Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1909-05-10
STATEHOOD SURE
NEXT SESSION
Former Mayor Says
It's a Foregone
Conclusion
Stops Off at Santa Fe With
His Family to See the
Interesting Sights.

Last saturday nlght dlStlnSulSneu
visitor arrived in Santa Fe, being no
other than the Honorable Carter H.
Harrison ex-mayor of the city of
Chicago. Accompanied by Mrs. Har-
rison and daughter Edith o. Harri-
son, he took quarters at the Palace
hotel. Mr.. Harrison served for eight
years as mayor of Chicago achieving
wonderful record, being the most
popular mayor that city has ever
had, and has visited Santa Fe sew
eral times in recent years.
Three years ago he refused to be
candidate and retired from politics.
Approached by representative of
The New Mexican, Mr.. Harrison
showed himself to be most affable
and agreeable and readily consented
to an interview. Inviting the reporter
into the writing room of the hotel he
seated himself comfortably and told
his interviewer to fire away.
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In reply to the question as to
what brought him to Santa Fe, Mr..
Harrison said
"My wife and daughter have been
spending the winter at Pasadena,
California, and being ready to return
inome, went to join them and we
are now on our way to Chicago. stap,
ping off at various interesting points
on our way home. My son, Carter H.
/ Harrison Jr., who has been i'll at
Pasadena, is vastly improved and
practically we'll. He will remain in
California for a short time loneei.
My wife, daughter and I stopped off
in Arizona, visiting the Grand Canon
and the Petrified Forests. Having
liking for Santa Fe and its UNIQUE
surroundings we stopped off here.
We leave on Monday for Taos and
points in that neighborhood and will
also visit the cliff dwellings. There
is considerable interesting and at
tractive country around here that +
desire to have my wife see. | am
great believer in Americans seeing
their own country. 1t is too bad that
so many people labor under the opin-
ion that they must see Europe in or
der to say that they have seen some
thing. Most people who take the Cal
ifornia Limited seem to imagine that
they will break up the whole COM
fort of the trip if they should stop
off at any of the points such as San
ia Fe and the Grand Canon en- route.
1 Miss the Best Sights.
! 1T seems strange that these peo-
pie coming west to California year
after year have never seen the inter-
esting attractions that so freely
abound in this section of the coun.
try. I'll wager that not one in
Thousand going to California have
ever seen the Yosemite and its won
derful attractions, let alone the Grand
Canon, Cliff Dwellings and other great
features. One incident which i'm
pressed itself on my mind when still
very young, ! will never forget. /
was in Germany near Dresden, in the
part called Saxon Switzerland. There
was a cliff, perhaps hundred or
hundred and twenty-five feet high.
Near by flowed a small stream. a
man living in the neighborhood used
to dam the stream and when he had
damned up sufficient water he would
charge an admission fee, usually ten
! cents, and when the crowd gathered
would release the water, creating a
water fall over the cliffs for the bene-
tit OF the curious sightseers. There
were many Americans in the crowd
and the righteousness of the situation
impressed itself upon me even
though | was very young. No, one
does not have to 60 to Europe to see
tsights. Right here at home there is
plenty to see."
Not in Politics Any More.
When asked about the stories that
he was to be the Democratic candi-
date for mayor at the next municipal
election, Mr.. Harrison laughed and
replied:
Indeed not. In the first place the
next election is too far away to spec
ulate on a mayoralty candidate. By
the time the election rolls around
may be in Kingdom Come In the
second place when retired from poli-
tics | retired and / intend to STAY
retired. The stories appearing in the
papers from time to time regarding
my running for this Office or that an
pear to be habitual but are not based
upon fact"
The New Mexican representative
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