The weekly herald. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 1906-19??, 1908-05-07
OKLAHOMA
TO The FORE
City Invaded by a Horde Of
OkIahOmanS, Who Make
Merry Within Our Gates
(From Wednesdays Daily)

time a hundred live and breezy busi-
ness men Of Oklahoma City jollled,
jollfied with, and enjoyed Amarillo
and Amarillo business yesterday
evening and last night from o'clock
till midnight, Fresh from their trip
up tho Pecos Valley from Clovis
yesterday and filled with warmth
OF enthusiasm when kept all Of them
cheerful in spite of the norther and
OF the fact that most Of them had
overcoats-in Oklahoma City-the
visitors met their entertainers here
with zest that made visitors and
entertainers old acqualntances at
once.
Their Fourth Auto Ride.
When the long special train OF tho
Oklahoma boosters with the forward
car resplendent in appropriately
lettered posters, drew in back Of
the evening train on the Pecos Val
ley and stopped in the "Y" waiting
for the regular TO go out, Amarillo
men in touring cars enough for more
than the crowd went to the train
and took the visitors off without
waiting for the train to back into
the station. Then the visitors we're
given short spin about the city,
very short, in fact, as enterprising
Panhandlers at Hereford and Can
yon and even at Friona had met
them at the train on their visits
earlier in the day and had rushed
them various and sundry miles over
Panhandle towns and country in the
whistling north wind. SO the auto
men deferred an extended view Of
the town till the time when Okla
homa City shall call on a warm day
and soou deposited their passengers
at the Amarillo hotel. Then with
the Oklahoma City band leading tho
procession the boosters paraded sew
eral blocks through the business sec
lion OF the city.
In the next hour the Oklahoma
aien spread around and mixed, job
hers and wholesalers found the bus
ihess men in their lines here and
snapped experiences. At $50 the
crowd began to gather in the De-
midi and after a few selections by
The band, an da lusty yell which went
after this manner:
Amarillo, Texas, Z. S. A.,
Oklahoma City, Not far away,
Remember"
w. II. Fuqua opened The meeting
by explaining that the number of
Amarillo men in the audience was
little short because they had ex-
pected the boosters earlier and had
been obliged to go home when the
supper hour came to keep peace in
the family. He presented Hon. j. r.
Bowman who extended welcome
from every man, woman and child
in "The Peerless Princess OF the
Plains" TO the visitors from the city
which 1--WE consider without jeal-
ousy, the greatest city in the next
greatest state in the union, a state
whose scintilating glory has added
to the effulgent splendor OF the con-
stellation of the republic" He
touched upon the richness of terri
tory which the visitors are devel-
oping and visiting and concluded by
giving the Oklahoma slogan Get
Busy" and announced his surrender
TO the visitors. AS being capable
OF taking care Of the situation" Mr.
Fuqua introduced ]. E. O'Neill, the
six foot three or four secretary OF
the Richardson Conover Hardware
company, and chairman OF the ex-
cursion party.
The Value Of Visits.
Mr.. O'Neill spoke with the ear
nestness OF business man who be-
lieves in his goods, of the growth
of the Southwest, or the develop
ment Of wholesaling and jobbing in
Oklahoma City, and OF the great
benefit gained from trade excursions
which enabled the retailer and the
wholesaler to understand each 9th
er in way never possible through
the mere exchange of typewriter or
ders and receipts, and of the future
OF Amarillo in which he recognized
the same spirit OF progress and 10y
atty which is building Oklahoma
City.
Fellow farmers" began John
Fields, editor OF the Oklahoma Farm
Journal who told of the skepticism
with which many people receive
stories OF the Panhandle, Oklahoma,
Kansas and Nebraska, till they can