Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1894-07-25
ALBUQUERQUE NEWS.
The Uniyersity-Closing of the Shops
-FlOnrn0y-Newhall Engage
ment-A Word for
Santa Fe.
Correspondence New Mexican,

Correspondence New Mexican.
Albuquerque, July 23.-The University
of New Mexico Board of Regents met re-
Gently and requested the resignation of
George S. Ramsey, the president. The
causes leading to this action have not
been made public nor who is to succeed
him.
Prof. Ramsey is a popular man, and,
as one of the regents recently described
him, "a hustler" He is not so much
student or scholar as a practical business
man and the writer believes that to his
energy and business methods, far more
than to the educational excellence of the
university, that institution owes what
ever of success it has had. 1t is handi-
capped in some ways, its inaccessibility
being one strong factor against it; but
its aims have been praiseworthy and it's
corps of instructors, in the main, compe-
tent and conscient ious.
Prof. Gaines, who is so well known in
Santa Fe, is a scholar and a teacher con
amore. He is an admirable example of
the Thoroughbred collegian and his pres
enco in the faculty has been for the best
interests of the new venture.
OF the purposes of the board for the
coming year ! know nothing, but I be-
lleve that each member is disinterestedlv
friend to the school and the territory at
large and whatever will be done will be
done for the best as they may see it.
The frat lamentable result of the strike,
80 far as Albuquerque is concerned, was
the closing of the A. P. shops; the SEQ
ond, in which all the southwest is inter
ested, is the taking off of one passenger
train on the Santa Fe and one on the A.
Il p. The "shop men" are, as rule,
thrifty set and many of them have their
own homes and few dollars laid by for
the rainy day, and many of them are
blessed with careful, Industrious wives,
who are deft and ready to add their mite
to the general fund aud SO keep the wolf
from the door. But any number of the men,
the majority in fact, have their entire
savings, up to the present year, locked up
in the two closed banks, and the "bit for
the rainy day" can not be large. The A.
& p. has always dealt fairly and consid-
erately with its employees, heretofore, and
there is every reason to believe that with
the first day of the fall activity, the fires
will be relighted in furnace and forge and
the sonorous call of the whistle waken the
sleeping echoes of Tijeras pass morning,
noon and night. The railroads with their
offices and shops are the arterial blood of
Albuquerque.
The retention of a garrison and head
quarters in Santa Fe is matter of vital
Importance not only to the citizens of the
capital but to all New Mexico. The dis
mantling of Fort Marcy would be a terri
torlal calamity and the protest, prayers
and influence of every man and woman
should be eYerted to prevent what is, as
yet, only a vague, half-formed possibility.
There is no hope that the troops, or head
quarters, would be placed anywhere else
in the territory and Santa Fe would be
robbed of what the blood of the con-
quistadores bought for her hundreds of
years ago. She is the garrison town, as
she is the cathedral town of the southwest,
and fort should be built that would
amply garrison regiment, or more, and
the folly of concentrating large bodies of
troops in a few favored large cities be
once and for all time abandoned.
The engagement of Miss Gwendolyn
Flournoy and Mr.. Charles X. Newhal ia
announced. This is one of the half score
coming weddings l wrote of recently.
Miss Flournoy is the sister of M. W.
Flournoy, vice president of the First Ma
tional bank of this city, aud graceful,
beautiful girl of fine character, strong,
good sense and lovable disposition. She
is universally popular and great will be
the regret to lose her from the ranks of
maidens. MIR. Newhall was formerly
ook-keeper in the Albuquerque National
bank and is now the efficient aid of Re-
ceiver Schofield in closing up its affairs.
A man of culture and stamina, Mr.. New
hall is one of the "coming" solid citizens
of the future great city of Albuquerque.
The marriage will take place in the
autumn.