Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-03-29
Visitors viii Need $50, 900 Eggs,
$4,000 Chickens, 10000 Lbs.
Meat, 600 Barrels MIX, Expe-
rieucs Of Other Cities Shows.
More Telephone Girls, More Bank
Clerks, More Passenger Loco-
motives Required During May
ConcIave-Caterers Are Busy.


Forrest Adair, who is many things
besides being an efficient potentate Of
Yaarab Temple. Ancient Arabic Or
der Of the Mobiles Of the Mystic
shrine. is Justly proud Of the fact
that he can speak the Greek Ian
guage not with the classic purity "a
Marco Bozzaris, perhaps. but still we'll
enough to have every local descendant
Of Menelaus as his undying friend.
And Just the other day to assura
himself that the aipha-b beta gamma.
kink in hts brain was working wen.
he stood up before an assembly Of
the Hellenic restaurant men Of At
lanta addressed them IA theis "a
tive tongue and told them that the
city would be in the very deuce Of 8
NIX" when the 10000 shriners CONS
TO town In May II restaurant men.
hotel men, egg and butter men, salt
pork and cabbage men. and every-
body else concerned with that in
trepid and ironcIad interior region Of
the shriner did not wake up to the
fact that a whole lot Of people are
coming here. and none Of them Is
what might be called dyspeptic.
$1,000 Chickens Needed.
And the men who viii attend to
the gustatory end OF the affair at
once sat down and calculated in big
figures, the result being their deci-
sion that in the four or ave days
the convention crowd is in Atlanta
the city will require, In addition to
its ordinary provender. 5000 eggs,
$4,000 chickens. $4,000 pounds or but
ter. 10000 pounds OF meat, 500 bar
rels Of milk, 100000 canteloupes. ana
other things in similar Brobdigna-
gian quantity
Many Of the Shrlners WIN come III
private ears-so many. in fact. that
no less than 500 Of these cars win be
parked in the yards about the Ter
minal and Union stations, practically
congesting ordinary tranic. But be-
yond these It is likely there will be
10000 visitors in town who must be
fed in the restaurants. hotels, and in
the private homes where they are
guests Hence Mr.. Adair's flow Of
Greek in telling certain interested
parties that It would be well to be
UP and doing.
Fear Meat Famine.
Produce dealers and meat mer-
chants in Atlanta declare that they
will be able to obtain everything nee
essary for their usual markets at
very short notice, Certainly the sea-
son is greatly to Atlantas advan-
tage. being time OF many vegeta-
bles, OF great fecundlty as to eggs
and milk, and OF an influx Of fruit
from Florida. The problem is not one
Of getting the great quantities %
food, but Of properly distributing It
SO that one restaurant may not be
overstocked while another is unable
to satisfy its customers.
Atlanta shriners tell Of meat
famine that occurred in Dallas last
year during the Imperial Council ana
they visited the meat dealers
with their petition some time ago
But the task Of feeding the army Of
visitors and feeding them royalty as
they deserve is not the only problem
that has arisen. Here are some OF the
others:
Telephone calls will be H.
creased 20 10 80 per cent during
the four or FIVE days OF the
shriners' stay This will neces-
state an additional force OF OPP
orators.
100000 increase.
Railroad trahic with the private
cars and chartered Pullmans Of
the Shriners will be congested 50
that on many lines in the South
freight traffic will be suspended
during the week Of the meet in
Atlanta every engine in use ana