The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1910-05-27
TACOMA BOOSTERS HAVE
GOOD WORD FOR THIS CITY
Arrived Here Last Night 100 Strong
and Were Shown Some of the Things
That Are Making Wenatchee Great
---Auto Rides. and Reception

Oh, Wenatchee the Gem of Columbia,
The home of the apple big and red,
The shrine of each boosters devotion,
Tacoma offers homage to thee.
Thy peaches make all take notice,
Thy apples make money galore,
Thy future makes other districts jeal-
Gus,
For they know they can offer no
more.
Copyright 1910-Sung by the mem
bers of the Tacoma Goose club, May
26, at Wenatchee Commercial club.
The Tacoma Boosters arrived in
the city yesterday afternoon at 4:20,
one hundred strong, and were met
at the depot by automobiles and
were driven over the valley adjacent
to Wenatchee. They were a jolly
bunch and are representative of the
revived and wide-awake Tacoma.
They are having a pleasant junket-
ing trip and expressed themselves
pleased with the reception given
them at Wenatchee.
A special Northern Pacific train,
composed of four Pullman sleepers,
two diners, a day coach, a baggage
car and a business car, was placed
at the disposal of the party by the
railroad.
Run under the auspices of the Ia
coma Commercial club, the trip was
intended to acquaint members of the
party with people of the northwest
The especial object of the trip is to
arouse interest in the opening of the
Tacoma high school stadium, which
takes place June 10, and in the mil
itary tournament which will be held
there on July 24-30. Special rates
are given by the railroads to this
event. The stadium, of which Ia
coma is very proud, has a seating
capacity of $4,000 and is one of the
best athletic fields in the country.
Railroad Men Along.
| Accompanying the business men
are H. C. Mutt, fourth vice president
of the Northern Pacific; Henry
Blakely, general western freight
-ent; I. B. Richards, superintend-
ent Of the Tacoma division; w. F.
Safer, travelling passenger agent, and
C. R. Lonergan, travelling freight and
passenger agent.
Officers of the Commercial club
who are directing details of the tour
are Henry Rhodes, president; o. F
Cosper, secretary, and John T. Bibb
the first president of the organiza-
ton.
Reception in the Commercial Club
In the evening reception was
given the visitors in the Commercial
club rooms While the business In
terests of the city were not repre-
sented as they should have been
owing to the high school exercises
yet the meeting was good one
The band was on hand AMI discourset
some good music. President King
of the Wenatchee Commercial club
and President Rhodes, of the Taco
ma club, occupied the seats of honor
and a number of rousing speeches
were made by visitors and local men
DR.. King, in opening the program
said:
Members of the Tacoma Goose
Club: l perceive that you are wei
imbued with the spirit of hilarity.
don't know where you got it, blu
don't believe you got it in Wenat
chez. Uaughter) But we are GER
tainly glad to see the gait which has
been struck by the people of Tacoma
We want to see you over here more
We need jobbing houses here now. A
wholesale grocery ought to have q
business of $4,000 for the first
year"
Mayor Gellatly made the next ad'
dress of welcome. He struck very
happy vein and after telling the Ia
coma men what Wenatchee was doing
in the way of public Improvements
spending $250,000 on her streets and
sewers-he stated that the jail was
occupied by nothing but 1. w. WIS
and that the Tacoma bunch would not
be interfered with during their stay
here.
| DR.. King then called upon H. A.
Rhodes, president of Rhodes Brothers
Company, who took the chair for the
remainder of the evening. Mr.. Rhodes
explained that they were just out on
a junket and a "get-acquainted trip y
He stated that the people of Tacoma
had hardly realized what they had
at their doors but that this was one
of the objects of the trip.
The chairman then called upon