Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1906-09-17
Great Crowd Gathers
oA Station to Welcome
GoDernor Hagerman
Enthusiastic Reception to New MeXico's
Chief Executive Who Will Open
TWenty-Sixth Fair Today

Three thousand people packed the
platform at the Santa Fe station last
night and overflowed onto the Alvar-
ado verandas and grounds to welcome
Governor II. j. Hagerman, who ar
rived at 1880 o'clock from Santa Fe,
and who will deliver the address at
1880 o'clock this afternoon, which
will formally open the twenty-siXth
annual New Mexico fair.
A band played loudly as the train
pulled in; people crowded close to
the tracks so that the station office$
had to force them back out of danger.
The fair officers and the members of
the executive committee had difficult
ty in making their way to the Pull
man to meet the governor.
Hon. Solomon Luna, president of
the fair association welcomed the
governor in behalf of the fair associa-
ton and the people of Albuquerque.
and after greeting the members of the
committee, he was escorted to the
hotel lobby, where another big crowd
was waiting. Many of these were
personal friends of the governor and
Il half an hour was passed i'm greeting
them, so that it was after O'Clock
when the dinner given by Mr.. Luna
was served At the table with the
governor and the fair president We're
Attorney General w. c. Reid and
Capt Arthur Trelford superintend-
ent of the penitentiary, who accom-
panied the governor from Santa Fe,
John N. Coffin and A. b. McGaffey,
of the fair board and Harry w.
Kelly, of Las Vegas.
An informal reception in the hotel
lobby followed the dinner
The Opening Exercises.
At 1880 this afternoon Governor
Hagerman, with the officers of the
fair association and members of the
executive committee, will announce
the opening of the fair. The governor
will deliver a brief address from the
veranda of the Alvarado and the par
ty will proceed at once to the fair
grounds. The governors escort TO
the grounds will be body of horse
men gathered from the country dis
tricts, many of whom arrived in Al
buquerque last night.
Delegate w. II. Andrews, who is
chairman of the committee for the
arrangement of the escort said last
night that he expected no less than
five hundred men in line, and that he
would not be surprised at a greater
number.
The governor, Delegate Andrews
and President Luna, of the fair asso-
citation, will head the procession
which will form on North First street
and proceed to the grounds under
the direction of Col. John Borradailc.
Members of the executive committee
and a number of well known New
Mexico men who are in Albuquerque
for the fair, will follow in carriages
and the mounted escort will bring up
the rear.
At the fair grounds the line will
disband and the afternoon program
of sports will proceed.
Big Crowd in Last Night.
On the train which brought the
governor to Albuquerque last night
were more than hundred people
from northern New Mexico towns. A
train crowded with passengers for Al
buquerque had just arrived from the
west and the nearby hotels filled up
and overflowed within ten minutes
after the train arrived, for people
had been coming In all day.
Forty or fifty men wearing tho
| convention badge of the knights of
! Pythias arrived last evening and the
members of this lodge formed Il
| pretty fair crowd by themselves rs
they gathered in the street in front OF
Sturges' hotel where the lodge has
opened headquarters for the week.
Sheep Growers Convention Delegates
But the interesting phase of the
crowd that poured in last night was IN
the number of delegates to the sheer
and wool growers convention, who
| arrived. From the west came dele
gates from Valencia. Mckinley and
Socorro counties. and from the east
they came from everywhere, from the
plains of Guadalupe county. from
Tucumcari and Roswell. Union county
and San Juan. from almost every co.,
ner of the territory. There are nc