El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-12-04

A, course when his paper was published
he must have got in bad as we had
covered some Of the ball guests with
! more diamonds than others and we
sighted the mayors wife to boost the
| hotel waitress
That night we boarded the blind
I of passenger and were put off at
the first stop. At the side of the tracks
were about 20 knights of the road
around a big bonfire We went over
to get warm and were invited to have
a cup of Java" and a plate of Multi
gan" which sure tasted fine. After
eating, we were told to get out and
hustle some eats We went to a farm
house a couple Of hundred yards from
the railroad and appropriated three
nice fat hens We put in the night at
the hobos' camp and in the morning
had hot java and SteWed chicken, after
which we were invited to Join the gang
on a hike to a railroad crossing, where
all trains stopped, but we hung back.
Several of the men were heard talking
OF the number of times they had been
in the big stir and we thought we had
better cut their company
Gets Steady Dob Finally.
after a couple of weeks riding and
walking we arrived in New Orleans
with 10 cents, just enough to pay our
ferry fare over the river told Miller
to get busy and lead US to his rich
brother, where we could get bath
and filled up, but the only brother Mil
Ter had was a day laborer in a local ice
plant, working for $1-25 day. 1 got
Job on the New Orleans Item, which
I held down for three years, until a
change of management, when I became
allured to the great southwest, max
ing my way in private stock and
freight cars until landed in good old
Ell Paso.
Off Again.
Two months have rolled around and
the wander lust has taken hold of me
again and I am on my way to the land
OF the Golden West and the setting
sun The FL PasO Herald bunch OF
typewriter Founders are all to the good
I and fine newspaper boys and the peo-
pie of FL PasO are fortunate in hav-
/ ing such a cOterie Of news gatherers
to dish up the happenings of the day
for them. AdiOs, old sport, here comes
my private car attached to that fast
freight"
a year ago I left Ell PasO, and
Travelled all over the north and west
said J. H. MendenhalL For a short
time I was in business in Los Angeles,
but I concluded that FL Paso was
1 better place for a man sof limited
means to open a business, than any OF
the many northern and western places
/ that visited. ] find that can do as
much business on One-tWentieth OF the
capital in Ell PasO than I could in the
other cities I was in It is my opinion
that FL Paso is not OverdOne in any
branch of business and that there are
plenty Of opportunities here for the
newcomer Very often I receive COM
municatiOns from friends in the east
and north, who tell me that they have
read of FL PasO in the Herald and they
express a desire to come here. One of
my friends received a copy OF the FL
PasO Herald in Manila, Philippine Is
lands, and he wrote me he would soon
be on his way to FL Paso."
It was surprised to see such an ex-
cellent street car system as that IN
" 4 ATaf rar-NHa
of the Brooklyn, y. Y, Rapid Transit
company, who with his wife is at the
Hotel PasO del NOrte. My wife and
have been. on a. trolley seeing FL Paso
trip for the past two days, and we have
enjoyed ourselves immensely The pay
as you enter cars are a fine thing,
which are not In vogue IN some OF the
large cities of the country, but are
gradually being adopted I prophesy
that it will not be many years, when
an interurban line up the Mesilla. val
ley to the New Mexico Agricultural
college and Las Cruces will be in Oper-
alton, and then should follow a trolley
line to Deming and vicinity, which is
forging to the front as great agri-
cultural country"
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Hank Monk, the man who was i'm
mortalized by Mark Twain in one OF
his stories, was we'll known to John
Carpenter, of FL Paso, who says that
Monk was as quaint as Twain made
y
became famous when he told Horace
Greeley that he would get him to where
he was going or land him in hell by
five o'clock" Monk was a famous
character in the early Nevada days,
Mr. Carpenter says. and was as quaint
in his humor as Mark Twain pictured
him in one Of his stories Of western
life"
1T was Thanksgiving day, a day
when every American feels a deep
reverence for his country, c. f. Lewis,
OF the treasury department said. It
had gone to Juarez on a sightseeing
trip. While standing on the main
street of the town I saw a little parade
coming down the street and two young
Mexicans, about IS years old and both
well dressed, were being ridden to
the execution grounds in a one horse
cart with guard of rebel soldiers
marching in front and in the rear Of
the wagon Those young men were OF
the better type of Mexicans and were
/ being killed for no better reason than
that they disagreed with the revOlu-
I tionists about something probably
neither understood. It made me glad
to be a citizen of a real republic when
l saw that procession and felt that I
had something genuine to be thankful
for"
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"As chairman of the Pan-American
| committee of the National Irrigation
congress, 1t is up to me to arrange
meeUng of the congress in Mexico
some time in the near future" George
Z. BarstOw, of BarstOw. Tex, saws.
But I hardly think that Mexico would
be the place at the present time for
the holding such a congress. and I for
! one would not care to attend They
seem to be irrigating with blood rather
I than water down there and that
country is good one to stay, away
from at the present time. The com
! mittee of which I was chairman
was appointed to arrange a meeting OF
! the congress in some Pan-American
/ country, preferably Mexico, and the
work was started for carrying out this
plan But all plans are off now until
peace is restored in Mexico"