Morning Oregonian., June 22, 1920, Page 9, Image 9

THE MORNING OREGONIAN, TUESDAY, JUNE 22, 1920
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SHRINERS WILL SEE
OREGON CITY MILLS
Clackamas Prepares Joyous
Welcome for Visitors.
FLOAT BEING PLANNED
STOLEN GLIMPSES BETWEEN THE PALMS OF BEDOUIN NOBLES FROLICKING IN THE GREEN OASIS.
Plants Are to Close so Employes
May Attend Frolic of Conven
tion In Portland.
OREGON CITY, Or., June 21. (Spe
cial.) Oregon City is to give the
visiting: Shrlners a most cordial wel
come when they arrive here on a
special excursion boat Wednesday aft
ernoon. The steamer lone of Port
land has been chartered and will leave
the dock at the foot of Washington
street, Portland, at 1:30 o'clock. The
trip Is free to all Shriners. After
arriving here the excursionists will
be met by the Moose band and will
be escorted to the manufacturing es
tablishments. The Oregon City Manufacturing
company, the Hawley Pulp & Paper
company and the Crown Willamette
Paper company, all in full operation,
will be visited. Reception commit
tees will be on hand to explain all
processes. John Collie is chairman
of the committee of the Oregon City
Manufacturing company to receive
the guests at that place; Henry Hen
ningsen, a Shriner, and one of the
superintendents of the Hawley Pulp
& Paepr company, is to be chairman
of the reception committee of the
Hawley Pulp & Paper company, and
J. P. ovettL will be the chairman of
the reception committee of the Crown
Willamette Paper company. Mr.
Lovett, one of the superintendents,
also is a Shriner.
Pioneer Relic to Be Visited.
After visiting the manufacturing
plants the McLoughlin home, the old
home of the late Dr. John McLoughlin,
the father of Oregon, will be in
spected. Among the features of the after
noon will be the luncheon to be served
at the Masonic temple by the Eastern
Star, Masons and Shriners of Oregon
City. Mrs. W. A. White, who is chair
man of the committee on reception
at the Masonic temple, will have about
28 attendants, who will serve free
lunch to the visitors.
M. D. Latourette has been appointed
chairman for decorating committee,
and requests that all business houses
or homes along Main street be dec
orated in order to show the welcom
ing to our city.
Oregon City Plana Float.
Oregon City is to be represented in
the parade on Thursday afternoon
during the rose show oarade. A hand
some float is to appear.
Most of the stores will close for
Tuesday, and allow the employes to
"take in" the Shriners' parade to take
place at 9 o'clock. The Hawley Pulp
& Paper company is to close Tuesday
morning at 6 A. M., as many of the
employes desire to go to Portland on
that day, and employes of other man
ufacturing establishments, including
the Crown Willamette Paper company
and Oregon City Manufacturing com
pany, desiring to attend will have
the privilege of doing so.
The Masonic lodge will have open
house during the remainder of the
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SHRINE SESSION SIDELIGHTS
WHILE Illustrious "potes" and
Bedouin chieftains, with the
patrols uniformed in gorgeous
creations that rivaled anything that
Solomon knew in the glory of his
kingdom crowded headquarters at
the Multnomah hotel yesterday fore
noon, and wondered at the absence
of W. Freeland Kendrick, imperial
potentate, he was mixing with the
rank and file waving a glad welcome
to incoming Shriners at Union sta
tion. He is a regular fellow. This was
demonstrated by the quiet way in
which he slipped quietly away from
the elegance of his suite to mingle
with the boys who wear the fez and
smiles under the big train sheds. His
sunny countenance lighted up the cir
cles of nobles who had their first
opportunity to greet him, and de
bidding the Al Kader hosts who were
bidding the arriving nobles and their
ladies welcome to Portland.
"How Kern you to come?" some
jokester in the crowd at the Union
station called out yesterday morning
when the special train bearing Kem
Temple of Grand Forks, N. 13., pulled
in. The Kem temple, 250 strong,
made a good impression when the
alighted from their sleepers. A large
sign, bearing the name ot the temple
and attached to the head of the en
gine announced their arrival at a
distance. They brought two bands
and their patrol with them.
The Za Ga Zig temple delegation,
240 strong, left the train at the sta.
tion and sang a song about Iowa, ac
companied by their band of 30 pieces.
In addition to their band, they
brought a drum corps and patrol.
The bagpipe band and patrol of
Gizeh temple. Victoria, B. C, com
prising 50 men clad in kilties, made a
good impression ana received an en
thusiastic ovation at the Union sta
tion upon their arrival yesterday
morning: The band and patrol as
sembled and marched through the sta
tion to the music of the pipes.
The 36-plece band of Mirza temple
Pittsburg, Kan., made a good impres
sion when it landed at the station
yesterday morning. . The band is led
by William E. Thomasson, leader, and
James C. Broadley.-drum major. An
other of the arrivals in the Mirza
delegation was a small monkey in a
box.
Alva -T Niles. nresident of the Se
curlty State bank of Tulsa, Okla., and
a brother of Inspector Niles of the
police bureau, was one of the arrivals
in the city for the Shrine convention
yesterday. Inspector Niles had not
seen his brother for five years until
they met at the station yesterday
mornlnsr.
The Tu-lsa representative of the
Niles family was inspector-general of
the 7th division in France in the
recent war and served on the Meta
front. He Is also a veteran of the
Twentieth Kansas of the Spanish war
and is said to have been the youngest
man In his regiment at that time.
The Niles brothers say their father.
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week, and commencing on Wednesday
free lunches will be served the Shrin
ers and their families.
Albert G. Niles. was the youngest
enlisted man serving in the civil war.
He was 13 years of age when he
enlisted in the Fifty-fifth Ohio volun
teer infantry.
The Abou Ben Adhem
Springfield. Mo, arrived yesterday
morning with their musical baggage
car. ine car is equipped with a
steam calliope and they gave con
certs on this during the trip west for
tne Deneiit or the towns Dassed
through. The exterior of the car has
various pictures and Shilne emblems
painted upon it and bears the words
in large letters: "From SDrinirfield.
Mo., to Portland, Or."
Ten bushels or more of Towa mm
will be sprinkled over the streets of
Portland by Sig Anderson of the
Za Ga Zig temple patrol of Des
Moines. Sig in his earlier years was
gimmaker for the Norwegian navy.
He conceived and manufactured a 75
especially for the Portland trip. It
takes a quart of shelled corn and
confetti to load the cannon and when
it goes -off it shoots the chicken feed
Hundred feet into the air and
sprays it over the ground for many
yards. Sig bloivs off the gun to ac
company the famous Iowa "corn"
song which. Za Ga Zig temple nobles
sing at every opportunity. He will
demonstrate it in the parades in
which Za Ga Zlgwill participate.
The ladies in the party of Aladdin
temple, Columbus, O., sing the follow
ing song in honor of Al Kader:
"We are the ladles from the Buckeye
state,
Greetings for Portland from our
nobles great.
All join together in a Joyful hand
"shaker," r
Aladdin wants to gladden i the Shrine
or Al Kader."
O-hi-o!
Bill F. Mara, representative to the
imperial council from Boumi temple
Baltimore, Md, is qne of the live
wires. Here is the song he sings and
asks everyone else to sing with him
to the tune of "Smiles" and it works:
"It Is miles from Pennsylvania,
Miles from Alabama, too.
It is quite a distance from Mary
land '
. But we've left them all to come to
you.
But no matter where it is we hail
from.
Or how far away we've had to roam
When the Mystic Shriners get to
gether
Everyone of us feels at home."
Al Oula temple isn't, but it expects
to be. Yesterday the Shriners whose
homes are in Columbus, Ga.. or that
immediate vicinity, sent 2000 tele
grams to Imperial Potentate Ken
drick. calling upon him to secure for
Columbus the charter sought for Al
Oula temple at that place. They have
long sought the privilege of having
a temple, and claim to have been de
prlved of the honor and convenience
by large temples in cities several
hundred miles distant that have
steadfastly refused to permit the new
organization. Now the plan of send
ing a flood of telegrams to the great
St da
1 lama il La patrol of Buffalo, IV . Y. 2 Bandmaster of Ismallla temple mn-
lclans. Imperial potentate's automobile, showing; Nobles w . j. itol
niii, chairman of the convention committee Roy Fife and potentate.
4 W. Freeland Kendrick, imperial potentate of the Mystic Shrine, and
his famona smile. 5 Cinnamon bear, mueot of lala temple of Saltnaa,
Kan. 6 Mayor Baker and "1.M L" (.Noble Joseph W. Decker of l.u I.u
. temple, Philadelphia).
chief of the Arabian hosts at Mecca
was a fine idea, but it is not within
his province to grant the charter by
waving his imperial wand.
But it did gum up machinery at
headquarters, for it kept the whole
force sifting out the Al Oula tele
grams from those that required im
mediate answers. The Al Oula Shrine
club is composed of A. A. Williams
Jr., F. L. Rosenthal, H. E. Eames,
W. W. McKenzie, George Woodruff
and H. R. McClatchey, and long
rrionths ago engaged headquarters at
the Multnomah hotel, where they are
making life interesting for the repre
sentatives of the imperial council.
Columbus, Ga., by the way, has 'a
population -of 50.000 and is the loca
tion of Camp Benning, the infantry
small arms training school of the
United States army.
The "shade the best of it" that's
what Charlie Berg has termed the
nifty little white cardboard eye
shades, tinted green on . the . under
side, that are being sold for only a
dime by the enterprising committee
representing the Portland Symphony
orchestra. The Idea belongs to a
returned soldier who is badly wound
ed and, although frail in body, yet
has a keen mind. He wanted to help
the orchestra, for music meant much
to him when he lay shattered in a
French hospital. He wanted to pro
tect the fez wearers' eyes. He of
fered to design the eye shade. ' The
committee snapped up the idea, but
they will give a certain small per
cent to the veteran, who needs the
money badly to meet tne taxes on
his little home. And that's how the
symphony committee happened to
have a concession and many a Shrin
er found comfort from the glare of
the sun.
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From Lewiston, Me., to Portland,
Or., is the cross-continent jump made
by the patrol of Kora temple. This
temple sent 16 members of the patrol,
two color bearers and two officers.
Charles F. Jumpper is captain and
Melvln Libby is first lieutenant. Ac
companying the score of the patrol
are Ernest L. Watkins, potentate, and
Simmons. William Felch. past po
tentate of Bekash temple. New Hamp
shire, and Mr. Phelps, also of Bekash,
accompanied the Lewiston crowd. A
special car was secured after consid
erable difficulty and this - was at
tached to regular trains. A special
train was desired by Kora temple.
but rolling stock could not be located
in the east because of the republican
convention at Chicago. The Kora
pil-grlms were on the road ten day a.
Possessor of $2,250,000 in cold cash
is a tooter in the El Karubah Shrine
band. This horn-blower and his
brother, who tooted a flute in the same
organization, sold their Interest In
some oil land a few days ago for
$4,500,000. The flutist was overcome
by the great wealth, and is at home,
but the horn-blower is right on the
Job, kicking along the asphalt of
Portland as unconcerned as though
he had nothing in the world aside
from his round-trip ticket. The sher
iff and district attorney are also in
the El Karubah outfit from Shreve
port. La.
A regular wild west stunt was
staged by Algeria temple, of Helena,
Mont., when it entered the Multnomah.
The patrol tossed a dozen toy balloons
into the air and then began shooting
at them. The balloons burst as they
were shot at. The pistols used blank
cartridges however, and the floating
balloons were exploded by the con
cussion. There are no hold-ups and there is
no profiteering on the visitors, ac
cording to statements of Shriners.
The visitors declare that the prices
are very reasonable, particularly in
view of their experience In some other
cities. At Buffalo, N. T.. last, year,
Shriners declare that they were held
up outrageously. Paying $1.50 for a
Sunday dinner in Portland they con
sidered a very reasonable charge.
The restaurants here are doing a big
business but the prices have not been
advanced, and the visitors are not
backward in saying they compare
more than favorably with the prices
sonableness in charges is commented
on in the hotels.
Among banquets listed at the Mult
nomah last night were: Za-Ga-Zig-in
the Palm room at 6:30 o'clock:
Medinah temple, at 11 o'clock in the
I Arcadian gardens, and Bella temple,
for 200, in the Arcadian gardens at
9 o'clock.
Pendleton Shriners were nursing a
peeve all day yesterday. Large gobs
of disgust were in evidence whenever
two or more oi the Pendleton boys
got together. Pendleton intends cut
ting a wide swath in the big parade
and will knock the eye out ot all be
holders, so novel is their contribu
tion. In order that the edge of the
surprise would not be taken off, the
Shriners were under strict Injunction
not to appear on the streets with
their trappings and regalia and their
stunts. This . irked the men from
the Round-up town, for they wanted
to get into the fun and follow some
live band around the streets, just as
they did when the Elks had their
reunion here in 1912. But when the
Pendleton crowd does, cut loose today
oh, boy! They will be a knock-out.
Even the Indians brought here for
the parade make this admission.
Aladdin temple of Cleveland, O.,
has sent a large crew of chanters
under the direction of Willis G. Bow
land. The chanters are at the Mult
nomah. They helped to nominate
Warren G. Harding at Chicago a
couple of weeks ago. This crew is
said to be composed of the huskiest
chanters in Shrinedom.
Mrs. Watkins and Mr. and Mrs. E. H. in their home towns. The same rea-
Francla Kelly, Stella Kelly, Flor
ence Kelly and Mrs. Murphy, of Ta
coma, put a lot of jazz into the Hotel
Oregon lobby yesterday by singing,
until they were hoarse, the ditties of
Aflfi. One of them, to the tune of
"Smiles," goes like this:
There are miles we love to travel.
There are miles we love to trod.
There are miles that bring- us to our
brother.
To the boys on old Portland sod;
There are miles that have a happy ending.
There are mllea that end up with a
frown.
But the mllea that please old Aflfies
Are the miles to Portland town.
Accompanied by Its crack patroL
classy band and fine chorus organ
izations which have been winning
fame at imperial council meetings
for many years Aladdin temple of
Columbus, O., 300 strong, led by Wal
ter B. O. Frank, potentate, reached
Portland early yesterday, each Shrin
er in the delegation enthusiastic and
confident that the great Portland
gathering of the sons of the desert,
who come from north and south, from
east and west, will outshine any sim
ilar assembly ever held by the red
fezsed nobility. Aladdin temple, with
6600 membership, is the largest tem
ple in the Buckeye state, and one of
the largest in the land. It came to
Portland in a special train of ten
cars, and would have -filled a second
train for the trip but for the inability
of the Pullman company to furnish
the necessary cars. Several hundred
Shriners left behind in Columbus are
bewailing that they are not now in
Portland, " participating with their
brethren in the Joyous welcome the
city is according its happy throng of
visitors.
By . the rivers gently flowing, Illinois.
Illinois.
O'er thy prairies verdant growing. Illinois,
Illinois.
Comes an echo through the breeze.
Rustling through the leafy trees.
And Its mellow tones are these. Illinois,
Illinois.
This, the first verse of the Illinois
official song, may seem cold in print,
but if its full beauty ia to be revealed
hear Charles S. 'Burdlck, recorder of
Mohammed temple, Peoria, 111., sing it.
Just when you will be able to hear
Noble Burdick sing is not known, but
if you fail to hear him just mark
down in your book that you missed
one of the real features of the 1920
session.
If you see, a gang of live fellows
putting on a wild man's show you will
know they are members, of Ismailian
temple of Buffalo. This" gang of real
fellows arived in Portland yesterday
with a patrol of 57 men and a crack
band of 35 pieces. Ed Cumpson, il
lustrious potentate, says that Ismall
lans are rarin' to- go and with the aid
of Cyrus L Barber, captain of the
patrol, and his lieutenants, Harry Pell
and George W. Barton, Portland may
expect some wonderful exhibitions
from the boys from Buffalo.
'Who brought the Shrine convention
to Portland? Dick Sharon. Illustrious
potentate of Mohammed temple of Pe
oria, 111., says that Mayor Baker is the
man who should receive the credit,
ana Mayor flatter says that "Pote
Sharon is the man.
But Just a wore about Sharon. He
owns most of the coal mines in Hit
nois and is a regular fellow. Mayor
Baker ia tha authority for this. When
Mayor Baker was strolling through
the east in the Interest of bringing
the 19ZU snnne .session to the Rose
City he met Sharon accidentally and,
after a few words, Dick Sharon began
to operate. It took a private car of
one of the railroad magnates, but
the session is here In Portland, and
Mayor Baker says that if Dick hadn't
done what he did It would have been
held In the land of cotton and mint
juleps.
Coincidence brought about the re
union in Portland of three members
of the Dickason clan that will be
celebrated during the Shrine session
with a dinner party. C. A. Dickason of
Sherwood, a member of Al Kader,
greeted a noble of the Islam tribe in
the Portland hotel yesterday ar.d.
earning tnat their surnames were
the same, compared notes and di
covered they had descended from Ohio
pioneers. Proceeding down the street
the Oregon man and his new-found
relative engaged in conversation with
a restaurant proprietor. It developed
that he also bore the same cognomen
as the two pilgrims, so all agreed
that the coincidence should be cele
brated with a feast.
In Seattle, he is Mayor Hugh M.
Caldwell, presiding municipal official
and champion booster for the Queen
City.
In Shrinedom, he is Assistant Rab-
ban Hugh M. Caldwell of Nile tern
pie. And he is a mainspring in the
workings of the Seattle temple. Com
bining the dignity of a mayor with
the good fellowship of a Shriner,
Caldwell is one of the most popular
members of Nile temple. And he is
a desirable member of Archie Hamill'e
famous "Smile with Nile" divan.
Caldwell would rather mix with
Shriners and work with them than
do anything else but be mayor. De
spite the fact that the municipal
duties keep him pretty well tied up
in Seattle, he is nevertheless active
on many of the committees working
for the entertainment of the Shriners
who will visit Seattle after the Port
land convention.
The mayor Is known throughout
Shrinedom as a real "good scout." a
"regular fellow," ' and most demo
cratic Islam, Afifi, Mecca and other no
bles chanted a noble song of the sea
at the Hotel Oregon something like
this:
All hands on deck. All hands on deck.
We haven't seen a girl In 18 months.
We don't care If the ship becomes a
wreck :
To ho. To ho (business of "trouser
hitching).
All hands on deck.
This ballad is chanted when they
see a girl who strikes their fancy.
Another song is sung; about the un
attractiveneas of some girl's phis,
much to the chagrin of the victim.
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It isn't very often that the fellow
who really does the heavy work gets
a great deal of credit, but Lew Adams,
who handled the thousands of suit
cases and pieces of baggage which
came yesterday into the union sta
tion received a large flock of verbal
bouquets from the nobles who
watched, him at work. Not only did
he direct the activities of his work
men, but he got out in his short
sleeves and rustled baggage himself.
Let it be said to his credit that the
baggage of all delegations reached
Its proper place in quick order, and
what is still more remarkable, there
were no complaints of any lost pack
ages up to last night.
Word spreads rapidly about ths
Multnomah hotel these days. A mys
terious whisper wafted about the
corridors yesterday afternoon:
"Leaders of the faithful, the sacred
Zem-Zem flows in the well of Tan
glers in room 8 -A," said the fairy
voice.
A thin dribble of nobles .headed
toward the elevators. The stream be
came a torrent, pouring. In defiance
of all nature, up the elevator shafts.
The oasis of Tangiers was the center
of a mad. pulling mob of sheiks de
manding camel's milk and the wine
of the desert.
The leaders struggled back, seek
ing in vain to stem the rushing tor
rent. They had no effect until the
words they spoke sunk into the minds
of the prophets of the desert. "It is
but the juice of the orange and the
grape, sweet and unfermented."
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W. S. Brown, imperial treasurer
of the Shrine, yesterday was ap
pointed assistant mayor of the city
of Portland by the council on io
quest of Mayor Baker. Although Mr.
Brown hails from Pittsburg, it was
decided that, inasmuch as he has
made many eulogistic remarks about
Portland during his short stay in
the city, he will do full justice, to the
position he now occupies. The as
sistant mayor was warned in the let
ter of appointment to be "on the
job" as much as possible and to fill
the office to the best of his ability.
His salary was fixed at $1 a year
and he is requested to be at the city
hall at the times he isn't "grabbing
a meal."
Most everybody in Portland knows
Gus Moser, who's wearing the little
red fez this week. Gus. you know. Is
always ready to lend a helping hand
especially to the fair sex. It was
when one of the regular trains and
specials arrived yesterday on adjoin
ing tracks at ti e same time, and pri
vate citizens were mingling with the
fez wearers Inside the yards.
Carrying two heavy grips, a Toung
woman came down the platform just
behind one of the Arab patrols. Gus,
with that noted gallantry of his,
rushed up and insisted on carrying
the young woman's grips. He assist
ed her out to where the official auto
mobiles stood waiting.
"Does your husband belong to the
patrol?" he Inquired of the young
woman, as he laid down the grips.
"No," she replied, "he's a sailor. I'm
from Tangent and came down to wait
on table during Shrine week."
For a moment Gus appeared to be
crestfallen, but he's been in public
life too long to admit of defeat.
Just one short gulp, and then he
flung back: .
"Well, any girl who's willing to
come down and help the Shriners even
that much is deserving of the little
assistance which I have given you."
And then he beat it back to meet
the next train.
Much good-humored joshing has
followed Abdallah temple of Leaven
worth, Kan., because of the comment
of an old negro in Newton, Kan., as
he saw the travelers at the Newton
station taking a little exercise. The
members of the patrol are attired in
uniforms of the ' color of prison
guards and he was quite puzzled.
"Say, mistah. what is this bunch of
men heah foh? Is they convicts?"
"Why, don't you know?" one of the
men responded, "This is the Leaven
worth soldiers' disciplinary band.
They're out on good conduct."
The name made such a hit that
whenever a station was reached the
"guards" piled out, roughly jostling
their "charges" to the wonderment of
the natives. And now that's what
they're calling them in Portland.
Orpheum tonight before parade. -Adv.
Orpheum tonisrht before parade.-Adv.
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Come on Out
and Take YOUR Ride!
DONT delay another day. Call Broadway 33
and arrange for your ride at once.
Visit Portland's Summer
Resorts by Air
Daily service to the sea and return, every after-,
noon, with special rates to passengers. Twelve
planes are now in service at Lewis & Clarke
Flying Field.
On Depot - Morrison Carline
At 29th and Thurman
Turn to the right on 29th to Linnton Road. A
new paved roadway runs from Linnton Road to
the Flying Field.
O.-W. & I. Airplane Co.
Portland
Lewis & Clark Flying Field
29th and Linnton Road
Phone Broadway 33
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