New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1917-05-25
ARMY OFFICERS At
DUKE CITY VIEWING
PROPOSED CAMP SITE
ARE PROPERLY ENTERTAIN
ED BY THE BOOSTERS
AFTER THEIR INSPECTION
OF AVAILABLE LOCATIONS
FOR MILITARY CAMP.

Vc AVAILABLE LOCATlONS
FOR MILITARY CAMP
The board headed by Gen. Henry
A. Greene, charged with the duty II
selecting site for a division train
ing camp, arrived in Albuquerque
yesterday afternoon on board the
private car OF X. II. Tuttle, superin-
tendent of the Albuquerque division
OF the coast lines, and a delegatios
Of citizens headed by Capt. Clark NJ.
Carr met the officers, says the Al
buquerque Journal of this morning
On arrival in the city the board
was met by a delegation from East
Las Vegas composed of H. w. Kelly,
5. B. Davis and DIR. Cunningham,
who briefly presented data regard
ing the availability of that city for
a camp site.
The board then went for a tour Of
the proposed camp site east and
northeast OF the city. Close obser-
vation was made by General Greene.
Lieutenant Colonel Walker of the
engineers, Lieutenant Colonel Ken
nedy OF the medical corps, Lieuten-
ant Colonel Bertsch of the quarter
masters department and Major Ham
of the Seventh infantry, of the ad-
vantages offered by this city and it's
environments. The drive took the
party to the Sandia mountains
thence back over the mesa to tho
northeast Of the city to the Country
club, where there was short rest.
Then followed drive through the
Rio Grande valley to the north of
the city and back through Old Towa
to the Alvarado hotel.
Banquet Given for Visitors.
No comment was made by men,
bers OF the board regarding the suit
ability of the site, and none was ex-
pected, as the findings of the board
are to be passed upon by the de-
partment at Washington.
The real event of the occasion was
a banquet rendered by the citizens of
to the board at the AL
varado hotel. The Taft banquet
room never held a more harmonious
and spirited function. The service
was perfect, moving with that clock.
work regularity for which the hotel
IS noted e--,.,-. - : g ~ -,,',..--, -
There were fifty-three persons pre-
sent. Among the visitors from OUT
side the city. other than the mem-
bers OF the board, were Col E. c.
of the New Mexico Nation.
al Guard; Harry w. Kelly Of East
Las Vegas, and R, H. Tuttle Of the
coast lines.
n. L. Fox was tozstnaster and in
troduced Neill B. Field as the man
best fitted to speak for Aib6querQue.
Mr.. Field spoke in happy aud pa
triotic vein. He said Of course Al
buquerque would like to have the
but that albuquerque
is first of all patriotic and that il
The board should find some other
point better fitted for the camp site,
It would do its duty and recommend
such site and that the people of AL
buquerque would be found loyal'y
the government in this
grave crisis with never another
hought that this city had not been
favored.
General Greene Able Speaker.
General Henry A. Greene res
ponded for the board in general, al
though 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 happy speaker,
out General Greene is one of the
exceptions. He is happy as mat
Ter of epigrams, of illustrations and
ne has what the Greeks called the
,ighetst of all arts, the art of con-
:ealing art. Aong with an earnest
md often really eloquent picture of
he duty Of the American citizens in
'acing this most solemn crisis con-
ronting the nation. he kept the
liners laughing with pat remarks
md apt observations and an occa-
'ional story.
General Greene emphasized the
act that in all of his tour over Ari-
iona and New Mexico he had found
10 APPLICANT for the camp site that
lad Knocked any other applicant.
The spirit had been broad and gem
.rous and patriotic everywhere.