Bisbee daily review., 1905-06-30
|Q1lFN s1BE TRIP
Will Be Made in a special
 k .. Train to Buffalo

Fl Paso. June 29.-Across the con tinent in a special train, headed by the national band of another republic. the Fl Paso Elks' ~Quien Sabe club, marching organization 150 strong every man a member of the antlered herd, forming the most unique crowd that ever attended a grand lodge meeting, will go from this city to Buf- falo in the next few days. Many Douglas. Bisbes and other Arizona Elks are members.
 The trip will cost the club 0,000 and every cent has been raised among the members of the order, all of whom are professional and business men of this city and section, many of them being wealthy miners. The band is rendered complimentary to the organ
 ization by Sr Don Miguel Ahumada, governor of the state of Jalisco, the commander of this famous musical or ganization of sixty-one pieces. He will send it to Fl Paso and from here the Elks will take it to Buffalo on their special.
 This is the first time that a fra ternal organization of this kind was ever complimented in this manner by foreign government, and it will be the largest company of men in uni form ever sent such a great distance 10 attend a national convention of any
 sort
 The trip takes the members clear
 across the continent, from Fl Paso on the south. touching the borders of
 Mexico, to Buffalo on the north. touch ing almost the boundary line of Can
 ada
 The trip will be unique in more ways than one. Every member or the special train crew will be an Elk and on the front of the locomotive which
 will haul the train will be tremend-
 ous Elks' head of incandescent cleo tric lights At night it will be seen for miles and during the day it will
 divide attention with the unique ban ners which will cover the sides of the special car.
 At every stop-Kansas City, St. Louis, Chicago, New York, and else where-the club will parade the streets, distribute souvenirs, and the band will give a concert in some pub lie square.
 The uniforms of the marching club are of black broadclotA, trousers and bolero-jacket tight fitting and trim med in Mexican coins. The hats will | be of sombrero type, with brims three ! feet across and the crowns foot high. purple sashes will be the waist decor ation, with silk shirts, black shoes and white gloves. Each man will carry a carved coffee wood cane.
 The souvenirs to be distributed will consist of Mexican sombreros, carved
 canes, cigars. tequila, mescal and other liquids in small flasks. On the sides of the special train will be banners telling the people about Fl Paso. "35,000 people and
 more coming; nine railroads and more | biilding;" "El Paso, the greatest min | ing center of the southwest" "El Paso, the headquarters of w. c. Greene. the Man Who Saw Lawson;
 The City Where the Sun Shines Ev'
 cry Day and Every House is Brick 1 House." are some of the legends that
 will grace the sides of the cars. The marching club is under the
 presidency of Edward Kneezell, ex- alted ruler and designer of the s5O,OOO
 home which the Fl Paso Elks are now
 erecting, with Harry B. Chairman as captain and Fred J. Feldman as treas urer and general manager.
 The club is not going to make any attempt to land the next national con yention. but the trip is simply for pleasure and to show the world what ! Fl Paso can do. It will he the longest | trip for the largest number Of men
 ever made to a grand lodge meeting
 and the first time national band oi
 a foreign country ever Ilade such a