Arizona republican., 1913-10-25
THE FL PASO BOOSTERS
 WIN 4 HOME IN TEMPE
"Rosebuds of Arizona" Show Business
 Men of Texas Town What Q Real Good Time Is.

A ride through the business part of town, speaking by Tempe and Fl Paso boosters, an inspection of the normal buildings and campus, music by the band and dancing-au these entertaining things were squeezed into the short space of sixty minutes times yesterday when the Boosters special from Fl Paso and the peo- pie of Tempe exchanged the annual
 greetings, learned of each others
 town and in general became better acquainted individually and collec-
 lively. The gathering was short and
 sweet Every moment was occupied
 and when 1 o'clock came not by any
 means did the Fl Pasoans care to
 listen to words of their leaders
 time to go." We camp" came the
 chorus, but time was a precious arti-
 cle with the homeward bound tou- rists, and reluctantly they boarded
 the autos. Why reluctant? The previous 15 minutes had been spent
 in an inspection of the campus of the Normal school, each individual properly chaperoned by one or more of the so-called Arizona rose buds" The business men of the Pass City arrived in Tempe exactly true to schedule. Five minutes after twelve saw the first automobile bearing the visitors entering the Normal grounds and four minutes later band music
 filled the air. The scene of the gath ering itself was most unusual and ex- tremely pretty.
 On the front steps of the Normal proper stood the red capped visitors
 and the Tempe delegation of enter tainment providers. To the east stood ( FTH1
 the west was the 800 students of the grammar school. Next to them was the 100 high school students. On the east front of the visitors were the training school pupils and direct ly in front were 400 odd citizens of
 Tempe.
 Band music and speaking pro
 vided the formal part of the pro- gram. With Mayor J. T. Birchett of Tempe as chairman; A. J. Matthews, president of the Tempe normal, ex-
 tended the visitors a most hearty welcome. The keys to Tempe and
 to the buildings on the Normal cam
 pus are lost. the town and all that's
 in it is yours as long as you are
 here" These were the last few
 words from MT. Matthews.
 Professor G. P. Putnam of the Fl
 Paso delegation responded but, If I had a tongue as long as the Salt river, mouth as big as the Roese- welt dam and a voice mighty as the roars of the Grand canyon, I could not express my qualification and inward emotion for the love of. the Salt river valley and the good time shown us,'' was the best the professor could do in acceptance.
 Mayor Kelly of Fl Paso delivered a short, spicy and most interesting talk. And out of the background was called one c. c. Mcdonald, spokesman in 1 chief of the delegation, to say a few | words
 Fifteen minutes before departure
 the formal gathering broke up and the guests were shown about the nor 1 nal campus Somehow or other. nos body knows who suggested it., the | band found its way into the gyrnna- | sium. One single dance ensued. ! But that one dance was enough to l make up for a dozen of another kind ! the floor was good and that music | was almost enough to teach the un- | knowing how to dance.
 | The Fl Pasoans left Tempe just
 as they arrived as far as time sche- | dule was concerned. Otherwise ev- erything was doubled from one to a
 thousand times. Many told of how | they had looked forward to their re- | turn visit to Tempe when the pro-
 ceedings of a year ago might be duplicated The fact that apealed to
 one and all so much was that the en- 1 tertainment was different from | that class generally rendered.
 As a result the business boosters
 of Fl Paso will long retain a distinct
 remembrance for the little city of churches and schools" located in the
 heart of the farming district of the | Salt river valley.