Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1907-08-09
GARFIELD COMES
ON SPECIAL TRAIN
Delivers Address
This Evening at
Capitol
|NSPECTS FEDERAL OFFICES
Secretary of Interior is Max
ing Tour of Southwest to
Lenrn Conditions.

Governor Curry, Hon. Solomon
Luna, member of the Republican Ma
tional Committee from New Mexico,
l. 5. Attorney W. H. II. Llewellyn,
and Captain David J. Leahy, left early
this morning on the special train of
General Manager James Il. Hurley of
the Santa Fe Railway System, for
Lamy, where they met the Hon
James r. Garfield, Secretary of the
Interior, and President f. P. Ripley,
OF the road. The special train carry.
ing these officials and the remainder
OF the party reached Santa Fe at
1880 this afternoon. In the party of
the Secretary of the Interior are: F.
H. Newell, director of the u. S. Re.
clamation Service; r. S. Person, au-
ditor of the Department of the Int.
rior; II A. Brown, private secretary
to Mr.. Garfield. The railroad officials
accompanying the party are: E. P
Ripley, president of the Santa Fe
Railway System; G. T. Nicholson,
third vice president Of the road; A.
Fl. Payson, assistant to President
Ripley.
Met at Station BY Delegation.
When the special train which car.
ried the Hon. James r. Garfield, sec
retary of the interior, and party,
reached the Santa Fe depot the secre.
| tary and those accompanying him were
met by Federal and Territorial Off
| cials, and a number of citizens. The
Perez band was at the depot and fur
nished music for the occasion The
program for the afternoon was as fol
| lows:
| From 2 to 3:15 o'clock the Secretar.
was at the Federal building
from $3.50 to 4:30 o'cloc!; thu
Secretary was at the executive office
in the Capitol building engaged with
citizens who had private appoint
ments; from three to four o'clock the
United States Indian Training
School was visited; between 4:45 anc
5 O'Clock the Secretary was again al
the Capitol, and at o'clock public
reception was to be held in the nal
OF the House of Representatives ant
an address made by the Secretary tc
those assembled.
Lunched in Mr.. Ripey's Private Car
Secretary Garfield and party lunch
ed from to o'clock in Mr.. Ripley's
private car, after which they entered
carriage and We're driven at once
to the Federal Building. Colonel Jose
D. Sena clerk of the Supreme Court
of New Mexico, piloted the party
around town. Mr.. Garfield visited the
various offices in the Federal build
ing and was closeted for some time
with Special Assistant Attorney Gen
eral Ormsby McHarg who is in charge
Of the Investigations now in progress
here with reference to alleged illegal
land transactions.
Mr.. Garfield is making tour of the
Southwest mainly for the purpose of
examining the various irrigation pro-
jects under the supervision of the U
IS. Reclamation Service He and his
party have just completed a tour of
Arizona, having inspected large ir-
rigation project a short distance from
Phoenix. From here they will leave
at O'Clock this evening for Ell Paso
Texas, stopping en- route to make an
inspection of the Elephant Butte pro-
ject, in the southern part of New
Mexico.
Secretary Easily Approached.
The Secretary Of the Department of
the Interior is a very ordinary look
ing man. A person not knowing him
would take him to be one of the army
of business men. He is in the prime
of life, smooth faced and athletic. Mr..
Garfield is very easily approached and
is a fluent talker. Mr.. Newell. who
is at the head of the Reclamation Ser
vice, is much older man that Mr..
Garfield, and is perhaps sixty years
Of age. His hair is streaked with
gray.
Messrs. Ripley, Nicholson and Pay
son, of the Atchison, Topeka and
Santa Fe Railway, met the Garfield
party at Grand Canon, Mr.. Garfield
had mapped his itinerary so as to
reach this city tomorrow, but ne was
able to gain one day on his original
schedule, which accounts for his ar
rival here today. Governor Curry
was advised last evening of the change
in the program.
To Tell of Work Of Reclamation
Service.
In Mr.. Garfields address this even
ing he will discuss the work of the