Evening star., 1923-05-29
Greatest Rail Traffic Crush
Will Occur Between Satur-
day and Monday.
MANY CARS TO BE SENT
DIRECT TO sIDETRACKS
Special Information Bureaus, Post
Offices and Other Services Ar.
ranged for Visitors.

Plans for handling the vast throng
of Shrine guests were completed to.
day, when the transportation COM
mittee, comprising the passenger
traffic agents Of every railroad en-
tering Washington. held It's final
meeting and announced at noon that
it was ready to receive the greatest
number of trains ever assembled in
one spot.
With three special trains already
comfortably parked within Washing
toms yard limits, the railroad men
must begin to handle the 200 or more
chartered trains due here between
now and next Monday, in addition to
an unprecedentedly heavy traffic on
the regular schedules. The greatest
crush will occur between Saturday
morning and Monday evening.
Pamphlet Lis Issued.
The transportation committee has
not only perfected its plans in such
manner as to assure the least con-
fusion. but it also anticipated thou
sands of inquiries as to the location
of visiting temples and representa-
tives 1t issued today for the first
time a complete pamphlet containing
the name of the railroad each temple
will use. the time their respective
specials will arrive and where they
will disembark their passengers.
In addition to this, the same pam
phlet contains a list of the names of
every Shrine representative and at
what hotel he and the members Of his
family, If he is accompanied by any,
| will spend Shrine week in Washing
ton. These booklets will be dis
tributed in such a manner that any
person need only consult it for in
formation regarding any temple,
special train or representative.
Schedule Board startea.
| To make assurance doubly sure the
committee crowned its achievement
with the establishment of a schedule
board at Shrine headquarters. On
this will be charted daily the hour
of arrival or departure of special
| trains, together with the minutes
| late they are calculated to be, il
! any. Six attendants will man tele-
! phones in front of this board from
morning until midnight. Should any
person wish information regarding
! transportation they may 60 to the
! nearest telephone, ask for Shrine"
| then ask for the transportation COM
| mittee and have the information they
seek In a jiffy.
The question of getting repre-
! sentatives from the parking places
/ TO the meetings of the Imperial Con-
clave and back has been solved by
| the committee chartering enough au-
| tomobiles to haul them back and
j forth.
! This service will be free to the rep
| resentativeS at least, and it was an
nounced that the committee expected
| to have enough machines by Satur
| day to give every noble parked in the
| Pullman cities free rides to and from
| the centers of attraction throughout
the convention.
Specials to BE Diverted.
To prevent confusion at Union
station many of the special trains
will be diverted direct to their park
| ing tracks upon arrival on the out
| skirts of the city. Some few will be
| permitted to discharge their passen-
gers at the main terminal and then
back out to their allotted space. 1t
has been found, however, that for the
| convenience of the passengers and
| the roads alike the practice of avoid
| ing Union station as much as possible
| will be followed.
| Members of the railroad committee
will be on duty from s o'clock in the
| morning until midnight at Union sta
| tion. the parking terminals, the Will
! lard, Washington and Raleigh hotels,
| where all of the representatives will
be quartered. These representatives
will not only answer questions relat-
| ing to transportation, but will also be
glad to direct visitors to points of in
| terest.
| Special Shrine Post ONCE.
l. Anticipating tons of extra mail, the
| telephone and telegraph committee
has made arrangements with the Post
Office Department to open a special
Shrine post Office in the department
| building on Pennsylvania avenue
! There will be nine general delivery
windows. open from 8 o'clock in the
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