The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-04-09
Chicago Visitors Are Shown Live Time At Ceremonial
 Session of zam0ra
INITIATES ARE TAKEN l FOR A LONG JOURNEY
Today Will Be Devoted to Sightseeing and Getting Acquaintcd-Spccisl
 Trains Will Move Toward New Orleans During Day

Were going to New Orleans,
 We're going to New Orleans.
 Where the men are all good fellows, And the ladies are all queens.
 We're glad we've come and we're going
 some,
 AnG you know very well what that means. For we're from Old Medinah,
 And we're going to New Orleans"
 Zamora temple welcomed the caravan from old Medinah, and last night the over the sands with big class of candi- dates to be initiated.
 The Medinah nobes, consisting of some of the most proffiinent citizens of Chicago, reached Birmingham at exactly o'clock over the Alabama Great Southern rail- road. In the party are 36 ladies, 10o nobles and two railroad men. Their special train is an exact dupli- cate of the Pennsylvania Railroad com pany's 1s-hour train from New York to Chicago, composed of eight coaches, one combination baggage and buffet car, one baggage and electric car, with a complete electric plant furnishing the lights for the whole train; five Pullmans and one ob servation car. Whenever necessary to take meals. they pick up two diners
 The party left Chicago Sunday and have visited Cincinnati, Chattanooga, Knox vile, Asheville, Atlanta and will leave tonight for New Orleans to attend the imperial council. Everywhere the Shrin- CTS have given them royal entertainment, but Birmingham is the first to prepare a ceremonial session for their benefit.
 When the train drew up at the Termi- nal Zamora nobes and the Arab patrol were drawn up in line, and the band played Dixie as the Medinah nobles dis mounted and drew up in line, the beau- tiful red and gold Turkish costumes of Zamora on one side and the blue and red of Medlnah's drill corps on the other.
 When Mednah's Oriental band of l4 in- struments had given several selections of that weird music and both temples had cheered each other, they moved off down Fifth avenue amid the hurrahs of the crowd which had gathered.
 Headed by Marshal Ed Kyser the hand some Turks from Chicago, four abreast. with the Oriental band first. and the drill corps following, passed under the esplanade and presented a wonderful east ern picture as they executed a number of difficult drills.
 The drill crops was commanded by Capt B. s. Wilson, and the whole party by lllustrious Potentate John c. Hallenbeck, with Robert J. Daly chief rabban and Harry D. Piatt assistant rabban.
 Paul Moffet, the A-year-oid son of Moi tate of Zamora temple, carried Zamora's banner, while Sam Foley of Pratt City carried large United States flag at the head of the local nobles.
 Bandmaster Lew Lazarus, in full cere- monial array, accompanied by little Ed Warren and Joseph William Riddle were with the Arab patrol.
 The highest official with the visitors Is Frank c. Roundy, a past illustrious potentate of Medinah, and a past im- per.al potentate of the imperial council. The patrol Is made up of doctors, bank CTS and commission men, as well as clerks and men of every profession The party also has several representatives of the Grand Army of the Consistory.
 E. IT, Skinkle, an old newspaper man, with his turban on the side of his head and the stride of a man who lost all but his knees in the sands, is one of the noblest of the nobles. He carries the scimetar and the crescent as an ear ring.
 Another newspaper man with the party is J. l.. Lee of the Examiner, who is g years old and has taken the thirty-second degree, and is one of the youngest Shrin- CTS in the country.
 So, they marched into the Hillman. drew up once more in the lobby, sang Were going to New Orleans" and were entertained at supper in the dining room At o'clock the ladies were taken to the Bijou theatre, and the nobles loped of toward the Orpheum.
 By this time the town was full of Shriners. coming from all over Alabama Every hotel is practically filled, and the crowd at the ceremonial session last night must have been close to lC00
 Across the front of the theatre blazed In electric lights Welcome to Medinah," and just how that welcome was expressed within, only the nobles of the shrine can tell.
 A great wide desert was there. The sand storm came up, and into the journey dashed the local shriners with the class of candidates. Their cries for help and succ6r reached the outside, but were never answered. Among them were: Hampton 8. Smith, Alex P. McI4endon, John F. Penton, George M. schwend,