El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-10-05
A. P. Coles Hits the Bidding
Up TO a Remarkable
Figure.
VAST ENTHUSIASM
Has Been Aroused BY the Car
aivaI Movement and Al
ready Ove 1900 Buttons
Have Been Sold.

! Enthusiasm and red fire, young
I blood and loyalty!
That's what tells in the long run and
that's what was in evidence when the
first carnival button was sold at public
outcry to the highest bidder in the
plaza last night where at least five
hundred people were assembled.
! A. P. Coles, the we'll known real es-
, tate man, was the successful bidder
for the first button. 1t was knocked
down to him for $500 cold cash.
| The vast assemblage in the plaza
may be regarded as the initial step
in the Inauguration of the carnival
campaign and if the enthusiasm of
the masses may be relied on the af-
fair is going to be a tremendous sue
cess.
, That Ell Paso feels able to hold the
carnival on grand scale was fully
demonstrated by the result of the gath
ering last evening and the movement
is now fully launched and sure to
win out those most interested feel as
sured.
| The first button brought 5000 and
went Il A. P. Coles; the second $50
and was bought by j. A. Graham of
the Ell Paso Engraving company and
the third went to Harry Chairman for
S25. Then came the scramble for but
tons at 81 each and before ten O'Clock
upwards of $500 cash in hand was the
result of the evenings work.
Sometime before the orations were
delivered last evening it became evil
dent that the crowd around the band
stand was under the influence of en-
. thusiasm and it did not take long for
, red fire served but as fuel to the flame
and when the band struck up its most
, patriotic air the crowd went wild.
t Judge James Harper. for DR.. H. H
Stark, opened the exercises and intro
duced the speaker of the evening.
Judge Coldwell. the oldest practitioner
, at the Ell Paso bar today.
| Judge Harper said:
1t is my pleasure and honor this
: evening to make the first appearance
, before an Ell Paso audience as the ad-
: vance guard of the Ell Paso carnival
Il There are three things in my life
for which 1 consider that have cause
to congratulate myself. One is that
was born an American citizen; the
, second that L was born in the state of
: Texas, that state which gave up its
place among the nations of the earth
to become one of the United States:
and the third is that when 1 reached
, my majority | cast my lot. first, last
and all the time in the city of Ell
. Paso'
Judge Coldwell being introduced
spoke entertainlngly for fully fifteen
minutes on the past. present and fu-
ture of Ell faso. saying that during
. the brief span of his life he had seen
a populous city spring up in the des-
ert- He had seen her people make her
what she is. and as to the future, it
depended on the resolution and energy
of the young men in the audience
About this time the roar of several To-
comotives drowned the voice of the
speaker and when they had passed
he Saiu:
| Il have been compelled to wait. as
you see. for the procession to go by.
but Ell Paso doesn't wait for anything.
But her future. The carnival motto is
we will Will we be worthy of our
past and present? Ell Paso never vet
Z. failed in anything. She has given her
word to the world ana never vet has
she broken her word. We have chosen
the Midwinter Carnival to commemor
ate the beginning of the century. our
motto Is We will,' 1t has been en-
graved on the first button Push the
, button and it will do the rest,"
The speaker was literally applauded
and as he passed the first button over
to the auctioneer, Captain Lyter. al
ready several bias of five and ten dol
lars had been offered. but before any