Arizona republican., 1906-02-02
VERY BRIEF
 VERY BUSY
The Stay of the Chicago
 Visitors Yesterday
As Much as Possible of the Valley Was Shown to the Chicago Gen. tIemen.

IAe c6CuISlOn party NOihpOSSu OL | members of the Chicago Commercial ] club, spent yesterday forenoon in Phoe- | nix as had been planned, leaving just | before noon on a special train for Tue | son. The visit though a very brief one, | 1t is believed was a profitable one for PhoenIX and for the visitors. too | or will prove to be in the future. It | acquainted the visitors with facts they | did not have before, that they can use to their own advantage and anything that welds more closely together the 1 commercial interests of Arizona and a great business center like Chicago can not fail to be of advantage to Arizo- na.
 M. C. Dougall, chairman of the com mittee on arrangements, met the ex- cursionists at the depot yesterday morning on the arrival of the train from Maricopa. He acquainted them with the plans that had been been made for their entertainment and they were satisfactory in every way. At o'clock the carriage provided for the drive started from the private cars of the excursion party. The visitors were driven west to the territorial capitol, thence north via the fair grounds and the Adams stock ranch. From there they were taken by the ostrich farm to the Phoenix Indian school. Super intendent Goodman of the Indian school was not at home but Assistant Super intendent Snyder had been appraised of the coming of the visitors and had the native band out to greet them. They were particularly interested in the school and the Indians, some of the wis itors, never having seen Indians be- fore. at least not in their native land. 
 brought back to town. arriving about an hour before the departure of the train. That hour was devoted to a brief inspection of the business part of the city, visits being made to many of the stores and other business places. Among the eXcursionists were three ladies. One was Mrs. F. s. Shaw, an old friend Of Mrs. Walter Talbot, who took charge of her special entertainment They did not take the drive with the others as the ladies preferred to visit rather than to see the sights, though Mrs. Shaw was shown around the town somewhat. When the excursion started MT. Shaw was among the number, but he was recalled by the death of a rela- tive.
 MT. and Mrs. W. F. Types were among the visitors, Mrs. Types being | d very pdIllCuldE lI1Gllu or MIS. AT thur C.. Hulett. MT and Mrs. Hulett took it upon themselves to especially | look after the comfort of this couple Another of the excursionists MT. Frank G. Hall, has been a friend of Mrs. Dwight B. Heard since childhood and MT. E. L. Hasler of the visiting party, is the husband of another friend of Mrs. Heard's girlhood days. Nat urally these gentlemen were assigned to Mrs. Heard's carriage and given special attention by her.
 Other carriages which were placed at the disposal of the visitors were those of c. F. Ainsworth, driven by Arthur AinswOrth, Shirley Christy. Charles Goldman. J. w. Doris, H. l. Latham and M. o. Bicknell.
 Among the visitors were MT. and Mrs Ralph Van Vechten, Mrs. Van Vech- ten being the third lady of the party. not mentioned above. Mir. Van Vechten called upon c. J. Hall. of the Home
 Savings Bank and Trust Company.
 having been requested to do so by his business associates with whom MT Hall
 is well acquainted. The visit was a
 most enjoyable one for MT. Hall who
 felt that he was already acquainted
 with MT Van Vechten through business
 correspondence as the latter is vice
 president of the Commercial Nationai
 Bank of Chicago. This big institution,
 which has deposits amounting to more
 than S34,000.OO0 has heard of Phoenix
 before as several of it's leading officials
 have visited Phoenix at one time or another. Among them is recalled it's
 president, James H. Eckels, comptroller of the currency under Grover Cleveland, John T. Talbert, one of the vice-presi-
 
 Morton and William J. Chalmers of the board of directors. The Commercial Ma tional is now building a new building in Chicago for it's permanent home.
 MT. Van Vechten visited the various banks Of the city and in speaking of the town generally he told MT. Hall that he would be only too happy to make an extended stay here if he could He is troubled with catarrh which he said seemed to leave him as soon as he got into Arizona and he believes if he could stay here a little while he would | be permanently cured of it. When told that yesterday was cloudy and really the most unpleasant day for the last week or two he replied that yesterday was good enough.
 The other members of the party whose names are not given above are | w. M. Thompson, James R. Baker, c. P. Coffin, c. H. Crosette, Frank G. Hall, J. P. Mann, H. L. Sayler, H. C. l Staver, Fred A. Watson, $. E. Wood, | Neil Satterlee and Augustus Knight. All expressed themselves as delighted with what little they had seen Of Ari- zona and sorry they could not stay longer. On leaving they were liberalIy supplied by Secretary Van der Veer, of the board of trade, with the book l lets and other literature the board has for distribution. They also took along from the Indian school as souvenirs, a large number of copies of the Native American, the school paper.
 Dring the morning the board of trade had sent to the train for the visitors d box of Arizona oranges. And in this | connection if is well for ArizoOa that