Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-03-29
Visitors viii Need 100000 Eggs,
$4,000 Chickens, 100000 Lbs,
Meat, 500 Barrels MIX, Expsa
rience Of Other Cities Shows.
More Telephone Girls, More Bank
Clerks, More Passenger Loro-
motives Required During May
ConcIave-Caterer Are Busy

Forrest Adair. who is many things
besides being an efieient 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 lan-
suage-not with the classic purity 81
Marco Bozzaris. perhaps, but atill wen
enough to have every local descendant
Of Menelaus as his undying friend.
And Just the other day, to assurs
himself that the alpha beta gamma
kihk in his brain was working well.
he stood up before an assembly 1t
the Hellenic restaurant men At All
lanta. addressed them IN their naz
tive tongue and told them that TIA
city would be in the very deuce OF 8
FIX when the $4,000 shriners come
to town In May II restaurant nssn.
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 shrtner did not wake up to the
fact that whole lot Of people ara
coming here. and none Of them il
what might be called dyspeptic.
E0nH0 Chiekar~ M..I.l
And the men who win attend to
the gustatory end OF the affair al
once sat down and calculated IN big
figures the result being their dscl-
sion that IN. the four or Ave DAYS
the convention crowd Is in Atlanta
the city win require, in addition to
ITS ordinary provender 100000 erxs
$4,000 chickens. 10000 pounds Of but.
ter, 10000 pounds OF meat, 600 bar
rels Of milk, 100000 canteloupes. ana
other things In a similar Brobdiena4
gian quantity.
Many OF the. shFiners will coma s..
private ears-so many. IN fact thai
no less than 500 Of these cars will Be
parked in the yards about the Ter
minaI and Union stations practicallv
congessing ordinary trafIic. But be-
yond these It is likely there win IL
10000 visitors in town who must IS
fed in the restaurants, hotels ana IL
the private homes where they are
guests. Hence Mr.. Adair's now az
Greek in telling certain interested
parties that it would be wen to Be
UP and doing.
Fear Meat Famine.
Produce dealers and meat snar4
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 Atlanta's advan-
tage, being time OF many vegets
bles, 81 great ferunaity as to eSrs
and milk, and Of IA innux Of fruit
from Florida. The problem is not one
OF getting the great quantities Of
food, but Of properly distributing It,
50 that one restaurant may not bs
overstocked while another is unable
to satisfy its customers.
Atlanta shriners tell Of q meas
famine that occurred in Dallas lasl
year during the Imperial Council, and
they visited the meat dealers
with their petition some time ago.
But the task Of feeding the arnny-of
visitors, and feeding them royalty &c
they deserve. is not the only prcseAm
that has arisen. Here are some or the
others:
Telephone calls win be fns
creased 20 to 80 per cent durins
the four or i've 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 az
the ,ShFiners win be congested 80
that on many lines in the South
freight trafic will be suspended
during the week Of the meet ~
atlantis every engine II