Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1892-10-08
THE DUKE CITY.
Notes BY the Way by One Taking
Notes Albuquerque, Some of It's
Institutions and Newspapers
How an Outsider Views
the Situation.

The chief institution at present is the
Commercial club of which the city of
Albuquerque may well and Justly be
proud. The club building is fine, sub
stantial and stately; the furniture and in
terror arrangements are elegant, comfort
able and solid. 1t is certainly most
creditable institution ana doing the city
much good. The very existence of such
club in connection with the grand club
building and elegant furnishings are
plain evidence to strangers and visitors
of the VIM energy and go aheadtiveness
of the citizens of the Duke city.
The San Felipe hotel, under the man
agement of Hon. G. W. Meylert, as valu-
able a citizen as there is in Albuquerque.
keeps up its well earned reputation as
first-class hostelrie. Mr.. Meylert is n
genial and painstaking host and makes
his guests feel at home and sorry when
they have to leave. Certainly, no better
reputation could be enjoyed by hotel
man or hotel.
Inc Albuquerque Citizen is about as a
good paying piece of newspaper prop
erty as there is in the southwest and is
growing continually in circulation end
influence. Its proprietor, although
weighing but 1l8 pounds, is a thorough
newspaper man, and what Tom Hughes
does not know about the newspaper
business is not worth knowing. Mr..
Hughes is indeed monarch of all he
surveys" and thoroughly independent.
We're to give away how prosperous the
Citizen really is it would make other
papers in New Mexico feel as if their
hearts were breaking, hence l will keep it
dark. Mr.. Hughes is frst-class news
paper man, and in case of necessity could
get the Citizen out daily with the assist
ance of his own family, there being fl We in
the family who are either printers or un-
derstand other branches of the business
fully. He is assisted in the editorial
work by W. S. Burke, one of the best
editorial writers in the southwest, and in
the news department by w. 7. McCreight,
who is energetic, hard working, fully
competent and seems to have ten eyes
and fourteen ears when it comes to news
gathering. "Thomas" is an adroit poll
tician, having learned politics and the
newspaper business in Kansas, and when
ever any one gets ahead of him in that
line-but there is no use talking, for no
man has done so as yet and the chances
that any one will are too slim to be talked
about. The Citizen has the material at
hand for enlargement to seven-column
paper; owns a valuable lot and building;
has very good job outfit, and belongs
entirely and alone to "the Hughes fac
tion."
The Albuquerque Times is the new
Democratic morning daily and is a strong, !
decent and popular paper already, al
though started but a few weeks since. It
bids fair to be great success, as of right |
it should be. There is a woman in it, |
and she is bright, finely educated and |
courageous woman of no mean literary
ability and capable of doing much hard |
work. She is good woman in the truest |
sense of the word, and hence can not |
see how the new venture could by any
means fail. Mr.. William Wallace Hite is
the editor and general manager of the
paper and the woman in the case" is his
wife, Mrs. Olive Ennis Hite. Mr.. Hite is
a brainy, bright, intellectual and ex-
perienced Journalist and he and his
wife are certainly deserving of the great
est possible success. The business man
ager is Mr.. Carleton Ennis, live young
man in the proper place. If people must
have Democratic paper, and l presume
even in the latter part of the 10th century.
the century par excellence of progress.
advancement and ciyilization-some
people must have such one, strange as