Evening star., 1923-06-02
MiIIion.DoIIar Band to Play.
s, Elaborate Preparations
Are Made.
special Dispatch TO The Star.

cert will be given by the band i'm
mediately upon its return from a pill
grimage to Mount Vernon.
Schools to Be Closed.
The band consists of seventy-two
male choir of forty-five voices, with
their celebrated patrol, numbering
forty-five. Selections will be given
by the choir at the temple site. the
public schools here will be closed
for the event, and they also Will pc
closed Tuesday in order to permit the
children to attend the Shrine parade
in Washington.
Mount Vernon with Imperial Poten-
tate McCandless and his ofncers: me
imperial potentate and the members
of his party will leave Washington
on a special electric train for Mount
Vernon and are scheduled TO reacn
Mount Vernon at $3.50 O'Clock. me
governor will precede the Imperial
potentate and meet him upon his ar
rival at Mount Vernon.
James H. Price, grand master OF
Masons in Virginia and deputy grand
master of Masons in Virginia, or Alex
andria. and Potentate Reese OF Acca
Temple, with a committee from Alex.
andria will go TO Mount Vernon ahead
of the potentate and hN oficers ana
meet them on their arrival at thae
Potentate May Stop on.
1t has not yet fully been deter,
minded whether or not the Imperial
potentate will stop off in Alexandra
TO view the temple being erected here
This, it is stated, will depend on con-
ditions If, however, the. program u
carried out as per schedule wltnou,
delay it is expected that the Imperial
potentate will stop over in this CITY.
Upon arriving at Mount vernon the
famous band will play a numoer OF
hymns and selections will be given by
the choir and a handsome wreath
made of California foliage brought IN
a special refrigerator car across tne
country will be placed on Washlng-
tons tomb by the Imperial potentate
Arrangements have been made Tor
the distribution of five thousand leaf
let's to the visitors at the temple site
on Monday and il also is announced
that Charles H. Callahan and Robert
S. Barrett will alternate IN nlaklns
talks to the visiting Shriners regard
ing the temple, this to be given daily
during the progress of the Shrine
gathering.
Ten thousand copies Of a folder,
giving a full description OF the tenn
ple and also containing reference to
the various points of historica! inter-
est in the city, also are to be dis
tributed to the visitors.
Cornetist to Give Concert.
A feature in connection with the
band concert at the temple VIII De
solo by David Cobb Roseorook one
of the most celebrated cornetists in
the United States, from San Fran
cisco. Mr. Cobb is a member OF Islam
Temple and is a direct descendant or
Jesse Perry, the famous drummer boy
of Bunker Hill, and another ancestor
was David Cobb. who was an aide
de-camp on the staff of Gen Wash
ington.
tents at the foot of the hill OF the
temple site for the accommo odation
of the visitors and Miss Cora Coch.,
ran will be in charge. Lunches ana
soft drinks will be served at the
tents About thirty local Masons Will
be on hand to give assistance to the
visitors and also to act as guides.
Alexandria, Washington Lodge rooms
will be open all day tomorrow for
the accomm odation Of the visitors,
the Shrine convention no charse LOT
admittance will be made.
Practically everything has been
completed by the Alexandria Masons
The new traffice rules will go into
operation tomorrow and the provost
guard will at once begin to function.
Traffic regulations effective here
from am tomorrow morning until
midnight June 10 were announced by
the city today. They are for the
Shrine convention and, 1t is expected.
will greatly aid in handling the nun
dreds of automobiles expected here.
The following streets will be used
exclusively as one-way streets ana
will be marked with appropriate signs
designating direction of traffic: Duke
street, westbound traffic from West to
Diagonal road; Diagonal road, east
bound traffic from Duke to King
street: West street, southbound traf-
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West street, northbound traffic from
King to Princess street; Patrick
street, eastbound traffic from Frank
lin street to the city limits; Alfred
street, southbound traffic from King
to Franklin street; Franklin street,
to Patrick street; King street. east
bound traffic from West street to
Russell road; Russell road, south
bound traffic from King street to city
limits.
Ban on Parking.
No parking will be permitted on the
following streets: Franklin street from
Alfred to Patrick street, Duke from
West to the city limits. King from Fair
fax to the city limits, Russell road from
King to the city limits, Diagonal road
from Duke street to King street.
West street from Duke to Prince
street. Patrick street from Franklin
Franklin to Cameron street, North
Washington street from Montgomery
to Poor House lane, Royal street from
Wolf to Cameron, Fairfax from
Washington to Columbus. Cameron
from Royal to Fairfax, Prince from
Royal to Fairfax.
Certain streets in the business Sec
2 tion are restricted to one-hour park
ing limit. These streets will be
placarded
A delegation of officers of Company
NJ. 116th Virginia Infantry, left last
night by motor truck for Richmond
and will bring back with them equip
ment for that company, including
rifles, shoes and suits. They also
carried to Richmond with them cer-
tain condemned government property.
Those in charge of the trip are
First Sergt. Petit and Sergt. Robin
son. They expect to return tomor-
row night.
A bold automobile thief early yes
terday morning entered the garage
in the rear of 408 Duke street and
lacked up the automobile Of Miss
Roberta Moncure and carried off the
four tires OF her machine. and also
the battery of the car. Thus far no
trace of the thief has been found. The
thief left his jack.
q hotel proprietress at Mount jack
SON, Va, who died several days ago,
was brought here yesterday after
noon and her funeral took place
from Wheatley's chapel. Services
were conducted by Rev. Edgar Car
penter, rector of Grace Episcopal
Church, and burial was in Ivy Hill
cemetery.
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