Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1907-08-09
INAUGURATION AS A WHOLE
PROVES BRILLIANT SUCCESS

Especial Dispatch to the Morning JOurnnl.l
Santa Fe. N. NJ, Aug. S.--At ex-
actly twenty minutes after two o'clock
this afternoon George Curry took the
oath of office as governor of New Mex
leo
The brief inaugural ceremony and
the addresses which followed it took
place In the presene of the largest au-
dience ever assembled I'm the New
Mexico capitol building. The cham
Der of the house of representatives
where the ceremony occurred, was
packed and jammed with mass of
humanity until not another living soul
could be squeezed into the room Then
to avert confusion the doors were
closed and the crowd overfiowed down
the marble stairs of the building and
out over the surrounding lawn. Santa
Fe had expected a large crowd, but its
pectations We're so far surpassed that
the ancient city had trouble in accom-
modating the visitors who are esti-
mated at several thousand.
The inaugural ceremony COM
manded the closest attention of the
people who had managed TO get into
the chamber, and the speeches which
followed were heard with deep inter-
est and closest attention. There were
but two speeches, the address of well
come by Judge A. b. Fell and the re-
sponse by Governor Curry.
Judge william ]. Mills, accompan-
led by Associate Justices Ira A. Abb
bott, Frank W. Parker and John r.
McFie, administered the oath of office
Hundred DIN I'm Procession.
People began pouring into Santa Fe
by hundreds last night and more nuns
dreds came In on the morning trains.
AT 1890 O'Clock this afternoon, when
the parade formed on the plaza, the
whole area was crowded The parade
which extended almost from the Claire
hotel to the capitol, was made up as
follows:
The Santa Fe police. New Mexico
mounted police, headed by Lieutenant
John Collier; j. II. McHughes, mar
shal of Santa Fe, and Ben Williams
representing the Santa Fe secret SER
vice.
The American Lumber company
band
Ten rough riders in uniform, as fol-
lows: Captain Fred Muller Lieuten-
ant William Griffin, A. j. Griffin, John
H. Bell ]. r. Sandoval, Thomas VIII
llams, Timothy Breen, Fred Plom-
teaux, Richard Gulterman, William
Schnepple.
The first carriage carried Govern u
Curry, Judge A. b. Fall. Former Coy
ernor Otero, and Secretary j. w. Ray
nOlds.
six cowboys. headed by that well
known veteran. Colonel wa II. Jack
of Silver City, came next. Then Chiel
Justice Mills, of the supreme courl
and Associate Justices Abbott, Parker
and McFie.
Then followed another carriage con-
tanning Delegate w. II. Andrews. $. b
Grlmshaw, Solomon Luna, and h. %
Bursum. and thereafter the Caplta
city band, the New Mexico militia
and many carriages containing proml,
nent citizens. Perez band followed ahd
then a long line OF citizens on foot
II was an imposing parade, which re-
formed after the inaugural exercises
to escort Governor Curry back to his
hotel.
This evening at 8 o'clock hun
dreds of people began passing through
the Palace hotel lobby to greet GOV
ernor Curry. The line of handshakina
people continued unbrOken until
o'clock when the ball, one of the mos
brilliant ever given here, began.
The town had been brilliantly dec
GRATED while the hotel this evenint
was a brilliant mass Of lights ans
color. The Electric Light company
had suspended a big electrical sigT
across Washington avenue bearing th'
name. Curry" In large lights. ant
the hotel was brilliantly lighted ant
decorated.
The Inauguration has been a com
plete success from the standpoint o
The arrangements committee, who de
serve and last night received heart!
concentrations on their work, an'
from the standpoint of the hundred
OF visitors Il has been an equally en-
joyable event
AT 2:i3 O'clock, Secretary J. W
Reynolds addressed Chief justice
Mills upon the rostrum OF the hOus
of representatives, as follows:
Your honor. Il affords me Tn
greatest pleasure 10 present To y0l
the Hon. George Curry, Of New Mex
leo. who bears with aim the commits
sion OF the president Of the Unlte'
states as governor Of this territory
and who n now waiting 70 take IN
oath OF office"
The oath was then administered an
Judge Mills IN a few brief words N
troduced Judge A. B. Fall VINO spok
rs follows; u
was democrat ! had all tie demo
cratic prOclivitles. Since ! nave nc
been quite az strong q democrat
sometlmes drink water.
ladies and Gentlemen; fellow eit
zens OF New Mexico, | want % shy
Won thai while may not speak VII
4 gilvery tongue, the words which
shall utter IT least come from IN