Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-03-12

work will keep the new line officers
| busy for some time to come.
| Junior Warden Elmer c. Wood will
| head the official line in the F. c. de-
| gree in Lebanon Lodge, No. I. Friday
evening. The NJ. NJ. degree is scheduled
for April O.
| Federal Lodge. No. 1. expects to have
| the assistance of its new r. c. team
| in presenting the NJ. NJ. degree Tuesday
evening. Light refreshments will be
, served afterward. March IS. the lodge
will have the F. G. degree with Junior
Z, Warden William S. Quinter heading the
, official line.
| Mount Vernon Royal Arch Chapter,
No. 3 will have the p. NJ. ard NJ. E. NJ
| degrees tomorrow evening, and the
Royal Arch March 20
Hiram Lodge. No 10. will have the
| +. a. degree Thursday evening, with
Senior Warden Il. Hanson Weightman
heading the official line.
Potentate l.. Whiting Estes states
that the official divan and other no.ables
connected with. the bull and bear
campaign will be guests at the duck
pin theater party at the New National
Theater tomorrow evening. The In
vited guests will include the potentate.
Edmund s Wolfe. chief rabban: sydney
r. Jacobs. assistant rabban; Louis II.
Meyers. high priest and prophet: John
A. E.llinSer. oriental guide: Harrison
Dingman, recorder: iErancis A. Sebring.
treasurer; Past Potentate James T.
Gibbs. chairman of the bull commit
tee: Henry LansburSh. chairman OF
the bear committee and representa-
tive to the Imperial Council: capt.
Louis c. Wilson. captain of the Arab
Patrol: Charles y. stevens, leader and
director of the oriental Band: Edgar
c. snyder. chairman of stunts vigil
NJ. Fookes, representative to tine I'M
perial Council. and Past Potentate Roe
Fulkerson, representing the silent
saGes.
Washington Royal Arch Chapter. No.
-. announces the Royal Arch degree
March 90 At the convocation Thurs
dav evening after business. the chap
ter was entertained with selections on
the cornet, violin and piano by Frank
b. Ketchum. ElphhonZo Youngs and
John l. Apple.
Monarch Emmons of kallipolis
Grotto. Yelled Prophets of the En-
chanted Realm. is preparing for cere-
moniaI session about the middle OF
April. The grotto has already selected
July IL and August % as dates for its
two excursions to Chesapeake Beach.
an invitation to sing for Odenton Chap
ter of the Eastern Star. at Odenton.
Md, Friday night, and it will also
unite with the Indian Guard Band of
the Improved Order of Red Men Of
Alexandria. Va. for joint entertain
ment in that city the evening of
March "a.
Enough prophets are already en-
rolled by p. V. Heating. it is said. to
insure the organization of drill team
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parade at the meeting of the Supreme
Council in Detroit next June
The all-absorbing topic among the
prophets is base ball Whenever two
or three are gathered together their
conversation is base ball and base ball
only. The game to be played in June
between the members of the Shrine
and the Grotto for the benefit of the
Masonic and Eastern Star Home
promises to furnish amusement to
number of the prophets who were real
ball players years ago are brushing up
on the rules of the game. and it is
whispered that not a few of them are
taking gymnasium courses in an en-
deavor to come back and be among
those selected in the trying-out process
Prophet Charles Sabin has been ap-
pointed recruiting officer and the APP
plications are pouring in SO rapidly, 1t
is said, that he has been compelled to
a caro- lNOeX system 10 Keep
track of them
Recent advices from the grand mon
arch and grand secretary are that
grottoes will probably be organized at
Seattle. Wash; Topeka. Kan; Flint,
Mich. and Muncie. Ind. in the near
future. A movement also is on foot
for the establishment of a grotto at
Hartford, Conn.
More than fifty petitions in hand.
with bulls and bears arriving hour
ly." says Potentate l.. Whiting Estes,
lis evidence of the strenuous contest
now on between the rival factions
headed by Henry Lansburgh and Past
Potentate James T. Gibbs, in prepara-
ton for the forthcoming ceremonial
session of Almas Temple of the Mystic
Shrine week from tomorrow night.
Preparations are sufficiently advanced
to predict that the circular of an
nouncement will find it's way into the
mails within a very few days"
Potentate Estes has marshaled the
divan and reviewed the roster of APP
pointive officers and named his COM
mittees in anticipation of the big event
at the New National Theater. which
even the old stagers' in the temple
are predicting will eclipse anything in
shrin edom that has happened in Wash
ington. Everything that is going to
happen j. secret. as matter OF
course" says Mr.. Estes. but there is
no law against hinting-only | won't
hint" But others are limiting, and
limiting broadly, that the extraordinary
EN- ellshments that will be added to
the orthodox ritual for the occasion
have taxed the widest imagination and
ingenuity of the unique minds of the
selected sages of shrinedom. not only
here, but elseWhere-and the culminat-
ing promise invariably is that the
neophytes led forth for slaughter will
get all that is coming to them, and
perhaps a bit more"
All the available material for the
proverbial "neophyte slaughter" is be-
strange to say, remark the leaders OF
the rival factions. 'refusals don't 60.
Those who come willingly are warmly
welcomed. but those who exhibit re-
luctance are swept off their feet with
visions unrolled to their gaze, and the
ba tile is won.
By a strange coincidence, the date of
thee ceremonial is said by Recorder
Harrison Dineman. who is a past i'm
perial potentate and ought TO know. to
be the real date of the birth of the
Prophet and therefore in Shrine edicts
calls for a celebration of extraordinary
briiliancy and originality The caval-
cade on this occasion, will be mounted
upon white camels.' whose ornamen-
tatiou will outrIval the Indian durbar,
it is said and the regalia of the faith
full will reflect the glory of the ami
versary in radiant and vari-colored
costumes.
The mystic hight'-for there is al
ways "A mystic flight at a big Shrine
cerernonial-will be "over sunkissed
sands that have never crunched be-
meath the hoof of camel. and through
mirage deceivinR sections of the des-
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