El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-04-17
SAN ANTONIO AND Fl PASO BUSINESS
MEN FRATERNIZE At BANQUET BOARD
Visitors From the Alamo City are Given Taste OF Ell
PasO Hospitality and are Shown Ell Paso's Great
ness; Return Trip Of Visiting Delegation
Starts After Evening of CordlaIty

field the lumber interests, the JObblng
business and the other present ana po-
feDfial possibilities OF FL IdSO. In
closing, ne placed the people OF III Faso.
The creators Of the FL Paso spirit az
the top of the list Of resources IN III
i '-90' From Alpine to san Antonio.
Charles Graebner. OF san Antonio,
his success to FL PasO, because ne had
married an FL PasO girl IN looU- ne
invited the Ell PasOans to come - san
Antonio to attend the san Jaclnto
Cobb Arouses Enthusiasm.
y Z. Cobb closed the program CT
speeches with one or MS chalicle DC
Cobb speeches, which made Inc san An
tonic people yell Tor more untll 20 81, Sa
had to quit to allow the visitors 10 go
There is one thing of which We are
Jealous OF San Antonio, he SAID InaL
is the great German citizenship OF san
Antonio. That element not only stanCs
for progress, but for conservative pro
gress that never backslldes- " nave
the richest valley in the world, chaI
yearns for the Germans Of san Antonio
to convert a waste into a garden
wish I could see the time when every
20 acres had home on 1t IN which
only the German language was spoken.
San Antonio, Dallas and Houston are
the points of the great triangle or
Texas. But the day is coming when q
greater city shall exist. san Autcnlo
is but the John the Ba)tiSI or CIVIL
zation that points the " AZ 10 this city
Of the future.
The Il Pasa Spirit
1T is El PaSO's spirit and citizensip
that makes US great We quarrel among
ourselves, but we dare any man 10 mix
in our matrimonial affairs. FL PasO
resources include the Elephant Butte
dam and the power that is 10 be gen
Grated by II viii be the property Of the
Its way into the treasure boxes OF Wall
street It IS TO be a monopoly OF 1ur
own people We viii have more power
tnan any city OF the south It VIII not
be made to pay tribute TO any ont CT
town corporation, but will ne made to
yield results to Fl Paso to run our
factories.
The spirit Of FL Paso makes every
man. every morning and every evening,
thank God that he has more sense than
people who live away from here We
want san Antonio to help US 10 give US
an army post out here as great as Fort
sam Houston. Send word 10 Jim Slay-
den that we want a fort and want 10
make Fort Bliss as big as Fort sam
Houston We should have two II The
greatest forts in the army on this 5Or-
der. one at San Antonio. one at FL
PasO."
The san Antonio special train left the
stanton street station Wednesday night
at 1880 for san Antonio, with stops at
a number Of towns en- route.
The Auto Ride
The automobile ride was a revelation
10 the san AntOnians. They. came. most
or them, expecting to find border vii
lage something like Llre 10 one raau
said they expected TO see El Paso about
as large as both Laredo and Eagle Pass
but were astOunded to find it a great
city. and what they saw sent them
away pra1sing Fl Paso as the Invest
city IN Texas The cleanliness Of the
streets, the good paving on most Il the
streets, the substantial character of -he
residences, the metropolitan appearance
OF the business houses, the iumcnslty
OF the factories, drew from the visitOrs
spontaneous eXclamauO1S Of surprise
and praise The Pearson plant was Wis
tied and aStOnished the visitors more
than anything else. altlJu-n they did
not nave any idea until the auto ride
that FL PeSo had any such plants as the
smelter, cement factory and flour mill
If they came to patrcnize, the san An
tOnians left praising ,he city None
OF the Unexpected 70 find such a me
Lopous mere on the western border
The auto ride included a trip to Juarez
and run down the county road to the
five mile bridge.
EX-San AnfOnians.
At least % former san AntOnians met
the eXcursionists at the train on their
arrival Wednesday, attended the ban
quet with them Wednesday night and
accompanied them to the train when
they LETT other Fl PasOans devoted
their attention to the visitors. too. but
all the eX-San AntOnians remained with
them throughout their stay. They wore
yellow badges with "EX-San Antonian'
printed on the face. Leo Ferlet of the
FL Paso Printing company. conceived
the idea Of getting the former san An
tOnians together to greet the visitors
and printed and donated the badges.
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