Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-03-29
Visitors viii Need 100000 Eggs,
$4,000 Chickens, 100000 Lbs.
Meat, 600 Barrels Milk, Expe-
rience 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 ne can speak the Greek LAM
guage-not with the classic purity Of
Marco Bozzaris, perhaps, but still well
enough to have every local descendant
of Menelaus as his undying friend.
And just the other day, to assure
himself that the alpha beta gamma
kink in his brain was working well,
he stood up before an assembly Of
the Hellenic restaurant men of At
lanta, addressed them in their ma
tive tongue. and told them that the
city would be in the very deuce of a
fix" when the 10000 Shriners come
to town in May if restaurant men,
hotel men. egg and butter men, salt
pork and cabbage men, and every
body else concerned with that in
trepid and ironclad interior region of
the Shriner did not wake up to the
fact that whole lot of people are
coming here, and none of them is
what might be called dyspeptic.
$4,000 Chickens Needed.
And the men who will 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 five days
the convention crowd is in Atlanta
the city will require, in addition to-
its ordinary provender, 100000 eggs,
$4,000 chickens, $4,000 pounds of but
ter. 12O, OOe pounds of meat, 500 bar
rels of milk, 100000 canteloupes, and
other things in similar Brobdigna-
gian quantity.
Many of the Shriners will come in
private cars-so many, in fact, that
no less than 500 of these cars will be
parked in the yards about the Ter
minal and Union Stations, practically
congesting ordinary traffic. But be-
,ond these it is likely there will be
30 600 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
narties that it would be well to be
up and doing.
Fear Meat Famine.
Produce dealers and meat mer-
chants in Atlanta declare that they
viii be able to obtain everything nee
essarv for their usual markets at
very short notice Certainly the sea-
son is greatly to Atlanta's advan-
tage. being a time of many vegeta-
HES of great fecundity as to eggs
and milk, and of an influx of fruit
from Florida. The problem is not one
Of getting the great quantities OF
food. but Of properly distributing it.
SO that one restaurant may not be
overstocked while another is unable
TO satisfy it's customers.
Atlanta Shriners tell Of a meat
famine that occurred in Dallas last
year during the Imperial Council, and
thew visited the meat dealers
with their petition some time ago.
But the task of,feeding the army Of
visitors. and feeding them royalty as
thew deserve is not the only problem
that has arisen. Here are some of the
others
Telephone calls will be in
creased 20 to 30 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 traffic with the private
cars and chartered Pullmans OF
the shriners will be congested so
that on many lines in the South
freight traffic will be suspended
during the week Of the meet in
Atlanta. every engine in use and
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