The Washington times., 1922-10-06
.SHR|NERSW WILL
BUILD PULLMAN
C|TYFOR $4,000
AImas Temple Plans Include
Town to House Overflow
Visitors.

| visitors.
A city of $4,000 inhabitants, with
all modern conveniences, including
running hot and cold water, electric
! lights, Fairgrounds, and nurses for
the children, will spring up over
night here next June for the annual
session of the Imperial Council, An.
cient Arabic Order Mobiles OF the
Mystic Shrine. The city will be in
existence just one week and will
vanish within few hours, leaving
no traces behind.
This is but one of the phases of
| the problem of entertaining nearly "A
half million visitors here next June,
which was settled today by the
! AlmaS Temple committee in charge.
The committee today will begin
ally broadcasting by wireless of
messages boosting Washington as
convention city. These messages
will be sent daily at noon from the
'tation of Thomas J. Williams, Inc,
md will be relayed over the entire
'Ountry.
First Message Sent.
Local business organizations will
be invited to frame the daily mes.
sages, according to plans under con.
sideratiOn today. The series Of mes.
sages will carry the story of Wash
ington to the nation.
Ioday message, sent at noon, fol.
lows:
"Almas Temple, OF the Mystic
Shrine. invites yOu to come home the
first week of next June to the i'm.
perlal council session in Washington
ana TO bring all the folks. Eats. fire.
works and everything"
Plans for the ephemeral city were
To-Day practically completed by the
newly organized transportation com.
mlttee or Almas Temple, of which
Harry F.. Cary Is chairman Tbe
committee includes operating AND
expert traffic officials OF all trans.
portation lines now entering wash.
lngton
This city. which is to be bJt opo
OF several like IL. will be laid out in
the southern railway yards at Alex.
anurla' va. Pullman cars, IN which
oo'ooo people will make their homes
TOT the entire week OF the session.
VIII make up the CITY. Comr,rt
houses will be built. water and sewer
pipes laid, telephone and electric
cables installed Fairgrounds laid
out. automobile parks provided, and
roads laid out connecting the tenn.
porary city with all the main high.
ways leading into Washington.
Track Already Taken Up.
The huge railway park. without
precedent in American raiIrOading
history, according to officials, will
he hut 1900 feet from the electric
lines leading to Washington and but
$500 feet from Union station at
Alexandria. Special bus service from
the park to Washington will oe
operated all week.
Every inch of track in the Wash.
ington terminal yard has already
been taken up. 1t will probably he
necessary to park the Pullmans in
Baltimore. From !, 500 to 1000 Pull
mans will probably come here.
A special staff of physicians will
be kept on hand at each of the
! Pullman cities and complete police
and fire departments will. be pro
vided. The membership of the
transportation committee was an
nounccd today, as follows:
Harry r. Cary. chairman; Alex.
ander Grant, r. r. Cooke. vice
Chairmen; A. p. Johnston, secretary;
w. b. Galloway, w. L. Loves, w.
| V. Shipley. John Lewis, J. A. Latch.
ford, +. V. Baugh. John ID. Potts,
w. A. Braunstein, J. b. Edmunds,
w. l.. Booth, II. S. CalCutt, r. X.
Cooke, +. L. Evans. w. II. Callahan,
D. N. Bell, o. r. Boyd, c. f. Me.
Cullough. Nathan We'll, George NJ.
| Do
c. p. Stewart, J. B. MordeCai,
George =. James, G. w. VIerbuchen,
c. w. Culp, +. l.. Raub. T. II. Harr,
w. II. Tayloe, c. A. Kline, w. S.
Andrews, Alexander Grant, ]. NJ.
Woodruff, S. E. Burgess, Joseph
Marks, J. II. Wingfield. J. V.
Davis, G. c. Baggett, X. l.. Prince,
+. A. Cannon, NJ. G.. Stratton, T.
II. Travers, A. C. Brown, l.. NJ.
Ansley, c. F.. Phelps, r. o. Rudd,
o. B. George, w. s. Hall, r. NJ.
Hicks, E. Won Culin, G.. w. ShoCkey,
J. H. Stevens, A. H. Ferrendou, w.
II. Howard.
More Chairmen Named.
Appointment of two more chair
men Of Almas Temple subCommittees
was announced today by IllustriOus
Potentate Leonard +. Steuart.
James c. Hoyle is named chairman
of the banquet committee and George
Duval. tr., High Priest and Prophet
of Alams Temple, chairman of the
fireworks committee.
Harrison Dingman, Past Imperial
| Potentate and Past Potentate of
Almas Temple, is named honorary
general chairman.
This leaves but three of the thirty
| committee heads to be named. The
vacancies are in the baggage, pur.
chasing, and entertainment commit
tees.