Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1917-05-25
No Comment Escapes Mem
bers as to What They Think
of Location Shown Them
by Citizens Committee.
WILL STATE PREFERENCE
TO DEPARTMENT OF WAR
Officers viii Forward Their
Recommendation to Wash.
ington Not Later Than
May 30.

The board headed by Gen. Henry A.
Greene, charged with the duty of Sc
lecting a site for division training
camp, arrived in Albuquerque yester-
day afternoon on board the private
car of r. II. Tuttle. superintendent of
the Albuquerque division of the coast
lines, and a delegation of citizens
headed by Cept Clark NJ. Carr met the
officers
On arrival in the city the board was
met by a delegation from East Las
Davis and DR.. Cunningham, who
briefly presented data regarding the
availability of that city for q camp
site.
The board then went for tour Of
the proposed camp site east and
northeast of the city. Close observa-
lixss- ;.,as ,nsate by sCaaessa .Gsaoye
Lieutenant Colonel Walker of the en-
gineers, Lieutenant Colonel Kennedy
of the medical corps, Lieutenant Col
onel Bertsch of the quartermaster's
department and Major Ham of the
Seventh infantry, of the advantages
offered by this city and its environ
ments. The drive took the party to
the Sandia mountains, thence back
over the mesa to the northeast of the
city to the Country club, where there
was a short rest. Then followed A
drive through the Rio Grande valley
to the north of the city and back
through Old Town to the Alvarado
hotel.
Banquet Given for Visitors.
No comment was made by members
of the board regarding the suitability
of the site, and none was expected, as
the findings of the board are to be
passed upon by the department at
Washington.
The real event of the occasion was
a banquet rendered by the citizens of
Albuquerque to the board at the AL
varado hotel. The Taft banquet room
never held more harmonious and
spirited function. The service was
perfect, moving with that clockwork
regularity for which the hotel is
noted.
There were fifty-three persons pres
ent. Among the visitors from outside
the city, other than the members of
the board, were Col z. C. Abbott, of
the New Mexico national guard; Harry |
W. Kelly of East Las Vegas, and r |
H. Tuttle of the coast lines.
NJ. l.. Fox was toastmaster and in
troduced Neill b. Field as the man
best fitted to speak for Albuquerque.
Mr.. Field spoke in a happy and pa
triotic vein. He said of course Albu-
auerque would like to have the can
tonment, but that Albuquerque is
first of all patriotic and that If the
board should find some other point
better fitted for the camp site, 1t
would do its duty and recommend
such site and that the people of AL
buquerque would be found loyalty
the government in this
grave crisis with never another
thought that this city had not been
favored.
General Greene Able Speaker.
Gen. Henry A. Greene responded
for the board in general, although the
other members Of the board showed
that each of them could respond for
himself with ease and ability II is
not very often that an army officer is
a happy speaker but General Greene
is one of the exceptions. He is happy
as a maker Of epigrams. of illustra-
tons, and he has what the Greeks
called the highest Of all arts, the art
of concealing art Along with an
earnest and often really eloquent pic
lure of the duty Of the American citi-
zen in facing this most solemn crisis
the nation, he kept the
diners laughing with pat remarks and :
apt observations and an occasional
story. II
General Greene, emphasized the s
TACT that in all of his tour over Ari- I
.ona and New Mexico he had found
no applicant for the camp site that ,
had knocked any other applicant. The
spirit had been broad and generous
md patriotic everywhere. 3
1t would be quite impossible to do :
ustice to the speech of General !
ireene without stenographic re- /
tort. 46*$
Captain Carr, who, as he expressed r