Albuquerque morning journal., 1910-11-24
Gentlemen OF the Fez VIII
Take Over the Town To-day
Gorgeous Street Pageant by
the ShrinerS at 2 O'Clock This
Aftenooni Imperial Potentate
Arrives, This Being First 0C-
casion Of High Honor for
Twenty-Five Years,

Everything goes in Albuquerque
this afternoon.
At o'clock past meridian, Ballut
Abyad Temple. ancient Arabic or
der Of Mobiles OF the Mystic shrine,
will begin to stir up things. The
stunt for o'clock is the grand pa
rade, which promises to be little
bit more surprising and startling than
any OF the somewhat unique street
pagcants erecutcd by the ShrinerS mere
features of this procession but there
crecy has been maintained about the
features Of this eprocession, but there
is wen defined rumor that the two
bears Of the William farr private
menagerie will be conspicuous, while
a Gla monster drawing the old stage
coach will be particularly worthy OF
note, not to mention two bald eagles
from the Manzanos, which viii pro-
pei an aeroplane from which will
dangle the twenty hapless candidates
who have been rounded up for tor
ture at this meeting The ceremo-
NAL session starts at 4 o'clock, last
ing until 6:30 when there viii be an
intermission lasting until $3.50. Al
ter the conclusion Of the session, the
big banquet will be served at the AL
varado. the guest of honor to be impe-
rial Potentate Fred a. Hines, who ar
rived from lei Paso last night and was
greeted by q delegation of the Shrine.
THE pleasure is all mine,' protested
Mr. Hines, but the Shriners VIII see
to it that the pleasure is mutual ana
an around before the meeting comes
To "a close. This is the first time III
quarter of a century that the natlola
chief of the Shrine has visited Ballut
Abvad Temple Immediately follow
ing the parade this afternoon WIZ pe
the distribution of Thanksgiving do
nations to the INDECENT people of the
city.
Mr.. Hines arrived in Albuquerque
ON No. yesterday evening, coming
from Austin, Texas, where q JOINT ses-
sion by all -four temples ol Texas was
held In the senate chamber lie is
not a stranger to Albuquerque, haV-
ing visited this city at various times
in the past lie was greatly aston
ished at the growth Of the city since
his last visit here.
"This Is my fifty-ninth visitation
since my election at New Orleans in
APRIL" said Mr. Hines last night
INV Jurisdiction extends from 81
Johns New Brunswick. 60 Honolulu
ana from victoria, u. C.. TO the CltF
of Mexico. The shrine has mem-
bership today of 10000 comprising
123 temples. and it is nay effort 90
visit as many OF the shrines as pos
sible for the purpose OF placing the
iugtitution upon that high plane II
should ocupy by virtue of lia pre-
requisite degrees. My inspections
have shown that our order ls ~
splendid condition.
"I ann most happy to be with Bnl-
INF Abvad tomple for more reasons
than one. Fifst' because my
known number OF the members i"f
many years. and second, because
am again In the west. that / love 80
much with the first breath on
mountain air this morning J feit the
prcsenee of home and could not uul
apurecirtr how fortunate we are VINO
itve in the west. ] am not stranger
In this country. having been familiar
with an cf New Mexico for the past
twenty years.
"Ballut Abvad has q splendid repn-
tatlnn as live shrine and as having
n membership that shrinedom of
North America may well he proud "i.
am looking forward with "a great
deal of pleasure TO tomorrow s festiN-
tiles
n was one of six Who made Presl-
dent piaz Of Mexico shrincr ana
4, esisted ln institutine the temple 10
Mexico city. / am hoping to VISIT the
CITY OF Mexico In january and on
February, viii sail from san Fran
2 isco ON q private steamer io Inspect
the temple at Honolulu and to CON
fer the degree in tho crater oi the
volcano. Klowcah. ON september ~
I dedicated The Detils Slide in liah
to the use of The temple of Salt Lake
Cifv M wr conferred the degree on
the spot as it WAS quite appropriate
to tho ceremonies NJ the order.
Mr Hines BE- returning 60 his nome
in Los Angeles nom Trip ga t"iee