The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-06-04
100000 Visitors i'm
Washington at Noon,
Says Headquarters

At noon today DELEGATIONS from
shrine temples from Maine to the
Hawaiian Islands and from the
Panama Canal to the shores OF
Hudson BAY Were In WASHINGTON
for the Imperial Council session of
1898.
At this time an estimate at Shrine
headquarters placed the number at
visitors In the city at close to
100000, with the transcontinental
automobile caravan and more than
fifty special trains still to come.
100000 Here ny Tonight.
BY nightfail at least 800 900 win
be in Washington and the strag.
glers will increase this total to close
to $4,000 before the close of the
session, headquarters anticipates.
Among the visitors from the ends
OF the North American continent,
to which the Shrine is limited, now
in Washington are delegations from
such temples as Abou Saad, Panama
Canal Zone: Aloha, Honolulu,
Hawaii; Mocha, London, Canada
Al AZhar, Calgary Alberta, Canada;
Anezeh Temple, Mexico City, Mex
leo; Mahi, Miami, Fla, and Nile,
Seattle, Wash.
Among the latest arrivals today
Is the delegation from the biggest
temple in all Shrinedom. Medinah
Temple, Chicago, with a member
ship of $4,000. Medinah Temple
and the city OF Chicago are spend
Ing to Washington by train and
automobile a throng of approx
mately 10000 people.
Lu Lu To Send Big Crowd.
The second largest temple and the
one which confidently expects to
send the largest single crowd to the
sessions is yet to come. This is
La Lu Temple. of Philadelphia
Lu Lu, with a membership of near.
ly 10000. Is waging a contest with
Med1nah to send the largest crowd
and, because Of it's nearness to
washington expects to bear off
the palm. A large vanguard Of
the Lu Lu Temple mobiles has been
coming into the city during the
past two days by automobile and
train. The uniformed bodies, the
divan. and the majority of the
nobility will come in by specials
over the Pennsylvania railroad pc
ginning at 8 o'clock tonight. Phila-
delphta is making every effort to
have the most striking delegations
at the session.
The vanguard of 100. 900, which be-
gan coming into Washington Satur-
day evening, and continued in, an
unfailing stream all day yesterday,
last night completely took possession
of the city.
The main body Of the visitors is
ivf iaI
trains and the scores OF regular
trains. An almost continuous pro-
cession of bands. patrols, chanters,
Oriental bands, and Saracen guards
is marching through the portals of
Union Station as the trains discharge
their throngS.
The sun was still low this morning
when the first fezzes appeared, and
by 3 o'clock the streets were once
more thronged with visitors.
1t is estimated by the automobile
parking committee that at least 49,
900 automobiles bearing the license
numbers from the States have AL
ready come into Washington. This
number is being increased at the
Iate OF nearly 1000 an hour and
will reach it's climax with the ar,
rival of the transcontinental and
the New York-NeW England cara
vans.
The real blare and hustle of the
session got under way with the
arrival of the imperial pOtentate,
James Sutton McCandless, OF Aloha
Temple, Honolulu, Hawaii, yester.
day morning. A throng OF fully
10000 people packed the huge
station concourse and the Union
/ Station plaza to welcome Sunny
Jim" and his party to Washington.
Sioux Falls, s. Oak, went on
the Shrine map with a bang to-
day when the Ell Rad Temple
Band invaded the Munsey build.
ing and gave a concert. Work in
some 1000 offices came to a
complete stop. Stenographers
and clerks paired off with bosses
and employers and some real
mean shimuaieA were shaken I'M