Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1912-10-10

| through this state. Mr.. Potter indi-
Gated the danger of the highway go.
ing over another route, leaving New
| Mexico out, and suggested that the
| New Mexico Good Roads association
| get busy. at once and make strong
pull for the highway.
| Prior to the conclusion of the meet
ing, Mark B. Thompson, of Las Cru
: ces, was appointed as chairman of a
special committee appointed for the
purpose of arranging the details for
| the campaign to be undertaken at
est in the proposed 100000 bond is
sue. Mr.. Thompson and the commit
tee met at the Alvarado hotel at 7:30
O'Clock tonight and resolutions were
adopted embodying the best and most
practicable suggestions made at the
association meeting earlier in the
day Many of the suggestions made
by Mr., Lester of Las Cruces were in
corporated in the resolutions, a copy
of which will soon be distributed to
every newspaper in the state
Altogether the meeting of the
Good Roads association in Albuquer-
que was a splendid one and will
doubtless be productive of good re-
su's in the very near future
albuquerque, Oct. 1O.-"Welcome to
our fair citN'' is Albuquerque greet
Ing TO the hundreds of visitors who
are arriving upon each train to attend
the first state fair. The crowds be-
gan pouring in Sunday and Monday
ard Tuesday more eXcursionsts fol-
lowed until the hotel accommodations
were almost exhausted at this early
dase. The Bureau of Information is
advertising for more rooms to take
care of the incoming rush of guests.
The fair is a sure success. There
is spirit of boost and be jolly in the
air that keeps everyone interested and
alert to each days program. There
is far more pep thrown even in the
opening days of this fair than in the
closing carnival night of the fair last
year. Good exhibits, snappy base ball
games, thrilling flights by the bird
man, the constant carnival music and
+un, and the holiday crowds on the
streets, all are attractions which
claim the attention of everyone from
he small boy to the old man.
Governor and Mrs. Mcdonald are
attending and lending an official pres
1ge to the events. The social world
S much stirred up with the official
visit and doing everything in its DO
Ner to show the governor and his
wife the hospitable Albuquerque
spirit
And that albuquerque spirit is
catching. There's a glad hand extend.
ID to every stranger that makes
lin like the town and the fair. At
light the illuminations attract even
'assengers on the limited The Alya.
ado arches are outlined with electric
lights while red, white and blue lights
re strung from the center of the
lacita and make very effective illu.
That everything has been
one to make this a live fair is evil
ent, and the efforts have met with
uccess. The fair of 1912 has all the
ther fairs beaten in the first two
ays.
The formal opening took place Mon.
ay when Mayor Sellers opened the
ates to the visitors. Most of the
were in place and ready for
-spectlon in the exposition buildings.
ne manufacturers building was
lostly devoted to exhibits of local in
ustries. The agricultural display is
le pest ever shown. Competition is
cen in these exhibits and it will be
ara TO award prizes when they are
II so worthy of merit. The Valencia
no Bernalillo county exhibits are
ell arranged and show to advantage
le best crops raised in this territory.
ry FARMING products from Ft Sumner
re displayed in profusion in the
exhibit. San Juan exceeds
ny other two counties in apple dis
lay, and will, no doubt. be marked
Ign for variety and size. Santa Fe
ounty has the most striking exhibit
all, showing photographs and clay
lodels of the places of historic in
arest in the vicinity.
Silver City won the start in the
ase ball tournament Monday, win
Ing from Albuquerque with a score
to 2. 1t was hard fought game
nd evenly matched all through.
The event of most Importance was
'eing the bird man, Lincoln Beachey.
in the Curtis biplane. Beachey is
Gown as the most sensational flyer
America and treated Albuquerque
some of his most daring exploits.
onday afternoon he made two flights
le lasting 21 minutes and the other
. He started his first flight on
hedule time, at three-thirty o'clock.
Id after rising hundreds of feet in.
Q air above the spectators began
s hair-raising gyrations. His ma