Arizona republican., 1915-08-08
MYSTIC SHR|NE'S
 MONTHLY MEET
Out-of-Door Waterm e lon Session of Fl Zaribah Last Wednesday Night at the Ranch of Potentate Shirley Christy

| .I
 1 There were two features e the
 monthly meeting of F. Zaribah Tenn
 ple Mystic Shrine, last Wednesday
 night out of the ordinary. One was the place. Potentate Shirley Christy' s
 ranch and the other was the reports
 of the potentate and Secretary J. J- Sweeney of the Imperial Session at Seattle. Still another feature was load of ripe water melons which had been in cold storage for several days at Noble Ashbury's plant
 ! As to the Seattle meeting, Secretary Sweeney said it was the greatest ana most important ever held One nun dred and thirty-nine temples and 221,-
 900 Nobles in the United States were
 represented.
 1 An interesting part of the report
 was the report read at Seattle of the Imperial Potentate on the session
 of Fl Zaribah at the Grand Canyon on Octobar , and of last year. Tniuue among all the entertain Iments of our Western tour, the most novel in it's features, the most me
 morabIe celebration in our honor, and
 one that not one of us will ever for get. was our trip to the Grand Canyon land the official visitation to Fl Zari- | bah Temple. We had long been told that Phoenix Arizona, had nothing i but live wires" but even the most optimistic of our party had never
 dreamed of the pretentious arrange ments that had been made for our
 entertainment and comforts.
 l Accompanied by Imperial Treasurer William s. Brown, Imperial Marshal James S. McCandless. Honorary Mem
 Der of the Imperial Council, J. Harry Lewis. Potentate w. O. Washburn
 of Osman Temple. Potentate Shirley | Christy of Fl Zarihah Temple, Past Potentate Jas. E. Chandler of Ararat
 Temple, Nobles Andy Rahn and Fred
 Lee, we were met in Los Angeles hv many Mobiles of Al Malaikah
 Temple and travelled by special train
 to the Grand Canyon. At Williams.
 Arizona. we were met by the Nobles of Fl Zaribah, were given cordial welcome We arrived at the Grand Canyon at II A. M, and were quar- tered at the Fl Tovar hotel.
 At one o'clock the barbecue pits were opened and Noble Douglass White, of Al Malaikah, spread foI the great company a barbecue that would have made even the grandees of old California envious. Noble Ed Maud. also of Los Angeles, superin tended the barbecuing of the beeves and the magic touch of Jose Romero made the viands fit for kings. The tables were decorated with pine cones in a novel manner, and with every thing in readiness the Imperial Po- tentate approached one of the pits and with the assistance of Maud and Romera opened same, and with a great pair of tongs Romero lifted out a bulls head and offered it to me II bowed my satisfaction with the feast offered, and the barbecue de- ilicacy was taken away to be carved for the Imperial table. Besides the lbarbecued meats. there were tamales
 great broiled steaks. frijoles, con-
 serves tortillas, and various sweet
 meats. and during the dinner music
 was rendered by the band from the
 Phoenix Indian school
 In the afternoon, headed by 'youl humble servant and followed by the
 members of the Imperial party, tho candidates who were later to be Inl- tiated into the mysteries of the order and the Nobles of Fl Zaribah. w started down Bright Anger trail Below us yawned the deepest, wides. and most sublime canyon of the en tire world-five thousand feet to tn bottom and fifteen miles across t the painted wall on the opposite side The day was ideal and the sunshine O the brilliant colors of the canyo | brought them out in all their beaut | and those who had come for laughte | were awestruck by the spectacle be II l rf tr9V | way to reverence of every one pres ent. Ages ago the river God du | here his most sublime entrenchmen down through the marble stained re II by seepage from seams of iro through green and yellow quartz an
 black greiss and slate, until the car
 yon was nearly a mile deep, and hel
 it remains today to bewilder man ar | to make him duly humble.
 II A half mile down the trail Potter | tate Christy halted the caravan ar | told the candidates that they were II bunch of pikers" and would be take U back to the rim and turned loos \ and back the caravan went, but Il | novices were not turned loose, | promised. as they still had mal \ things to do to prove their fitne to be called 'Nobles."
 At six o'clock an elaborate ba \ quet was served at the Fl Tovar hot | for which occasion Potentate Chris ! acted as toastmaster and many T sponses were made by members
 the Imperial party and other visiti - Mobiles.
 ~ At eight o'clock we were escort } to the large tent which had been c ! ected for the ceremonial at-Ho { Point. I was introduced to the go { Nobles of Fl Zaribah Temple
 { Potentate Christy, and in respondi
 2 expressed our appreciation of the n
 2 vel and pleasing reception that h. ! been rendered our party. During t ! evening fifty-four poor sons of t
 { desert were escorted across the h { sands, and the visiting Nobles we
 { all glad that they didn't have t