El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1898-11-07
standing that his name was not to ap-
pear in print.

pear in print. .
Physicians and undertaxers ought to
be the best judges of the health of a
| the other buries the dead. If under
takers thrive it is fact beyond dis
pute that the death rate of the COM
munity is great. A we'll known under
taker of this city said yesterday: Gel
Paso is undoubtedly the most favorab BILE
town in which to rear children that
ever saw. 1 have persued my vocation
in many cities in various parts eff the
United States and fewer children are
buried here than in any town of it's
size 1 ever visited. The climate seems to
agree with them wonderfully. The
majority are fat and healthy continual
ly and the most dangerous diseases are
resisted with but little difficulty and
rarely prove fatal. Speaking of con-
tageOus diseases among children re-
minds me of a season when 1 was locat-
ed in Alameda, California. What is
known as black diphtheria rag
of homes were desOlated and in many
instances two or three children died
in one huose. Undertakers were going
day and night and many times I was
called to home to take away little
corpse and by the time 1 could get
back to my place of business would re-
ceive telephone call from the same
family, notifying me to return and
prepare another infant for burial.
Those were horrible times for parents
and many happy homes were desolated
and the prattle of children WITHIN them
forever silenced, but undertake rs, doc
tore, and death reaped a rich harvest.
Its an i'll wind that bio VS. nobody
good.
Today as q reporter of the HERALD
was passing along the street in front of
one of the local markets, he was stop
ped by man who boards at the restau-
rants, as many people in Ell Paso have
to do. The attention of the reporter
was called to the over crowded way in
which chicken coops are shipped to Ell
Paso. The cOops to which the man re-
ferred we're shipped in from Abilene,
Kansas, and there were in one case
three dead chickens, and in the other
there were four. In each coop was a
small tin can, which was put there for
the purpose of holding water for the
poor things. Both cups were dry, as if
they had never known that there was
such thing as water. The shippers
suppose that the express messengers
will ill these cups, but in this they are
mistaken, and in consequence, when
chickens are shipped from this dis
lance, some of them always die. These
coops are sold to the retail dealers and
some are sold to the Chinese restau-
rants, and the heathens serve up the
dead chickens just the same as they do
Many persons in this city are in
the habit of having their soiled
linen washed in their back yards
once week by woman, who comes to
the premises to perform her labors.
While the clothes are being boiled in
the yard the children of the family are
permitted to frolic and romp in dan
gerous proximity ito the boiling
water, unconscious of the dangers they
incur. A person who closely examines
the telegraph columns of the large
dailies will find that with astonishing
regularity appear items like the fol-
lowing, from the Dallas News, under
the caption ''child scalded to death"
Denton, Texas, Nov. The 1-year
old girl of Will Bently, living several
miles north of Boliver, suffered hor-
rible death this week by being scalded
to death by boiling water. Mrs. Bent
ley had left tub full of boiling water
sitting on chair in room In which
the little child was, and the infant
catching hold of chair, pulled the
water over on itself, scalding it SO bad
ly that death resulted shortly"
This morning while reporter .of
the HERALD was, watching force of
men taking down the old wires of the
telephone company citizen came up
to him and made the remark; at is in
teresting to watch men DO work when
they are up in the air like that fellow
is. when they put up these
cables l would stand there in the corn
err all the morning and watch the men
work. That certainly is an improve
ment. just look there, where SO many
wires used to cross San Antonio street
along Ell PssO street; now that looks q
great deal better. I'll be glad when
they take these shabby looking old
poles down for they are a disgrace