Albuquerque morning journal., 1907-09-18
PO|NTSOUTNEEOfOR
CONVENTION HALL
Correspondent Approves Of the
Movement to Provide Albu-I
querque With a Suitable
Building for Public Purposes,
Fdltor Mornlng Journal

Editor Morning Journal:
/ have read with pleasure your ar
ticle in todays issue, Convention Hal
Greatest Need OF This City" and
heartily endorse the movement to give
Albuquerque an up-to-date auditorium
with perfect acoustic properties
Toward the militia company as ar
organization | have the kindliest feel
ings, but at present our growing city
needs so many things and our people
are called upon to contribute on Sc
many occasions that | do not for q
moment believe that those who gener-
ally malse@ upthe donations required
by local enterprises VIII take Kindly
to the proposition to donate two h ~
sand five hundred dollars to purchase
a site for an armory to be used by n
company of about thirty-five militia
men. The failure of our people to "nn-
sent tc such a contribution for such a
purpose Is not founded on any o1po-
sition to the local militia. but upon d
conviction that the use of an armory
for a small company of militia Ito
stack arms and drill in is not of suf-
ficient Importance to justify the out
lay necessary to purchase the site, But
If our people are assured that we VIII
have an auditorium not a ramshaekle
shed. nor a thirty by sixty ROOM but
a convention hall of stately dimen-
sions, which can be used for pdb if
assemblies and gatherings, then the
money needful to pay for the site will
be willingly contributed hv Albuqtrr-
que's enterprising citizens.
In these days of cheap and rapid
Transportation conventions are numer-
ically much larger than a few years
ago. While 1t is true that increased Mt
tendance is of greater benefit to the
city having the convention, yet be-
cause of the larger membership 1t has
rec antly become quite common thing
for the leaders of any assembly, before
accepting an invitation to meet in a
CITY. to ask, "Have you an audito-
RUM Have you a hall which viii
accommodate ouT conventiong An-
swer these questions in the negative
and your invitation is no longer con
sidefed.
There Is another advantage An
auditorium would give Albuquerque
an advertisement such as we could not
receive by expendlng three times the
amount OF money IN any other WAY.
Think of the advertisement when the
Tabernace has been and still Is q salt
Lake City
There is no reason why the armory
should not be so constructed as to
be an ideal convention hall and audi
torium. Albuquerque needs such q
hall. needs 1t now and needs Il every
month in the year. We had the larg-
est hall in the city for the Hagerman
meeting. and yet five hundred people
had to be turned away because they
could not find standing room In It,
Next year we are to have the ha-
tional irrigation congress. and are Also
TO have the convention Of the Nation
nj Association Of Geologists. Both
bodies are numerically large and
both are composed Of men Of national
regulations. Albuquerque has no
hall which will accommodate elmer
convention. and yet when these con-
ventions meet. many Of our nome
neople. as we'll as the numerous visit
ars. would ike to hear the addresses.
Let us bear In mind that we need
n convention hall and that now Is the
tlme to get IT. that the armory can
he built for and used as q convention
hall without detracting from It's use
ana value as an armory .,.
Albuquerque Sept. 1f.