Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1921-01-05
REALTERS WILL
BACK PLAN FOR
! Ne VI CITY HOTEL
Pledge Assistance In Selling
Stock and Full Corpora
ton; Legislative Commit
tee Is Appointed.

Full support in the campaign
for new hotel for Albuquerque
was. promised last night by the
members of the real estate bureau
of the Chamber of Commerce at
their dinner at the Y. M. c. A., as
sistance in the sale of stock and
the purchase of three pages of adj
vertising in each of the two daily
papers here being pledged.
Sidney M. We'll outlined the plan
for the intensive drive which will
start Tuesday. January IS. and
continue four days. He invited the
real estate men to attend an or
A. on the evening of January II
which will be at. anded by the
ninety members of the Kiwanis
club and their guests. which will
include the city and county COM
missioners, the officers of banks
and Santa Fe railroad officials.
Governor NJ c. Mechem and Col.
G. r. Breeze will act as Joint
chairmen with Mr., We'll and D. K.
b. Sellers as vice chairmen.
1t is the plan to enlist the CO.
operation of all organizations in
the city in the hotel project and to
this end a committee of ten XII
wanians composed of Henry G.
Coors, Jr., Wallace Hesselden,
Fred Fischer, Sidney We'll and A.
J.. Martin. in addition to the five
Albuquerque Hotel company Off
cials Just elected. The officials are:
Louis Ilfeld, president; DR.. M. K.
Wylder, vice president; George
Roslington, secretary; j. II. Cox,
treasurer: w. A. Keleher. counsel.
Ad Campaign Starts.
Twenty fun pages of advertising
will be commenced at once to run
local newspapers, Mr.. We'll said, to
be supplemented by street car
signs and booklets for distribution,
This will be contributed by mer-
chants and business mems organi-
cations. 1t is the plan of the COM
mittee to solicit each OF the 3,56l
families registered in the corporate
limits of Albuquerque and 1t is be-
lieyed that so per cent of the pos
sible prospects will be sold on the
basis Of $40 down and $3.50 per
quarter on each 500 subscription,
exclusive of the larger subscrip-
tions promised by the business
men.
Have Index of Town.
The old Liberty loan committee
has turned over to the kiWanls
hotel committee all of it's card
filing systems, thus saving vast
amount of work in card indexing
the city for the campaign. the
city will be divided into blocks for
canvassing, and there will be zoo
members on the soliciting commit
tee.
The wholesale grocers. Rosen-
wald Brothers, the real estate
board, all the banks, and many pro
fessional men have subscribed To-
wards the advertising campaign
fund. The intention is to keep all
the expense of the campaign Or
ganization apart from the hotel
cost. so that all subscriptions Will
go directly to the hotel construc-
ton fund.
Full cooperation was pledged by
the real estate men in the work OF
putting the hotel across l.. j. Key
onlds spoke OF the work being done
in the valley and that needed in
regard to drainage. He proposed
to organize the boys and girls into
agricultural clubs and to reach
many Of the parents in that way.
Col. ID. K. b. Sellers made
short address on legislation that
would be beneficial to- real estate
men. AL. M. Martin, president OF
the bureau, appointed Robert Nc
Clughan chairman and a. Fleischer
end Bruno E. Dieckmaml members
of a legislative committee to work
in cooperation with the Chamber
of Commerce committee.