El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1901-01-15
TURNER BOOMs THE CARNIVAL.

TURNER BOOMS THE CARNIVAL
The January number of the Texas &
Pacific Quarterly, published by the
general passenger department of the
T. & p. Railway company at Dallas.
is out and copies of it were received
at the Ell Paso city office of the COM
parry yesterday.
The work of the hand of E. p. Tur-
ner. the general passenger agent.
backed up by generous heart and a
feeling of brotherly love for the Pass
City. is clearly seen in the first article
of this number. This article is headed
''El Paso Midwinter Carnival" and in
it Mr.. Turner says:
'If a committee had been appointed
to choose the most appropriate place
in the United States for holding a
winter carnival it could probably have
made no better selection than Ell Paso.
This point. where there are not more
than a dozen cloudy days in the year,
and where the sun shines as glOriOusly
in January as it does in the summer
months: where the elevation is nearly
1000 feet and where the thermometer
seldom registers lower than As degrees
F.: where its geographical position
places it in proximity with Mexico and
the Indian districts of New Mexico
and western Texas. and where the Wis
ftor never fails to find some new thing
of interest. regardless of the many
places We may have visited before.
Twenty years ago Ell Paso was
hamlet of 500 inhabitants: in 1890 the
census showed about 10000, and today
the population OF 1890 is more than
doubled. and it stands modernized
city. with Incompatible climatic adj
oyfonSivo Factories pnmnvafa
system of telephone and telegraph
lines. street railways. and every con-
venience coupled with municipal pro-
gresS.
Its hotel accommodations are su-
perb-the new Sheldon being one of
the most handsome buildings, and
probably affording the finest cuisine in
the entire southwest. The new Orn-
dorff. another large, well furnished,
and well kept hotel, stands on the op-
posite side of Plaza: the Pierson no.
tel and many others-making ample
hotel accommodations for all.
Analogous to the spirit manifested
by the citizens of Ell Paso to develop
every conceived project for the ad-
vancement of the city in a business
direction. is the inclination to pro-
mote every innovative feature prOduc-
tive of entertainment to the thousands
Of tourists who visit the city annually.
and just this unrestful spirit has
brought about the idea of the Mid
winter Carnival
The article concludes with a mention
of The attractions that exist in the city
and that will be added during the
Carnival.
Another article headed Hotel
for Cloudcroft." speaks a good word
for thtat noted summer resort and tells
about the magnificent hotel building
that will be erected at that place in
time for use during the next season.
In another place in the quarterly the
Sierra Madre country is described by
letters from people who have visited
it on hunting trips and by extracts
from different journals in regard to
that coutnry one of which is from
The Herald in regard to that hunt of
DIR. Bush and P. J. Edwards. of this
city and two visitors from other Tex
as towns.
The January Quarterly contains
about two dozen half tone cuts Of diff
ferent attractions of Ell Paso. Cloud
croft and the Sierra Madre country,
the principal ones of which are inter-
ior ard exterior views of Hotel Shell
don.
The T. & p Quarterly is an attrac-
tive journal and has a wide circula-
ton. considering these facts and the
spirit in which Mr.. Turner gives Ell
Paso such extensive and laudatory no
tiee. :he city has cause to feel proud
OF her relations with Mr.. Turner and
to extend to him public thanks.
EXCURSION AGENTS TROUBLES.
Three tourist cars came in on the.
G. H. this morning but there was an
agent with only one of them. The
Cincinanti car which left that city in
charge of o. B. Mccarthy, arrived
here in charge of the negro porter.
The Minneapolis car which left that
city in charge of H. 1. Fay, reached
hee also in charge of the porter
The cause of this circumstance is
that Mr.. Cook. the Cincinnati agent
who should have gone east thrDngn
this place a few nights ago was tshrn
on at the luacIl-ine station ant Mr..
AcCarty received orders to double
back to Cincinnati with that car from
San Antonio. Such was the case with
MIR. McIlroy the MINI eapolis agent
who was also on his way east one day
last week. and Mr.. Fay was ordered
to turn back to Minneapolis with that
car. Messrs Cook and McIlroy were
held at the quarantine station until
this morning when they returned west
with the cars that came through in
charge of the porters.
j. ]. Anthony was the agent who
came through with his car, which is
from Washington. The reason of this |
is that Mr.. Johnson, who went east |
with Washington car about the time |
that the other fellows were stopped, |
had not been to San Francisco, but |
stopped at Oakland. Mr. Anthony says
ne always stops at Oakland and SO