Evening star., 1924-06-03
SHRINEDOM STARTS
ITS GOLDEN JUBILEE
Thousands Arriving in Kansas
City for Colorful Ceremonies
s of Conclave.
STREETS RICHLY DECORATED
Thousands Of Spectators Wait
Opening Parade Today.
Ey the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
KANSAS CITY, Mo-, June 3.-The
golden jubilee of North Americas
Shrinedom got under way officially
today when 10000 uniformed pilgrims
from all parts of the continent as
sembled in colorful array to escort
the imperial divan to its council
chamber.
Long before the start of the parade
tens Of thousands of spectators were
surging against cables stretched
along the royal trail. Other thou
sands found places in huge grand
stands banked beside portions of the
route. The stands were designed to
scat $4,000 persons.
Line-Up for March.
Band patrols and chanting organ
izations attired in the gorgeous multi
colored uniforms of Seventy-tive tenn
pies began lining up early in the
honor of Conrad V. Dykeman of
Brooklyn. imperial potentate, and
the other imperial officers.
y highway of the orient. decorated
in all the splendor befitting the re-
ception of an eastern prince, led to
the imperial council chamber at Con-
vention Hall Oriental columns,
sphinxes and obelisks lined the way,
while aloft were draped gaudy ban
ners depicting fantastic Egyptian
symbols. The downtown streets of a
middle western city had been trans
formed.
The parade was the outstanding
feature on the days program. There
will be other parades during the con-
vention, but for brlliance and
pageantry the oriental procession to-
day was planned as the crowning
event of the gathering. Funmaking
will reign in the parades to be held
tomorrow and Thursday.
More Temples Arrive.
The last of the temples arriving this
morning prior to the parade included
Tehama, Hastings, Neb.; Ell Zaribah,
Phoenix, AriZ.; Cairo. Rutland, VT;
Hamasa, Meridian, Miss, and Hella,
Dallas, Tex.
All day yesterday and most of last
night downtown Kansas City was a
riot of music and fun. A teeming
eddied in the streets. The rainbow raj
ment of innumerable Shrine temples
and clubs glinted IN Il gigantic hu-
man Kaleidoscope.
Bands played as they paraded
through the streets and drill teams
lockers, singing songs of their re-
spective temples and shouting praises
of the home towns. Calliopes ran
here and there and balloon vendors
holding their bobbing wares aloft
and other peddlers swathed in the
Shrine colors injected their strident
cries in the bedlam.
Wear Chinese Dress.
The picturesque attire of Chinese
ha Tel
Temple, San Francisco. Besides the
band and patrol dressed in the ac-
cepted Shrine garb, the visitors from
the Golden Gate City include 200
men in Chinese dress.
Imperial Potentate Dykeman, Kis-
met Temple. Brooklyn. brought his
own band, known throughout the Ma
sonic world as the "Shrine's Million
aire Band" The organization has
seventy musicians, several of whom
are millionaires.
Midinah of Chicago. probably the
carried 116-piece band, a fifty-piece
oriental band, five patrols of forty
members each and sixty chanters.
300 From Ohio.
Aladdin Temple of Columbus, Ohio,
has a delegation of 300. This temple,
which made the late President Harding
Shriner, has a membership of almost
5000. 1t is preparing to erect a
$3,000,00o mosque, which will be the
largest building in a new civic CEN
ter in the Ohio capital.
Some of the temples have their
mascots. Mohammed of Peoria, ILL.,.
has Pat a good-natured camel
Moslah of Fort Worth, Tex, brought
a white-faced Texas steer.
Four thousand Of the Shriners are
living in Pullman cars parked in the
railroad yards and they enjoy the
same convenienceS as their brethren
who dwell at the hotels. The cars
are equipped with special sanitation,
lighting, water and telephone service.