapids. Iowa, tc report on a choice of city for 1910 to- morrow. This committee Is headed by William Matthews, of Mecca Temple New York City.
 Drills all afternoon in the rigimeni armory by the varous patrols, dressed in oriental nnery that defies descrip- ton, provided an excellent quality oi entertainment for the thousands whe massed into the great building. It had been converted by the art of the stage carpenter from huge and darksoms cavern to a representation of ar Egyptian battlefield or drill champs II | the time of the Free Khedives. Drills were kept up all afternoon and tomorrow they will again be re sumed All created eutnusiasm. Ther' is no longer a prize offered--and Islan f the crack patrol of San Francisco 1 was made notable by a woman en l thusiast in the gallery who pealed ou the cheers of the Golden Gate all the while the stalwarts were executing their manoeuvres.
 Tonight despite an early rain anc the promise of more, the most remark able pageant in the history of Shrine dom was held.
 All InC CI6CA P0tAOAb hoNe made the order famous, were in line under lights and colors that reminded the historically inclined of the Zou- ayes of Aboukir marching to battle.
 This parade consumed almost an hour to pass e given point and there was no passing through the streets while its several miles of length were anywhere In view.
 Today the imperial council held a .Not In tr address declared the present member ship of the Shrine to be 14o.0o0. an increase of 1S.0OO during the past year, while the financial condition showed a surplusage that would buy a corner on Wall street.
 It was declared tonight by those enabled to know that there would be serious opposition to the begging up system and that George K. Street oi Richmond. Va. may not. as Is the custom. move up from imperial dep uty potentate to imperial potentate There are other candidates. If the custom Is not followed. W. Freeland Hendricks. of Lulu Temple, Philadel- phia, may win his strong fight for i'm perial outer guard
 If 1t Is followed, it is likely that Ellis Lewis, Garretson, of Tacoma Wash, for whom the Northwest is working as one man. may win the prize One of the questions which the imperial divan will be asked to set tie at this meeting will be brought uu by Potentate R. V. Kuhn. of CaleT Temple, of Lewiston. Idaho. on ths question of admitting members.
 He will ask that no member be al- lowed to change his temple unless he has removed into the territory of the temple with which he seeks to af' hliate.
 Dispieased because It's hotel allot- ment had been cut to ten rooms In this city, Medinah Temple. of Chicago the largest in America. refused to take part in the parade tonight.
 Potentate Lampert says he will make sure of early reservation at the next convention. Few members ol an hand