The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-05-11
SHRINERS INVADE
 ATLANTA TO ATTEND
 IMPERIAL COUNCIL
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1 Atlanta IS going to become a wide open town for the Shriners or anybody else put the opening will be a little wider 1 than ordinary and large enough for onrlners In any size bunch to squeeze 1 through
 The barber shops will all be open sunday, thing which has not been known in Atlanta in years But Mayor woodward said he wanted to give th. Vlsitors chance to get clean after thelr long trip, and barber shops and Turkish baths will at least be wide open. All during the week the pool rooms and near beer saloons will he allowed to remain open until o'clock Tn the morning, instead of being re- qu1red to close a l in accordance with law. This is a wide open feature that did draw protest from the Men and Religion Forward Movement but no one seems to have worried much about | II, and the concensus of opinion is that lit is all right. 1 The Atlanta clubs will all keen o,en house for the Shrine. Whsn the oues- ton came up Of .ssufng club cards to each of the 30,000 or more Shrine vis- itors, M nich meant 30,000 cards to be i irscpared by each club the proposition was staggering, until someone made the happy suggestion that it would do just as well to admit the Shriners on their 1914 Shrine credentials Every Shriner carries his credential card and | is never without it. This was good enough for the clubs and they jumped at the proposal quickly. In addition to the clubs William Randolph Hearst has leased the handsome Peachtree street residence formerly occupied by James w. English, Jr., and will keep open house there for the Shrine vis- itors during the entire week.
 i There will be plenty of other good l eA-fff f.1 visitors The Californians. for instance have leased an entire hotel, the Kim ball, and will change the name of it to the california Hoter' for Shrine week Something like a trainload of lCalifornia wine is to be uncorked. it is reported. Also there will be others.
 Atlanta's Shrine decorations are lunique. The lights of the great white way are covered with, Shrine emblems all ablize al night. There is the scim- itar and crescent full of electricity. pagodas, pyramids and all sorts of odd creations the like of which Atlanta has never seen before; while big elec- tric signs in the shape of Shrine em- blems are in evidence almost every where.
 The decorations on the buildings are only fair. Some of the large office buildings are decorated gorgeously with flags of all kinds and bunting in
  have very few decorations and some of them none at all. It costs about $500 to $750 to decorate a History office building, and while several of them were generous. it looks like others didn't want to spend the money, even for the biggest occasion Atlanta has ever had The smaller stores are all lwell decorated and the decorations as a rule show up pretty well.
 Special Shrine headquarters have been opened in the heart of the city and here souvenirs are being issued together with guide books and pro- grammes as the Shriners come in. Each Shriner also gets a card entitling him to free stenographic service while in the city. Some stenographers will be kept busy.
 Housing Visitors Serious Problem
 The most serious problem that con- fronts Atlanta is that of housing the visitors during the rush. Some 5000 of them will sleep in parked Pullman cars, of which there will be 500 on side tracks as near as possible to the cen ter of the city. Hotels and boarding z fhouses will take care of about 5000. Already there have been distributed 20O0 rooms in private homes and about 5000 more such rooms remain available. But with 30,000 visitors this is not yet enough; in fact, it will leave some 5000
 
 number of halls have been fitted up for temporary sleeping quarters and it lis expected in an emergency to secure additional room in private homes The lhomes of Atlanta as well as the hotels and boarding houses will be taxed to their utmost capacity. The committee on entertainment. however, believes it has the problem solved, and Atlanta is trusting to the committees The next serious problem is that of food. During the rush period an addi- tional 100000 meals will have to be served every day. This is no small task in itself. Most Atlanta hotels and res ltaurants now do good business or dinarily at the meal hours. How they are going to handle the crush remains to be seen. The grocery stores will be taxed to their utmost in making deliv- cries, and this presents somewhat se- rious problem to the Atlanta house. wife, who may have trouble in getting I her daily supplies The wise ones have stocked their pantries we'll in ad- vance. Almost everybody has bought lhim a ham--some of them the famous Brooks county hams, by the way-and lis ready to make sandwich in case the groceries do not show up.
 Although there will be plenty doing Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. Tuesday, it seems, Is to be the big day with two parades full of fexzes, gala cQlOTS ana SnOubnS SuTluefS. ENcIy body in Atlanta is going to want to see this parade but some of them are going to have difficulty in doing 1t. The streets will be thiclxly packed. Ev- cry vacant lot along the route has been built up in grandstands with seats selling at anywhere from $1 to $S for each parade Space in office windows along the route is at premium Some are renting windows at good figures; others will use them for their own families and friends.
 Many committees have been appoint ed to look out for the visitors. Spe- !cial detectives have been brought from outside to afford protection from pick pock cts. Speeding automobilists will be promptly and severely dealt with. Ev- erything that can be thought of has been done to make the visitors enjoy
 It will be about the liveliest week in all of Atlanta's history and the chances are there will be little busi- fu eli x1x<