Evening star., 1922-10-06
SHRINE INVITATION |
TO Be W|RE[ESSED
Bid by Radio to Be Broadcast
Daily, Throughout En-
tire United States.

"A wireless message eseo1sing
Washington as. a convention city VIII
be broadcasted throughout the United
States. commencing today at noon
and each day hereafter at the same
hour. This message will be sent out
each day by Thomas J. Williams,
1924 New York avenue. under the
auspices OF tho Shrine 1928 COM
mittee. Today's message IS "Aamas
Temple Of the Mystic Shrine invites
you to come home the first week of
next June to the Imperial Council In
Washin ng ton, and bring all the folks.
Eats. fireworks and everything"
The first great Shrine convention
which will convey the claims Of
Washington. Arrangements have been
made whereby the message will be
caught and relayed generally at the
noon hour. The potentate, Leonard
r. Steuart. desires that every person
in the United States should know
what service the National Capital is
supported in this broad purpose by
Henry Standiford. executive secre-
tary. and all the chairmen who have
charge of the arrangements for the
entertainment of the multitude who
. VIII come to Washington next June.
Progress in Finances.
Thomas f. FARRELL, chairman of the
finance committee, whose members
are now engaged in securing funds
for the event, finds that the business
men thus far visited thoroughly COM
prehend the civic value of this broad
platform. At any rate, at noon each
day the air is to vibrate with the
I,t< ~ o. hi
James c. Hoyle was named chair
man Of the banquet committee and
George Duval, jr., chairman OF the
fireworks committee today by 70
tentate Steuart. This leaves chair
men of three committees yet to be
appointed They are the baggage,
entertainment and purchasing com
mittees Past Imperial Potentate
Harrison Dingman was selected yes
terday as honorary general chair
Harry F. Cary. chairman of the
transportation committee OF the
Almas Temple 1928 Shrine committee.
which is to handle and solve the
many problems connected with the
transportation of 100000 to and from
Washington next June for the meet
ing of the Imperial Council OF the
Mystic Shrine, has completed the
work OF organizing his force ana the
personnel was announced last night.
and expert traffic officials of all
transportation lines entering wash
ington.
City of Pullmans.
In making public the names on his
committee Chairman Cary gave out a
statement which explains In some de-
gree the unprecedented tranc prop.
lens involved with the big event OF
next year. For instance. it is estl-
Pullmans while here. and in antclpa-
ton of this unique situation the yards
will be organized like residence com
munities for this purpose. the direr-
ence being that instead or houses
there will be community of Pullman
sleeping cars. The committee is as
follows: H. F. Cary, chairman; Alex
ander Grant. vice chairman: H. r.
Cooke. vice chairman: A. r. Johnston.
secretary; W. B. Galloway, Baltimore;
w. E. Loves. Baltimore; w. V. ship
ley, Washington: John Lewis, Wash
ington: ]. A Latchford. Baltimore; E.
V. Raugh, Baltimore; John d. Potts
Richmond; W. A. Braunstein, Rlch-
mond; J. b. Edmunds. washington:
Covington. Ky; R. r. Cooke, Wash
ington;.< F. E. Evans, Washington;
". II. Callahan, Washington.
D. y. Bell and O. T. Boyd. Philadef-
phia: c. E Mccullough. Baltimore;
Nathan W ell, " W.
Smith. Baltimore; H. H. Baker. Phiia-
delphia: j. T Ransom and c. P. Stew
art. Washington: J. B. Mordecal. Rich
mond: George p. James and u. W.
vierhuchen. Washington; {. W. CUP,
Richmond; E. l.. Raub, y. II: Harr, w.
Alexander Grant. J. NJ. Woodruff. s.
Z. Burgess, Joseph Marks. J. H Wing,
field. j. V. Davis. G.. c. Baggett and
X. l.. Prince. Washington:
e A. Cannon, Baltimore; NJ Ii. Strat-
ton. T, II. Travers. A. C, Brown. L.
o. B. George. ". S. Hall. r. NJ. Hicks.
= Won Culin, G. W. Shockey. ]. Fl.
Stevens and A. H. Ferrendou, Wash
inston, and w H. Howard, Atlanta.
Chairman Cary's statement is as
follows:
committee is to arrange with all of
the railroads in the United States and
Canada and, likewise. the steamship
companies, for reductions in fares to
bring the mobiles and their families
and friends to Washington for the
June meeting. This work has al
ready been undertaken by the COM
mittee and these questions are hav-
ing the consideration of all the rail-
roads at this time. !
Reduced Rail Fares.
"Our arrangements will include re-
duced fares for persons coming to |
Washington and returning from /:
Washington via the same route or
routes They will also include vari- |
able routes. which will mean COM |
ing to Washington via one route and
returning via some other direct or |
indirect routes. For illustrative pur-
noses. far western delegations will |
nrobably move via one of the north
ern gateways to Washington and re- !
turn via one of the southern gate (!
ways, or vice versa.
at is contemplated also to have
side-trip tickets on sale at Washing i
tom for excursion purposes, while the
Mobiles and their families are here |
Very extensive arrangements, Will be
made by the railroads of Washing
ton for the parking of sleeping cars
for sleeping purposes, and this is
matter which the transportation COM
mittee is now considering and work.
ing out with the several carriers at
Washington. 1t is confidently ex-
pected that there will be $4,000 or
more people who will sleep in sleep
In fact, some of the sleeping cars
will be parked at Alexandria, some.
uerhaps at Laurel Md, and maybe as
far back as Baltimore, all OF which
ia necessitated by reason OF the very
largo number of sleeping cars which
will be at Washington at that time
and because there Is not sufficient
railroad trackage at Washington to
AFFORD the necessary space. At these
parking spaces there Will be proper
and very extensive police protection
The parking spaces will be similar
to small cities or towns. being cleo |
trically lighted and having proper
sanitary arrangements. Dining cars.
or restaurant cars, will be kept open
at these parking places twenty-four
hours of the day in order to serve |