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El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-05-16
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abiding place can be found under the
sun.
The cloud climbing route from
AlsmogOrdO is marvellous both for the
wond er OF the possibilities of engineer
ing and for the beauty of the scenery
of the white sands of far off and near
by mountain tops and of valleys fal
below. The observation cars permit
one to have unlimited and unhinder ed
view of it all. The account of view
rom the car just after leaving Alamo
gordo and before reaching La Luz, is
alluring.
"Very soon we are looking back upon
birds eye view of the town, and, to
the west, far out on the plains, appear
the world famous white sands-thai
vast, billowy bed of snow white, granu-
lated, pure gypsum, forty to fifty miles
In length by ten to twenty miles In
width-while In the background, fifty
miles across the plain, stretches the
western border of the Tulsrosa Valley,
here called the San Andress Noun
tains.
"This will be the background of the
grand panorama soon to be before you,
along the dizzy heights of your noun
tain CHM b. Toe picturesque little hamlet
of La Luz (the Light lies tmm ediately
at the mouth of the canon, with its
wealth of verdure, of cottonwoods,
orchards and vineyards. An abrupt
turn brings US at once into the canon
narrow, precipitous valley. hardly
more than wide enough for the rail-
road, creek and wagon road"
From TobOggan on Ia the steepest
part of the climb. "Cloudcroft is only
about mile beyond but Is likewise
nearly q mile above. The valley is too
steep to follow further and too narrow
In which to turn with even q 30 degree
curve, so we simply ''switch back" to-
ward Alsmogordo but all the time
climbing up, up on the side of the
mou q tain until we are looking far down
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-05-16
Manager Mudge's Car.

Private car number PIG has just been
turned out of the Santa Fe shops alto
peka and is said to be one of the finest
and most convenient cars on wheels.
The dining room is placed in the CEN
ter OF the car instead of at the end
The car contains two state rooms each
with four berths and each state
room has its marble basin connec =
ed with both hot and cold water tanks
The car Is fitted up perfectly and has
all of the latest machinery for regis
tering speed, gauging air etc. The
Santa Fe has reputation for it's fine
private cars and this is the best one
now on the Santa Fe. It Is for the use
of General Manager b. U. Nudge.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-05-16
RECKLESS ENGINEER
A Feat That Falls Little Short of The
Marvellous


A Walsenburg, Colorado. letter says
Wade, engineer of Rio Grande
passenger train No. ZIG from Alamosa
to Pueblo, performed feat yesterday
which falls little short of marvellous.
There was large washout just east OF
the La Veta. The track was covered
waist deep with water. Wade had
instructions to stop at the wsshout,
aud If dangerous to back his train to
La Veta and wait until the road was
cleared which would have delayed the
train twelve hours
The brave engineer stopped at the
edge of the rushing water, then
opened wide the throttle and like q
skater on thin ice dashe1 over to the
other side and safety. The tracks sank
under the weight of the heavy train ::
the water washed the top Of the wheels
and through 1t all the passengers
remained unconscious of how near
death they really were. The west
bound train was not so fortunate. The
water had washed out all the ties and
gravel by the time they reached the
place, so the train was backed to
Walsen burg aud held for eight hours,
while Roadmaster Hechler and large
gang of section men repaired the
track.
No Overall & Sack Coat so good as
We have them. The
Union Clothing Co.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-05-16
depots, will leave for New Orleans to-
night for a MONTH visit.

depots. will leave for New Orleans to-
night for months visit.
Frank Foss, pumper at Fort Han
cock, has returned to his duties after
several days lay over in this city.
| Seventeen cars OF young steers from
Mexico are in the Santa Fee stock pens
they will be fattened for market.
J. De Sausaurers, an expert tele-
erapher from Memphis Tenn. is In the
city being q guest of Mr. Lyle, manae-
er of the telegraph department G. 81.
H. w. Wood, genial Harry as he is
more favorsbly known, is back again in
the G. b. office doing the "Owl" act
and driving obnoxious students off the
wire.
About fifteen head Of steers in the
Santa Fe stock pens have died and the
Mexicans In that vicinity have skinned
and dressed them and now have good
supply of meat.
Three pumps were placed in the
Santa Fe we'll yesterday to remove the
water so the workmen could go elk feet
lower, but the flow was so great that it
ran in faster than they could pump it
out
S. A. Thompson, a telegrsphic stsr,
left for Molone, Texas. last night to oc.
cupy the agency there made vacant by
Mr.. Mcclellan, formerly manager of the
Ell Paso Office of the G. h, Mr.. Nickel
lar being transferred to Fabens.
General Manager Nichols, of the
rtheastern, spent couple of days
last week with the surveyors on
the proposed route of the extension to
Ell Paso. The party is about bali way
to Ell Paso, working the heaviest grade
of the road, where it passes between
the Guadalupe and Sacramento noun
tains south of Weed.-Albuquerq
Journal Democrat
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-05-16
THE FISH ARE HERE
The Consignment Presented BY the
Fish Commission To the Sierra
Mddre Company Has Arrived
And Been Sent Down the Line

The consignment of fish secured by
the Sierra Msdre line from the United
States Fish commission to stock the
Piedras Verdes river near Casas Gran
des, arrived yesterday. They were
taken down the line this morning by
Gen. Traffic Manager J. T. Logan, ac-
companied by an employe of the fish
commission, who came from Washing
ton in charge.
The intention of the Sierra Madre
line Is to have near Ell PAso as fine q
fishing resort as any one can desire.
The Piedras Verdes river is one of the
prettiest in the picturesque Sierra
Madres. It rolls through deep, rocky
mountain gorges and canyons for a dis
lance of 125 miles and will make an
ideal resort when we'll stocked for the
disciples of IsRak Walton.
Mail orders for "Sweet- Orr" goods
receive our prompt attention. The
Union Clothing Go.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-05-16

Noun tains lying distance of about q
hundred miles beyond the dry burning
desert sands northeast of Ell Paso,
Texas. For years the land had been
withheld from settlement by the
government pending it's being made
forest reservation. and, altogether,
tt was one of the most isolated and
least known localities in the United
States. But by the spring of 1899, that
monstrous nineteenth century
eivilizer, the railroad, had crossed
those desert sands, scaled the summit
Of the mountains, burst the veil of
obsonrity, christened Cloud croft, and
before the deer, squirrels and birds
had learned TO fear man, their forest
silence was broken by the click of the
telegraph instrument, the merry
laughter Of children and youth and the
joyous revelry Of the dance of gay
summer resort. All this within q
twelve month. Such briefly records
8he nativity and debut of Cloudcroft.
Is is decidedly new, fresh aud sparkling;
Natures realm, with forests primeval-
Old, dead logs and underground still
obssruct the deer trails, and the
carpet of the glades-ferns, moses
and Wild 6owers-is still unsullied and
uncrushed.
There is an entertaining account of
AlamogordO, the town whose birth
was something like Minerva's who
sPrang full grown from Jove's brain.
This town sprang into full growth from
the capital and brain of its promoters.
The town itself is of interest as ex-
employing the possibilities of our
modern civilizIng institutions or what
enterprise and capital can accom- plish.
The town tract was opened to tee pub
lie June Z, 1898. At that time there
WIS not resident in the entire town.
ship, nor had the government evan
surveyed the land. In Septemb Der, 1899,
. census showed 1860 inhabitants; as
osnplete a system of wstsrworks as
any city: electric lights; q first class
hotel with every modern Improvements;
tvo modern saw mile, each of loo, 900
feet daily capacity an ice factory;
large brick blocks and elegant residen-
ees; graded streets: eight thousand
growing shade trees and park q mile
long and, what is of particular inter-
est to the traveller, she finest depot in
the southwest. It is the county seat of
the new county of Otero and about to
erect q $50, 600 court house and $15,-
600 school. building. Everybody ad-
mtres and falls In love with Alamo |
gordo, and with q few years OF age, |
when her trees and new orchards and |
vine yards bordering the town become |
grown, no more beautiful or delig |
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-05-16
THE RIO GRANDE WET
A Good Flow At Albuquerque, And
FL pdso Will Get Some Tomor-
row Or Next Day.

Special Dispatch to the herald.
EARLHAM, N. NJ, May 16.-A three
foot rise In the Rio Grande occurred
here about two O'Clock this morning.
That Is, the river that has been dusty,
is now quite damp. You may expect
Thursday evening.
News from Albuquerque says the
river there has been augmented by
later rainfalls, SO that the present
stage Of the river here is likely to be
raised within few days.
Even the present flow will provide
considerable surplus while 1t lasts.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-05-16

on the track in the deep, narrow valley
below Toboggsn. Another "switch
back" and we are again climbing the
side Of the mountain headed toward
the east and the grand divide OF the
Sacramentos. At Bailey's the grade
"runs into the ground" again and we
GROSS the valley with another mule shoe
curve, as at Pinto, and climb along the
other eide OF the valley going In the
opposite direction. From here to Cloud.
croft the view ia not confined to any
one point, but always grand, sublime
and absolutely indescTibable. I'M
mediately before US mountains covered
with dense forests; Immediately below
the beautiful valley of the Upper Fres-
nal, with the birds eye map of the
road aud our wanderings, while in the
distance and far beneath US the great
white ocean of white sands, bordered
by the San Andreas range of noun
tsins, seventy-6ve miles away, and still
beyond occasional peaks west Of the
Rio Grande, two hundred miles or
more distant"
With all of its heavy grades and
doubling curves the road is absolutely
safe. The engines are the most power
full built and the air pumps are the
and hand brakes and the double air
line make accidents less usual on q
mountain road equipped like this, with
eternal vigilance against accident,
than on one where less care ia neces-
sary and vigilance Is relaxed some
what.
The forests and flowers and views of
Cloudcroft, the continual May day at
mosphere, the cool nights when the
wood fires blaze on the hearth; the
life in the heart of the forest and yet
with as com Portable beds and as good
meals as In the city, all are very entic-
Ing. FL Paso Is fortunate in having
such q pleasant resort SO near. Trips
and parties and excursions to Cloud
croft will be the order of the coming
summer, and health, happiness and the
wisdom of the forests will be the pro-
ct of the journeyings.
Opportunities for trade and business
are not lacking there. A part OF the
great tract has been set apart especial
ly for business purposes. Livery stables,
stores. butcher shops and the like are
already established, and North Cloud
croft affords all the advantages of the
ordinary country town. To those who
would make camping excursions for
fishing, hunting or visits to places of
interest, the field ia almost Unlimited.
ClOudoroft will be the breathing
spot of the southwest-the summer
home Of the people OF its cities.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-05-16
ECkMAN WINS
lars Against the Mexican Gen.
trail

J. w. Eckman, the fruit dealer on
San Antonio street, is receiving the
congratulate of his friends. While
employed as freight conductor on the
Tampico branch of the Mexican Cen
trail, he was knocked off the caboose of
his train by his head coming In contact
with q projecting rock, as the train
was moving through a partly darkened
tunnel. He fell between the cars and
his left arm and leg were manRled.
Eckman engaged the services of Pat
terson & Buckler to institute damage
suit against the railroad company and
he was awarded claim Of fifteen thou
ssnd dollars. The railroad people sp-
pealed the case, but he hss been In
formed by his attorneys that the claim
has been affirmed at New Orleans, and
he is happy man today.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-05-16
Sparks From the Engine


The 6. 81. was five hours late today.
D. o. Holman, oiler on the Santa Fe,
is laying off.
The Santa Fee pay car has not ar
rived yet. 1t was due here Monday
last.
Fruit is passing through daily on the
S. P. from California to points In the
east.
Mrs, j. A. Merrill and party of four
are among the initial summer tourists
to proceed to Cloudcroft.
G. w. Conley, first trick dispatcher
G. 81. depot has resumed his duties Of
ter q we'll spent vacation.
E. j. Hartman, superintendent of
the Chihuahus division of the Next
can Central, Ia In this city.
Mrs. Rsyner, wife of the populsr
special officer At the S. P. and G. 81.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-05-16
OPERATOR MARRIED
Bell Brooks Captures A Fair Daugh'
ter OF Las Vegas

Ter VI Ids vegas
When Bell Brooks returns from Las
Vegas Friday morning he will be &C.
compauied by a charming bride. Bell
Is the son of Manager. Brooks, who
looks after the destinies of the West.
ern Union Telegraph company's In
terests in this city and is popular Of
f cial with his numerous patrons. The
young woman is Miss Margaret Wertz,
of Las Vegas, New Mexico.
Mr. and Mrs Brooks will make their
home In this city, at the residence OF
Manager Brooks. Bell is occupied In
the Western Union Office here in the
capacity of operator and is we'll
known,
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-05-16

"Sweet- Orr Trousers are the goth
century leaders. For sale by the Union
Clothing Co.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-05-16
Work Begun

The new building for the chamber of
commerce, next to the HERALD Office,
is actually under. way, and it is expect
ed that in six weeks or less the cham
ber's new home will be ready for use.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-05-16

The Woodmsn circle will give So
cial and interesting program at Con-
uctor hall, Tuesday evening. May %.
Admission % cents; cake and Toe cream.
The public invited.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-05-16
THE BRIDGE FIRE.
Holding Up Freight And Delaying
the Trains.

No less than 300 cars of freight OF
all kinds are tied up In the G. 81. and
7. 81 P. yards on account of the OBJ
struction brought about by the burned
bridge near Findlsy. Among the
delayed loads are many cars of perish
able stuffs that will be a dead loss to
the shipper
Incoming trains from the east are
still coming late into Ell Paso, and
transferring at the destroyed bridge
is yet in operation. The off cials,
however, contend the difficulty will be
straig htened out some time today and
trains will be moving on time again.
Supt. Martin is experimenting the
construction of temporary structure
to be erected, but lie expected In Ell
Paso this afternoon.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-05-16
Out On a Trio.

Gen. Manager John P. Ramsey, OF
the Sierra Madre line, has gone down
the road and is out on an extensive
trip in the mountains. The object of
Mr.. Ramsey's trip has not been di-
vulged and at the general offices of the
Sierra Madre line nothing could be
headed towards Sonora and Ia going
over the line of the intended extern
etOn
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-05-16

See the beautiful line of aluminium
goods at w. A. Irwin & Co.,
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-05-16

Believing there is nothing too coed
chase full line of "Sweet Orr's'
Union made Trousers, Overalls and
Sack Costs. The Union Clothing
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-05-16

You will literally "miss q picnic, -
If you fail to hear the Sylvan Serenad-
ers tonight.
Steam dyeing and cleaning works,
Brossy, ITO Mesa Ave. PhOn. 1882.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-05-16

No Corduroys equal to Sweet
Orr's" and they are Union made
and fully warranted. The Union Cloth
ING Co
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-05-16

No Overall & Sack Coat so good q
"Sweet-Orr. We have them. Th'
Union Clothing Co.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-03-17

days or even longer before the last great
earthquake. A lady at Nice remarked the
bad condition OF the horse she usually
drove, and tod her coachman to take 1t
home and to bring another in brougham
from the livery stables for her. The hired
horse seemed as timid and as weak as her
own. The driver then said that all animals
were on their feed" A monkey and other
pets at a villa near Villefranche. on Shrove
Tuesday. the day before the shock which
destroyed much life and property. refused
to enter the house. where they were gener-
ally anxious TO come. They were all spirit
less. dull and scared. A small lapdog
which usually sat on the arm of its mas
ter's chair at meals refused to occupy its
usual seat. But perhaps the most striking
evidence that the animals were in a state
OF fear was that the cows in the dairies
supplying the coast resorts seemed terrified.
and the quantity and quality of the milk
suffered. As the farmers and peasants of
the district are noted for their skill and
knowledge in dairying. small facts of this
Kind AFFECTING the yield of milk and butter
would almost certainly be noticed and re-
membered,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-03-17
From the Spectator.


If the real results of the invention of long
range rifles have only been discovered by
our officers in the present war. no one can
be surprised, however unpleasant the dis
covery. In the Franco-Prussian war the
needle gun was really q short-range weap-
on, while the French had not had time to
discover the powers of the chassepot before
they were beaten. In the war of 1871
though two thousand Turks entrenched at
Gorny Dubnik beat off a division Of the
Russian Guards, neither Russians nor
Turks were In any sense marksmen; and
Plevna and the Schipka pass were attended
not by good shooting, but by quick shoot
ing 1t was the rapid-hring breech action,
not the long-range bullet, which slew it's
thousands on either side.
The Beers, on the other hand, have 80 en-
ttrely realized the altered conditions
caused by the extension OF the range of fire
of their weapons that a correspondent of
the Pail Mall Gazette states that one in
every four of these farmers carries a good
field glass Slung over his shoulder. In pre-
pairing either to attack or defend a position
the Boer does not rely on mere eyesight
He brings his, sight up to the improved
standard of his gun by. the aid of ina
chinery, the owners of the field glasses
coaching in their turn those who have none
as to the point beyond the range of clear
vision at which they are to aim. When the
survivors Of two batteries were unfortu-
nately taken prisoners at the battle Of the
Tugeia the officers were naturally provided
with field glasses to aid in judging how to
lay the guns. work which no one would
think OF leaving to the unaided eye. These
glasses were at once taken from them and
appropriated by the Boer rifiemen, who
We're only too pleased to have this chance
of annexing the aids to sight used by our
a most necessary part of the equipment of
infantry.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-03-17

any other power a party to the treaty OF
Paris contending against her. Whether In
that event the other signatory powers to
that convention. being affected as neutrals,
could object Is a question of which l can
not here dispose.
Before we part with our subject we must
have clearly before our mind that priva-
teering is only abolished SO far as concerns
those states which agreed by the treaty OF
Paris not to have recourse to 1t In the
future; but any new power entering into
the family of states and not subscribing
to that convention would not be deprived
of the privilege The right of privateering
is hanging by a thread Like many other
institutions in international law, its bare
existence Is kept alive by claims of a very
small minority of states having self-fnter-
est only as a foundation for their preten-
sions. and in the face of prevailing opinion
and feeling that the continuation of the
right Is both useless and undesirable for
the welfare of nations, letters Of marQue
would seem to have passed altogether out
of the region of practical consideration.
They may be said even now to have been
reiegated to the cabinet Of international
curiosties and antiquities.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-03-17
Slow Growth of Scientific Ideas,
rom Annlat pnnula- Cnfanca Arop.hJr


The history of the progress of the human
mind shows. further. that the pure and sim
pie acceptance of a scientific discovery is
not enough to make it produce all the con-
sequences We have right to expect from
it. 1t must, further, frnpregnating the mind
with itself. pass, we might say. into the
condition of an innate idea. Chemistry, in
this very matter of the discovery of the
weight of the air and of the gases presents
a striking example of the accuracy of our
proposition. The ponderability of the air
had been accepted by physicists for a long
account OF it, although, as Mendeleef has
under such conditions, concerning most
chemical phenomena It is to the glory Of
Lavofsier that he first took account Of this
ponderability, and that of all of the gases
as well. When We reflect that 1t was not
till about 1915, or a hundred and fifty years
after Calico, that this iIlustrious French
man began to set forth those ideas, 1t IS
not any wonder that the discovery of aero
stats was not made till toward the end of
the eighteenth century. Lalande was there
fore much in the wrong when he said, TT
was 80 simple! Why was it not done be-
fore?"
It would not be just, however, to refer
the discovery OF aerostats solely to the eff
forts Of the Montgolfers. Like all inven-
tors. like Lavoisier himself, these brothers,
as Ffguier has remarked. had the benefit Of
a long series of isolated labors, carried on
often without special purpose, by which the
elements of their invention had been gath
cred IN