El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-03-20
Union DEPOT PROJECT
Does Not Yet Appeal To Him
As a Matter Of The
Most Pressing Inn
portance

Coils P. Huntington has come to Et
Paso and has gone. He saw part of
Ell Paso, and part of Ell Paso saw him.
The tangible results are few.
Mr.. Huntington arrived this morn
ing at the G. 81. station at eight twen-
ty. The special train which carried
him laid over last night at Sierra
Blanca, and the start was made from
there this morning. The preside dent and
his immediate family travelled in two
cars, beautifully and comfortably fur
nished, called ''Oneonts," and 'sOne-
onta H.
The others on the special train were
q. E. Huntington, now. since the re-
signstion of George Crocker, second
vice-president of the S. P, in his car
Otsego: Julius Kruttsch nit. general
manager of the entire S. z. system, in
his car Guadalupe: General Manager
Van Week, of the Allan tic system, in
his car Texas; Division Superin ten
dents Martin and Randolph, in their
cars Sarsgosa and San Carlos, and VIII
| liam Hood, engineer of the s. P. sys-
TEN.
| With such an imposing array of rail
road magrates, it is no wonder that
crowd hung around the 6. 81. station,
and watched them ali with interest ur-
| til their train pulled out.
Mr.. Huntington alighted from the
| train almost as soon as it drew into the
| station, and started with his nephew,
| to look over some proposednew switch
ing arrangements to be made west of
Oregon street. A big man physically,
six feet tall, he carried himself we'll
and looked healthy and hearty. "And
You wouldn't think for moment"
said railroad man, In admiration,
'that he is eighty four years of age,
I'd has accumulated a million dollars
for every year he has lived.''
UNION DEPOT TALK.
"a new union depot for Ell Paso?"
said Mr.. Huntington, in answer to a
suggestion, Why not? Bat 1 cau't
say that our road has any i = fin ite
plans In that direction as yet. have
been frequently accused of doing more
for the people who use the road than
for the people who own it, and it has
been said that this has kept the
directors continually poor. This pol
Icy will 60 on, however, and [ am al
ways anxious to do what can for the
people along the road, but there are
now at least twenty localities asking
US to build branches and to N AXE i'm
provements. We must pay attention
to the most pressing, and though the
question OF the Ell Paso depot has come
up, it has never bean presented to US
with sufficient urging to make imme-
diats action imperative.
1t was suggested to Mr.. Hunting
ton that, as q recent editorial in the
New York Journal has represented
him as m aking plans hundred years
ahead, he might perhaps have planned
ething for El Paso within that
time, and could at least give his opinion
of the ctty's future prospects. The
reference to his planning far ahead
seemed to please the S. p. president,
but of Ell Psso, h said:
''The city may be a great city, and
it may not. 1t all depends on its own
people. III my eSblInaL San fran
cisco should nov be city Of million,
and California should have five mil
lion people, but these things are not
true: and it is because the people of
that state and city have not made
them so."
WHAT Ell PASO MAY BE.
To the suggestion that Ell Paso
might achieve the same relative i'm
portance to which Galveston had at
tanned, Mr.. Huntington said, "The
conditions are entirely different. Gal
weston is a water gateway. Ell Paso is
necessarily forever ar all rail point. I
have spoken of Galveston as the gate
way to the sea, which has been closed
heretofore on account of the lack OF
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