El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-02-10
TRIP INTO MEXICO.
Experiences and Observations OF
Mrs c. N. GrosVenor, Now VISIT
inq Her Parents and Children In
Mo.o~hSc

Mrs. Charles N. GrOsvenor, VINO
spends most of her time with Mr.. Gros-
venor in E Paso, Tex, is at home on a
visit to her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Ma
poleon Hill, and her children, who are
here attending school, say the Mem
| phis Commercial Appeal.
a week ago Mrs. GrOsvenor was the
guest of Mr.. and Mrs. George Hart
man, in their private car, while on a
tour of inspection of the Mexican Cen
trail railroad and it's branches. Mr..
| Hartman is the superintendent OF the
road, but lives in Ell Paso, Tex, pre-
ferring the United States to Mexico IS
an abiding place. yet is SO rear me
northern terminal Of the road that 1t Is
ONLY q few minutes walk or ride to
reach it.
While on this trip the car was side
tracked every night, and the journey
continued the next day. A number OF
new branches have b en- built to points
of profit a little way remote from the
a distance of seventy-fve or eighty
miles from the main line, and about
300 miles below chihuahua. The peo-
pie had never seen a train OF cars be-
fore, and when the first train went out
guards had to go along to keep
them off the train and
away from the track. They
appeared to have no reverence for the
locomotive, nor any idea of the danger
there was in getting in front OF it on
the track.
At Lerdo Mrs. Grosvenor vas much
interested in the cotton and the cotton
mill there. One mill, which is owned
bv Price, Terreon & Price, has Az
looms running all the time. and
spindles enough to keep the looms
busy. The MILL is a one-story building,
but is fitted with all the latest ma
chinery for weaving white cotton cloth.
Lerde is q Spanish town or settlement,
in the midst of a vast cotton district
The cotton there is only planted once
in three years. IL grows very Tall.
something as it does here in the river
bottoms. The .bOlls are very large,
but the staple, Mrs. Grosvenor says, is
shorter than the cotton grown here.
The San Pedro road, a branch. goes
through the cotton country.
1t was Sunday morning when Mr..
Hartman aud his party reached Lerdo,
and the peous for miles around were
coming into town to spend Sunday
The street cars there are first and sec
ond class, but both kinds were being
filled with the people going up into
the town. Lerdo is a typical Mexican
town, with it's adobe houses, but has
electric lights and many modern i'm
~prOvements.
Mrs. IrOSV0QOr nO'eu bu0 OStOOhl IL
which both MI. and Mrs. Hartman are
held by the Mexicsns. The women,
wives of the employees of the road
made Mrs. Hartman presents OF ex'
ouisite drawn work which they lave
made, and one gave her q rebozo which
is over 800 ear old. It is embroider'
ed with love scenes. First, the lover;
meet in the garden; second, Romeo il
under the balcony window playing his
guitar; in the third scene they are flee
ing: in the fourth they have beer
captured and each one is in the hand:
of q captor, and the last scene shows
them being burned ct the stake.
One of the lines or branches travers'
ed was the one to the famous gold and
silver mines of .Sierra Mojada. The
country is q most desolate looking one
there, but the mines are the richest tC
be found anywhere.
While on their trip the funeral ca
& of Senior Romero passed, IN route from
Washington, where he was minister
/ from Mexico, to his home in the Cit!
i If MeYicO-