El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-09-16

pany gave little blowout in honor Of
Trimble's promotion
Yesterday Lieut. Matthews, Of com
pany c, Third Texas infantry, arrived
with a detail of nine men. The Heuten-
ant comes ahead Of his company to act
as quartermaster and to sign for all
material in that department The COM
pany IS expected to arrive next week
and will DO garrison duty al Fort Bliss
The troop of cavalry which is now sta
toned at Fort Bliss will leave Saturday
at noon for San Antonio, where it goes
TO be mustered out of service
The opera house was well filled last
night Oh the occasion of the celebra-
ton of the Mexican independence day.
An overture was played by the Concha
orchestra and was followed by a Sc
lection from II TrOVatore on the piano
by Srita ROSina Etle. The parade this
morning came north on FL Paso street
at II o'clock, with the Mexican band
and sqaud of mounted police at the
head Following these came the troop
of volunteer cavalry from the post and
a string of carriages containing off
Gals of FL Paso and Juerez Then
came Ragonettes containing Mexican
business men OF JuareZ and FL Paso-
Next in line came WagOnetteS carrying
they were followed by the Fl Paso fire
department.
Last night about $50 an alarm OF
fire was turned in from the Myar opera
house The department turned out
promptly and found that some OF the
decorations on the stage had caught
fire and nearly all the scenery was
destroyed. As much as could be learned
was that the manager OF the mouse ana
Shelley Bovee went there together ear
" that evening and lighted up the
stage While manager Heatherly was
in the box office and the Mexican
helper was around IN the parqueC
lighting the side wall jets. Bovee was
.s@=-- -
get through so that he could turn the
house over to those who had rented
it He said that he happened to look
up and saw the blaze II was at rirSI
thought that the entertainment would
be stopped. as Herman kayser, VINO IS
agent for the building, told the man
ager that there could be no entertain
ment unless the insurance agent gave
his consent A N LOOMS was hunted
I'D and gave his consent The amount
of damage done was 500, which was
fully covered by insurance
Last night the city council met with
all present but alderman Clifford Chier
Lockhart told the council that he had
seen judge Crosby about the bad walk
in front of the PiersOn hotel, on St
Louis street. and the judge had told
him that 1t was one OF the best pieces
of walk in town. and II the city would
spend $50 to buy some boards. he,
the Judge. would see to having it fixed
up. The chief said he told the judge to
go ahead. as he thought the city fould
allow the bill DR.. Race reported that
he had vaccinated 500 school children
up to date. The treasurer's report for
the quarter ending June so showed
that the treasurer had on hand at
that time S4S.5S3-22- Chairman Stew
art, of the building committee, told the
council that he had notified the archi-
tects to begin work on the plans for a
city hall. and stated that he had made
Il plain to them that the building was
not to cost more than $4,000. Alder
man Badger stated that he was tired
waiting on the report of the attorneys
from whom the city was buying the
property for the Jail and fire depart
ment-