Bisbee daily review., 1914-05-23
VISITORS IN
 BISBEE SEE
 GREAT TOWN
Los Angeles Crowd Happily Re-
 Ceived; Was a Pleasure Both
 Ways; Leave With Words of Highest Praise For This City,
Music, Speeches and a General Good Time, Not Excepting a
 Badger Fight, Among Features
 of Short But Profitable Visit.

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 of Short But Profitable Visit.
 Four thousand Bisbee people gath cred in front of the Copper Queen Hotel last night to extend greetings to 135 Los Angeles business men who anne in at 5:1O from Douglas on spe- cial train of II pullmans. which two engines found an they could do to get up the grade
 The welcome given the visitors was exceedingly cordial It was made worth while by the unmistakable pleasure with which it was received and the appreciation that it won The Los Angeles people were wholly tickled, and unanimous in the declara- ti-1 tLat Bisbee was the ,Cry hest they had found on the entire trip that jt Was indeed a hy' city and ore that it made live people feel good to be in.
 Next to Bisbee, they said came Douglas, vince they were royalty vel comed yesterday morning and de- tained several hours past their sched uled leaving time by the citizens of the town who thronged about them at the Gadsden Hotel Also they found that a visit to the smelters could not be carried through in the short time that they had previously figured, the extent Of the great industries being beyond their expectations.
 In consequences of the delay in Douglas the special train arrived in Bisbee four hours behind schedule time Hundreds Of people were about the depot at the earlier hour prepared to give rousiug reception. They came back later, and more too, when the train did get in. and they went with the visitors to the front of the Phelps-Dodge store where more hun dreds quickly assembled. Here there were carnations passed around and oranges distributed, while the band ac- companying the visitors played and everybody mixed about hunting up acquaintances and extending welcome Later there came adjournment 10 the Copper Queen Hotel, which was the center of activities, and a very lively one, during the balance of the stay concluding at 12 o'clock when the spe- cial went out for Tucson
 Prominent in the Los Angeles dele gation was A. L. Manahan. formerly of this city, but the last several years with the publicity department of the Huntington street railroad systems in Southern California Nanny" was greeted right and left and had the evening of his young life among his hundreds Of old-ume friends Henry c. Wanock, now of the Los Angeles Times editorial staff and representing that newspaper on the trip. was an other former Bishee man. who met many friends here and particularly enjoyed his visit Warnock was with the Review in 1907 and previously with Douglas, Phoenix and Yuma papers.
 President Cole of the Los Angeles | Chamber of Commerce. Secretary Frank Wiggins of that organization, Joe Scott of Los Angeles and others made short speeches from the Copper | Queen Hotel veranda during the course of last evening and were en- thusiasdoally cheered by the thou sands of Bisbee people gathered in the street and plaza below The splen- 1 did band carried by the visitors re- eeiyed encore after encore to the nu- merous selections 1t rendered. In the balconies of the hotel on the upper floors large number of fair ladies were gathered and added their ap-
 plause to that of the many men and
 women below.
 At the conclusion of the band con cert and speeches, and of the numer bers rendered in between by the High land boys in costume. a badger fight
 was pulled in the hotel lobby which
 was cleared by the crowd for the oc- casion over the protestauons of the police. Tho ladies missed this part of the evenings entertainment being
 thoroughly sideTacked w. W. Both
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