Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1915-05-29
AWuquerquedn Gets
Some Good Space in
NeW York Newspaper


Albuquerqueans viii be interested
to note that Judge b. r. Adams. of
this city. has been getting some per-
fectiy good space in the news columns
OF no less Important newspaper than
the New York Herald. They will also
be surprised 10 learn that the judge,
who for many years past has practieed
law IN Albuquerque, Ia now registering
from Meinphis--or at least II would
so appear from the Herald story
What Judge Adams thinks OF New
York and OF things In general IL re-
lated by the New York paper MS fol-
lows.
"ile was seated on sofa In the
Waldorf Astoria yesterday when
caught my first glimpse Of him. He
did not seem In the least Interested in
his surroundings or In the bell boy
who was utterlng-well. something
like his name lie is Judge benjamin
b. Adams, of Memphis, Tenn. and IL
Is his first trip TO our city. he nodded
a how-do-you-do and limited that he
wasn't so keen on telling reporters of
New York City. but If they pressed
him they had 10 hear his version and
so forth. incidentally | had been told
that he was Judge Adams, OF Albu-
querque, n. NJ, but after minute
with him ! learned that he had not
been in New Mexico for more than q
year, He said he did not know why /
should bother him. but he admitted
that he had made several attempts TO
get TO New York and had failed he
cause of pressing business and snow
storms.
Judge Adams, who Is six feet one
inch in height, said that there was no
narrow-mlnded reason for his not
coming TO New York city before, and
he added.
Not like "Tom' Watson.
Il am not like Tom Watson, who
said that his boy should not go any
whore north OF the ohio river or east
of the Alleghenies, because Tom said
there was nobody worth KNOWN in
that section OF the country. / might
as well tell you that New York is Just
what | expected to find Il TO he-iust
a few more houses and few more
people than in Memphis or Washing
ton. have been in Washington many
a time and also in Chicago. The
houses here are just like those any
where else, but the average New
Yorker is very provincial He is a
man who only knows one thing. The
western man knows the east and the
west Jim Thomas came up from
Texas and when he went back he
said to the boys who were congregated
In the village church just TO chat with
him Boys, New York streets is just
like the aisles of this here church af-
ter preachin' is over and the people
is coming down the aisle
Now, ! know the country person
ally from the Red river of Texas TO
the western line of Arizona. | always
spend January and February In west
ern Tennessee, and there is the coun-
try Of opportunity. The boys went
west in The old days and the girls have
grown up TO be old maids. II is be-
hind the times and that is the reason
for the great opportunities
CONCERNING Womcn's Dress.
women here dress about the
same as they do in Memphis. The
best lockers ! have seen are like any
whore else. But | saw a lot of women
come into the hotel the other night
with lots of silk draggin that should
have been wrapped aroun' their
shoulders. but the real sight was one
| saw in a dance uptown. Some of
tttNili Nit tiNN ntNt lluCU VI aHNlulH /
on, and what they did wear looked |
like wet hathln' suits on girl at the I
beach in Galveston.
But say. boy. don't think that I'm |
a womHn Halter, cause | sure love en- 1
Fact Is. | shall have to confess. ! have /
Joined the Woman's Suffrance assoc |
citation. That does not mean this |
bunch that's always botherin' the |
president and tryin' To get into the I
newspapers by wavin' a flag at Sena-
tor O'German. but the real association |
of those talented women who are
really advocatin' votes for women
speaking OF New York men who !
have lost money IN the south and |
west the judge said:
Men from our country get THEN !
pockets picked up here and they slip |
back hum and don't say a word about |
II. But II enc of your financiers drops |
some of his illgotten gains with some |
Of our felix's he writes a letter about II