El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1898-11-15
The Spectator.

Residents of Ell PasO no doubt be-
lieved that their present street car
system was the worst on earth, but 1T
seems that there are others. One of
the amusing features of the streets OF
Manila is the street car system, says q
1t is not a horse car
system, inasmuch as the cars are
tugged along by q diminutlve pony
about the size OF yearl1ng heller.
1t is always with great reluctance that
the driver stops the car to take on a
passenger, for the poor little pony,
once the momentum is lost, with the
greatest difficulty succeeds In getting
the car started again on its journey,
and frequently this is only accomplish
ed DO making q portion of the passen-
gers disembsrk. And then, too, the
track Is SO poorly. constructed that the
car frequently leaves the rail, and then
there is more grievous trouble for the
poor little pony, who, must
s noa;einn rS lug o,her o dsx io nsr
brawny United States soldiers took
pity on the pony and surprised the
carload OF Spaniards and natives who
stood chattering alongside, by picking
the car up bodily and dropping 1t back
on the rails. Our stalwart, healthy,
muscle-hardened soldiers are a con-
slant source of amazement to the effe-
Iulu6Ge, uuucTSlZeO Op6ulsu anu III
surgent soldiery, who seem like child
rem in their presene. Then there's
| another thing about these street cars.
The driver instead of ringing bell to
warn people, blows q whistle. And
such q whistle! 1t is an infantile tin
affair that sounds like those whistles
with which the small boy at certain
| seasons of the year sets his neighbor-
hood wild. It seems that the civil
sd IL
real respectable watchman's alarm
| whistle, ard for fear that the two
might become COMPOUNDED the au-
thOrities compelled the street car COM
pany to make use of the musical toy,
which, when You first hear it, makes
you smile, and after you have enjoyed
il a few hours fills you with an almost
irrepressible desire to kill some one.
The bull fights across the border at
Juarez will begin Dec. 4 and will
doubtless be patronized by thou
sands OF Americans. In fact Americans
appear to relish the brutal sport almost
as much as it's Originators. The tor
turing and putting to death of dumb
brutes by godlike men for
the amusement OF the po-
pulace has always been considered
degrading and debasing by modern
Christian nations and in the United
States prohibitory laws against it are
enforced. Cuba has long been the
bull fighters paradise and to deprive
the Inhabitants of that unhappy isle of
their beloved amusement would be
terrible blow to them. With the pros
pect of Cuba becoming a territory of the
United States they fear that bull fight
ing will be prohibited and another
revolution is threatened. The bull
lighters themselves dread being
thrown out of employment. A late
dispatch from Havana says: At a re-
cent meeting of the professional bull
fighters in Havana it was determined
to forward to President Mckinley a
petition that after the beginning of
American control, there would be
no legal steps taken to prevent
them from carrying on their amuse-
| ment. The bull fighters declare that
\ their livelihood depends upon their
ability to continue in their chosen pro-
fession and that 1t would be a sore dis
| appointment to the people of Havana
| if their chief entertainment was for
| hidden. The gladiators will state that
| Gen. Lee during his residence in Cuba
never missed an opportunity to witness
a fight. They also declare that all
Americans who have witnessed a bull
~ CIV orc srSduiy Pieoseo With Gne per-
| Torrance.
Ell PasO authorities have long COM
! planned that pauper invalids and i'm
beetles of every description, with
] which New Mexico is at ali times over
run are sent here whenever the
! towns along the Santa Fee railway want
to get rid of them. The following
from an Albuquerque paper is but one
| of the many instances recorded where
in paupers have been dumped upon Ell
Paso by the liberal minded authorities
of the New Mexico towns: Chilly Mes-