El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-06-29

Prof. Horn, OF Sherman, presented tne
claims and Inducements OF his town
personally and foroibly. He said that
Sherman would try to do as we'll as
we'll "a Ell Pase, but acknowled that
Sherman could not furnish the num-
Der and variety of natural attractions
to be enjoyed In Ell Paso. He also
expressed deep gratitude for the treat
ment he had received in Ell Peso and
on behalf of Sherman promised roy al
rece ption to the teachers at their next
meeting in that city.
L. r. Larkin, principal of prePar-
atorv department of Mesilla Park
college, said, st tho park this
morning, that one great feature
of the convention WAS the absence of
drunken men. 81 have not seen single
drurk ken man and l am greatly I'm
pre- sed by this as we'll "a the arrange
| meuts on the part Of the citizens OF FL
Paso They have done we'll by US and
| handled the crowds in q phenomenal
manner. am acquainted here and
knew that the town was all right but
she has done better than [ expected"
! It Isl queer thing to notice in coE-
ven sioos all over our land that WHOM
the country and the little villages are
q aimed of their men aud women, the
u
| being from the big cities, but only a
small percent OF the women are 80 re-
coguizable. The women of the remote
country places have the correct hats
and cravats while the men wear their
| boards, ties aud hats of ono or three
generations ago and never know the
difference. Il is clever of the women,
but that the men are not spry vt
fashions 10 NO discredis to them.
A convention crowd always empha-
sizes the we'll known fact that man 10 q
gregsrisus animal and Is rarely sasis-
fed to take his pleasure alone. The
groups about Ell PAso are Interesting to
watch now: 1t 10 a bearded father in an
old fashioned costume being pulled
about by two fresh faced daughters;
now it is mother with q daughter In
her teens who wander about together
getting different ideas from exactly the
same sigh ts: now 1t te group of half
dozen young teachers talking Ell PasO
ana east Texas, pedagogy and hats, bull
fights. music and books oil in the same
breath, and wanting tae interest of all
of their number for all of sixty things
at once.
@. A. Bryant, editor of the Texas
School Mag azine, published ~ Dallas,
is here introd ucinR his school journal
to the teachers and also represc d ting q
Dallss school supply house. The June
num Der If bis magazine cOnsaiAsd the
following prediction concerning the
more than verified: "This mag: zine
predic,s an unusually large attendance
for the State Teachers association At
Ell Paso. The attractions, pedagogical
and otherwise, are very strong. Pre-
sident Dodson has prepared most ex-
ceilent program. Superintendent Put
nam, with Ell Paso backing him, %
ready to welcome and roy ally entertain
all " no may elect to attend"
The beaming face of Prof. Hiram
asdley, the veteran educator from
Las Cruces, lights up the N ceilings of |
the S. T. A. When asked about the |
convention be said, 1.-THE convention |
is getting along nicely but you have 80 |
convention seems TO he taking second |
place in the minds of che teachers |
Prof.. Had ey has been residens of Las |
Cruces for thirteen years. when |
came 10 Las Cruces,h he said, there |
wasn't school in New Mexico within |
one hundred miles of the place." Prof. |
Gonzales was listener and at this |
point remarked. "Yes, Prof. Hadley
vas the leading factor in bringing the |
New Mexico Agricultural and Mechan-
ical college to Mesilia Park"
Prof. r. J. Kepke. principal of Rein
hardt city schools, has this 10 say of |
matters pertaining to the convention. |
The concert at the opera house WAS |
one of the finest ] ever heard have |
never heard anytblng to equal it. I
was surprised to learn that Ell Paso all |
all along the line. have been to several |
OF the teachers convention but Ell Paso |
has done more for the teachers than
any of the other places were attended.
The other places are fine cities and are
supposed to do things up in style but
Ell Paso being so far west and in what
was supposed to be desert country, It
the standard, but she has eclipsed even
the finest OF the cities with oil then
boosted resources
D. w. Croasley, superintendent of
the Corpus Christi public schools, is
attending tho convention both a. a
and Knight of Pythias. He
says that from K. of P. standpoint
everything is wide open aud he was
never treated better. or the concert
given at the opera house Wednesday
night he said: "The concert was the
best 1 ever attended aud, although I
have heard some of the finest vocal
music ever made in Europe, 1 have
never heard q better balanced aud
harmonious quartet than the ladies'
quartet of Ell Paso, Texas The
music they furnished at the concert
can not be surpassed. Prof. Cross.
ley was born in England and received
his education in that country and Ger
many and France. In point OF servise
be Is the second Oldest teacher In
Texas.
Prof. j @ WooseD, superintendent of
Paris city schools, figured prominently
In the patherfnr of neda0oouaa in III