Arizona republican., 1896-02-06
ARE COMING 10 PHOENIX A Multitude to Attend
 the Carnival. Great Excursion Preparing at
 Los Angeles. ProceedIngs of the Last Meeting of the Local Board of
 Directors.


 meeting appointed the following persons upon the committees named: : On arches. Hadley and Goldberg; on Chinese and Chinese representation in procession, Cox, Fleishman and Cotton; on mercantile floats, Secretary Hedges; on school children, B. A. IFickas; public comfort, J. Roe Young, Redewin and Kibbey.
 The fiesta colors were chosen to be red, white and yellow.
 Judge Kibbey had a paper on public comfort that was appreciated by the members as timely and valuable.
 Five bands have been secured for the celebration. A contract has been en- tered into by the directors with the band of the Second battalion and the same terms will be probably accepted by the other local band, the Pioneer. Outside musical organizations secured embrace the Eleventh Infantry Iband, (which will accompany three compa- nies of the regiment the Prescott band and the Philharmonic band of Tucson. Transportation from Maricopa for the last named has been proffered by the Maricopa & Phoenix.
 President Frank M. Murphy of the Santa Fe, Prescott & Phoenix incr eased his personal subscription from $50 to s200, the reading of this letter being received with applause.
 It was definitely agreed upon to draw out the horse races portion of the programme and the bicycles will have the benefit.
 From all quarters comes the news of keen interest in the fiesta. Several of the prominent journals of the Nation will have correspondents on hand while Harper's Weekly will send a special artist to Illustrate the more striking features.
 The interest shown by Los Angeles is shown by the following from an ar ticle in the Los Angeles Express of the 1st:
 'The excursion of representative cit. izenS of Los Angeles to Phoenix to par. ticipate in the carnival is an assured | success. Forty-two representative citizens, embracing the whole gamu of industries and professions, have sig nifed their willingness to be members | of the excursion, and Max Meyberg chairman of the committee of the Mer- chants association which has the mai. ter in hand, is confident of filling ou the complement with equally desirable citizens
 Several train loads of people coult l be obtained for the excursion, but il is the purpose of the Merchants asso citation and more particularly the com mittee having the matter in charge t make the body of Los Angeles ex cursionists representative men. Int reason for the desire on the part O. so many to be part of this excursion is the widespread hospitality that ha: been offered by so many Arizona cite: and towns and which will be extended by so many more.
 Tt was only few days ago tha Francis C. Hatch, the director-genera of the Phoenix carnival, arrived in tht city for the purpose of interesting the Merchants association in the premises After a few desultory talks with th; merchants and manufacturers of this city, the advantage Of an excursion O. this kind from Los Angeles was ap. parent to them. It was a great oppor. tunity for the people of Los Angeles tc become acquainted with the people O Arizona, the customers of southerr California and destined to become larger consumers in the near future 1mme ediately after all these thing: were spread out before the Merchants association committee was at onct selected to arrange for this excursion It was decided to instruct the commit tee to be somewhat exclusive in tht personnel of the excursion; that is, |, make it representative of the citizen of the great distributing center O southern California. With this end il view the committee, or that active ent of it, Chairman Meyberg, has "given i out cold'' bhat no samples are to b taken along except for individual so lace of the members of the excursion
 Chairman Meyberg has worked in defatigably to make this excursion success commensurate with the i'm portance of such a city as Los Angeles He has given frosty comfort to al those who, like John Gilpin, have frugal mind, though on pleasure bent by sternly asseverating that it was t be pleasure excursion with the mali object in making an impression on Ar izona people.
 ''The special train of Pullmans wi, leave the city February IS. The trai, will be handsomely decorated in fest colors. These colors will be remove at the Needles and put on again at AS Fork, so that when the train arrives i Phoenix they will be bright and i good condition. The party will slee in the Pullmans en route and while i