El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-04-23
INVITATION
TO Ell PASO
The Sights And Scenes Of
the Pass City
A NEW CIRCULAR LETTER
To the Teachers and Editors Of the
State, Setting Forth the Pleas
ure Visit will Give.


The chamber of commerce has pre-
pared a circular that VIII be cent GU
all over the territory included in the
teachers convention next June. The
J circular sets forth the ANY ad vautages
al d attractions OF Ell Paso and is az
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To editors, teachers and all others
interested:
The annual meeting of the Texas
State Teachers association for sthe
present year will be held 10 Ell Paso,
June Goth to Goth. We desire to i'm
press upon you the fact that this meet
ing will offer in a number OF import
ant particulars an uncommOniy favor
able and inviting opportunity for the
people of Eastern Texas, New Mexico,
Arizona and Old Mexico to visit this
unique and active city on the Mexican
bOro er, enjoy its pitality, visit q
numb Der of points of interest to which
| excursions will be made, and have q
good time generally.
Some of the more important excur-
sion rates already secured in connec-
ton with this meeting are as follows;
From points as far east as Dallas.
Sherman and Houston, the T. 81 P. al d
o. 81. & S. A. railway companies have
| granted q blans ct rate of $40 90 for the
round trip. The tickets can be extend
ed, if desired. to August 9Th. Compa-
risOn with the rates offered from Ell Paso
east to Texas points on account of other
gatherings during the summer, will
show that the teachers convention rate
to Ell PasO and return is only one-third
to one-half of the rates from Ell Paso
to these eastern points.
| The Santa Fe has granted a rate of
one fare for the round tip from points
in New Mexico TO El Paso and return,
and the Southern Pacific west from Ell
Psso will probably give about the same
rate. Low rates will also be in effect
on the Sierra Madre, the Ell Paso s.
Northeastern and the Mexican Central.
Unusually favorable rates are also
offered visitors who may wish to tax e
trip from Ell Paso into old Mexico, as
follows:
Ell Paso to the City of Mexico and re-
turn, S25; Ell Paso to Zacatecas and re-
and return, Sl7.20: Ell Paso to Chihua-
hua and return, 81 so; Aguascalientes
to San Luis Potosi and return, So 90:
Aguascalientes to Tampico and return,
ST. so: Irapuato to Guadalajara and re-
turn, So. %.
All these rates are in U. S. currency
and are about one cent per mile.
A trip from Ell Paso to the beautiful |
mountain resort Of Cloudcroft and re-
turn the same day has been arranged |
for, at a round trip rate of SO. 90. This |
trip is one of the most unique aud en-
Joyable excursions open to the tourist |
anywhere. 1t cannot be described 1t |
must be experienced. The railrC ad |
which ascends the mountain is itself |
wonder OF engineering, and 1t climbs |
up, up, up among the clouds TO an ele- |
walton of nine thousand feet, where are
great forests of pine, pure cold spring
water, air that Is not merely cool but
cold even in mid summer, and mountain
views that are rarely equaled in
grandeur and picturesqueness.
Another exceedingly interesting
ne arby trip is that from Ell Paso to
the Ell Paso Smelling Works, three
miles from the city. one Of the largest
smelling plants in the world, visit to
which will give some idea of the
prodigious quantity of mineral that
pours into Ell Psso aud the manner ia
which it is disposed of.
Just across the river from Ell Paso,
reached by street car ride at cost
OF Is cents for the round trip. is the
City of Juarez, a hoary old Mexican
town, typicslly Mexican in all its
aspects, with its massive old adobe
church, it's bull ring. and nearly
everything in marked contrast with
what is seen on the American side of
the river.
hC Eoh vi luCdl |
Is not yet complete, bat will include
one or more band concerts, a concert
by the Ladies' Quartette, and a recep-
ton by the Ell Psso Woman's club.
How many people can Ell Paso take
care Of?
Ell Paso can take care of every body
who will come. Il will provide every
body good food and a comfortable place
TO sleep, at moderate cost. The hotels
will charge for one person in one room
with meals 81. so to So so per day, or
where two people occupy room,
sl.25 to 200 each. Good beds In
apartment houses and private residen-
ces will cost from so to 10 cents per
night, and good meals a. restaurants
cents.
Local committees willlook after the /
interest and comfort of guests, and no 1
sx.ortion will be permitted.
Ell PAso's new natatorium and roof
garden, the finest and best equipped
n the state, will be ready for the pub
lie by J1ne: the root garden affordine
ng m ceilings of the convent ton.
Remember that Ell Paso climate is ,
1ot the climate of eastern Texas
While eastern Texas will be swelter-
ng in the moist, heavy heat of thas
'ePiOn, Ell PasO will be cool, pleasant, {
,njo able, both day and night. Our ele-
yeIlOu, dry air and perpetual breez3
insure comfort even In mid summer.
And finally for the convention itself. ;
While it will be primarily q meeting
II the State Teachers association, on
his occasion 1t will be much more
han that. 1t will be, as Prof. Putnam,
of the Ell Peso public
chools, has sptly characterized it,
"A great southwestern educational
mass meaning. - Il W LII he moi naraly |