Arizona republican., 1914-12-19
CLAUS
 AND FRIENDS
Annual Reception of the Kmdergarteners in the Basement of GOldwater's Store Yesterday Despite a Rainy Morning

The annual reception of santa Claus to the to the children of Miss Ellis Kindergarten was held at the usual place yesterday morning at ten o'clock, the basement of the store of M Gold
 water & Bro It had been prepared more magnificiently than ever before
 for this glorious pageant. The weather could not dim the luster of it. Rain which was falling at ten o'clock, the
 hour set for the reception had no ter Iors for the kindergartners They be- gan arriving promptly on the hour. The
 first to come were Tom Thumbs best man at the late wedding and the bride on that occasion.
 They were met as all the later guests were, at the top of the stairway, leaJ
 ing to the basement, by Santa Claus
 himself. He was assisted in receiving
 by Messrs. O'Clonnor and Weinberg
 who had prepared the basement for the
 reception and who had spent weeks ir
 it's decoration. The others came in small Contingents until half past ten o'clock twenty -One guests were seated in small red chairs which had been placed be-
 fore tables laden with instruments for the orchestra and back of which was
 the table where Santa Claus was going
 to show the animated toys he had been making all summer Little Boy Blue
 was there and the Dutch Doll, the Ad-
 miral, the Little Chinee and all of the
 rest of them Miss Ellis took charge of the ceremonies on the part of the guests and organized the orchestra
 from among them. There was drum
 some Xylophones, plenty of horns and tiny piano. The repertoire was not long one But the music was not want
 ing in harmony; every bar of all the
 tunes was precisely the same. After the first number. Miss Ping Bell showed one of the latest dances. Mrs. Castle could not have danced that par ticular dance any better even if she had
 been paid twice the high prices the Castles charge for dancing. After that there were songs and recitations and then Santa Claus made his display which was greeted with cheers and other marks of approval But the thing that really created an uproar was the operation of the scenic railroad whose trains run by electricity, pretend ing to go through Williams, through the bottom of the Grand Canyon, through to the Comeback to Phoenix and thence winds around, across the yawning chasms spanned by steel trus bridges, to Los Angeles whence they find their way back to Williams. As the trains passed the audience there were cheers of delight
 The Grand Canyon. by the way, was l,the creation of MT Weinberg. He nev-
 CT saw the original Grand Canyon but people who have seen his canyon and the other one say they look like twins. | What was in the basement was indi- cated to the little ones by large pie ture specially painted in New York for | the ornamentation of the reception of
 Santa Claus yesterday. It represents
 Santa Claus climbing in through a win dow at one side of fire place from the 1 front of which two stockings are sus- pended. Two little girls are hiding be- | hind the other end of the mantel to
 see what Santa Claus is going to do about it.
 It was most delightful affair, that
 reception. The guests wede: Elizabeth Munger Ping Bell, Leone Keithline, Mortimer COlodny. Watson Deity, Jim
 mic Jones, Junior Hildreth, Bobby | Goldwater, Barry Goldwater, Caroline l Goldwater Austin Morrill,, Katherine | Christy, Murie Miller, John Frazier,
 Elaine Colodny. Mary Stanley Wood
 son. Alfred Bell, Marion Whitney, Levi | Young. Rex Hornberger. Albert Round
 tree and MBetsey Bradley.