El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-08-02


III disappearance of New York's
= famous Chinatown. for years
the objective of New YOrk's sightseers
and the hOtbed Of ceaseless troubles
for the police, is now confidently pre-
dicted- Tong wars, opium smoking
and gambling, with a fitting measure
/ of local color, have constituted the
popular essentials of Chinatown, as
commonly understood, for years past
and about these things, bad enough in
themselves, was woven a web OF sin
lister deeds and evil ways.
New York's Chinatown is really but
imperfectly understood. Within It's
narrow limits it has numbered in its
heydey a maximum of certainly 5000
Oriental residents, ana perhaps as
many as 5000 or 5000 Some years ago
IL was said that in one double house on
Peu street there lived 500 Cinnamon,
and while that meant unhealthful
croWding. still that tenement was
within the district Property owners
found it TO their advantage to let chi
nese tenants do pretty much as they
pleased. and the tenementS they &C.
cupied became but little better than
unSaniCary human WarrenS-
Efforts have been made many times
in the past to clean up Chinatown, but
there has been a consistent resistance
to such a process on the part of prop
erty owners and district politicians
Though Cinnamon do not vote the
neighborhOod sends TO the polls as
many voters as any other territory OF
like area within the city.s limits rms
explains why the politicians Joined
with the property owners against any
corrective measures. Today a change
has come over the population OF the
district, and 1t IS doubtful II the
houses on the three streets, once
crowded, now hold more than 500 or
thousand Chinese The whole atmos-
nh of ha ro1a henn
affected and its elimination from the
life of the city is now regarded as
only q question Of time
VEINS Dress Reform Move Starts.
While women here are wearing al
most anyIning-Or nothing, as the case
may be-a dress reform movement Is
now under way. which may revolution
lie summer costumes. The movement.
however, has to do with the clothing
plates nothing less than a white clad
male population during the summer
1t is said by those who are inter
ested in making things easier for per-
spring humanity that the proposed
"a. ess reform VIII benefit not only men
indiviaually in helping them forget to
remember the temperature, but II VIII
establish the claim that has been ad-
vanced for New York many times IN
the past, that it is the best summer
resort in the country. The great dill
ficulCy in getting such a safe and sane
male costume movement started seems
10 lie in the tinlidity OF the WOuld-be
pioneers. The promoters OF the idea
however, are sanguine OF success ana
advance good reasons for their stand
AS pointed out by one of them the
new plan would actually work for cool
ness Nowadays, says ne, our sIreets
are filled with men wearing black ana
blue clothes, and certainly you couio
not get anything much hotter Ihan
black As for the matter OF laundry
work. I believe it would not cost more
chan many men pay for keeping their
suits pressed In the summer time
there is a tremendous lot of pressing
done For the cost of one cloth sum
mer suit a man might nave nalI
dozen duck suits at least It would
certainly be a more agreeaDle slgnL
upon che street than the dark clothes
Wall Streets Latest.
The latest development in Wall
street is a mutual protective asso-
citation. This. however, has nothing 70
do with the Stock market since wan
street has generally had the repuIa-
tion of being able to protect itself IN
this respect Instead the association
represents che efforts Of the poor
brokers to protect their automobiles
nv providing a low rate of insurance
on them. To protect their cars against
thing less than the regular rates OF
insurance, 100 prominent Wall street
men have formed an association 70 take
the risks on their own cars Every
man has contributed a certain sum TO
establish a fund and each has agreed
to pay his share of any loss that any
vailing rate it costs about S1Z5 S1OOB
to insure automobiles against IRE,
theft. damage done. to others ana any
other liability up to $1,000 me men
in the association believe the new sys-
rem will cost them far less, as II
members machine is wrecked or stolen,
each fellow member Will pay only
hundredth part of the cost
Tariff Stops Work on Church.
One of the most curious develop
ments of the proposed new tarlff law
has Just arisen here in connectlon win
its relation to church construction
and as a result one OF the most mag
uificent church windows ever made Is
now lying in the custom house await
ing an application OF the proposed law
This great stained glass is in eight
sections and Will fill the great eastern
SDace above the high altar and the
Belmont chapel in the cathedra! OF 81
John the Divine. It was mace IN Lon
don and is said to be the finest win
dow ever brought co this country. IN
der the present tariff duty on this WIN
valued at $4,000, that means $4,000
duty Under president Wilson'S Dill
co be paid. if the Underwood tariff
bill becomes a law, is $500 The
church's problem is to keep the win
dow in the hands of the customs au-
tborities until the bill passes whether
or not that can be done seems to be
doubtful, but the cathedral authorltles
are not in haste to give the Unlteo
States government $4,000
Ocean Travelling Increasing.
After half a decade of comparative
ouietness. the European travelling bee
seems to be buzzing- busilly once. more more.
among Americans For che first time
in five years Of moderate recovery from
a sharp drop in the transatlantic
tourist movement as a result of the
1907 panic, the westbound tlrstcIaSS
movement is now showing such growth
that che close of the tourist move
ment bids fair to compare most favor
abIv with the record exodus of Ameri-
can tourists abroad in 1906 and 1907.
From January 1 to July 5. inclusive,
the transatlantic steamship compan-
les carried 36.O13 firstclass passengers,
the largest in that period since 1907
At the present rate of increase the
total shortly bids fair to pass the 49,
600 mark
fell on July q. and for some time