Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1915-07-13
SEVERAL HUNDRED
STORE EMPLOYEES
VISIT BUILDING
New Mexico Exhibit at San
Diego Continues to Be Gen.
ter of Attraction for All
Kinds of Tourists.

SPECIAL ooRsEsPoRosscs TO MORNING JOURNAL
santa Fe. July 12-SiX hundred Of
the employees Of Hamburger's depart
ment store az Los Angeles, yesterday
were guests at the New Mexico build
ing at San Diego. They made the trip
90 San Diego on a special Santa Fe
train Of fifteen Pullman cars, their
employers paving all the expenses.
a superb picture of the Patio and
part of the New Mexico building and
The Cabrillo canyon and bridge as
seen from the roof Of the building arc
published in sepia in Yesterdays sun
day magazine of the Los Angeles
Times
The International studio beauu-
fully printed magazine for artists.
gives the san Diego exposition the
leading article magnfcently Illus
trated. 1t is the most sympathetic
praise yet wen the exposition by
those who have authority TO speak on
it's artistic effect. OF the New Mexico
building it says.
Praise From Magazine.
The New Mexico state building.
with its more severe silhouette and
massive weathered beams protrudng
from the outside walls, is free ann
plificaton of the famous adobe mis-
sion of the Indian pueblo of Acoma,
the Sky City, dating from 1899 The
essentially composite character Of the
architecture is nowhere better Illus
trated. The very fleXihility of the
style employed is its greatest asset.
You, in short. witness here i'm san Di-
ego the actual revival of Spanish-co-
lOnial architecture. and you will
scarcely fail to agree that as a me-
dunn it is as perfectly adapted to the
physical and social conditions of the
southwest as is The English-colonial,
or Georgian, to the needs of the east
Speaking Of the monumental work
at San Diego of DR. Edgar l.. Hewett,
of Santa Fe, director Of the Museum
of New Mexico and School Of Ameri-
can Archaeology, the article says:
The same consistency Of aim and
idea which characterzos the architec-
tural features of the exposition OBJ
tains in other fields of activity II has
been the intention of those In charge
to show processes rather than prod
ucts, and nowhere is this more sig
nificantly set forth than In the Cali
fornia building, which enshrines ex-
amples Of the stupendous plastic leg
acy of the Maya civilization, and i'm
the Indian Arts building, which is de-
voted to displays Of the craftsmanship
Of the preseut-day Indian of the
southwest To begin with the deep
rooted substratum Of primitive effort
which stretches back into dim an-
tiquity, and to follow its development
down to modern days. entails no small
amount Of labor and scholarship For
this task the exposition authorities
were fortunate I'm securing the ser
NJ Il I
corps of competent assistants from
the Smithsonian institute, Washing
ton
"AIr Hewett is one of the rapidly
increasing number Of scientists who
feel the ndissoluble connection be-
tween ethnology and aesthetics. Moth
ing finer has thus far been accom-
plished than his installation Of the
several exhibits I'm this particular sec
ton, The collections of pottery, rugs,
baskets and domestic utensils and
the detailed series of drawings Illus
trating that graphic symbolism which
is an inherent element i'm all aborigl-
nal artistic expression, are as extern
sive MS they are stimulating. On com
pairing these latter with the canvases
devoted 10 native types and scenes by
Robert Henri Joseph II Sharp, and
others in the Fine Arts building one
is forced to conclude that the capacity
for pictorial representation has di-
minished rather than increased with
the advent of our latter-day art
schools and academies
Lecture by Corwin.
DR. r. w Corwin, of Pueblo, Colo
who lectured last year before the sum-
mer school at Santa Fe and is mem
her Of the managing committee of the
School Of American Archaeology last
week lectured before the Archaeologi
cal summer school at san Diego. of
which Dr Hewett, of Santa Re is
dean, His subjects We're The Flu
tire School" and Safety First "The
Welfare Movement" while last even
ing he occupied the pulpit Of the First
congregational church at San Diego.
He is delighted with the New Mexico
display
New Mexieans who registered were
y. *. Lennon, Jr.. Kimbali Lennon,
Columbus. Fay Gearing. Mr.. and Mrs.
W. H. Livert Helen Livert Bernard
Livert. Mrs George Gearing. Mr.. and
Mrs J. A. Gleasner. Ada NJ. Bittner,
Mr.. and Mrs J. IL. Umbach, Ida FL
der Albuquerque; James Eldon Ham
ilton. Mrs J. r. Hamilton. Miss Eliza
beth Hamilton, Roswell, Franklin
Thomas, Roswell Rev G. G. Bateman
and wife, Fort Bayard: Miss p. ~
Roberts Ration: II. l.. simpson, clay
ton
Charles Wilson Hackett and wife,
who are spending their honeymoon al
the exposition, spent the day at the