The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1911-07-11
.SRR|NERs READY
FOR GREAT TINE
ROCHESTER, Is PREPARED FOR
LAVISH ENTERTAINMENT OF
THE MOBILES.
PARADE WILL BE UNIQUE
CAMELS, BEARS, HORSES AND BUR-
RIOS WILL he SEEN--TaFeT,
ROOSEVELT AND OTHERS
ATTEND.
PARADE WILL BE UNIQUE

! live
| fellows that has ever assembled in
any city of the East. The occasion
, was the Inperfat CONNECT nj the
| Mystic shrine. which meets in this
| city ali this week. Shrtpers have
| been arriving hv4 thousands since
SATURDAY Every hotel is allied;
| DWELLINGS, have been pressed into
| service: the railroad wards are filed
with special trains of pntlInan
| coaches; the CITY parks are made
into camping grounds for the wish
tors and every town within a radius
of thirty miles is filed to overflow
ing with the Shriner4
Never in tho Fast ba. th.re haen
Il copys,, - that viii an,,,i tFfs
Only The &fardi Gras ar rho Los
Angeles friotgor rsrniya1 ran COM
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MAY here mis- week
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Rochester Is the birthplace OF
the Shrine and George A. leder the
rather of the order, Is Oh hand 10
welcome all ,ShrlnerS- damascus
Temple has arranged for week OF
entertainment thar will not leave
a moment or leisure. The entire
| fleet Of the Rochester Yacht tiab -
at the disposal Of the Shfinefs ana
| their wives: hundreds Of automobiles
| are free to the visitors and every
! saddle horse in Rochester ana
/ vicinity has been engaged tor the
big parade
0ansals and Bears In Parade.
To-morrow evening the great
pageant will move. 1t viii be most
spectacular in the history Of Shrine
dom and will extend over a line of
more than ten miles Temples from
states win participate with diStne-
i've floats and handsomely uniform
ed patrols over 100 bands are al
ready in the city for this parade. The
:. floats represent an outlay OF theus-
ands of dollars and critics say they
surpaas those of the Mardi Gras at
New Orleans
The Shriners from Les Angeles.
cal will appear iii the parade on
Toe coal black horses: one Of the
Texas Temples will lie mounted on
caltee-colored bronchos and the Mem
phis. Tenn. Temple viii have herd
of cameIs to carry them over the
line Of march BESIDES these other
Western Temples will ride astrida
btlrros a South Dakota Temple Will
have "A black bear for each member,
and other localities will display live
stock characteristic Of their ccun-
try. The entire display win be
enough to stock half dozen big
,ejrcuseys The aTtnaais are to he
presented IL the city after the pa
r1de.
The }ine f,f march fer The par,fit4
is a fairy land Of color. The fronts
Of the business houses on the maftl
cred with flags. buntIng and electric
eal devices.
AFTER Tho f,ava AZ tn-Y,,orrou an
ing tha uarrofs win he escortadA To
I:arthetenay Han. where a uniaue
x,q,,de,yilfa urosrran, viii bn given
Performers from all parts of me
world have been engaged and nrfv
male mem hers IF tho order win bA
Ealloyyed within tho floars
The big feature of the entire com
ventjon win be the water rarniga1
at tSeneSGe Valley Park B9@heGf esrs
oa4.r- eaftti4stla Az441t4-sl.,-...4,, +t,.4,.4
~ the attention 81 the entire t.f,t,tt
7 trv bur fhIs- WEEKS exhfhftfon tufti
far excead ANYTHING thar has gone
before. The ilpper stretches of the
river haya been fes+onnad with tbous-
ands Of elecfriani lights hntb over
and under the water and rnyraia
water craft win aoues,r in fhe won
derful Venetian disnlay This water
carnival an Wednesday afternoon will
he preceded hv drills by visiting
uatroTs from nj least 100 TEMPLES or
The shrine
Oueer Musical ORGANIZATIONS
ss,ne of tlaa musical ereanis.a, f4ens
with the visiting temples are UNIQUE
land noteworthy, The san Francisco
tennis brought Chinese band
+ Every musician 10 n sTafI4,s yf4{I Gales
Ittal and is CARRIED In his Oriental
dress. The In La Temple Of Phila
delpbia has its famous hand Of stxty
two pieces on the grounds. and there
are no less than ten Indian hands
from Western tefoples Thursday af
ternoon a concert win be given nv
massed bands Of over 600 must
clans.
Thursday afternoon Tho feature
will he the disrharuinp of hundreds
j of bombs. .sDeefallv made In Janan
FLOR the convention. Each bonnb con
fains q large American flag and these
banners OF silk will be released far
above the city when the bombs ex-
Mode.