The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1930-06-07
CITIES OF PULLMANS
AND DOCKED BOATS
WILL HOUSE MOBILES
Ontario Capital Expects to En-.
terrain 100000 Visitors
Over June 1912
ORDER GIVEN USE OF PARK
Special Crandstand for 10000
Built and Sidewalks Laid Be.
tween Cars for Occasion

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Toronto, June IA mar who quit
school at 10 to buck the world for a
living and prospered to such an ex-
tent that he was able to retire at the
age of 48 is the new head of the
Shriners in the United States and
Canada, numbering more than half
a million.
Esten Asprey Fletcher is his name
and, although a Canadian by birth,
he has made his home for many years
in Rochester, N. Y. At the 1880 con-
clave of the Ancient Arabic Order
Mobiles of the Mystic Shrine in Tor
onto, June 1912, he is to be advanced
to imperial potentate. succeeding Leo
". Youngworth of Los Angeles.
And Toronto, getting ready for
the first great Shrine convention
wei held in Canada. is preparing to
play host to 200, 900 visitors-Shriners
and members of their families. There
will be three great days of merry
making, parading and band playing.
Hotels Booked Solid
Every downtown and uptown hotel
has been booked solid. One hotel, the
Royal York-the largest in the Brit
ish Empire-has been bought for
every service it can give for a whole
week.
But that is only a starter. A
500-acre park, used annually for the
Canadian National Exposition, has
been turned over to the Shriners.
Eight large exhibition halls will house
the uniformed units, the bands and
the various animals. A special grand
stand for 10000 has been built in the
park, in addition to the permanent
~grandstand seating 1900.
The Canadian National and the
Canadian Pacific railroads have each
laid, within walking distance of the
parks, tracks for two Pullman car
cities. Eight hundred sleeping cars
will be parked in these, housing 20,-
900 Shriners. Each of these Pullman
cities will have its paved sidewalks
between the cars, its restaurants,
lighthouses, barber shops, telephone
and telegraph offices and the like.
Ten Great Lakes steamships, bring
ing Shriners and their families from
lakes cities, will tie up at the down.
town docks. Private homes, frater-
nifty houses, college residences and
numerous institutions have been can
vassed by committees for their spare
rooms.
Sketch of New Potentate
Fletcher, the new imperial poten-
tate, is a man to whom nothing ap-
peals so much as Masonry. It has
been his hobby from the time of his
induction in 1902 and since his re-
tirement from business in 1917 he has
made it his life's work.
Born the son of a lumberman in
Ivy, Ontario, on July %, 1869, young
Fletcher completed his education be-
fore his 18th birthday and entered
the business OF his father, taking
planks from planners in the latter's
mill. A hard worker, he advanced in
the industry and, desiring to be on
his own, went to Rochester in 1900
and set up a business.
Successful from the start, he re-
tired at 48 to devote his time to fra
ternal and civic projects. He had
been president of the New York State
Lumber Dealers Association, trustee
of the Rochester Chamber of Com
MERGE and is now a bank director. In
1918 he served on the War Indus
tries Board.
His Masonic record began in 1902
when he received his degree in Cor
inthian Temple Lodge No. sos. He
assisted in forming Zetland Lodge No.
951 and became its first master. He
served the grand lodge as senior
grand deacon from 1925 to 1927. He
was exalted to the royal arch in Ionic
Chapter No. 210 in 1906 and in the
same year became a member OF
Cyrene Commandery No. 80. later re-
ceiving the Order of the Temple.
The work in this branch of the
order appealed to him and he &C.
cepted office, advancing regularly to
Eminent Commander in 1912. In the
Cryptic Rite he was received in Doric
Council No. 10 on March %, 1916. In
the Scottish Rite he received his de-
gree in 1903, being created a S. p. r.
8. in November. 1908.
He immediately took an active
work in the consistory and for q
quarter Of q century has been one
Of the moving spirits. He served a.
sovereign prince Of Rochester Council
OF Princes Of Jerusalem In 1909 and
as commander-in-chie OF Rochester
Consistory from 1914 to 1920.
Receives SD Degree
In recognition Of his service, he
was crowned q sovereign grand in.
spector general, 33rd degree, in Phil.
adelphia, Sept. 16, 1913. He became