Arizona republican., 1913-05-11
The Shriners.

 the home of progressive, wirle-
 awake and rapidly growing citizen
 ship and the industrial center of the 1 southwest Is alive with preparations
 for entertaining one Of the greatcst
 national gatherings that assemblies
 each year on the North American
 Continent-that of the Imperial Council meeting, Ancient Arabic or
 der oi Nobles Mystic Shrine. which
 opens tomorrow and continues one 1 week. More than two hundred thou 1 sand members of this great orde~. numbering in the personnel leaders | in every branch of activity, have | their eyes turned southwestwarl and will send thousands of their brother nobles to participate in the festivities incident to the occasion.
 It has been declared, and righI!v
 so, that Imperial Council meetings 1 have been a mere matter of progrrs-
 sion in the variety and excellence of | the entertainment and enjoyment fur l nished. each year bringing added 1 features to those that have gone oc- l fore. It has been the aim of the 1 >hrmers Entertainment Association l cf Dallas in preparing for this great 1 event to swing the game around
 
 as the head of the procession After months of consistent work and an expenditure of thousands of dollars they feel assured that Dallas will O.- fer Imperial Council visitors this wear something new and out of the ordinary in an entertainment Wa and will care for them in q manner that will reflet credit on the entire citizenship of the Southwest
 The task of getting Dallas in read-J J mess for the Imperial Council meet ing has been gigantic one. Since 1 the 1912 Imperial Shrine meeting in ! Los Angeles when this city was Ss- lected as the Mecca for 1913. twenty 1 SIX committees with a membership | of more than three hundred promi- | nent Snriners and business and pro- ! fessfonal men, have been busy carry | ing out the details The work has been subdfvided into twenty-siX dI
 visions each subdivision having | chairman and membership of live ! and progressive men.
 Under the leadership of C W. Hob son, president of the Chamber Of Commerce, was inaugurated several months ago a campaign for a ShriTc entertainment fund of $100.000. This sum was raised in five days. business men of Dallas subscribing a total of $50 .0O0 and nobles of Hella Temple taking care of the remainder. < budget was made up and to each committee a sum necessary for it's work was appropriated. Then the general plan was outlined and the committee chairmen were instructe1 ! to go ahead. Despite the enormous amount of detail and the mammoth nature of the undertaking Dallas is now in readiness to welcome the visit ors with d certainty of impressing each and every one of them that neither time nor money has been spared to make their stay interesting and enjoyable.
 One of the chief features of the reunion will be the spectacular man. cuVers and exhibitions of the patrols and bands which will assemble 'lcrc ; from all parts of the United States. Their entertainment is one of the big problems of the local committee. All patrols and bands will be housed 1 in a big encampment at Fair Park. The encampment is ready and will accommodate more than twenty-five . hundred patrol and band men.
 The sessions of the Imperial Coua cil will be held at the Scottish Rite Cathedral on Harwood street, few { blocks from the business section The first section will be convened Tuesday morning. and will be finally I Wednesday afternoon , Thursday morning, May 15, de luxe specials will leave Dallas, on a tour of Texas, complimentary to the Inn 7 perial officers, representatives and f their ladies.
 Saturday, May r, will be spent in Y Houston, Texas one of the big com I mercial and industrial towns of the Temple of that city have raised a r big fund for entertainment. Among ( the many features of interest will be i a visit to San JacintO battlefield, where San Anna surrendered to eneral Sam Houston and the inde- pendeDce of Texas was won. Sunday : will be spent in Galveston, the great T port of the Southwest and where one I Of the finest beaches along the coast ! i will offer the attractions of surf f bathing fishing, etc The special q trains will return to Dallas Monday | in ample time for those q taking part to return home within t the limits of their tickets. r
 Hella Temple as the host of Shrine !, dom is making elaborate preparations | following q ceremonial session April + 26. when class of more than five e hundred candidates became full i fledged Shriners. This brings the en- 6