The weekly herald. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 1906-19??, 1907-08-15
PREP ARR: FOR
five MILLION
Great Preparations Going ON
for the Entertainment Of The
Club at Fl PaSO

Preparations for entertaining the
delegates to the meeting Of the Texas
Five Million club which will be held
In El Paso August 16 and II are
being made by the committee APP
pointed by the directors of the cham,
Der OF commerce. The committee
proposes to see that all delegates
will have a pleasant time during their
stay in the city.
A meeting was held in the cham
Der OF commerce Tuesday afternoon
at which program was mapped out
and subcommittee arranged for
whose duties will be to devise ways
and means for entertaining the Wis
itors who are expected to come here
from all parts of the state. Chair.
man Courchesne was instructed to ap-
point committees on entertainment
receptions and ways and means
Among the visitors are expected a
number of women who will also be
entertained, Mrs. B, f. Hammett
was appointed chairman of the COM
mittee on reception to the women
visitors and she was authorized to
appoint as many assistants as she
desired
The members % the other COM
mittees will be announced later by
chairman Courchesre, 1t was agreed
that former mayor Charles Davis
should be chairman OF the committee
on reception, Some OF the reception
committee will go out OF the city a
lew stations to meet the special trains
on the Texas & Pacific and G.. II.
and S. A. and escort the visitors TO
the city.
Convention in Texas Street Grand.
The sessions of the Texas Five
Million club will be held in the Texas
Street Grand. Two and probably
more sessions will be held.
The entertainment features will be
many On Friday evening, August
Is, a smoker will be given, the place
having not yet been selected. The
hall will be deliberately decorated
and in addition to refreshments a
program Of music, both instrumental
and vocal, will be rendered
On the morning of August II the
delegates will be given an excursion
TO Las Cruces to view the irrigation
dam. Al noon an elegant lunch will
be served. The delegates will return
to the city about 4 o'clock in the aft
ernoon. The trip will be made Oh
special train,
A trip will be made to Cloudcroft
Sunday, the train leaving at 3 p. m,
and returning at midnight Tickets
will be good for those who wish to
remain at Coudcroft until Monday
afternoon.
Two trains have been arranged for
to carry the members of the Five
Million club to HI 2aso, one leaving
Dallas on the Texas & Pacific, and
the other leaving Houston on the
Galveston, Harrisburg & San Antonio
the latter carrying the famous Hoo
Hoo band Iof ILutkin, Texas, yhe
former some musical organizations
yet to be arranged for.
The fare for the round trip from
Houston and Dallas is SIS, with pro-
portionate rates from other points
on these lines, ain with rate of
one fare for the round trip from
points on lines running north and
south to junction points on the main
lines.
The Houston train Will carry John
H. Kirby president of the Five Mil
lion club, as well as other men prom.
inent in the development of the state |
The north Texas train will carry the
men who have been so prominent in
the clubs affairs from the first.
Secretary Garfield and director f.
II. Newell of the reclamation service
will also visit FL Taso during the
meeting Of the Five Million club. A
committee to arrange for their en-
tertainmenL was appointed last week
and is now at work 1t is proposed |
to give Secretary Garfield and Direc-
rector Newell banquet Saturday |
night.
The members attending the meet
ing of the Five Million club com
mittee were: A. Courchesne, chair
man; E. e. Neff, D. NJ. Payne, c. n.
Bassett, V. r. stiles and j. A, Dick.
w. S. Tllton, secretary, was also pres
ent.