Arizona republican., 1908-09-06
AMUSEMENT FEATURES
 OF ALBUQUERQUE FAIR

R. E. Twitchell. secretary Of Congress and New Mexico interstate exposition, has addressed the follow ing letter to the president and sec retary of the Phoenix board of trade , in furtherance of the campaign of publicity:
 Dear Sirs:-The programme of festivities that will occur during the two weeks of the Sixteenth National Irrigation congress and the Interna- tional Exposition. Albuquerque, Sep tcmber 29-October 10, will include attractions that never have been as sembled in the west, and some of them never have been beheld in this country
 Besides the exhibits of the war, navy. postoffice. treasury, and agri- culture departments of the United states, the government will send battalions of infantry and cavalry to stay throughout the two weeks
 The soldiers will come with all the panoply of war and with camp equipage. Daily they will perform the routine of camp life-dress pa rade, guard mount, band concerts, etc, and daily one of the battalions will participate in a street parade. The cadets from the military schools and the L. $. Indian schools of New Mexico and Arizona, also the local militia. will share in these parades.
 In the pageant, tribes of Pueblo Indians will appear. coming for a stay throughout the congress and ex- position, from Laguna, Cochiti, San Felipe, San Domingo, and other pu- eblos. The chiefs will carry in the parades the famous sticks presented Ito their predecessors by President Abraham Lincoln during, the Civil war, more than fifty years ago. Representatives of the Pima tribes of Arizona will attend also, and partici- pate in the parades.
 Cowboys will ride their broncos in the parades. besides participating in the races at the fair grounds. At the fair grounds, too, there will be bronco busting. horse traces, relay races by specially selected teams of horses. cadet drills, etc
 There will be numerous bands, in cluding two famous bands from Old Mexico. and there will be band con- certs daily Daily there will be con certs by a chorus of trained voices.
 MT Nat M. Brigham will deliver his famous lectures, Grand Canyon of Arizona" and Man Who Won the West"
 The fireworks will be grand and something new in pyrotechnics. Some of the pieces will be distinctively western, representing the Elephant Butte and Roosevelt Dams:
 All will be free to visitors. Be sides, the merchants will keep open house, and endeavor to give their visiting friends and customers a good time. It will be a rare oppor- tunity for country merchants to wis 1t Albuquerque and renew acquaint- ance with the jobbers. They will find that the wholesale houses of Albu- querque are equal to the best in the west. There is nothing lacking in the Albuquerque houses for a coun- try merchants stock. Buyers find everything in the jobbing houses of the west that they would find east. and the reduced dates fixed by the railroads September 29-October 10, make it a great opportunity for the trade to visit this jobbing center.
 Local Commercial clubs in Albu- querque's territory should come in numbers. There is nothing like keep ing up old acquaintance.
 R. E. MITCHELL,
 Secretary Board of Control. Albuquerque, Sept. l.