Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1914-09-14
EN- GLORY HAS
COME To PALACE
OF GOVERNORS
Venerable Building, Once Used
as Castle and Fort, Is Now
Distinguished as Seat of.
Learning,

Especial coRREsroNpencE TO MORNING JOURNAL
Santa Fe, Sept. l3.--Twelve years
before the Thirty Years war began in
Europe. and fourteen years before the
Pilgrims landed at Plymouth Rock,
Spaniards in New Mexico were already
erecting a huge and substantial build
ing at Santa Fe. which for three hun
dred years has been known as the Pal
ace of the Governors
And rightly so. for in it lived and
from IT ruled, the representatives Of
his Catholic majesty. the King Of
Spain, yea, of the Emperor of the
Holy Roman empire, to be succeeded
by the commander of the rebellious
Pueblo Indians who had driven out
the Spaniards. AT later period, the
Representatives of the republic as well
as of the Empire of Mexico. 10 be
succeeded still later by the military
and civil governors Of the American
regime. held sway here. so that alto
gether more than one hundred men
who moulded the destinies of the
southwest. southwest thai at one
time extended from the Gulf of Cali
fornia TO tho Gulf of Mexico. and from
Chihuahua to Wyoming. a domain
greater in area than Germany. France
and England together. sent forth their
edicts from this palace. No other
building in the United States has Wit
messed so many stirring. thrilling
scenes. or has been under SO many
suzerainties or occupies so dominant
a place in the history Of common
wealth. 1t is only within the past few
years that the governors Of New Mex /
leo have moved into a new mansion, (
that the legislature and the supreme
court have assigned them to their
quarters. in q new capitol.
Research Work.
Nevertheless, new glory has come
to the venerable adobe structure, at I
time castle, fort and palace COM
bined 1t is now a scat Of learning, a /
center of research work that reaches
out from Point Barrow on the north
to TERRA del Fuego on the south, from
the Golden Gate and even Siberia on
the west to Greenland on the east,
linking the ancient capital of New
Mexico. to Jerusalem. Rome. Athens,
Pelyin. It has been transformed into
a beacon upon the hills to which
many look for enlightenment and in
spiration, and which Is bringing out
from under the shadows Of millen-
NUNS, the very life history, achieve
ments and passions Of the prehistoric
people that lived, loved and died on
the American continent thousands of
years before Columbus came. who
were contemporaries Of SennacherlD.
of David. of the Pharaohs. OF Phldlas
and of Hannibal.
In this old palace has been estab- /
lshed by the Archaeological Institute 4
of America, the School Of American |
Archaeology, one of five great re- ,
search institutions founded by the IN
stitute. chartered by the congress- an {
OF earnest people OF cul- 4
ture and wealth devoted to the adj s
of science. One OF these
schools is in Athens. another IN
Rome, a third in Jerusalem the {
fourth is that in Santa re and newest Z
and latest is one in China. Each !
school has its specific school for re- lt
that at Santa Fe having as
signed to it all of North and soutn /
America. Already this school mas a
notable work among the II
Mayas, the Greeks Of the New Worlu q
In Central America; among the cave =
and cliff dwellings Of the southwest {
among the Indians Of California }
among the prehistoric ruins Of Mis- o
souri, and other states. ia
Extension System.
In addition to its purely scientiilc
research work, the school has estap'
ished a popular system OF extension
work. which includes the sending out b
aahn0I4. To COLI u