The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-02-20
HIGHEST OFFICER OF THE SHRINE ID BE IN BIRMINGHAM TODAY NObles of ZamOra Planning Royal Welcome for the
 Imperial Potentate BIG CEREMONIAL
 TO BE HELD TONIGHT Banquet to Follow-Dr. Frederick Smith of Rochester Will Have
 Something to Do Every
 Minute of Day

The Shriners of Birmingham and Alabama will accord royal reception to their imperial potentate. pr. Fred erick Smith of Rochester, and his party today and tonight The highest offeidl In the Mystic Shrine, which Is known as the play ground of Masonry, will reach the city at 10:b0 o'clock this morning. From the time a brass band sounds the warning of his arrival until he leaves tomorrow at noon for Memphis, the im- perial potentate will be constantly on
 the go with the Shriners.
 The programme mapped out Is varied and filled with interesting affairs in
 honor of the visit of pr. smith. With the
 imperial potentate it was announced yesterday, are at least five members of
 the imperial council and 19 additional high degress Masons in the party malS- ing total of 20 members.
 The imperial potentate will be awak
 ened in Tuscaloosa this morning by a
 band which will leave Birmingham early this morning to meet him in the Druid City. He will be accompanied to this city by the band and nearly
 50 Shriners from Tuscaloosa. Upon his arrival at the Terminal station Dr.
 Smith will be received by as many
 Shriners in this city as can possibly
 be at the station. Something like 300 or
 more are expected to do the honors at
 the station. He will be escorted to the
 Hotel Hillman, where d suite of rooms
 has been reserved for him. and his
 party.
 % Will See the City
 pr. Smith, with members of his party
 and local Shriners. will be taken for an
 automobile ride over the city. They
 will visit Mountain Terrace. Glen Iris.
 and other residential sections. and will
 return to the Newspaper club for lunch
 con. They will be received there by
 scores of shriners, all of whom have
 been invited to make the Newspaper club their home for the day. They will
 be admitted upon their Shrine cards.
 After luncheon at the Newspaper club
 the imperial potentate will be given a
 reception by the ladies at the Hotel Hillman, starting at o'clock. The Shriners never permit any big celebra- toin of their own to pass without due consideration for the ladies, and this affair will be of wide interest. Dr. Smith, members of the imperial coun- cil and local Shrine officials will go Into business session at o'clock to emerge only to take part in the cere- monial beginning at 7.30 o'clock. Some 3b novices have been rounded up who expressed a. desire and longing to be- come of the elect and they unfortunate- ly selected the visit of the imperial potentate to brave the hot sands It Is ill enough without the hugh guys" but with the imperial officers as on- lockers and with the teams wanting fo show off little, there is bound to be several wrecks. Moreover there is said to be a slight loseness to the rope which holds evil to those that intend to trod the sands tonight
 The ceremonial will doubtless go down in local Shrine history as one of the most enjoyable affairs ever staged by the nobles of Zamora temple. The ceremonial session will be concluded
 about 10 o'clock when the banquet will be- gin at the Hillman hotel. Plans have been made for 400 guests and the banquet is expected to be one of the most elaborate ever held in this city. It will be attended
 by all of the local Shrners and by mem- bers from all over the state. The toast | master has not been named, but the prin-
 cipal speaker will be Dr. Smith
 Visitors From Many Cities Charles J. Geohegan, secretary and re- corder for Zamora temple, said last night that the local shrine today expected to entertain nobles from Memphis, Nashville Louisville, Richmond, Montgomery, Me- l ridian, Mobile, Macon, Atlanta, Gadsden Tuscaloosa and a half dozen other places He said the city would be overrun with w of fa1 nd tbat derful time was in store for them He said among the party with Dr. Smith he could name T. A. l.. Johnstone, potentate at Mobile, Thomas J. Young, representa- l tive to the Imperial council from Mobile Walter Hodges, past potentate at Me. ridian; Allen c. McCants, potentate al Meridian; Dan O'Flaherty, representative of Acca temple, Richmond: Dave Cross 1 land. potentate at Montgomery, and liar ] " Lewis, past potentate from St. Paul | Minn.
 1 MT. Geohegan added that there was 1 about 9 in the augmented party of the | imperial potentate and that luncheon haC I been ordered for that number at tho Press l club for 1 o'clock He said that he hoped 1 members of the Shrine would feel at lib.
 erty to visit the Press club, and there, fl | the occasion presented itself. meet Dr l Smith.
 1 A portion of the menu that MT. Goehe- | gan and Henry L.. Bailey manager of the 1 Hilman, have mapped out for the Shrin- 1 CTS includes:
 ''Hamasa" salad, Abba" punch, .Roch ester' hamberger steak, NAcca' weiner. wurst, "Alcazar' champagne, "Alham- 1 bra sour krout, "Yaarrab" chicAen fried | "Alsihah' olives. "Alchyma pickles l 'Alee" tomatoes and "Zamora ice cream | The quoted names are of well established
 shrines over the country and of which rep