The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-05-11
Special Trains Bring Thou sands to Participate In
 Weeks Event
ATLANTA'S SHRINE
 DECORATIONS UNIQUE
Two Parades Arranged for Tuesday. Seattle and San Francisco Ask
 ing for 1915 Westinghouse gomery Will Seek Temple

Atlanta, May lo.--NIyriads of lighted minarets. surnounted by the elnbematio star. crescent and scimitar and thou sands of flags displaying the national l colors and the red, yellow and green of the Mystic Shrine tonight flashed forth a welcome to the imperial council of the fraternity, which convenes here tomor- row for it's fortieth annual meeting All through today and tonight special trains brought thousands of members from all parts of the nation to participate in the weeks events Other trains will ar rive tomorrow and it will be Tuesoay before the last of the Shriners arrive. More than 15 special trains either have arrived, or are on their way Tonight. beneath the flashing lights and waving flags. wearers of the red rez from east and west and north and south occupied the streets. hotels and homes. renewing old acauaintances, making new ones and filling the city with good fel- lowship.
 Many Special Trains Within the city another eity--a city of trains-is springing up. All available space in the hotels has been reserved for weeks and hundreds of the city's homes have guests. As result hun dreds of the visitors will eat and sleep in the special trains, which brought them aud which have been parked for their use.
 Portions of the downtown streets have been converted into dancing floors for rr. have been detailed to provide music and thousands of couples are expected to par
 ticipate in the open air balls in the lanes
 of light
 Each patron that. enters the city is
 being met by a detachment Of the lcest-
 Yaarab Temple pstrol and escorted to l lies.dquarters. William Irwin, the irn- perial potentate, of Wheeling. w. Va. and other Of tho imperial officers arc scheduled to arrive tomorrow. Arrange ments have been made to fire salute of 2l guns when the imperial potentate reaches the city
 Two Farades Tuesday
 Two parades have been arranged fox5 on Tuesday. Patrols and the bands from the various temples wlll participate in thef morning parade. which will be the annual escort of the imperial potentate from his headquarters to the place of meeting. At might there will be parade of all the visiting nobles.
 Plans for the night event Include marching arrangements for 55 bands and iU,00O visitors. 1t IS estimated that ts wIil take the pageant more han five hours to pass given point The number oi men n me probably will be thu largest that ever has marchec in thd state since the armies ox the north and south clashed in the war between the states
 Divisional reviews and exhibition drills of the Shrine patrols will take place Wednesday. All of the bands and be- tween Go and 70 patrols will take part. At the conclusion of the review all of sD or more bands will mass and play national airs The bands will comprise more than 1000 individuais
 Pacific Coast Wants Council
 San Francisco and Seattle are asking for the 1915 meeting of the shrine. The next meeting place will be selected eitner Tues day or Wednesday at which time the an- nual election Of officers also will take place Frederick K. Smith of Rochester. N. r., who is now deputy imperial poten- tate will be the next imperial potentate. It is the custom of the Shriners to pro- mote each year the deputy potentate into the chair of the potentate.
 All of the other officers of the im- perial shrine advance upward a step, leaving only the imperial outer guard to be elected This office is now held by James $. Mccandless of Honolulu. Among the Shriners who have been mentioned as candidates to succeed him are the fol- lowing:
 Chester Clarkson of Peoria, Ill.,, Wtk liam c. Bristol of Portland, ore, ]. C. Berger of Denver. Col. Robert J. Daily of Chicago, Conrad V. Dykeman of Brook lyn. Joseph Fulkerson of Oklahoma City. J. T.. Jones of Oklahoma oitys D. C. O'Fiaherty of Richmond, Va. William II. Paaschen of Troy. N. Y and Andrew c. Snyder of Trenton. N. J
 Montgomery Wants New Temple
 Five applications for dispensation to form new temples will be received from Springfield. Ill. Allentown. Pa, Roam oke, Va, Fort Worth, Tex. and Mont gomery Ala.
 Special events by the score have been arranged fer the visitors. In addition to the local events many visits to his toric points about the city. including the battlefiel6s in the war between the states. and a journey to Savannah Ga, are planned The latter will be made in spe- cial trains. the ShIiners leaving here Thursday night. The annual meeting will close formally Friday. A band of Blackfeet Indians Is expect- ed to prove one of the unique sights Of < the meeting. The aborigines will live in tents. They come from the Glacier Res- ervation in Montana and are accompany- ing the Algeria Temple of Helena. Vari. ous other unique exhibits are planned by the different temples. The California temples have completely taken over one of the city's large hoteie and from its flagstaff this week there will float pennsnt bearing the words Hotel California" All aWendants In the hotel are garbed accordingly
 Welcoming addresses will be- made toe morrow to the army of visitors by James G. Woodward mayor of Atlanta. ana John M Slaton. governor Of Georgia. Officers of the imperial council will re- spond
 Atlanta Ready for Guests
 Atlanta, May t0.--( Especial. l--The nhriners win alI find Atlanta WiAe