Evening star., 1923-04-08
10000 SHR|NERS
EXPECTED MAY 80
Vanguard to Help Make City's
Greatest Memorial Day.
Program Revealed.

More than 10000 members Of the
Shrine are expected to be in Wash
ington by Memorial day. to join in
the exercises to be held at Arlington,
giving the National Capital its most
largely attended memorial observ-
ance.
These forerunners OF the great ses-
sion OF the Imperial Council of the
Shrine the first week in June will be
in Washington in time to attend the
annual Memorial day services and
form a totally unexpected feature on
the general program.
The handling of these early guests
will offer preliminary problem
which the local committee is conf
dent of handling successfully, help
ing make the greatest Memorial day
observance ever held here.
The tentative program for the
meeting during the first week in
June was announced last night
Three hundred thousand to 100000
Shriners are expected to attend.
1900 PulImans to BE Used.
TIE arrival of special trains will
begin on Saturday and continue until
Monday night, when all the temples
are expected to be hnre. The rail-
roads, under the advice of che Almas
Temple transportation committee,
have marshalled all their traffic ex-
perts to handle the vast crowds the
railroads will have to carry All
parking space at Union station will
be occupied by chartered Pullmans,
some 700 in number, while the Shrine
Pullman Park. at Alexandria, will
contain some 500 more.
On Saturday 1T is expected that the
Indian exposition will open. under
the auspices of Victor Evans, whose
purpose Is to have present $50 In
dians. representing the various tribes,
together with cowboys and cow
gfrlA and other personages charac-
teristic Of the far west. There will
be performances similar to those
seen at Cheyenne and Albuquerque.
An Indian village, showing the orig
inal Americans living their lives as
they did in the wilderness. will be
another feature. Sham battles with
Indians, and many other allegorical
representations OF wild life will be
shown.
Opens on Temple Heights.
The formal entertainment will open
on Sunday, Juno 8, when, at 3 o'clock,
a band concert will be given on Tenn
pie Heights, followed at 4 o'clock by
an evensonE, which will include an
address by speaker of national
reputation. The visiting glee clubs
will have arrived by that time and
visiting bands will lead the 100000
persons expected to occupy the
heights in sacred and patriotic songs.
Sunday evening, probably at the Ra-
leigh Hotel, the TESTERS banquet will
be given at 1880, attended by mobiles
and their wives who are members Of
that organization. The number. ex-
I pected is $50.
On Monday, June 4. the imperial
tomb Of Washi n gton. During the fore
noon the caravan from the Pacific
coast will arrive, containing thou
sands Of automobile parties. and at 2
pm the zero milestone in the Ellipse
back Of the White House will be
dedicated by the President Of the
United States. assisted by the i'm
perial potentate and the Secretary OF
War. Following this event, tho per-
feet home erected by the Better Home
| Association on tho Ellipse will be
dedicated with proper, exercises.
Plan Huge Parade.
Monday night at 1880 there will be
frolic at the Washington Hotel.
which is intended to be an official
| introduction and welcome on the part
Of the Almas Temple potentate and
divan to the visiting Shrine onicials.
On the same evening, also at 7:3o, at
| the City Club. the Recordsr1 Associa-
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