Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1921-06-13
SHRINERS FLOCK
To DES MONIES;
EXPECT $4,000
Sessions of the Imperial
Council Open Tuesday,;
West and South viii Send
Big Delegations.

4pNo NlblllNoI ltlJ a hllt t'tAl IL
ers Of North America took posses
sion of Des Moincs today in ad-
vance of the opening Of the SEES
sions of the imperial council, An
cient Arabic Order, MOBILES of the
Mystic Shrine. Tho first sessions
of the council will be held Tuesday.
The first special train to arrive
brought u delegation of 500 from
Murat temple. Indianapolis, lnd.
A special train bearing Imperial
Potenate Ellis Lewis Garretson ana
his party from Afifi temple, Taco
ma, Wash, another special train of
eleven coaches from Salaam tom
pie, Newark, n. j., and the special
from Alec temple at Savannah, Ga,
were other early arrivals.
Two Big ParadCs.
BY tomorrow night more than
$4,000 Shriners will be in Des
Moines, and normal business will
be suspended for the days Of the
session.
Especially heavy delegations are
coming from the west and from the
south. More than 5000 members
of uniformed Shrine organizations
will be in line of march for the
parades Of Tuesday and Wcdnes-
day, in addition to thousands Of
members Of marching clubs.
Tomorrow afternoon six hun
bred automobile loads Of Shrlncrs
will make the trip to Ames, la, to
make an inspection of the Iowa
state college Of agriculture and me-
chanical arts.
one of the arrivals today was
]. S. McCandless, Of Honolulu,
Hawaii, imperial deputy rabban
of the order, who will be elevated
to the office of imperial potentate
at San Francisco next year. lie
is a representative Of Aloha tenn
pie, Honolulu.
To Establish n Hospital.
The council will take action up
on the establishment of a great
| Shrine hospital for crippled chill
| dren, the construction of which
was decided upon at the last i'm
perial council meeting, held at
| Portland, Ore, last year. The COM
mittee in charge Of arrangements
decided in favor of st. Louis Mo,
as the site of the hospital. but
movement has developed favoring
| the support of institutions scat
tered all over the United States
rather than the maintenance of
/ one great institution.
\ number of cities are appli-
cants for new temples, and have
! large delegations on hand These
include Syracuse, N. Y, Danville,
/ Ill, Everett, Wash, Paris, Texas,
/ Enid, Okla, Fort Dodge and OF
| tumwa, Iowa.
100000 Expended.
More than 100000 has been
/ expended in Dcs Moines in pre-
/ paration for the imperial council
/ meeting, which partakes of the
nature Of huge carnival in which
all Shriners participate, night and
day.
Two great parades will be the
outstanding features of the week.
The parades will be five miles
long, and will require four hours
to pass the reviewing stand.
\ great open air ball on the
Iowa state capitol grounds, where
accommodations have been pro-
vided for ten thousand dancers at
one time, will feature the evening
/ of Tuesday.
Order Has 100000 Members.
Business of the imperial coun-
Gil will be transacted by the i'm
perial officers and the represent
atives from the $50 temples Of
the order Membership in the
Shrine is restricted to men who
are either thirty-secOnd degree
Scottish Rite Masons, or who have
taken the York rite degrees in
Guiding that of Knight Templar.
| The order now has a membership
on the North American continent
Of approximately 100000.
The sessions will be presided
over by Imperial Potentate Ellis
L. Garretson, of Aft temple, Ia
coma, Wash. Ernest Cults, of Sa-
vannah, Ga, now chief rabban,
will be elevated to the position of
! imperial pOtentate at this session.
The only contest for election of
officers is confined the race for
selection as imperial outer guard,
which leads, in the course of
time, to advancement to head of
the order.
The Cleveland worlds cham