The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-02-22
.SHR|NERS READY !. FOR ARRIVAL OF
 POTENTATE TODAY
Commission Formally Pro- claims Visitors Are to Be Allowed a Good
 Time

| Everything is now ready for the ar rival of J. Putnam Stevens, imperial
 potentate of the Shriners, who reaches Birmingham this afternoon.
 { The members of Zamora Temple have | arranged every detail, and the impe. rial potentate and the other high off
 cials of the shrine, as well as the hum | dreds of visitors from over the state. who will be here, will find that the keys of the city have been turned over to the wearers of the red fez The imperial potentate, who arrives this afternoon, will be met at the Ter
 minal station and escorted to the Tut wiler, where the big event. "A Night l in Arabia" will be staged during the evening. The decorations will be lav. ish and the evening will conclude with magnificent costume ball.
 That the entire city is in the hands
 of the Shriners and their visiting broth
 CTS is evidenced by the following official
 proclamation issued by the city com l missioners:
 Whereas, Zmaroa Temple, A. A. o. N
 M. S., of Birmingham, is composed of a body of mighty good fellows, compris- Ing many or our ledGlnS CIIlzenS III alt high walks of life, and this band of | nobles of the Mystic Shrine, along with other innumerable good qualities, have never failed, individually or collectively, to sing the praises of their Magic City at home and abroad, in season or out, and,
 Whereas, Zamora is the oldest and largest temple in the state and mother of ] the other temples of Mobile and Mont gomery, and her loyal Arabs are scat 1 tered throughout Alabama and longing ! for a happy homecoming when they may
 unite with their clansmen at the paren- | tai Oasis, eat drink and be merry, and, Whereas, the illustrious potentate of
 Zamora, with loyal compassion and 1 thoughtful regard for his beloved sub- I jects has commanded that next Tuesday, l February 22 shall be devoted to recrea- | ton and pleasure by his tribe in honor | of the annual pilgrimage and visit to l Zamora on that date to his imperial l Eighness, J. Putnam Stevens of Port land, Me, the potentate supreme of 1 shrinedom in America, and,
 Whereas, for the entertainment of l his highness, the imperial potentate. and the pleasure of the noble strangers and visiting nobles of other temples who are | invited to be present on this eventful day, the illustrious potentate of Zamora
 has ordered the preparation of the great | SpecLacle, A NlgnL Tn Arapla, aI the l spacious Hotel Tutwiler on the evening
 of February p, and commanded that all
 nobles be present with their ladies to partake of and enjoy the fetes and l feasts provided, and
 1 Whereas, it should be the privilege Of every noble to have release from busi- ness or other . res on such an auspi-
 cfous occasion, and full freedom from whatsoever restraint therefore, ] 'We, the city's magnanimous dads, do
 hereby and most unanimously decree that
 Tuesday February p, from high noon
 until the dawn of another day, as pleases the majority, be declared a holiday sea son for all wearers of the red fez and | their ladies. and let no citizen disturb i their merriment or interrupt the flow of l their peculiar pleasures as they travel I the \pains of their native Arabia and
 partake of the many mediums of joy provided, and may no worthy Arab, en- raptured dame or damsel lack of enter | tainment.
 ''Witness our John Henrys this day written.
 1 "GEORGE B. WARD. "ARLIE BARBER. | "J D.. TRUSS. "J. R. HORNADY. JAMES WEATHERLY."