Parade to Glory by Fred Van Deventer. PARADE TO GLORY THE STORY OF THE SHRINERS. AND THEIR HOSPITALS FOR CRIPPLED CHILDREN. By Fred Van Deventer NEW. YORK, 1. 95. 9 WILLIAM MORROW AND COMPANY For. Florence Copyright 1. Fred Van Deventer All. Mc. Leod. Limited, Toronto. Van Deventer) and I appeared on. Brandt’s Woodwind Quintet List – S. Navigating the S’s: Erik Satie; Domenico Scarlatti; Peter Schickele; Lalo Schifrin; Arnold Schoenberg; Gunther Schuller; Marsha Schweitzer; Elizabeth Sharma; John Philip Sousa; Johann. A Historical Timeline of the Rise and Fall of the Florida Keys Over-Sea Railroad. Highlights compiled by the Key West Art & Historical Society and Seth H. Bramson, a company historian of the Florida East Coast Railway and. Montlake Bridge spanning Montlake Cut, Seattle, June 16, 2000. Courtesy Seattle Municipal Archives (Image No. 10364) Montlake Cut construction, Seattle, September 12, 1914. Courtesy Seattle Municipal Archives (Image No.
On our return, we were fortunate enough to meet on the Norfolk. John Willey, who also had been vacationing. Willey is the editor of William Morrow & Co., the publishers of this book. In the. course of time, Mr. Willey and I had lunch together in New York, and at that. I explained to him that ever since I had become a member of Crescent. Temple, I had hoped someday to write the story of the Shriners and their. Willey expressed interest, and at his suggestion I approached. Mr. Stringfellow, who was then the Imperial Chief Rabban and also a. Crescent. We had first come to know each other through my. More vii. Vila PREFACE. Imperial Divan. approved the project in Minneapolis. Imperial Sir Thomas W. Melham, who had. been elected in Minneapolis, signed the official documents that had been. Legal Counsel Robert P. Smith. There. followed many thousands of miles of travel, seeking information wherever it. I spent well over a year gathering information and photographs. They came from libraries from Maine to. California and from Florida to the far northwest, from Recorders of all the. Imperial Council, from Past Imperial. Potentates, from Arabic scholars, from the Shrine rooms in the George. Washington National Masonic Memorial, from the late Noble Charles Bender of. Mahi Temple, who had spent untold years and treasure collecting Shrine. There. had been other histories of the Shrine written, the last one before the. Order. But there. Shrine, the charity of. Shrine as well as the laws and the administration of the Shrine. This. then, is that story. The book has made me a better Shriner and a better Mason. I. hope it will you too. January 1. 95. 9 Selamu. IMPERIAL POTENTATE 7. PROSPECT STREET EAST ORANGE, N. J. Stringfellow was selected as chairman of a committee of. Imperial Council to approve your manuscript, with power to select the. Other members selected were Deputy Imperial. Potentate Clayton F. Andrews, Imperial Recorder George M. Saunders, Past. Imperial Potentate Galloway Calhoun and Past Imperial Potentate. Harold M. Lloyd. The. We concur. that it is a work worthy of the Shrine, that it gives a true and authentic. Shrine from its inception to the present time. We commend it to. Shriner and to every Mason, all of whom have the opportunity to become a. We. feel that . CLINTON AVE.& WALL STREET TRENTON, NEW JERSEY January. George Inermate. PARADE T0 GLORY. Apostles of Good Cheer. IN THE. spring and summer of 1. Florence. actor; Charles T. Mc. Clenachan, lawyer; William S. Paterson, paper merchant. George Millar, printer; and William Fowler, restaurateur and wine merchant. As. much as anything else, the craze over . There were those who insisted on sitting down to their. Games were invented in. Among. the luncheon tables set for thirteen guests was one on the second floor of. Knickerbocker Cottage located at 4. Sixth Avenue, a popular bistro operated. Fowler and patronized largely by members of the Masonic fraternity, which. Twenty. The fraternity. But by the late thirties, the. Seward into the Whig. There were many lodges of the. The Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite was growing rapidly. Knights Templar were a bit slower, it could be attributed to the. There. were thousands of Masons in the New York of 1. Twenty. Banded. together as they were in the spirit of fraternalism, it was quite natural and. Knickerbocker Cottage, which was housed. Varian Homestead, a large white house in the Dutch style, erected. Twentyeighth Street when that area was on the outskirts of the city. Its. rooms were large and charming. The food was good and Knickerbocker Cottage had. There. were several Masonic luncheon tables in Fowler's place, mostly made up of the. Fowler promoted the idea of little cliques and was. Faces. at the large round table might vary from day to day, and there were occasions. Perhaps. the jokes were better. Perhaps there was more natural wit. Perhaps the select. Fleming to be admitted to this select group was something of. Fleming made it a point to complete his. St. Elizabeth's Hospital and his morning calls at the. I 1: 4. 5. Then, with his Homburg at a jaunty. Fowler's in time to sit down with his. He sported long, flowing. His clothing was of. He was. exuberant and effervescent, but nevertheless he appeared to have a certain. He was a large man, some five feet, nine inches tall and. The result was that he walked with a certain. Dr. He had left a successful and lucrative. Rochester, New York, to become a part of this great city that was. Hudson and that even then. The French Empire. Bismarck and Victor Emmanuel would soon take over. Rome and, in effect, restrict the temporal power of the Papacy to the Vatican. But neither event would interrupt the flow of the finest wines and. Factories sprang up almost overnight, and so. The handsome, APOSTLES OF GOOD CHEER S silver. Show business was booming, and names still mentioned. Labor. was scarce, but money was free and easy. When Fisk and Gould almost (but not. The golden spike had just been driven at. Promontory, Utah, and now the millionaries could ride swiftly, if not. New York to San Francisco. They wouldn't even worry about. Indians, for wasn't General George Custer, the dashing, flamboyant and. Civil War, on guard? The scandals of Grant's. There was poverty. It was. indeed a time to be alive. The past was gone and best forgotten. The present. was for living, and Fleming, Florence, Mc. Clenachan, Paterson and all the rest. But for Fleming there was also the. Fowler's an idea which developed. Ancient. Arabic Order Nobles of the Mystic Shrine for North America. No one. knows the exact date when the idea came to the popular doctor. No one knows. what germ of thought, what gem of wisdom, or what casual story by one of his. Still, the time is clear, and so. Ritual of the. Order, which now lies in glory and splendor in the Shrine rooms of the George. Washing. It reads. The First Complete. Fleming's handwriting. It bears many corrections and, despite. Ritual used in later years. The lodge. room setting remains unchanged. There was succor then and now f or weary Sons. Desert. The robes and other paraphernalia follow the chart today as. Fleming and William J. Florence. one of America's truly great actors and comedians, who was credited by Dr. On the inside cover. Ritual, there is a notation, handwritten and signed by Dr. Millar and I visited Dr. Fleming, at the. Imperial Hotel, his wife being sick at the time. He presented us with this. Ritual, having found it in an unused trunk. He said it was the first complete. Ritual of the Order. I had it mounted and bound, and it has been in our safe. The remainder is partly fact, partly legend. But out of the welter of fact, fancy, legend and. The. Shriners have played and marched their way into a glory of fraternalism. And yet, considering its weird beginnings, its. Masonry) it is perhaps amazing. Ancient Arabic Order Nobles of the Mystic Shrine continued to exist. Shrine, in the years since Dr. Fleming wrote his Ritual, have. One of the best of these. Dr. Poteat, a professor. Wake Forest College and a Past Imperial Potentate. He wrote: The Shrine. North America for a variety of reasons. In. the first place, the oriental pageantry and the magnificence of costumes and. Little boys play cops and robbers; Shriners play Moslems and infidels. In the. second place, the Shrine provides opportunity for fun and 7 8 PARADE TO. GLORY play and mirth on a truly magnificent scale. Shriners are apostles of. Indeed it may be said that we have been. In other words we expend most of our. The Shrine will have none. God as he sees fit, without interference or even. If. there is one thing our harassed world needs more than another today, it is. This can be found nowhere in a finer or truer form than in the. Mystic Shrine. This does not mean for a moment that all 'Shriners are the. However, Shriners in general do live by. Such. is the weak and fallible nature of man that he needs all the spiritual. Shrine teaches its initiates as all Masonic. God IS and that it is our duty to worship and to obey Him, to. Him as the chief good and to fight with all our power against atheism. The. story of the Shrine, then, is the story of men with reverent minds and merry. And it is a story worth the. But Shriners are more than little boys grown. With all their fun, they have not forgotten charity. With all the. splendor of their parades, they do not and cannot forget that first of all. Master Masons with all of the humility they are taught by the craft. It is with equal pride. But all of the fun, splendor and charity had to have a beginning. Dr. Fleming and Billy Florence. There. is no record of that first meeting, but it is more than likely that it came. Fleming for. treatment of some minor ailment, which in itself was something of a plume in. New York. Billy Florence in 1. It might be said that he was the George M. He lived in the better hotels that lined Fifth. Avenue, 9 1. 0 PARADE TO GLORY and Dr. Fleming's house was just around the. Fifth Avenue Hotel. Both were Master Masons and while Florence. Dr. Fleming, he had, at that. Once the business of medicine was out of the. Thus are friendships born. Fleming and Florence were kindred souls, each with an insatiable. There was perhaps also some sort of. Walter Fleming was a frustrated actor, whose life had been. There. were others too, in 1. Shrine, but just who contributed what is still subject to. Fifty years after the founding of the Shrine, James. Mc. Gee, who became the twenty. Donnatin, a Recorder of Mecca. Temple, as . All versions of the early and formative years of the Shrine are. These men were Fleming, Florence, Mc. Clenachan, Paterson and Fowler. Fleming was born in Portland, Maine, June 1. Dr. Fleming, who soon moved to Rochester, New York, and established a.
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