Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-06-16
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SHRINE STANDS !.
TO HOLD 10000
Magnificent Accommodations
Planned at Buffalo to Wit
ness Great Parade

Buffalo n. Y, June 14.-Advices
received at the Shrine national head
quarters here from the many Shrine
temples of North America, including
Hawaii and the Canal Zone are that
this years imperial council session
July lib will bring out more mobiles
OF the order on pilgrimages than ever
has happened before. George X
staples, general chairman of arrange
ments. estimates between 100, 900 and
100000 visitors will attend the ses-
sion.
This assemblage of great caravans,
as the Shriners in oriental phraseol-
ogy term their touring parties, is at
tributed in a large measure to the
prosperous condition of the country,
although the attraction of Niagara
rails and the historic Niagara From
tier and the climatic conditions of the
Great Lakes region undoubtedly play
thelr part. But prosperity is present
or the Shrine temples could not
make the lavish outlay they will upon
special train tours to the imperial
council meeting. Lulu temple of
Fhlladelphia will bring a mounted
patrol of 100 men and an immense
mounted band. A Texas temple will
brlng sufficient shaggy burros to
mount all its members. Calgary's
temple Will bring bison from the
nerd in its vicinity, one of the few
remaining, and will present il to the
Buffalo Zoo. A California special train
caravan will spend s150,0O0 on the
equipment and expense of it's trans
continental journey.
scores of temples plan on leaving
Bufalo to tour Canada and the East
ern States while others will make trips
up the Great Lakes. In anticipation
OF the convention and its parade, 5000
members of the order, the city's
streets have been repaired. The Le-
nigh railroad will open its new So
100000 station, one of several built
and planned in the terminal improve
ment program undertaken by the city
and roads.
AS the result of the most compre-
hensive hotel bookings ARRANGEMENTS
ever undertaken by a big convention,
every Shrine delegation upon arrival
In Buffalo will be escorted direct to
its hotel by the patrol of Ismailia
temple of this city and visitors will
go to rooms assigned them before
they leave home. This hotel reserva-
uon scheme includes contracts be-
tween temples and hotels, vized by the
local committee, and has been adopted
to eliminate "scalping" on hotel ac-
commodations, a custom encountered
In past conventions of magnitude
whereby operators with reserved
rooms have been able to charge as
hi gh as $40 day for choice $5 rooms
when the convention city became
crowded. It is said many other or
ganizations plan to follow the Shrine
system In dealing with the roomine
question hereafter.
For the review of the great parade
OF Shrine patrols and for the audi
ences who will witness a big out-of-
doors entertainment program prepared
tor the convention a grandstand with
10000 seats is to be erected at the
monument erected to President Nc
kinley who died here after being shot
at the Pan-American Exposition.
A representative of a western tenn
pie who was in Toronto recently ar
ranging for a tour through the do
minion to Montreal brought back in
formation to-day that the Toronto
one-arm-lunch rooms have renamed
nam burger sandwiches Salisbury sand
Wiches because loyal Canadians oh
Jected to the German name. He said
the restaurant man told him II was
suggested that limburger cheese
should be renamed in the same fash
ION but the restaurant men were
AFRAID that any nobleman selected to
godfather 1t might consider the use
of his name in the connection in had
odorr and resent it as the reverse of
an honor.