El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1901-01-07
INCONSIDERATE OFFICIALS.

lNCONSIDERA1E
An industry which receives more
free advertising from the press than
that OF railroading would be hard to
find. vet it is certain that there Is no
industry the officials of which treat
the representatives of the press worse
than railroad officials do.
Railroad officials are continually
complaining that the newspapers mis-
represent them and exaggerate acct
dents that happen to their roads. Yet
these men do not stop to consider the
source from which reporters must
secure their information. The Off
cials themselves shut up like an oyster
when asked for information regarding
incidents that happen on their lines
The reporters must get their pointers
from outsiders If q wreck occurs
they must ask a passenger on the train
or some one who has been at the scene
of the wreck The result is sometimes
an exaggeration Perhaps five or six
cars are derailed and telescoped. A
paSsen ger on a passing train sees the
wreckage. He is asked about it by
reporter He says. "Oh. there was an
awful pile of debris. smashed into
kindling wood | guess there must
have been twenty-five cars completely
demolished" Thus the item appears
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have been told rightly. had the men
with the inside facts been disposed to
tell the reporter
Railroad officials should bear in
mind that when anything unusual hap
pens on their road the papers are go
ing to say something about it. If they
can not get it right they will get 1t
wrong. The men who can tell IL rlgnt
would just as well. and much better,
send for the reporter and tell him the
exact facts in the case. Then it will
be published correctly. And it would
do no good to keep hack single fact.
The paper man will get it some way,
and if he has to depend upon an out
slider to get it. he may get it wrong
Within the past week, it is said that
a certain official in Ell Paso has made
his employees the alternative OF keep
ing their mouths shut or receiving
their discharges. Another has reques-
ted. kindly however. that his employees
give out no more information to news
paper men. Another has made two
deliberate attempts to deceive repor-
ter, and looked like the fiash-light snap |
shot of a man caught leaving a WIDOWS
smoke house with a side of meat In
sack. when he told the fib. The re-
porter got the stories just the same
and if there was any mistake it was
out the facts and would not
The railroad officials of Ell Paso can
not claim that the Herald representa-
tive does not come to them for the
facts before taking other peoples
word, for they know that they have
been afforded an opportunity TO tell
the truth always before the informa-
ton was sought elsewhere. The news
paper mans business is to get the
OF
and one thing is certain, they are 60
ing to say something about anything
out of the ordinary that happens. and
the only was TIC insure the facts is for
the men who know them to give them
TO the representatives of the newspa-
pers.
LONG s. p. TRAIN YESTERDAY.
The 5. p. train that left this place
Tor the west was an extra long, heavily
loaded one and was taken out by a
Besides the three extra
.ourist cars, there was a car of for
.igners and car of colored Alabam-
ans. collected by a labor agent at
Ala, for the Hawaiian
Sugar company of Homo
ulu.
The negroes. about forty-five in nun
,er were in charge of J. w. Faulkner,
assisted by w. F. Crockett, in the en-
10y Of George w. Ely, the contractor.
DIR. Ely has contracted to furnish the
bove mentioned sugar company with
bout three hundred families of ne T
roeS from Alabama and this is the :
rst shipment. lie
The men in charge say that they {
ave a great deal of trouble in secur- :
ng the colored laborers, not that they I
re not willing to go if not influenced, | 1
ut there are several of the leading ne +
roes, especially preachers, who a:n a
1stilling into the minds of the colored | n
opulation the idea that they will he v
ome slaves in the Hawaiian islands @
nd that all sorts of diseases and / i,
makes as big as telegraph poles exist 9
here. a
The agents thought it a good plan n
, go ahead with the little lot they had
ecured and let them write back the n
'ue situation to their friends in Ala n
anna, after they have seen that what h
lie preachers have predicted is not o,
ne. and by this means others may De h
iduced to go. Another car will be n
ken about the first of February. q,
one or the members of the party cj
esterday said, Il am glad for the OPP OF
ortunity to go. l think we will 10 r
uch better in the Hawaiian Islands
IAN here. We are getting too thick n
the south to thrive well and it will
good for us that leaves and good
n those that stay if we thin out SOM. Sc
ne white folks are encouraging us in w
e move and l do not think they o.
ouin DO SO If they thought we would W
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