Arizona republican., 1910-11-26
READY FUR
 PARKER TRIP Local Business Men Greatly
 Interested In Project ROUSE NAMES COMMITTEE Comprises Practically the Mercantile Concerns of the Town What Trade Excursions Have Done for Pittsburg.
ROUSE NAMES COMMITTEE

l As the time is approaching when the
 business men of Phoenix will set out on
 their get acquainted" trip to Parker 1 and the intermediate points, the inter
 est is visibly increasing Already a
 healthy demand for sleeping car ac- ! commodations has been created and it now seems quite likely that the start
 of the party from this city on Decem- | Der will witness one of the most en- ] Jhusiastic and representative gather | .ngs of Phoenix business men eyer
 gotten together upon any similar oc- ] casion.
 And out along the line the enthusiasm | is also increasing and it is a certainty | that when the local representatives of
 the mercantile establishments drop off | the special train at any one of the i points to be visited they will be greet ! ed by large and active reception com mittee which will see to it that good | impression of the town will be created. Bouse is the latest and last town on the list to announce its reception com mittee. This committee is practically representative of the business estab- lishments of BOUse. This committee consists of D. A. Burke chairman; R. c. Morley. Morley Mercantile Co; F.. D. Poyle, Rouse Cash Store: J. C. Den ton, A. & C. Mercantile Co: M W
 Winters; :. r. Ward. Short x Ward Lumber Co; F. F. Greenwood. Bouse-
 Swansea I. & C. S. Co.,; w F.. Enos, c. H. Peters. Geo. C. Winkler, Winters & Sons, Dennis A. Burke, Thomas Bouse. J. C. Denton & Hamilin, w J. Dunn
 F. l.. Short, pr Cartmel.
 It now remains for the Phoenix business men to awake and keep awake to the possibilities of such a trip. In Pttsburg, Pa, where these trade ex- cursions are now an annual feature. it has been found that they are of such benefit to the city and to the territory into which they are run that no effort is now required to organize a party of business men for that purpose. Speak ing of the last tour for trade in Pitts burg the Pittsburg Gazette Times said:
 All accounts agree that the Pitts burg chamber of commerce trade ex- tension trip made last week was the most successful of the series of ten tours that have been conducted under similar auspices. At every one of the l
  delegation of business men was hos | pitably received in a public way and i cordially greeted by merchants indi- vidually. IL was evident on all sides | that the advantages of closer relations | with Pittsburg were understood and ap- | preciated and that there was neither 1 aloofness nor antagonism to be over | come. It was apparent also that in | these smaller communities of the | state. with their own ambitious enter | prises and their own progressive | spirit. there was a sympathetic and | neighborly interest in the continued su- premacy and development of this city | as the metropolis of western Pennsyl- | vania. Frankly spoken declarations of | concern in the growing trade of Pitts burg and in the sustained prosperity of | its manufactures and business houses | constituted a notable feature of this tour which was not undertaken out of rivalry with any place visited, but rather to present the resources, pro- ductive capacity and commercial claims of Pittsburg as compared with other centers of like magnitude or greater and yet more distant than our city from the section through which the excur- sion made its way.
 Nor was the enjoyment of the Chamber of Commerce members, with | their new president. F. R. Babcock at | their head. the least valuable aspect of the event It is a good thing for busi- ness men of a city to get together and | know each other better. Generally speaking their interests are one. Man lives not unto himself alone. The sue cess which is predicted upon selfish ness and segregation counts little to the community Association of ener- gies, exchange of ideas, and knowledge of what is being done what can be made and what is to be had in ones own city-all these clements are inn portant The chamber is to be con graduated. therefore, not merely for making Pittsburg better known throughout the extensive territory | which buys here. but also for the man ner in which it brings its members into a more familiar conception of the city's potentialities and establishes a more intimate acquaintance among the men who make Pittsburg what it is