El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1911-08-01

No. the guide will answer in re-
Spouse to your question. This is not
the same flooring-the joists beneath
are the same" Always it is what is
just out Of sight that is the real
Costs Money to See It.
And to see any Of 1t, you pay money.
To start with, the trolley car con-
ductor collects a fare every time he
passes big house. They are allowed
to collect a fare each time they pass
through village, and as every big
house is village in itself. the con-
ductor melts his collar down trying
to get through with one collection in
time to make the next. To ride
through a section similar to a trip
from Juarez to Fort Bliss, it would
cost 15 cents, a nickel each for JuareZ
Ell Paso and then a nickel on the last
lap to the fort-maybe six cents on
the fort lap, for here they have a
habit Of making a six cent charge if
the big houses are too far apart
1t is tremendous street car system
they have up here, however, and you
can go anywhere On an electric car
If you have the time. Through Bos-
ton, many of the cars run in a sub
way or on elevated tracks-because
there are no more streets to run surface
are SO crooked that the surface cars
sometimes jump the track going along
the principal thoroughfare The sub
way cars except on one line, are in
no wise different to the surface cars
they are just trolley cars under the
ground In New York, the subway
cars run in trains, and they run, too
Boston's streets are the narrowest in
the world, on a general average, and
many of the business streets are so
narrow that policemen and signs pre-
vent vehicles passing but one way;
those who do not believe in signs are
forced to believe in the law. The
streets, they say, were laid out by the
cows OF Boston village going to their
respective homes from pasture on the
common (now one Of the handsomest
parks in the country and we all know
that as q street engineer, a. cow is
poor one.
But to return to street cars and
transportation, one Of the cutest Yam
kee tricks I have seen UP here is that
in operation on the narrow gage steam
road between Charleston and Lynn.
The conductor collects all the fares
this saves the expense of hiring sta
ton agents-and he collects twice as
much as the fare. He gives you in re-
turn Of the excess fare at your desti-
nation This makes every passenger
insist on a receipt for his fare and it
makes him turn it in at the end Of the
line The conductor is completely
checked UP and everybody is happy;
the company saves the cost of main
tanning station agents: also it does
not need any spoilers to keep the con-
ductor from dividing the receipts with
himself.
Country Is Beautiful.
1t is a beautiful country you can
see about Boston-green. ferny, cool,
shady and with good roads. Every
where the automobile snorts or purrs,
according to its mechanical condition,
and nowhere does it raise any dust, for
the roads are all soaked in oil several
inches deep. You can ride out any
time you like and take dinner in a tav-
ern where Washington was banqueted,
or Lafayette stopped. or John Quincy
Adams slept. You may not get much
to eat and you may pay a good price
for it-but you have the satisfaction
of knowing that George Washington
sat at this very tablet" and before you
begin your meal, you may perform
your additions in a little dark room
upstairs where a, sign says that George
took a bath as he passed
through to join the continental army.
You are ready to believe that the bath
tub has been there all that time. But
when YOU read the freshly painted
sign that saws: This was favorite
dining place of Washington. Lafayette
and others" you decide that either
George was no epicurean or that the
present day landlord does not employ
as proficient a chef as the man who
bossed the job when the Revolutionary
patriots were satisfying their hunger.
Paying Tribute to Memory.
With so many chances to spend your
money to see the historic places, you
will be surprised to find three where
they don't charge anything. am be-
ginning TO fear that they are bogus
and that the caretakers are afraid to
charge. lest they be arrested for OBJ
tanning money falsely, for people up
here are afraid Of the law-so much
so that some drugstores will not even
sell you cigar or kodak film on Sun
lay and most all the restaurants and
all the fruit stands obey the mandates
If the state and close on Sundays.
The three places where no admission
Zee is exacted are said to be the homes
IF Louisa NJ Alcott, of sacred memory
TO every boy and girl, who has thrilled
1t her Little Men and Little Wo-
men," Ralph Waldo Emerson. and the
home Of Nathaniel Haw-
horne. You can account largely for
the failure to charge at the Hawthorne
lome, for If you have been 20 Lynn
and paid every time they asked you !
% pay to see something connected with |
dawthorne-"The House of the Seven
Cables the house where he wrote /
The Scarlet Letter. the house where |
ne collected customs for the United /
states. the house where he was born
7ou have already paid enough to the |
Hawthorne fame and memory The /
hcott house will soon be in the pay i
.s-you ENTER class, for the women of /
Concord have taken it over and are |
low repairing 1t in preparation for
opening 1T TO the public" Then i
watch out for the fees
1t doesn't cost anything to see the /
sunker Hill battlefield, but it costs to
get up in the monument-and there |
re lots who are foolish enough to pay |
or the privilege Of climbing the stairs