The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1893-01-19
The West Viewed BY Our
Special Correspondent.
EfPaso. Deming and Yuma
Spoken Of Graphically.
California as it is, Asit VIM Be and
asst ShouId BE.
Los ANGELES, CAL, Jan, a, 1893.

Los ANGELES, CALs, Jan, II, 1898.
EDITOR CoMET :-Just as the houl
hand was pointing 70 IL o'clock on
Saturday, Dec. IL, ! left johnson
City, l confess with feelings of re
grst, to view the wondrons land Of the
West, the golden shores Of Caliiornia
whore the sun smiles benignly for eS6C
days,in the year where orange groves
thrive, flowers bloom and blossom con-
tinually, roosters crow ell the night
through and the people hustle and
rustic with vim and vigor that re-.
minds you Of the characteristic Of the
energetic Chicagoan. Below l will
give your readers my impressions ci
the country. the climate and the pec.
pie.
Itook passage on the E. 7. Wa @,
in . palace, and went directly to the
historic city Of New Orleans, : city Of
beautiful women, descendants Of the
old aristocratic families Of France,
whose dark eyes, bewitching smiles,
musical laughter and sparkling WITH
cism are proverbial the world over.
Domiciled at the old St. Charles Hp.
tel, / had IN opportunity Of studying
the character, the ways and manner
OF the refined, or elite, Of the city and
/ must confess that my impressions
are most favorable. To my bachelor
friends Of Johnson City, / would
modestly suggest that New Orleans is
che Mecca OF America for brilliant,
bright and fascinating women. But I
am DEPRESSING.
From New Orleans / went direct to
El Paso, acted historical city Of Tex
as, lying in . sandy loan country on
the Bio Grande, opposite Juarez, in
Old Mexico. While in El Paso / pad
several visits TO Juarez and visited the
old cathedral, the most ancient in the
New World, supposed to have been
built by the hosts OF the Chayilier Pi-
tarro, during the period that Monte
yuma WAS led to captivity in chains Of
gold. The town OF Juarez is built en-
tirely Of adobe, the people are indo-
lent and lazy the female portion OF
the community transacting al the
business. You enter store and call
Tor drink, and ct once q dark eyed
beauty--for all Of them are not only
handsome, but really beautifpl--and
> glass Of mescal is offered you. Thia
is peculiarly . Mexican drink, made
from cactns root, and whea sprinkled
with salt. has the taste Of auheuser
busch beer. The cigars they sell fol
5 cents each would cost in johnson
City, New York, 81. Louis or Chicago
20 cents. This great difference i
caused BY tho tariff that the imporiel
i compelled TO pAyin bringing the
goods over the narrow, rspid, Rie
Grsnde. My observation after several
visits among our Mexican neighbor
leads me to believe that whil'
there still exists stronl
prejudice among the lowe
class, or poems against American
yet At no distant day the relation o
the countries viii be most iriendl,
and amicable when the aun:kisse'
daughter OF Aztec joins heart an'
hand with the bronzed prairie faced
hero of Texas. just d word ab0u
El Paso, wonderful city Of 14,00
souls, hotels, saloons, gamblings place
boarding houses, and . mixed populi
tion make up the city. Money il pier
" and is spent freely, the people Al
happy sna C6ntsnted and the d
times with long flowing locks ccvere
by 4 sombrefo, still swear Andre
Jackson, the sage oI Tennessee. !
the union depot 1t El Paso ! purchase
: ticket over the Southern Pacific fc
Los Angeles, along the route was ,
drsary ride over the dsssrt. more "
Id extert, more dreaty in aspect tbs
The famous desert Of Sahara. F
miles shd miles through New Mexic
aas famous BY Douiphsn's rid
shrongh Arizona where Geronimo y
Hid band Of Apache mufderers b
piled munumensH upon naoiaumsnta