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Lovely Luncheon Party
 For Visitors

Mrs. w. F. B. Davis entertained in honor of Mrs. William J. Mayo, wife of the distinguished surgeon of Rochester, 'Mnn., and their daughter, Mrs. D. c. Balfour, Thursday at the Country club. Dr. and Mrs. Mayo and Mrs. Balfour are in the city on visit to friends, having stopped over while making cruise in southern waters in their yacht.
 Spring flowers gracefully adorned the table about which were seated 12 guests.
 Mrs. Mayo and Mrs. Balfour were also entertained Thursday at tea by Mrs. Pasehal Shook on Shades Noun tain and at dinner at the home of Mrs. Lewis Morris, in Glen Iris park.
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RECITAL TO BE GIVEN MARCH 10.

The following interesting program will be given at the Birmingham Conservatory of Music, Saturoay, March 10: silhouette CReinhold) Agnes Matthew's; Romance tHarba- bier) Mildred Mins: Hunting Song" (Tapper) Sara Totten: "Barcarolle" tEnna) Louis Bell: "Ballade" eBurg
 muller) Virginia Brabstol, Dance By the Sea" Gypes) Thelma McClen
 don; The Indian tMayor) Edith Ruth Reed; "Butterfly (Grieg) Car melite Jackson; The Rocking Chair" tBlake) Mildred Ferguson:. Country Dance" 6Tapper) Virginia O'Barr Mistress Mary" tSwift) Lucy Reed Ray; The English Doll" tSpaulding) Arlyne Niles: The Sleigh Ride" (Seebeeck) Elaine Con well; Waltz, a Minor" tGrieg) Louise Reese; Without Repose" t,.endelsohn) Aleta Jones; Cheer fitness" (Tapper) Mary Kerr; One Armed Man" (Maxim) Mary Waters.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-03-09
MRS. HANBY ENTERTAINS AMITY CLUB

Mrs. Leslie Hanby entertained the
 Amity club recently at her home in
 North Birmingham. A game of 500
 was enjoyed and Mrs. A. T. Shelton won the prize for the highest score. A delicious salad course was served, the St. Patrick idea being carried out, which made it very attractive.
 ; The guests were: Mrs. Fred Will
 son. Mrs. c. l.. Teal, Mrs. A. Delpey. Mrs. w. H. Borland, Mrs. c. R. Dud- sley, Mrs. II. Shirley. Mrs. II. McCook, Mrs. Pete Blake, Mrs. Arthur Will \ son, Mrs. C. T. Gould, Mrs. A. T.. HShelton and Mrs. w. E. Horan. Those Sassisting Mrs. Hanby were her moth ger, Mrs. J. E. Green, and Mrs. Brown.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-03-09
NEW JUNIOR CLUB ORGANIZED.

An unusual feature among the Junior clubs of the city iS the E. G. G. club, recently organized by six little girls between the ages of ten and twelve years, who live in Nor wood. This club meets every We'd nesday at the home of one of the members. The officers of this club are Gertrude Hurbich, presi -ent; Mary Bevins, secretary and treasurer.
 The membership includes: Mary Bevins. Gertrude Hurbich, Alice Bur- ton. Dorothy Freeman Katherine Freeman, and Annie Bernard.
 Their next meeting will he held at the home of Miss Alice Burton, 1912 Fifteenth avenIe, south.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-03-09
MISS BYRUM HOSTESS TO INTER FRATRES CLUB

sa Miss Adelaide Byrum entertained ~the members of the Inter Fratres
 4club at an informal tea recently.
 s Members of several other clubs of sTthe city were included cin this hos
 -pitality.
 s,.Miss Byrum was assisted in re- ceiving by Misses Marion Miller, ! Merle Pitts and Doris Nader. One , hundred guests called between the hours of and G.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-03-09
SHIRTWAIST BOX INSTEAD OF
 LAUNDRY BASKET

good way to dispose of soiled clothes without using cumbersome laundry basket or bag, which are apt to be in the way in crowded quar- ters, is to use straw covered shirt waist box on castors. This will stand under the kitchen table or tubs, and can be easily pulled out and utilized instead of chair or two, besides.
 A I T.
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MRS. KELLEY HONOREE AT LUNCHE

Mrs. Edgar llman Kelley, a very interesting lecturer on musical sub 5ects, was honoree, at 'uncheon several days ago given by Miss Emma
 Mccarthy, president of the Alabama
 Music clubs. and Mrs. W. l. Grubb, treasurer of the same organization,
 who were Joint hostesses, at the home of Mrs Grubb, in Highland
 Park. Those who enjoyed this affair
 were: Miss Hattie Morton, Miss En-
 ma Read Mitc.-ell Miss Bettie Gill
 more, Miss Cornelia Ehrcn, Miss Mary
 Baugh Mrs. oscar R. Hundley, Mrs.
 R. c. Woodson. Mrs. Philip Oster M-1. Joseph Carr, Mrs. Virginia
 Reese Simms, -1rs. w. J. Adams, and Mrs. Earl Drennen.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-03-09
MISS TAYLOR WILL. TALK TO YOUNG PEOPLE SUNDAY.

MISS Angie Manning Taylor is con ducting a series of Bible lectures at the First Presbyterian church every morning at II o'clock. On Tunday afternoon at the Church of Advent she will talk to the young people. An organ recital will precede the talk.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-03-09
MRS. ROGUE ENTERTAINS
 INFORMALLY FOR VISITORS.

Mrs. Charles F. Hogue entertained informally at tea Wednesday after noon at her home in Caldwell Ter race, complimenting her mother, Mrs. Sam Cooke, and her sister, Mrs. c. P Robinson of Sheffield. Miss Mary Alice Gatling gave several piano numbers and Mrs. William Little Brown delighted the guests with . reading.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-03-09
MRS. STOTLAR'S
 CIRCLE MEETS

Mrs. R. R. Stotlar's circle of the Southside Baptist church ,et at the home of Mrs. Frank Dixon, on Clair mont avenue this week, where a spend -the-party was enjoyed. Mrs. James G. Smith led the devotional, and the time as spent sewing for the Red Cross. At the noon hour a luncheon was served.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-03-09
MIR. FOSTER LECTURES ON PASSION PLAY.

MT. R. c. Foster. who attended tho Passion Pin in Oberammergau, Be- varia, last summer will talk of this presentation in the Woodlawn city hall Thursday evening at SIS o'clock. He is appearing under the auspices of the Woman's club in the fourth of it's lyceum course lectures.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-03-09
IN HONOR OF MES. THOMA.
 MARSHALL

Mrs. J. A. Rountree will entertain at buffet luncheon at her home on eff Road, Friday at 1 o'clock, in honor of Mrs. Thomas R. Marshall. Mrs. Marshall is the wife of former Vice President Marshall and was one of tn, most popular matrons of the official set during her sojurn in Washington.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-03-09
MISS GREEN ENTE- TAINS MISS STEPHENSON,

. Miss Cecile Greene entertained at sbridge in honor of Miss ida Steph-
 enson from Asheville, N. C., who is
 spending several weeks in the city.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-03-09
NINETEENTH CENTURY CLUB MEETS.

The Nineteenth Century club held a lovely meeting yesterday at the home of Mrs. Victor Hanson on Sum init avenue.
 Mrs. Robert Patterson of Selma, who is Mrs. Hanson's guest, sang, and Miss Emma Reed Mitchell also gave lovely solo. Mrs. George Houston Davis gave talk on Mod ern Composers" M- s. E. T. Rice and Mrs. Davis played beautiful accom- paniaments for the soloists.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-03-09
MIR, AND MRS. BADIAM
 WILL, HONOR MRS. STILI.yIAN.

Mir and Mrs. Henry l.. Badham will entertain at an informal dinner party, Saturday, at their home on Whitaker street, in honor of Mrs. Charles A. Stillman.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-03-09
MONTEVALLO ALUMNI IUNCHEON.

The Montevallo Alumni and stu dents will meet at the Business and Professional Woman's club rooms, Saturday at l o'clock. for their regu- lar monthly luncheon every student and alumnus is urged to Le present and learn some new and interesting things about our Albemarta
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-03-09
DANCE AT ATHLETIC CLUB

Following the basketball contest tonight at the Athletic club there will be large dance. The council of clubs and other organizations are among those who have been invited to attend.
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MIR. AND MRS. BODEKER TO GIVE DANCE.

MT. and Mrs. George Bodeker will entertain at a dance tonight for their son, Dan Bodeker.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-03-09
"One Trick q Day"
HIDDEN OJTEENS

From an ordinary pack of cards take the four queens, and holding them fanwise, raise them up in view
The Coconino sun., 1923-12-28

made that wonderful thing accessible
to the world at large.
The hooters and their henchmen who
stole the railroad have taken away the
real, tTue-blue American names from
the different parts of the Canyon near
Bright Angel Trail, and have re-nam-
ed them with names that, in accord
with all things the past twenty years,
proves the ''nut factory" has been
working overtime.
l remember well the day in Chica-
go when / approached Mr.. Bissell,
traffic manager, for traffic con-
tract with the Santa Fe, and his ques-
ton to me: George, what kind of
hop are you smoking? You and Bucky
O'NeiI are using the same brand.
will give you traffic agreement, but
we won't haul five people in fifty
years to the Grand Canyon" If he
will brush his memory, he will recall
my answer was: 1Mr Bissell, this
railroad will not cost the Santa Fe one
cent, and if it is built upon business
basis-not as railroads are built, but
upon business basis, it will pay 10
per cent the first year of operation,
,.
asset any transcontinental line has,
and this, the future will prove if a
track is constructed from the main
line to it."
l secured the traffic agreement.
Bueky O'Neil and | got together-or
at least Bucky came to Williams, came
into the Williams News office at 500
| o'clock one Saturday evening, and per-
suaded me at 7:30 in the morning to
drop the people ! had. We joined
forces and tied up with the people he
had who were Lombard, Goode & Co.,
of New York City. / was to take
charge Of the western end, and he of
the eastern. end Of the work. How
we'll / did my work the files of the
Williams News will prove. The sacri-
fices I made are shown by the quail
ity of the paper published in the lit
tie town of Williams, which gave it a
reputation as town it never had be-
fore, and by no means has today.
| After getting just fairly started in
the promotion enterprise, Bueky, with
out word of warning, enlisted for
| the Spanish-American war. At that
time he discovered some things about
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newed energy and rise above the buff
fets Of angry fortune. Ten years is
little time in the history Of town
and when you measure ten years from
that momentous day in December,
1897, when the fate of Williams hung
in the balance and the railroad and
the smelter finally drifted your way,
the cards were dealt to bring good for
tune to your little community. Those
who remain in Williams in 1907 viii
see a glorious fulfillment of the
dreams of the pioneers in 1897. It
was bold dream and a forcible un-
dertaking for a little crowd of men
possessing so small an amount Of cap
ital with no financial backing but who
can say how and who can say through
how many narrow escapes and turn
ing of corners?
The worst is over and the best is to
come. There never was a battle of
any consequence unless some men
were killed and others manned and
CONTINUED on Page Ten)
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his people he did not know before. The.
day before he left for Cuba he visited
me, and these are his words: George,
these people have not the money
thought they possessed. There will
be break down in this proposition,
and when it comes, you be sure and
stay with it."
Ny answer was: "Buclxy, you are
all right. / had a little surplus, and
you have that. You will go to Cuba,
and like a fool, get killed, but | am
no gutter, and when this breakdown
comes, I viii be on the firing line. "
And was.
If the people of Williams possessed
vision and the energy that makes
towns and communities, they would
see that monument was erected to
the memory of the following men:
One is Sanford Rowe, another is MaX
Salnnan, another f. O. Poison, and
the other is John C. Brown
There is no such place as He'll, ex-
cept the He'll one makes for himself
but if there were, here are four names
that no one need ever look over the
records of He'll to find, because St
Peter would admit them into the
realm of bliss without any examina.
ton, for if there ever were four loyal
sacrificing men for their community
and their fellowmen, these four mer
were, and are.
/ have read lot of stuff writer
/ about the Grand Canyon railroad, ant
| the Bright Angel trail. Sanford Rowe
gave away a fortune to secure this
railroad, as an improvement to thl!
section. / have $1,000 of my own II
the trail alone, and as to the railroad
the cancelled checks I have are suf.
| ficient proof of how far forgot my
! own interest This money will always
be there F. O. Poison, Max Salz-
man and J. C. Brown, at that time
manager of the Saginaw Lumber Co.
suffered an equal loss.
| Lombard, Goode & Company hac
one real saving grace, and that was
! L. w. Goode. He was man, anc
all man. The sacrifices he made, an6
the persecution under which Fate
seemed to place him-nothing but Z
superman could have withstood the
ordeal, and yet keep going.
/ was given the privilege Of locat-
ing the railroad. The Santa Fe, LON
bard, Goode & Co., both wanted tht
railroad to go from Flagstaff. | went
down to Flagstaff with this contract
| in my pocket, offered to give Flag
staff the railroad for $4,000 | in
terviewed the powers that were II
Flagstaff at that time, and while theil
faces did not show the litter, the
movement of their shirt fronts dis
played risible movement inside.
| told them it was worth quarter
/ of a million to Flagstaff to build tha
railroad, but they were not men o.
vision, as the fact has since been prov
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bat other units will reap liberal re-
wards. The road is built and it is
there for all time to come and it is
Williams pride and Williams prosper
ity. 1t is very easy for outsiders to
imagine that a great financial crash
means the wiping out Of a great prof.
ect or Of great community. 1t does
not do it, old man. History goes
right along and pays no attention to
individual units except that fate may
pull down and fate may set up one
man or another man. Therefore he
who builds great building, great
city, great railroad may die and be
forgotten, his family may pass away
in abject poverty, but the creation of
his brain and energy remains to bless
and advance the community and en-
rich the aggregate units, regardless of
individuality. Williams is destined TO
be great town and it will grow and
flourish and prosper. Some of those
who are hardest hit may sink out Of
sight or they may gain a name by re-
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Phoenix, Ariz., Aug. A, 1928.
Col. Fred Breen,
Editor Coconino Sun,
Flagstaff, Arizona.
Dear Fred:
In the issue of Friday, July 27,
1923, of the good old Coconino Sun
there is little information espec-
tally interesting to me, and that is
contained under your heading "Grand
Canyon, Worlds Greatest Attraction"
To me, it makes me backtrack for a
time through few short aisles in the
corridor of time, and absolutely proves
the accuracy of Josh Billings philos-
ophy: "If one wants to know how
much the world misses him, stick his
finger III a tub of water, pull it out
and look at the hole"
This amount of travel, however,
makes me want to "remnish" and to
you, an old-timer, / believe it will be
somewhat interesting when / say to
you that though it cost me a lot of
money for a youngster, and the ex-
penditure of a lot of nerve force, yet
when read these figures / am happy
in knowing that my judgment has
been vindicated even though l did not
then know where to find the next
meal.
You know the world became insane
--or to show signs of insanity-in
1898. 1t was of a mild form and did
not become raging until 1914. In that
interim there were radicals, vision
aries, dreamers, but the insane and
the faddist had them so covered, and
sat so hard upon them, that none OF
them ever really received credit fol
the judgment they exercised in behalf
of others, and the general public al
large.
Statesmen have written, and inde-
Unable mentalfties have preached
from the housetops their part in con-
nection with the Grand Canyon rail
road, but the men really responsible
for it are none of them Hnehghts
players, and i believe for the informa.
ton of, and the refreshment of mem
ory of the old-timers left in Coconint
county, that the day may be late
enough at this time to tell the rea
truth regarding who built, and whit
was the cause for the construction o.
the Grand Canyon railroad, which ha'
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thought that we have won. Won too,
old boy, without any money, without
any credit, against the opposition of
the powerful influences in your sec
tion and the distfust, jealousy and
antagonism Of my section. Won out
too, old man, because we were two
bold, energetic, dashing men who new
er know such word as failing and who
were able to win because we won un-
selfishly and like. brave generals who
went ahead and led the fighting and
the troops and took our share of the
miserable fare and scant living; in
other words because we had the cour-
age and daring and brains and faith.
Don't forget that last word, for while
it did not say to you Distant noun
tain, be thou removed and cast into
the sea- it did say to that 20 miles
of desert lying between Williams and
the Canyon: "You shall be spanned
with iron rails and in time man
shall travel over you in three hours
time instead of two days time
In eight weeks time old man, this
will all be fulfilled. You may go your
way into poverty and oblivion and /
may become an unknown quantity,
struggling with hard fate, but the
Grand Canyon road - "Young's
Dream" and Goodies Folly" is there
for all time to come and while men
may come and men may go its trains
will run on forever. And in time a
million people will travel over it and
fall PROSTATE in awe before the gran
deur of Gods great handiwork and
! L. II. +1R,, -
will instinctively bless the men who
bridged that 70 miles of desert, even
though their names may have ceased
to be written over the portals of the
gateway. Perhaps, old man, when all
the bitterness and all the hard feelings
have forever been cast away and died
out, there may be some generous in
fluential heart who will see that your
name and my name is indeed linked
for all time to come into that great
project which must in time stand out
unique and by itself, distinct from any
other 70-nile plug line in the U. 5.
And now, old friend, as we sit thus
hand in hand and face to face, broth
ers in our success and brothers in our
misfortunes, let me say in simple,
unaffected way just as one friend
would speak to another and without
any theatrical or dramatic effect, 4
thank you sincerely, deeply and ap-
preciatively for all the friendship, all
the loyalty and all the hard work, the
burden bearing, anxiety and the
staunch closeness of relationship
which you have shown to me and to
this project during the last four years
have known you. You have been a
true and loyal friend. You are the
only man who has stood with your
back against my back and have not
confessed yourself beaten and have
not been silent under misrepresenta-
ton, anger and unjust accusation.
Therefore, old friend, / say again
simply and plainly, Il thank YOU ]
am glad the deal is closed, the debts
settled and the road is to be completed
as fast az man and money can do it.
No matter what Goode may have done
or Young may have suffered or Pol
son or Salzman or Coleman or any
and all of the local creditors, the town
of Williams, as a town, has won a
tremendous foothold in the past two
years. The town itself is saved and
its prosperity is assured. Some Of
the units Of the town may lose money
The Coconino sun., 1923-12-28
4NCIENT STORY OF THE BUILDING
of THE GRAND CANYON RAILROAD

Editors the history the
Grand Railway, the letter
u. letter w. him,
Boston, July TO- 1901 will be of interest odtme
readers of The Sum-
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Boston. Mass, July 20, 100.


Boston, Mass, July 20, 1901.
George u. Young,
Williams, Arizona.
Ny dear Young:
Your two teiegrams and your letter
of the 18th inst. all duly received and
enjoyed. / do not think ! ever paid
dollar any more cheerfully than
for the one word telegram which |
sent you the other night after you
wired me to rejoice and be glad.
The answer leaped to my lips straight
from the heart and was full of all the
meaning given to a word by the
prophets of old when words had a
deep significant meaning in express
/ ing heights and depths of emotion. At
ter receiving your first telegram l
spent d day Of great anxiety and
wonderment expecting every minute
to receive telegraphic advice from
John Page or Kenna or possibly your
dear self and when the suspense be-
came unbearable last night ! could
not resist firing an inquiry out to you
for some details. / got your tele-
gram about 8 o'clock in answer and
It sent me to bed with a light heart
and a better sense of gratitude to the
Infinite than | have had for many a
month. Now, old man, just sit down
in that chair opposite to me and let
US take each others right hand and
look each other squarely in the eye
and draw a good long deep breath
and glance back over the four years
during which you and have fought
shoulder to shoulder, trusting each
other as no two brothers could have
done and each filled with the one de-
sire which drew US together in the
first place and which has cemented
our friendship during the long, hard,
weary months Of battle and distress.
Let me say to you, old friend, well
done and nobly done. What is 1t OLD
Job or one of those old writers SAID
good many years ago: "He who
would have friends must show himself
friendly and there is friend who
sticketh closer than q brother We
have won out, old man, you and i,
and what does it matter and what
will it matter in the long years to
come that we stand here tonight
penniless, bankrupt, hopelessly III
debt, worn out by long burden bear
ing and hard fighting, exhausted men,
tally, physically and financially? !;
What matters it all, old friend, and
what will it matter in the years 70
come when put up against the single
The Washington times., 1923-11-10
ROUGH HE1W,N

him off on the same theme by
asking him skeptically, "Well, sup
pose you could have your own way.
: about things, what would you do
to help people find their own right
group and work and climate and
surroundings? I don't see how
there is the faintest possibility of
helping them"
"I'd start In" said Neale, ''bY
suggesting to them, all through
their youth, in every way possible,
the idea that folks could and
should move freely from the life
they're born to, TO another one
that suits their natures. They
have to do it while they're young
and footfree, don't they?- /.
wouldn't start In by hammering
them oyer the head with the idea
that there are only one or two
classes that anybody wants to be-
long to. I'd jump with all my
weight on that idotic notion that
one class is better than another,
as if any class was any good at all
for you, if it's not the one you
belong to naturally! ia grease
the ways to get from one to an
other, instead Of building fences,
especially if the change would
mean making less money. Just
think of all the natural-born car
penters and mechanics that fall
by chance into professors families,
or millionaires' homes. They never
get any chance in life. Just look
at the hullabaloo that was made
about poor old Tolstoi's wanting
the simplicity of a workingman's
life. Just look at the fiendishly
ingenious obstacles that are put
In the way OF any workingman's
son who wants the culture and
fineness and harmonious living
that got so on Tolstoi's nerves.
And look. even To1stoi was just us
bad as the rest. Because he hap
pened to want simplicity and IL
hardy. open life. didn't he start
on the warpath to drive everybody
else to 1t? Good Lord, why try to
hold ap one ideal as the only one
for millions OF men. who have a
million various capacities and
ideals and tastes? They'd enrich
the world like a garden, with their
lives. If public opinion only allowed
them to be lived"
do you know Rabelais," asked
Marise. land his motto. Fay 90
que vouldras?' Everybody In his