El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1911-08-05

renters of their property take 1t on
| this condition.
Buns Excluded.
Obvious buns" technically so called
are forbidden the thoroughfare. Like
wise shabby people. This does not
tho Boardwalk being one of the
most democratic of streets-but that
ragged folk are discountenanced. Even
the chair pushers, all Of whom are col
ored men, are required to dress them
selves neatly. 1t is desired that the
roadway shall present at all times an
attractive appearance, and rags are
disfiguring. Beggars are absolutely
barred. The policing Of the Boardwalk
Is extremely strict, and at midnight or
In the small hours Of the morning a
woman traversing 1t is as safe from
annoyance as at high noon.
From dusk until dawn the Board
walk is brilliantly lighted by arc
lights and by festoons Of incandescent
electric bulbs strung at frequent in
tervals across the thoroughfare. The
illuminative effect is both attractive
and beautiful But in this respect there
are soon to be improvements. Orna-
mental poles with handsome electro
liers are to be put up and used as sup
ports for. the festoons of incandescents,
will greatly enhance the decorative
tout ensemble Incidentally the new
scheme will do away with the insight
ly telegraph poles which, survival Of
earlier days. run along the outer edge
of theplank roadway. The wires they
carry will be strung beneath the
boardwalk
Property Rights.
The property rights OF each owner Of
real estate along the Boardwalk orig
inally extended to lowwater mark
great majority of such owners, how
ever have by deed. relinquished their
rights to the city which, by the help
OF supplementary purchases has become
the POSSESSION of the entire beach. The
latter has thus become a city park, and
is managed and controlled as such. The
city keeps 1t clean. At frequent in
tervals teams go along It, and men
rake up the scraps and waste OF ex-
cursionfsts. In addition. there Is an
official "scavenger'' for every three
blocks, whose business 1t is to keep
both the strand and the Boardwalk
clear of unsightly debris But nature
helps a lot. For every night the ocean
rim Is cleansed Of all organic refuse
by multitudes of "sandfleas' and other
crustaceans, whose task it is. under
natures appointment, to do away with
all such undesirable material
Bathers Lose Money.
Bathers and other frequenters Of the
beach at Atlantic City lose many ar
ticles of value, especially small pieces
of jewelry, during every season They
are swallowed up by the sand But
many of them are eventually recovered.
though not by the owners One OF the
most remarkable Of the industries pur-
sued at this resort is a species OF
"'beachcombing" the method adopted
beng to pass the beach sand through
a. screen. thus sitting out the valuables
which 1t may contain. In spring and
fall one sees industrious persons en-
gagged in this curious employment
which, while an obvious gamble, ap-
pears to yield a satisfactory profit
Now and then a diamond ring, brooch
or something else Of considerable in
trinsic worth turns up to reward the
speculative laborer
1t should not be supposed. however,
that the beachcomber attempts TO put
all the sand of the beach through his
wire screen sitter. He knows that
such golden and relatively heavy arti-
cles as he seeks are likely TO be found
in the Immediate neighborhood Of the
piles which support the boardwalk and
the piers and to these localities he
restricts his efforts. The tides make
eddies about the piles, and the jewelry
he is after is liable to find its way into
their close vicinity. In autumn the
high tides may fetch such objects to
the surface-though, for the matter OF
that they may bury them deeper. But
the things buried by the fall tides may
be resurrected by the spring tides, and
so there is always hope.
Rene Bache.