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El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-08-23

n OBERT KRAKAUBR- secretary,
: Krakauer. York & Moyes Sues.
= said: Answering your question
as to what 7 consider essential and
most important for the future growth
and advancement OF Ell PasO. would
say:
Cooperation In It's fullest sense and
meaning Cooperation is described in
gether.'
Eel Paso has the natural opportuni-
ties often alluded to by our public
speakers and the press and which no
one will deny really exist. Most Of them
are self evident and apparent; yet 9TH
aware possibly, and which are ready
for exploiting and developing.
All of these can be made to best
serve IN the future greatness and ad-
Yancement Of FL PasO by cooperation,
by the working together for the COM
mon good Of all, of those who have at
heart the growth and betterment and
advancement Of this community.
I mean not only the business inter-
ests and banking institutiens-whf
OF course, should take the initiative
put also each and every individual cit
lZen and all societies, clubs religious
and fraternal organizations, not forget
ting also our city and county govern
ments.
Our chamber Of commerce. as repre-
Senung primarily the business inter
ests of FL PasO has, il will be acknovEI- =
edged. taken a lively interest in the
boosting of FL PasO and this section
generally FL PasO can better itself
and make this a more desirable place
In which to live. not only from a finan-
c1al standpoint, but in every other way
by giving support to that institution in
the same measure and degree in which
the chmaber OF commerce is trying
to help FL PasO. The chambers fight
for favorable freight rates, for the
bringing Of people TO FL Paso to settle
in the valley. and the boosting Of home
industry viii all tend to get substan-
ial results Results cannot be accom-
plIshed or will not show possibly in one
day, but the future will most certainly
justify the time, money and energy ex-
pended Let's cooperate"
New Blood; Open the VaIfey.
j. F. Primm, vice president OF the
First National bank: what FL Paso
needs is the infusion OF new blood.
new capital, new ideas Open I'D the
valley so that it is Turing to the out
slider with capital to invest"
''Eariy TO Bed, Early to Rise
George Greggs Franklin, of Frank
lin brothers, wholesale grOcers. saws:
We have a large and good FL Paso.
4 bigger and better Ell PasO we want.
and VIII have as sure as the days come
and go. and to hasten it on its way. let
our citizens rise earlier in the morn
ings, work harder during the DAYS and
sleep more at nights
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-08-23
81 PASO HAS
Ell PasO has 40 churches.

FL Paso has 40 churches.
Ell Paso has million dollar hotel.
e. PasO has an altitude of $500
feet
ElPasO has IS miles of electric car
lines.
Ell PasO has IS miles of paved
streets.
EI PasO has u street cars in daily
operation
El PasO has nine square miles in
city limits.
EIPaso is ezpending $4,000 for
deep sewer.
Ell Paso has a commission form of
government.
FL PasO has 691 arc lights includ-
ing goOsenecks.
FL Paso has an average of 500 clear
days in year.
FL PaSO has an average annual rain
fall of 9.S4 inches.
FL Paso has fire insurance loss of
only S74 per alarm
FL PasO has eighty-fve clubs,
lodges and societies.
EI Paso has one Bell telephone COM
pany with $500 subscribers.
FL PasO has a military pOst-FoIt
Bliss-a regimental cavalry post.
FL Paso has four transcontinental
railroads with Stopover privileges.
El PasO voted $4,000 good roads
bonds last year for Improvements
FL Paso has the largest wood I'm
ishing and box factory in the world.
FL Paso is the home of the second
largest custom smelter IN the world
FL Paso has eight public parks val
ued at over $4,000, 900 for the ground
alone
Ell Paso has a population of $4,000
people. In 1900, it had less than
10000
FL Paso has - public and nine
private schools with 10000 children of
school age.
Ell Paso has the lowest insurance
keyrate in Texas-2O cents; soon to
be 10 cents.
FL Paso has more homes owned by
their occupants than any other city
of same size IN the country.
FL Paso has a combined city,
county and state tax rate of S2.63,
based on so percent valuation.
FL Paso has SIS miles of asphalt
macadam county road built and IS
more in course Of construction.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-08-23

= Ohm N WYATT, vice DresiAs1t e
the First National bank: -Dsvsl-
op the manufacturing and jobbtng
interests we now have and reach cut
afar and continually for more This =
one Of the things that will make p
Paso bigger and better The surround
ing country IS naturally dependent On
FL PasO and It should be wide awake 20
the advantages to be derived there
frOm-advantage that would be Of
Then, too, FL Paso should cultivate
the vast mining interests that lie com
paratively within an arms length OF
its limits 1t should BY all means be-
come headquarters for these vast IN
terests."
Settle Mexican Tro1bIe.
h W Broaddus. Of Broaddus & Ii
Baron, real estate brokers: 7 believe
that by getting the Mexican situation
definitely and finally settled more
would be done toward making FL Paso
bigger and better than could be done IN
any other manner. What FL Paso needs
badly is that channels OF trade be
opened again with the republic OF Mex
leo; and that they be kept open. Per
sons manifesting interest in El Paso's
welfare would better devote the most
OF their time toward aid in such q set
Element Of the Mexican trouble"
PatrOnise Home Industry.
-Patronize home industries, that's the
munity," said Edward G. Perry, Of the
Perry kirkpatrick Realty company. sEI
pasoans should have the spirit mani
Tested BY the native sons OF CaIifor-
MA They should purchase nothing out
OF the city that can be purchased here
Buy FL PasO made products, and think
twice before you send away for goods
maybe they're made right here at
home"
Get Tourists 10 Stop.
Chas- NJ Gibson, of the firm OF Gibson
& Robertson, architects, said In view
OF the 1act that there will be an enor-
nous NUM- Der Of people OF the east go
ing to California for the exposition in
1915 believe that great results might
be realized If the chamber of commerce
should get out neat invitation invit-
ing the people to patrouize the trans
continental lines entering FL Paso, tax
ing advantage Of the stOpover offered
by the railroads here, also offering TO
show FL PaSO to such visitors BY auto
mobile on presentation OF their through
tickets
These invitations could be distrib-
uted to the citizens OF FL PasO to be
IN their correspondence with
their eastern associates and friends, and
1t might be possible to arrange with
the railroad companies to distribute
these invitations on the trains. A lit
Continued on last page this sectioR)
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-08-23

b. q. B. ORNDORFF. MANAGER Zoe Sheldon.

, year, less than s percent on a minimum
! income of $4,000.
would Mean 5000, 600 n Year.
From personal observation after l:
years in the hotel business in FL PasO
1 do not hesitate to predict that for the
same expenditure of $3.50 FL PaSo viii
average getting 10000 visitors a year
spending SO a day each or 100000 q
year
How many industries have we in the
city of FL Paso spending 100000 a
year?
The second question: What have we
of interest to show them after they
arrive? Some of our good boosters will
say: We have beautiful homes, sub
stantial business blocks. the best
lighted and paved town in Texas, fine
churches. public schools and handsome
clubs" But right here, let me ask:
Hasn't every city within the boundaries
of these United States, these very same
features public building, a beauti-
full street or a pretty park2
Use JunTez as Advertisement.
But who ever heard of anyone break
ing a railroad journey and stopping
over in a city to see the streets, build
ings, lights or parks? We have TO show
the visitor something out of the ordin-
airy to interest him and in this we are
more fortunate than any other city is
in these United States.
JuareZ is our greatest asset from the
standpoint of an attraction for the
tourist Juarez with its civilization of
800 years, with its typical Mexican and
foreign population; the old church. the
market, the prison, the Plaza de Tor
ros with its bull fights, pugilistic
bouts. etc, the cockpit; the keno
games. and the magnificent JuareZ race
course with its 100 days of winter rae
ing.
Go After Conventions.
After looking into the tourist bust
ness. we should also go into the con-
Yention business.
Denver, Colo, today would be in the
hands of a receiver if it were not for
the fact that the city possesses one of
the nneSt and largest municipal halls
IN the United States, and that not a
week passes without a convention
lrst. of all, we need a hall and no
uouDt those who have the reigns of our
ClIy government in hand will see to il
IhaI the new municipal and county
D,uIIuing VIII have a hall worthy of
the city and county, and one that will
answer Tor convention purposes for
many years to come
men lets have a convention league,
anu make a speciality of going after
any thlng that looks like a convention
A., need conventions. specially from
the Ilrst OF April TO the first of No
t,eIlOer- For seven months of the year,
mere are ample hotel accOmmodat ions
IN Fl Paso to care for almost any
sized convention.
Let S wake UP and take advantage of
the resources at our door. LET'S reach
.H anC dip from the stream of golden
ntAelS that flows steadily by to the
= oIuen state Let's stop havfn-r "EI
/ aso the Pass and arrange il so no
one viii Pass Ell Paso.''
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-08-23

! ~OMMERCIAL Ell Paso is losing
thousands of dollars every sea
son through its neglect of the
tourist trade.
We spend several thousand dollars
every year going out on trade excur-
siOns in an endeavor to induce our
neighbors to come to Ell Paso and trade
with US, but every day hundreds of
tourists, pleasure seekers, business and
professional men are passing through
Ell Paso and not a dollar is spent nor
any effort made to induce them to
visit US. with the possible exception
that the chamber of commerce has sue
ceeded IN getting the railroads and
Z ulIlilan company to allow a 10 days
stopoYer on all first class tickets5
But what good does this do when 90
percent OF the travellers are ignorant
OF this privilege, and even were they
aware of the opportunity To s1eDd =
day or 10 days in Ell Paso- what af -
are we making in interesting them in
our attractions and neSOurceS2
Where Hotel Mans Money Goes
AZ once the average layman will say
that only the hotels reap harvest
from the tourist. Let me put thar ides
TO rest Tor once and all time For e1-
cry dollar and twenty cents spent with
the hotel man, the one dollar is 80
INTO immediate circulation through me
medium of the butcher the grocery
man, the laundryman, the ice man the
IueI man, ETC. / do not know of a busi-
ness nor an institution that does not
snare in the division of this dollar ana
the hotel man is extremely lucky If he
pockets the 20 cents
stopping within our gates ar the
union station, every day for the SeS
days of the year are between - ana
80 Pullman cars carrying first class
passengers suppose we induce only
one passenger from each car 10 sion
IN FL Paso for one day. This womb
mean 10000 visitors within a wear
L mean travellers who had no Intention
estimate each visitor would sDeDd e.
a day an expenditure of over S5O.0OO q
year.
Have All Trains Worked.
The first question to consider is what
steps TO take to get at these travel
ers. would suggest that the cham
Der OF commerce employ two or three
men. their services be paid for from
the budget fund; these men to be mi
formed and supplied with attrac tfI-e
literature, setting forth the attractione
and resources Of Ell Paso, Juarez and
the valley.
I would then station one man AZ
to meet and go aboard in
bound trains over the Z. p. & s w To-
III Paso; one at Sierra Blanca for ~
southern Pacific and 7. & P: one AZ
DeminE for the Southern Pacific ana
Santa Fe. -iU
The expenses for salaries and litera-
-ure at the maximum would NOT e--cee,7
SlOsa day. This would mean 1850 a
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-08-23

e Paso has a full paid hre depart
ment and a complete modern auto
mobile fire equipment
FL Paso has the largest reinforced
concrete Office building In the world.
the 12-stOry Arson Mills building.
FL PasO has an active chamber Of
commerce with 600 members and an
Automobile club with over zoo mem
bers.
FL Paso has a plentiful supply Of
pure water, gas In most of its suburbs,
and electric lights and telephones in
all of them
Nearly 40 passenger trains a day
arrive and depart at FL Paso union
station over the eight railroads cen
tering here.
Ell PasO has more paved streets than
any other city in Texas and as many
miles as any city Of its size in the
United States.
FL Paso'S postOffice receipts quad
rupled in 10 years amounting to $685.
448 for the past year, an increase of
$4,000 over 1912
FL Pasoans spend 100000 a wear
for new automobiles and automobile
upkeep, and 100 registered automo-
biles are in the city.
FL PasO has four national banks
SIX state banks and one exclusive
mortgage company, with total bank
ing assets of 81, 100000.
Fl PasO has a municipal water
works system with pumping CAPACITY
Of 100000 gallons of water per dar
and a supply rom the mesa alone Of
6,5oO,0o0. The water comes from
wells 500 feet deep and is absolutely
pure.
FL Paso has a portland cement
factory with a capacity of 100000
barrels per year; a flour mill, three
Ioundrles, a brewery, a macaroni fac
tory, a clothing and overall factory,
many cigar factories.
FL Paso has a Masonic temple that
cost $4,000, Y. N. c. A. that cost
almost as much, Y. W. c. A., in its
own tour-stOry home, an Elks' club,
Moose club and a Toltec club. The
Ioltee clubs home is the finest club
house IN Texas.
II Paso has more of its telephone
wires underground than any other
city OF the same size in the country.
Fl PaSO is the principal United
States custom port on the Mexican
border and one Of the most important
IN the United States.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-08-23
Cooperation Of Citizens With the
City Authorities, A1darman's Plea
"Te Us Your Troubles Give Us Your Ideas " City Ad-
ministration Says to the People of Ell Paso-With-
out Cooperation There Can Be No Greater Ell
Paso Such AS is the Dream of the Man Who
Realizes the City's Possibilities
CBY W. S. CLAYTON, ALDERMAN.)

II SnOu1u De- let US never lose sight of
7 the fact that we must stand together
in order to get results. Neither indff-
ference nor intolerance ever built up a
/ town
Confidence and Aid
We must have your active support
! and confidence in order to achieve civic
advancement With organized citizen
! snip cooperating with an honest will
ing government a city like FL Paso
! shoIud know no limit in its ad-
Eancement- It should always be
! borne in mind also, that like any
urn or corporation the city has
only certain amount of money
10 spend on improvements and
the expenditure of that money should
be done with a view of doing the most
good for the greatest number of cft1-
zens. And in order that the best re-
suits may be achieved, the policy of the
municipal government should be when
ever possible to help those who help
themselves; that is those citizens who
build neat houses-not necessarily ex-
penstve buildings-and put in good
sidewalks; who keep UP their prop
Srty and show a desire to better their
neighborhOOd. These citizens should
be encouraged and every consideration
shown them.
Citizens should remember that they
are all shareholders in a big corpora
ton and whenever they save the To-
cal government money, they are direct
" benefited by it. Children should be
taught not to throw trash in the
street; impress upon their small minds
that they are heirs to the benefits
purchased by their parents by taxation;
that when they destroy city property,
they are directly injuring their par
ents; make them feel the responsibility
of citizenship at home and the results
VIII be felt in substantial manner
in civic advancement
Press and Pulpit
The cooperation of the local press
IN the matters Of civic Improvement is /
highly desirable. The home Dapers can
make or mar the most commendabIe ef-
forts of city government by the way
they put before the public the plans
projected by willing city officials for
the community good Sneers. sly in
nuendoes, thinly yelled insinuations
ofttimes create antagonism to plans
nightly beneficial to the community,
when clear, impartial explanation |
through the press would arouse in
terest and discussion with the result |
that new and varied ideas wouId be
advanced and crystallized into taneibIe /
results Commercial organiza tons (
when working tremendously with the |
city authorities add considerable to /
the strength OF any movement towards 1
civic betterment.
If our ministers would, say once a /
month, give a short talk on the
duties of citizenship, along the lines of |
building up the physical part of our
city, 1t would be unQuestiOnabIv cause !
some thought to be given by minds
now injured to anything outside of
thelr immediate personal interest: at
least some Few would awaken to their
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-08-23

&
per cent of citizens are for the
advancement Of their city and want
their city to be abreast Of the times
in improvements and beauty. The on
~ trouble is that 65 percent Of the rs
per cent think the other fellow should
furnish the improvements and that the
law is only made for the other fellow.
As matter OF fact if we really
want a eleen-mOraIly and physically
beautiful. and up to date. real live
city, we have got to pull together
Every man, woman and child has a
part to play and that part means to
obey the laws and keep their own
household in order rather than to SPY
on their neighbors
Their should also be cooperation Of
the governed and the governing BODY
the fundamental principle in building
up big commercial corporation is uni-
" OF purpose and the cooperation of
those directly interested So it should
be in the building and expansion of a
city 1t is not enough for the citizens
TO just pay their taxes and growl
among themselves If the city officials
don't DO what the citizens think
they should do If YOU paw vour
butcher or your baker OF your gro
Ger for goods and they don't deliver
what you pay for, you don't nurse your
grievance in silence or merely tell it
TO your near friends but you 20 after
your tradesmen good and hard and
find out why, and on the other hand
If you only pay for one dollars worth
of goods and you demand two, then
its up to you to explain why. At any
rate you come to an understanding and
the atmosphere is cleared, and if both
sides are reasonable everybody is sat
1sfied- So 1t should be between the
governing body and the citizens.
Be Honest With Officials
An official may be perfectly honest
IN ms endeaYors to do his duty and
oulld up the city and yet not give sat
lsIacIlon TO the citizens if he does not
Know what the taxpayers want, and the
way 70 promote a cordial relationship
between the governing body and citf-
zehs Is Tor the citizens to organize and
the Two bodies TO get together. There
USED 70 De a time that whenever the
IocaI government proposed any mea-
sure for public improvements ? few
citizens would organize and adoDr re-
oIuuons opposing the administration
ana CONCERNING the officials. as graft
SISs ana whenever the citizens offered
any suggestions, the powers that bep
1eAI IL incumbent upon themselves to I
sSent what they termed Interference
ana The result was that both factions
pul4eo apart rather than together ana
io1hlhS beneficial was done for the
comm unity they We're interested in.
am glad 10 say that spirit is diving /
OUT ana closer relationship between the /
governing body and the citizens Is 1
-SiAins place That is. Of course, what /
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-08-23

civic obligations and much good would
accrue.
Praises Work of Women.
The work of women's clubs is
great help to every city and to them is
due the awakening of civic pride in
many towns where Indifference once
reigned supreme. Organized woman
hood, when not militant, is an auxiliary
worth while and a tremendous factor to
upbuild the moral and physical tone Of
all communities
Then with the elimination Of partf-
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-08-23

Fill the Valley With Practical Farmers Is Another Sug
gestion Often Made By Men of Thought--Pay More :
Attention to Good Roads and the Tourist
Travel are Other Suggestions : Mayor
Thinks New City Hall Cty's
Greatest Need; Alderman
Clayton Thinks CO.
operation Needed
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-08-23

Continued on last page this sectiORl
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1913-02-17

Worthington, makes even more sensa-
tional reading than will be found in
the papers of Prof. Percival Lowell,
one of the first to insist that Mars is
the abode of race of intelligent be-
ings.
Worthington declares now that the
explorers of the planet from the stand
point of Flagstaff find abundant rea-
son to believe in the existence of a
highly developed and intelligent race,
making a list stand against the in
creasing deserts Of its world. The
famous canals are evidences of ire
mendous and united efforts to exc out
the decreasing water supply to the
last drop. In this struggle we see in
some sense the forecast of what the
earth must also become in the full
ness of time, The astronomers at
Flagstaff set out to learn definitely
an important truth respecting another
planet, but they likewise learned much
of our own. incidentally our eyes are
opened to the demonstration of a truth
long held by instinct, that we are not
alone in the cosmos-that other
worlds beyond the earth are no long
er the dreams of fantastic poetry, but
firmly established facts Of observa-
tional science" We see how the law
of evolution which has shaped us to
fit our surroundings here has fitted
other creatures in another world to
cope with their own special needs
Current Opinion.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1913-02-17
LIFE ON PLANET MARS.

Careful and thorough Investigation
Of Mars has just revealed to astron-
omomical science a world, of great
beauty, but failed with signs of age,
a world peopled by intelligent beings,
but a world which has reached the
period when there is no more sea.
Thus may be summed up the results
of the most exhaustive as we'll as the
most authoritative studies of any plan
ct since the perfection of the spec
troscope. The Investigations have
been. conducted upon an elaborate
scale at the famed observatory of Flag
taft under the supervision of astrono-
mers and astro-physicists and the
most recent methods of optical re-
search were drawn upon in arriving
at the deductions. An authorized re-
port from the pen of the well-known
student of astro-physics, DR.. James H.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1913-02-17
"coPs" DON'T KNOW WHERE
ALL GRAFT MONEY eIes

In the Dairy of Cop" publjs5e
in the February American Mapayi,o
the author, New York policeman
says in part:
There isn't any cop that knous
just where all the graft money Voes
We know that the captain gets brg
so per.c and the inspector gets hi.
but who the inspector splits with M
body but the inspector can tell. Hs
handles a lot of money. II an IN.
spection district has six police nro.
cincts, he gets so per cent OF the praf,
from each precinct, and that male.
some money. The average ssloon
pays fifty a month for selling on sur.
day and after closing time saturd.v
night. That is low figure. A r.
tie figuring by any man who can
count the saloons and gambura