Evening journal., 1911-06-27
SHOREPREPARES
ELK WELCOME
Atlantic City to be Beautiful
fer the Hello Bill"
BeyS
MAKING READY
THE HEADQUARTERS

ATLANTIC CITY. June 27.-From
end to end and side to side Atlantic
City, gay mecca of the pleasure seek
ers. viii be transformed into verit-
able symphony in royal purple as a
htting tribute to the hundred thousand
Elks due here two weeks hence for
the twenty-fifth Grand Lodge Reunion
Of the Order
To make good the city's reputation
for doing things upon an elaborate
scale. hotel proprietors and business
men will spend $4,000 for bunting
alone. in order that none may say that
Atlantic City did not go the limit TO
make itself as pretty as the most eX-
acting would have it.
Half as much again viii be expended
for electrical effects upon hotels. the
broad avenues and the internationally
famous Boardwalk, the Wooden Way
of rhyme and reason, which for fve
full miles. from the Inlet where the
yachts are to be found, down 10 Chel-
sea. where the millionaires of many
cities have their summer villas, will be
canopied after nightfall with mean
descent FIRE.
Gorgeous Steel Pier.
Huge electric signs upon the Board
walk caravansaries Will fash
TO the stranger the headquarters Of
state and city delegations, and the
Steel Pier with its crashing bands
where the Grand Lodge Will hold its
sessions and everything will be free
to the wearer of the convention but
ton. will be gorgeously bedecked with
purple bunting by day and bathed in
purple radiance after dark.
Atlantic avenue, one hundred feet
wide. where the great Reunion parade
will take place on the fourth day of
convention week. will be a bunting
swathed boulevard. Business houses
and office buildings will be gorgeous
in their decorations. Stands of colors
will wave from every lighting stand
ard up and down the broad thorough
fare City Hall, where nearly every
ofiice-holder is a staunch Elk, Will be
respiendent with electrical effects OUT
lining the insignia Of the order. Strings
of purple incandescent globes upon
the trolley standards will carry out
the semblance of canopy of blue flre.
HEADQUARTERS are already being
MADE READY lot iht NtithaNh'hn AAoAH
FAR and near which Will shortly be
moving shoreward. Grand Exalted
Ruler Hermann and busy Grand
Lodge officers with mass OF detal
recurring their attention before the
Grand Lodge Is called to order ON the
morning Of July 10th, are expected TO
take possession of the Hotel Strand,
which is to be Grand Lodge head
quarters, during the week Of the Bird.
A suite of twenty rooms Will be util-
lied tor business purposes.
The fight for the Grand Exalted Rul-
ership will be one of the closest con-
tests of its kind In recent years. ac-
cording to present indications. Arthur
Noreland. of New York, Will command
the backing Of New York Lodge, No.
i. with all of its powerful influence.
Charles A Rasbury, of Dallas, Will
come TO the shore with a large body OF
delegates from the west and south
west earnestly supporting his cause.
Col Sullivan. of New Orleans. with
the south enlisted under his banner,
feels even greater confidence since
Cincinnati. the home lodge of Grand
Exalted Ruler Hermann, declared for
him, and Chester p. Ray, OF Philadel-
phia. endorsed his cause. Past Grand
Exalted Ruler Sammis and his follow
ers are said to be for the man from
Dallas.
What will be the outcome. however,
of the balloting of the 2700 delegates
voicing the sentiment of 100000 Elks,
will be a matter Of speculation. how
ever until the vote is cast and counted,
Army Officers and Elkdom.
General +. r Davis, T. s. A., OF New
York, an Elk with q proud record OF
military service. has mapped out plans
for an elaborate hospital service IN
connection with the annual parade
The offer Of prizes aggregating S340t
in cash is expected TO stimulate in
terest in this side of the reunion and
make the parade the biggest the Elkl
have held in ten years. General Davis
is making his arrangements accord
lngly.