The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1911-05-19
MASONS BACK
FROM MOBILE
INITIATION
THEY RETURNED TO THE CITY
YESTERDAY MORNING AFTER A
VERY INTERESTING STAY IN
MOBILE.

The party of Masons who left here
Monday in a special car for Mobile,
returned yesterday and announced a
most interesting stay in that city. The
trip was to witness the initiation by
the Shriners of a large class, about
half of when were from this section,
OF the event the Mobile Register says:
Members of Abba Temple, Ancient
Arabic Order, Mobiles of the Mystic
Shrine, gathered in Scottish Rite Tenn
pie, on St. Francis street, last night
and listened to the prayers and plead
fngs and passed judgment upon the
petitions of forty three unregenerate
sons of the desert, who were carried
across the burning sands and finally
admitted among those of the true
faith. Following the long and tire
some journey, which began with many
at Pensacola and continued until IL
o'clock last night, the pilgrims were
refreshed by the annual traditional
banquet, presided over by Potentate H.
II. Wefel, Jr.
The Pensacola novitiates, accom-
panied by Pensacola Shriners, arrived
in Mobile with visitors from sixteen
other GASES. on the Louisville and
Nashville southbound 4:12 train We'd
inesday afternoon. The novitiates were
met at the depot by the members of
Abba Temple. The visiting mobiles
were taken in automobiles to Scottish
Rite Temple and the novitiates were
chained together, tied with ropes,
guarded by mobiles with cat o'nine
tails and dragged behind the patrol
wagon to the temple of the Mystic
Shrine.
The patrol wagon led the procession
and the candidates were followed by
fourteen automobiles occupied by those
of the True Faith. Up Government
street to Royal, north on Royal to
Dauphin, and thence to Scottish Rite
Cathedral the victims were led to the
slaughter, followed by a crowd of
laughing, jibing boys, pointed at and
.pitied by members of the weaker sex,
objects of ridicule, but with 1t all
bearing up under the ordeal proudly.
The novitiates lived up to the motto:
1.-THE test of a good Shriner is whether
he can ST. in a bushel basket of bum
bic bees, eat an angleworm sandwich,
trim his toe nails with a meat ak, re-
main suspended twenty feet in the air
hanging to an icicle with his teeth,
and still keep his temper
Upon teaching the cathedral the
Shriners convened in business session,
adjourning at Q o'clock into ceremonial
session, when the candidates were put
through the last stages OF the "pfl-
grimages" which lasted until IL
O'Clock.
Followed BY Banquet.
At IL o'clock Mobile Shriners and
visiting members of the Mystic Shrine
and the new wrought Mobiles, sal
down to a bountiful spread and
drowned their sorrows in the bliss OF
a menu, elegantly prepared and served
The visitors left this morning on the
1;55 Louisville and Nashville train fol
their respective homes.
The candidates initiated at the ca
thedral last night were Messrs. B. f
Adams, w. G. Austin, f. l.. Billiard
A. Cunningham, E. M. Cunningham
"A. E. Fowlkes, ]. w. Hazard. ID. w
Henley, R g. Hoover, ]. ]. Howell
W. Hunter, ]. L. Mathis, d. D. Muir
ply, G. Nelson, A. F. Norquist, ]. L
A. Peuhs. S. Pouncey ]. w. Prest-
wood, Jr., G. A. Born, B. M. Askew, ]
III. Goodwin, J. w. Williams, T..
Wright, j. A. Lyle, W, G. Barrineau
v. F. Balkcom, F. j. Gilbert, William
Fisher, r. B. Saunders, A. H. Baker
A. G. Blount III, S. M. Loftin, E. M
Seasons, T. T. Phillips, L. H. Paul. G
=. Bennett E. M. Parker. J.. B. Nc.
NeilL j. MCLAUGHLIN, A. r. Jones, G
III. Abbott.
The following temples were repre-
sented' among the visitors: Morocco
Kosair. Medinah, Muratfi Syrian, Ha-
masa, Mecca, Zamora, Tabella, Yarrab
Oasis, Kismet, Ramises, Moila, Mos
lem, Lu Lu.