El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-10-08


Never more prosperous.-lh'
Herald Complimented. A Big
Sdnitarium.
III ecial Correspondence of the HERALD
SAN ANTONIO, Texas, Oct. =
With so much going on in this old
town. the metropolis OF the great Lone
Sta state, The Herald correspondent
been unable TO write N news OF
late. although he has kept the wires
pretty hot telling the readers OF this
excellent sound-money. good-govern-
ment newspaper what has been going
on down this way.
The Galveston storm first came up
me put all the newspaper men on
double duty. followed closely by two
republican state conventions. some not
partisan primaries. the selection OF
plans for the new Carnegie library.
etc, all of which kept the newspaper
boys jumping. The Herald representa-
tive. to be in the lead like his excel
lent paper. went to the scene or the
trouble at Galveston and sent out the
news crisp and fresh and IL the read
ers OF that paper imagine that he had
"A picnic they were never more badly
mistaken. Why, the wires were so
crowded hat il was almost impossible
to get stuff" out and had The Her
aid scribe not been a personal friend
Of some of the managers. he would
have not treated its readers with as
many details as he did.
Returning from Galveston. the
scribe jumped into the Green cakewalk
and HawIey convention and covered
them. Contrary to expectations every
thing passed of quietly, the Hawley-
ties refusing to associate with Mr..
Green's followers and then denying
the railroad magnates the pleasure OF
shutting them out, as was his inten-
ton. With the majority of the eXecu-
tive committee backing them. includ-
ing the ones hired" by Mr.. Green and
those who bolted later. the HawIeyites
decided to do the shutting out" them
selves and after Mr.. Green refused To
preside over them, held their own con-
yention. which is no doubt the regular
one. The Green leaders are already
looking blue and dropping their jaws.
Following the Green convention the
city council look up part of every day
for about 4 week trying to decide on
Il plan for the new Carnegie library
and finally adopted n by Mr.. James
Wahrenberger. of this city, that is a
beauty. He is now drawing the speci-
fications and il will soon he erected
at a cost of $50 900
This selection over. the city was
at once absorbed in the primaries for
NLt u II UNIT ~ oPRCoS NAAS
present county officials at the polls.
There were numerous candidates for
places on the ticket and the voting
was lone as if a regular election was
in progress. The final result was an
yesterday and the ticket Is
strong.
The court house people will select
their ticket tomorrow night at a mass
meeting
The race is already warming up and
H. T.. Salliway. candidate for county
judge on the court house ticket. has
already had a rough-and-tumble with
an ardent supporter of the opposition.
While the election contests are at
white heat. the old town will soon be
given other things to discuss. The
5000, 900 for the city's recent issue of
street Improvement bonds have just
arrived and the work of a%sphalting ev-
cry business street in the city will be-
gin about the same time hat the
gates to San Antonio's big fair will
be thrown open. This will no doubt
be the biggest thing yer seen in tx
as-the best racing. finest livestock
and poultry exhibit. as well as the
machinery and other displays. aug
mented in their attractiveness by Mex
leo snational xhibit and fine band.
The gates of the big show will open
october 20.
'ht vi Gtt Oic6NSN oaE VI Nit IAN
will be that assigned to the Woodmen
OF the World. October %. The Wood
men ave invited everyone of the
camps in the state to be present and
almost all the Sovereign officers will
be here. The Woodmen have a mem
sership of over $4,000 in Texas. The
local camps have erected a log cabin
on the grounds IS headquarters. The
Herald's San Antonio man is a chop
per and If any of the choppers from FL
Paso. should attend the fair he will
how them the town
The San Antonio city council re-
Gently passed a resolution to call for
bids for a municipal waterworks plant
and it looks as il the DID town was
about to get out of the grasp Of the
corporation now doing out this fluid.
The people believe they AVE a right
to put on a few airs now since Census
Director Merriam has officially de-
clared us the largest body of people in
the state. and they may buy a whole
lot of other things. On the whole the
old town was never more prosperous
in her history. Besides the street paw
ing. Carnegie library, etc. already
mentioned as future improvements for
the city. a large new market house sur
mounted by a mammoth convention
hall is just being completed. new and
substantial -four and five-story build
ingS are In course o ferectlon on every
business street, the Katy railroad is
now building in here. the Brownsville
road is soon to build out. a new tele-
phone company is putting in an ex-
change here and there are other i'm
provements too numerous to mention.
Uncle Sam has just k cognig-
ance of our growth and has increased
our letter carrier force to twenty
three men. The clerical force in the
Postoffice has also recently been in
creased.