The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-06-10
STREET HEADS
 THE SHRINERS Elected Imperial Poten-
 tate of Order. s- OTHER OFFICERS ARE cHo,~ : Date of Imperial Council Set Back
 to April New Orleans Chosen as Next Meetins Place But Council Reserves
 Right to Change the Plans.
OTHER OFFICERS ARE cHo,s ' :


 fairs played a great part today, the third of the thirty-fifth annual ses- sion of the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine and the final one of business for the Imperial Council.
 They. as standard bearers of the Scimitar and the Crescent. chose New Orleans. the Crescent City, for the 1910 ing back from June to April 13, thus showing wariness of the hot Southern sun; and they recognized the planet of Indianapolis in choosing It's star. Po- tentate Ellis D. Jacoby. as Imperiai Outer Guard.
 This lowest office on the imperial di- Van puts Mir. Jacoby on the round for his fourteen year clifnb to the position of Imperial Potentate, to which office George l.. Street of Richmond. Va.. was elected today.
 By electing Mir. Street, the Shyiners set themselves again on record as op- posing any change in the custom of moving the offices up one." to which there had developed some opposition.
 Charters were also granted today to the following whose banners and claims had besprinkled the town with color and made 1t echo with noise all week: Terre Haute, Ind; PittsburE, Kansas City; Wichita, Norfolk, Va; El Paso, Texas; Grand Forks. N. D. Charters were refused Macon. Ca. and Newburg. N. Y.
 The Imperial Council let 1t be known that it, in future, ''frowns down all wholesale distribution of liquor.. and 1t will next year pass resolution for bidding the distribution of expensive badges among Shriners. because ft breeds souvenir hunters"
 The roster of officers for the year ia as follows:
 Imperial Potentate = George L.. Street. of Richmond. Va. Imperial deputy ipotentate--Tredsr ick K. Hines. of Los Angeles.
 Imperial chief rabban-W. !. Cum | ningham. of Baltimore.
 Imperial high. priest and prophet William " Irwin. of Wheeling.
 Imperial oriental guider-Jacob T. Barron, of Columbia, &. c. Imperial treasurer--wfiiIafn s.
 Brown of Pittsbnrg (re-elacted.y
 Imperial recorder--Ben W RoweIl. of Boston (re-electad.)
 Imperial first ceremonial master Frederick R. Smith of Rochester, N. Y.
 Imperial second ceremonial master -J. P. Stevens, of Portland, Me. Imperial marshal-Henry W. Neid- ringhaus. of St. Louis.
 Imperial captain of the guard Charles E. Ovenshine of MinneanoIia
 Imperial Outer Guard, Elias b. Ia. coby, Indianapolis. Ind.
 MT. Jacoby, who is prominent law yer, and former partner of Chas. W. Fairbanks. won over Freeiand Kend- rick of Philadelphia, who withdrew in the second ballot and made the Jacoby election unanimous. As the mogul of Shrinedom came from the balIotina q, rooms, he was seized by an army of waiting nobles and hugged. As had been generally expected, New Orleans won the prize for which it came in state to Louisville and Is. the third city in the South to entertain tho Shriners Dallas. Texas. and Louisville being the others. Toledo, Ohio, and Richmond. Va, were competitors but their fate was seen in a resolution adopted preliminary to the voting which provided that the session should be held in another month than June.
 It was also decided that the Imperial | Council learning that hotel rates have been increased in a coming convention | city may change the location of the | session. Rochester has many pledges | for 1911.
 Threats of rain and then patterinR showers spoiled sport in the way of au- tomobile racing, at Douglas Park to- day. where Lewis Strang and Barney 1 Oldfeld met for the first time. Ofd. 0. It had been planned to have a nassed band concert after the races and a reg mental drill of the brilliantly garbcd patrol on the track. but the rain and the mud curtailed this program to fra- dividual drills and band concerts fol- lowed by a supper to the patrol by Kosair Temple. the Louisville hosts. Chairman Frank Fehr of the Louia- vile men, 9 scented the drill teams with handso...e cups on behalf of Ken lucky and each member of the patrols was given a massive watch fob. Drill. ing went on at the armory hall all day and tonight there was an old time Southern minstrel show by 800 Ken- lucky negroes.
 Tomorrow a grand ball and other entertainments ends the session. | According to Potentate Alderman, no spectacle in the history of Mason ry has equalled the pageant of 5000 streets last nighs The lights were strange and garish; the costumes riv- aled for spIendor and bizarre tone the appearance of a group of Bodouins on | the desert in the moonlight: the bands were many and willing, and the fea- lures were among the most novel ever seen.
 Miss Gerald Hager. dressed in white and mounted before Fl Hasa Temple of Ashland. Ky. and Miss Mildred Stewart, daughter of William Stewart. of Osman Temple. St Paul, Minn '. who walked before the red garbed Os- mans attracted chief attention and