El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-02-02
CORNER STONE
CELEBRATION
High Time That Preparations
Are Being Made.
COMMlTTEESA ARE WANTED

May Prove An Unrlvaled success
And In Every Way Creditable To
the Queen City Of the Southwest
A Few Suggestions.
Tonight it is scheduled that the city
council shall open bids for the new
municipal bonds and the program will
be carried out unless 1t Is decided to
hold q special meeting for the ex-
elusive purpose of opening the bids
and awarding the bonds to the highest
bidder.
A number of parties, representing
bankers and brokers in distant points,
are now in the city to bid for the bonds
and it is expected that premium OF at
least per cent. will be derived from
the sale.
CORNER STONE CELEBRATION.
1t Ia also believed that the three
corner stone committeeman. Messrs.
Drummer, Badger, and Clifford, will
seize the opportunity offered them just
after the adjournment of the council
and proceed to appoint sub commit
tees to arrange for the laying OF the
corner stone.
It Is high time that something was
being done in that direction. The
citizens of Ell Paso generally have
shown q disposition to aid in making
the celebration q success and the news
papers evince'a desire to boom the
enterprise and it looks as If nothing Is
lacking and needed to start the ball to
rolling, except for the committee OF
councilmen to appoint subcommittee
and let the arrangements go forward.
NO REAL OBJECTION.
"There is very little if any objection
heard to the proposition to hold the
celebration on st. Pstrick's day." said
q citizen yesterday. "Of course there
are always q few soreheads to object to
everything, but they don't count.
''If there existed any real objection
to laying the corner stone on ST. Pat
rick's day the exercises might be held
on Washington's birthday, which falls
on the 22d of this month.
yesterday morning the Times sug-
gested the names of q number OF pro-
minent citizens for appointment on
the sub committees. These names
they go, but few of those mentioned
might serve to better purpose in some
other capacity.
''The names of proposed committee
men, as mentioned, ARE:
On transportation: A. Krakauer, A.
X. Albers. G. w: Fassett, J: P: Dieter,
8. J. Prudential, L. N. He'll, Henry
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son ball: J. W. Msgofin. w. G.
Wall, E. P Brown, w. NJ. Gillespie,
w. r. Brown. F. p. Clark, John Hap
per, Harry Carpenter, q. 8. Stewart,
Sam Kraksuer, A. J. Shutz, r. W.
Curtis, w. 81. Burgess, F. E. Hunter, ].
n: Russell. Britton Davis:
son supper:-D. w. Reckhart, M;
Schaefer, w. J. Fewel, w. T. Hixson,
n. p. Noake. p. w. Pitman, 81. p.
Chairman, J. Calisher.
ION parade:-Chas. Davis, Juan S.
Hart, W. S. McCutcheon, AL Howard,
George Ogden. G. r. Morehead, W.
81. Austin, Henry Capell, prof. Put
nam, 81. r. Wood.
ORATORS NEEDED.
''Several orators will be needed to
enliven the occasion with their elo-
quence and such men as Judge Crosby,
Hon. Leigh Clark, Juan Hart, and
Judge Coldwell ought to be selected
for the purpose and requested to make
short speeohes' Just long enough to let 81;
orators Ell PasO produces.
"Another thing. few of the pencil
pushers ought to be recognized.
There is nothing that presents itself
that appears feasible and beneficial to
the town that the newspaper men do
not back up vigorously, and yet as a
general thing they receive no recogni-
ton whatever.
81. Darsey Ponder is the man who
conceived the idea of holding the cele- |
bration and if he is not too modest, he at |!
least, ought to be given a prominent
place on one of the committees.
"Let him be made chairman of q |
press committee. composed of newspa-
per men, whose duty it will be to see
that the celebration gets its full share
of free advertising.
James A. Nabb, graduate optician,
removed to room 5, Morehouse block.