Evening star., 1923-01-28
SIZE Of CONCLAvE
,S1AlGGERS BELIEF
Composite Shriner, Made in
Proportion to Guests Would
/ Tower 900, Feet.

In an effort to visualize the size OF
the vast number of members of the
Mystic Shrine, who will be here next
June. the Almas 1923 Shrine committee
has figured out a composite Shriner
and compared him in statue to the
Washington Monument. Details OF
comparison have been worked out as
accurately as possible by the commit
tee, which enables to some extent the
citizenIy of Washington to compre
bend by scale of proportion the
magnitude of the coming event. Three
hundred thousand visitors is con-
servative estimate.
The composite noble, according to
the mathematicIanS OF Almas Temple,
is portrayed as being 900 feet in height
.talmost twice the height of the Wash
ington MonumenD, and weighing IN
roportion to his height and breadth.
His breadth of shoulders is lI5 rect
feet. His feet are l2O feet long, with
Il width Of 40 feet. The feZ that he
wears would perhaps be little TOO
large to TIT snugly on the dome of the
Capitol. With great difficulty could
he walk down Pennsylvania avenue
without Scraping the fronts of the va
rious buildings facing it. The soles
of his shoes would be five feet thick
and each stride would be a block and
half long.
Could Jump Across River.
AS mans jumping distance Is gen
orally three times his height. II on
the run. MIR. Shriner could jump 2,l00
feet, or across the Potomac river. HIS
heels, forty feet wide, probably would
make quite a hole on the Virginia
side following his jump. All in all,
Mr.. Shriner certainly would make
Gulliver enviouS.
An ma a
OF meat and half a loaf of bread, a
day, so Mr.. Shriner will consume l5O.-
900 pounds of meat day, an amount
equal to $50 steers, each Weighing
] 900 pounds. AS to bread. he would
need 10000 loaves a day. Coffee?
The amount has not been definitely
reckoned. but in all probability
gasoline tank car, one OF those Dig
would furnish MIR. Shriner with only
a demi-tasse. A thrilling sight would
he to see the big man take out cigar
and light it, for the cigar would be
, the size of small blimp or dirlgible
balloon,
Could RepOpuiate City.
The visuaIization of 100000 visitors
may be set forth in other ways. I'm
agfne every man, woman and child in
Washington leaving the city on June
:. Suppose you were the only person
left in the city. You might look
would not see a soul. Every public
building, stores and private houses
would be without a single human oc-
cupant. In two days Washington
would be reoccupied by a number of
people equal to the number that had
left. and all of them. would be
strangers.
Three hundred thousand persons,
marching in single file, and three feet
apart, would form line 1S0 miles
long. When the first person in this
line reached Washington. If coming
from the northwest, the last man
would be in the mountains forty miles
beyond Cumberland. Seated at a ta-
bic 100000 guests, arranged on both
sides of II, would require a table more
than fifty miles long. Parking space
is requested for $40 Pullman sleepers
thus far. A sleeping car Of the stand
ard type is eighty-two feet long.
These $40 Pullmans in one train would
extend from the Treasury to Chevy
Chase lake. Thirty-five thousand au-
tomobile parties are to come to
Washington. In one line, if all came
in one caravan, the line would be 200
miles long, allowing thirty feet for
each car. This caravan would con-
some $50 barrels of gasoline every ten
miles.