New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1919-02-28

was president of that institution.
When he became Governor in 1889
modern methods were introduced
with regard to pardons and other
administrative functions, the public
debt was reduced by the payment OF
bonds, and special attention was
given to general education. The
modern public school system was
established in 1890 against oppo.i-
ton VIII CHI now seems increditahle
and introduced with a tact VIII
saved it from threatened destruction.
The original boards of regents of
the University, Agricultural Col
lege, School of Mines, the two
Normal institutions and the Military
Institute, as well as the Insane Asy-
lum, we're all appointed by Governor
Prince, and the buildings erected
without a breath of suspicion Of
graft or extravaganza. Subsequent
ly when the Agricultural College be-
came involved in debt and was
threatened by the Seer rotary OF the
Interior 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 estab-
lishment of the Spanish American
Normal School of which he was the
originator and first president.
The twenty years from 1890 to
1910 were the era of the active VIZ
of the three great western con-
crosses, The Trans-Mississippi, Irri-
cation, and Mining Congress; and in
ented New Mexico and upheld her
interests, He attended the Trans
Mississippi sessions at Denver,
Omaha. New Orleans. Ogden. San
Francisco, St. Louis, Wichita, Hous-
ton, Kansas City. Portland, Musko-
gee. Sail Lake, etc. at four of which
he presided: and an almost equal
number of Irrigation Congresses in
Guiding those at FL Paso, Albuquer-
que, Chicago, Ogden, Salt Lake, Den
yer. Portland and Pueblo, and in
1000 was Chairman OF the Committee
sent from Chicago to Washington
which resulted in the passage of the
Exclamation Act. OF the Mining
Congress he was president at Dem
yer. Salt Lake and Boise, and at
tended regularly as long as it was
a representative body. Someone
once estimated that the total travel
in attending these meetings and the
v'-'ors miscellaneous conventions to
which he was appointed, exceeded
10000 miles; and i is TO be re-
mcnbered that in those days every
delegate paid his own expenses and
not a dollar came from public funds.
In 1898 Governor Prince was a
commissioned at the Chicago Column
bian Exposition and in 1899 at the
exposition at Omaha, and at each
made the address on New Mexico
Day. In fact he has received over
forty commissions from governors
since his own term, to act in various
official capacities. among which the
most. priced is one from Governor
de Baca, who signed less than a
documents in all by his own
band. In every public enterprise
he has been actively interested. At
the first Good Roads Convention held
at Las Vegas in 1905 he was elected
President Of the Association and con-
tinued in that position until 1912, In
1880 he made the address at the
First Territorial Fair in Albuqucr-
que, and the Fair addresses of 1890
and 1891, on Home Markets and "a
Land Of Prosperity and Happiness;
not only published by the Bit
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 al
every occasion of snerial i'm
portance through the whole forty
years he has been called on to give
voice TO the sentiment to be ev-
pressed, from the address at the
celebration Of the completion of the
railroad on Jan. "a. 1880, to the
orat'on before the LEGISLATURE on
Lincoln's Birthday in 1917. Among
may Be mentioned the having
Of the corner stones of the Univer-
'ity building in Santa Fe in 1882. OF
Agricultural College in 1900 and
81 the Scottish Rite Cathedral in
1911 the open'ng of the Tertio Mil
Celebration in 1888. and the
dedication of the new Capitol in
1000: the memorial services for
Garfield, Grant. Mckinley and 9th
commencement addresses at
each m of our eight higher insti-1
NJ learning; the opening
at the first Republican State
the campaigns for state
rood and the multitude of local oc-
:asions, patriotic, political and civic,
Aztec to Carlsbad and from
to Lordsburg.
Surely these FORTY years have not
been years of idleness.