El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-12-28
UNIQUE FEATURES
And There Will Be a Number
Of Conventions That Will
Attract All Kinds
If People

eAoOs
even among those who have been its
prime movers, who realize fully what
the Midwinter Carnival is going to be
and Just what it will be worth to Ell
PasO
1t is easy to say that it will be a
great thing and most everybody now
realizes that fact, but what will come
of it; what will be the result during
the carnival week; what it has already
done, and what has been made positive
as the result of the associations work,
not to mention what the probable per-
a great many people right here in the
city have yet grasped.
The association was formed by
young men, none of them largely inter
ested financially in the city. and at a
time when the proposition had just
been dropped by the chamber of COM
merce. They were all new in the bus
mess, none of them ever having been
interested in such an affair before,
and have already made wonderful
success of it. The attractions that
have been secured are now greater in
number and variety than has been
seen at any carnival ever given in a
small city and fully equal to anything
ever given in Kansas City or similar
places. Some of the features of the en-
tertainment are greater in magnitude
than were ever seen in any part of the
west and many others are that whicn
can only be given in Ell Paso because
of its location. The volcanic eruption
of Mt. Franklin could not be success
fully given in any clly in the United
be seen in one other town. The pa
rades and the illuminations are in the
charge of the men that have made.
such occasions notorious in the large
cities of the north and they contend
that nothing more grand was ever seen
than will be seen here.
So much for the attractions.
1t is generally believed that the at
fractions will be equal to any occasion
but there may be some who are not in
formed on what the carnival has done
and will do for Ell Paso.
Some time ago a movement was
started to have a mining convention
here. That convention is now an as
sured thin gand could never have been
made a success but for the carnival
which has given cheap rates and Offer
ed other attractions to bring the min
ing men here.
The local cattlemen have been try
ing for a long time to get the cattle
men of this territory interested in Ell
Paso and made every effort to get q
cattle convention here. All efforts
failed until the carnival association
arranged for rates and attractions that
will bring them and now the cattle
mems convention is an assured fact
The chamber of commerce has been
using every effort to get the neighbor-
ing towns to bring exhibits of their
products here but very few responded
until the carnival association adver-
tised Ell Paso and received assurance
that the largest crowds ever seen in
Ills city would be here from every
part of the country. AS a result many
OF the mining towns have collected
good exhibits and will attend the car
nival and probably for the first time
become interested in Ell Paso as place
of meeting and trading.
The El Paso Medical association has
been endeavoring to organize tri-
state medical association here but have
failed to get the people here to take
an interest. The carnival has brought
the crowds or assured them and a
convention of all the medical men in
Texas, New Mexico and Arizona and
that association will be permanently