El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1910-12-21

NV Henry ward Beecher trial
concluded in Brooklyn it was
freezing cold and the East river was
running full of floating ice. A stors
had been raging and the ferry boats
Were tied up on the New York side
That was before the Brooklyn bridge
had been built and New York might
just as well have been San Francisco
for the people on the Brooklyn side
Telephone lines were down and tele-
graphs were not working that night.
In the city room of the New York
Tribune the night editor was dry
smoking a black cigar and trying to
get in communication with Brooklyn
and the Beecher trial.
News by Reporters Daring.
On the opposite side of East river
was a young reporter whose middle
name by a strange turn of family his
tory. was the same as the great d.
vine on trial. He was Edgar Beecher
Bronson, the Tribune's staff man who
had been covering the long-drawn-out
trial verbatim for the past six months.
Airships. then known only except in
fiction. seemed the only possible way
of reaching the Manhattan and the
Tribune Ice jams had formed in the
river and were grinding and crunching
below Congress street ferry landing.
They suggested chance to the alert
mind of the newspaper man. A chance
Is all he asked and away he dashed
over the broken ice cakes. To slip
meant the river and the cruel ice. But
the Tribune must have the copy he
carried inside of his shirt.
Jumping from one piece of ice to an
other he succeeded in reaching the OPP
posite side, and the Tribune next morn
ing printed the only report of the
Reecher Var,iicf
Becomes a Tenderfoot.
That nights exposure, plus the ner-
vous strain of the trial caused an at
tack Of brain fever. To recover his
strength the newspaper reporter went
west with letter of introduction from
his friend and patron, Clarence King,
and landed in Cheyenne, Wyoming, the
tenderest tenderfoot that ever wore
a pair of new boots. That was the be-
ginning of a series of stirring adven-
lures which extended over the indian
campaigns of the later 70s. the cattle
war days of New Mexico. and many of
the most stirring dramas of real life
that were enacted in the old west, the
west of yesterday.
The Book of Narratives.
1.-The "reminiscences of a Ranchman"
affectionately dedicated to Clarence
King. his ranch partner. and to Tex.
(B. Fuller and Sam Cress, his faith
full friends and cowboys. is a record of
these days, the days of the heroic west.
which have passed on with the passage
of the real indians and the cow men of
the old days. This book and its COM
panion publication, The Red Blooded,"
form a record of the development of a
tenderfoot newspaper man into a sea-
soned campaigner of the early west, of
a man who was a gun man when the
cause was just and a teller of tales
that are trimming full with action and
the red blood of the ranchmen and
men of the open country.
Deals With FL Paso Experiences.
The two books, which have recently
appeared from the press of A. F. Nc
Clurg & Co., Chicago. deal with two
different parts of BrOnson's career in
the west, which included a residence
in Ell Paso where he became one OF
the leading business men, president of
the FL Paso National bank, and owner
of the Bronson block which bears his
name. The "Reminiscences of a Ranch
man" deal largely with his earlier ex-
periences in the northwest in the Chey-
enne country. where he broke his first
bronco and bought his first herd OF
cattle. The Red Blooded" deals d.
rectly with his later experiences in the
southwest, including many stories of
the FL Paso of the early days and of
the early days in the staked plains
and panhandle country of Texas and
New Mexico.
Early Days In Ell Paso.
He narrates thrilling tale of the
early days of FL Paso which deals with
the famous Dallas Stoudemyer, who as
city marshal played the principal role
of gun man and peace officer Unfor-
tunately Mr.. Bronson called the Ell Paso
marshal BILL, instead of Dallas, his
right name Pat Garrett, the New
Mexico peace officer; Col Albert ].