Arizona republican., 1910-03-17
W0MAh'S CLUB ENJOYS
 RARE AFTERNOON Miss ShsrIot Hall Talks on Arizona's Pioneer Days and Mr. Frederick w. Bancroft Sings Some
 Fine Old Ballads.

| The program of the day was In charge of Mrs. Dwight B Heard. chair man of the department of history. The 1 club room was full and overflowed into an extra room.
 The first number on the program was the singing of some English bal | lads by MT. Frederick W. Bancroft. i There is a firm and generally unbroken | law in the Woman's club that no en- | cores are ever to be asked for Mir l Bancroft. however. could not possibly even remotely conjecture that such d rule existed. as the club would have i had him singing all the afternoon and i evening. too. if he could have been ! induced to do so. He very graciously I gave two encores. His first number ! was an English ballad dating from the time of Elizabeth. The Bailffs Daughter of Islington." and then one of the time of Charles IT., still sung in England, Come Lassies and Lads; and then for an encore, "Sallie Gray" Mir. Bancroft gave a little sketch of the charming ballads, of their history. and this, combined with the perfect enunciation, the charm of manner and the beauty of voice, will make the singing of those ballads an event long remembered in the club.
 Mrs. Heard. then introduced Miss Sharlot Hall. who really needs no in- troduction to any Phoenix audience Miss Hall spoke of old Arizona. prefac- ing her talk with the statement that she was not we'll prepared. and then filling up every minute and telling something interesting every minute She said that she was like General Fremont, whose wife used to sit in front of him when he made speeches and would put up an umbrella when he had said enough. She hoped that an umbrella would be raised when the club had enough. but no one even thought of sun shades.
 Miss Hall spoke of the early Span ish explorations in Arizona and of the fact that it was gold or the lure of it that had brought both Spaniards and Americans here. When she told of Captain John Burke finding a Spanish suit of armor with the skeleton of a man in it, near the banks of the Colo rado river. it made one feel that the days of chivalry were not so far away,
 
 in the Smithsonian today
 Miss Hall had some most interesting maps. two of which showed the Colo rado river flowing into the Salton sea. feat which it has successfully per formed since those far away days. and which goes to show that history re- peats itself. She told of the early trappers, the Pattee brothers. Sylves- ter and James, who came from Cin- cinnati and trapped in the valley of the Gila and Salt rivers. She then told of the first governor of Arizona, James Goodwin Cthe very first govern or appointed. Governor Gurley, died be- fore starting for his field) and the members of his staff. of their trip from Independence, Missouri. in wagons, guarded by soldiers. and of how they raised the flag at Navajo Springs and then went on through the territory. They founded the capital at Prescott. Gold had been discovered near there and it was thought that the great gold discoveries of northern California were to be duplicated. She told of the bringing of the camels to the territory. when Jefferson Davis was secretary of war. and of the naming of the terri tory by Colonel James Posten, from the Arizonak mountains. from which he evolved the musical name the territory bears today. She gave some delightful bits about the first legislature. and touched on the Apache wars. when Ari- zona's history was written filth fire and blood and hate.
 She then insisted that it was time that the umbrella be raised. and Mir. Bancroft sang two Jacobite ballads of