Arizona republican., 1903-02-21
PROMINENT VISITORS
Notable Men Now Here and Others
 Soon to Arrive.

Phoenix sometimes imagines that she is loser by being so far away from inc United States and so inaccessible for the average tourist but it is also true that for these same reasons many O. 1 table people come here that would pass the town by if it rested in the shadow of a larger city. As it is Phoenix is the most important place in a large area of natural wealth and resources and a natural place to be visited by many , western tourists. Scarcely a day passes but that some one of national reputa- tion comes in over one railroad or the other and sometimes there are several notables in the list of arrivals.
 | Yesterday morning J. M. Studebaker and J. M. Studebaker, IT, of South Bend, Ind, Rev. John F. Boucher of Baltimore and his brother, D. R. Boucher of Carthage, Mo-, and John Trix and Miss Carrie Trix of Detroit. Mich, were among the arrivals at the Hotel Adams
 l The Messrs. Studebaker are connect ed with the famous Sudebaker Wagon Manufacturing company. the largest | institution of the kind in the world
 and which has been gradually built up from what was an humble blacksmith shop generation ago. Their visit is only brief one for they leave on this
 mornings train for California.
 | MT. TriX of Detroit is a very well
 known man of that city who has been most successful in business enterprises
 He is one of the leading officials in a large steam injector manufacturing plan and has been prominent in vari-
 ous enterprises there as we'll as in nn l oI, ing served once as president of the board of education.
 Dr. John F. Boucher of Baltimore is
 president of the young ladies seminary
 there and has visited Phoenix before.
 On a previous visit he became inter- ested in the Buckeye canal enterprise
 and his holdings there are the occasion
 of his present visit. He left for Buck eye yesterday afternoon. Dr. Boucher | is a talented minister and through his educational work is known all over
 the country.
 Another parsonage of national repu-
 tation is expected here about March I2. Superintendent Bicknell of the M.
 x r. IS arranging to handle on that date the private car of Judge Grosscup and party Of Chicago. Judge Cross
 cup has been an important factor dur
 ing the last year or two in much liti- Satlol of national interest and only
 a few days ago rendered a decision
 relative to the beef trust lawsuits that
 was widely printed and commented upon. It was Judge Grosscup also who
 made a number of the employees of the | Chicago Amer ican understand that vel
 low journalism might be overdone.
 How long he expects to remain here
 has not been announced.
 ] Within the next two weeks also Phoenix may expect visit from two
 men whose names have recently been spoken by more people perhaps than
 the names of any other two men in
 America and one of whom is reputed
 to be the richest man in the world,
 John D. Rockefeller. His travelling
 companion is his son. John D. Rocke- 1 feller, Jr. Each will have his private
 car. though what members of their | families, if any, will be with them, is
 not announced. They are also expect ed to arrive via the southern route. It l is not known whether their visit will