El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1910-05-07
FIRST CLASS
HOTEL IS
NEEDED
Two Chicago Capitalists, In
vesting Here, Say This Is
City's Great Need.
WATER IMPORTANT
MATTER ALSO

Boosting Ell Paso gets to be a habit
with people in Ell Paso, whether they
live here or come here to visit.
This week two men came to FL Paso
from Chicago on business trip. They
remained here three days and when
they left they had given the city the
best possible evidence that they are Ell
Paso boosters, even II Iney don't live
here c. H. Bosworth. 10 be the new
president of the national bank which
viii occupy the Peoples Gas COM
pany building on the corner Of Michi-
gan and Adams street in Chicago, and
P L. Turner, an attorney of that city,
came here TO inspect the Ell Paso Gas
and Electric company's plant. being di-
rectors IN the company. As result of
their visit the rate for gas is TO be
reduced from s1.40 to s1.35. the plant
is to be enlarged and 1925, 900 worth of
improvements will be made and a
building will be purchased down.
town for the use of the sales
and office departments of the COM
pany- AS tangible boost this
beats a dozen harangues or the value of
FL Paso as a gateway to Mexico.
Sizing up the situation with the
keenness which an outsider always has
for the weaknesses of a city, Messrs.
BoSw orth and Turner were agreed that
the two weak points in Ell Paso's mu-
nicfpal organization is the water QueS-
ton and the need of a good hotel. OF
these two, the first seems now in pro-
cess Of solution and the second, the
building of a first class hotel, is
further along than at any time in the
history Of the city
Make Hotel Modern.
There should be no halfway ground
in the building of q modern hotel" Mr..
Besworth said. 1T should be as mod
ern and complete any in the eastern
cities. The travelling public has been
educated UP to the point where it de-
mands the best TO be obtained and is
V Hing to pay the marginal difference
between the best service and an indif
ferent service. A hotel supplying such
a need would be filled with guests
throughout the year. In spite of the
fact that the trains running between
Chicago and the coast are the most
comfortable and the trip the shortest,
a transcontinental passenger becomes
tired after travelling IS hours out Of
Chicago and Ell Paso is the logical
place to stop off day or two in order
TO break the trip to the coast and at
the same time see a glimpse of Mex
ico- This class of patronage for a no.
tel would not be the kind that wants
and Is willing 10 pay the price for it.
Better Hotels Needed.
There is no complaint against the
present hotels in Ell Paso. It IS only
that there IS ample room here in this
field for a hotel of higher class These
hotels cater to the travelling trade the
best they can but they are not built
to offer the things the high class trav-
cling public demands. San Antonio,
has solved this problem
most successfully and is finding thai
its new hotel is money making propo-
sition I am sure FL Paso will make Q
similar success of a big modern hotel
and 1 am sure it would be worth more
than ii costs in the advertising the city
would receive"
Bright Future.
Mr. Turner, who is a prominent prac-
ticing attorney of Chicago, is an equal
ly enthusiastic booster for FL Paso
I'VE have been watching your grow tn
for several years" he said TT has been
re charitable and promises TO be even
more So To show you how much we
are interested in the future Of this city,
myself and my friends have exerted our
influence in obtaining friends for the
Elephant Butte project in con-
gress and 1 hope to see the project
completed soon. The construction of
buildings here shows how much the
town is awake and how rapidly it is
growing. I come here frequently and
each time / come / see some new
change or improvement in this city. /
predict for Ell Paso as bright a future |
as any city in the country and the spir- |
L of the citizens and the spirit Of the |
,ity will be responsible for 1t when |
his come about"