Evening star., 1922-06-27
WASHINGTON FACES BIG TASK
AS HOST TO 100000 SI1RINERS
Convention Next Year Will Tax Enter
tanning Resources of This City if Royal
Welcome Is to Be Accorded.

city and state, l have tried to assure
them OF how we have cared for the
great presidential Inauguration crowds,
Of how we gathered into our homes the
sort Of thing, but they still shook their
heads.
Millions Change Hands.
The Shriner is a free spendsr He
wants the best there is and has the
money to pay for It, Naturally he
feels 1t ought to be on tap at his de-
mand. The stores of San Francisco
have felt the golden inflow of coin
into the state from Shrine sources:
convention showed bank receipts Of
millions as the result Of the conven-
tion. The San Francisco convention.
bank officers tell me. will far surpass
Portland in that respect, and II only
a fraction of the enthusiasm now be-
vention Is maintained to the finish
Washington will be many millions
richer after the week Of June 5, 1923.
than 1t is the week before.
Immense crowds still linger in San
Francisco and in Los Angeles. The
greater than their capacity. To get
home from either city one must b.
content with much in the way of rail-
way accommodation which would de-
ter the most seasoned traveller. Lower
berths are luxury now denied even
to millionaires. There are none to be
had. Yet many thousands of the red
fezzed nobility are having the times
of their lives in the Yosemite. where
last Sunday, in Camp Curry alone,
nearly 1.500 were cared for and fed.
not counting the campers, who are
there In hundreds more. Camp Curry
is just big outdoor hotel in the
midst of the grandest scenery known
to this continent. Thousands more
are moving toward the Yellowstone.
even more are moving northward to
Portland. Seattle and the Canadian
Rockies. while to the south of Los
Angeles great throngs are vending
their way by motor car and railroad
to San Diego and to Tia Juana. the
Mexican city just across the border
which has reputation for being wide
open in everything. but which has
had much of its sting removed within
recent months. Daily the beaches
lined with happy thousands. Wash
ington will have them all. and even
more, next year. unless all signs fail
Magnificent Parades.
Washington will like him. and will
be the better for his coming Market
street. San Francisco. is not nearly as
wide as our beautiful Pennsylvania
avenue. Yet upon it last week were
staged three of the most magnificent
parades the city has ever seen. The
Shrine parade is unlike others 1t is
thing of itself. unique. incompara-
BILE. The first included scores OF fine
brass bands, the potentates of the vari-
Gus temples and their divans and patrols
and the Imperial Council dignitaries.
The second. at night. was practically the
same except that it's beauty was en-
HANGED by electric and colored illumina-
tion. The third was a symbolic parade,
essentially Masonic. that excited the ad-
miration of everybody. This parade
was repeated Saturday evening in honor
Of the police chiefs. whose convention
followed the Shrine convention. Our
own major and superintendent Of DO
lice. Daniel Sullivan, reached San Fran
cisco in time for this demonstration.
And no Shriner here was more wildly
enthused over the fact than Capt. Colin
=. E. FIather. one of the Almas Imper-
ial representatives.
W. H LANDyOIGT