The evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1914-1922, 1922-01-20
ACHIEVEMENT

COMPLETION Of the s35OO0 subscription TO stock of the Atm.
querque Hotel rompany today IS an achievement upon which his
v city may congratulate itself. 10 recount the need oi the hotel is
simply TO repeat the arguments that have been made for II more or
lcs constantly since last February when the undertaking began. To
recount the effort that has gone into raising the building fund is sim
ply to recall the almost daily newspaper articles of the past seven
weeks
The important thing Is that this big community job is done and
well done and that Albuquerque may now proceed +" other and more
Important undertakings. all of which have been NOR" or less depend
en- for success upon the successful completion of the hotel sub>crp-
lion. We may well congratulate each other on rue pubic sPri maj
has provided the money 10 buHd the new hotel free Of debt. and 10
insure an Institution absolutely necessary to the expansion We hope
for and which We may now reasonably expect 10 see realized,
We may congratulate cnch other and our city on having had rs
the leader in this hotel subscription campaign a man with the nur
alive. courage and persistence Sidney N. Wei has shown from The
great deal OF time and effort 10 the hotel campaign. \ large number
of citizens have subscribed very literally 10 the stock. many TO the
point Of sacrifice. But Well is thc man who made the supreme effort
and to whom belongs the credit for the >ucccSs of the campaign, a
credit which is given 10 him freely by all and which is given him
most cordially by those who have been the most closely asSocmtoi in
the actual work Of the two campaigns.
Much space would be required 10 mention every one who has
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lion. All such will agree that 1t 5 no more than FAR to say that par
ticularly in this last tediou, drive to finish the subscription the effort
would have stopped on any day that We'll stopped. and that il did not
stop short Of success simply because We'll would NOT ht IN. Men gave
time and effort and were induced to give more. Men gave money and
were induced to give more. Men grew discouraged and were dragged
out of Encouragement Newspapers exhausted arguments and were
provided with new ones. Plans for sustaining public interest ran out
and fresh ones were evolved-by Sidney We'll.
Mr.. We'll has conducted his sale Of community hotel building
stock al a cost for the entire campaign, we are Informed. of less Than
two per cent. Of itself a notable achievement. The minimum cost Of
such a stock subscription, carried ont in the ordinary way would have
been ten per cent. IL the hotel can be built on the same economical
bssis that has marked the financing. and we have no doubt that it can
and will be 50 built, Albuquerque will have further cause 70 he proud
Of is citizens and It's public spirit.
MIR. Wells part Of the work is done. lie was placed in charge Of
the stock subscription and mas done 1t, not without opposition. under
stopped a man less dynamic and determined. tie has done his work
without hope or expectation OF other reward Than the progress Of Al
btquerque. This Is the kind of community effort that inspires cuthu>
Hlsue accommodation and Il,iih"> rs expression, and The Herald -
glad Of the Opportunity to Voice thai kind of commeniation of sidney
Wells heroic effort, Il commentator in which every one who is ia
mliar with Just how strenuous that effort has been, will JON most
heartily