El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-08-11
Banks Fine For Training
FL PasOan, Formerly in Local Banks.
Gains Prominence in Insurance
Circles; Little Interviews.

*" L PASO banks are proving fine
training schools for young
- men in the business world.
This fact is brought home forcibly by
! the receipt of The Pelican published
in the interest Of an insurance COM
pany at Shreveport, La, containing a
front page photograph of William Ner-
ten Lindsey, agency director of the
company, said an FL PaSO banker
When ne was here. Merit was Davire,
teller at the State National bank. hay-
ing received his preliminary course or
sprouts IN the First National bank
he resigned TO take the position of
agency director two years ago and the
company's publication says that he is
the premier producer of that com
pany."
Mexican rebels who are wounded in
the HELD get practically no treatment"
an inferno at hotel Dieu said, as he
dressing. This chap here has a bull
let wound through the neck and he
looks as If 1t had been seWed I'D with
DaIing wire. He is almost starved to
death, because he could not eat beans
and bread, and his wound is badly in
fected- Another rebel was brought
here from Columbus after the battle of
PalOmaS, and a puncture of the skull
had been literally treated with blue
ointment Only the sturdy rugged
health Of these men prevents them
from dying on the field. whenever they
are wounded"
An Abe Martinesque individual wan
dered into the green room at the PasO
Del Norte, felt of the green uphOlst-
cred chairs, sat on the settee and
thumbed the CHARTERED oak writing
tables He then approached John Egan
the clerk at the marble counter. and
asked II he could get a bed He was
shown to the top floor by bell hop,
after his room had been entered on the
register. He had not been gone five
minutes until he returned and asked
bed he had
a., What's the matter with it, don't you
like it." EGan asked.
IT'S a jim dandy bed all right, but
my wife told me to get a bigger one
than that. and I thought mebby YOU
mOught have One''
It dawned upon the hotel clerk that
the man was looking for a furniture
store and had wandered into the hotel
thinking that the fixtures in the lobby
was a display of first class furni-
ture emporium He was directed to
the nearest store and his name checked
off the register
Life is a passing show at the IN
ion station said immigration inspec-
tor W. NJ Johnson He knows for he
is detailed TO duty there and has a fine
chance to view the passing show
This morning there was a family OF
daughter, all dressed exactly as If they
had just jumped from Russian dros-
ky. The other day car load of Ital-
ian immigrants offered themselves as
targets for the federal soldiers in
Juarez. and only the other day there
were a lot OF north of Europe folk
through the station going to California
They all seem helpless, are unable to
speak our language and appear to be
afraid of their lives in this great west
Johnnie MershOn, the station master,
knows better how to handle this class
OF traffic than anyone have ever
seen He is gentle with them, never
gets excited or loses his temper, and
he has fed many of them who were
without food all the day that they
were here"
~Why do not the United States Of
1ceTs arrest some of the federal Of :
ficers from Juarez who come over
here every day2' Ben TROLL wants to
know. ct see them on the streets all
the time and they seem to be as per-
rectly at home here as in JUarez," he
added But let the rebel like Juan
OOzal, who is a fine type of man, come
TO FL Paso on private business, and he [
s arrested. hurried out to Fort Bliss /
and held there without trial and with /
put reason It looks to a man I'D a
tree as If the government was playing
favOrites in this game"