Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1903-09-19
AN OLD
GRIEVANCE.
{. A. Fiske's Letter Discussing
Advertising Of This City by
Santa Fe Railway.
BY REQUEST
The Santa Fe Board Of Trade Desires
to Call Public Attention
to 1t.

In accordance with the following re-
quest ofsthe Santa Fe board of trade,
the subjoined letter of E. A. Fiske is
published:
H. B. Cartwright, Chairman.
Dear Sr-I hand you herewith
copy of the report filed by Hon. E. A.
Fiske, as chairman of the Commit
tee on New Industries" and adopted
by the board of trade at it's regular
session last evening. The following
committee was instructed to request
the Daily New Mexican to publish the
same: H. B. Cartwright, Fred. Muller,
A. R. Gibson.
ours truly,
"W. N. TOWNSEND.
Secretary"
Office of the Committee on New Indus
tries, Santa re Board of Trade.
| Santa Fe, N. NJ. Sept. II, 1908.
| To the Santa Fe Beard of trade:
AS chairman OF the Coln nmittee on
New Industries, respectfully beg
leave to make the following report:
| The completion of the Santa Fe
Central railway into our city line
more closely identified with our local
interests than any other of our rail-
road facilities, and the evident inten-
tion of it's friendly management to aid
us in all proper business ways, and it's
combination, for business purposes.
with another friendly road. the Den
yer & Rio Grande, has SO stimulated
confidence in Santa Fe, that in the
twenty-seven years | have resided
here, there has never been an hour
when the future of this city has SEEM
ed SO well assured as now. The recent
increase in residence building here,
which in the past year has equalled
not exceeded, like building in the past
ten years, and the activity in other
permanent improvements, such as
"Tent City "Sunmount,' and which,
with free use of printers ink, will do
so much to advertise our city as the
health resort of New Mexico and the
projected enterprise of the Capital
Light and Power company, by which
those promoting it have confidence OF
cheap electric light and cheap power
for business purposes, is almost GER
tainty, all admonish us that our beau
| tiful city has reached the hour in it's
history when all it's inhabitants should
arouse themselves and stand shoulder
to shoulder, not only to give material
aid where we can, and in the absence
of that friendly encouragement, but
to rebuke injustice to and misrepre-
sentation of our home interests, in
whatever form it may take, and from
whatever source it may come.
If we are to pursue this course, the
interview with one Of our citizens in
the Daily New Mexican of the 18th
ultimo, in which it is sought to COM
bat the generally expressed opinion
here that this city has been neglected
by the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fee
railroad, in its published literature.
should be answered promptly. If we
had nothing but neglect on the part
of that road to complain of, we might
excuse it as we are on one OF It's
branches, and might charitably con-
clude it had business interests in
building up localities on it's main line
which do not exist as to Santa Fe. But
there has been more than neglect;
there has been inexcusable misrepre-
sentation.
In the interview referred to, it is
said that the placing of the name
Santa Fe" on the pamphlets and cars
of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe
road is an important and useful ad-
vertisement for our city, but it is self
evident that whether such exploiting
of our name would benefit or injure
us, would depend wholly on much
more than thai. While we do not need
such an advertisement to aid strang-
ers in learning that there is such a
place as Santa Fe, for that favor was
done us by the makers of numerous
reliable Biographies, and histories
many years before the Atchison, Tope-
ka & Santa Fe was thought of; still.
there is no doubt but what such ex-
ploitation of the word Santa Fe" has
excited and will excite the curiosity of
the travelling public to inquire what
sort of place Santa Fe is; and, natu-
rally, assuming that it was somewhere
on the line of the important railway
system from which that system takes
its name, the curious traveller would
quite as naturally seek the literature
of that road for such information.
Here, then, is the crucial moment for
us. If the traveller finds in that liter
ature words of cOmmendatiOn for the
city, the frequent printing and paint
ing of our name has been benefit to
us; but, if he finds there, as he will.
that the city is only moderately
fair specimen of decayed and van
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