The Adair County news., 1922-06-27
7SHRTNERS open
MEET AT FRISCO
Big Parade Initiates Convention
Bands and Patrols in
Gay C0Iors.
POTENTATE'S BALL At NIGHT
Street-car Tours of City, Auto Trips,
Infantry Drills at the Preside,
Visits to Battleships Among
Events of Day.

San Francisco, Cal, June 14.-Dull
care, efficiency and business threw up
their jobs and let mobiles take over
their work of running a city, for it
was the official opening of the annual
imperial council of the Ancient Arabic
Order, Mobiles of the Mystic Shrine.
Beginning with a parade of all the
hundreds of brightly dressed bands
and patrols to escort the imperial diVan
from the citys gates at the ferry build
ing to the imperial council chamber In
Scottish Rite auditorium, and ending
with the imperial potentate's ball in
the evening, the day was set aside
for joy.
The city awOke to bugle calls, to
drums; to familiar Sousa tunes and
crowded into the grandstands that
tianked the streets in the vicinity of
the civic center. This public square,
approached through a double row of
kneeling camels and MOslem towers,
accommodated many thousands.
Barbaric SpIendor Marks Parade.
- The parade orders called for the
mingling of colOrs that taxed the Ca
pacity Of the spectrum, that riOted
nOisily in violation of all laws Of
harmony and that proved the male
half of English-speaking North Ameri-
can to be an instructive lover Of bar
barrie splendor.
At its head a place was set aside
fO. tho ipoporial DOfoptafo Ernocf Al
len Cults Of Savannah, Ga, the deputy
imperial potentate who will succeed
him; James McCandless of Honolulu
and other members of the imperial
divan.
Lending official dignity to the pro-
cessiOn, their duty was to hear the
welcoming speeches Of Governor
Stephens, Mayor Rolph and Potentate
Ira w. COburn of Isham temple of
San Francisco at the opening Of the
imperial council and then to start the
business session of the council.
Night Arrivals Danish Sleep.
During the night and even up to
only an hour or two before the time
for the parade to start, belated spe-
cial trains of Shriners hurried into
San Francisco to be ready for the
opening.
AS these late coming temples arrived
their bands and patrols marched
through crowded streets on their way
to their hotels, sleep having been for
gotten by every one, visiting Shriners
and the San Francisco pOpulace alike.
Free street-car tours of the city,
automobile trips, infantry drills at the
PresidiO, visits to battleships of the
Pacific fleet in the bay, athletic con-
tests, driving races and a reverend
ing series of band concerts were among
the other events of the day.
Crowds Cheer Chicago Mobiles.
The arrival of nearly 1,200 mobiles
of Medinah temple of Chicago, the
largest Shrine temple in the world,
was a genuine sensation of Shriners
for the big convention.
The Chicagoans came in five special
trains and finally succeeded in merg-
ing themselves into the already over
crowded landscape after the crowds,
which filled Market street from the
gayiy decorated ferry to the pyramids
of Powell street, had yelled itself
hOarse in welcoming the Medinahites.
The appearance of the ChicagOans
was spectacular. They brought with
them Beatrice Vail, hailed as the
prettiest girl in Chicago; the heaviest
Shriner in the world, a band of 200
pieces, LOGS uniformed men in the
patrol, the biggest drum ever seen and
a nOisemaking machine which could
be heard for miles in the bay region,
besides other novelties which the dele
gates say will be exhibited later on.
Jim Todd, who tips the scale at
4101a pounds, is said to be the heaviest
Shriner of them all. He came in with
Medinah.