Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1909-10-14
ALBUQUERQUEREADY
FOR ITS GUEST
Reception Commit
tee Left for
Gallup
STOP At LAGUNl PUEBLO
Indians Will Be Given Op.
portunity to Greet Great
White Father.

Albuquerque, n. NJ, Oct. 14.-On
his way to Albuquerque on Friday
morning, President Taft will have his
train stopped for ten minutes at La
guna. Valencia county, where he will
greet some five hundred Pueblo In
dians who are to gather there TO see
the great White Father The Laguna
pueblo is one of the most populous
and most picturesque of all the New
Mexico Indian villages and it's entire
population win be out as will that of
Acoma pueblo, a short distance away.
The word has gone through all of the
pueblOs near Albuquerque and Indians
from every pueblo within a hundred
miles are going to Laguna to see the
President. Governor Curry, heading
the New Mexico reception committee,
will leave Albuquerque a special car
today at noon for Gallup where the
committee will welcome the Presi-
dent as he enters New Mexico. The
President has heightened his stay in
Albuquerque by three hours and will
Immediately on arrival and will then
be taken for an automobile ride
through the town and surrounding
valley Special trains are coming
from all parts of New Mexico and
the greatest crowd on record is ex-
pected here to greet him.
Upon his return to the hotel he will
retire to the suite which has been pre-
pared for him and rest until o'clock
when he will receive the guests to the
banquet in his honor given by the
Commercial Club.
| The banquet will begin at 7:30
o'clock when at its close the President
will 60 to his car His train will move
as first section of the Ell Paso train
and will probably leave Albuquerque a
short time before II o'clock
Committee Off For Gallup.
The New Mexico reception commit
tee, consisting of Governor Curry,
| Solomon Luna. w. H. Andrews, Mayor
! Felix H. Lester, President Spitz of the
! Commercial Club, Judge Ira A. Abbott,
| Col. w. S. HoDewell, H. O. Bursum
and President Tight of the Fair Asso-
! citation. left Albuquerque this after
noon at l O'Clock in Colonel Hope
wells private car for Gallup where
the President will be welcomed to the
Territory. The party will spend the
night at Gallup and will join the Pres
! ident's train there early on Friday
morning
| The outgoing train consisted of one
| car in addition to the private car, and
| carried the secret service men and 9TH
| ers detailed to accompany the train
through New Mexico
The companies of the New Mexico
national guard, on from Santa Fe and
one from Las Vegas arrived in Albu-
querque to participate in the Presi
dents reception. The First Regiment
band will also go to Albuquerque to-
night.
Busy Day at the AIvarado.
After two weeks of careful prepa-
ration the Alvarado hotel is all in read
mess for the big events of Friday,
which is likely to prove the most i'm
portant as well as the busiest day the
hotel has ever had. 1t will require
all the prefect mechanism of the
Harvey system to care for this series
of events without confusion, yet the
arrangements show that everything
will move like clock work Not only
has the hotel to care for it's crowded
house and the hundreds of people who
will expect to be accommodated at
meals, but it will have to entertain the
President of the United States at
banquet and less than five minutes af-
ter the banquet comes to a close
will have to be all in readiness for the
Montezuma ball, the chief social event
of the year in New Mexico and which
this year promises to attract the larg-
est gathering of society people on
record.
The west veranda of the hotel has
been enclosed and transformed into
banquet hall without an equal in the
whole southwest. 1t has all been done
in the past week and while only tenn
r porary, has all the pleasing effect of
permanent construction. Immediately
) after the banquet to the President, the
, hall will be transformed into a re-
freshment room for the patrons of the
Montezuma ball
The Indian Village.
J There is something quite unique this
: year in the arrangements for the Mon
teZuma ball Under the skillful direc-