Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1915-02-10
Fact That More Interest Is
Shown by Outsiders Than
AIbuquerqueans Matter of
Comment at Meeting,
COMMITTEE REPORTS
ONLY FAIR SUCCESS
Another Effort to Be Made to
Get Out Crowd; Meetings of
Commercial Club, Retailers
and Others Called,
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= Stili hopeful that business men 9
Q may be made 10 realize the Inn .
{. pOrtanee Of the cattlemens con- :
Q venlon. those who are supporting t.
. the movement. decided yester- (,
day 10 have D joint meeting OF Q
o the meeting Of the Commercial (.
. cluu and Retail Merchants assoc :
{. citation to be held at y o'clock +.
. next Tuesday night at the Com .
2 mcrcIal club. .
. They are going ~ give the =
= merchants another chance 10 .
(. help Themselves. While the sup {.
: port OF the scheme has not been /.
greatly encouraging locally the @
. appeal to cattlemen has been (.
+. greeted with quick and promise 2
: !ng response With half of their .
70 object attained the boosters are 9
I determined To keep the thing %
. alive long enough TO give every o
= one chance TO help. .
. Not only members OF the Com =
9 mercial club and Retail Mer- .
. chants association are wanted NJ y
9 the meeting. Everyone IL want Q
. ed there q
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The cattlemen's association is likely
TO be thrust upon Albuquerque. This
was evident at the meeting held yes
terday afternoon at the Sturges hD-
tel. Few business men were there.
They were outnunbcred by cowmcn.
Reports were received that cowmen In
several parts Of the state and also IN
Arizona have received the plan OF
capturing the 1916 convention for this
ciss Rlth enthusiasm. The activity OF
cattr ralsers. fay0rlng Albuquerque.
viii qnl the city in the attitude OF
having the meeting forced upon Il
unltss susiness men get busy. The
inkewarnness OF many retailers Was
the subied Of comment
The committee charged with ascer-
| tanning how snuny merchants will 90
10 El Paso. n III they cannot 70,
paying the expeipe of bringing the
meeting lara, was Increased. The
committee OF. rowmsn, who viii work
among stock raIsere with the view
OF getting them u ioin the ansoela-
tion, also was increased, Cattlemen
who were present. wlHed u dozen
names TO the list Of monty tn2 Sec-
rotary Thomas A. EganN OF the COM
Inerclal club, had.
Only Sixteen Had SfNned-
Secretary Egan opened thSJnecting
With his report OF what he AMI Sec
Rotary G. @. Alderman. of the Isetnli
Merchants association. had been dfeie
TO accomplish. only sixteen men had
promised To go aud only $50 had been
subscribed by those who could not 20.
You can see from this that the
merchants are not thoroughly arouse
Cd" he said. They came through
heartily for the teachers meeting and
this will he worth ten times as much.
Unless they take more interest | don't
see how We can get IT,
Charles Gatlin, OF Magdnlena, an
swerlng a question OF Col. -. X u.
Sellers. said from twenty-five TO flftY
cowmen OF that district, representing
from 10000 to 10000 head. would
join II the meeting could be brought
here,
Seth r. Stiles, of wmslow, Ariz.,
upon being questioned by Colonel Sell
lcrs. snid men representing 200,000
head Ia Navajo county Arz. would
Join the association here. lie said
they would not go To oklahoma city
II the convention were held there. He.
thought the masoriH would come
here,
Outsiders More Interested.
7, 5, Mitchell remarked that the
CHIEF trouble seemed to be In getting
the people of the city stirred up. Dep
nty United States Marshal j. X. Gu
iusha Informed him that he had talk
ed 20 fifteen or twenty oattlemsn
al I.
part of the state ana that they told
him 10 man they would join il the
convention We're held here.
There seems TO be more interest
on the outside than Is shown mere,
he said I'VE are going TO have the
convention forced upon us"
MAYOR Boatrlght wanted to know
II he did not think interest would In
crease az the move gathered force.
lie thought II would
You will have to 20 in force II
YOU expect to get that convention.
said Mr.. Stiles you can't get x,
with two or three. or a dozen men. |
know that by experience" MIR stiles
was a member of the Texas assorfa-
ton for thirty years He Is going TO
attend the national convention at san
Francisco. but said he would help
bring the association here.
Could Get Second Easily.
Sam stevens made the motion au-
thorising the chairman 70 appoint
more members to the committee. Il
was carried. Mayor Boatfight who Is
chairman, said he would make w the
list later. He added the names OF
several who We're present More are
to be put on later.
Nj. GttIav ALI ft. ..,,N.
came here Albuquerque would mott
have any trouble getting them aftcr-l
ward II viii Tie between this city
and III paso thereafter
The actual expenses of the trip to
Ei Paso aud return win be about
SIG, II was stated. This includes rail-
way fare and Pullman aceommoda-
tons.
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Crystal, today only. "A Gentleman
From Mississippi"