Arizona republican., 1911-03-15
BY l. ROUGH RIDERS Entertainment of COl. ROOSc-
 welt Next Monday CHANGE IN THE PROGRAM
Formerly Planned Lunch con in Y. M. c. A. Build ing Has Been Given Up For Reasons That Seemed Good and Sufficient

| Through new arrangement made ! yesterday by the committees m | charge. the luncheon that was to have been given in honor of Colonel ROOse- welt in the Y M C. A. building, and ! to which approximately 200 people i were to be invited has been cancelled and in place thereof, at the same | hour. a luncheon will be given by | the Rough Riders at the Ford hotel | This function will be exclusively for ! the members of the cOlOnels old regl- ment. for obvious reasons, and there will be no list of specially favored guests. official or otherwise.
 The reasons for this action are many. and the change was suggested 1 only after several sessions of the SeH- eraI committee having in charge the Roosevelt reception. Chiefest of the reasons was the fact that no caterer i in Phoenix was found willing to take the contract for furnishing lunch ! con of the character desired. to so many people. at d time when the or [ dinary resources of their estabiish- ments would be strained tO the limit | bv the crowds that will come Co ! Phoenix from the outside. Then, IJ | soon became apparent that the mum | Der set (2OO), though all that could { be accommodated at any available | banqueting room in the city, would | be far too small to include all who \ had claims on attendance and who, | it was felt. should be present at any affair 50 general in it's scope. | Then there was consideration of ! barbecue. but the committee felt itself ! tinadeduate in point of available time to prepare a function such as this that would be satisfactory, both to ltheir especial guest and tO tine yer Iitable army that aSSUredly would be present The fact remained. however, that Colonel Roosevelt would be here and should be given acceptable cred- ture comforts while in Phoenix. pref ertblv in the presence of his friends. Among these friends constituting al most a part of his family are the Rough Riders. men of the famous regiment that followed him in Cuba to victory. here coming close behind the host association in acknowledged claims upon the visitors time.
 When Colonel Roosevelt set the date of his arrival in Phoenix he was sent an lllN NllcAllbll tt ANAiNAA NAeAi N''-- Arizona Rough Riders, but had to decline. owing to previous acceptance of a similar courtesy at the hands
 of the officials of the Water Users association. Now it has been appre- ciated that possibly the greatest pleasure that could be felt by the
 visitor would come through closer as sociatiOn with the members of his regiment than had hitherto been pro vided in the program. 50 it was
 deemed fitting to permit the Rough
 Riders to carry through their original program.
 A request was sent from the meet ing to the reception committee of the Rough Riders to entertain the colonel at luncheon Though this overturned some plans that had been made, the change was considered happy one.
 and the Rough Riders were more than delighted to be afforded an op-
 portunity to entertain their old com mander.
 Arrangements have already been
 made for the luncheon at the Ford.
 the committee having secured for the
 purpose three connecting second floor rooms in the front of the adjoining
 Cook building. These will be prop
 erIv decorated The luncheon will be
 buffet one. as good as can be af-
 forded in Arizona, and will be of
 Arizona products as completely as
 possible