Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1911-11-09
F|NADC|ERS ARE
TULSA 5 GUESTS
BANKERS AND RAILROAD OF
FICIALS SPENT AN HOUR HERE
YESTERDAY AFTERNOON.
Represented MILLIONS
BANKERS ARE VIEWING FRISCO
LINES IN ORDER TO NEGOTI-
ATE A BIG LOAN TO ROAD.
ARE PLEASED With TULSA
Visitors Are Astonishcd at the Sights
Seen i'm An Automobile Ride
Through the Magic City.

The Tulsa Commercial club enter
tained for nearly an hour yesterday,
a party of the wealthiest and most
distinguished bankers and railroad
loffcials that ever visited the south
west. Bankers from New York, Paris,
Switzerland and other points were in
the party and President b. l.. Win
ichell of the Frisco railroad was per-
sonally in charge of the special train
of six Pullman coaches that arrived
here at 1875 p. m. William G. Nixon,
lvice-presdent of the Frisco was also
a member of the party and among the
other well-known Americans who
We're shown over the city in automo-
biles was Jacob e. Ward, vice presi-
dent Of the Prudential Life Insurance
company The combined wealth of
the party would amount TO more than
a hundred million dollars. The spec
ial train left st. Louis on November
?, for tour of the Frisco lines
Tulsa Was HonOrcd.
The purpose Is to interest the bank
ers In big loan that the Frisco de-
sires to negotiate for use in making
extensive improvements all over the
system. Only two stops We're made in
Oklahoma, one at Oklahoma City and
the other at Tulsa. All the other
towns and cities were passed up, the
Frisco officials desiring to show their
guests the cream Of the states NUM-
cipalities.
For the majority of the visitors II
was their first visit to Tulsa and what
they saw In the scant half hours
time they put in sightseeing, served
to open their eyes to the wonderful
growth and the immense possibilities
of Tulsa as an Industrial and COM
mercial center.
Hotel Building Astonishes.
They were men of sober views and
| intelligence and are not the sort that
| is given TO uttering false statements
Consequently their words of praise
for Tulsa were received with the ut
most satisfaction by the score or more
of Tulsans who assisted in their en-
tertainment. The automobile trip took
them over only a small portion of the
city, but sufficed to show some of
Tulsa's principal assets. When the
visitors got their first glimpse of the
new ten-story hotel there We're many
expressions Of wonderment and the
! l.. -N,. N.Yl, ,.I hntt
necks while looking at the big struct-
ure in much the same style employed
| by passengers on the rubber neck"
wagons in New York city or other
large places. They were taken
through the pretty residence portions
of the city and down Boston avenue.
whera some of the finest churches In
the state are located. To the extreme
south end of Boulder avenue they
gazed out across the Arkansas river
| to the Indian Mounds and hills in the
distance and the oil tank farms"
near the opposite bank of the stream.
From South Main street. through the
| business section of the city to the ex-
treme northern end of the street, the
party was whirled over more than
two miles straight stretch of asphalt
paving. 1t was explained to them
that Tulsa has nearly forty miles of
paved streets on ground that ten years
ago was trampled only by. the cow
boys. Indians and cattle.
Visitors Are Surprised.
Upon reaching the extreme north
ern end of Main street the visitors re-
ceived a surprise for which they were
not prepared. Stretched out along a
railroad track few hundred yards
from where the automobiles passed
We're more than 1000 head of cattle
that were being fed for the market.
Beyond that a short ways, were fields
OF corn and cotton and still further
away. but in plain view, was the Flat
Rock oil field, inside of which stood
row after row of oil derricks.
A short time later the party paused
enue, where four Indian nations meet
and point which overlooks the en-
tire city. The business section of the
city was viewed to good advantage
from there. Later on the visitors
were given food for more thought
when they were shown the handsome
Elks home at Third street and Boul-
der avenue. than which there Is no
handsomer or elegantly furnished fra
ternal structure in the southwest and
which is easily the most costly Elks
home In Oklahoma.
prasidant WincheIl whan paesing