The Alamogordo News (5 May 1910, Page 1)

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Published Every Thursday íq the Most Beautiful Towq ir) New Mexico.
VOL. XIV. No. 1(5.
ALAMOGOKDO. NEW MEXICO, THURSDAY, MAY 5, 1910.
PRICE 5 CENTS
MAYOR SHERRY IS BLOCKING
REDUCTION IN LICENSE
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Mil PARK Sit)
GLOUDCROFT CONCESSION
Fine Entertainment by Graduates
and Other Pupils
Patrtns Generally Have Been Much Pleas-1
ed With Year's Work
Bit. Turk May 8.
The pnblie ichnol at Mountain
I'ark closed Friday, April 29, 1
with interesting exercises hut li j
in ilie afternoon and at night, i
The public spirited citizens muni
ted their usual interest by
present, an1 helping t"
.i i i i
maKe Hie exercises pieasaui nuu
profitable to the visitors.
The afternoon exercises con
sisted of declamations, recitation-,
addresses, dialogues, etc.,
by pupfts of the school, all of
whom deserve special mention.
"Playing Sunday," by the little
Malcolm girls. Alma asid Banda,
was rendered with a naturalness
thai would do credit to trained
actors on the stage. Enthusiatic
talks were made by visiting
teachers, natrons and others
The mothers especially expressed
themselves as being well pleased
with the progress of their chil-

Mr. A. K. Carlisle spoke in a
v.-ry complimentary way concern
i tig the teachers, stating that lit, I
liad noticed during the past year,
that i u every contest, whether I
utellectoal or physical, the
Mountain I'ark teachers were m1
the battle ground with their
I
pupils.
Hiere was a large attendance
,ii the evening to witness the
graduating exercises of the Sth
gra le pupils, of whom there were
thr
Miss Msada Oolley, .Mi-s
i Georgia
Waldrip and Chesby
Tboinaeoo
The program was as
iuiiows
Invocation, by Rev. G.
Berry-
ii. an.
""in;. "We are Happy Grada-
atea," by class.
Salutatory, by Miss Georgia
W ildrip.
I 'evaluation, "Supposed Speech
of Spartacus," by Chesley
I homaeop.
Maledictory, by Miss Maude L.
Cdley.
Awarding of certificaba by Prof.
L I'. Karris, Principal.
Ad lress, "Be ashamed to die un
til 1 you have won some victory
for humanity," by Prof. J. M
Helm.
I'rof. Helm's address was the
ature of the occasion. It not
"uly afforded a message of in
spiration to the class, but it also
Contained a buoyant force for
teachers and patrons. He said
1,1 Part: "If 1 was capable of
addressing this audience in a
"ay commensurate to the occa
MOB, 1 know of no subject more
inspiring than the closing words
f Horace Mann's address to the
graduating class at Antioch Col
We, Ohio: 'Be ashamed to die
""til you have won some victory
humanity.' Then Prof.
Ibdm paid t glnWng tribute to
'he Mountain Park teachers, de
claring that if the commence
ment exercises were an index to
'he character of work done in
hool during the past year,
Wej need not be ashamed to
a- this event would add
fame t their reputation and
t their crown of glory,
'he address was eioeed byre
lasting the poem "Carving a
Ntto,i and reminding the class
he fact that they bad not
Will Operate Dining Room, Cot
tage8 and Tnts
Force now at Work Making Changea and
Getting Read?
J. P. Jones, nnmrietor of tin
Southwestern hotel and cafe, has
thiw week closed a contract with
the El Paso and Southwestern
Koute, whereby lie takes over
the tents, the cottages and the
dining rouiii at Otolldcroft this
summer. Howard Beecham, who
t- i i t l Sm tk 1 t.... ,.i
MiiiBimwi iii in'- icTcm uuiri
nterprises with Mr. Jones, left
Tuesday to begin getting getting
everything in readiness for the
opening,
Mr. Jones said Monday night
toa Nkws' reporter that many
changes and improvements would
be made, and that the dining
room service would be of the
very best. The present dining
room will be abandoned, and the
big room now used for a skating
rink will be remodeled and fitted
UP f,,r a n Th8 r"""
has a hrdwool ,,,,or a1"1 wiU 1,p
uwd. in t,,e nlnp for dancing
parties. In addition to the reg
ular run tif summer guests,
t here will be about fifty work
men engaged in the construction
of the new hotel to be provided
for.
Effective next Monday a twice-
wili be in-1
aucu rated between
here and
Oloudcroft. The trains will
leave Alamogordo on Monday
and Wednesday, just after the
arrival ot .o. from tlie west,
at 10:16 a. m This addition of
one train a week is partly to en-
Kble the El Paso people who own
ottage- to get their cottages in
reillliness j,y the opening of the
I season: and also to handle the
material for the new hotel.
J Daily train service will be in
augurated on June 1.
Noted Humorist Coming
Roliert Ogden Smith, humor
ist and impersonator, will give
i an entertainment at the Metho
dist Episcopal Church, South, on
Wednesday. May 18. The en
tertainment will be given under
the auspices of the Home Mission
Society. Mr. Smith is an artist
in his line of entertainment, and
has been endorsed by many oth
er prominent lecturers, by noted
educators, and by the press
wherever he has been. The
prices of admission will be 25,
35 and 5t cents.
Miss Lizzie Anderson, of the
Mountain Park public school,
visited in Alamogordo Monday
and Tuesday, and went on to El
Paso for a visit.
written their names in the sand,
carved it upon the wood or gave
it to marble; but had written
their names upon the heart of
every little boy and girl present
who would now emulate their
example.
lies G 0 Berryman, of Ala-
mogordo. and Hon. A. Hotfman,
of El
Paso n ade interesting
talks.
The general belief is that the
school thi year has been a grand
MSSJM and has a bright future.
ITv.trvMiio teak ill the hiffhet
.r ir..r V..rr.. tawl Mm
II I lili "I W mmm
Anderson, who have taught the
aahool for the past two years.
Withholds Approval Which Deadlocks
the Ordinance
"Joker" in a Former
Unusual
Alamogordo, N. M., May 4. 1010.
To the Board of Trustees of the Village of Alamogordo, N. M.
As Mayor of the Village of Alamogordo, I withhold my ap
proval ';f Ordinance No. for the following reasons:
The Ordinance is entitled "An Ordidance Amonding Section
9 of Ordinance No. 5" passed by the Board of Trustees of the Vil
lage of Alamogordo, approved by the Mayor on the 15th. day on
March, A. D. 1910.
The object of the proposed amendment is to reduce the amount
to be paid for a retad liquor dealer's license from three thou
sand to two thousand dollars per annum.
On the 15th day of March last, by a unanimous vote of the
Board of Trustees, theamount for said license was fixed at $8,000.00,
After that and on the 5th day of April, 1910, an election was held
for the purpose of electing Village officers at which election the
action of the Board in fixing the liquor license at three thousand
dr liars was fully ratified.
It now appears that the Alamogordo Improvement Company
has succeeded in getting a majority of the Board to change their
minds, and has secured the passage of the ordinance reducing the
amount from three to two thousand dollars.
The Alamogordo Improvement Company, a corporation, organ
ized under the law.-, of the Territory oi New Mexico, has, by a re
servation m its deeds of conveyance, provided that no intoxicating
liquors shall be sold in the town of Alamogordo, except on a cer
tain block of ground owned by the company, and from the time of
it) organization as a town company, it has monopolized the sale of
intoxicating drinks in the tc.wn of Alamogordo, and it is an undis
puted fact that at one nine, the Alamogordo Improvement Com-
pany, because of its said Bsnwopwy, reel i ved rental on its saloon
i,iiiidiiii. a structure nut. worth to
dollars, of six hundred dollars per
Company complains that it can not
fre fixed by the Board. In other
pany asks the Board, in fixing the sum to be paid for the license,
to take into consideration the number of drinks sold over the bar.
If the Board is to take into considertion the profits to be derived
from the business, then I will suggest that the license he placed on
a sliding scale, so that the amount to he paid for the license shall
be based upon the profits of the business. Then, if the municipal
corporation should desire an increased revenue from the liquor
traffic, it should pass an ordinance requiring its officers to render
efficient aid in building up the traffie in the sale of drinks.
As already stated, the Alamogordo Improvement Company has
created a monopoly in itself for the sale of intoxicating drinks. It
is therefore in no position to complain of the former action of the
Board of Trustees. It is an axiomatic principle of equity that a
party seekiug equity, "should come into court with clean hands."
It has long been the policy of the law to restrain the sale of
intoxicating liquors. The evil of the traffic, both in itself and in
its influence, is recognized by the courts. "The theory of the law
is that it is to be tolerated only never to be encouraged."
An appeal has been made to me, that unless the license is re
duced, we will antagonize the Improvement Company. My answer
to this, is that I will at all times both in my official and individual
capacity, support the company in all its laudable undertakings,
but at the same time, I ask that the Alamogordo Improvement
Company refrain from antagonizing a majority of the people of
Alamogordo.
I have faith in the future of Alamogordo, but am not willing
to assent to the proposition that its prosperity depends upon the
success or failure of a saloon.
On this question of liquor license, the issue is squarely present
ed as to whether or not the municipality or the Alamogordo Im
provement Company shall fix the amount to be paid for liquor li
cense. Believing as I do that the power to fix the amount of license
is vested in our municipality, and believing that a large majority
of our people are in favor of the amount as heretofore fixed by or
dinance, 1 decline to affix my official signature of approval to the
ordinance providing for a reduction of the amount to be paid for a
retail liquor license.
By son shirk v.
Mayor.
The foregoing document is Kdf-explanatory. Evidently for the
r"1 bat he wanted the people to know, Mayor Sherry mailed
the document to Tmk. Nkws, And
J mow no mt
I.. ,1.. Tub V ala.. l.
llsinug me document
Mayor Sherry is a man venerable as to age, and in many other
(continued on page four)
Mrs. Henry S. Evans and Mi
Agnes Evans went to
El 1 'aso
Tuesday afternoon for a short
j visit.
Ordinance Affords This
Privilege
exceed the inn of fcam t.tinnaa nil
month. Now, the Improvement
afford to pay the sum hereto-
words, t he Improvement Coin-
for just that same reason, name
n......L t. T.... V I.
w uno, mr i i puo-
James I). Hannah has left Ala-
mogordo after a stay of some six
or eight months. He may return
later on.
General Improvement in Condi-i
tions Throughout Territory-
New Mexico Scenic Highway baa Long
Stretch Completed
Albnuueniue. New Mexico
May 8. The New Mexico Good Tuesday night, with all the
Roads Commission, has now been i members present. Judge Alf
in active operation a little more j Hunter and Prosper Sherry at
than a year. During that time fended for the first time in their
it has accomplished some very official capacities as clerk and
substantia results in the way of I attorney, respectively. Theniin
good roads, with which compara-lutes of the last meeting were
tively few people are familiar, read and approved. There were
The commission is composed of no reports from any of the stand
the Governor, the Commissioner ing committees,
of Public Lands and the Terri-1 The committee on the proposed
tonal Engineer, the latter being 1 ordinance to reduce the saloon
the official in charge of construc
tion work.
Territorial Engineer Sullivan, I
has furnished to the Bureau of
Immigration, an interesting sum-
mary i f the work accomplished
thus tar. The commission was
created by the legislature of
1909, but did not get into actual
operation until May of that year.
Since that time it has inspected
over 1,000 miles of road. It has
surveyed about 500 miles and Under a suspension of the rules
has actually constructed about the ordinance was passed by a
100 miles of road. It has five vote of 3 to 1.
construction camps in various j A short recess was allowed for
parts of the territory in which I the finance committee to audit
all of the available convicts are I bills which had been submitted,
being used. After the bills had been reported
The policy of the commission by the finance committee, Rev.
is the establishment of a system S. B. Callaway, by unanimous
of highways throughout the ter-1 consent, was allowed to address
ritory by permanent construe- the lioard. Mr. Callaway said
tion, using materials that will that there appeared to be no in
stand the wear and tear f.ir a clination on ths part of the board
longtime. The sady stretches to report on the two prohibition
which are frequently encounter-
ed are being macadamized with
what is called a sand-clay road
bed and which makes a very
hard surface and wears well,
Low stretches and boggy places
are macadamized with lime-stone
gravel, which, under wear, pul
verizes and cements together
making a splendid road bed.
Bridges and culverts are gener
ally built of reinforced concrete,
while dangerous places are being
protected by concrete posta and
iron chains. It is a system of
construction that will result in
permanent roadways which may
be maintained and kept in good
order at the least pojsible cost,
and this system carried on from
year to year for a few years will
give New Mexico one of the best
public systems in the west.
The New Mexico Scenic High
way has been completed from
the Colorado line almost into
Albuquerque, the construction i lieved he was helping to improve
camps being now on t he way the moral conditions of the town,
towards the Bernalillo county j Mr. Park then hastened to ex
line. Two other important roads plain that in speaking with con-
now under construction are the
Lincoln-Ros well line, and the
Silver City-Mogollon road, both
of which are needed badly, and j whatever upon the other mem
which will open up large stretch- hers of the board; that his re-
es of country heretofore very
difficult of access.
D. F. Papot, of the Tri-State
Telephone and Telegraph Co., of
El Paso, arrived in Alamogordo
last Saturday, and t.Kik charge of
ithe local exchange, succeeding
Homer W. Schofieldas local man-1
'ger. Mr. A. L. Hatch, assistant!
treasurer, of El Paso, was heretoer for Frank Powers, the El Paso
make the transfer. Ellcctive this 1 contractor who will build the
week, the company restored the
all-night telephone service. The
restoration of the all-night ser-
vice is valued and appreciated
by all the subscribers.
Meeting Last Tuesday Night an
Interesting One
All Vote for Reduction Except Trustee
Park
I he board ot trustees met last
j license was divided in opinion,
i and therefore submitted a major-
Ity and a minority report,
Trustee Park signed the minority
report in which he declared
against the reduction of the pre-
sent license in very vigoróos
terms. Trustees Scipio and
Evans signed the majority report
favoring the passage of the
measure. The majority report
was adopted by a vote of 3 to 1.
S petitions which were submitted
at the previous meeting. He
said that he desired some definite
action taken, and that if it w as
j decided to ignore the petition,
he wanted to know it.
j While the saloon license was
1 under consideration, Mr. Park
poke several times opposing th
passage of the measure. In con
cluding one of his talks, he said,
in substance, that his own integ
rity was above reprohch, that
he could neither be bought nor
driven. Mr. 8cipio immediately
replied that he wanted it dis
tinctly understood that his ac
tion in the mattor was influenced
by no improper motives that he
was acting for what he believed
to be the best interest of the
community in lowering the li
cense to an equitable rate. Mr.
Evans also said that he believed
he was acting for the best inter
ests, and farther, that he be-
siderable feeling he had not
chosen his words very carefully;
that he meant no reflection
marks were intended to relate
solely and entirely to his own
conduct in the matter.
A special committee on street
sprinkling was appointed, con-
Msll"K OI unipio and I'ark.
Boar(1 then djourned to meet
on ,ir8t Tut'8dy n June.
Rowland (iilchrist, time keep-
new resort hotel at Clouderoft,
j was here Monday, with II men,
on the way to Olondcmft. This
work will be carried forward as
I rapidly as possible.