Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-04-12
ALLAN IA To
DON $4,000
At TIRE F Or
SHRINE WEEK
Myriad of MuIti-CoIored Electric
Lights and Gay Flags to Make
Downtown District of City Rival
Magic Cities of Old Legends.
Official Decorator for Imperial
Council, Here, Starts Prep
arations for Decorations Which
Promise to Surpass All Others.

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Down Marietta street shop is In
operation whose work soon will turn
Atlanta into city Of as many colors
is any rainbow that ever glittered. It
is the laboratory of Charles w. Good
man, of Seattle, official decorator of
the Imperial Council of Shriners that
will meet in Atlanta May 10. And in
it is being planned Atlanta's eXpendi-
ture of $4,000 for decoration pur
poses.
1t will not be long before Peachtree
and Whitehall will become thor
oughfare Of mosques and minarets.
On every white way" post on the
main streets a tower of many spires
will be raised. On the others there
will be huge electric lighted swords
and crescents, g1ittering pyramids,
and flags and bunting draping the
whole
Buildings To Be Draped.
Every building of any size down
town will be draped in bunting. Mr..
Goodman estimates that in the deco
ration scheme more than 10000
American flags, each from six to fir
teen feet long. will be used, and about
$4,000 Yards Of bunting of red, yell
low and green, the official colors of
the Shriners. Already the decorat-
ors have contracted with the owners
of office buildings, store buildings
and the largest hotels from the Ter
minal and Union Stations out to the
Georgian Terrace.
The scheme of decoration in each
case is elaborate About every win"
dow and door of each building will be
draped in festoons of red yellow and
green intertwined with American
flags. On each facade there will be
many Of the gay Shriner shields and
the huge Shriner emblems, each to be
lighted by dozens of electric lights.
Decorations Costly.
But the GROWING and costly feature
of the decoration scheme will be the
arrangement of the downtown lamp
posts. From each Of the posts the
i've white globes win be removed, and
electric Shrine emblems will
he nlaced instead The emblems viii
vary. on the lamp posts along White
hall and Peachtree streets miniature
temples will be placed-and they are
not SO small at that, being about three
feet square and five feet tall. Trans
parent celluloid in the sides of the
temples furnish a means for the ennis
sion of light In the center of the
open space of each temple a plaster
camel one foot high, Is placed and
each temple bears the name Of GER
tain Shrine organization, Of which
there are 1871 in all. This decoration
win cost $40 for each post, it is esti-
mated.
on the other lamp posts about the
city the globes win be replaced by tall
pyramids of plaster punctured by
holes in the shape of stars and cres-
cents as outlets for the light, Still
others will bear electric designs of
scimitar-and- crescent shape.
Yaarabs Give $4,000.
Yaarab Temple has donated APP
proximately $4,000 to pay for street
decorations, and it is likely that Of
nee building managers, downtown
merchants, hotel companies will eX-
pend twice that much for the decora-
ton Of their buildings.
In the laboratory of the official dec
orator. at No. IS Marietta street, ar
lists are at work sketching each OF
the larger buildings of the city in col
ors painting in the decorations OF
lights and bunting as they will be dis
osed. Thus there will be a definite
architectural scheme Of decoration for
each building.
The decorations are being prepared
I'm the workshop the electrical designs
made by the combined efforts of cleo
tricians. painters, and plaster sculp-
tors. Artists are there, also, TO draw
huge canvases 10 water color de-
pictine scenes Of the desert symbolic
Of the Ancient and Arabic order
A force OF no less than $50 men
viii be employed in Tie decoration oil
the streets and buildings. once the &C
tual work Of executing the designs IS
egun Il is likely that they VIII ne
gin placing The decorations May g.
week before the shriners begin TO ar
rive.