Albuquerque morning journal., 1913-09-05
"The Fighting Six
tBy Edward VI. Woollcl, In satur-
laA Evening PosO.


TN THE final OF six-artclc series
| entitled "rhc Fighting Six" Ed.
= ward N. Wooley In this weeks is .
sue Of the saturday Evening Post
weayes into his story something about
q New Mexico lawyer who came To AL
buquerquc from Cleveland, made good
and is now representing a big corpora
tion In New York. just who the law
Ser is, the story does not divulgc, but
there may be some who read the story
who can name him The story is very
ntcrcstiug ais showing the opportuni-
ties Of New Mexico and Albuquerque
The story is told by Pullman CON
ductor who travelled the transcont-
mental trains from Chicago 10 Los An
geles over the SANTA Fc, An excerpt
EolloWs.
There are some people who find
their opportunities anywhere-eycn in
The mesas. mountains and forests OF
Arizona but for years | gazed through
car window at the snowclad peaks
or the san francisco mountains and
saw nothing back OF them Gin
Hooper did,
There was another man down I'm
that southwestern country whose eA-
ample ought To have taught me les
son--George Bolliycr formerly Of
Cleveland ! first met him when
was running between Chicago and
california lie was a passenger on my
wcstbound continental train. and re-
member that : thought him rather
green young chap, despite the fact that
he was a law graduate,
I'm going 10 New MeXico, ne
eonfded TO me as we rolled through
Illinois the urst evening, to build up
practice I think / can get ahead
faster down there than can In the
east-dont YOU"
did not like to discourage him,
but for the life of me / failed 20 see
why a young fellow with a law sheep
Sin should abandon cleveland and
settle in New MexicO--a land of pre-
historic dwellings fossilizcd trees and
cattle
probably you'u find the law busi-
ness "a trifle duh down there al first, '
limited diplomaucally
"Oh, Z guess not" he returned
chcerfully, II mean TO let folks hear
uom me. once get down there"
lie lett the train at Albuquerque,
and as , badc him farewell said to
him
Since YOU are pouno To- try your
luck in New Mexico, stay here in this
town. They've got university mere,
and street ears ana railroad shops ana
clubs ] imagine there's quite "a bit of
law business here, along with some
culture ana things of that sort
! did not see HIM again until after
/ was transferred TO another run.
Then [ picked him up accidentally on
his h0neymoon-with his hride-in
Utah. He was making a circle tour
or the west ana incidentally looking
after mining lawsuit at Salt Lake.
"Oh. yes" me said as We shook
yes. still live i'm New
Mexico I1c stirred up too much
business down there 10 quit
lie had not taken nay advice, how
ever. about staying in Albuquerque at
am. he had located in some con-
founded little camp north of Las We
gas where there did not seem TO be
amy show for lawyer But ne was a
mixer and an orator, and pretty soon
the eoplc of half dozen counties
did hear about him His name was in
the Albuquerque Journal nearly every
ana before long he began
picking up clients way down in silver
city. up at Taos. and even in places
like puerto de Luna. He might have
had political prefermeHt down there,
but he chose to go to New York as
counsel for big railroad system. lie
lives there now and is rich.
As for myself, could not see any
ihng worth fostering in ancient pueb-
los. adobe houses and meaningless in
srfiptions carved in rocks by the near
relatives of Noah. Those were the
things that represented Ncw Mexico,
i'm my opinion liked to he where
things were doing ana It was agreed
ole to hustle out Of that country In
q Pullman ear