The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1911-02-06
Juarez Is Mcnte Carlo
Of North America

Ell PASO. Tex. Feb. Ga city
Where all sense OF responsibility
seems TO have ,'ecn suspended. where
languid-,yed serG'itas run mad rival.
~ for the white mans smile. where
thousands OF do. lers pass over poker
tables az easi,-' as nickels pile MP
la a soda fountain cash register. where
men wear spurs ED shoot, and where
the bull fight T. more popular than
the drama--.fancy IL you please, sucn
a city and you have q mind picture
IF Juarez. Me-
Travel a year in any direction and
yon would not s.ir more cosmopoli
AN place on the nap OF the universe
for In Juarez almost every nationality
is represented Juarez's chief CLAIM,
20 distinction is the fact that Il Is
the Monte Carlo'of North Americas
city where gambling attracts nc
more attention thfn the sale OF Bibles
in Phil ,1elphia or the reading oi
3hakespt axe In toston. the killing oi
hogs in Chicago or the gtin1!ng oil
wheat In Minneapolis.
From New & an Old World.
Juares is acrnss the Rio Grande
river from III Psso From the Plaza
in El Paso 10 the Plaza I'm fuare,
- bu; 15-minutc ride on a trolley
cara sudden 4, ansition from one
an old world.
Time was vtcp FL Paso was a
Monte Carlo. wrh wide-rpcn ground
floor gambling. 80 Paso Is still whe.
is commonly understood as hot
own, bu public GAMBLING had 10 give
way to the onward march OF civiliza'
ticn. and buildinis that we're origin
ally occupied a. gambling dens are
now given over ID grocery stores or
book shops.
Monte Carlo Moved acrJss the river.
and quaint old uareZ was suddenly
transformed.
BY reaeon OF ia chart,ing climate
the territory arouT d Jua-1z Is Nee
ia for realth seekers and tourists.
They cone from all parts of the world
The resident pop;lation. not Only OF
Juarez, but also FL Paso. includes all
of the national' es. and men OF ma
tional prominence attrac' but little at
tehtion On FL paso streets, because
there presence here Is but common in
cident, within ,i,-ee m,aiths ot each
OF, er P'ter Haegsrd, Lord Beresfor1,
Gen. Joe Wheeler, Alexander Dowie,
George > de and many )ther notables
have visited I'm luarez Millionaires
In Ell Paso are common as newsboys
and of Jeggars there ara hundreds.
1t is tie wild and woolly west IN
the complete SCI So OF the expression,
and an enterb", sing saloonkeeper
told the truth. when he displayed a
placard reading, Always Something
Doing in Juarez."
Gambling Dens Never Counted.
Perhaps nobody knows just bow
many gambling houses there are In
Juarez, because new ones are coming
and goinH constantly. II Is, of course,
the businAss OF the authorities 10
know, but they are I'm no hurry about
II. In fact, TO make census Of Juarez
gambling establishments would be
real work. and II is a well-defined trait
OF the citizens of Juarez to put of
everything until tomorrow-every.
thing except sport.
Every place has its music. The or
chestra usually plays some entranc-
ing Spanish air and now and then a
DcNy OF beuOTlthS uTOp III anu execute
a fandango and there Is invariably in
every place blond American woman
sometimes she is young and pretty
Ito sing My Old Kentucky Home,
or some other familiar air.
There is mcgt always an American
playing high stakes and such songs
spread a sort OF United states feel.
ing over the cosmopolitan scene. Once
he is az ease. the American buys
more chips and dclves more reckless
~ into the game.
The Juarez bull ring. which is sec
ond in pioturesqueness only to- the
gambling houses, is one OF the most
costly In Mexico. II has the good will
OF the governor OF the stnte of Chi.
huahua. and from one OF the Cover.
nor's ranches come the feroclous
Spanish bulls which meet death az she
hands OF Juarez bullhghters.
Many Americans at Fights.
There is a bull fight in Juarez every
Sunday. largely patronized by Ameri
can tourists. The seating capacity Is
10000: IL is frequently occupied to the
limit.
As " to add a paraloglcal silhouet
TO the. daily and nightly scene oI
fevelry, cid Guadaloupe church towers
over all and few visitors leave Juare2