Atlanta Georgian., 1913-10-19
NATIVE SONS To
STORM ATLANTA
SHRINE MEETING
Californians Coming by Pullman
Train Loads to Claim Prom
ised Good Time.
BY JAMES 9. NEVJN,

BY JAMES B. NEVIN.
Forrest Adair, illustrious potentate
Of Yaarab Temple, Mobiles of the Mys-
tic Shrine, has received notice of a
California invasion next May, when
/ the National Imperial Council meets
in Atlanta, that has filed his soul
with gladness and forecasts big
| doings.
! When Adair and his mobiles storrned
Dallas last May. seeking to bring the
Imperial Council to Atlanta, they
promised all sorts Of things for the
| big show next year.
They talked Atlanta so wisely and
so well that it now looks as If every
| body who is anybody in Shrinedom,
| together with his sisters and his cous-
ins and his aunts. is coming to the
Gate City of the South next year, here
| to make merry after those vehement
and vociferous fashions known exclu-
sively to Shriners-never rowdy, but
always more or less boisterous!
California, farthest State away is
the first to frame up for next years
gathering in Atlanta
On May 10, 1914, just about the
to be transported to this city.
1t will require several special trains
of Pullmans to get those California
folks into the Sunny South, but sew
eral trains of Pullmans are mere
nothings to them when It comes to
doing things up brown and proper.
Plan to Transform Kimball.
One Shriner in San Francisco writes
Mr.. Adair:
you Atlanta people will know we
are there when we hit town. And
here is one reason why you will know
It: Under our terms of the lease of
the entire Kimball House that hostel
ry will lose it's identity when we ar
rive. All signs bearing the words
'Klmball House will be suppressed,
and all KimbalI House stationery Will
be laid aside All linen marked Kim
bali will be temporarily abolished.
Everything will be marked 'Califor-
MIA
Even the big electric sign on top OF
the house will be taken down and in
its stead there will be one erected
reading Hotel California"
The writer goes on to say that prac
tically every Shriner in California will
be represented in the delegation com
ing to Atlanta.
It is probable that no less than
1000 Shriners, with their wives.
daughters and sweethearts, will make
up the California party.
Besides this enthusiastic crowd from
the farthest Western State, Mr.. Adair
is looking for huge delegations from
all through that section.
West to Appear in Force.
The Shriners are very strong in the
West, and the mobiles from out that
way are always much in evidence at
the annual gatherings.
One Western State will send bat
talon patrol The usual thing is to
send a company, but this temple has
heard so much Of Atlanta It has de-
oided that nothing short of battalion
will do-and that means four compa-
nies, or not less than 100 mobiles, in
the patrol.
Every hotel in Atlanta already has
been engaged in extensive corre-
spondence with respect to next years
gathering. 1t is likely that other no.
tells besides the Kimball will be leased
in their entirety-which means all the
hotel, save such small space as is re-
quired for regular guests and tran
sients able to squeeze in accommoda-
tions through the force of past pa
tronage and friendship with the man
agement And there likely will not be
much room left In Atlanta for other
people than Shriners next May.
Il expect there will be $4,000 or Co.
600 visitors in Atlanta when the
Shriners come to town." said Poten-
tate Adair, discussing the big meeting
Saturday.
There were 10000 in Dallas, and
we shall have easily so per cent more
IN, haan
mendously advertised abroad, and
there are thousands of Shriners who
are anxious to see it. We did brag
considerably on Atlanta at Dallas, but
even at that we said nothing about
her that isn't true
Guests to Be Good Spenders.
Atlanta can handle this big meeting
as It seldom has been handled, and l
know Atlanta will do that, for Atlanta
is in class by herself when aroused.
AT the same time, Atlanta must
realize that 1t never has been called
upon before to handle quite such
gathering as this will be. Shriners
generally are easy spenders, and they
are coming here to have good time.
They never forget that they are gen.
tlemen, but they are always out for
fun. Atlanta is going to like the
Shriners, too! They are folks after
Atlanta's own heart. Atlanta is going
TO have the best time of her life when
the mobiles get here.
I'VE shall need every bit OF space
for guests that we can muster when
the Imperial Council gets here next
year. Every hotel in the city un-
doubtedly will be crowded to over
flowing. l have no doubt that many
rooms can be let at profitable figure
during the Shrine gathering, but they
must be the right sort Shriners do
not mind paying well for what they
get, but they demand the best.
my figures now are $4,000 visitors
for the May gathering. 1t is entirely
possible, however, that We may have
75.OOO-and that is an almighty lot of
people, even for Atlanta, to enter
taini"