Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1914-08-06
HIGH PRAISE IS
GIVEN RAILROAD
FAIR EXHIBIT
Enterprise of Santa Fe System
in Showing Made at San
Diego Exposition Attracts
Widespread Attention.

Widespread Attention.
srse,sL eossssrososses TO MORNING JOURNAL
Santa Fe. Aug. 5.-The Santa FEES
exhibit at the San Diego exposition
looms up so magniflcently, that the
Sunday San Diego Union gives five
columns to 1t, including group CIT
of five PICTURES that are mighty good
advertising for Santa Fe Jesse Nus
baum of the School of American
Archaeology, is in charge Of the con-
struetion, which is replica of the
Painted Desert and Zuni Pueblo and
will be one of the wonders that will
draw millions of tourists to San Di-
ego next year and from there to New
Mexico TO see the original Of the
things that will be featured in the
New Mexico as well as the Santa Fe
buildings and exhibits.
One OF the remarkable features Of
the Santa Fee structure is that II is
being actually constructed by Pueblo
Indians from San Ildefonso, eighteen
miles nOrtn OF SANTA re.
Doors without nails or hinges,
ladders without joints or screws.
rough edges, unfinished surfaces,
crude lines, everything for outward
appearance just as the modern work.
man would not do it, and just as the
Indian did. Am | right. Julian? Be
ginning to look like "a home?" says
the article.
Jesse Nusbaum. who is superin-
tending work on the remarkable In
dian exhibit which the Santa Fe Is
building for the Panama-California
exposition, was explaining some of its
details. Pausing. he turned to Julian
Martinez, one of his Indian helpers
for approval. The picturesque Julian,
who speaks English to his friends,
smiled an eager. sensitive smile, and
murmured:
"'You bet
Replica of Zuni.
"They were standing on the fourth
or fifth floor (the elevations elude
COUNT of the Zuni pueblo. nearly
exact reproduction of the famous
pueblo OF that name in New Mexico
overlooking another great pueblo TO
the right and the wide plaza be-
tween them, around which stand,
either finished or in course of con-
struction, the kivas. trading post and
other buildings of this inspiring group,
for inspiring they are, even in their
present state. in the pure sunlight
and deep, rich shadows Of a San Di-
ego afternoon.
1T is almost as If the spirit OF
Montezuma had visited the place and
left a blessing there. It is beginning
to feel like a pueblo If attributing
this atmosphere to the spirit of Mon
tezuma is unconvincing, there can be
no shadow of doubt about its human
author Nusbaum. When the Santa
Fe people were ready to begin the
actual work of construction, he was
chosen from among the assistants TO
DR. Edgar l.. Hewett, director OF the
School of American Archaeology at
Santa Re and of the exhibits of the
exposition to take charge.
when he arrived here. Nusbaum
was given "A plaster model and Few
specifications and told to build pl-
eblo, not an exposition pueblo, nor
a miniature pueblo. nor yet part
of a pueblo. but just such pueblo
as Indians build themselves, only
little better and more typical, a pu-
eblo that 100 Indians, more or less
can move into when II is flnished'
with their squaws and papooses and
beasts and settle down for a year or
so and feel at home.
Unique Work Progressing.
"This was something that had
never been attempted before. None
of the expositions of the past nave
even approached either in magnitude
or perfection Of detail. what the
Santa Fe is doing in San Diego to
advertise New Mexico. San Francisco
will have nothing like 1t. The nearest
approach to it, and that was not at
all near, that the world has ever
seen was The Cliff Dwellers at the
Worlds Fair in Chicago.
Besides the two pueblos, modelled
one afted Zuni, the other after Iaos'
which when completed Will together
have about 150 rooms, there VIII pc
extensive cliff dwellings, Navajo no
gans and hopi houses, each group IN
its proper setting and occupied by
members of the tribe to which 1t be-
longs. There will be two kivas, or
council chambers. one Of the subtef-
ranean type after that at Taos, the
other partially above ground IKE lhat
at san Ildefonso. The last named is
already finished, and true to the type
in every detail, with massive weather
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