El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1898-11-01

RlsSln that was QOne In the FAMILY
himself"
Gel Paso has fewer disastrous fires. q
said an aged citizen yesterday, "tha
any town of its size in the country.
During the past year there has not
| been b single fire of any consequence
in the city. Yes, L believe there was
| ore. jor Rand g residence was des
| stroyed, but it was long way out and
! far from a fire plug. One reason
l suppose that Ell Psso is immune
| from fires is that nearly all the houses
are built of brick. Brick not only
makes a more comfortable house win
ter and summer. than wood. but il also
renders O residence less liable to burs.
Ell Paso is entitled to be called the
| ''brick city
Ell Paso is being canvassed by agents
for the scetylene gas system of light
ing houses by home made gas. The
| iip hit made by this method is very
bright aud pretty. It is whittier than
any other light which is used for light
| ing purposes. The promoters claim
that it is the only light by which one
can tell blue from green. The com
psny who are placing it before the El
Paso community have put in plant at
the Chairman aud Ogden cigar store,
and every night number Of people
90 there to look at it and hear what
the agent has to say about the lights
| The apparatus Is very simple and
could be worked by any sensible boy.
John Krause, former re sident of Ell
Paso, is now paymas ter in the volun-
teer army with the rank of major. He
was appointed to his position from
Ohio. Krause is son-in-law of Mrs
Porter, who was formerly post mistress
| in this city.
The methods of some of Ell Paso's
| "business men" are quite beyond COM
prehension. The newspapers of the
city have considerable difficulty at
times to convince merchants and 9TH
ers that advertising pays. But it is no
unusual thing for some outsider to
come in and in a few days gather up "A
line OF advertising that means. q big
profit to everybody but the advertiser.
| AS an instance, let US cite a recent hap
nening. A man came to town and of
fered to furnish the Vendome hotel
with a water cooler free. He then wens
around to various business
alluring proposition. He offered
TO put their advertisements
on the water cooler for sixteen dollars
each, cash in advance. The man did,
so we are informed, carry out his con-
tract He corralled many of the lead
ing business men in town. and cajoled
them into paying for the advertise
ment. But it was only short time be-
fore the hotel was closed and where
now is the advertisement, where the
| sixteen dollars? Strange that our as
tute business men cannot turn their ad-
vertisements into legitimate channels.
the local newspapers.
"I'll tell you something ought to be
done with these fine capitalists that
are coming to Ell Paso every day." said
a prominent citizen last night in talk
ing to a reporter of the HERALD. Not
a day passes that two or three of them
don't come to me, with hard luck
story about the delay of the mails
in bringing them their money,
and ask me to lend them
five till their money comes, Every one
OF them, nearly, wears big. heavy,
gold lat least reckon it's gold) watch
chain and they put on as many airs as
if they were big thing, and had
money sure enough. I've given them
q supper or dinner two or three
times, but they don't catch me for any
five for l am not in a position to lose
that much and it's sure case OF lose
IL give it TO them. One
OF them in talking to me
today for loan of five, to clnch
the idea with me that he was going to
stay in the city. asked how much he
could rent furnished room for, and
told him he could get the best in town
for SIS. He said, What's that?-fi-f-
teen 6Ollsrsi l can rent a whole
house back in Illinois, where | come
f from, for that He was informed that
: he wasn't in illinois,, but here in Ell
4 Paso. l wish that there was something
3 that the town could do to get rid OF
3 such. l don't mind giving poor
7 lunger quarter to get something tC
!. eat with, but these great big strappine
! travelling capitalists, don't want them
arQuud."