The Estancia news. [volume] (Estancia, Torrance County, N.M.) 1904-1912, 1909-04-09
MIKE PL,HNS FOR
TERRITORIAL FAIR
This Years Fair to be Biggest
and Best Ever Held in
the Sunshine Ter
ritory

Enthusiasm, ginger, manifes.
tations of "the Albuquerque
spirit, " and a general desire tC
boost Albuquerque in particular
and New Mexico in general
were the features of the big
mass meeting held in the Armory
last night at which twas decided
by acclamation that a fair will
be held here this fall, and that
it will be the biggest and best
and most successful exhibition of
its kind ever held in the territory.
All the old war horses were out
and all Of them were there ready
to put their shoulders to the
wheel-to get into the harness
and boost for q whooping big
fair. The veteran officers and
members of executive committees
of former fairs were there, and
all Of them expressed a willing
ness to get into the game, and
give their experience, time and
money to the cause.
The mass meeting was called
to order by w. S. Hopewell, fol
lowing a brief meeting of the
executive committee of the Six
teenth National Irrigation con
gress. The committee, which
consisted of Mr.. Hopewell, D. A,
Macpherson, M. L. Stern, George
Arnot, Frank Mckee and W. A.
Bayer, secretary, held a brief
conference and adjourned sine
die. In calling the mass meeting
to order, Col. Hopewell made a
short statement relative to the
affairs of the Irrigation cor 9ress,
gave a synopsis of what had oc-
cured at the meeting, of the
executive committee, mentioned
! the amount of money on hand
and gave a partial list of proper
ty owned by the board, and other
information interesting to those
who turned out to boost for the
fair. Mr.. HopeWell then briefly
stated the object Of the meeting,
saying tbat it was up to those
present to say whether or not
they wanted g fair this fall,
where they wanted it and when,
and if they wanted a fair, to Sc
Iect the men to head the exhibi-
sion. The sentiment in favor OF
holding a fair was unanimous,
and o motion was quickly carried
by aeclamation, being to the eff
feet that a fair was a real neces-
sity, and that Albuquerque want
I'D the show this year more than
ever. The decision to hold the
fair in Albuquerque resulted in q
number Of short talks from those
present, the gist Of what was
said being that it would be fine
eXemplifcation of the AlbuQuer-
que spirit, " to hold fair thif
year; that it would show that
the citizens and business men OF
Albuquerque are wide awake and
| anterprising, and do not propose
to keep still because of the al
legged dullness throughout the
country at the present time
Among those who made three.
minute talks along this line were
NJ. L. Stern, D. S. Rosenwald
David Weinmann, P. f. McCanns
ID. A. Macpherson, John H. Bor
rsdaile, DR.. w. G. Hope and {
number of others. After it was
evident that in favor of holding
a fair, Chairman Hopewell sug
gested taking up the matter o1
electing officers and an executive
committee. The names of severa
men were suggested to fill th'
various places, but no definite
action was taken last night, i
being the sense of the meeting
that the chair appoint a commit
tee to select the names of pros
pective officers and present thex