The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-08
MERIDIAN SHRINE
 HAVING GOOD TIME Spent Two Hours in Bir- mingham Last Night as
 Guest of Locals

The Nobles of the Mystic Shrine
 swooped down upon the city late yester-
 day afternoon and held the municipality
 against all oofhers until after o'clock
 last night, the occasion being the enter
 talnment arranged here for the nobles from Meridian, who stopped over in the
 Magic City for two hours while en route
 to Rochester, where the grand conclave
 will be held beginning Monday.
 Imperial Potentate Franklin B. Keiser and James Richmond McGregor assumed l the leading roles In the local shrine | Things started off with some deafening | but bewitching music at the Terminal sta- | ton exactly at o'clock, when the Merid- ian special came into the Terminal sta
 ton. Many persons believing that Nappis band was attending another shirt sale on Fifth avenupe, crowded up to find to their amazement that the nobility dressed in the raiment of the royal divan was ac- oording some brothers the rare brand of entertainment found nowhere else.
 The nobles with one brass band the Arab patrol and the official musc-makers of the royal aggregation formed into 
 James Richmond McGregor. In the honor place was the patrol from Meridian, with its band. while in long string of auto mobiles some royal ladies were enthroned.
 Down Fifth avenue they came until Twentieth street was reached, and then in royal splendor they swung up that thoroughfare Down First avenue to the Shubert theatre and thence to the Hill man hotel completed the drilling. The ladies of the party were thereupon de- tached from the ceremonial part of the programme and whisked out Highland avenue around by the Country club and back to the Hillman for dinner.
 In the meantime the two Arab patrols were trying to show which could drill | the best. They maneuvered downtown
 while interested citizens gazed at the fig
 ures. The two teams which were seen yesterday afternoon are among the best
 drilled In the entire land of Shrinedom. l At the Hllman the guests from Meridian I were seated at dinner with a large num- | Der of prominent Birmingham citizens and officials. President Culpepper Exum was there and made the visitors feel perlectly dt Hofne III 6lrfnlnBHtfl
 | The occasion was carefully arranged by Potentate Keiser and the other Shriners
 and the Meridian citizens expressed the | fond hope that Rochester would be found as hospitable as Birmingham.
 Tonight at 10 o'clock the special train of local Shriners will leave for Rochester | One hundred or more will be aboard and 1 a fine time is anticipated Potentate | Keiser will be In charge of the train,
 while Captain McGregor of the patrol will
 part over the Queen and Crescent route | from the Terminal station and Hugh Lat
 inner of that line will be with the special | The local nobles will return in one week. | The local nobles will return in one week. The Meridian S,4Tiners here yesterday
 evening were headed by Potentate w.
 Meade, Recorder A. J. Peck and the fol-
 lowing delegates to the grand divan:
 MT. Meade, Mir. Peck, Allen McCombs,
 E. J. Martin and o. L. Mckay.
 Besides about 45 ladies the following
 nobhes were included in the party:
 George Chowder, Sam Greenwald, pr.
 S B. Flint, T. J. Chidlaw, Sam Myers,
 w E. Johnes, J. M. Breach, Dave Lewis,
 E. L. Gaston, l.. Ullman, Ben Felde-
 bloom, T. A. Kemster Tom Moore, l.
 H. Stickney, R. P. Hall. J. R. Rowzo,
 ]. L. Orky, LeLoyd Lyle. R. W. Hun ter, Jr., Sam Askew, Aubert Smith,
 W. c. Hodges. J. H. Blachard. c. l.. Jackson and others.