The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-04-13
MYSTIC SHR|NERS
TAKE NEW ORLEANS
Over $4,000 Visitors Are Pres
ent at the Conclave
FINE REPORTS MADE
FINE REPORTS MADE
Membership Has Increased Rapidly
During Past Year-Uniaue Fca-
lures Are Exhibited by the
Different Delegations

New Orleans, April 12.-With the ar
rival of the last visiting delegations.
the Mobiles of the Mystic Shrine in an
business and opened the thirty-sixth
meeting of the imperial council.
During the last "a hours the number of
Shriners in the city has been greatly
enhanced and tonight the registry indi-
Gates that upwards of 5000 visitors, OFF,
cial or otherwise, are in attendance.
The reports of Imperial Potentate
George L. Street, Imperial Recorder B..
w. Rowell and Imperial Treasurer Will
liam S. Brown were submitted today
They show that during the last year
there has been net increase in the mem
bership of 11021. There Is now total
balance in the treasury of s107, 4l6.S.
In the report of the imperial potentate
comment Is made on his order concern
ing uniformed female patrols. The order
was to the effect that no temple of the
Shriners would be allowed to organize any
uniformed body of women and introduce
them into any ceremonial session or per-
nit them to appear in any parade. The
order grew out of the appearance of
patrols of uniformed women in the pa
rades at Louisville, Ky, last year. This
order will be taken up for final action,
one way or the other, by the imperial
council.
The report of the recorder showed that
Medinah temple of Chicago still leads
with a membership of 1888. Mecca of New
York coming second with $3.50 members.
other temples with large memberships
are Aleppo of Boston, Gill: Lulu of Phil
adelphia, 1909; Islam of San Francisco,
1868, and Syria of Pittsburg, S471.
With business over for time, CAM
paigning for next years conclave was
again resumed. Milwaukee, Wis, and
Rochester, n. Y, are still the leading
candidates. although the names of De-
troit, Mich, and Spokane, Wash, also
will appear on the official ballot. 1t is
generally understood that if Rochester
and Milwaukee tie hopelessly, Detroit
will step in and claim the honor in 1911,
and that if it fails in this it will at least
have paved the way for the conclave in
1912. At the present time the fight be-
tween Rochester and Milwaukee is a
spirited one.
In parade the Aladdin parole of Column
bus, O., is attracting much attention in
their drills.
The Texans gave New Orleans some
what of a setback when they offered to
take all the city had of a single COM
modify. When asked what this COM
modify was they said white roses. The
Texas temples wanted the roses for pri-
vate entertainment of their own. They
| agreed to pay for all that were
brought them and the city's supply, so
far as the florists were concerned, was
completely exhausted.
Loyal to their city, even while within
the gates of it's rival for the Panama
exposition honors, the members OF Islam
temple of San Francisco are proving
themselves among the most hospitable
hosts here. In their suite at one of the
local hotels they are entertaining many
other visiting mobiles, and incidentally tell
ing them that San Francisco is the place
to celebrate the completion of the big
canal. Their quarters have been boun-
teously stocked with the choicest fruits,
wines and other products of their state.
and their guests have been numerous.
Two Texas Shriners, who had discard
ed their red fez caps for Mexican SOM
breros, very early today rode their bur-
ros into the Grunewald hotel, cantered
up to the desk and registered, burros and
all.
Tonight merry-making is in order and
the shriners are indulging in many forms
of amusement
Some trepidation has been caused
among the attending members of the or
der by the declaration of the New York
delegation that they had a few tricks up
their sleeve" The representatives of this
temple arrived here yesterday by steam
er with the announcemnt that damage
suits against the temple had only been
averted by a realization of the spirit of
fraternalism. The loss of mustaches and
boards, the excessive use of rice in show
ering a Shriner bridal couple and other
actions on the part of the delegation were
ascribed as possible basis for the threat
ened proposals to recover at law. THE
tricks up the sleeve are still awaiting
development.
Claiming the distinction of being the
first temple in America to own their
camels, Molla temple of st. Joseph, Mo.
attracted much attention today by har-
Messing their evidence to carts and fol-
lowing up their proof through the main
streets of the city Ell Paso, with its herd
of burros, scorned this idea of originality.
Following on the heels of this declara-
| ton, Benz Kedem temple of Charleston,
w. Va, laid claim to the "only white
mule mascot owned by any temple in the
| United States and asserted that they
| were only afraid they couldn't take the
| animal back home because her name was
Dixie" The Memphis Shriners then
| proceeded to put into evidence the young
est camel of the Shriners-yet unnamed
The animal is two weeks old and accom-.
panies It's parents here on it's first pilgrim.
age across the intervening sands.