El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-06-12

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Some of the police say there is no
use pulling people for riding bind
bikes" or leaving their horses IN hitch
ed as Recorder Patterson will not fine
the parties when arrested. The rec
ords in the police court show that
there have been over twenty arrests
made for riding blind bikes and not
single arrest for leaving horses I'M
hitched. OF the twenty or more ar
rests for riding blind bikes there has
been q fine in every case.
If the police will watch closely for
horses and reckless driving.
reckless driving ordinance is being
violated oftener than the blind bike
ordinance.
There is no chance for the bicycle
people in Ell Paso until they organize
q club, appoint committees and employ
an attorney to get their rights before
the courts. The only petty ordinance
in the city that is being enforced is the
one against bicycles, and the cyclers
would not kick if they were given the
protection they are entitled too. Look
over the records and see how many
cases there are against people for
throwing glass on the streets, or
against reckless driving, or against
teams standing on street crossings
for leaving horses unhitched. In the
last two months there have been only
two cases against reckless driving and
in one of these cases the driver ran
over little child.
If as the police say Recorder Patter-
son will not punish people who are az
rested for violating the city ordinances
then all the police has got to do is to
keep telling the newspapers of any de-
iinquency in that line. Round About
will wager a hat that Charley Patter-
son or anyone else who has the enforce
ment of the city ordinances in hand
will wish they had followed out the or
dinances to the letter in year from
now. One newspaper man cannot vote
as often as q chihuahua Mexican, but
he can say more.
George Wallace is now holding down
Charley PattersOn's seat as recorder.
When Wallace went around to hold
case" on the docket and George could
not show his judicial abilities.
Somebody told an Ell Paso reporter
that the fire engine mas been in the
repair shop ever since it was bought"
That's just where somebody is mistak-
en-. Ever since the engine was bought
until the last few months, the engine
has BEEN standing in the fire depart
ment without receiving proper atten-
ton and this past neglect is the cause
OF its now needing thorough over
hauling and repairing. A fire engine
is a delicate piece OF machinery and
needs attention all the time and the
engineer is supposed to attend to it
every DAY. Not only the hue5 were
found to be burned out of the engine,
but parts of the pumps were broken
at fire of any kind. With the pumps
broken it could not have done good
service even if the hues were all
right.
Cinnamon are becom ing more reck-
less in their eLdeavors to get into the
u ultSo otdGGS Guoa StSE duQ I'll L dSO
seems to have become the main field of
their Operations. Every night now
word is brought to town about China
men coming into the country either
above or below town. The country is
now in bad enough condition and wages
are now down to the paup=r point aud
this of itself is enough for the native
working man to contend against with
out having to be compelled to compete
inst mn no luh
effort should be made 10 suppress the
nefarlOus traffic and all while men
found aiding and abetting Chinese i'm
migration should be punlsned to the
full extent of the law. 1t is time that
Americans in Ell Paso were looking
out for their own people and quit
pampering up and encouraging the
Chinese to enter the country. 1t has
got to the point now where 1T Is almost
impossible for q native American labor
ing man to get employment and 1T Will
be worse sti l when the country be-
comes filed up with Chinese collie
labor. The officers are apparently do
ing all they can 10 prevent the Chinese
from entering, but an officer cannot be
everywhere at once and 40 effort should
be made to increase the force until the
Chinese find out that Ell Paso was not
just the place to break in, to the coun-
try.
Frank, the extra fire horse, is taking
his time leisurely and does pretty
much as he pleases around the depart t.
ment. Yesterday he noticed several
people go into the police Office and de-
cided he would see what was going on
so he walked in too and stood around
just like any of the rest of the crowd.
Frank also causes the fire boys consd-
cradle trouble with their numerous
love letters. While the boys are writ
ing and studying up pretty words to
send to their girls, Frank will walk
into the Office and pick up a whole
sheet of closely written paper and glee-
fully form it into a spit ball before the
writer notices what is going on. He
has caused Charley Westbrook so much
trouble with some of his girls that
Charley is agitating his brain over
ways and means to keep Frank from
nosing into and breaking up his love
affairs.