El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-12-21
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DIED ON THE TRAIN.

DIED ON THE TRAIN.
One of(the tourist cars that arrived
ON the G. H. this morning had corpse
in q berth 1t was the body OF Elra
Bradshaw. aged 16, of Boyceville, Wis
consin. Young Bradshaw was on his
way to Los Angeles in company with
his father, N w. Bradshaw, merch-
ant of Boyceville. The young man was
a sufferer from a disease of the bone
which had attacked his arm and it had
been amputated. But his blood had
been poisoned by the disease and he
never recovered from the effects of
it but he was not thought to be so
near death.
Mr.. Bradshaw said that about 2
o'clock this morning he was up and
gave his son a drink. He and his son
had berths just opposite each other and
he heard him complaining and he
seemed restless but as that was no IN
common thing he did not get up to
look after him any more until about
o'clock. He was shocked to find his
boy had passed away. The body was
still warm and it was evident that he
had not been dead more than an hour.
An undertaken was notified to meet
tie train and tie body will be en-
balmed here preparatory to shipment
back home. Mr.. Bradshaw has not de-
cided which way he will return, as he
will have to make arrangements about
transportation. He has ticket to San
Francisco but will not want to go that
way now. He will probably return
over the G. H. as soon as arrangements
can be made. He is terribly broken
up over the unexpected death of his
son. The young mans death was prob
ably caused by the high altitude about
Alpine. near which place the death
occurred.
ABOUT TOURIST TRAVEL.
Ed Lamb. the popular St. Louis ex-
cursion agent, passed through this
morning with eighteen people. He says
that the tourist travel still holds up
well and with him the business is in
creasing. He has only been running a
short time and is just beginning to
build up a good business. He believes
that the travel over all routes west
ward will be heavier than now imme-
diately after the holidays. He assigns
as a cause Tor the heavy travel to Cali
fOrnia the flooding of the east with
advertising matter regarding the at
fractions of California The fad used
to be to go to Florida to spend the
winter. The travel that is seen pass
ing westward was seen passing south
ward until California woke up and be-
gan to invite them to come over and
spend the winter with her. That adj
vertising pays is proved by the fact
that the tide of tourist travel has been
turned from the south to the west by
advertising and the men who contrib
uted to the fund to bear the expenses
of this advertising are reaping the rich
harvest. What California has done Ell
Paso can do. The attractions of this
place as a winter resort should be adj
vertised in the east by printed matter
being distributed there. People who
buy through tickets to San Francisco
from the east are surprised to see such
a town here. They did not know it
was here. They say that if they had |
known it in time they would have
made arrangements to stop off here a
while, or to have made this the ter
minus of their trip. Ell Paso should
follow the example of the California
towns and advertise.
AS TO BULLETIN BOARDS.
The state railroad commission in
session at Austin has issued in regard
to railway bulletin boards the follow
ing order: Whereas. upon investiga-
lion it is ascertained that some of
the railway companies in this state do
not require bulletin boards to be kept
attheir depots with proper informa-
ion thereon, and, whereas, much COM
3laint is made by the travelling pubic
Is to the failure of depot agents to
give them such information as they
doubtless have of the probable time !
II arrival of delayed trains; it is there |,
ore ordered by the railroad commits
ion of Texas that all railway COM {.
,anies subject to the Jurisdiction of :
his commission are hereby required to !.
leep in some conspicuous place at their :
passenger depots where the public can :
zee it a bulletin board upon which \
hall be bulletined each day the regu-
ar time of arrival and departure of all
ocular passenger trains, and when
my such train is for any cause de-
aged notice and time of such delay J.,
must be ascertained from the dispatch :
r from time to time and noted on said
'Oard until the arrival of such train, to :
he end that the public may be able to /
orm such correct idea, as to the time =
# the arrival of delayed trains. a
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