El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1901-01-03
in A GREAT HURRY
But There Was lime To Give
Various Assurances Oflm-
provements Here In
the Near Future.

President c. II. Hays and party
of general officials of the Southern Pa
cific company with their families ar
rived in Ell Paso at $3.50 this morning
and spent an hour here
In the party were President Hays.
MS wife and four daughters, j. y.
Stubbs. third vice president, J. krutt-
schnitt. fourth vice president and gen.
eral manager. with his wife and daugh-
ter; w. G. Van Week, general mama
ger of the Atlantic system; G. w. BEN,
traffic manager of the system; super
intendent Martin of the Ell Paso divis-
ion, Superintendent Randolph of the
1 ucson division. and the secretaries
and stenographers of all the officers.
The party were in a special train of
five cars. They left the train at the
round house and spent a half hour in
specting the shops and other property
O. the company while the ladies came
UP town and took drive over the city.
Mr. Hays is a very clever gentleman
and talked freely of his opinion of the
.s,un1ry along The line. This was his
first trip through this section and ev-
cry miIe of it is entirely new to him.
He said he was well pleased with the
country between New Orleans and Ell
Paso and would use his every effort
for the further development of the
country Il am on a rush trip this
time said Mr.. Hays, las l want to
get my family settled in San Francis
co. 1 propose making another trip ov-
er the line in about a month and then
will stay longer in FL Paso. No,
have nothing to give out about the
company's property in El Paso for
am just now going tony post of duty"
Mr. Kruttschnitt spent most of his
tie TO say of local affairs. He met
Mr. Hays for the first time Monday
morning and Lne old policy and the
prospective new policy of the company
took most of his time on the entire
trip. Mr.. Van Week was as jovial as
usual and inquired freely after the
development of the mining interests Of
this section. He spent the day here
and wlL return to Houston tonight.
After visiting the shops. freight
house and other property Mr. Hays
came up to the depot and with an air
of amusement inspected the splendid
edifice used for a depot. He said moth
ing but his expression told a good
story. He has won his position as
one of the greatest railroad men in
the country by improving old lines
and rebuilding the worn out property
of railroads and one could see easily
that he had hoped to see better buili-
ings and especially more modern de-
pot in a thriving city like Ell Paso- The
Herald reporter ventured to query one
of the officials on the depot question
and received sufficient bluff for story.
THAT will all come in time he said.
land the time is not far distant. We
are going to do a great deal for IGl
Paso but our plans are not yet ready
for the public. You will have a new
depot sometime soon."
With reference to the change in poll
cy of the company under the new
management one official said: There
will be no change in regard to i'm
provements. We WI soon carry out
all the plans of Mr.. Huntington and
will increase the shops and build new
depot here as was promised under the
old administration. The plans were
al. drawn and Mr.. Hays has no idea of
canoeing the order"
After giving the ladies time to view
the city the party left for the west in
charge of Superintendent Randolph Of