Arizona republican., 1919-05-02
TROPHY TRAIN COMING TODAY
 fOR b|G SHOW

SnOWn m PhOenlX To-
 night-Big Meeting to
 Hear Appeals for Loan.
 The arrival of Sydney s. Clark, ad- vance man of the Victory loan trophy train, in town yesterday morning. wearing pair of the Pullman porter trousers, his own having been ripped bodily apart while he was plotting the trains war tank through Death Valley augurs well for the pep and spirit oi the show which will turn Phoenix out tonight. Even the borrowed trousers couldn't deter MT. Clark from complet ing arrangements for the best show ever staged in Phoenix.
 This train, consisting of six specially decorated cars, filled to overfloWins with captured German trophies, offer: Phoenix chance to see at first hand some of the realities of this war 4 complete captured German airpiane, { whippet tank, and a thoroughly com prehensive set of actual battlefield trophies are shown.
 The arrival of the train will bt heralded by the blowing of whistles anC ringing of bells generally all over tho city. The tank will be unloaded iron the train, and escorted by the Phoenil fire department and the naval banC from the train, will parade uptown tC the Central school grounds, where tn, tank will show just what it has done and still can do at 7:15 o'clock sharp
 Meeting Follows Parade
 The parade will then center at thu grand stand, where the naval band, on, of the famous playing aggregation from Mare island, will render severa concert selections, after which Del S Lawrence and several of the E1ks com pany will entertain the crowd for short time. Mir. Lawrence was a four minute man during the fourth loan il San Francisco, and is a great speaker Miss Ida May Golze will sing.
 Another German helmet will be auc toned off, after which the meeting vii adjourn to the depot, where the trail can be seen by everyone.
 Biggest Show of Years
 This train is about the biggest thinJ which Phoenix has had the opportunit, to see. Upwards of 300,00O people hay viewed it in it's journey so far, in som l cases people coming in to the tow where it stopped from aS far as 2 miles out in the country to see it. 25-piece naval band and a corp O ! speakers consisting of decorated soldie heroes and war workers explain tn train at it's stops.
 The train schedule is in charge c l NJ. A. Peck of the United States rail 1 road administration, which means tha 1 it is always on time Chief L. D. Shit of the California railroad police handle the crowds, and the policing of tn meetings has been worked down to l fine science.
 A group of singing sailors, oversea men take part in the entertainment, le by Arthur Leydecker. a New Tor singer, and Charlie Price, an enter tainer known all over the coast On of the big attractions in Adjutant Ge Carson of the Salvation army, latel returned from canteen work in Franc who is a convincing speaker.
 1 Sergeant Cravens, of the Unite States marines. who lost leg in bat tie, demonstrates that his professio of ball player can still be carried 0 with the aid of modern artificial linn
 Loan Official Aboard
 Harry Welch, who went to Presco
 to join the train will be with it on i
 arrival. Among the personnel of u | train are such people as the Hon. j. { : Davis, collector of the port of Sa ; Francisco; Allen l.. Chickering. chail
 man of the speakers bureau; John . Britton chairman general publicit committee; Lowell E. Hardy, secretal
 of the speakers bureau; W. P. Patte son, general train manager; Senat' ? C. x. Rutherford of Arizona: W. Benton. director of exhibits; Hon. E. erett J. Brown, superior judge, AlameC 1 county: Albert A. Agnew, four-m man of California; wounded soldie i from the Letterman General hospit< San Francisco: wounded Canadian h.
 roes, members United States tank cor |. and Lieut.. Remi S. Knight, wounde U. s. A.
 Listen for the siren signals to al
 nounce the arrival of the train. Fl; to attend the parade and the tank den
 onstration at the Central scho l grounds at 7:15 Everybody in Phoen i should view the train. It is the oppo
 tunity of life time. Though old and battle scared, | little seven-ton Whippet tank whl' arrives tonight with the trophy tra : for the big exhibition is still quite al
 to do all it was intended to do Tn t l line of destruction. This will be der t onstrated by the most novel stunt ev witnessed by Phoenicians.
 At the corner of Fourth street al e Adams stands big, solid dobie bull r ing, with walls foot and a half tnit ;. This building will be raized to t ground by the little tank tonight e about 7.30 o'clock. The little tank " e butt its way into the house through | !. door, which it will have to enlarge . do, and then bodily push the walls n the building out from the inside. T n roof of the building will fall upon {
 tank, and from the smother of lump
 dobie blocks and debric, the tank W
 creep forth. ready for more work. 1 rrn. Ir.iIdincr ic tho ,nrnnnrfN of E,Z