Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1921-01-27

al pledge of each of the ten men
and members of the hotel commit
tee last night were including this
100000 in their total. 1t was also
announced at the meeting that
Joshua Reynolds had subscribed
$4,000, Jack Reynolds $4,000 and
the First National bank $4,000.
These subscriptions will be three
of the ten needed, it was said
Subscriptions in small amounts
were feature of the meeting at the
Armory, but one $4,000 subscrip-
|tion by the National Life Insurance
company was announced in tele-
gram from John Becker of Belen
TO I'D Chase, secretary and general
manager of the company offices
here. Gross Kelly company an
nounced a $4,000 subscription, and
there were dozens of $500 and $500
and $500 subscriptions, and one of
$1,000 by Okey Clifford. BY 1890
the total subscribed at the hall had
passed the $21,000 mark, and some
of the workers had not turned in
their subscription orders
Santa Fc Takes Stock.
The first subscriptions announced
at the meeting were in kilograms to
Sidney M. We'll, director of the
campaign, from Col. d. K B. Sell
lerS at Santa Fe. Senator Rafael
Garcia of Albuquerque took 500
in stock; a second wire announced
that Clinton P. Anderson. Journal
staff correspondent at Santa Fe
had invested 800; the third was
from Levi Hughes of the First Ma
tional bank of Santa Fe for $3.50,
and the fourth from former Lieut.
Gov. b. f, Pankey for $500. Mr..
Pankey has also subscribed S. 500
for the new hotel now under con-
struction at Santa Fe and to which
the residents of the Ancient City
raised $250,000
Woman First at Meeting.
Solicitation was opened at the
Armory with a subscription by Mrs.
Mary Rachechi, who took $500 on
condition that other subscriptions
be obtained to make 1t $4,000. An
subscription of $500
followed and then 500 and 5000
came fast and when
they were totalled $1,000 had been
raised.
Then the workers got busy in the
crowd and there were continuous
throughout the eve
ming, and when a recess was taken
for lunch, the total raised in the
hall was beyond $4,000 and the
total, including the $lOO,O0O
pledged, was 100000 for the night
Ten Raise $1,000.
One thousand dollars was added |
to the fund by 10 members of the
Kiwanis club, all of whom had |
subscribed previously, bought $1OO
worth of stock each. Two travel
ing statesmen, frequent visitors at
albuquerque, bought 500 worth |
of stock each, and Philip Jacobs,
of Bernalillo, called Albuquerque
by long distance to subscribe to
$500 worth of stock.
The meeting was opened by Sid
ney We'll in the absence of II. G.
Coors, Jr., president of the XII
wants club, who was attending the
meeting with Mr.. Ilfeld and other
business men at the Alvarado. Mr.
We'll declared that the meeting
had twofold purpose, the first to |
finish the job of building the ho-
tel, and the second to celebrate |
the awakening of the Spirit of |
Albuquerque"
Fox First Speaker.
The first speaker of the evening |
was M. l.. Fox, who made an elo-
quent appeal to Albuquerque to
build the hotel.
For u.s." he declared, "Albu- |
querque is the center of the uni
verse. Our ambitions and hopes
are here and the hotel is a neces-
sity for the city,"
Announcement of the results of
the Alvarado meeting were made |
by George Roslington, a member
of the Kiwanis club committee.
Mr.. Roslington explained that it
was impossible to reach many men
who had been depended upon to
become one of the Forty Immor-
tails" who would subscribe $4,000
each, and that others were out of
the city.
Capital and Labor"
One of the striking events of the
evening was the statement by Mr..
We'll that so-called capital and
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