El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-07-15
Ell PasO a Telephone Town
Ranks Third in Mountain States
housekeeping Cool I'm Summer.
Little Talks by FL PnsOans.
~ ID you know that Ell Paso in

66H I'D YOU know that FL Paso in
point Of number of phones
in use is the third largest
city in the Mountain States division of
the Bell telephone system asked C.
f. Stratton. general manager Of the
Tri-State plant in FL Paso. 1T is
true. Just the same. for FL Paso has
[ nearly 1000 phone connections. Only
Denver and salt Lake are larger.
Pueblo and Colorado Springs have
l dropped down below FL Paso in the
/ number OF telephones in use. You
have to go clear to the Pacific coast
I another division Of the Bell system
] before YOU find q city outside Of Dem
| Yer an& Salt Lake with moEe telephones
/ than FL PasO. in the mountain states
| El PasO ranks just behind these two"
The subject of warm weather came
/ up while the telephone O.. " was talk
] ing and he further relieved himself
/ as follows:
IF the people planning the erection
/ of big Institutions. employing a lot
I of people, would come to our plant and
Investigate our cooling system said
/ c. E. StrattOu general manager of
/ the Tri-State Telephone company, Il
/ believe that every new concern Of this
/ kind would have the system installed
I when the building was erected In
Z a year il will save much of it's cost
/ for it does away with electric fans and
/ is much more effective If keeps the
( employees perfectly cool. they are sat
. isfied and contented and are better
I able to do good work BY our sys-
| tenn we keep cool air constantly circu-
/ lating through our plant and the tenn
( perature never gets up to the perspir-
I alton point
/ NO more cross country automobile
Z trips for me in the rainy belt in the
! summer time said VIII Il. Winch
( when Bob Rinehart suggested that
I they go up to Indianapolis buy a new
( National and ride back to Ell PasO- Il
Z made a trip through part of Missouri
[ and Illinois last year" said Winch, land
/ 7 have enough It rained most Of the
Z time and that soil up there is without
I a bottom If the car had been a lit
! tie smaller, we would have sunk out
l Of sight As IL was when the wheels set
I tied into the mud. the bottom of the car
/ stopped until we could dig down below
! the wheels. then walk about a mile to
] a farmers fence, borrow some rails or
planks and put them down to give us
traction to pull out Once in awhile
{ this failed and we had to hire a team
more cross country autOmCbiling for
me in the middle west in summer
4 time"
"a motion picture theater is a fine
Ilace to study Mexican character" L
j. Locks, proprietor Of the Unique and
I said AT the Eureka the other night
we showed slides of Madero. Felix
Diaz and OrOZcO between films. When
Diaz's picture was thrown on the
screen, only a very few among the
MeXicans attending the theater cheered-
. When OrOzcO's picture was shown,
about half Of the MeNiCanS present
Cheered and the other Kissed. but when
MaderO'S picture was thrown on the
canvas the entire crowd cheered and
cried Viva MaderO" We had no pic
ture of Huerta. but I am afraid some of
the patrons Of the theater might have
thrown "a brick through the screen If
we had shown il that particular night"
AN army officer who was stationed
at Douglas told me a good story about
the negro cavalry on the border" judge
Beauregard Bryan said Saturday 1T
was at the time that the MeXiCans were
troll duty opposite Aqua Prieta,' the
judicial Texan continued. While the
officer in command was lOunging near
the line, a big negro came up with his
eyes rolling like a pair Of white mar
Boss cap'in. them Iexicans IS a
shootin,, at us the negro said 'Whatu
&c Neutrality forbids you to fire
back the officer answered
doesn't know this here Mistah
Neutral ty and I spOse he is a mighty
fine white gen man. But I shore am
goin' to shoot back at them greasers /
If they shoots at me-. the negro an
swered, as he numbered off toward the
line. the picture Of a perfect fighting
machine"
Speaking Of friendship" said ". r.
stevens, who conducts the Roberts
Banner barber shop. there is a news
boy in this town who is going to make [
his mark one of these days Everybody Z
calls him 'SkOgey-' He came in here
one day and one of the BARRIERS told
him that Mr.. r. had left. owing him
S1I5. The little fellow reached in his I
pocket took out 81 and said: I'll bring I
the other six hits SATURDAY.
SATURDAY he came with the other - I
cents The barber then returned il all I
to him. explaining that it was a joke ]
Look here said -SkOgey,' if he owes {
it I'm pawn it; get me- He's my 4
PAL And the barber had an awful l
time explaining that IL was really all I
stuff he is made Of"
It like watermelon" said Joe Nealon ]
at the Georgia picnic Saturday. "The !
only trouble about it is that one may I
say like the small boy did about Gus (
tard pie, It muses. up your ears too !
much"
Robert Krakauer thinks he's a poor /
hug chaser. At the meeting of the
directors of the chamber of commerce
last Thursday he was appointed a COM /
mittee of one to secure a supply OF /
these pests and send them TO Washing
ton for classification. Would YOU be-
lieve," Bob SAYS 'since 7 got that job.
OF those bugs"
'IIl PasOans should be careful about
signing tbs petition TO the federal gov
eminent to allow the eNDOrtation of 1
arms to all factions in Mexico" said
n prominent merchant They should /
look to the future. If arms are al
lowed to be exported to NIevico, all
PARTIES viii get them Bandits will
be able to operate at will and start I
revolutions whenever they like and
thew like to pretty often. Moreover. il
will mean that foreigners in the north
ern states will be in great danger. I
Besides there is now another feature. I
There is an anti-AmeriCan sentiment. l
Who can tell Maybe we will have to I
step in there vet. Why then should I
we supply those people with arms2 !
think the public ouGht to be cautioned I
against the circulation and the sign
ing of this petition"
BROWN INSISTS HE'LL /