Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-06-07
Of yAARAB
IN MONSTER PARADE:
At NATION S CAPITAL
Atlanta Journal News Bureau,
40S Evans Building.
BY THEODORE TILLER

ID D. . Il H E4UOOICE 1lAlALh
WASHINGTON, D. c., June s.
Forty-seventh in line among one
hundred and twenty temples, the
mobiles of Yaarab temple, Atlanta,
with w. Bayne Gibson, potentare,
leading their picturesque formation,
passed through the Garden of Allah
ard before the reviewing stand upon
which Noble Warren c.. Harding
stood, at 11:40 o'clock Tuesday.
Alec temple, of Savannah, came
along half-hour later.
AL Shah, of Macon, had repre-
sentatives at the Shrine convention
and in the parade, but was not so
numerously represented as Atlanta
and Savannah.
Yaarab and Alec temples, with
their bands, contributed to the great
est and most colorful parade Wash
ington has ever seem.
From 10 o'clock until midafternoon
Pennsylvania avenue was a riot of
color, music, cheers and other mani
festations of unchecked enthusiasm.
The day was hot, almost sultry, but
nobody seemed to mind it,
From the marching MOBILES in the
wide and historic avenue to the hun
dreds of thousands occupying i'm
mense reviewing stands, hanging out
OF windows and tanning the curbs
for more than twenty long blocks,
it was a good-natured crowd.
Sixty heat prostrations among
Shriner marchers occurred before
half the parade had passed President
Hardinp'S reviewing stand.
A boiling sun wilted the marchers
on Pennsylvania avenue. Red Cross
and hospital ambulances took thirty
two to hospitals, while eight others
were given treatment in drug stores
along the line of march.
Scores of spectators also were af-
fected by the heat, as the tempera-
ture mounted to 80 degrees, accom-
panied by great humidity.
Hospital authorities said that none
of those in their care was in serious
condition. All of them were able to
go home after treatment.
The mobiles of Yaarab temple step
ped along with, zippy swing, wav-
ing hands now and then as they
drew the applause of the sidewalk
throngs.
First came the two bands, then the
Yaarab chanters and then the Yaa-
rab patrol and the degree team. The
Atlanta mobiles were well drilled, as
well drilled and as beautifully spec
tacular in their marching as any
temple treading Pennsylvania ave-
nue. today. There were larger bands
and larger organizations on parade,
but for pep" attractiveness of uni
forms and music the Atlanta aggre-
cation was we'll in front. The same
was true of Alec temple, Savannah,
one of the more famous temples of
the country.
Savannah's Delegation
Savannah's Shrine temple gave
the crowds something different
when they marched along the ave-
nue. led by two di1ninutive white
donkeys.
The donkeys attracted attention
all along the route, although Alec
temple got lot of applause in its
own right.
A number of bands, including two
or three from Yankeeland, played
Dixie" at various points along the
parade route. In every case the
melody brought great
yell, drawing more cheers and hand
clapping than any other musical Of
fering.
The Buffalo, N. Y, Shrine band
also scored with a medley of old
airs.
The Yaarab Oriental band went
almost through its entire repertoire,
playing almost steadily from the
time it left the capitol grounds I'M
til they swung past the White House
and on out toward Georgetown. 1t
thrilled the crowds with everything
from the latest jazz to martial music
and tuneful southern ditties.
The mobiles Of Yaarab temple
reached Washington Monday night
on a. train due at $50 o'clock, but
which came in several hours late.
Mobiles of the Alec and AL Shah
temples arrived in Washington
early Tuesday morning.
Visiting Shriners from Savannah
and Macon are parked in their
Pullman sleepers in the railroad
yards.
This parade, one of the four
planned for the forty-ninth annual
convention of the Shriners, which
got under way today, was designed
as the big spectacle of the gathering
of the nobles,. and it proved all of
that. The long line of marchers
presented a riot of color that for viv.
idness and contrast scarcely could
have been surpassed. Only a little
less picturesque was the setting,
with a canopy of red, yellow and
green streamers-the Shrine colors
overhead and the national colors
blended with these in the decorations
of buildings along the route.
Circus Seats Crowded
Each of the scores of temples in
the line had it's drill team and with
the broad expanse of the avenue
cleared of all traffic there was ample
room for the execution of even the
most complicated of formations. But
with as many bands as there were
temples the march essentially. waa
one of music. Each band appar-
emily sought to Guido its immediate
ne;ghbors with a result that the roll
ing of drums, blaring of basso horns
and shilling CT piccolos drowned out
most of the applause of the thou
sands who overf1owed the 100000
Circus" seats. crowded the side
walks and filled windows and other
vantage points along the line of
march.
Contributing to the vest volume of
music was almost every conceivable
kind of a movable musical instru-