The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-11-21

SHR|NERS AND
VICTIMS PARADE
Mobiles Have Their Annual Bio
Day of Walking the
Hot Sands.

Wearers of the fez and aspirants for
the coveted honor have trod hot sands
en- route to the Shriner Temple on
former occasions but none of the sands
were as hot as those provided yester-
day by Old SOL Whether it was that
the bunch rounded up and tied to the
rope and told to hold on tight was an
aggregation of particularly good fellows
and loyal Masons or whether it was in
The spirit of helping out the head fez
wearers, Old Sol stood in and actually
made the pavements bake. Never
again " the rope holders can gurgle this
morning, because it is all over and they
won't have to be led over the sands
again. but they re mighty glad it only
comes once in their lives.
Shrinerdom owned the town yesterday
and they made SO much noise in the
X. of P. hall, where they initiated the
novices into the art of wearing the fez,
that the fire gong across the way sound
ed once absolutely unheard. The agon-
lied wells fell upon unsympathetic ears
of police officers on the street, who had
orders from the sheriff to let the novices
be slain if they wanted to be. The hall
of .terrors. while guarded against be-
ing seen by inquisitive reporters and
all others, by scimetar-bearing mobiles
in tuxedos, was filled with mechanical
devices designed to inspire terror into
the hearts of the rope-carriers, but 1T
is understood at an early hour this
morning that the novices behaved very
well under the strain and showed that
they were truly entitled to wear
tuxedo and a fez in the next annual
parade.
There was a parade, of course, like
all three-ring circuses. The menagerie
had to be aired and so with the Ha
waiian band in the van the Shriners
paraded the town through lanes of
curious Honolulans. 1t was a great
parade. Next came the officials of
Aloha Temple in full oriental regalia,
scimetars flashing. white boards frisking
in the wind, all looking like triumphant
shieks on the way home from a vic
torious battlefield.
The high officers of the order of
the fez were all in line, Potentate
CHARLES G. Boekus being followed by
the chief rabban, Robert w. Breckons,
accompanied by James S. MeCandiess,
assistant rabban. Next came the high
priest and the prophet. Arthur G. Hold
Gins, and following was Charles G. Bart
lett, oriental guide. Next came Frank
+. Richardson. marshal and George H.
Angus. director. The alchemist. H. J.
Grindell and f. Munro, past chemist,
were next. Following in the line of
march was Christian Storm, standard
bearer and in his train was the camel,
assistant director.
In line was also a decrepit-lOoki2g
camel and a baby elephant, then a
Chinese dragon of gorgeous colors, and
Turkish band. the members Of which
were Ernest Kaai's band of Hawaiian
singers. carrying gourd drums and fage-
Diets. playing music which sounded like
a fragment from the old Midway of the
Chicago world 5 fair.
The funny side of the parade was
the section devoted to the novices who
had been particularly chosen to wear
whatever habiliments their torturers
compelled them TO don. An afternoon
paper. devoting considerable space TO
those in line. made some swift changes
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