El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-12-02
Menace to the Pedestrians
TrapdOOrs in Sidewalks Constant
Danger to Public and Often
Blockade Traffic. Says F.
c. Hunnann; Little
Interviews.

S6TL PASO has more Of the side
n walk trap door nuisance than
any other city in Texas" said
F. C. Human. Il wonder, do owners
of property regard the sidewalks as
their private property? They surely
cannot think of sidewalks as an ac-
commodation for the pedestrian public
by the way they keep their trap doors
open. From my office window in the
American Bank building I can look
up Texas street any hour in the day
and count from three to eight or more
Sidewalk trap doors open, with the
sidewalks often almost blockaded by
merchandise waiting to be sent down
through the trap doors. The doors
are rickety affairs, too, and are a
dangerous menace. There IS not an
other city in the state that would
stand for this sort of thing like we do
mere. suppose we shall have to wait
until someone is seriously injured be-
fore any effort viii be made to do
away with this nuisance"
when the new schedule on the G..
H & s. A went into effect it made No.
9, the Sunset express, lay over in FL
Paso 10 hours in order to go out on
the new schedule time" said assistant
superintendent H. ". Connolly. In
stead of being impatient at the delay,
the passengers were tickled to death,
have a chance to see a battle in
Juarez."
I've are not looking for heavy travel
over the railroads coming through FL
PasO until the Christmas holiday sea-
son., said ". r. Martin, superintendent
OF the Union Depot company, but the
travel is keeping up very well COM
pairing this season with past seasons.
Trains Nos. 101 and 102, Sunset linn
tied, both have good average crowds
and there seems to be as much doing in
the tourist line as usual"
''The Pacific Northwest IS a fas-
chatting country" said z. o. Hughson,
of the El PasO & Southwestern gen
eral office force, who has returned
land, Ore. has become ore Of the
greatest lumber shipping point in the
world and holds to its great salmon
shipping industry. It is the fastest
Seattle is giving it a close run. For
climate, however, the Pacific north
west is some distance behind FL Paso.
It is damp up there in the .wintertime,
a real wet damp"
zone of the battles in the recent en-
gagement south of JuareZ was over
looked" customs inspector A J. Carnes
said Monday AFTERNOON This was the
second fight at Zaragosa, opposite
Ysleta. The first fight which was held
during the fight at TERRA Blanca was
recorded in local history, but the after
noon fight was not mentioned. It was
dandy. The federalS must have had
a lot of artillery and the rebels some
machine guns. 1t sounded like the
first capture Of JuareZ and the rebels
drove out the federals from their posi-
ton and they fought their way back
toward the east. It was a great battle
but very few people saw it."
'El Paso IS second little New
York" J. W. collars said Monday.
after his return from an extended trip
in the east. ''There is more doing in
FL PasO and what is done is done in
a bus1nesslike way, than any other
city of its size in the country 7 Wis
tied my old home in Canton. Ohio. and
could not help from contrasting FL
Paso with that city. The people in Ell
Paso do things and the business is
carried on like a real city. Then the
climate here is the greatest ever. To
breathe the fresh air and soak up the
sunshine is worth living for. and I am
surely glad to get back home again"
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Things are somewhat changed here
IN the southwest since I was here in
1881" said colonel J. II. Nauzy. a re-
tired capitalist and merchant of Den
yer, Colo, who with his wife are
guests at the Paso del Norte. Just 50
years ago 7 visited this part of the
country and at that time [ never ex-
pected to see such fine city as FL
Paso. 1t was a lively frontier town, I
with but few American inhabitants /
Many times since, I have heard of the
progressiveness Of the city known as
the gateway of Mexico. and I concluded
that I would never be satisfied until I /
had made FL Paso another visit Dur
ing my trip to the southwest in 1881 1
our train passed through Deming
which at that time was reported to DE Z
the home of many bad men. I remem- !
Der the conductor warned US not TO !
go far from the train. We went to get I
a lunch, which we found was furnished /
by Chinaman, who conducted an eat /
ing house in a box car Just beside the /
main line-of the railroad. / understand I