El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1910-09-29

made several trips through Europ
and it is said that he always carried
i that violin along.
George A. Fleming. of Las Vegas
secretary of the commercial club o
that city, is going from here 90 tn,
Dry Farming congress at Spokane. HI
has attended this congress the pas
three years and is an active worker.
VIII Go to Spokane.
The Colorado Springs delegation a
the Irrigation congress is going from
here to Spokane also, in an effort tt
capture the lext session of that con
| gress. G, A. Martin, of FL Paso, viii
be guest of this delegation en- route
to Spokane, in the special car tina
they will occupy.
Charlie LOOMS, since he can't make
anything out of the financial Inisfor-
tunes of others at the Irrigation con
gress by refereeing bankruptcy cases
is interesting himself in a Boy Scout
movement for Colorado. He thinks
maybe the scouts could find a man in
Colorado who is conscious of the right:
of others outside his state.
Horace B. Stevens is being intro
duced as the only Republican in Texas
who hasn't been a postmaster.
Postmaster Smith AT Eome.o
j. A. Smith, postmaster of Ell Paso
used to publish a paper at Central City
Colo, and isl right at home up here
among the people of this section Pc
culiarly enough, it was the unanimou us
vote of the Ell Paso delegation that
PA Smith should be assigned to work
with the Mormon delegation from
Utah
Jack Happier spoiled a good photo
graph in front of the convention hall
by taking off his hat in the sunlight.
n hay tod To ho
had flashed that mirror
Pueblo had an afrship exhibition last
week and some of the delegates are
wondering of the Congress hotel has
not adopted it's aviationary prices
merely to keep in style
Gen. B. ]. VilJoen, of the Mesilla val
ley, said he felt like a carrot when he
got up to talk, but he wasn't ''stewed"
a bit.
Pueblo Good Town.
Pueblo has street cars like the Har-
ry Potter kind at Ell Paso-with open
ends for plenty of air-but they are
much bigger cars and the whites and
negroes ride together. Sometimes a
negro man is sitting down and a white
woman is standing, but Pueblo seems
to think nothing of it. The Ell Paso
crowd doesn't like this much.
The town is beautifully decora ted
with electric lights and fancy arches
the Taft-Dia sort, that shake when
kicked-but preey, just the same, and
looking, from a distance, like they
might be made from Ell Paso cement
Felix Martinez has hardly slept since
the delegation arrived His counsel
has been sought everywhere by the
big men of the congress. and the pa
pers call him senator" Martinez
Joe Pollard is winning fame as the
partner Of the mayor of Ell Paso." Joe
is working a regular Kelly smile on
the delegates, and is not stingy with
them towards chorus girls when a mu-
steal comedy hits town.
Garrett King paid 81 for manicure
as soon as he reached town and then
went on to Denver.
Dick Warren, of the Southwestern
road, has been taken for a poet on
several occasions, but Dick says the
only poetry he knows is what he gets
out of the noise of loaded freight car
wheels
Charlie Kline is buying all the pos
tai cards in the hotel newss tand-it is
presided over by a pretty brunette.
Somebody told the people here that
judge A. S. J. Eylar could play the
flute and the women all want to hear
him, but he is so modest that he runs
out to hunt up delegates and pledge
them to Ell Paso every time he is
asked to play
Between r. F. Burgess and judge ].
III. Goggin, the Ell Pasoans have enough
legal advice to keep them out of any
thing that comes up. lack Cobb says
they never gave so many opinions
without pay since they got their sheep
skins-which goes to show that even
lawyer can be patriotic Dave Payne
says
Pueblo has paved streets-asphalt,
with brick against the car rails. like FL
Paso-but the pavement is cracked a
lot worse than that at home.
The park surrounding the Mineral
Palace, where the convention is being
held, includes several acres, with a
lake, zoo and flowers enough to send
to a kings funeral and still have some
left
Pueblo has a bigger union station
than Ell Paso, but it is not as clean.
They have mineral water running
from the hydrants in the Congress ho-
tel but Maury Edwards asks what's
the use of mineral water without any
thing for it to chase? It's the other
liquid, he thinks, that ought to be run
ming out of faucets.
So that nobody will fail to know ev-
erybody else, Nick Gales, of Las Cru
two introductions.
There are so many walters in dress
suits in cafes around this town that
the Ell Pasoans say they are glad they
didn't bring any.
SwensOn There, Too.
Charlie Swenson, who owns the Toy
all valley, is here mixing with the
Texas delegation and talking up the
Texas conservation congress movement
for Will Sargent, of Fort Worth, who
is the secretary Of the congress and
is doing. some talking himself Sar-
gent is also not overlooking a chance
to tell about the wonders of travel on
the T. & P. and he declares a base
the statement that man left
Fort Worth afoot and beat a T. P.
flyer" to FL Paso.
TWitcheH Selected.
The committee on permanent organ
zation took definite action last night
In deciding to recommend to the con-
gress for president r. E. Twitchell, of
New Mexico; and for secretary, Arthur
Hooker incumbent Tonight the con-
vention will settle the contest over
the convention city for 1911. Chicago
IS still confident, though tonight the
California delegation is claiming gains
Tor Los Angeles.
Considerable criticism is heard
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