Evening star., 1923-03-18
POLICE PLAN SET
FOR SHRINE WEEK
Maj. Sullivan Soon to An
nounce Method of Handling
of Throngs in June.
200 SPECIAL OFFICERS
Tentative Arrangements Aim to
Keep Secret Identity Of Visit
ing Detectives.

flnal plans for the handling Of the
immense throngs expected here dur
ing the four-day session in June Of
| the Imperial Council Of the Mystic
Shrine will be announced shortly, ac-
cording to Maj. Sullivan, chief Of
police. Arrangements similar TO those
| followed by the department during
inaugural ceremonies will be fol-
owed @ although the ropIng will be
more extensive and the parking
spaces in the restricted districts will
! be considerably less
| 81 dfennsylvania avenue will be roped
! on west as far as 22d street, instead
~ Iith street. as is customary on
inaugural occasions. while special
poiice regulations for the big session
| VIII be effective for fifteen DAYS.
Is probable that force OF al
least 200 special policemen will be
! formed TO assist the regular denart
ment, and Inspector Grant. chief ~
detectives, will have the assistance or
| 1orty or fifty detectives from the
princlpai cities east of the Mississippi
Mai Sullivan is favorable TO the
ieStaolishment of traffic lanes on 1kt
80. 5th, 7th. 9Th. 18th, nth and 2oti,
streets, which he thinks will greatly
"a .ha the movement of vehicles
OF the hre department, hospital am
pulahces and other emergency cars.
Identities to BE Shielded,
~ IS the purpose of the police otn.
ciafs TO conceal as far as possfbla
the identity of visiting detectives Il,
order that the light t-7ngered gentry,
from other cities may be kept under
operations.
Members of the police prohibition
Iorce and agents Of the internal rev
enue bureau will be on hand to keeI,
an eye on bootleggers, and it may h.
! that special patrol will be placed
1 on the roads leading to the city /"
prevent Well known liquor vender.
| bringing supplies here from poty.tz
In Maryland and Pennsylvania
inspector Headley is in charge ii
the traffic squad and will look afta.
all traffic arrangements
James s. McCandless, imperial po-
tentate, who recently passed twn
Gays IN Washington officially inspect
ing the arrangements. expressed The.
conviction that the United States is
TO witness here the most marvellous
rally and the most impressive home
coming of the people the capital OF
great nation ever has staged in tho
history OF the world
! Some Of the trfurnphs Of ROM
were SO spectacular that they are
preserved in history and on canvas
and marble for all time" Mr.. Mic
Candless said. "They were write.
in the blood OF Roman soldiers, the
glory of might and made possible
by the power OF the strong over the
weak. The triumph Of Washington
| is TO be the diapason Of a great
people at peace, gathering about the
standards of liberty, singing the
| songs of happiness and dancing with
unshackled feet
Pilgrimage to Tomb.
"As he great event will end in the
| allegory Of a harmonious country"
| he continued, ''the picture that Wash
| ington saw, so will it begin on Mon
day morning of that week in a pill
grimage OF the imperial potentate
and divan to the tomb at Mount
| Vernon. Returning, the ceremony OF
dedicating the Zero Mile Stone will
take place. The President, following
| the arrival of the potentate, will pre-
side The Secretary of War viii turn
F., the monument over to the President
| on behalf of the War Department. !,
! who will accept it on behalf of thei
| people"
On this day also will be held the
annual meeting of the Recorders AS
! ISOLATION, an organization made up
OF the recorders of all Shrine temples
in America. The president of this
| society is F. Lawrence Walker. re
corder Of Almas Temple, Washing
| ton. THE testers" also will hold
their annual banquet that day.
| On Tuesday, June 5. the great
parade Of patrols, bands. chanters.
| will take place, the route being from
the Capitol to Washington Square
The largest number Of temples, prob
! ably 135, ever assembled, will be in
a.! line. Immediately following the pa
RAIDS the imperial council will open
I AF
President, for the nation; by Commits
sioner Rudolph. for the city of Wash
| ington, and Leonard P. Steuart, DO
tentate of. Almas Temple. for the To-
cal shriners. In the evening and all
other evenings fireworks displays
| will be provided.
Banquets, band concerts and scores
of social events and minor entertain
ments are to be scattered through the
week, including elaborate entertainment
for the woman visitors throughout the
city. The dates for these will be an
On Wednesday night the great night
parade and brilliant illumination will
take place, the procession passing
through THE Garden of Allah in front
of the White House to Washington
Square.
Mnssed Band Concert.
Thursday morning at 10 o'clock tie
massed band concert will take place at
American League Park, when 5000
musicians and 5000 singers will pre-
sent program of patriotic music.
| In the afternoon THE Congress OF
the Seas a marine spectacle unique
and unprecedented in the annals of the
nation. will be staged on the Potomac
and reveal to the nation that Washing
ton possesses wonderful harbor. The
plan of Chairman Snyder is to display
chronologically the development of mans
triumph of the deep in the development
of ships.
The hundreds of thousands gathered
on the driveway will see passing In re-
view, and mounted on barges, Neptune
and his court, Noah's Ark, the first
craft recorded in the history OF man !;
vikings, ancient Chinese vessels, the
Indian canoes, Lief Erickson'S ship, the
Columbian caravels, the Nina, Pinta
and Santa Maria; Hendrix Hudscn's 3
ship, the type of vessel which carried
the Pilgrims, the ships of the period of
King Tut, the Constellation. the frigate,
the Mississippi packet, and concluding
with modern types, the square rigger
and various models of steam vessels,
close the pageant.
Pennsylvania avenue will depict the de-
yeloprnent Of the United States This
spectacle will pass through blaze of
light and into the Garden Of Allah past
the White House. dream panorama
of the nation. At its close, 10 80
o'clock, a great band of 200 pieces
stationed in the Garden OF Allah will
open q program of dance music, the
afrains being distributed down the