El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-08-11

MI. II IL. WOOd, president VI 1he
San Antonio street railway company.
especially, to task for opposing the
granting of a FRANCHISE for street
railway lire on Myrtle avenue. Mr.
Wood claims that he has the right to
ask for such a franchise. This the
HERALD admits. The HERALD, along
with the citizens living on Myrtle
avenue, have right to oppose the fran
chise. The HERALD claimed that an
Effort was being made to obtain the
franchise surrepticiously because the
reporter could not find single reslden-
| ter on Myrtle avenue who knew any
thing about the franchise until after it
was presented to the council, and just
as soon they did hear of it they i'm
| NJ edia'ely entered a protest Inc
| HERALD does not oppose the franchise
through any personal reasons against
Mr.. Wood or any of his associates in
| business, but this paper always takes
the side OF the people and property
owners and is opposed to the promis-
cuous granting of franchises, which
may in future retard the growth OF a
growing city. Furthermore the HER
AID does not believe that street car
line on Myrtle avenue would be NOR e
profitable than the present line On
| MagOtfin avenue. The HERALD does
not now believe that the council will
grant the franchise and it feels conf
dent that in it's efforts in opposing the
granting of the same it took the side OF
the people aud tue property owners in
tere st0d and this is where the HERALD
will always be found on all public is
sues. If it had not been for the HER
AID it is not likely that the asking
for the fran hise would have ever
been heard of through the press of this
city.
The Times has accepted the chal-
lenge of the HERALD for a bicycle re-
lay race to Us eta and back on August
%. Mr.. DevOra, the Times artist, will
have charge OF the Times end of the
affair. The HERALD is ready for al!
preliminary arrangement and rep
resentative of the HERALD is ready tC
meet Mr.. Devora ana make all arrange
ments at any time it will be convenient
to the Times man. 1t is best to make
all preparations as soon as possible.
! The police are making it exceedingly
warm for those parties who stand
around the streets and curse or use
obscene language. This is as it shou q
BE- and Offer Winkler will receive the
aid and support of the best citizens OF
El Paso in breaking up this obnoxious
! ustOm that has prevailed here ever
since the early days when this was q
rough and rowdy town. Ell Paso has
grown into city and the days OF
roughpess and rOwdyisen are over and
it is time the streets were freed of all
characters who use loud and indecent
language.
'Since when did Harry Wood become
| a guardian of the pOOr?" remarked a
| Myrtle avenue residenter this morning.
Harry says that a street car line will
| be a great advantage to poor people
| who are unable to own horse or buy
a bicycle. Now L would like to know
which would be the cheapest, b lying
wheel or riding on street car. AT
| the rate of 20 cents per day for street
car fare a poor man would pay out S72
a year. The same man can buy q
| bicycle for $50 and with care it would
last him four years and the bicycle
| could be bought Oh the installment
plan and he could make as many trips
as he wanted .nd never have to wait
for car. Why, only yesterday | saw
boy buy bicycle for fifty cents and
he got that much fun out of it in one
day
Hose company No. 2's base ball team
is seeking other fremens base ball
clubs to devour. Many off-haud chal-
| lenges have Teen made the Two's, but
they have always told the challengers
to go off and get a reputation. If the
| T@O's can find no one else to play then
| they will organize another ball team in
their owe ranks so they can keep them
selves in practice and show up as cham
pions should.
| The Postal elegraph company ran
shelr wire into the city office on Ore
gon street today. There was a protest
against the company setting up poles
next to the Sheldon building, but the
workmen began work at 3 o'clock in
the morning and two poles were up by
I O'Clock. They did the work at night
to prevent an injunction being gotten
out against them aud did not let any
one know what they were up to until
after the poles were up. The batter
les and dynamOs will be up and work
| ing within week and the Mexico con-
nections will probably be made by that
Tine.
The energy and activity manifested
hn Of III i<,,