Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-07-14
AK SAR BEN IS
OPENED To ONE
NEWARK TOURIST
Eastern Motorists Given High
Honor When They Arrive
in Omaha.

Eastern motor tourists, including DR..
and Mrs. Hugh F. Cook, of his city,
who are making a c-ross-country jaunt
from ocean to ocean, were initiated
into the mysteries of AK Sar Ben during
the s~ojourn in Omaha, where they
stopped to outfit for the last leg of the
journey.
Dust covered, tired and hot, the
party of fasteners, which consisted
of well-known business men of Wash
ington, Indianapolis, Philadelphia and
New York, arrived at Omaha late Mon
day night after a forty-five mile run
from Avon, where a stop was made
for lunch. The tourists were met at
police detail, members of the Omaha
Motor Club, representatives from the
AK Sar Ben organization and a COM
mittee from the Commercial Club, of
Omaha.
No soone had the tourists been
quartered at the Henshaw hotel tina
the male members of the party were
whisked out to the AK Sar Ben den,
where, with Governor Chester Aldrich,
of Nebraska, they were indicted into
the mysteries of the organization.
Everett Buckingham, the king of the
organization, personally conducted the
fasteners and saw to it that they got
all that was coming to them. Miss
Frances Nash, queen, sent a message
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tighten the burden as the tourists were
lead through the subterranean passages
and mysterious channels of the den.
The terrors of %chugging across the
country under a hot sun and over
roads heavy with dust were nothing as
compared to the terrors of the initia-
ton. But the game fasteners stood
up to the task like true majors. After
their initiation they heaved a sigh of
relief, yet expressed satisfaction that
they had experienced the same fortunes
that President Taft and former Presi-
LEM Roosevelt had undergone before
them.
A High Tribute.
That the Fasteners were singled
out for such marked entertainment
was a tribute to the good fellowship
OF the D1eII1DeTS OI lA6 party. 4NOih'
but good fellows are permitted to In
vestigate the mysteries of the organ
ization. Class lines are forgotten and
the public man sits beside him
who, has not been so fortunate in
winning the appreciation of his fell
lows, while the millionaire reaches
across the table and shakes hands with
those who have not been so successful
In accommodating this worlds goods.
AK Sar Ben is the mardi gras of the
West and the den where the limitations
are held Is a mammoth structure, COW
ering an entire block. The organiza-
ton consists of a king, a queen, the
board Of governors. and the brothers
of the household. 1t Is this secret cir
Gle known as the brotherhood to which
the tourists were admitted.
Those who made up the party We're:
Mr.. and Mrs. J. G. Mopihan, George
A. Parker. Mr.. and Mrs. George allen,
John Allen, c.. G. A. Loder, Howard
Weatherly, Hazard Lippincott, Hugh
O'Donnell and Charles A. Lex, all Of
Philadelphia; Mr.. and Mrs. N. E.
Sprague, Mr.. and Mrs. G. e. Horton,
Mr.. and Mrs c e Brown, Mr.. and
Mrs. j. H. Murphy, Harry Davis, John
Matthews, F A. Moller, j. A. Moller,
w. Sherman Rose, of New York; DR..
and Mrs. Hugh F. Cook. of Newark;
Mr. and Mrs. c. Francis Jenkins, Of
Washington, d. c.; Mr.. and Mrs. P. w.
Baker and Mr. and Mrs. S. M. Root, Of
indianapolis, Ind; Ray F. Mcnamara
and A. ]. Wolf, of Indianapolis.
During their visit In Omaha the
tourists were given the freedom of the
city. After Quitting there. they were
escorted to the city limits by a special
police detail and sent IN their wa
rejoicing in the treatment received
while in Omaha.