The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-05-29
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5000 calls were handled the first
day and the total is mounting
every hour. Forty-eight picked
operators are at work on this ex-
change.
Special telegraph stations are be-
ing established at the Baltimore and
Ohio parking yard, Keith's Theater,
where the Imperial Council sessions
will be held, and at Shrine Park,
Alexandria.
: The Third signal company, United
States marine corps, was today or
dered to duty, under command of
Capt. E. e. Eiler, at the headquar-
ters Of the parade and patrol COM
mittee, L. Whiting Estes, chairman,
room Q, Homer building. Message
centerS will be established at the
headquarters of all visiting Shrine
temples. This system will be used
to coordinate the work OF the uni
formed Shrine bodies.
MissOurians in First.
The first official Shrine party to
come into Washington by railroad
will arrive at Union Station at 3
o'clock Saturday afternoon on the
Pennsylvania line. 1t will be COM
posed Of the Imperial representa-
tiveS of Abou Ben Adhem Temple,
Springfield, Mo.
Abou Ben Adhem Temple will be
represented in the Imperial Council
by its potentate, Karl H. Schwider,
Les e. Walton, Arthur c. Daily and
George F. Olendorf. Each of the
four representatives brings his wife.
They have been assigned to suites
$685., 507, 800 and 500 at the New
Willard Hotel, the official headquar-
tiers OF the Imperial Council ana
Divan. They will proceed to the
hotel Immediately upon arrival in
Washington.
Seattle Next, With Band.
The second party to arrive by rail.
road will be large delegation from
Nile Temple, Seattle, Wash, famed
as the most Travelled temple in
Shrinedom. Nile Temple, arriving on
the Pennsylvania at S:45 p. M, Sat
urday, is sending a patrol Of sixty
members, q band of forty pieces and
twenty-five chanters as it's uni
formed representatives. The temple
will be housed in the New Ebbitt
and Brighton hotels. Nile Temples
delegation will be headed by it's po-
tentate, Richard w. Euntoon. The
MIC OClSSdlcS u the
Gil are the Potentate, Hugh M. Cald-
well, Douglas Ball and Ivan l.. Hy-
land.
Other temples to arrive by rail-
road Saturday night are Ell Korah,
Boise, Idaho, and Isis, Salina, Kans.
Scores of temples will arrive Sunday
Army Units Arriving.
Army and navy units today began
arriving in Washington for exhibit
tons during Shrine week. A bat
talon of infantry, with tanks, a
troop OF cavalry, a battery of field
artillery and an army band are on
the way here from points in the
Washington corps area, under orders
from the War Department. These
units will pitch camp in the Mall,
from Third to Sixth streets between
Maine and Missouri avenues. The
model army camp, pitched according
to the letter of the field service regu-,
lations, will illustrate to the public
the life OF the three mobile arms in
the field.
The army will also have a COM
pany from the ordnance specialists
school, comprising seven officers
and los enlisted men, two repair
trucks. three artillery repair trucks,
two small army trucks and six
artillery supply trucks. 1t will
camp south of B street northwest,
west of the munitions building A
coast artillery corps detachment of
three officers and forty enlisted
men with five searchlight cars, a
light repair truck and a 75-mm.
,anti-aircraft on a truck mount will
be stationed in the Mall. The
chemical warfare service will be
represented by two officers and
twenty enlisted men with a truck.
Air Service Strong.
The air service is sending the
largest bombing plane, the smallest
pursuit plane. the To- of transcon.
tinental nonstop fame, aircraft
equipment and aerial Photographic
units. housed in tents at Boiling
Field. A signal corps detachment
OF two trucks will accompany them.
= The Seventeenth Engineers, army,
VIII operate a photographic truck
through the downtown section, dis
tributing maps showing traffic rules
for the week and the roads to
Mt. Vernon and Camp Humphreys.
Air service exhibits will be given
daily for five days beginning June
4. On June 8 there will be a
cavalry and field artillery exhibi.