El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-01-24


pied by c. n Bassetts private office.
The napjack and concentrated I've
coffee breakfast over the sightseeing
OF the young tenderfoot was continued
oy stroll down san Antonio street;
There was nothing to the east OF
oregon street TO attract attention DuL
the frame custom house on the site d
the present Caples building and an as
sorted variety Of sand lots and ADOBE
buildings. On Overland street below
the Diamond q. restaurant was the city
jail an affair of adobe and 1mprOVlseu
iron bars Tuttle's paint shop was
Emerson and Berrien had furniture
store adjoining the State National bank
building on San Antonio street ana
Julian and Johnson ran a liquor house
next to it Pat Dunno, father OF Joe
Dunno, had a restaurant where the
English Grill is and the Wigman
saloon and gambling house with It's
wine rooms upstairs looked very mucn
as does the building now occupied BY
the MigWam theat6r. Across the alley
was George Asbridge's barber shop,
George was negro and a town
AS the stranger strolIed along the
mud walk OF San Antonio street, two
Immediately dressed bartenders came
rolling out Of the barber shop and
engaged in q fist fight which had
started over a triviality inside of the
adobe shop 1t had rained recently,
then strange occurrence in the town
the muddy unpaVed street, to see the
fight lost q felt padded slipper IN the
mud The two bartenders cltnched and
fell headlong into a great puddle OF
water which had formed at the edge OF
the sewerless gutteriess street one or
the two bartenders was 81 Ryan, a
famous early FL Paso character After
the fight had ended with the two
bedraggled bartenders shaking hands,
the sightseeing trip continued
The First National bank was two
story building much as ii is today with
a wooden porch along the FL Paso
street front. Below that TO the south
was a row OF adobe and rough board
buildings 10 Overland street where the
old stage station had been IN the days
before the coming OF the railroads Be
yOnd that was a visit OF more mud
buildings and maze Of mesquite bush
to the river bank.
It was the west side OF FL PasO
street and the intersection OF FL Paso
street and San Francisco street which
caught the eye Of the young man, &C
customed 70 the familiar scenes Of
middle western landscape The build
ings were OF adobe in an almost IN
broken row with the typical portales OF
the Mexican town shading
the entrances from the eastern sun OF
the morning These pOrtaleS extended
along the entire street from the inter-
section OF san Francisco street TO the
intersection Of san Antonio street and
beyond. The old, abandoned acequia
remained as it was when the water was
shut off from IL at the river. II
wound around the foot OF the old
cottonwood tree on the corner where
the notices TO leave town were posted
for the benefit Of the bad men and
for the good Of the town. The Wells
Fargo building, where Krakauer. York
and MOye are now located. the Tivou
saloon building and z few adobe build
ings were all that saved lower San
Francisco street from total depravity OF
the sand lots
Sam Schultz had store where the
Alberta hotel is now. Schultz Bros. had
Herald building corner and the Grand
Central hotel, the original OF that
name stood in all OF its adobe glory
where the new seven story Plaza block
is now located. A row OF adobes
wound around the present Mills build
ing corner and transfer company had