Albuquerque morning journal., 1919-03-06

became involved in debt and was
threatened by the secretary of the in
terror with destruction, Governor
| Prince accepted an appointment as
president of its board of regents and
served until the institution was out
of danger. His active educational
work has also included the establish
ment of the Spanish American Nor
NAL school. of which he was the orig
inator and first president.
The twenty years from 1890 to
1910 were the era of the active work
of the three great western congresses,
the Trans Mississippi, Irrigation. and
Mining congress; and in all of these
Governor Prince represented New
Mexico and upheld her interests. He
attended the Trans Mississippi ses-
sons at Denver, Omaha, New Orleans,
Ogden, San Francisco, ST. Louis,
Wichita, Houston, Kansas City, Port
land, Muskogee, Salt Lake, etc. at
four of which he presided; and an al
most equal number of Irrigation con-
crosses, including those at Eel Paso,
Albuquerque, Chicago. Ogden, Salt
Lake, Denver, Portland and Pueblo,
and in 1900 was chairman of the COM
mittee sent from Chicago to Washing
ton, which resulted in the passage of
the Reclamation Act. OF the Mining
congress he was president at Denver,
Salt Lake and Boise. and attended
regularly as long as it was repre-
sentative body. Someone once esti-
mated that the total travel in attend
ing these meetings and the various
miscellaneous conventions to which he
was appointed, exceeded 100000
miles; and it is to be remembered
that in those days every delegate paid
his own expenses and not dollar
came from public funds.
In 1898 Governor Prince was a COM
missioner at the Chicago Columbian
exposition and in 1899 at the exposi-
ton at Omaha, and at each made the
address on New Mexico day. In fact
he has received over forty commits
sions from governors since his own
term, to act jim various official capaci-
ties, among which the most priced is
one from Governor de Baca, who
signed less than a dozen documents in
all by his own hand. In every public
enterprise he has been actively inter
ested. At the first Good Roads con-
vention held at Las Vegas in 1905 he
was elected president of the associa-
ton and continued in that position
until 1912. In 1880 he made the ad-
dress at the First Territorial fair in
albuquerque, and the fair addresses
of 1890 and 1891, on Home Markets
and "A Land of Prosperity and Happi-
ness were not only published by the
Bureau of Immigration, but the rail-
road company issued 100000 copies
for circulation.
But perhaps it is as a public speak
er that he is best known. On almost
every occasion of special Importance
through the whole forty years he has
been called on to give voice to the
sentiment to be expressed. from the
address at the celebration of the COM
pletion of the first railroad on Janu-
ary "a, 1880. to the Grafton before the
legislature on I.incolns birthday in
1917 Among these may be men
toned the laying of the corner stones
of the University building in Santa Fe
in 1882. of the Agricultural college in
1890, and of the Scottish Rite cathe-I
dral in 1911; the opening of the Tertio
Millennial celebration in 1883, and the
dedication of the new capitol in 1900;
the memorial services for Garfield,
Grant, Mckinley and others; COM
mencement addresses at each of our
eight higher institutions of learning:
the opening speech at the first repub-
lican state convention, the campaigns
for statehood and the multitude of
local occasions, patriotic, political and
civic, from Aztec to Carlsbad and
from Ration to Lordsburg.
Surely these forty years have not
been years of idleness