Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1915-08-16
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TERM USED MOST
At n. NJ DISPLAY
S Exhibit at San Diego
Vastly Different From ANY,
thing Else Ever Attempted,
Is General Impression.

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/ is theat term everyone apple d IL
New Mexico building az the Panama.
California exposition. DISTINCTIVE
the work that goes straight IL tie
mark, too. IL expresses in "a nutshell
the structure and its exhibits
AS one enters the grounds over The
great Puente dc Cabrillo. ana u.r.
mits his eyes 10 wander over me sst.
line 20 the r'ght. one building. q pare
ucular imprcsses him at once h
seizes his vision and Captiyates fs
Imagination, There Is nothing On The
grounds like it, 10 has crude
strength and simplicity differing enc
urely from the California mission
architecture. or the Spanish-M Moorish.
To be found elsewhere on the grounds.
The visitor asks one IL the ur.-
formed Balboa guards vha- the
striking structure He learns taat {
IS the New Mexico building
Wonderful Mineral Exhibit
"Ah. yes Mr.. Visitor SAYS 10 Nrs.
Visitor. That IS the place where thes
have the wonderful mineral exhibits.
and the models OF the ancient
Puebl0s. and the Navajo blankets. ana
motion picture films of Indian dances.
ana festivals, and on, don't know
what all Let's 80 over there.'
And they 60 The fame of the New
Mexico building has gone everywhere
throughout the state OF California,
and beyond 10 is the mecca III
thousands and the exposition is just
getting fairly started.
So Mr. and Mrs Visitor reach me
structure They are more impressed
as they approach Perhaps they al-
ready know that 10 is a reminder II
old days. when there was no Alta Gale
fornia. when French ana English
hardly had begun 60 make themselves
secure on the continent of North Ans
erica. Whether they know that or
not they are impressed profoundly
with the picturesquenes Of the nuld-
ing which is modelled on the old mis-
sion of Acoma.
Inside the building however. they
forget architecture, i'm a verltaple iu-
tellectual and aesthetic feast They
see. i'm the first room, hundreds On
hundreds OF mineral specimens. line
gold. copper bearing p0rphory IN
great blocks. meerschaum, coal in un-
dreamed of quality and quantity. sil-
They are interested-and aWed-hy
the immense mineral wealth of The
state.
Then they pass into the auditorium.
a wonderful severe little chapel. hung
with striking paintings Of scenes Of
the sunshine state, that seize the lhl-
agination and make one long 10 cross
the intervening miles and oeholu
these ruins and skies himself. TX
they come at the proper hour they
see motion picture films, Made m
New Mexico" of Indian dances. testl-
walls. coal minng forestry, and The
hundred and one activities wherein
New Mexico is pIllug up wealth. Tor
itself and its people
Next into the Han of the Govern
5rs 20 Mr. and Mrs. Visitor, 70 gaze
On the remarkable models there
Rents fort. which recalls the adVen-
.urous days of the Santa Fe tralL
mansion, the old aShta re
mission. old pueblOs, while from tAe
walls the governors look down upon
he throngs. From the model ROOM
Il is only step into the reception
.oom where the visitors are asked to
with such good effect
nat there is a great pile ot letN's
covered with the names OF RCt9NN
rom Maine. Florida, saskatchewan
ohio and OREGON.
Upstairs the slghtseers enter me
arestry roomj They get q glimpse
# the high rank OF New Mexico IS
producing state, or wonder
al the wonderfully complete pans
ncle sam has evolved to fight lor
81 fires They see fine stereopteaH
Hides OF agricultural or lumoerln- "
Vew Mexico each carrying It's iesso"
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