The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-06-07
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Gas p. M; Appalacl1ia Shrine Club.
1O:l7 p, m.
Via the Richmond, Fredericks.
burg and Potomac aleigh-D Durham
Shrine Club, South Carolina, 9:s5
p. M, eleven cars; Morocco Temple.
Jacksonville, Fla, 11:69 p. m, ten
cars, and Zamora Temple, Birming.
ham Ala. 1859 p. m. twenty cars.
Seventy-three trains win leave the
station and the parks tomorrow. Sat.
will leave and on Monday two more
WIN get under way. The last train
will leave Tuesday.
Big Movement Under Way.
Arrangements for handling the
departing army Of shriners and visi-
tors attending the three-day meet
went into effect at Union Station.
They differed little from those put
In force. when the vast conCouroe
began arriving on Monday. AZ
planned by Capt. p. G. Horne, In
charge at Union Station, all march
Ing bodies entered the station
through the eastern entrance and
proceeded through the train shed
to the specials drawn up on tracks
reserved for them in the trainyard.
OUTGOING individuals were admitted
through the main entrances to the
station.
While the exodus started nc 1880
this morning. It has % yet failed
to reach In proportion anything
more than q trickling stream.
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gin until late tonight" said Cap.
tain Horne. .'But we are ready for
Il and from midnight until noon
Saturday the traffic regulations
governing the departure Of the
Shriners and visitors win b In
force.
EFT Is a little interesting to know
that while thousands OF travellers
have passed through the station
since the Shrine conference crowd
began arriving not D single arrest
has been made here for drunken
ness or disorderIy conduct. At no
time has there been the slightest
situation bordering on congestion.
II has proved one OF the most
orderly crowds, enormous as 1t has
been. ever handled here. This is
not my opinion only, but that OF
the hundred or more special officers
detailed from all sections of the
country, practically, an Of whom
have had many experiences in
handing convention crowds.
Capt. Edward d. Baker, OF the
Baltimore and Ohio police, who IL
IN command of the railroad special
police detailed to assist in handling
traffic at the Union Station, endora-
ed Captain Horne's opinion Of the
visiting multitude.
Crooks Kept Out.
eve have had absolutely no diff.
Guilty IN preventing congestion ana
keeping the visitors constantly NOV.
ing in the right direction" said
Captain Baker. There are approx.
mately 100 railroad specials on duty.
They have been Fare since Monday
and will remain until the last Of
the special trains has drawn out.
Relative to the policing Of the
Pullman yards we have not heard
Of q single instance where personal
property has been stolen. It means
Just one thing, the crooks were kept
out effectively and that was made
possible through the presence OF q
corps Of railroad police specials who
have come to know, the travelling
crooks by sight"
WIN Last TIN Tuesday.
Many Of the visitors leaving the
city today are en- route to seashore
resorts. This accounts for the early
exodus. They were mostly made up
OF small groups which had either
abandoned the specials on which they
arrived or are arranging to spend q
day In the breakers and return to
catch the specials leaving at the last
hour. According to Union station
officials the last Of the specials
leaves on TuesdaY.
1t was a smiling crowd that de-
parted today. They left expressing
entire satisfaction with their ex-
perience in Washington, particularly
with the hospitable reception meet
ing them on all sides.
According to estimates made by
Union Station officials. between five
and six thousand Shriners and visi.
tors drawn here by the Shrine con-
Vention will have left the city by
midnight.