El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1898-12-30
The Spectator.

We are always hearing plaintive
howl from foreign critics, that Am.
orleans have no diplomatic manners"
Since our recent entrance into
world politics they are lying in wait
to see what break we will really make.
All France lifted its hat to Benz amin
franklin; john Jay was regarded in
that country as model of dtgnifed
courtesy. John Y. Mason, of Virginia,
so far commended himself at the Tuil.
leries by his diplomatic manners"
that the Emperor Napoleon III,
with his own hand wrote to ask the
president not to remove him from Pa
ris to London. Later Mr.. 'Bsyard was
so we'll regarded in England for his
"diplOmat Manners as to bring
criticism upon himself at home for be-
ing "too agreeable to foreigners"
John Hay made an equally good re-
cord, and General Horace Porter.
Andrew D. White, and others are still
favorites. Certainly we have not
shown ourselves lacking in diplom a.
lists possessed of diplomatic man
ners."
When we hear discussed the subject
of American as compared with English
manners, this anecdote is brought for
chilly to mind.
"There,'' said the guest triumphant
ly to his host, as be pointed to q pair
of booted legs resting on the window
sill of an upper room, which greeted
| their eyes as they walked in the gar
den toward the house,-"there is a
sample of American manners!'
"I don't know" replied the pro-
prietor of the hotel, who is the occu-
| pant of that room; but l will wager
| a bottle of champagne with you that
! he is not one of my countrymen.
The challenge was instantly accepted ,
and on inquiring of the clerk of the
| hotel, it was found that the owner of
the protruding boots was young
| English nobleman.
| "Well," said the discounted better,
! with ready wit, sit is surprising how
readily our people, when they come
over here, acquire your habits!'
! While Ell Paso is considering the RAJ
pid transit question it would be we'll,
perhaps, If those whO.have the matter in
charge would investigate and learn the
cheapest, simplest, and most satisfact-
DRY power, that could be used for ope.
rating the line. The cable first ans.
! wered the purpose for rapid transit and
then came electricity which revolution
lied street surface travel. But now
electricity past? Since the sd
vent of Letter into the field OF
} compressed air this query is banded
about among those who have to do with
electricity as applied to street railways
By some it is said that cars propelled
! by compressed air will soon take the
place of both the cable and electric
cars. The method of operating by
compressed air is so much simpler tn an
. electricity that millions of capital have
already been interested in the subject,
1t will probably not be long before the
| people of the large cities of the United
States will speak of taking the ''air
car" instead of the cable or the electric
1t will not be easy to persuade the
owners of electric street railway plants
to cast aside as usel s. the material up
On which they have spent large sums
in putting up new plant, even though
the expense of running may be much
smaller. The only hope of the air
power people is that certain cities in
which the overhead trolley is now used
will pass ordinances polling the re-
mOval of the wires. 1t might be q
good idea for Ell Paso to look into the
matter of compressed air motors.
"The life of reporter" said news
paper man yesterday, sis not always
pleasant. Many a man occupying q
high station or holding public office
owes 1t to the newspaper men that he
was ever dragged from obscurity. In
spite of this reporter will run across
many an old duffer, who when
| he talks too much for
publication, is ready TO rush
| into print and assert that the
| newspapers have misquoted him. This
way of escaping condemnation is like
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