Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1916-10-20
DEDICATION Of
MUSEUM To Be
NATIONAL EVENT
Elaborate Plans Are Being
Made for Celebrating New
Buildings Opening Fourth
of July Week, Next Year.

ESPECIAL coRRrspoHotHct TO MORNING JOURNAL
Santa Re, oct. 19.-Thc dedication of
the new museum building is to be
made an affair of national interest
and certainly OF statewide sIgnifl-
canoe, Tentatively, the first week in
July of next year has been selected
for the event, There are several
reasons for this. 1t is the end of the
academic year and the week before
the opening Of most of the summer
schools Many men prominent in
educational and scientific circles can
attend that week whom they could
come at no other time. 1t is Fourth
of July week, regarded more or less
as a holiday season throughout the
country In Santa Zee it is the love
lest time of the year. Just before
the start of the so-called rainy sea-
son.
The museum building and its in
terror will be just about completed
by that time. There are also imam
cial reasons. The community Ecner-
ally plans a Fourth of July celcbra-
ton and raises funds for that pur-
pose BY concentrating all effort up
on a weeks celebration at that time.
hOIn tue fOuI III vi July tlllu lllt NiNAA
cation plans will be covered by the
same cost ana endeayor. II is also
the time Of the year when summer
rates so into effect and when the
most favorable railroad rates are OBJ
tainable.
Church Ceremonies and Music.
July I Is on Sunday ana it is plan
ned to have a great dguitary Of the
Catholic church, possibly a cardinal
come TO Santa Zee and celebrate pom
ufical mass in the cathedral i'm the
forenoon and preach a sermon in the
st. Francis auditorium either ina the
afternoon or evening. If the music
lovers Of Santa Fe can get togethor
which seems to be a more difficult
task for them than it is for the art
lists. an oratorio might be given ON
Sunday. II would mark an epoch i'm
music in the capital TO render adc-
quately IIaydn's creation, or Ham
ders Messiah" or Moudelssohns "St
Paul" or one of the Bach oratoros,
or some more modern composition Of
equal dignity.
Day of Pagcantry.
Monday would be the day Of pa
Ccantry. Monday forenoon, the first
procession would be that of the Indian
governors and dignitaries from ali OF
the Pueblos from the Apaches and
Navajo reservations ana if practical
bic from farther away, the Indians to
be logged out in their picturesque
costumes. 1t is fitting that they
/ come first for they We're here first
and also furnish the reason to a
| large extent for the establishment OF
/ the museum, the art colony, the
| School Of American Archaeology.
! The second procession Of the fore
noon would be that Of the Francis
! cans. Father FIidolin Schuster is II
! Cincinnati this week to obtain the
consent Of his supcriUTs- for bringinl
! to Santa Fe the Francscans of New
! Mexico and Arizona. This rs fitting
| too, for st. Francis is the patron sam
of santa Fe and New Mexico, the
/ Franciscans brought the gospel TO the
! southwestern Indians and building up
! on the Pueblo architecture, devised
I the Franciscan mission style in which
! the new museum is built The struc-
/ ture is q monument to the Francis
/ cans and the early martyrs of the
church in New Mexico.
The third procession would be that
| Of the Conquestadores, reproduction
/ of the DeVarga's pageant so success
| fully given q few years ago with the
| ola Palace as its center 1t Will be
/ a tribute to the spanish culture ana
| the I.atin-Amcricaus
Fourth would come the procession
of the pioneers, the scouts, the OK
carts and schooncrs, the men of the
Santa Zee trail.
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