El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-07-21
CROSS from the Mexican mis-

1 \ crosses the Mexico car line is the
little shop of the coffin maker Of
Stanton street It is no larger
than the kitcheDette of a north
side apartment, one adobe room
being large enough for a carpenters
work bench. a kit of tools and some
madeup stock. But room is not
needed. The product Of the cOTfni
shop IS disposed O. so rapidly IN the
hot summer that no stock accumulaJeS-
Besides the collins are mostly little
ones. which do not take up much room,
when stacked one on the other. Herman
Saenz is the coffin maker and he keeps
busy planning, saving and 39lnIng the
pine boards to make the kite SNAPPED
caskets.
There are a number wrapped in
coarse brown paper ready for delivery
and others are being formed from the
soft pine plankS- One which has been
completed and set in the corner shows
plainly the stenciling of the goods box
that it was made from Senior Saenz
being in Juarez for the day 70 ceIe-
brbate the anniversary of Ben1to Juarez
Friday, little senorita Saenz kept shop
in the shop of sorrow,
Eyes, papa sells many, many collins,
she said Not many IN winter as IN
summer, for then many babees they
die. He has sold so already and the
summer is not yet half gone My papa
he is kept very busy in the hot days
In winter he is a carpenter but in sum-
mer he makes these little boxes. It
makes him sad but he does not quit
for many times his friends would get
no collins for their babeeS without
money. He always lets them have his
collins and they always pay"
W. E Barnes, travelling freight and
passenger agent for the S P railroad
at Tucson, booster extraordinary for
the great southwest, is in Ell PasO to-
dow -11.1 Iii. hon n fri dc
Just at present Mr.. Barnes is deVOt-
ing much time to efforts to induce the
farmers to diversity their crops and
practice intensive cultivation He is
also boosting the cotton raising indus
try for the Salt River valley in Ari-
iona.
Mr.. Barnes believes that the Great
Southwest is full of undeveloped agri-
cultural possibilities and thinks the
farmers along the line of the S. P. will
develop these resources in a few years
until few sections will equal it in pro-
ducing supplies for the market He is
preaching development wherever he
goes, is making a study of soil and its
adaptabilities and is prevailing upon
the farmers wherever possible to di-
yersify their crops and give new seeds
a trial, in an effort to find what grows
best and yields the most profit recOg-
nizing, as he says, that the more inc
country develops, the better 1t is for
the railroads, as our prosperity depenOs
pie who patrOniZe us.
The old antagOnism to railroads is
disappearing" he said today. "The
railroads are working for the interests
Of the people, because it helps the rail-
roads. The railroads are the peoples
friends and the people are beginning to
realize it"
Had not the Mexican trouble started
all over again during the fiscal year
just ended, the FL PasO custom house
would have broken all records and
would have done a 100000 business
deputy collector. Two years ago the
business Of the port was more than
100000 in duties collected The next
year it dropped to S3OO,O because Of
the revolution and this year it went
even lower. With all the cattle in
northern Mexico which was to have
been exported through the port of FL
PasO, the receipts of the custom house
would have passed an even 81, 10000
and all records in the department
would have been broken. Now there
practically no business being done as
both railroads are destroyed and little
is coming over that is dutable."
I'VE get many compliments upon the
class of service our gIrIs give the pub
l1c,' said manager George Maslin, of
the Fred Harvey cafe. Few people
know, however, that girls for our many
restaurants and hotels of the Harvey
system are as carefully selected as are
the girls for a select boarding school
When girl makes application at our
chicago office references are asked
before her name will be entered. Then
her references are investigated her
home life, environment and her former
NE gone into If this proves entirely
satisfactory to our matron, she is en-
ployed- If not she is told to go.
Most OF our girls are from the farms
and small towns of the middle west
and are from good, wholesome families.
Iney earn good wages, get transpOrta-
uoun from Chicago to their destination
and return, and are well cared for as
long as they are associated with the
Harvey system"
That Emelio Zapata, the Mexico
br1gand, contrary to the general belief
is not a Mexican Of low birth, but is
a polished Mexican of highest type is
the statement made by a young Spanish
woman IN 81 PaSO, who knows him
personally. She declares that she was
surprised to learn that so many people !
nothing more than pelo.
This young woman, whose name is
withheld, arrived in FL PasO about three
months ago with her parents They
came directly from the state of Morelos.
where they have large interests They
mad resided there only a few years
having come from Spain. The young
woman herself, was educated in Paris
anu Lon9On ana speaks English flu
entity The first time I saw Zapata."
said this girl, was while I was visiting
one Of my uncle's plantations in Nor
clos While 1 was there, Zapata and
MS men burned everything on the plan
tatlon and Zapata politely asked US to
leave He was extremely polite and
courteous and offered US a carriage in
which to leave I have seen him sew
eral times since and 1 do not remember
having met a more perfect gentleman
or a handsomer man. He is thirty
years old and is married. He is highly
educated, speaking French, English, (
spanish, German and Portuguese flu
emily. His complexion is not that of
a Mexican nor of a Spaniard. It is the
common belief that he is not a native
OF Mexico at all, and for my part I
believe him to be a Portuguese"