Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1922-06-11
MAKE ALBUQUERQUE A CONVENTION CITY

city of the southwest.
What does it mean to be a convention city?
Thousands of people come to the conventions
see your city, like it, tell other people about it. They
advertise it,
Also when they come to convention the dele.
gates and visitors spend from $50 to 500 each
in hotel bills and purchases made. Many of them
spend a great deal more particularly If they come
from the eastern states. They buy rugs and curios
without stint because they in the very center
of the industry
albuquerque is most fortunately located for a
convention city. 1t is the main highways be-
tween the northeast and the southwest and between
the southeast and the west.
1t has the best allyear climate in America It
has no extremes of heat or cold. Friday was one
of the hottest days in the history of Albuquerque
hotter than any day Of 1921 or 1920. The thermom-
eter reached 81. 1t was dry heat and you were
cool in the shade.
Friday night the temperature dropped to 60, and
you had to have blankets for comfortable sleeping.
The drop in temperature was 81 degrees The tenn
perature of the previous night Al degrees
lower than the maximum of Friday.
When the coolest nights Of the winter come the
days are never as low as freezing. The thermometer
registers above 40 nearly always and usually above
so some time the coolest winter day
Winter and summer, spring and fall. have
ideal convention climate.
Quite important are historic and scenic en-
vronments Just north of US lies the Oldest capital
in North America. Santa Fe be reached by
auto in two and a half hours OF easy driving. There
the old church, the Palace of the Governors and
the splendid new museum. Near 1t are the cliff
dwellings and just north of 1t. beautiful and his
toric and romantic Taos and the great pueblo.
which people would cross half the world to see,
were it located In Egypt.
Between Albuquerque and Santa Fe Indian
pucblos that filled with color and romance and
beauty, for such as have eyes to see
To the northwest lies some of the best of tho
Indian and Spanish towns and villages. the hottest
medicinal springs in America. the soda dam and
mountains, precipces. huge forests fishing and
hunting grounds, clear streams and waterfalls.
Not far away is the Pueblo Bonito. where the
National Geographic society Is excavating another
of our vast, prehistoric apartment houses-walls
four stories high and covering ground area greater
than that of the national capitol at Washington.
i. West OF us are Laguna and Acoma and the Mesa
Encantada. Acoma is Of the wonders Of the
world, reached through country compared with
which the famous Garden of the Gods is a child S
playroom.
little farther away to the west and south are
Zuni and Inscription Rock where Coronado's con-
quistadores inscribed their names In 1889.
Just south of is Isleta. one Of the best pre-
served of the pueblos.
East of US are the great ruins Of the Gran
ouivera.
Stories of these scenic wonders are now. or have
been recently, running in Harper's Magazine. the
Saturday Evening Post, Scrbner's and other first
class magazines of international circulation.
The Shriners, the Rotarians and Kiwanians
will be asked to hold their next conventions here
such an invitation will be extended to the knights
of Pythas when they meet In Los Angeles In August
These are big conventions attended by thousands
of people 30.
The Armory can be converted into first class
convention hail. big enough for the deliberations o!
any convention.
Our hotel accommodations, within year, Will
be ample for those who would want to live in
hotel In the summer
tented city on the mesa can be erected With
out great expense, particularly because tents for
l0ing can be had from the United States Post at
lei Paso for the asking.
There is something of a spirit Of adventure In
nearly every human being; desire for new ex
perience for doing something unique. The desert
opportunity to see it and be In 1t.
great convention in Albuquerque offers to the
fasteners adventure de luxe. They will come and
have the time of their lives. IL the people OF Albu
queraue will only enter into the spirit Of 1t.
Let us think Albuquerque, talk Albuquerque, act
Albuquerque until we have infected the whole of the
United States with the spirit of Albuquerque.