Arizona republican., 1912-02-11
MERRYMAK|NG
 ON WEDNESDAY
Open Air Inaugural Ball is Provided for by Com
 mittee
NOVEL FEATURE OF
 ADMISSION DAY

nation yesterday stating definitely th'
 date of the signing Of the proclamation
 cf admission by the president at oncC
 issued a proclamation recommending
 that Wednesday next be observed as
 holiday Both the proclamation and
 the news on which it was issued, arN
 published elsewhere in this issue. The
 occasion will not be a legal holiday
 interfering with business matters as
 are the days provided for by law. but
 il is the wish of the governor that the
 people generally observe il, neverthe-
 less. The c.her most interesting feat
 ure of the day in connection N'ith ad-
 mission was the decision of tne com
 mittee in cnarge of arrangements to
 have a real characteristic Arizona eel ,bration in connection with the even
 ing festivities To be specific it was
 planned that the reception should not
 only take possession of the Hotel
 Adams but that Central Avenue in
 front of it should be regarded as an annex. be as brilliantly illuminated and be made public playground for all the people. only a small portion of whom
 can crowd their way into the building at one time.
 The avenue will be swept, washed ami if necessary the new pavement will he polished. A canopy Of electric lights will be hung aoove il making radiant ths colOrs of the flags and bunting. \ brass band will be station ed on the pcIIico overlooking the street which will be closed to traffic, and the thoroughfare turned into one vast ball room. The band vii furnish the music and the wide. wide world will fe invited to turn out and dance its head off fl 1t likes. The proper form cf invitation for the leap year girls to extend to their gentlemen acquaint- ances will DC: Lets dance up to the post office and back2" At a fitting time the Phoenix Choral society of hundred voices which has engagements JC fill inside the hotel also. will appear on the portico and sing the Star Spangled Banner.
 Moreover. there will be a corps Of busy photographs taking pictures of the novel scene. which doubtless will
 
 journals and many 1f tte large daily Iapers. It is too good an opportunity tC be overlOoked-an oren air inaug- Ural ball on a February night, with dancing on paved street. in this pie tGresque and popu.arly painted desert land. Talk about climate, Where is there another state which can safely undertake such an enterprise at this time of the year: C. J. McElToy who has charge of the committee on deco IatiOns and which is now busy un- furling its glad rags, should be credited with suggesting this flea and the com mittee on arrangements in:hped at it like a hobo reaching for a ham ani egg sandwich. And Harry Welch. sec | retary of the board Of trade may be 1 depended upon to let the world know about it 5y picture anu printed story. l throughout the coming months.
 Though the dignitaries will be sta i toned in The hotel where the choral | society will divide time with an or chestra in the furnishing Of music. anu | where there may be some speechmak- ing. and where all who wish may meet | the new governor and state officers. the street affair will be just as much | a part of the reception which will be entirely informal Those in the street will be welcomed in the hotel if they can get in and those in the hotel will have to come out of it sometime and ioin the street thrOng. Every guest will have to furnish his own initiative but there will be no referendum ex- [, pt the police and they will work at It as little as possible in keeping with good order.
 Another band will discourse music during the early evening in the stand erected yesterday in front of the court house while a third hand will alternate from the portico of the Ford hotel which is Tor the time being the Arizona white house or governors palace The hotel will be illum mated during the evening and wear a festival appear 1nce. The new governor may be strong Jn Jeffersonian simplicity but the peo- pie of Arizona are going to celebrate statehood regardless or bust their gall Iuses- Governor Hunt may trim down fis wardrobe to overalls and a miners shirt if he likes but he can no more N strain the enthusiasm planned for the fourteenth day of February 1912 tran he cen tie the tail of Halley's comet in a double bow or wreck the dynamo that runs the machinery of the universe.
 The afternoon preceding this great celebration will be marked by the big narade whicn will be reviewed in front Df the court house, and by the firing ji a salute of AS guns on the city hall plaza at o'clock sharp, under the di- ection of Marshal Moore.
 Copies of the general invitation to De mailed to friends. may be secured f the board of trade room Monday af- ,, ornoon by all who want them.
 The parade which will be under the 1, rand marshalship of Frank DeSouza = will be in for divisions and will start Y o'clock. The first division will be , lnder the command of Capt. F. P. [ and Capt. Geo. B. Wilcox: { he second division under w. G. Griffin nd Fire Chief Sullivan: the third di- lsion under J. F. Cleaveland and Jeff ,. Adams; and the fourth division un- CT Prof. Claude D Jones and Marshal I foOre. The parade will form on Jef- erson street in the rear of the city all and those turning out should be