The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-12-15
MONTGOMERY MAY
 SECURE TEMPLE. Shriners to Appeal to the
 Imperial Council i. THREE FOR THE STATE Application of Montgomery Unani- mously Indorsed at Meeeting of
 Zamora Temple in Birming-
 ham Wednesday

Montgomery, December 14.-Montgomery
 Shriners will get temple when the meet ing of the Imperial council is held in Los
 Angeles in May, 1912. This Is considered certain. A meeting of Temple Zamora Shriners was held at Birmingham Wednesday evening, and the application of Montgomery was not only unanimously indorsed, but delegates were named in structed to go to the meeting to fight for Montgomery and to see that justice Is done. The fight was lost at the Imperial council at Rochester this year because
 members of Zamora temple fought the proposition and would not agree to have
 Montgomerians withdraw from that tenn pie to establish one of their own.
 Not only did Montgomery application appeal to every one of the 400 members of the Birmingham temple. but central
 Alabama man, Duncan May of Mont
 gomery, was named as one of the four
 delegates who will represent northern
 and central Alabama at the meeting.
 The action of the Shriners was brought about by delegation from Montgomery
 who went to Birmingham Wednesday evening. In the party were about 35
 Shriners from Montgomery, 12 from Clan ton and eight from other central Alabama points. Only two speeches were made by the visitors. David M. Crosland, who will
 be potentare of the new temple, and E. j.. Myer of Montgomery were the speech
 makers for Montgomery. They told the members what Montgomery was after. why and what it would mean to the Shriners. Not one speech was made
 against the application, and after MT. Lar. bod GYtc as,.
 addresses, the proposition was unani-
 mously indorsed, more than 300 voting Tn favor of the application.
 After the meeting adjourned and Montgomery had won the fight that had been waged for several years the visitors were entertained at a banquet
 at the Hillman hotel, where toasts were
 made to central Alabama members who
 had returned from Rochester in May downcast because they had failed to
 land the look looked for temple. The proposition had neyer been
 placed before the Birmingham temple properly and for this reason representa- tives to the imperial council were loath to advocate a thing they did not under stand thoroughly. For this reason they
 registered their disapproval and the council turned the application down.
 After the meeting Wednesday y-evenlng Potentate Keiser of Zamora temple re-
 quested David M. Crosland, who will be the new potentate, for the privilege of
 doing the first work when the new tenn
 pie Is established. He promised to bring
 the Shriner patrol and band to Mont
 gomery and make the occasion one of fejofcfng for all Alabama members of the order.
 When the Montgomery temple is es- abolished the Shriners will have three lodges in Alabama, Zamora temple in Birmingham. Al Kazar in Montgomery
 and Abba temple in Mobile. The name for the new temple was decided upon
 several months ago, when the fights
 systematic campaign was started Here tofore all central Alabama members were forced to go to Birmingham and
 place their membership with zamora temple.
 This was a hardship on all members,
 and it has been their contention for sev-
 eral years that enough Shriners lived in
 and around Montgomery to support
 temple This had never met the wishes of Birmingham and North Alabama mem-
 bers until Wednesday evening
 While the action of the Birmingham members does not give the temple to