The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-06-10
MYSTIC SHR|NERS
 END CONVENTION New Orleans Is Chosen As Place
 For Next Meeting ALL OFFICERS ELECTED Elias D. Jacoby of Indianapolis Is Chosen Imperial Outer Guard and Now in Line to Become
 Imperial Potentate.
ALL OFFICERS ELECTED

Louisville. June 9-Solar affairs played great part today, the third of the thirty fifth annual session of the Nobles of the | Mystic Shrine, and the final one of busi- ness for the imperial council. They, as 1 standard-bearers of the scimitar and the ! crescent, chose New Orleans, the Cres- cent City, for the 1910 convention; they set the date of meeting back from June to April F, thus showing wariness of the hot southern sum and they recog- nized the planet of Indianapolis in choos- ing it's star, Potentate Ellis D. Jacoby, as imperial outer guard
 This lowest office on the imperial divan puts MT. Jacoby on the round for his IA year climb to the position of imperial po- tentate, to which office George L. Street of Richmond was elected today.
 By electing MT. Street the shriners set themselves again on record as opposing any change in the custom of moving the officers "up one," to which there had de- veloped some opposition
 Charters were also granted today to the following whose banners and claims had besprinkled the town with color and made it echo with noise all week:
 Terre Haute, Ind; Pttsburg Kan. Wichita, Kan; Norfolk, Va. El Paso, Tex, and Grand Forks, N. D.
 Charters were refused to Macon, Ga., and Newburg N. Y.
 The imperial council let it be known that it in future "frowns down all wholesale distribution of liquor" and will next year pass resolution forbid ding the distribution of expensive badges for exchange among Shriners, because it breeds mad souvenir hunters"
 The roster of officers for the year is as follows:
 Imperial potentate, George L. Street of Richmond.
 Imperial deputy potentate, Frederick K. Hines of Los Angeles.
 Imperial chief rabban, W. J. Cunning ham of Baltimore
 Imperial high priest and prophet, Will liam w. Irwin of Wheeling, W. Va.
 Imperial oriental guide, Jacob T. Bar ron of Columbia.
 Imperial treasurer William S. Brown of Pittsburg (re-elected).
 Imperial recorder Benjamin w. Rowell of Boston (re-elected).
 Imperial first ceremonial master, Fred erick R. Smith of Rochester.
 Imperial second ceremonial master J. P. Stevens of Portland.
 Imperial marshal, Henry w Nedring- haus of St. Louis.
 Imperial captain of the guard, Charles E. Ovenshine of Minneapolis
 Imperial outer guard, Elias D. Jacoby of Indianapolis.
 MT Jacoby. who is a prominent lawyer and former partner of Charles w. Fair banks. won over Freeland Kendrick of Philadelphia, who withdrew in the second l.- imous.
 As the new mogul of Shrinerdom came from the baloting 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 the Shriners, Dallas, Tex. and Louisville being the others. Toledo. O.. and Richmond, Va. were competitors but their fate was seen in a resolution adopted preliminary to the voting which provided that the sessions in the future 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 conven- tion city may change the location of the session.
 Rochester has many pledges for 1911
 Threats of rain and then pattering
 
 tomobile racing at Douglas park today where Lewis Strang and Barney Oldfield met for the first time, Oldfeld winning by an eighth of a mile. It had been planned to have a massed band concert after the races and a regimental drill of the brilliantly garbed patrol on the track, but the rain and the mud curtailed the programme to indicidual drills and band concerts, followed by a supper to the patrol by Kosiar Temple, the Louisville hosts.
 Chairman Frank Fehr of the Louis- vile men presented the drill teams with handsome cups on behalf of Kentucky and each member of the patrols was given a massive watch fob
 Drilling went on at the armory all day and tonight there was an old-tme south ern minstrel show by 300 Kentucky ne- groes.
 Tomorrow a grand ball and other en- tertainments end the session.