Norwich bulletin., 1911-06-27
ELks MUCH INTERPRETED
 IN ATLANTIC CITY TRIP
Probable That More Than 30 Will Go
 Prem Hero.

For their Atlantic City trip to the grand lodge reunion during the week of July 10, the committee of Norwich lodge of Elks, No. 430. is finding an and their friends as the time ap- breaches with prospects that, the res- eryatjons for 50 made by thef Norwich Eiks will all be taken up and there may be a call for an extension of the accommodations they will be called upon to provide
 The parade this year at the reunion is expected to be the greatest that the order has ever held, but there will be one feature missing which has held prominence in former years. No mas cots will be allowed
 An order to this effect. ema na ting from Grand Exalted Ruler Hermann has been promulgated by William J. Storck, chief of staff to Grand Esquire James R. Nicholson of Boston, who will be in command of the marching hosts of the antlered fraternity.
 The effect of this decree. of great interest to 100000 Elks throughout the country, will be to exclude from the spectacular procession on the fourth day of the twenty-ffth grand lodge reunion in Atlsntic City during the week of July 10, freaks of every description. Giants, dwarfs, William goats, petted canines and mascots of any kind are to be releSated to the tall timhers. Grand Exalted Ruler Hermann has indicated the belief that the Benevolent and protective or der has reaehe1 a stage where it is justified in insisting that the annual parade of the order, always a spectac- ular demonstration, shaH be exempt from sideshow specialties. Members may wear whatever unique garb they see fit and there will be no end ot striking novelties. but the mascot will be thing of the past
 Atlantic City is preparing to enter tain upwards of 100000 of the Bes People On Earth, and the committed of arrangements has leased the stee peer for the entire week. There tht registration headquarters will be To halls on the pier the 2,700 representa- tives of the grand lodge will be in ses- sion for three days.
 Prizes aggregating s3,4O0 in casf will be awarded. it was announced yesterday, for drill competitions. bane concerts and to the lodge making thu greatest number in the parade, bring ing the largest number of women ant travelling the longest distance to takt part in the procession.
 There will be sixty bands and it is estimated that the number of parad CTS will not fall short of 25,ooo; Tex as will send the largest number o Elks hat has ever attended grand lodge reunion outside of Dallas Colonel John P. Sullivan of New Or leans, who is waging a strong figh for grand evalted ruler, will come LII from the Crescent City with is owT corps of boosters in a palatial specia train. This is the candidate who is tt have the support of Norwich lodge, No 430, against the fodr others who arc in the field.
 Atlantic City is already beginning t don it's habiliments of purple and tc bedeck itself in miles upon miles oi bunting and thousands of jags to af- ford a proper stage setting for tht momentous occasion. By the time the vanguard arrives the always gay ant attractive city will be as pretty as tht proverbial picture.
 Grand Exalted Ruler Hermann ant the grand lodge officers will open theil headquarters on July G. at the Hote Strand, where 90 rooms have been rs- served for them and their families Peculiar interest is attached to thu Atlantic City meeting because it wa. there in 1895 that the factional diff ferences that threatened the existenct of the order were peacefully adjusted the hatchet buried and the future O E1kdOm assured.