Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1908-04-20
FIVE HUNDRED
CAMEON EXCURSION
Santa Fe Thronged
Yesterday With
Visitors
ALL Of THEM HAD GOOD TIME
Every Town'in Estancia Val
ley Represented BY Large
Delegation.

Almost on schedule time the excur-
sion train from the Estancia valley
pulled into the Union depot yesterday
morning bringing 500 visitors to
the Capital City from the valley towns
along the line of the Santa Fe Cen.
tral railway. The Perez band and a
goodly number of Santa Fe citizens
were at the station to meet the visit.
ors and extended them the glad hand
of welcome.
AS soon as the train, consisting of
four passenger coaches and three ca.
booses, came to a standstill the enthl-
siastic boosters from the valley towns
commenced piling out of the cars and
the air was filled with yells for their
respective towns.
Excursonists Wore Badges.
The Estancia crowd, numbering 1875
strong, wore badges on which was
printed, "Estancia. the Queen City of
the Estancia Valley" They were very
enthusiastic in behalf OF their city and
continually yelled: whats the mat
ter with Estancia?" and ooh, it's all
right"
The visitors from Mcintosh wore
badges and made themselves very
prominent among the valley boosters.
There were about seventy with the
Mcintosh delegation. Stanley sent up
over ninety; Morarty, seventy-five; /;
Willard, sixty-five, and with Kennedy,
and other towns along the line there
were about five hundred passengers in
|all on the train.
Each one of the visitors was hand
ed free copy of Saturdays New Mex
lean at the station as they were get.
ting off the special train. The paper
contained the program for the day
church directory and brief mention OF
the sights of Santa Fe, which was
iprinted especially for the benefit OF
the visitors from the valley. The pa
pers were accepted by the excursion
lists with thanks and many remarks
of appreciation of the New Mexican's
enterprise and thoughtfulness to-
wards the visitors were heard during
the day.
Marched Up Town.
The large crowd marched, headed
by the band, to the Plaza, where they
scattered to all parts of the city The
various churches were filled to their
utmost capacity at the morning sery'
ice. In the hotel lobbies and every.
where else in the city the happy visit
iors were seen.
In the afternoon a majority of the
visitors enjoyed the ball game be-
tween the team from Stanley and the
Salmon Grays of this city. The latter
won the game by score of 10 to 6.
The excursion did not leave on its
return trip until 7:3O o'clock last night
in order to give the visitors an oppor
tunity to see the Passion Play at the
opera house. A good many of the visit
ors attended the play, while still a
larger number took in the sights OF
the Ancient City.
To Run Another Special.
Yesterdays excursion was under the
personal charge of City Ticket Agent
|! J. P. Lying, of the Santa Fe Central
railway. who went to Willard Satur
day and returned on the special train
: to look after the comforts of the visit
ors. Mr.. Lying was we'll pleased with
I, the result of the roads first excursion
/ this season and says that the road pro
poses to run these special Sunday ex
cursions frequently. He says the road
will run an excursion to the Estancia
valley in the near future, when re-
t,rp tra mo will No n1a vod